skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't know as much about this as you, but it seems to me that the attack you describe in the blog post would also require a successful eclipse attack?

My understanding is that the attack you describe involves a cabal of "evil" validators signing some alternate chain (call it the "fake" chain) long after their stake is withdrawn, creating a fork in the distant past. Before they did this, they pretended to be good validators, which meant they signed the "real" chain's blocks and then signed the withdraw transaction. So after the attack, there are two conflicting sets of signatures signed using the evil cabal's private keys; those on the fake chain, and those on the real chain. So anyone in possession of both of these sets of signatures can conclude that the validators in the cabal are "evil", and then they can see that once the cabal's support is removed from consideration, the real chain had more valid validator support (at the time of the fork, in the distant past). If this line of reasoning is correct, that suggests that anyone who is aware of both sets of signatures can identify the real chain?
Me too! Glad to know it’s not just me, I suppose.
> And aren't US taxes quite low compared to much of Europe?

Maybe if you go through the pain of having 'do taxes' be something you have to do, maximise your 'deductions', and look only at income/sales tax, neglecting tax-advantaged savings vehicles & home ownership.
The optimist in me hopes that today's anti-vaxxers are just the current incarnation of Luddites. We've had resistance to new ideas for probably the entirety of human history. I mean Galileo was persecuted for heresy. Irrational dogma eventually fades into history.

We can but hope.
Milk bags sound great. Never seen them in the US. It’s always difficult to store and then recycle the big plastic jugs.
That is quite unfortunate, and I freely admit that I'm unfamiliar with MSVC's current quirks.

> They have made clear that this won't be changed, for ABI stability reasons.

Also unfortunate. Once upon a time, users had to be extra careful to control which version of the runtime DLL their program transitively linked to since MS would issue a new ABI-breaking version with every major compiler release. Sounds like they got ABI stability religion just in time to lock in some unfortunate decisions.
I agree. I've been learning MS Word for many years at the level of creating my own templates and styles, using macros, assigning my own shortcut keys to building blocks, and using snippets in conjunction with AHK. My documents look exactly like Latex files with SVG images and nice look, but with __so much__ less trouble. Anyone who thinks Word is not capable of typesetting excellent documents has not given it a shot.

If MS would add something like VS Code's command palette to Word, it would blow Latex outta the water. I've tried Latex (in VS Code) and I was able to write my own snippets using Regex and "prettify" the code. I miss those things in Word.

Plus, Word must have something like settings.json where I can see the list of all custom shortcuts that I've set. And I also wish Word Find would use the typical Regex to find things in text.

I never thought one day I like Word, but this software has been a life saver (can't say that so much about PowerPoint and the rest of the office suite though).
You're disrespectfully referring to the work of Dr. Tyrone Hayes [1] of The University of California at Berkeley, who discovered that Syngenta's herbicide Atrazine is indeed an endocrine disruptor, causing frogs (of both genders I believe) to turn hemaphroditic, develop both male & female gonads-- i.e. males developing ovaries, females developing testes.

Do you... prefer pollutants in your water?

Do you... approve of chemical companies privatizing the gains (profits) of externalizing pollutants into innocent ecosystems and humans?

Or maybe... you just really love to be told what to think by media overlords [2].

[1] https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/tyrone-b-hayes

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
That may have well got them extra sales, which gave the team pay rises....
Talking about vaccine hesitancy in Africa must be accompanied by why there's a certain amount of justification of it and it can be viewed as entirely rational, if also wholly undesirable. Included in that must be the USA's role in creating that problem. A couple of examples quickly turned up with a search engine of which there seem to be far, far too many. I can recall a few not here being reported over the past decade or so. When you tell lies you incur a debt to the truth, the interest rate is very steep. What we're seeing now is one such payment.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/12/di...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/opinion/31washington.html
I think that sounds fair. The concept of being on call is not unique to software engineers. You might be an emergency doctor. You might be a fighter pilot. It's possible that some software engineers need to be on call, because they support some critical infrastructure, and that can be part of their contract.

I would say the default assumption for most software engineers should be they are not on call and the company should try to structure itself around that assumption. The problem starts it's just considered the norm that software engineers are expected to work 24/7.
I wonder if it just gets built into health/building codes. I don't want to ask every business to do X and yet I hope sometimes regulators do.

I think the challenge with indoor air circulation is the energy required to do so, especially when heating/cooling of the air is involved.

But, I'd sure love better indoor air quality.
I'm a "power user" who can eek into the terminal and light programming as needed.

We're not disappearing, per se, just being utterly ignored. Mass market is moving towards methods of turning all computing into a phone, with vendor lock in and the user as nothing but a consumer who needs to pay to do things with their own devices.

