skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rat poison _can_ kill a dog, but it certainly isn't designed to.

https://www.merckvetmanual.com/toxicology/rodenticide-poison...

Bromethalin is chosen as a rat poison (rather than other poisons) because you have a chance to save your dog (or your neighbor's dog) if it eats the poison. Its slow enough moving that it won't instantly kill your pets.

In either case, the dog won't have a pleasant time at all. It'd be "poisoned", seizures and paralysis of course, or limp hind legs, etc. etc.

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My overall point is that even "poisonous poisons", like rat poison (bromethalin) isn't a death sentence. Ideally, you want to get the dog treated ASAP, but if it were in a low-enough dosage, it could be a week (!!) before the dog shows symptoms.

Or you know, it could be 4 hours. Hard to say.

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Cannabis is clearly a "lesser poison", even compared to rat poison / bromethalin (which itself is lesser than cyanide). I think children who are going to the emergency room to be diagnosed with poisoning (even if they aren't at risk of "death"), is certainly a "poisoning event". Just not a poison with deadly risk.
Fish tries to use FIFOs to emulate process substitution, and it leads to deadlock. Not sure why.

By default, Fish actually runs the processes in a strict sequence. But this is to avoid the above deadlock situation. And it therefore isn't process substitution.
My preference is for inoreader. I’ve tried old reader a couple of times, just seemed to be missing things. For instance I couldn’t seem to get a dark theme. In inoreader it’s easy to switch theme. Inoreader seems to have a nicer ui, I also like the fact you can see what articles are popular during the day/week.
> I am happy to leave "normal" (tech illiterate and politically apathetic) people behind to reach my decentralization goals.

You realize this approximates to roughly "everyone that isn't you"?
While it's refreshing to hear critique from someone who actually built something on web3, there are a couple of points where I'd dare to disagree, somewhat.

Particularly, regarding "early days". It really is, still, early days, because there is a lot of complexity in getting all the pieces built. It took years to get overall blockchain going. Then, to understand the need of programmability (smart contracts). Other pieces too: more efficient consensus mechanisms and clever ways to express commitments, decentralized storage, etc. And the space is so far from being done.

Particulary, about servers being clients. This is true today, but it would be wrong to say that nobody cares about it. Ethereum developers spend considerable effort on pushing the idea of light clients, going as far as re-architecturing the way whole blockchain state is stored, so that browsers could actually become fully valid clients, and services such as Infura would become a lot less necessary. This requires cryptographic innovations (verkle trees), client implementations, consensus between participants, etc. It is likely to require 2+ years to get there. Early days.

Another moment I would critique is the clever NFT, that displays different things. Yes, ERC-721 allows any URL as metadata file, so you can put traditional DNS-resolved URL there. But I would struggle to find any "respected" NFT collection that actually does that. Almost every high quality NFT project (Art Blocks, BAYC, so on) has IPFS as metadata URL, and goes as far as to freeze metadata, so it couldn't ever be changed.

Lastly, his discussion about value of decentralization is very valid. Yes, Ethereum developers spend a lot of effort on light clients. Will anyone care to use them? Yes, best NFT collections freeze metadata pointed to IPFT... does anyone care? Success of OpenSea and Binance Smart Chain shows that for many, idealistic goals are irrelevant, as long as money can be made. That's fine. But there are some of us who actually care. Majority has uninteresting goals (money). There are still amazing gems to be found.
Maybe they don’t?
> clearly we exist in this incarnation after however long, finite time that took, and therefore after death given enough time this will happen again

Am I understanding you that you believe that because you went from non-existence to existence once you think it will happen again? Why?

I understand reincarnation as a faith based belief (that can’t be proven or disproven) but I don’t understand it as a rational argument. Nothing in life I know of is destined to repeat.
At least wrt Signal, I think he prefers the trust be in the protocol and not the organization or business model.
What does it mean to leave normal people behind? Surely you need to interact with them.

For example, you can run your own mail server, but you will need to play by Google’s rules if you want anyone on Gmail to get your emails.

So, it’s hard for me to picture what it means to personally decentralize without caring what the bulk of people do.
> because it has the same problem as the fabrications about Russian collusion

I'm still worried about Russia interfering in our elections. I can't speak for others.

> And then people quite rightly ask "why was the focus on fabrications rather than real, tangible problems."

Because it almost worked. If one police officer had run a different way, the insurrectionists probably would have found where the congresspeople were. Say a bunch of them are killed—what do you do now? If they came from states that had opposite party governors, and the balance of power in congress changes... what does that mean for democratic legitimacy?

That day came very, very close to being very bad, and there's no reason to think it won't repeat itself in a few years if we don't take the problem seriously.
As COO, Tim was responsible for reorganising Apple's supply chain. Before him, Apple had awful execution and would regularly overproduce some models that would end up unsaleable, while having shortages of other models. I'm pretty sure this was a substantial factor of the operating losses of the 1990s.

