skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ponzi grifters

You want to talk about Ponzi? Crypto has nothing on the Fed. The global financial structure is a planet-incinerating Ponzi scheme, so the point of targeting one minuscule subset of it is suspect.
This is a software forum, and crypto is software. Perhaps a message board for geological engineers might be better for finding criticisms of Big Oil.
> 10 years ago if your said it was fine to double the annual cases of flu and flu death people would have said that was insane.

And if you told them that things like lockdowns and vaccine mandates were still in effect at that point, they'd say that was insane too.
You would be surprised by hovering your fingers over home row how naturally quickly you will start typing.
I dunno, I can't imagine these biophotons having any effect when there are so many other major influences... Crazy to see, thanks for sharing.
I am kurutoga fan as well. Love the rotating lead and consistent writing due to that. Sadly I keep losing the eraser cap and can't seem to find it online. Any suggestion?
By saying “I don’t want to experience this every year” without any caveats, there is an implication we should do something to prevent it. Especially given the broader context of the pandemic thus far. Surely you can see how many readers might feel that implication.
Mineshaft!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y
Research seems to disagree with you[1]. Do you have a citation for your assertion?

[1] https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/news/calgary-childrens-dental-he...
> Lawn fertilizer! People over fertilizing their lawns.

Lawn fertilizer!? I didn't even know that was a thing! Why would you fertilize a lawn. Won't that just make it grow faster and therefore require you to mow it more often?
I see I am reinventing the wheel[1], at least for the trash pickup.

1: https://komonews.com/news/local/tacoma-launches-program-to-p...
This is so awesome. I would actually take it even further to include the other big names.. stars, play and five hundred. I personally wouldn't mind having four extensions if it can't be this seamless were they included in a one extention.

Thank you Adrian!
I went TIMER, TILER, TIGER and scraped in. I had been getting most in 3-4 attempts prior to that.

The aspect I don’t love is that in forcing dictionary words to be attempted, people can rely on that at the end rather than winning through word knowledge. My 9yo plays it and generally does well but was bailed out once by this.
As a leisurely pursuit, you can now fly anywhere in the world for under $1000 (some planning required), or listen to basically any music ever produced, or play and record whatever music you happen to compose (a couple grand of music gear suffices), or read any book, or publish anything for the entire world basically for free.

But if your idea of leisurely activity is laying in a hammock and watch the clouds go by, it's still as expensive as ever. Time is as expensive as ever; for instance, look at your effective hourly rate.
Tell me about it.

USDC would make for a suitable candidate but of course, it's got $25 transaction fees on ETH. USDC-SPL maybe. The last time I tried to move some USDC-ETH, it was cheaper and more convenient to just have FTX wire me the money ($0) then wire it from my bank account to the recipient ($0).

In reality though, a CBDC is probably the best way forward.
VX Junkies Forum
There are two massive lists, one is the wordlist and one is the actual answers in date order.
So this [1] has been going on and is pretty serious. It makes clear the importance of setting up mesh networks. If you're cut off from communication in the midst of something like this, you're helpless.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/international/588318-kazakhstan-g...
> when using Rust, you can write a unit test function right next to the function you are testing.

I'm not sure that this is a good thing? With Julia you can also write doctests which work great, but having a separate test set as a Julia _project_ offers a lot of flexibility. For instance, we're now developing a Julia wrapper for Playwright to build end-to-end/UI tests which themselves have multiple dependencies. Having a test _project_ allows having as complex test cases as needed, with properly managed dependencies out of source. How would you handle that with an approach like Rust's?

A test project means that you can easily extend the testing capabilities of Base Julia - for Genie we use ExtendedTestSet which actually allows us to pick and run only some of the tests. Take a look at that.

I hope this helps.
Is there any active rationing of healthcare anywhere in the US due to the Omicron or Delta waves? I always hear about how the hospital system "could be overwhelmed" but I haven't seen any real evidence that people were being denied care because there are too many unvaccinated people in the hospital.
I mean... if you can't believe in something that hasn't yet existed, how does anything come to be at all? Or do you deny that there is any theoretical thought behind communism at all? Is it just something people suddenly found themselves doing, and it failed and that was that?