I am unprofitable as I do not need to pay for an app/macro/SAAS to do things but also don't do those things as a business and therefore will not be paying to outsource the costs of doing those things.

In truth, I am in this area in many areas, from computing to kitchen appliances and grills. It feels that global capitalism is highly antagonistic to products and services that empower users to do things themselves.
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I don’t think there is value in humiliation. I feel like it will attract a certain kind of personality. Maybe you want that in a group of Marines who make life and death decisions. Most programming jobs luckily don’t involve those kinds of choices (the exceptions may be medical devices, manned rocket software etc).

Importantly you are discouraging a whole bunch of folks who might have much to contribute but have been chased away by the distasteful practices in the industry.
Either we're not looking at the same DEI guidelines or this is disingenuous. It's not enough for a professor to merely state a commitment to fostering a respectful classroom environment permitting no disrespect to anyone's identity or dignity. DEI statements[0] don't want professors to merely block offensive and disruptive behavior, they want them to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a core part of teaching, research, and the candidate's personal life. A professor researching, for example, graph theory who merely creates a respectful classroom environment and treats students and research associates without distinction based on their identity doesn't meet these criteria. This results in a form of dog-whistling. Like all dog-whistling, it relies on the core message being subtextual.

[0] https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/drafting-diversity-equity...
Mine comes back every once in a while. Clicking on it gets rid of it a few seconds later though, but at least the name keeps reappearing.
Sarcasm? Try some humility: reproach your own abject ignorance for a moment (once you stop disrespecting the important work of Dr. Tyrone Hayes by ignorantly conflating it with "conspiracy theory"):

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

I passed legislation in college [1] -- With a group of 8 students, we activated thousands of students across our state, reaching local, state, national media.

And through our work, convinced dozens of legislators to pass our legislation.

--> A small group of people can make a major impact.

--> You don't seem aware of this fact. Maybe you're not particularly strategic in your work, and...

--> therefore you're not aware that small, strategic groups of people can impact significantly larger groups of people?

_____________

Specifically on the topic of "Conspiracy Theory" which you've apparently been conditioned to fear the thought of--

Have you read about Operation Mockingbird?

Or do you just take anything the media tells you-- hook, line, and sinker?

[1] https://thedailytexan.com/2010/08/26/ut-expands-sustainabili...
Just to second your comments, I love my Remarkable 2 _because_ it doesn’t try to do everything. It’s a great note taking and sketch device, and a pretty good e-reader. That’s it. If you want an iPad, buy an iPad.
Interesting idea, but the fact so many of the feeds are broken probably indicates how difficult this is to maintain. Ideally something that needs to be done via algos and machine learning rather than custom parsing for each site (not unlike what search engines already do internally).
this makes me think that there’s got to be at least some people in power who believe that engineering and releasing a more transmissible but less deadly variant is a prudent way to respond to this pandemic. i wonder how many people are working on this right now.
As an infrequent Mac user, how is this stuff discoverable? The OS seems willfully obfuscated to cater for some notional lowest common denominator user. Whenever I find myself using someone else's Mac, they never know any keyboard shortcuts or keyboard-plus-mouse-button context menus. It's bewildering and wildly frustrating. I find myself asking "surely this isn't how you always do this, there must be a better way?" but I only ever get shrugs in reply.

Admittedly, these are non-techy folks. But they are daily Mac users. It's weird, like the OS discourages curiosity and experimentation.

And then there are those times when I stupidly assume things, like how it will surely be trivial to remote desktop from my laptop into a Mac while someone else is logged into a different account on the Mac. What a shit-show. My reaction: "are you f*cking kidding with how horrendous this is?" Mac owner: shrug.

Bah. Now I'm just getting narky. Rant over :)
I did find a similar question posted on Apple's discussion forums. Seems the issue might be iOS specific and not HN related?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253272062

Also, other browsers like Brave, Chrome etc on iOS all use the same WKWebView so I am doubtful there would be difference.

I am the developer of iOS, macOS and Android client called HACK which you can try out if you like.
You are agreeing for them not to pay you standard pay for 24 hour availability. The company is getting out of paying for that availability.
No, it wasn't held legal. You can't play commercial dvds, blurays, etc. on vanilla fedora.
Raspberry Pi trading could go public this spring
That is, roughly, verb/noun

It also depends on how wide the scope is. "i" for an index variable is often a good choice. For the global count of eyes, "i" is a terrible choice.

