skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
have you tried telling the people who say "have you tried..." to eff off?
A lot of unskilled immigrant labor from poorer Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India does the hard work of keeping the city clean. Really a two class society.
If you like PB and Pickle, then you should definitely try PB and pickled red onions. It's surprisingly good.
>>>So it's not an edge case for female, uneducated, poor people from third world countries?

When a Philippine friend of mine lacked capital to purchase inventory for her business at the start of lockdowns last year, I sent her some Bitcoin. She didn't fully understand how crypto worked but I talked her through the basics (wallets, etc...) She converted the BTC to pesos locally, and paid me back in Bitcoin, with interest. She got the capital injection she couldn't find elsewhere, and I added to my BTC pile (at a time when BTC was just under $10k, as I knew it would go up again).
Is it particularly costly compared to locks?

Under the hood it's a effectively a single CAS instruction that loops on failure (which only occurs under contention, but then you have waiting with locks too).
Pretentious means to pretend to be someone/something one is not. DFW was definitely as brilliant as he "appeared to be".

I won't get into details because it is very personal, but DFW did something staggeringly generous and selfless and thoughtful for a close friend of mine -- a friend who was also a complete stranger to DFW at the time.

The pat "DWF/pretentious" critique which is heard from time to time seems to be to be pretty ignorant of what he wrote, why he wrote, and who he was. And that little insight I got of him gave me a deeper appreciation for what he published.
(Correction: 192-way AMD.)
About 6 tons of CO2 according to https://www.aerial.is/nft/0xd723190ea96380E00ea21BD88ED53bAF...

kgin pointed out that the gas fee was already about $150 USD, so I'm surprised that buying carbon offsets would be only another $112. That seems downright reasonable.
I've noticed a variation on this which is a video that is related to the news story however since I am reading the article I press stop on the autoplaying video. However as soon as I scroll down to continue reading the page the video also moves to the lower left corner so that it is still visible even though I have paused this. This seems quite hostile as one has signaled their preference to read the article since they stopped the video. Can anyone say what the thinking is here? Is this just another technique to game some engagement metric?
This is fascinating. The title is incomplete; the most interesting part of the article is that the placebo effect varies not just among placebos, but in time, for the same placebo!

> The implications of this are pretty serious - the placebo effect in the United States has actually become quite a lot stronger over time, meaning that drugs that once would have been approved may not be now - because their performance relative to that of placebo is less convincing.

The reason why is not explained. It would be good to know more.

The other thing that is surprising is that the effect of (effective) drugs doesn't vary over time; one would think the effect of a drug is placebo+drug, i.e. that the effect of the drug is on top that of the placebo, since obviously a drug is also a placebo. And so, if the placebo gets better with time, then the drug should too. But it doesn't seem to be the case.
Here is my source (in french): https://lepharmachien.com/reiki/

It is linked to the study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21531671/

This is a bit of an extrapolation from the study. The study just says that real reiki and sham reiki (placebo) work just as well at improving cancer patients comfort, and are better than doing nothing.

Now if there is an actual study that compares the efficacy of typical "rushed" care vs a more "holistic" approach by doctors vs alternative therapies, I would be very interested.
GPay is not available in my country, but the two bank apps that I use have no problem with contactless payments or normal bank transfers. I did get a popup once that the device was not in the original state, but that only seems to happen once per install.

Your experience will depend on the laws of your country and the terms of your bank, but unlocking a bootloader with Magisk and using the right masking tools is all you need to work around most SafetyNet validation.

The trick seems to be to fake the type of attestation available to make the system think hardware attestation (which can't be faked reliably by software) isn't available, falling back to basic software attestation which can be spoofed. Software developers could theoretically detect this bypass by keeping their own mapping of device type to device properties (available hardware etc. to validate the model number and prevent quick spoofing, available attestation to prevent SafetyNet bypasses, and so on) but they'd have to disable some obscure devices or accept the spoofing.
Gas fees are gwei, which is ETH, which has a varying price relative to fiat. Isn't that true? I might be misunderstanding.

Also I didn't know the network would automatically set the difficulty, but yeah good to know.

PoS centralizes to the rich, which is the existing payments system, e.g. Visa.
Company might still lock it away.
Maybe I'm underthinking it, but isn't it likely that the duck is actually a duck? We are approving less effective medications than we used to, because pharma companies are better than they used to be at working the system.
You gotta serve somebody but the whole point of libertarian freedom is that you choose when and how to give it up. You can join the army, marry, adopt a religion, start a job, have children, or simply make moral judgements about the world and attempt to live by them (note that many of those things are not "hedonistic").