Under Tim, this changed radically. Initially Apple solved the problem by drastically reducing the number of different models, but by the time the company managed to produce iMacs in 5 different colours without noticeable misproduction of numbers, it was evident that it it had become much better at execution. And around that time, Apple also started turning a profit again.

So I'd argue that Tim may have been one of the key drivers of Apple's profitability. I'm not sure how much value he added over a hypothetical replacement level COO, but empirically, he was an enormous improvement over his predecessors.
I feel like it's been pretty clear from day one that type hints are meant for static analysis with tools like mypy. It's not exclusive to that use and has a lot of other possible applications, but the primary goal has always static analysis.
Then the next section of the book is about the fracturing of civilization as a result of inconsistent disinformation everyone was being flooded with...
If the product does everything you want why should you be forced to pay for updates forever for features you don't want?

I would love to pay for Acrobat from like 7 years ago. There's been no value add for me.
in my opinion almost all VPN companies are shady/gray-market entities, so yes, they absolutely know.

the colocation hosts and regional ISPs that will accept VPN operators as dedicated server and 1U server colocation customers are towards the more suspicious end of the hosting segment market spectrum, in my experience.

dig hard enough on a modern vpn hosting company with a slick marketing presence and you'll find like, a cypriot corporation with a cyprus bank account run by a guy who 15 years ago was in the adult website hosting business, who currently lives and works remotely from cambodia. Or similar.
It isn't.

Re Dang: straight from your link, "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Personally, I found the comment insightful. I don't have all the time in the world to sit and pick something apart. Make no mistake, the smart tl;dr of HN are what gives HN any kind of value. Without that, may as well just use RSS and Reddit. I'm already subscribed to Moxie, came to HN to see what intelligent people have to say about it given that I am no longer a Signal user, and am anti-cryptocurrency in its current iteration, but pro-decentralization, which makes Moxie quite an interesting choice for me to want to actively follow the thoughts of as we feel differently about many important topics.

There is no binary black or white to be established with abstract, complex topics like these.

If it was any kind of bait, it was bait to discuss further. That the whole USP of Web3 is supposedly ownership and anti-censorship, and what's happening appears to be opposite is definitely something we should be discussing.

What's the point of comments on HN if we can't use them to discuss? It's a commentary on somebody's opinion—with opinions.

Perhaps if you don't like opinion pieces then you should simply ban them via these rules? I think HN's content might end up a little thin on the ground in that scenario though.

Worth noting is what "guidelines" actually are, they're not rules. If you would like them to be enforced as rules, and expect people to treat them as such, start calling them rules or ToS. But in that case, expect far less interest in HN if you aren't going to permit open discussion.

Have a good weekend, Dang. Hope you and yours are healthy and happy.
Put signs in your neighbors' yards listing how much value there is, were their lots to be subdivided. Might get some people thinking before an HOA board election... ;)
Are you speaking from experience or have you never actually run a multi-trillion dollar company and you're simply making assumptions?
And it was an award the took ten years to vest, so annually it was 10 million. Still a lot of money per year, but no longer 1400x.
Tim Cook's education? Are you saying they'll all spend 12 years at IBM, ending at the director level while getting their MBA at Duke, then spend time being a COO and VP at other companies, and then finally replacing Tim Cook?

Ok fair.

I think comparing that to a few weeks of training to run a store is wild.
I certainly admit to preferring a single family home myself, though it's never cost me more than about $1k/month for rent / mortgage / taxes. My current home is paid off.

But a lot of people are willing to make tradeoffs, e.g., the younger people passing through town, the elderly, and the poor, all have different housing preferences.
I'm going to call bullshit on your claim that the vaccine "crippled" thousands of service people.
Ya there are, but it's such a vanishingly small percentage that it's not material.

There's good stuff like Y Combinator, and I was excited when it started because it seemed to grok that the fundamental problem in startups is that first $10,000. But (and this may be a controversial opinion) I feel like they fell into the same trap that every other incubator falls for, which is catering to elites. Now it seems to be a bit gamified, filtered through the lens of a certain youth demographic pitching to wealthy investors for large sums of money ($125,000), like the show Shark Tank.

I would very much like to see something that looks more like the grant system you mentioned, where small amounts of money could be obtained with relatively few hoops or strings attached. I've had countless times in my life where $5,000 or $10,000 would have given me the runway that I needed to finish a project and make money. But the money never came, so those all ended in failure, and a person can only fail so many times into midlife before playing the game itself feels like failing. If I knew in the 90s what I know now, I maybe wouldn't have chosen tech as a career.