How does someone dream of things that are better? How can you have faith in anything at all? Is not the love you feel towards your friends and family kind of like the unicorn you are describing? Do you even really feel love, if its just in your "head"?
I have personally put lego bricks in 12T magnetic fields, embedded them in agar, accidentally irradiated them with 94 GHz microwaves, and blasted them with a lot of RF. Some of my friends have irradiated them (accidentally) at the diamond light source x-ray synchrotron, which can deliver MGy doses in a short period of time. Still others have used them as coarse positioning blocks on high end (read: homebuilt) novel forms of microscopes or other high-end optical equipment. They're fantastic for prototyping stuff quickly, or, in a pinch, acting as a dimensional reference. (Yes, really!)

You can put them in a vacuum. They don't degas much. They're magnet safe and can survive being in really high EM fields. They've got a high melting point. They don't become too brittle at sub-K temperatures. Blocks continue to mate as temperature varies -- Lego's process is fantastic at minimising temperature variation. They're really quite radiation resistant (many plastics fail horribly if you shoot them with >1 kGy). A child (or student!) can make a symmetric structure with them given a vague sketch design. A single "1x" wide Technik piece has a persistence length of about 80 cm. Structures you can build with lego are therefore really remarkably strong.

Every lego is made to insanely tight tolerances to published, well-known dimensions, and, best of all, if they break (an achievement!) you can buy another one for absolutely nothing in science-money terms. (The finance dept. look at you a bit weird when you put fifteen copies of "Spaceman playset" on an expenses claim form though).

I frankly think that most experimentalists somewhere in their life have some lego.

(I have a "Lego MRI" set that is only available to professionals!)
I love being a dev, man! Java, Python, C++, whatever. As long as I can just write cool programs and get paid for it, I'm good. I can't believe how lucky I am to have found a job that doesn't feel like work, and is also extremely high paying.
Check out https://youtu.be/Lw1tcqbFwN4?t=867 which talks about some of the advantages of stickless controllers. That link points to a particular timestamp, but the video as a whole is pretty interesting IMO.
And simultaneously flush what little good will remained with their users and existing donors. Patience is wearing thin for many when it comes to Firefox.
I agree that the author does not appear to have done much of any basic research regarding this topic. It reminds me of articles that were published just after GPT3/GPT2 were released, while also not bringing any unique perspective to the topic.

It is saddening me considering it is 2022 now, nearing 2 years after the release of GPT3. Yet journalists retreat the same ground, pretending to have something insightful to say, after what appears to be a 30 minute session with OpenAI's GPT3 Sandbox.
My book Crafting Interpreters has a similar snippet style where it shows you the surrounding context for inserted code so you can see where it goes. It doesn't show the deleted code (because that would probably get too noisy in most cases), but I could if I wanted to.

I ended up writing a whole little custom build system to automatically generate the snippets and their surrounding context based on comments in the source code [1]. It was a fairly complex program to write, but it makes it completely automatic and error-free. I can't imagine trying to maintain it all manually.

[1]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...
> "Chorded typing allows the users to input several letters at the same time and have a computer program generate a predicted word. Instead of typing h e l l o, a chorded typer mashes h, e, l, and o to produce the word. With practice, it’s much faster"

There's nothing wrong with this, and many of us probably use similar techniques daily (macros, shortcuts, etc.), but he's not typing 'words per minute' without computer help. So, makes sense it's considered 'cheating' for comparison purposes.
I think we're accepting of all the variants.
Your view that Paxos is an algorithm for read-modify-write is a really deep insight. Once you adopt this point of view, things like Raft are just RMW updates of a log. (I like to think of Paxos as the fault-tolerant version of the load-linked/store-conditional pair of instructions.)

However, there is a difficulty in expressing exactly what RMW-Paxos does, because it may end up "modifying" a value that was never "committed".