Libertarian freedom was hard won, it works, and it would be a damn shame to give it up due to the anxiety experienced by 20-somethings. Relativism is in no way the certain outcome of liberal societies. To the extent that there is a problem, it's non-judgmentalism, the trendy idea that it is suspect to render judgements and live by them.
Vegetables and fruit rank next to poultry on the top of the food pathogen list. Raw flour can and does carry Salmonella. Food pathogenicity is where you think it will be and often where you don't think about it at all.
> everyone is currently using it as digital gold, a store of value, a powerful hedge against inflation.

You and I have a different idea of "everyone" means, but anyway...

> Why is store-of-value not a valid use case

Because if it's value depends on a large number of people agreeing to its value, then it's not a store of value. All it takes is for the miners to decide to dedicate their resources to something more profitable, and suddenly the network is worth zero.

> It offers unique technology.

It's so unique, it has spun how many forks already?

> It is a $1 Trillion asset class that has proven itself as a store of value over the past 12 years.

You are literally using circular logic here.

> Tell me about a superior innovation invented this century.

"Blockchain, not Bitcoin". ;)

And even blockchain still needs to prove itself. I believe it can be very useful for some cases, and I am working to see it succeed. I just don't think that "digital gold" is one of those cases.

BTC was a good prototype. That's it. We should continue in the drawing board instead of pretending that we have a finished product in our hands.

BTC already failed as a currency, the activists and cypherpunks that first got into it would be mortified to see how now current proponents end up cheering for a dictator in a Banana Republic that is pushing "their" coin. The "digital gold" narrative switch was an attempt to save it and now we are all playing this game of "Emperor has no clothes" with something because some people are trying to be rich without building any wealth.
> Maybe you had a specific set of variables in mind already, but it didn't seem clear to me, so speculating just on temperature seemed to be lacking critical details.

The low temperature/microbes/Crohn's connection came from the OP. Someone else connected kefir benefiting Crohn's. I was only drawing attention to my own experience with a temperature effect in kefir and speculating that there might be a further connection.
> Everyone can see all the demos, but only sponsors can see the code for demos marked with . Locked demos are unlocked for everyone after being sponsored by five sponsors.

i think the demos are visible to everyone, but the _source_ is only viewable by sponsors.

that said, still seems weird to lock away code that could make people use your product.
I agree completely. When there's a looping video below the fold, I'd rather start it with a click, instead of having to watch it up to twice just to see the clip from beginning to end.
This pattern is purely a representation of how financially hurt news institutions are. They are desperate to make revenue and the end user experience is sacrificed in the name of keeping the ship afloat (and sometimes profit).
If it's a training set problem, wouldn't it be possible to give a "vaccine" consisting of a reasonable mix of antigens from time to time? Has this been tried?
Heh, at this point in my Crohn's journey it's basically background noise.
I'm sure some people don't hear it, like "the dress", but for some of us it sounds like an Uncanny Valley of English: close but not quite, just enough for our brains to trip over / struggle to comprehend b/c it is so close.
This is old news. When this change happened, there was a lot of outrage and anecdotally many people started using Telegram and Signal. But my guess is that at least some of the people who switched went right back because of network effects and because FB and WhatsApp started putting up advertisements about how this is only about the “WhatsApp business” platform and that it doesn’t impact users’ personal chats.

It seemed like a lot of people weren’t aware that this had already been happening, before the announcement to make the opt out unavailable.
"Is Buying On-Line Safe?

Art party authentic freegan semiotics jean shorts chia cred. Neutra Austin roof party Brooklyn, synth Thundercats swag 8-bit photo booth. Plaid letterpress leggings craft beer meh ethical Pinterest"

At least they're honest
Yeah, I think it's a cultural and systemic issue, not a vocabulary issue. Similar to how words like crippled and retarded became slurs. The problem is not the word, it's that we have cultural connotations associated with these conditions, no matter what name we call it by.
You know, Firefox has that option right at the settings window. And if there's audio, it blocks by default.
Apple's gift cards can be used for Apple hardware as well (it's not just for apps or movies). For context, $1.2K doesn't even cover an iPhone 13 Pro Max after taxes.
Color Vision Simulation
I think you're drawing the wrong conclusions from some numbers. Biden most likely got a lot of votes because of voter turnout, with his voters desperately wanting to get rid of Trump.
Sort of.

When I worked at a rather large publisher they did a deal like this because someone promised a large truck of revenue by a company.

For a site that was badly monetized (because they it was over-weighed with ads and poorly engineered to begin with) this was seen as something they could not say no to.

Again, it is a slow race to the bottom.

I can assure you that often these deals are done by the business-side without consultation with product/engineering.
Facebook is pretty bad too... I was just watching a video, lowered the volume and scrolled down... then it popped up an always-on-screen video player... I close it and it reverts back to playing the one that is offscreen, and the volume gets reset to maximum level.
As a young gay man I got so much practice at avoiding rocks and other objects thrown at me that when dodge ball came up at school I was almost impossible to hit. This might have been a kind of victory, but being unable to hit others with projectiles means I was unable to claim victory and ended up being even more of a freak in everyone's eyes and thus even more of a target.

