skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still skeptical of blockchain as a whole and hoping someone can help explain this to me.

Blockchains (and cryptocurrencies that ride atop them) keep track of all the transactions going back to its inception. Those blocks get passed around the chain. Some nodes archive them, but don't old blocks still circulate? How far back do blocks get circulated before they're no longer circulating (2, 3, 4, 5, 10 tranactions back, I'm sure it depends on the currency)?

I've heard right now BTC is running at like 3 transactions a second. Astronomically far from the same number of transactions in fiat currency. What happens if crypto was to ever reach parity with fiat transactions? Every pack of gum, every donut, every Starbucks transaction gets circulated through all nodes the same way that every hedge fund movement, real estate closure, or business acquisiton does? It seems like all the history blocks would gum up the network traffic of circulating current/real-time transactions. The amount of overhead to process 3 transactions per second isn't enough to delay those 3 transactions, but as more traffic enters the chain it seems like the amount of supporting chatter will grow even faster.

How do cryptocurrencies offload the administrative/archival overhead from the transactions in order to process transactions so you're not standing around waiting for your BTC to process payment before your coffee gets cold?

In network terms, we don't all rely on root DNS servers. Those are there for other DNS servers to pull from a trusted source. Hitting up the root DNS servers is still bad etiquette, right?
The local mirroring DNS servers are faster and provide lookups for the here-and-now. If it doesn't know, the DNS server will query the roots to locate the authoritative record keeper for the domain in question (and cache it for future reference).

I see blockchain like that DNS but it requires all DNS servers to agree with the resolution before providing the results to the user. That seems like it will be incredibly slow and at some point all that administrative chatter will outstrip the capacity to process a transaction or "query".

With fiat currency, we have localized transactions. Sometimes a credit card processor may go down, sometimes your bank cannot be reached. In those cases you can resort to paying with cash or gasp a check. Those transactions get processed at the lowest local level and there's no need to concern some bank in Pakistan or the US Federal Reserve that you just paid $3.50 for an overpriced soda at Jersey Mikes (which they are!) from your checking account.

I'm very keenly interested in how these problems are to be solved when/if the dream of crypto being a truly global alternative to "cash"/fiat.

Can someone fill me in?
If you substitute "University of California" for "UC", you'll be able to decipher a lot more of them if you know your California cities. For example, "UCSD" translates to "UC San Diego". "CP" gets you "California Polytechnical", but good luck sussing "SLO" unless you've been anywhere near San Luis Obispo.
Your mac download appears to be broken. Downloads as loadjitsu-mac-0.0.2 but my Mac doesn't know what to do with it. Tried appending .dmg and .zip with no luck. Excited to try out the app when it's fixed :)
“A hypothesis is a tentative explanation that can be tested by further investigation. A theory is a well-supported explanation of observations. A scientific law is a statement that summarizes the relationship between variables.” - The Internet
So...

1) Knowing the fundamentals

2) Working hard

Lol...
Just looked them up. Looks really nice.

Maybe a bit heavy for me when hiking but really nice for day to day stuff.

I like the Vargo stuff. Also the new Keego flexible bottles look really interesting.
It's intellectual laziness. Bureaucrats presume that paper, feeling more "solid" than a digital copy of something, is somehow more secure.

I've run across this many times when people use the word "best practices". The most safe thing is often breaking convention, so "best practices" becomes the unsafe thing everyone has done for years, even when it's _not_ industry standard or a good idea.
Around August:

https://www.google.com/search?q=login+wall+site:https://www....

https://www.google.com/search?q=Twitter+login+wall+site:http...
56809 is a pretty good second guess for this situation :p
There's no register allocator in X86 assembly
Show HN: Muse, a simple language for making music
Some credential stuffing attack is way less scary and well known than what happened at Twitter where "Verified" accounts with 2FA got hacked because they were able to take them over with internal tools.
So basically you are saying that in the average C codebase there are millions of landmines waiting to silently fail on you. This is not a ringing endorsement of the language it's more like a ringing indictment instead.
Tsinghua's satellite and Russian debris collision avoided by 14 meters (45 feet)
I just tried this out this week! It isn't going to work for my needs (I like having payee names to track past expenses), but it looks like great software, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to people.
> Hindu is the _official_ language of India

Hindi, not Hindu. Also, Hindi is not the only official language of India.
Seconding this, unless the server kicks me in the groin they're getting 20%. That's the only way they're getting a livable wage and I'm sure not going to be the one to rob them of it.
Fair, but do people actually do this?

Is there a $100/mo closet I can rent for that purpose or does it have to be $500/mo bedroom? What's the smallest one can go?
Getting to, and staying at, zero Covid would have solved this and many other problems.