For example, assume that I have three acceptors storing a replicated counter. The proposer executes phase-1, increments the value received from the acceptor with the highest ballot, and sends the value to all acceptors in phase-2. Consider now an execution where all acceptors initially hold 0. The proposer manages to store a new value 1 in one acceptor, and then crashes. Thus, 1 was not committed and a reader may conclude that the consensus value is still 0. Now a new proposer arrives, receives (1, 0, 0) from the three acceptors, chooses 1 as the newest value, and writes (2, 2, 2) to all acceptors. Thus "2" is now committed, and the commit of the "2" retroactively commits the "1". Thus, the condition for being committed is no longer "there exists a phase-2 quorum ...", but it is more complicated and depends on future history.

I have verified with TLA+ that this algorithm does indeed implement an atomic read-modify-write operation, but only under a complicated notion of being "committed" that boils down to either having a phase-2 quorum, or one of the successor operations having a phase-2 quorum.

Did you ever figure out a simpler way to say this?
They didn't predict that I wouldn't be able read their article on my phone.
It's called artificial intelligence for a reason. Because it's not intelligence.
If you happen to be on an Apple device, may I humbly suggest you look up "Three Magic Words" on the app store. It's a different take on the same root game, sometimes called "Jotto" or "Ghost."
The content of the book isn't open source, but the code in it and the code for the build system is:

https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters
For crying out loud… Go look up the frickin statistics. The vaccines are very effective.
Why would I ever willingly buy a vehicle that I’m not fully in control of and that can force me to pull over whenever it wants? False positives are an inevitability; the best you can do is make them infrequent. Still, I would prefer to not have the system in my vehicle since I don’t drink and am at no risk of driving drunk.
I don't know what the SMS service part of Pushover uses as we don't send SMS through Pushover. The part we use, the main feature, sends a notification through an app the user installs on their device. All of us who receive push notifications through our system have the Pushover app on our phones, some also have it on their tablets and computers.

I like the Apple Watch integration as I can interact with urgent notifications just on my watch without my phone handy.
> Lumping Cuba and North Korea together is silly & misguided.

They have basically the same system: more repression and strictness in North Korea. But same base: corruption, repression, intervention and treating their citizens as animals with no dignity.
Does your company use paid versions of the open source tools or pay support?
Do you want to build a shield for RPi with your project on it, or a complete self-contained PCB with RPi core features? Because one is really easy and the other is nearly impossible with the Broadcom part.

This project highlighted on Hackaday might give some inspiration too if you're willing to look beyond.

https://hackaday.com/2022/01/03/another-homebrew-linux-board...
That’s rolling your own distro. We could do that but it’s not really our job. It also prevents the libraries from being shared between images, unless you build one base layer and use it for everything in your org (third parties won’t).
Alberta does a nice job breaking vaxxed VS Unvaxxed down by age group:

https://imgur.com/a/Actj5Tf

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...
Everything to do with the game is hard coded into the client. I doubt there's any plan to change that. But I wouldn't be surprised if clones popped up that tried to maximize engagement/revenue.
(You are right of course. With the data we have now, we are quite certain that Omicron is much milder. Hopefully no lockdown is needed.)

But, personally, I would like to avoid getting Omicron, as long term effects are still unclear: does "long Omicron" exist, does it affect vaccinated, and if yes how common and severe is it. There are some recent news about long Covid: it could be micro-clots.
It's wild to me how poorly police are trained over all in many different categories.
Where? Can you share a link / description?
Hmm, finally a chording device that doesn't look like total BS. I'm unwillingly intrigued.

As for the underlying story, both sides are right. The chording device seems significantly better for text entry in terms of pure speed. But chording isn't typing, and it's typing, not text entry.
How about the Sneaker Brand Sweat Shop Arena though? Where do people draw their line with ethics and caring about the impact of what they support?
The reason laypeople want it to be true is because experts present it as being true.
Given the danger of a nuclear war, you might want to design your house like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex

"The complex was built under 2,000 feet (610 m) of granite on 2 hectares (5 acres). Fifteen three-story buildings are protected from movement, e.g. earthquake or explosion, by a system of giant springs that the buildings sit on and flexible pipe connectors to limit the operational effect of movement....

