skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but here you say they aren't fighting the government (police are government) at all

But that is not what I have said, especially not the "at all" part, why are trying to misqoute me? All I have said is that robbing shops doesn't seem like a glorious heroic struggle against the government. Random skirmishes will obviously occur. Not sure what exactly you see as contradictive and where exactly do you imagine a binary mutual exclusion.

> "Real civilian" is apparently anyone without the will to fight

Has the definition of word "civillian" changed while I was not looking? Seems to be still be "a person who is not an active member of the military, the police, or a *belligerent group in a conflict*. So I don't get why you insit on using the wrong term, other than to spin a narrative.

Armed belligerents are not civillians, up is not down, war is not peace, words do have specific meanings.
If the data showed there was no difference, would you support repealing the pump mandate?
Some Erigon nodes run with pruning enabled. You can't tell which ones those are, or how much pruning.

Technically you can tell which Geth nodes are archive nodes with a GetNodeData query over devp2p, although that call is deprecated and will eventually be removed. Its replacement, GetTrieNodes, cannot be used for this.
Wow. That site is great. Thank for linking.
An other way might be to be a landlord with a basic apartment to rent out, and be willing to rent to Section 8 tenants. Although I think that only gives subsidies, and doesn't offer additional eviction protection.
For an honest roulette wheel (ignoring 0 and 00):

What would you say about the logic of betting the next 100 spins will be 50% red and 50% black?

Would you say something different about betting on black after 50 consecutive reds?
This article helped me understand why OpenSea was able to raise money at a $13 billion valuation. They're even more centralized than I had assumed. VCs look at that and see an impressive moat.
I think this or some other conservative social media actually gaining some dominance is very likely. Especially with all of the permanent bans recently happening on twitter and facebook. Imagine the power of the echo chamber when the whole point of an app is to be republican-twitter or republican-facebook.
yeah I followed that paulgraham thread or twitter war on this w/ I think the cloudflare founder of all things.... where he's basically saying ---95% is having a place to crash without fear of being homeless... and maybe luck...than actual having a good idea and work ethic.
This was half of the original premise of undercover boss (it's basically just an advertisement now, though).
>but I still can't figure out why people keep bringing up this topic when it's clearly a classic example of a "Solution in Search of a Problem".

They hope they can make money.
Sorry, M instead of B. So yeah, off by 1,000x. Good catch!
Fair enough. I'm in agreement.
This horror story is more than enough to keep me away form ever touching mongoid.

Bookmarking this for future reference.
"Heh heh, by the time those suckers realize we didn't give them the last 4 digits of the phone number, we'll be on a plane to Belize!"
> Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.”

I would give this intro more credence if it hadn't been posted literally a day after he put his MobileCoin shitcoin into Signal.

It's annoying, because the rest of the article is good and apposite - but then he did that.
Eviscerates. This is a vivisection. We can see how it works, but this kills the frog.
We're working on a solution to solve a lot of this, especially for event data. We push events directly to your customers, so they neither need to pull them or build webhook endpoints. Contact me if your interested.
> And how do you want to accomplish that? A coup? Any rewrite or do-over is going to require overthrowing the current government in some way.

No it won't. I think 35 governors can actually vote to have a constitutional congress meet iirc... then they have to do it. Peacefully. Existing govt stays intact until the new one replaces it.
This feature actually exists natively on alpha, email dang to turn it on for your account! :D

(It currently has some limitations your extension may not have though!)
Your supervisor was once a dick, and proud of it, so it is ok for you to be a dick. Think about that.
The paper: "Image GANs Meet Differentiable Rendering For Inverse Graphics And
Interpretable 3D Neural Rendering"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.09125.pdf
I think you have a rather Utopian view of Kazakh government. I don't appreciate being called a Breivik worshipper for supporting overthrow of tyranny, but you're entitled to your opinion. For the record I have never supported Breivik.
This is sort of true.
In the case of the watch, if you read the blockchain for the serial-number on the Rolex, you could engrave that too? The storage medium of the data wouldn't make a difference.
The same could be said for the NFC chip. Those are copied all the time. Just purchase a blank and overwrite it with an original.
That's what I remember normal sleep being. On most days falling asleep quickly and being out all night. But I think I forget there were many days that was not the case. I believe age is part of the reason for me too.
I would put up another 100 km of fibre and add another 300 customers to my fibre network.
Supreme Court justices spread Covid-19 misinformation
Yes, now imagine the other way around. How are you going to tell your users that you screwed up and will need to invoice them either again, or much closer to their next charge. Or maybe much later still if you don't spot the error right away.

Note that my comment isn't about the OP, but about the root cause of the breaking change: the driver.
Committed to doing more BusinessOutside in 2021
So if you purchase an NFT, you need to make a local copy of the actual data? Since the blockchain only has the hash? And if whatever server you originally got the data from the NFT for went down, you'd lose it if you didn't make a backup?

