skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anybody that mined those earlier blocks on the weird unknown hardware

Which “weird unknown hardware”. Early in Bitcoin, you could just mine bitcoin with any CPU — you still can.

A.) That’s a possibility.

B.) As someone mentioned already, this doesn’t make sense from a trust and security standpoint. Yet discarding this possibility doesn’t prove that (A) is what really happened.
Magnetic therapy makes me feel sick to my stomach for reasons that have for long been unknown to me. I'm more comfortable with the idea of undergoing electroconvulsive therapy than something that involves magnets. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much, but it does to an unusual degree.
A whole lot of treatments end up refined with time.

The FDA approved treatment is "aim at the middle of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex". Getting more activity and connectedness improves its regulation of overall emotional activity.

This research implies that aiming instead slightly differently and a different dosing regimen may be more effective.

This is no different from any other medical treatment, where we find refinements in how and where to apply basically the same treatment to get better results.
Any study can only imply the outcome of what was observed. The techniques they used required an MRI machine so you aren't going to see magnetic fields wherever you go.
That seems like advocacy for eugenics, and integrated education, neither of which are good, but it’s not obvious how it would prevent the formation of community amongst the deaf.
And, it will be the easiest to answer / least significant one.
Sure, that's a fair question.

> We recently received reports of an uptick of users receiving blocked access emails.

This is abrogating responsibility for what happened. A better sentence would be: "We recently started receiving reports of users receiving blocked access emails in error."

> Our investigation found that some of these security alerts, which were sent to a limited subset of LastPass users

"Some of these" "limited subset", you're trying to minimize the issue and not sounding like you really understand what went wrong! Stop.

Better: "Our investigation found that these security alerts, which were sent to 7% of users, "

> were likely triggered in error.

LIKELY, LIKELY??

Do I need to explain that "likely triggered in error" could just as easily be translated as "we don't know what's going on but we sure hope nothing bad happened"

Better: "We identified that in edge cases where two users had usernames where one was a fully contained subset of another (e.g. bob fits inside johnbobpierson) we would inadvertently send account alerts to both users when the user bob had a failed login attempt to their account."

> As a result, we have adjusted our security alert systems and this issue has since been resolved.

"adjusted our security alert systems" seriously just makes this all sound like "we were sending alerts when someone tried to login to your account more than 5 times per hour, we raised it to 50 times per hour so yall would shut up"

Better: "We corrected the identified bug and have checked our code base to ensure that the same error pattern is not repeated anywhere else in the code. We fired the the security firm doing code audits and the CEO is looking for a pen to sign a contract with a new one"

Ok I got a bit tongue in cheek in the end, but, seriously this statement does not make me feel like they are "taking it seriously" and a post from a password manager which you are trusting with your life with must scream that at you.
The current state of web3 reminds me of people building new game engines well before any reasonable game could be built on the platform. This happened a lot in the 90's/2000's in the Interactive Fiction community. Smart people would find IF, play a bunch of games, build a game or two, then decide the existing platforms "didn't fit their style or the kinds of features they wanted" and start discussing how _they_ would do it differently.

None of those platforms ever saw the light of day. The few platforms that _did_ see success were the ones that were built quietly, the platform designer also became its first author and created a viable, interesting game in the platform to prove its value.

I think the proponents of web3 need to stop marketing/pushing it and just go build something. If/when you have something clearly viable, then the rest of us will take a more serious look at what you've invented.

And your users/customers can't just be crypto adherents. That's always going to be a limited subset of Internet users. You have to build something _easy to access_ with _clear benefits_.

Until then, it's just more vaporware.
Genus and pronouns have many regular uses, but my point is another. I'll try an analogy to help you understand my point.

Imagine seeing someone who has "white, german, non-jewish heritage". Does this come off as creepy? Why do they think these properties are important? I'd be wary af of that person, if not ghost them outright.

This is approximately also what i feel when i see the pronouns in someones bio. Gender used to be your pronouns and your nomen's declination class, and now we got people insisting that its something more, and that its something important. That its something personal. Its creeping me out.