Now I am in my mid fifties and the accumulated assaults on my person have given me an immense amount of combat experience. It makes me sad that you are so unable to come to terms with the intense violence that is pervasive in your society. Perhaps you can work out your anger toward preparedness by throwing rocks at people.
If the video is short, such as anything 20-seconds or shorter (even 5-second videos), the click is too much in my experience.

Perhaps its "meme culture" or Tik-Tock culture. But there's a style of super-short 5-second to 20-second video where looping makes far more sense than clicking.

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In either case, I've solicited feedback of this style in a variety of gaming forums from different communities. They mostly have had positive-experiences with tutorials / short videos written in this manner. Awesomenauts, Factorio, and Puyo Puyo. Three very different communities, three times they seemed to like the content and video/writing style of merged text + video.

Call it "Tumblr style", or "Tik-tok" style.
> I've tried this with the TOR network before when writing web scrapers and had mixed success... seems like Google knows when a request is being made through Tor.

That's because all the TOR entry/exit nodes and relays IPs addresses are public [1].

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#toprelays
Yes, but unlikely.

Its usually a deal with a 3rd-party that gives the guaranteed revenue based on views per week/month.
I don't know what Reiki is, but maybe it's actually just really easy to learn, and the people who happened to name it don't have a monopoly on the behaviors that it consists of.
> So there are accounts on Twitter that "expose and keep track" of people (I won't give them the benefit of the doubt re: their assumptions of "white supremacist" and "hate rallies"). This sounds awfully like illegal stalking to me. Twitter's new system is working as intended.

Yes, because taking pictures in public spaces, during publicly held rallies is stalking. No one forced them to attend, they have no expectation of privacy while attending and publishing their pictures is free speech.

Making list of people who attended rally shouldn't be a problem, because attendees have nothing to be ashamed of. Right?

> If you disagree, use that much vaunted empathy and put yourself in the shoes of the harassed.

I love when people redefine meanings of words to suit their needs. I hope I didn't "harassed" you to much by pointing this out.
"Harassed" is new "oppressed"?
Let's face it : the modern web is a nightmare without an adblocker and annoyance blocklists.
And most web creators aren't even aware because they use these tools themselves.

No wonder why normal people like walled gardens, the UI is more streamlined and (mostly) more respectful.
I placed 4-5 orders from china/aliexpress in the last 1-1/2 month and if anything, shipments were delivered faster then usual...
Multiplayer modding is still very much alive and well. There is both the client-side route (where everyone uses a modpack tool like https://atlauncher.com/) or the successor to Bukkit, Spigot (and its High-performance fork, PaperMC: https://papermc.io/)

Spigot/Paper are bukkit-compatible and you can load modpacks from the spigot.org site, or even bukkit.org, which is still operational to this day.

Source: I run several instances myself and I help develop a server management tool for it: https://craftycontrol.com/
Then click the button to replay the clip from the beginning if that really is your problem.

But you won't. Because the clips are 5 to 20 seconds long. So its faster to just wait for the loop than even to move your hand to the mouse.
And that's WITH lockdowns and a way fewer people on the streets in 2020. Of course 2021 would be higher with vaccinations.
The Union celebrated General Lee. Maybe we should tear it down, too.
I think they would have legal write those terms not engineers. Or perhaps some copywriter and then reviewed by legal.
I’m sure many people haven’t experienced that kind of censorship but lots of people have. I used to play online poker which was made illegal in the US through payment channel crackdowns(for reasons at best paternalistic but realistically just physical casino lobbying). Given that the internet facilitates pretty much any kind of information transfer I have to ask mysef is it more likely the future will be a future where I can only transfer value by requesting 20th C institutions to proxy for me or is it more likely I will be able to freely transfer value in my own right.
I've had this comment in my bookmarks for a while. Always good for a laugh - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9798333
The only decent defence I know is DRM. Streaming companies are afraid of people ripping their 4K streams through hacked devices. They'd rather deprive their customer base of features than risk letting go of their strict requirements. I still see high res WEBDL torrents appearing online every time streaming services release new episodes, so whatever they're doing is clearly not working anyway.

For banking apps there may be a certain level of liability ascribed to the bank. depending on local jurisdiction, but I don't think banks need top of the line security to comply with those regulations; even if there is legislation, security only needs to be good enough so that basic rooted malware can't steal money.