In those cases does the blockchain still have the URL as well? And you might end up with a collection of bits that matched the hash in the blockchain but was no longer at the original URL? What's the next step then?

(The "artwork may change" bit seems like it becomes even more weird and potentially nightmarish edge-case/potentially-losing-your-purchase-wise.)
I don’t know your situation, but it could also be construed as blackmail depending on the circumstances.
And that's one of Moxie's points: how exactly is web3 supposed to be avoiding the centralization that occurred on the web, when it's already at that point.
So several fundamental forces gave us the centralized internet, at least for the time being. Trusting a few players has never given resistance to these forces and so blockchain doesn't alter the equilibrium.

What are the forces pushing for blockchain? Some will say greed, and of course at an individual level greed has something to do with it, but greed has always been there. Greed is part of humanity. What is specific to blockchain? Maybe just the desire for decentralization.
What does LOA stand for in this context?
1. Is taking a lower salary just the cost of working at a startup as compared with a FAANG?

Yes.

2. Is it stupid to decrease your salary by that much when changing jobs, or is this something that everyone does in exchange for working at a smaller company?

No, it only happens when you downgrade from FAANG (or from a small set of unicorns with similar compensation ranges). Whether it is "stupid" or not is up to you.

3. If I know they can't pay me as much as I currently make, but I still want to work at a startup, what should I tell them when they ask me what salary I'm expecting? My current salary? Something lower?

See the advice in sibling comments (e.g. romahn's). Whatever you do you'll have to be prepared eat a 30-50 percent salary decrease. What's up to you is how you spin this fact in your negotiations.

Getting back to what you said at the top:

The money is great, but the job is boring.

By all indications, this precisely what FAANG pays you for - to stick around and put up with whatever they throw at you.

It was to test your appetite for this level of boredom that they made you do all those LC problems, after all.
I'm sure some people would want to run one in their basement, but I was referring to virtual cloud servers, and assumed the last sentence would've made that clear.
Before someone comments that not all of these measures are affordable or accessible to everyone: you're right! But don't let perfect be the enemy of good! Lots and lots of people, many people on HN among them, can pursue many of these changes in their lives. And improving the lives of an entire class of people is surely a better outcome than inaction and defeatism, no?
It feels like the actual paper "Gut microbial taxa elevated by dietary sugar disrupt memory function"[0] is both a better headline, and a better link, than this inaccurate editorial post (playing on the "Sugar and spice and all things nice" song?).

The paper is from March/2021, and there was discussion on HN then: 91pts, 27 comments [1]

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01309-7
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667037
I have power of attorney and manage finances directly with strong controls and opsec in place.
> This pushes miners to the cheapest forms of electricity, i.e renewables

I would love for this to be true (and that's why I used to believe it). But there are two problems with this:

• Renewables aren't the cheapest form of electricity; low-value (dirty-burning) or subsidised fossil fuels are cheaper in many places. You've heard of people buying and re-commissioning old coal power stations for crypto mining, I'm sure?

• Using any grid electricity drives up the price of other electricity, by market forces. The effect is local, but when cryptomining is happening globally, that's a global effect. That means that otherwise-infeasible inefficient (and polluting) electricity generation is now viable.

Greenest ≠ cheapest. If this were a universal truth, we wouldn't have a climate problem in the first place.
It would be more attractive if it didn't depend on boost.
If it's true that red meat sales are dropping then I'd expect prices to follow. That'd be very good news for me. Yum!
I think if you're invested in a pyramid scheme, it's not easy to admit such.

I have to relate this to the whole Allison Mack/NXIVM pyramid scheme.

Funny that we still don't know who the mythical "Satoshi Nakamoto" is. Seems pretty cultish to me, but believe what you wanna believe. To me that's a pretty big red flag. But I'm super into people calling me stupid so have at it.
> took me years to grasp the philosophy behind their great works and literally _unlearn_ and _relearn_ things

What did you have to unlearn and relearn?

> It is IMO a privilege to be exposed to great minds early in your education and carreer.

It's a lot of hard work to get exposed to these individuals. Getting into Princeton is no small feat.
> I think there’s tons of room for Blockchain-as-a-Service tools to improve development and testing processes without forcing centralization on main net deployments.

The big Blockchain-as-a-Services shut down - both IBM and Azure are gone.
Or with a few very large cells.
What! I didn’t know awk could do that within single quotes. The heck, it implements a subset of sh?