What exactly is that that make people feel the need to point out their pronouns?
Maybe it's somebody's way to forcibly clue people in to the possibility of this type of vulnerability, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
You're in a metal shell in the plane. Even the small trees can impale you under a parachute.
Do you have the same feelings about radiation therapy for cancer?
And Europe had the Thirty Years War but we dont crackdown on religion because of it
Or, you can replace bash with something sane ... aka the Oh shell:

https://github.com/michaelmacinnis/oh

https://www.bsdcan.org/2018/schedule/events/931.en.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1m-WEZz46U
I'm not sure just where the tuition came from. I was a TA for some of the time, but the duties were trivial. At one point a department prof confessed that the department had a lot more tuition scholarships than qualified grad student applications. Net, the university didn't much want to charge grad students for tuition.
I doubt general public even knows about false color difference, they are nice looking images either way.
The shared folder support in Fastmail is one of my favorite features. Of course you can achieve similar outcomes in MS365 (not difficult) or Google Workspace*, but it’s much more straightforward in Fastmail than in any other email service I’ve used or administered.

* As of a few years ago this was annoying with Workspace (then G Suite), having to hop between delegated Gmail inboxes via the web UI.
Human emotional responses to wireless technology, even before the invention of said technology, are very interesting. Check out the wiki page for James Tilly Matthews.
I would slightly disagree: people ARE extremely capable but certainly lower education levels and disinterest or interest in harmful topics make the former harder to accomplish.
How do the blind any form of TMS? you absolutely feel it so it's not just a matter of faking the sound
What simply isn't true? I said discussion about it is welcomed here, and you're telling me that critical discussion is "consistent and widespread". It sounds like we agree.
> Unfortunately after engaging with many in person and on this forum, I've yet to hear a coherent strategy or purpose for Web3 that doesn't rely on centralized entities at any part of the chain, or rely on crypto going up.

Did you want to respond to the person? Or just chime in with a random anecdote about GE.
Great! That's a valid perspective and you should keep it!

In the autistic twitter community where I and a lot of other advocates spend our time we are inclusive and speak frequently about ourselves as a culture -- not as a monolith, mind you, but as a culture. We disagree frequently about everything from IFL/PFL to whether or not Autism should be considered a disability, but we recognize that we're all Autistic and we're all doing our best to make the world a safer place for all of us.
I actually think there is an interesting and nuanced conversation to be had on what fundamentally is different between an NFT and a baseball card. But that doesn't seem to be the conversation anyone is having.
Why not self-hosted WordPress or GitHub Pages?
It's all a little freaky if you think about it: even in evidence-based medicine, a whole lot of it is people making qualitative determinations and squishy adjustments to treatment, and undoubtedly getting it wrong a whole lot.

Then again, the stuff shows benefits in trial, and presumably we get most practitioners trained up and doing the thing that's the standard of care well enough...
> Can you seriously say it's easier to write hard to read python than writing hard to read Rust or C++ ?

Dynamic typing and passing around *kwargs make this so trivial often the documentation doesn't even help and your IDE can't help you without executing the entire program.
There are drug recalls: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/drug-... which would invalidate your assumption about Prozac tablets.
I'd also like to chime in on "effect size matters". After all, you don't need particularly large N to conclude that decapitation is going to be fatal.
Well, if you can’t read you probably have partial immunity to capitalist propaganda.
I'm sure that Common Lisp experts do, too. But how many of those jobs are there really?

Also: are they well-paid because they are D experts, or is being a D expert merely correlated with other traits that explain their high pay?
If you're not than I haven't referred to you :)
> Tommy Van Brocklin, 60, has suffered from depression since he was 15.

wow, ouch.
Who wants to read "standard tech posts?"

Every day we see somebody on HN ask why their posts to their blog are being rejected. Usually (1) this person is ONLY posting links to their own blog and (2) the blog is beyond bad, like the engineering manager who wrote a blog post to the effect that "I used to have anxiety and then I started meditating two minutes a day"

If you don't have anything unique to say why do you expect to get an audience for free? Alternately, how hard does this guy have to work to promote his blog

https://www.righto.com/

You'd better believe people are reloading their RSS feed every minute hoping to be the first to submit the next post on that blog to HN for... 200+ instant karma like that.

When Ken got started he didn't have a big readership. He was doing run-of-the-mill Arduino projects but he did it consistently and did it with heart, then he taught himself to decode the secrets of microchips and took us all along for the ride.

It pains me to hear people who are impressed that they got 75 reads on their article on Medium. Back in the day it would have taken 75,000 reads to impress me. If you're going to make a deal with the devil you'd better get a good price.
> And again, these kinds of comparisons are judgment calls (sure, sometimes you uncover strong evidence that, for example, the data in study A was fabricated, but study B alone won't tell you that).

Making statements like "these kinds of comparisons are judgement calls" is precisely what I'd consider to be a part of any good "fact checking".