The bunker is built to deflect a 30 megaton nuclear explosion as close as 2 kilometers. Within a mountain tunnel are sets of 25-ton blast doors and another for the civil engineering department...The complex has its own power plant, heating and cooling system, and water supply"
But which market has Apple ever been dominating?
People on HN probably understand inflation very well but have portfolios that are not impacted by it. If anything, the past 2 years have shown great stock gains.

It's hard for a person to understand a solution when its fortune depends on not understanding it. The Fed just mentioned they might raise rates for a blip on the stock market. Imagine what they do if they actually raise them. Oh, noes, the USD might actually hold some value! How will the economy recover if people's savings aren't stolen?!
You have to meet the customer where they are.

Dogecoin IS a meme and has/had a multi-billion dollar cap. Can't blame Mozilla for openly scraping the bottom of the barrel with their marketing.
> Much as I love Firefox, it's dead on mobile.

What's wrong with Firefox for Android?

(Firefox for iOS is just reskinned WebKit, like all other iOS browsers, but hopefully Apple has to open this up soon)
Because they are not in the business of filtering spam they are in the business of receiving and delivering messages. The spam filtering outbound is to protect their own core service. Running spam protection for your own service is a lot different to offering spam protection for customers.
Used to be a fountain pen fan and have used WinSung about 35 years ago and have very pleasant memories of the writing coming out of it. Wasn't cheap by Indian standard but the other pens mentioned here were unavailable to masses back then.
Is noise pollution. Nobody needs that anymore, but nobody knows how to stop it.
To be fair, if I were asked the current PM of Japan the only name I could come up with is Abe, and that's only because he was PM for so very long.
If you change your device's system clock then you can play as many times as you want.
Easier to make fun of crypto because at least oil has obvious real-world utility, and (unfortunately) still props up our economy. Crypto is like a sideshow. It's also a hot new topic which makes it fun to argue about.

That's not to defend Big Oil or its shills. That industry should've been hamstrung years ago like the poison market it is. But it might be why HN gets extra riled up about crypto while letting other things slide.
>Transactions involving illicit addresses represented just 0.15% of cryptocurrency transaction volume in 2021 despite the raw value of illicit transaction volume reaching its highest level ever. As always, we have to caveat this figure and say that it is likely to rise as Chainalysis identifies more addresses associated with illicit activity and incorporates their transaction activity into our historical volumes.

So basically this report is pretty useless.
How many lives would surrendering all our freedoms save?
SQLite 3.37.2 fixes potentially database corruption bug
From Dr. Richard Hipp:

There is a bug in versions 3.35.0 (2021-03-12) through
3.37.1 (2021-12-30) which could potentially cause database
corruption. Upgrading to version 3.37.2 (2022-01-06) or later is recommended.

## About the bug

In order to encounter this problem you must:

1. Change SQLite's default behavior so that it stores secondary journal
files in memory, rather than as temporary files on disk. Secondary
journals are stored on disk by default. To move to in-memory storage
you need to compile with [-DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2 or 3][1] or
set [PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY][2] at run-time.

2. Use the [SAVEPOINT][3] SQL statement to create nested transactions and
sometimes roll back those transactions using ROLLBACK TO.

3. You also need a measure of bad luck, as the problem is difficult to hit.

## Recommended fix.

The recommended fix for this problem is to upgrade to [version 3.37.2][4].
If that is not possible for you, you should at least consider applying
the [one-character patch][p1] to fix the problem.

## How this bug was created and how it was discovered

The bug arose from an enhancement that we installed in response to
[forum post e78ffd751185a67e][5]. Repeated use of SAVEPOINT and
ROLLBACK TO with an in-memory journal was causing excess memory
usage. The fix was to "truncate" the in-memory journals following
a ROLLBACK TO, in order to contain the memory growth.