So in a limited scope I would tend to: kerfuffled:bool
Symptom onset precedes hospitalization by several weeks in the average case that requires hospitalization.
I guess that's pretty fair. I have to admit I've seen people who genuinely enjoy some terrible overloaded schedule right up to the time they burn out.
The main things that come to mind for me are:
1. Sometimes Spotify will refuse to play certain songs & won't give any indication of why. Closing and reopening the app seem to fix it. Or sometimes switching to a different device fixes it.
2. My listening history isn't carried across devices for some reason.
3. The contents of "daily mixes" and other generated playlists seem to change depending on the device being used.

It's not quite enough to make me use a different service, but it's annoying not being able to just pick up my phone and continue where I was on my computer
How about ionizing the air where it's cold and impractical to open the windows? There are nice devices, which have certification, and don't produce ozone. When I traveled to Europe this year, I saw ionizers in the Munich airport and nowhere else, unfortunately.
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Played it as a teenager - some of my first lines of code were laid in its code editor.

I remember that in the Polish paper manual the language was described as being Java like, though.
All I see is Gravity's Rainbow. Am I alone?
Available at all good airports (after security)
Experimental APIs in Python 3.10
Yes nothing could possibly go wrong with this strategy.

This is an example of one of the reasons why there is growing distrust of experts.
I'm honestly not sure how it's different from consultants who are only home on weekends after a week at a customer site in $RANDOM_CITY, engineers who have to basically live on a job site for weeks at a time, any number of professions that involve a lot of travel including weekend travel, or even the other salaried professions with on-call such as doctors.

If those all sound awful, by all means, do something else. But they're tradeoffs that people accept for their chosen job and compensation. My first job I would regularly be in shipyards and offshore for weeks at a time supervising some job. There was a modest allowance after some length of time but it paid better--and was almost certainly more interesting--than some routine office engineering job.
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I bought some comic books on eBay. Discovered as I was checking out they were discounted 40% because -- unbeknownst to me -- the seller was having a Black Friday sale.

But that's it.
Chrome on iOS 15 is super busted. Surprised they still haven't fixed it.
afaik: No K8s core components are containers that come from a registry, see below. Random app/container running in your orchestrator could have sketchy provenance, sure.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/
The most fascinating part of this to me is that there's now a "resort" in Antarctica!
I've mentioned this a bunch of times: Having 10 businesses increase airflow is way easier than getting 10,000 people to wear masks.
You can’t compare developing countries that barely test anyone with Portugal which has strong and robust testing. Likely that tons of infections get untested so to prove that vaccine don’t work just because some other country with lower vaccination has less cases makes absolutely no sense. Any epidemiologist knows that and this is why this garbage analysis.

What you do is that you compare within the same country where conditions are similar. It’s the same everywhere, virus spread more and leads to more deaths and hospital cases among the unvaccinated.
I think I've observed a strong correlation between programmers with hobbies in the real world that involve making things. Carpentry is a biggie. So is photography and cooking. Also musical performance (guitar/drums/bass) but to a lesser extent.

Hmm.. seems like hobbies that involve lots (and lots) of gear are key. :)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem but it's also kinda dramatic so it's not just pure speculative sci-fi about intelligence.
Do you worry about chemtrails too?
For humidity, the key issue is that relative humidity matters for us and that is temperature dependent.

For example, if outside air has 100% humidity, then it effectively can't absorb more (e.g. evaporation of sweat) and would make things moist, but at -5 degrees Celsius, which I have now outside my window, that's only 2.46 g of water per kg of air - and if that exact air flows inside and gets heated to room temperature then it would suddenly have only ~17% humidity and would gladly absorb moisture from wherever possible e.g. my throat or skin; and any air going outside would remove more water vapor than the incoming air can possibly replace.

There are ways around that (ventilation systems that exchange temperature and also retain moisture), but they need to be installed at some expense, you won't get that by opening a window.
I'm not sure, but I think the problem is that nobody cares enough about chicken to develop a better vaccine. How much would it cost? Can someone here pay for it so we can remove that scary story in Wikipedia?
I think to some extent you and the original post you replied to are both probably right.

There is not some painstaking language optimization designed to trick users. But there is not a filter for clarity either, so the A/B testing naturally favors "dark patterns" - it's not malicious design, it's just unintended consequences, and gives the impression that Amazon et al are deliberately hostile when they are really just ignorant
> I’m a software engineer. I’m paid well partly because things like oncall are necessary. It’s priced into the compensation.