> Ultimately, unless you have your own personal knowledge of some fact, any "fact checking" is going to come down to which sources you trust and which sources you don't. Those are always judgment calls and there will always be some degree of residual skepticism, so citing "fact checks" as if they were authoritative is problematic.

If you follow through on this as far as possible, you vanish in a cloud of solipsism. If it is not possible to establish some ground rules for epistemological truth, then really things have just completely fallen apart (which, indeed, to some extent they have).
Better yet, stop calling them "strings". Call the type "text".
Other than people making money off of them, I know of no one who is excited by the existence of billboards. In fact, they are usually a source of complaints. (There was some use for them pre-cell phones to find restaurants/gas/lodging during road trips.)

But even there, most people object to the personalized ads and the tech that measures it. People don't seem upset about ads in print magazines (that are tied only into the consumed content) or ads in podcasts.
But the code being memcpy'ed is using the parent process's specific symbol relocations. When a library with PIC is loaded the executable code is copied from the file into RAM to a random offset and all references to structures in the ASM are updated to match their now random offset in memory (simplifying). Say function XYZ in library libfoo is in offsetXYZ, parent process loads libfoo at offset 0xDEADBEEF, injectee process loads libfoo at offset 0xDEC0DE. In Windows the call to function XYZ in the parent process uses the address offsetXYZ+0xDEADBEEF, but the call in the injectee process uses offsetXYZ+0xDEC0DE, causing any reference to the parent process's function to fail. GNU/Linux is very similar but library symbols are found based on an offset to a structure in memory that contains the library symbol metadata, that changes every time the program is loaded.

So actually the opposite is true, if the code wasn't position-independent and was statically located, the assembly code offsets wouldn't need to be updated and you might be able to call a memcpy'd function. Position-independent code could only possibly work if you updated the reference to the symbol metadata structure in the ASM after the memcpy, but at that point you're re-implementing libdl and no longer just using memcpy.
https://xkcd.com/1053/ of course
> I want to build apps without having to worry about ever being restricted, limited or shut down.

I'm still not clear how this would work.

In a web 3 twitter clone that prevents one from ever being "restricted, limited or shut down", where does the crypto-tweet live?

Where is it stored?

How well does this scale?

What does it take to crypto-tweet (do you have to pay some crypto currency to have it be out there)?

What happens if you want to redact it later?

What is the energy cost of putting a crypto-tweet out there?

What would be the overall energy and storage costs be across all devices for a single crypto-tweet?

What would the costs be if this was to scale to 1% of Twitter (Twitter is 6k tweets/s so this would be 60 crypto-tweets/second)?

If the above doesn't reflect the proper design of a crypto-twitter, what would that look like? One of the classic system design questions is "how would you implement twitter" and so that's something that nearly every software developer has thought about at one point or another... and so if I've got the wrong questions fro crypto-twitter, how is it designed and what are the right questions to ask about such a design?
4chan reenactment I’d imagine
I'm not certain that's true either (if "Original Quality" is turned on[1]) but haven't tested it.

That said, I personally only use Google Photos as a sharing site and do archiving offline.

[1] https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791
I work at a university that's heading in this direction. Reason being is that our services are constantly being attacked. Putting them behind a firewall helps a lot. You don't have to run the VPN when you're not doing school related stuff so i don't see it as a big problem and IT doesn't care what you're doing. Also, I'd wager that their VPN supports split tunneling so university related traffic is the only thing going over VPN.
This handicap is underappreciated by English speakers. I don't have a source, but I recall reading that it amounts to about two years of extra effort in learning to read and write vs most other languages.

"Spelling bees" are largely an English language phenomenon. If you can pronounce a Spanish word, you can likely spell it. You might miss an occasional "h", but that's about it.
From what I remember from my high school classmates -- and I went to a good Midwestern school, filled with unusually smart people! -- GPT-3 does indeed produce ASCII character sequences that sound better than my human classmates did. GPT-3 understands more about our world and how we live, even though it doesn't actually understand anything about anything. It's unnerving.
> Makes me wonder what percentage of the placebo group improved?

For future reference, assuming this is a clinical trial, data from clinical trials is available online. This is the kind of statistic that you'd be able to find.
Yes---

Small n studies are often the most exciting. If you get a p<0.01 effect in 10 people vs. 10000 people... the lower bound of the effect size is similar, and so for the same prior each study should change our belief by a similar amount... but the upper bound of effect size is much larger in the large study.