The flip side is that I've survived on almost nothing for so many years, that I feel a calling to work towards providing income to everyone, everywhere. I think that's something we can manifest if we go back to first principles. I'd propose studying the history of such attempts and discovering which steps of the process were sabotaged by external pressures, then routing around that interference. Basically a startup working to solve the problem of income. The fact that this sounds at least a little preposterous seems more like of a failure of capitalism to me, than something fundamental.

A practical attempt at this might look like building solar farms to power cryptocurrency mining, to route around the problem of energy markets not buying alternative energy from homeowners at the going rate. Every market has that kind of defect that can be exploited. But they're difficult to see when we're at the losing end of the bargain as consumers, or dependent on the cashflow they generate as employees.

I might be slightly bitter after watching no movement on this in over 25 years, so please take what I'm saying with a grain of salt. I'm also super-optimistic about stuff like solarpunk :-)
If a government was smart, it would create an IPv4 tax and capture that value for itself.

Tax the inelastic and all.
I will also need my OLED TV set when I am reincarnated.
Apple at $3tn: the enigma of Tim Cook
You never know when it could wake up, so you should assume that it can listen at any time.
Obviously we should be using the mode of salaries :D
But there are other L1 blockchains already that aren’t like that (eg. Mina) and who knows in future what will come..
The next wave of extremist cults will make QAnon look tame
Some people say they want this, but in practice, why you should trust someone you've never heard of?

Network effects aside, consider the difficulty of deciding that the people behind a fork of Chrome or Signal are trustworthy. The average person doesn't have the knowledge to do due diligence, and many of us who could (in theory) don't want to bother.

How do you get to the point where people think your team of software developers is legitimate? Decisions like this are based on what everyone else is using.

One reason that app stores serving sandboxed apps are popular is that you don't have to evaluate each software developer's organization just to play their games.
There isn't really proof Nixon ordered the break in, though that's because he created and funded a group to do such things without his knowledge. They still had strong ties to Nixon and he did attempt to cover-up the break in.
I'm getting about half that count for the entire page. Doubt Github cares about serving 40 MBs of files over the web, that's what they do. User experience might not be greatest on a slow connection though but then again what are you going to do here if not look at the redesigned electronics in detail anyways.

In some ways it's actually somewhat refreshing to be actually served source quality content in such a presentation in the days where aggregated platforms heavily compress things for mass consumption.
NLnet; Federated software forges with Gitea
How do you manage a 50-100 person team?

Honestly that sounds as bad as a skeleton crew of 1-3 people.

The reality is that oft-hated word bureaucracy is what's needed. A hierarchy.

Using a military analogy: "teams" of 2-3 ppl, 2 teams in a squad, 3-4 squads in a platoon, 3-4 platoons in a company, etc, etc.

Each of those entities in the organization should have a lead. Someone who's responsible for their group's performance.

Now you can stretch this, and minimize paperwork to expand say, a squad to 10-12 people (instead of the 7) but that either requires a talented squad lead, or some stuff gets ignored (ok for short term, not good long term).

If you have large loose teams without a hierarchy it's madness
For the sake of argument even if they were conservatives or anti-vaxer or felons or insurrectionists the Freedom of Information Act still applies to them.
Only developers insist on FOSS, and we are the worst kind of customers
as we find paying for anything a personal affront.

You either need to partner up or become a sales guy who understands "normies"
at Fortune 500 type companies. Easier said than done, of course.
They're going to look real dumb Jan. 31 when Covid is a non-issue (source: South Africa).
I don't want to maintain my own mail server, but I definitely want to run my own server.

The irony is that modern internet infrastructure makes decentralisation _more_ feasible, but software lags behind. Why can't I buy some device for 200€ or so where I store all my data and I receive email? (with the cloud being used only for optional encrypted backups). One can even imagine a decentralised social network running in these devices, with my friends getting updates by polling it periodically (or my device sending updates to their devices). The device would be powered 24h/365d, and if it breaks you just replace it. When I'm out of home, my phone apps would just query the device to get new mail and updates.

We shouldn't really _need_ the cloud for many things yet we use it for everything.
And it was part of a multi year vesting cliff. He earned 'only' $14m in 2020, so they cherrypicked one particular year that had a very high vesting event to make this seem more egregious than perhaps it is. Really, the stock comp should be amortized over the whole vesting period.
> terminating statements with semicolon

Line wrapping would be unacceptable without this.
Ask HN: How to Get Better at Articulation
When i try to explain complicated things to others i seem to confuse them.

How are bloggers and professors so good at this? Is there a way I could practice on my own?
If you only read one thing on "crypto", this should be it.
We do have

Conan

Vcpkg

Cpm.cmake

A lot of projects these days use conan.
>They are not "defending", they are THE cause and the target of a shoot to kill order.