Unfortunately the effort and coordination required turned out to be beyond our current social setup.
I haven't really read or thought about it in years, clearly you have, but based on my recollection/paraphrasing:

* You should choose to live based on your individual desire / choices

* You should adhere to your own standards given these choices

* You owe other people nothing, and you are free to enter and leave relationships with other individuals freely

now internet searching:

https://theobjectivestandard.com/what-is-objectivism/

> In sum, the key principles of Objectivism are: Reality is an absolute, reason is man’s only means of knowledge, man has free will (the choice to think or not), self-interest is moral, individual rights are absolute, capitalism is moral, and good art is crucial to good living.

Hard to argue with any of that except self-interest is moral / capitalism is moral. The 2nd is the "political philosphy" I mention which you don't care about really, and the first is well I guess where you can get into a discussion vis a vis children and development, and if my paraphrasing was fair / a straw man.

I'm pretty tired of this conversation, and I think we both agree the OP was lame.
I'll give you the last word and leave this conversation.
Doing your taxes? The IRS will require a video selfie to access your account
Columbus to Seattle was my journey as well, but I have no intention of going back. What brought you back to Ohio?
Ah, so a signed firmware bootblock that runs something user signed? I wrote the original version of the boot Shim that Linux distros use for bridging from the Microsoft root of trust to the distro one, so let me know if there's any way I can help out here.
A lot of Chemistry and Biology is full of exceptions (some might even say that exceptions are the only rule in chemistry) however people seem to have no qualms with trying to reason through those subjects.
Nice way to announce rationalist in the house.

Statistics and probability came later, you're right.

Basic understanding of statistics informs us that aggregate results do not predict individual outcomes. The aggregate poor math performance of American high school students does not predict what any individual may achieve (or fail to achieve). The overall poor math grades and test scores among American high school students could have any number of causes. Overwhelmed or disengaged teachers and a one size fits all curriculum probably have something to do with it.

My comment was intended to get the original poster to think about taking control over their education rather than expecting school to do that for them. If high school math classes aren't working then look into alternatives. The OP already indicated they care about learning math, but aren't necessarily motivated to achieve good grades to get into one of the "best universities."
It’s about “viewing” the statue, not Teddy Roosevelt the person and his presidential accomplishments.
I blame loose monetary policy.
I'm still looking for an Apple Notes-equivalent that I can comfortably use on Linux. It's been the hardest part about switching away from MacOS. A cross-platform app that launches instantly, syncs notes, has search functionality, and works on mobile is something I think we're missing.
Just get the utilities bills sent to your mailbox.

At the very least you can definitely get your bank statements sent there ...
Public Libraries and Schools Surpass Half a Billion Digital Book Loans in 2021
That's a great question. I know almost nothing about climate science. I assume though that it's directly tied to human consumption, and more people years means more consumption.
People actually do this.

Do you really think wealthy people (who are naturally at risk of kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, threats against family, etc) have their driver's license address pointing to the place where their children sleep at night?

The DMV gives those records in bulk to third parties. It's as good as public. Additionally, every dumbfuck services vendor from a gym to a daycare to a doctor's office will demand to photocopy your ID card to provide service, and you can be damn well sure that they aren't doing a good job protecting that information. They're storing it on their malware-ridden front desk Windows computer along with everyone else's.

As far as $100/mo vs $500/mo: what's the difference? It's all under $10k/year. Who cares?
So now (or in the near future) you can run WASM functions on a WASM FaaS platform running in a container running on K8S running in a VM on a cloud platform, and achieve what you could do in 1993 with Apache CGI and Perl 4.x!

Progress!
Wise doesn't send physical dollar bills to Argentina, so your reference doesn't apply. Send money via Wise or any other app, and either spend it from there, or withdraw it in pesos. Nothing is lost, and it's as easy, fast, and cheap to use as any crypto-currency solution.
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
It has been four hours, OP is nowhere to be seen. I hope they're okay amidst all the legalese.

More seriously, do let us know what you find. I've heard both sides on this but the "verbal agreement is also binding (just gl proving it)" side is usually from better sources like an actual lawyer posting on a forum as opposed to a random boss making claims about signature requirements, for example.
Somebody told me a few years back that the life time of a CISO in a larger organisation is not larger than 24 months. In my organisation that proved to be true so far. Here the rule applies as well.
This is a tradition for many across the United States. I have lived in 4 major metros and the theaters are always packed (excepting 2020) on Christmas day. Anecdotally, many of my friends tell me they have family traditions of opening presents, having a family breakfast, and then catching a midday matinee. Box office receipts show this trend [1]. Hollywood tends to drop some of their biggest films in the late holiday season, possibly to capitalize on this trend, though there is probably some kind of reflexive dynamic to the pattern.

Part of me suspects that attending church on Christmas eve/day, once a widely practiced tradition in the U.S. has been replaced by the movies as Americans seek to fill some kind of communal void.