It might be priced into your compensation but that's the exception. If you are paid "market rate" and on call is "priced in" then you're underselling your services by a large margin.
So what happened to Spanish Flu ?
per the linked article here these were students who are young, so would not be expected to have severe symptoms:

> Initial reported infections were among university students—younger individuals who tend to have more mild disease—but understanding the level of severity of the Omicron variant will take days to several weeks.
you cut em out
the Redmi 2 is a Qualcomm msm8916 device. That SoC is already well mainlined, for anybody wanting to get an idea about mobile linux, pick a phone of that SoC class (most manufacturers had them) because they're the cheapest at ~30 bucks. It will not be very performant (feels like I/O mostly), but still impressive using phosh for the first time in this formfactor.
I don't work at Reddit so I can only guess, but one does not have to convert most of their infrastructure to ipv6. Traffic terminates to load balancers and those would need ipv6 listeners. Everything behind them can remain ipv4 for the next million years or so if one was so inclined. The only gotchas would be anything inside their datacenter that hairpins back to the load balancer for whatever reason and there are easy work-arounds for that by creating WAN or internal vips that are ipv4.
Most of the keyboard shortcuts for a particular application are right next to the menu item. The command palette I’m talking about is clearly visible in the help menu: my theory is that people no longer browse the menus of a new application the way I would back in the NT 4.0 days.

The system-wide shortcuts are a bit less discoverable but, they’re there if you know where to look: either search “keyboard shortcuts” in the os help system or go to system preferences > keyboard > shortcuts.
The pilot of the Blackbird maintains that it's true. Not sure you're going to find any confirmation other than that. But it isn't some joke or story cooked up by a random person for laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0
no, that's exactly what the author is saying NOT to do
I haven't seen any proof either. But people keep poisoning their lungs with alcohol and other toxic vapors!
Yeah, also an A5X user here (I actually have both, A6x and A5x but have not used A6X much yet).

I have pretty much zero complaints about my A5X (only "nice to have" ideas I'd appreciate). I never used RM2 (or RM1) but the mandatory subscription alone is enough for me to never touch it.

Supposedly RM2 has better writing latency than Supernote, but the current Supernote beta firmware improved that latency significantly (I signed up for beta). It may have been a bit slow on the firmware 1.0 but on the current one (2.0.4) it's pretty much as good as it gets for me. Sure actual pen on paper is faster, but for me the latency is low enough that I sometimes reach to turn the page when reading / annotating some PDF. That's probably the best attestation I can give to a device that tries to simulate the paper
What's the time for a realistic scenario like "I'm in a hurry but I don't have unlimited money" ?
That's not a missed opportunity. Not every company has to be some megacorp doing everything and siphoning off all data from every pore of the planet. Why can't you just make hardware and call it a day ?
Some of those things are very speculative.
That is what is used for modern music production in software. It's a somewhat new development and with too many in use at once, you will have to prerender/cache the sound as your computer may not be able to handle it all live.

But previously it was all analogue electronics. Which are extremely difficult to perfectly replicate in software and even models of the same synth would sound slightly different due to manufacturing differences/defects.
I've been enjoying reading this serialized book from Steven Sinofsky about his early days at Microsoft.
I've always admire YouTuber AvE's ability to string together seemingly off-the-cuff sentences which I would never think of but make perfect sense upon reflection. I'm sure there's many reasons for this ability, but it's fun to think his tool proficiency might be playing a part.
I think you're right. I phrased my argument like all PoW must necessarily collapse once they get too popular, and that may not be true exactly.

E.g. if Bitcoin had no block rewards, then the income from transaction fees alone might provide a more reasonable ceiling for miner activity. Users will only pay fees that make sense vs the utility they get.

However, for Bitcoin that's not the case right now. The combination of high price and block rewards provide an enormous subsidy for miner activity. (Some back of the envelope numbers elsewhere in this thread[1].)

And if Bitcoin gets banned, all PoW will likely get banned, so it doesn't matter if other PoW systems can behave better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373653
This suggests a pricing issue for your uptime guarantees.
Because the WHO has a long-standing policy not to name disease after names.
Virus size is not the correct metric for a virus transmitted in aerosolized or droplet form (notably, COVID19). What matters is the aerosol/droplet size, which in this case is substantially above 1 micrometer.
There are several glaring (logical) flaws in the US Constitution. We should address those immediately.
>> Countries that pursued zero covid largely avoided hospital overcrowding and massive amounts of preventable death

So did countries that didn't.
> Group chats, tight relationships, etc. usually mean someone is free just based on the odds to handle a true emergency.

Congratulations, you've made you entire team on call year round.

I don't read work chats outside of core working hours if I'm not currently on-call. In general, most people shouldn't. Doing so is awful for your stress levels and work-life balance. I did it for more than a decade, burning out twice in the meantime, and things have been much better since I stopped.
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