The bug was first discovered (and [reported on this forum][6])
10 months later by researchers at the
Wingtecher Lab of Tsinghua University. Using the AFL++ fuzzer with
a custom mutator, they managed to cause an [assert() statement][7]
to fail. It turns out that assert() statement existed to verify that
the statement journals were operating correctly, and so the failure
of that assert() statement indicated a possible corruption bug. Further
analysis showed that corruption was possible, though it is difficult
to hit.

This bug is a sufficiently obscure corner case that it might have gone
unnoticed for many years, had it not been for SQLite's heavy use
of assert() statement to verify internal consistency, and for
Wingtecher Lab's ground-breaking analysis tools that found a way to
get one of those assert() statements to fail.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/compile.html#temp_store
[2]: https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_temp_store
[3]: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_savepoint.html
[4]: https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_37_2.html
[p1]: https://sqlite.org/src/fdiff?v1=a85f0dc5c02a4245&v2=ff4336a9...
[5]: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/e78ffd751185a67e
[6]: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/d7338bf4901f1151
[7]: https://www.sqlite.org/assert.html
One of the parent comments above said "I’ve often wished there were a way to organize against crypto", I believe USDC is another crypto isn't it?

But yes, is another way many freelancers are paid here, it's not just bitcoin and ETH, many use stablecoins.

I only find kinda selfish the comfortable position to be against ALL cryptocurrencies (which don't do such a damage to the climate like bitcoin.) while living in the first world, even those
> his day job is the ownership of a bar/pizza/venue establishment

Probably a better fit for him.
Many of those autoimmune disorders cause pain and inflammation. And many pain relievers and anti-inflammatories can cause damage to the stomach lining, which leads to a prescription for a PPI. I don't see any accounting for this possibility in the paper (that ADs cause PPIs, rather than vice versa).
What a coincidence. I played this for the first time today and started with TRIAL.
>NFT Theft Victims Beg for Centralized Saviors

No. The victim begs other individuals to not conduct business with the scammers. Other individuals are free to adhere or not adhere to the request. There's not 'Centralized Saviors' involve, beyond some participants in the market.
One benefit about cash is that I have it upfront and I'm not taking a risk with part of my "salary". Stocks are something akin to an IOU that may or may not be paid in the future.
Not sure the age group of the kids you have / hang out with, but I get the sense that this is changing with the kids who are preschoolers today.

I see a lot of kids out on balance bikes. My kid was playing with his stomp rocket in the local elementary school playground, and a little girl (about 5) - unattended, on a bike, I assume her mom was a couple hundred yards behind - came up to him and said "I've got a stomp rocket at home too, but my house is being renovated so we're living in a hotel." Playgrounds today are made to be much more about sensory experiences - there's a lot more water play, and places for free play like castle theaters, and plain logs or rocks or other obstacles to climb on. It's more typical for parents to go sit on a bench 50 feet away rather than hovering right over the kid.

Much of this is a very deliberate rejection of post-9/11 parenting standards, and may be generational as well. I think it started to change around 2015-2017; I remember there were articles on HN about a free-range parenting movement in Salt Lake City, or new playgrounds specifically designed to be dangerous in NYC. Also the people having kids now are early/mid-Millenials, while the parents of Zoomers are generally Gen-Xers, who were themselves termed the latchkey/TV-dinner generation. There may also be some survivorship bias where all the kids whose parents never let them do anything themselves failed to launch and have kids of their own, while those who did have kids often had fond memories of independent free play.
Agreed, all I'm saying is that he did not give any specific detail which demonstrated a specific vulnerability. so just feel like more info is needed.
I'm aware, I just don't see how this would provide an advantage over already existing methods like hitboxes, or regular keyboards.
Mine suggests a personalized meal from Taco Bell.

"You should get a Potato Waffle Taco Party Pack, a Grilled Crunchwrap Slider Quesadilla and a Smothered Cool Ranch® Doritos® Locos Power Bowl."