[1] https://www.boxofficemojo.com/holiday/christmas_day/2021/
Personally I can't confirm this. I've recently replaced the battery on my 2014 Thinkpad, and on low brightness I get around 8h of battery. That is of course, while not doing a lot of compute (compiling).

I don't think this was much higher, back when I used Windows all those years ago, so I'm not sure what people are saying with low battery with Linux? I don't see how Windows could get me much more? And why would it?
I would assume the E cores would be running things like Windows Update while you continue to work on mostly the P cores. A general rule is that interactive apps should be scheduled to the fastest cores.
Yeah, sorry, poor choice of words on my part.
In an ideal world, biology salaries would be on par with tech salaries, so more intelligent ambitious young people will pursue education and careers in biology.
Nice, but from my experience people don't know digitally signed PDF. They want paper with wet signatures or looking like wet signatures.
On the other end of the scale I have seen pdfs signed with self created certificates or signed by mouse movement.
Is the author aware of Dhall? He might be interested.

I think it's better in general but in any case it gets away from the "everything has to be a keyed map" silliness and you get sums/products.
That sounds wonderful! Except for the elementary education majors and the volleyball. Are you still in touch with people there?
> I'm looking for something similar with website blocking

Just add them to /etc/host pointing to 127.0.0.1
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/krebs_adrian/status/1479457355620...
This is why, in the statically-typed programming language I’m working on, the project manifest is just a file written in the language itself which can export a special (typed) const to configure things like the linter. It gets to piggyback off of all the existing tooling for the language, particularly type checks, and can even be constructed using functions, etc if desired.
One thing that makes me less scared about Kessler Syndrome than other environmental problems is that there’s a very strong and immediate economic incentive to clean things up and prevent things from getting dirty by the people at risk of making things dirty. If you can’t do maintenance on or launch satellites, that destroys the industry’s source of income.

The consequences for pollution from other industries is usually longer term and less dramatic/direct on the business itself, if it even effects the core business directly.

I think all the effort put into monitoring space debris and the amount of attention things like starlink is getting speaks to this.
Felt mildly like a clickbait title (in my opinion)

It still absorbs stars... and other matter... lots of it...

but those somewhat more familiar with black holes know not everything is sucked in... black holes (commonly? -- I never looked into prevalence of this) have "jets" that push material away, often at high speed.

The "revelation" of this article is that we have the first photographic evidence supporting the fact these "jets" can contribute to the creation of stars.
Minnesota's twin cities plus Rochester. Excellent place if you're interested in biomedical, health care technology innovation. Top ranked companies headquartered there, a great university, the Mayo Clinic. Really top notch.

But if you're moving from Canada to escape the cold, Minnesota is not the place to stop. It's a bit warmer than Winnepeg, but colder than Toronto and the rest of Eastern Canada by quite a bit.
CoverMyMeds, Root Insurance, and Olive are a couple of unicorns.
Penrose Process
The Framework has a 200 DPI screen. It's lower than say a MacBook, but I wouldn't consider that to be "low-res", especially in the laptop space.
Traditionally, the "activist" in "activist investor" simply means "an investor who is actively pushing for specific policies," generally to increase the return on their investment.

"Financial activists" like Carl Icahn or Starboard frequently take > 5% stakes in order to pressure companies to sell themselves to competitors, break themselves apart in order to shed lower-performing divisions, funnel cash to shareholders through dividends or stock buybacks, or reverse policies they see as injurious to the bottom line

CEOs naturally hate this, and activist investors have a reputation -- arguably often well-deserved -- for improving the profitability of their portfolios at the cost of the companies they target. Sometimes this can force companies to walk away from suboptimal strategies -- did AOL really think Patch was going to be a market maker? -- but in many cases their activism simply results in the company's acquisition, aggressive offshoring or deindustrialization, or just straight-up bankruptcy. Icahn, for example, took a heavy position in Blockbuster and was instrumental in forcing them to reinstate late fees and drop plans to enter the streaming market, which left them exceedingly vulnerable when Netflix introduced streaming (the dueling HBR articles on this are well worth reading).

Over the past few decades "social activist investors" have become more common, especially amongst large public sector and union pension plans who have both financial throw-weight and a need to answer to causes somewhat beyond their immediate bottom lines, but in general they are much smaller, and less effective, groups than the usual hedge fund suspects. For example, an organization of decarbonization activists have been trying for years to force ExxonMobil to diversify its energy base beyond hydrocarbons (as other petrochemical firms have done), but they've had notably zero effect on XOM's strategy, despite having an argument based on economics as much as ecology.
What is your opinion of this vs Gurobi ?

The only reason I ask is because your model is written in a proprietary language. While Gurobi models are written in Python (and solved by the silver).