Yes I'm aware tyrants don't like it when you fight back.
There is something peculiar on the map in the article that caught my eye:

The formerly split country of Germany is also sharply split on the map! The western part (BRD/FRG) has significantly more hot humid days than the eastern part (former DDR/GDR). The colored area edge almost exactly matches the border.

A political map of FRG/GDR for comparison:
https://www.stepmap.de/karte/brd-ddr-ddIwvxHotF

Why does this data follow political borders so sharply in this case?
Is that effect real or caused by methology error or skewed data?

Apparently the basic data stems from the HadISD database:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd/v311_2020f/index....

This file lists the stations (version v311_2020f) in the database:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd/v311_2020f/files/...

Many stations in the former GDR seem to be present, for example:

104880-99999 DRESDEN 51.133 13.767 230.1 1931-01-01 2020-02-06
094690-99999 LEIPZIG/SCHKEUDITZ& 51.417 12.233 142.0 1975-07-01 1991-10-31

If the effect is real: Which difference between FRG and former GDR areas causes it?
I live in Providence, RI, which, like my hometown of St. Louis and every other pre-war U.S. city, contains a diverse mix of building styles co-mingled on small lots. The home I own is a two-family; I live upstairs and rent the bottom unit, just like many generations of owner-occupiers in Providence have done before me. My neighborhood is a mix of single-family homes on small lots, duplexes like my own, some great examples of the vaunted triple-decker, and all kinds of other buildings, besides.

This is a very natural way for cities to develop. So natural, in fact, that it's how every city in the country did develop before planners made that development pattern illegal via zoning. SB 9 isn't some kind of radical new way of doing things; it's a partial unwinding of rules that prevented the kinds of development that occurs when the market is allowed to meet the demands of buyers and sellers.

At some point in Providence's history they changed the rules here, too. My building is "non-conforming." It'd be illegal to build a two-family home on this lot today. Further, my building has a generous side lot, which was at some point combined with my own lot into one, leaving a conspicuous gap between my house and its neighbor. I would love to sell this land to a developer and would welcome an SB-9-style law in Rhode Island.
> 1. Getting different software to all play nicely from the users perspective. I can't even give my users SSO because most software doesn't accept reverse proxy authentication!

It sounds like you're referring to something specific here but I'm not understanding. What kind of software doesn't play well with SSO? And what is reverse proxy authentication? Do you mean give users SSO as in give them an account on an SSO system like Google/Okta/LDAP or do you mean use SSO as authentication for a web app you're running? Even if in the latter case I still don't understand what you mean by reverse proxy authentication or what that has to do with SSO. (I've set up SSO on my apps before and I've run SSO auth servers.)
If stealing corrects unjust inequality then it is, in fact, good. Yes.

This is literally the principal behind "if you are starving it is not morally wrong to steal food." Which I know a lot of people disagree with and I don't need to hear the arguments about again. But my conscious is clear; some forms of theft are not wrong.
Supreme Court signals federal vaccine mandates are too broad
How is fraud / charge backs handled with BNPL? Who owns the liability, etc?
Look into ToastMasters.
Untraceable digital cash facilitates crime, money laundering and tax evasion.

None of these things are good for a stable democracy.
PostgreSQL is the only database that won this title 4 times in the past 5 years.
Summary: It would be far too much trouble to actually do anything about Covid, so we are giving up (and pretending it is just the flu).
To cope with pandemic, and eventually, endemic SARS-CoV-2 and to respond to future public health threats requires deploying real-time information systems, a public health implementation workforce, flexible health systems, trust in government and public health institutions, and belief in the value of collective action for public good.

I agree with all that. Now - can we have paid sick leave and workers rights, so that someone who is COVID-positive can stay home and cure their infection instead of having themselves drag back to work after five days?

The paper suggests data infrastructure. How about quarantine infrastructure? How about lower housing prices and better salaries so that only one parent has to work and schools don't have to be in session at a time of high COVID incidence?

We can't even have access to proper testing - everyone remembers Jen Psaki pulling a smirk when a reporter asked why the government can't send tests to every citizen. Now we are promised a website where you can order two tests per adult. And real soon you can even get reimbursed for tests that you bought yourself, if you could get any.

Sorry, trust in government is lost. Maybe it can be rebuilt, but it'll take two generations, by which time everyone who is susceptible to COVID has died of it and humanity has evolved to coexist with the virus.

We are screwed.
I think they key is: despite regular people not wanting to RUN their own server, they do want to CONTROL their own server. Current incumbents treat your data like tier asset, not like custody.

This is because you pay nothing. The beginning of regular people having empowerment begins by paying some fee to own the product.
I mean I get the reasoning to see it as a downside but "It runs on AA batteries" is a feature! Built-in batteries degrade over time and when it's built-in it's usually not possible to switch it out easily by yourself. It's not a problem for this particular problem, I assume it's fairly trivial to replace it but consumer goods companies tend to not care about that at all.