Thanks!
Mostly the cost of hiring a DevOps engineer to set it up and maintain it and taking on the additional risk of having to deal with upgrading the node etc... It's just cheaper and easier to go centralized at the moment.
yeah, the reverse would be a much better show...watching some real employees at the ground level actually improve the profit of the company would be pretty insane.. like imagine they raised everybody's wages 5% and gave themselves a paycut as CEO big enough to equal/balance that out. Then productivity skyrises, and it just proves that higher wages is actually the #1 thing you can do to raise productivity, and that company culture/morale play a big role in success.
Hence the use of the word "remux", it's lossless (no re-encoding).
Very little compared to the entire planet, sure. But what's the actual amount?
Reading Tracebacks in Python
More about "fact-checks": https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80
So this automatically degrades 2-factor to… 1 factor again. The security model doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in me, being that you expect user-interaction as a means of security. It’s already bad enough people are tying their OTP with their credentials in password managers…
SerenityOS Web Server
Why do we need to ban things?

(Also they tried that, it made a lot of gangsters really rich, led to some bloodshed and methanol poisoning, and otherwise didn't accomplish much)
This is a great point, makes me wonder if there is a market for such a service.
How long do you expect people to hold down the button while doing nothing/waiting? Real pumps have a lock and auto-off on backflow.
Isn't

things = [
'foo',
'bar',
'baz',
]

even better? In your case, if you want to add something to the beginning of the list you'll have to modify two lines.
> There will always be some users for technologies like web3, but until you can clearly demonstrate to that woman that this new technology has value and is easier to use than the status quo, you're never going to get mass adoption.

I think this isn't true. A large part of getting people to use something is often not ease of use, but momentum and popularity. Ease of use plays a large role but by itself, it doesn't explain the entire variance of why some technology reaches mass adoption or becomes the most popular.
A bit late, but I feel it's important to clarify it exposes something like "authentication capability" not the actual secrets. It's temporally bounded.
Serpapi definitely did the right thing here. Shame on the maintainers for introducing such a breaking change in a minor version update. I guess the takeaways are:
- review change logs for any gems that are updated
- have extensive test cases for anything that charges customers

Hindsight is always 20/20 of course.
"People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will"

I think that this is where this premise is entirely incorrect.
Charity helps specific people. Taxes help everyone. I always vote to increase my property taxes. Libraries, Schools, Emergency Services all get better with that increased revenue.
Could an Algorithm Predict the Next Insurrection Like Jan. 6?
Yes, but with a few other things! Setting up ad-hoc chains with custom genesis files would be a huge improvement for dev teams as they'd not have to make their own solution (which everyone I've worked with has ended up doing).
So the idea would be to create a giant file of every Rolex transaction made in the future. And then search through that file for a given NFC tag to determine authenticity. Doing all of this in case Rolex goes out of business and can no longer maintain a hypothetical authenticity server?

Gotta say, it sounds kind of crazy
> If you care about the environment even a little bit (like turning off lights in rooms you're not occupying) then you will reject Web3. Even the most efficient blockchains use more energy than the status quo unnecessarily.

On an Intel NUC (Core i3, low power mode) I'm running a non-mining Ethereum 1 full node[1] plus a staking Ethereum 2 node[2] (comprising two active validators) on mainnet. Measured with a Kill A Watt[3] since genesis of the beacon chain, it's using approximately USD 140 kWh of electricity per year (about USD $15/year where I live), and makes use of the Internet connection that I use for everything else personal and work related. The Ethereum 1 node also acts as my personal gateway to Ethereum vs. say my needing to connect through Infura.

There are today 279235 active validators[4] on Ethereum's mainnet beacon chain. Now, I know that Ethereum hasn't made the switch over to Proof of Stake yet (that's what Eth 2 is all about) but it's coming this year. Let's ignore the kWh usage of my non-mining full Eth 1 node and assume the 140 kWh is split evenly by the validators (it's not even close, the Eth 1 node is a pig in comparison, but for sake of argument), then round each one up to 100 kWH per year and assume that's the average per validator going forward, and let's grow the beacon chain to 1 million active validators. So that's 100k MWh per year. Amazon reported[5] that they consumed 24 million MWh in 2020.

I'm not sure how many combined MWh are consumed by the data centers for VISA, traditional banks, etc., but I'm guessing it's nothing to sneeze at. According to Statista[6], it costs about 150 kWh for VISA to process 100k transactions. According to VISA[7] they processed about 206 billion transactions over 12 months. So that's about 309k MWh.

A couple of things to consider also. Ethereum devs are concerned about energy consumption, and there are active efforts to drive down the energy cost per validator by the various projects (nimbus, teku, etc.). Also, my Core i3 Intel NUC is pretty heavy-duty compared to lower-end hardware capable of running a validator node. So I expect the energy cost/year of Eth 2 to improve in coming years.

[1] https://geth.ethereum.org/

[2] https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2#readme

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_A_Watt

[4] https://beaconscan.com/

[5] https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/sustainab...