Just curious if you found it not effective.
I'm personally not driven by money and never was. First and foremost I would like to make the world a better place.
https://archive.is/66jAS
It's myopic by google. I speak more than one language, "belong" to more than one country, but google makes it very hard to find relevant results that are not narrowed-down to the country I'm in right now.
H.L. Mencken's prediction in "Bayard vs. Lionheart" (1924) held up well:

https://amomai.blogspot.com/2008/10/hl-mencken-bayard-vs-lio...
Hint: The number should not end in any of 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8!
I'm having trouble finding how much Starlink has currently cost to deploy, but per wikipedia in 2018 (yes, 4 years old):

> The cost of the decade-long project to design, build, and deploy the constellation was estimated by SpaceX in May 2018 to be at least US$10 billion. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink]

Which would be 1/8th the cost you describe (though probably more by now, I haven't found any figures yet). It also covers a larger geographic area (and therefore a larger number of people) in a shorter time than any cell tower + cable solution would, short of conscripting every possible technician in the US to accomplish the effort.

Starlink also gets to piggyback on other SpaceX launches so they aren't eating the entire launch cost themselves, it's subsidized (or can be) by their other customers. This is what I'm talking about when I say that presently it's more economically viable. It sucks about your situation (being so close to gigabit Internet without access), I've been there, too. Cable companies and ISPs in the US suck.

EDIT:

https://www.ft.com/content/4f992537-59f6-4d09-b977-c33945dba...

More recent, June 2021. Musk is expecting to spend $30 billion to cover 12 countries, and expects to have spent $10 billion before becoming cashflow positive with Starlink.

EDIT: Fixed link above, not sure why I ended up with a link to a subheading.
I certainly do not think that each dead store which has been eliminated is a landmine, this is such an extreme position that it isn't even worth considering. In the very rare cases were I needed a store to actually happen I will use inline asm or some form of volatile.
One would imagine so given that the satellites are eventually meant to collaborate via peer to peer direct laser links. Time synchronisation and phase stability are required for direct links but it's a good question as to how much is available in terms of the microwave SDRs.
The inventor can go old school and use it personally until it catches on with friends/family. Or is this a monkeys paw kind of cream?

What about cream that works for 10-20 years but ends with rapidly progressive multifocal melanoma? I would probably still do it if i was 65-70 years old.
Same for us in VFX mostly python though.
Perhaps they should check to see if they ever denied the position to Lord Voldemort.
Yes they’ve been using the phrase “ensuring voter quality” to justify measures which essentially restrict access to voting for the poor.
Yes that's the idea
> The trouble is that in the real world people who criticize Israel and not antisemitic are vanishingly rare.

Where is your evidence for this?

By evidence, I mean

1) empirical, not anecdotal
2) from a non-partisan source
>Stripe can handle sales taxes.

if so, that is a recent development.
I make video games like this one [0] or this one [1]. It's pretty simple, you can buy the game and then download and play it. Are games 'desktop apps'? It's not the language I would normally use but I think it applies.

Having been out of the web app development bubble for about seven years now, there's whole industries that work entirely in the pay-for-it-and-then-download model, and while games-as-a-service is more popular now than ever before there's still plenty of the old-school way of doing things going on.

I really like the simplicity. You can buy the thing, maybe from Steam or maybe from a DRM-free store like Humble, download it, play it. You can get a refund if you don't like it, or buy another copy and gift it to a friend if you do.

[0] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/386900/The_Cat_Machine/

[1] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/654960/The_Eldritch_Zooke...
I was more suggesting that you leave Ohio to do interesting things in the Pittsburgh area.
Does it definitely not 'just work' on Linux, and the only people to email were those who saw 'on Mac & Windows' without realising it was Electron?
third-party apps are incredibly common and usually have unrestricted access to post or alter profiles.

I'm not sure if I buy the internal tool angle here.
I remember when I thought the people who ran governments were the adults in the room, the experts. Now I literally think the total opposite.
Would it be totally insane for SpaceX to offer free/very cheap launches every now and then to pure science missions to make up for these types inconveniences?

For context: plain old Falcon 9 could launch a Hubble-sized telescope to LEO (with a bit of room to spare) and return for reuse.

It feels like the right thing to do and could gain them a bit of goodwill.
When is the last time you had to pinch and zoom on a website? Text can reflow perfectly well, if you give the renderer the necessary information. With PDF, similar to PNG, you're specifically telling the renderer to put this pixel exactly over there and nowhere else, so it cannot nicely make it all be readable comfortably.

If mobile devices required zooming and panning to read anything, they'd not be popular at all, so they're apparently not where the problem lies.
I've read the River of Doubt and don't remember the part about the statue commission. Also, why is he on horseback and not in a canoe?
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan

You want us to believe that crypto-currency is like the first three examples, but it's been long enough now to be certain that it's far more like the latter.