I think the wording in the errors and warnings for broken apps say all. When an app doesn't work because the device is rooted, the messaging is usually "your device does not support X" or "your system does not meet the requirements" or "your device is not secured". It's never "you may have malware" or any other potentially helpful message; the wording always seems to punish the user for daring to modify the software on their phone.
All money is, but that's why it works.
I'm all for more precise terminology, and yes "real" would not be that terminology.

As far as distinguishing mechanisms, for any drug that doesn't have a perceptible side effect (drowsiness, euphoria, numbness, etc), it seems the only assumption required is that the effect is due to some chemical property. That doesn't require much understanding to make a meaningful distinction.
These release notes are such a joy to read.
> refrigeration should reduce the incidence of food poisoning

According to the paper, the implicated Yersinia are able to survive the cold at refrigeration temperatures and in vacuum packaging. Due to longer storage times and reduced competition, the bacteria are able to proliferate. In the genetically susceptible, they trigger an "exacerbated inflammatory response".

Interesting, the paper also posits mutations in descendants of those who survived the genetically close black plague causing bacteria might cause them to be susceptible.
I also really enjoy web3 over current web UX. Without crypto you mean non-finance stuff but still a blockchain, or something else?
She is a Democratic hero. There is nothing to cancel in her work which remains.
All those situations are different by definition. Without getting bogged down into a child having a reason to get into a car because they want a lift to get somewhere, I'm not talking about the differences. I'm talking about the similarities. Which are ways people might choose to reduce risk.

Not that I'm saying dressing differently reduces risk mind you, I don't have statistics at hand to know whether it does or does not in western countries. I was commenting on the advice to avoid being a target on the street by hiding that you're a banker. That's not victim blaming.

But if women not "dressing scantily" as you say were to statistically reduce the chance of them being victimized in some situation, that seems like a pretty important thing for them to know. Or would you prefer that data was hidden from them?
Isn't this what Web 3.0 was supposed to be before crypto-fans stole the term?

> I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web", which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The "intelligent agents" people have touted for ages will finally materialize.

- Tim Berners Lee
Anyone care to summarize?
> New technologies start out less efficient than existing technologies

For PoW to work, they necessarily must be inefficient, there is no future possible where they become more efficient. Inefficiency is a necessity for them to exist.
I appreciate you mentioning it. To be more clear, the nazis happened then WWII happened then United Nations and Human Rights.
https://tinyurl.com/37bm6ekm
Why not just do normal art and sell it if you wish to monetise? Why ruin the planet for some reason when you can just express yourself and make enough to live on? Why participate in the bleak financialisation of every possible human action?
> It reminds me of how poverty and gun violence dramatically reduced after Roe v. Wade

Poverty and gun violence rates also dramatically reduced after we stopped putting lead in gasoline.
>Can we take advantage of this effect without having to wrap it with all the unscientific thinking and pseudoscience that comes with alternative therapy?

New thought is probably an attempt to do that, one could say it seeks to isolate pure belief and apply it to problems directly. Not sure if you'd call it unscientific or very scientific.
Chrome also syncs your browser history and passwords with their servers. They have your search history. They have your private email. They have your YouTube history. They have your private documents and photos. They run your phone. They possibly run your laptop.

I guess my point is it goes far beyond Chrome. Google is running the Borg hive mind.
Probably more like "don't wear that $4000 suit and $10000 rolex for a few months"
I'm guessing "name collision" is the "I thought this was about [something else]" comment.

E.g., an article about Pliny the Elder and people saying "I thought it was about beer". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160573
Yes absolutely in some countries and cultures women should absolutely be told that they must cover up, not go about in public un-escorted, etc.

It's not about your beliefs or your imagination of what the world is or should be, it is about actual reality for these people.
Nah miners are still collecting part of the fee

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1559
How is it reasonable in any way? It’s still using a ridiculous amount of energy to achieve fuck all whether it’s supposedly offset or not
That is zero-sum thinking. It's my impression from the article that by building their own stuff they are adding to total capacity, at least to some extent.

For example, imagine how bad it would be if Amazon were competing for space with all the other container ships going to LA, instead of going to another port.

Or suppose they were competing for cargo containers instead of building their own?

There are probably still bottlenecks in different places, though.
With the added benefit every transaction you do with a "persona" isn't on a blockchain that almost everyone has access to into perpetuity.
Not obviously any crazier than climbing Mount Everest, but surely much less likely to result in anyone’s untimely death.
Flex / Bison are manageable if you spend a bit of extra time reading the manual. I admit that there are often better options out there these days, I'm just saying that some of these complaints about Flex / Bison may be a bit outdated.

Multiple grammars are fine, you just instruct Flex and Bison to use static or add prefixes. No worries about ODR or LTO.

If your build system can't handle generated code, that's an indictment of your build system. I know that's a bit harsh, but there are plenty of build systems which can handle generated code and cross-compile just fine. Flex and Bison work fine on Windows.