[6] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1265891/ethereum-energy-...

[7] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/about-visa/documents/ab...
As things get more complicated (and they already are) it would be nice if packages included code analysis tools. Ones that will just search your code, find usage of particular breaking feature change and not go quiet until you acknowledge the change.

Might obviate the update and pray nature of SemVer. You should still have comprehensive test though.
Yes exactly, this is what I'm talking about:

> None of what you suggest will be signed into law.

> Republican state legislatures are removing all of the barriers that caused their "Green Bay Sweep" plan to fail on 1/6, giving themselves full partisan control of state election boards, which used to be nonpartisan.

These are real problems. If you ask me, you homelanders should avoid spending one minute longer clutching your pearls over a tin-pot dictator who was only a symptom of the problem, and focus 100% on trying to find solutions for real problems.
The only reason Chinese is not in this superfamily is that the authors didn't bother to feed their algorithm with any Sino-Tibetan data. If they had done so, it would've been placed somewhere in the "family tree".
> Yet the illusion of streaks or certain outcomes being “due” is powerful, and such thinking is almost ubiquitous among gamblers. It derives from our tendency toward pattern recognition (apophenia), seeing illusory patterns in random noise.

And yet, pattern recognition is also what you would draw on to see that this is an illusion? Maybe you just need to know the way the game works rather than guessing?

Then continues droning on about patterns.

No mention of volatility or what "regression to the mean" actually looks like (the casino's house edge.)

I get the sense the person who wrote this never gambles. For a much better explanation, find writing from poker players. Also excellent on this subject is Nassim Taleb.

I recommend everyone put up some tuition (losses at the table) to learn poker at a low stakes table. The game will teach you a ton about life.
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On the gripping hand, coming up red 10 times in a row is evidence that the odds of red and black aren't even.
The law applies to lots as small as 1200 sq.ft. And it can be upto fourplexes.

Perhaps the city needs more housing. My biggest problem ..amongst many others..is that the local zoning laws and cities have NO control over sb9 and sb10 build outs.

They entirely bypass local laws and voting processes and gives the power directly to developers.

California has slowly eroded local governance and increasingly passing the power to a few politicians in Sacramento leading to regional and state interference and governance..often railroading local government. It is absolutely appalling.

We saw this happen with the public school system and property taxes. When Jerry Brown brought in his super secret inscrutable tax redistribution formula, nobody could figure out what portion of our taxes is allocated where..this means that posh homes paying millions and millions of dollars in property taxes because immigrant parents who like suckers pick the best expensive school districts end up sending their kids to schools with no budget for swimming pools or infrastructure improvements or even new restrooms.

A home should not be treated as a speculative instrument. It is a recipe to destablise society. Everyone should have house secure and that’s not always about home ownership.

Home ownership is not a right. Affordable homes to live is a basic right. Having to keep splitting the pie into thinner and thinner slices will lead to more hungry people. Instead we should bake a bigger pie!

Whatever makes expensive zip codes desirable should be made available to all zip codes in California.

In California, we are slicing the pie into slivers until no one is going to be happy. It’s going to be disastrous! The only beneficiaries are developers and politicians. And now VCs and investors. Do.The.Math.
> People who write these articles need to be thinking about the middle aged woman who still calls every video game system "a Nintendo".

In a world where the pool of capital allocated into crypto is hyperconcentrated in the hands of a tiny number of elite investors who employ teams of analysts to scour the web for opportunities to rapidly take advantage of, those people don’t matter.

This is also why no modern cryptocurrency investor can realistically be considered “early”, anymore. The only thing early about crypto is the general maturity levels of its technology, which arguably doesn’t matter to valuation based on the reality we see play out in the crypto markets on a daily basis.
> In mice.

Rats, actually. Here's[1] the study.

Rodent models are widely used for studies. Do you have particular concerns about them being used in this study to gather implications on human diet and health?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01309-7
The US government finances a lot of private RnD projects and often the companies have sweet heart deals to use it. This appears to be particularly the case in biology (I'm in energy, so its different)

Also, the US government finances the vast majority of university biomedical grad students, each costing at least 100k/year. These grads then bring their knowhow to the companies. This is at least $0.5million/employee subsidy in free training.

In the end, it really depends who you ask. Left wingers will say that the government is getting a raw deal, right wingers will point out that the government gets its cut.

As to the Pfizer vaccine, Operation Warp Speed doled out billions for COVID vaccine R&D, but Pfizer claims to not have participated in the program.

…Except they did participated and they received >1billion from it.
… Except it was a purchase order, not R&D
… Except a guaranteed purchase order is effectively a subsidy (since your known risk is lowered)
… except
… except
Change of semantics in a minor version!? And no way to retain the semantics by flipping a flag or something!? SMH