The only thing that messes this logic of mine up a bit is publication bias. There's a much larger chance that small studies sit on the shelf unpublished if there's no clear effect.
The black orgs behind the curtains think of the white orgs as their minions. And so it is.
My random lawyer is buying crypto. So they get to have their value increase as all the shenanigans goes on.
“All models are wrong, but some are useful”--George E. P. Box.

Even confronting them with a fairly reasonable model, however, shan't motivate humans (in the aggregate) to "reasonable" behavior.

Whatever that is.

Q.E.D.: 2021
That's exactly what I was thinking when I posted this! Honestly if Etube Ride had an "import gpx" feature it'd do nearly everything, and if it could display heartrate it'd be a complete package.
If anyone's interested in watching videos of genuine emergencies in light aircraft, Elliot Seguin (https://www.youtube.com/c/utopiasnow) has some fantastic ones.
Workers in Vietnam lived inside factories during the pandemic
This will always be a question of interpretation. There are a lot of situations (contract or otherwise) where you can say something that might imply something else but you chose your words wisely and 'mean them'. Marketing is full of this for example as well. And it extends to contracts.

"Up to 100MBit" in the marketing material as well as the contract. When you complain that you only get 0.5MBit it's basically "buyer beware" because you bought "up to" not "always exactly" 100MBit of connectivity on a shared medium (cable). As long as it's true that the medium actually supports 100MBit there's nothing wrong with this except for it being very deceptive. This kind of thing is all over the place and a lot of people fall for it all the time. And then complain loudly but mostly toothlessly. The internet itself I guess has changed some of this as it's easier for companies to get bad enough publicity out of such things than back in the day but it's doesn't change the underlying facts and mechanics.
> We would still have the possibility to create new clients and build whatever applications we want without being under the mercy of Big Tech holding the data hostage.

How does this improve on a self hosted blog with RSS feeds and associated aggregators?
Throw a dart at the Apache project list :-)

My god do we need an atlas of database related Apache projects.

It's almost as bad as java web frameworks about ten years ago.

Everyone can do everything and it's hard to know what is better for what.
Not everyone reacts the same to crisis though. I can imagine other people totally freaking out and not having razor focus like you. And your don't really know what type of person you are until you're in it.

But it's sure a great thing to have!
> I want to build apps without having to worry about ever being restricted, limited or shut down.

I'm not at all convinced that technology from "web3" or ethereum or whatever can actually do this.

Please don't tell me it's coming soon or just a matter of time. That's been said for ten years.
To all the people that downvoted my comment, do you think that decentralization is inherently connected to the Blockchain/NFT? If true, mind explaining?
With respect:

1. I'm not talking over anyone. I'm expressing that I found the use of the phrase 'severe autism' in a response to an article explaining why 'there is no severe autism' to be a problematic use of language that felt disrespectful to me. I'm allowed to have feelings about the words people use, and the author expressly stated that he was trying to be respectful so I wanted to provide the feedback that I didn't perceive it that way.

2. I absolutely understand that this is a parent concerned over "who will take care of my son when I'm gone". Let me ask you this: what does that question have to do with the essay? The point this parent was making is that the essay shouldn't be listened to because the reality on the ground is that it's too hard to be careful of language when you need to communicate urgency. That's a take, but it's one I disagree with it. That's fine.

3. Thanking a parent for being invested in their kid's future isn't patronizing or inappropriate. Many parents of Autistic kids aren't. I was speaking sincerely, and if you're reading sarcasm or passive aggression in my tone I'd suggest you reflect on what you know about Autistic tone and stop projecting onto me.

4. I can't control anyone's words or behavior. All I said was that I found the comment disrespectful. That's not me forcing anyone to change, and far, far worse has been said to me in these comments.

I can see that I've upset you, but I'd like to suggest that you're reading things into my words that aren't there and projecting interpretations that I don't intend. Thank you.
Please do not quote my comments out of context.

My above-quoted comment was in response to;

>> Normal engineering has been reduced to a series of unidimensional logical decisions. This is my constraint…these are my material properties (or whatever) and I shall optimize for cost. Easy peasy. A computer could do it. This is the realm of building codes and strict industry standards.

The fact that this is ludicrous should be self-evident to any "Scientifically Minded" person.

Trying to explain the "Why" would have to start at the Basics and would be too long. Instead i will list the relevant resources for further study;

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering#Methodology from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Elements_of_... from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Models_of_sc...
The citation for that statistic is from a Forbes article that itself doesn’t actually cite a source beyond stating “According to the U.S. Department of Education.”
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