skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps it wouldn't happen overnight, but wouldn't ETC prices rally with more people participating in the network?

If my understanding of the crypto economics is right, no. The token price drives the mining effort, not the other way around. People buy these tokens because other people are willing to trade at that price, not because of the mining power within. Having more hash power does nothing for me as an owner of a token. The auto-scaling of the difficulty level is there to make attacks more expensive as the token value increases, it maintains the cost/benefit balance out of whack for any attacker. Only difference is slightly longer block mining time. Overall, nothing a normal user would feel.

Some people claim the other way, but I think they simply misunderstand the incentives. There was news that the Kazakstan crackdown led to the Bitcoin slump at some point, but that is, IMO, wrong, and they mistook some other events as causation. (in the same period, the stock market was also down).

GPU mining will still be a thing, but there simply will not be enough value to go around and the mining will crater until profits will be sustainable again. Extra mining gear will be sold. I maintain my prediction, and am really willing to put money where my mouth is.
Ask HN: What should a student who is already decent at SWE do over the summer?
I'm a student majoring in computer science.
I'm trying to figure out what to do this summer.

I've already ruled out internships at most tech companies b/c

1. I spent a gap year working at a wide range of companies (big company, startup, research lab)

2. I'm a reasonably good programmer with open-source projects and while I'm quite sure I have a lot lot more to learn, I don't think a tech internship is the highest-leverage use of my time

3. (most important reason) I'm not sure I want to be a SWE. I love software engineering / programming, but when I think of the way to make the most impact in the world it's probably creating a (actually meaningful) startup/organization. (I know, I know, every young person says this these days)

Given that this is the case, I'm trying to figure out what to do this summer besides a normal tech internship. I was contemplating how to figure out what to do and decided on a "meta-strategy" of consulting people with more experience on forums such as HN.

Here are the options I've come up with so far:

1. Try to understand virality -- I'm not particularly good at creating viral content or content that appeals to the masses (aside from the natural edge that comes from being young), which could certainly be useful when marketing a product. An option here is trying to intern at a company like Buzzfeed which is full of people who understand emotions / virality.

2. Try to understand soft skills / business -- There are roles out there like "business development intern". I don't know anything about "business development" but negotiating with other companies / writing white-papers / etc. could be a useful skill

3. Spend time learning on my own. To enact change these days, it's probably not sufficient to just know programming (unless you want to do a SASS). Spending time on my own learning physics/chemistry/biology could be useful. The issue here is I believe mentorship is useful and this option negates that completely.

4. Working on my own business (not a software project). I've done this in the past & learned a lot about how to be scrappy. Not a terrible idea, but I don't want to sink 3 months into something only to have to return to school. Also negates mentorship. Also I'd rather spend time learning right now so I can execute on something that's not a local maximum of what my brain can imagine right now.
Depends on a team, of course. But happens often with business solutions. Done, whichever way. Next. It broke down in prod? Well, go fix it, it's yours now...
My SD2Vita also doesn’t taste too bad ;)
I'm not a new dev (but I am a new data scientist) and can definitely relate to what you said. I'm so used to "if you get stuck, just figure it out" as the norm for things I'm assigned to do, and getting used to "I'm stuck, I should reach out to someone who's more experienced than me" has been difficult. I'm always afraid of inconveniencing or interrupting my higher-ups, even though they never seem to be bothered by it. I guess it's just an irrational social fear.
Designing psychiatric care to precisely match patients’ biology
Until last month I was still happily running a Google Nexus 6. For the past 5 years, I have been getting regular updates for it via Lineage OS (running Android 11 now). The only reason I had to stop using it is because the cell networks in the US are dropping support for its radio hardware.

Still using my Nexus 7 tablet from 2013 (running Android 11 via Lineage OS). Huge shout-out to the awesome folks at Lineage who are keeping these devices viable for years!

Honestly, when I went to buy a new phone, one of the biggest factors I considered was if it was popular enough with the custom-ROM crowed to be supported long-term...
Oof trust me from experience you do _not_ want to write a compiler or parser or anything like that in Go. The string support is so limited -- for example you have to implement basic things like reverse string from scratch instead of them (and much more) being in the standard library. Much better to use something like Crystal or Rust.
It is common for Gemini clients to represent HTTP links differently from Gemini or Gopher links, so the user can make an informed choice before clicking.
He probably accepted their claims at face value and assumed they’d be somewhat based in truth, and their subsequent filing would have some reasonable logic that supported those claims.

Their new issue is that no judge will ever give them an ounce of leeway in the future.

I don’t know why a lawyer would trade their professional reputation in exchange for a lawsuit they know will lose, but good on thedacare for finding that idiot.
How much is that per food item (the example you were responding to was $.05/item)?
Sure. But most transactions are digital already. This just formalizes it in the hands of the central bank rather than a panoply of credit card providers and online processors.

It doesn't become "yet another crypto". It's not even a stablecoin. It's just the dollar, in a very slightly different form.
Ok...response from the dev who did the work. I was a bit mistaken but here are his copied words.

" well it wasn;t actually a ROM malware it was the seller installing their own version of Android, which would reinstall their browser and would not let you change the browser, this browser had a hard coded home page which it forced you too, and it was a home page basically that sells you stuff.
if you stopped their browser from getting installed, then the tablet went into a demo mode and displayed huge DEMO text across the whole screen. Eventually I was able to replace several Android core system modules which removed their check that their browser was active.
and yea I could see it phoning home whenever it was turned on."

I know I have this device in a box. If anyone would like to analyze it and see if there was more/less than what we found I am willing to send it to someone in the US via ground shipping (LIPO batteries). I believe it was not charging the last time I used it though.
If Google starts subsidizing their physical devices from their infinite money bin of advertising revenue, they'll run afoul of antitrust and anti dumping laws.
However, more than once I've also yelled "HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS?!" at something or other :)
The Tompkins County Health Department expects pediatricians or family doctors to test kids for lead at age 1 and 2.

https://tompkinscountyny.gov/health/lead/index

Here is what the CDC says

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/blood-lead-levels.h...

It is an easy test, ask your primary care provider.
I know you're asking specifically about results from on board the ISS but here's something more broad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
I remember when it was decommissioned and flown to LA on the 747 transporter...definitely an event. They publicized the flight path and times, and did like 2 or 3 loops over LA and the west side. Everyone in the city was watching on the rooftops of all the office buildings and parking garages.
> Close to a million people have died in the US. That is a pretty important point in the labour market

This doesn't make sense given the average age of people who died from Covid is well over working age.
I'm hoping for some serious advances in masks. And the social acceptability of walking around looking like Bane.
Whoops perft() sorry.
One way to address is for the manager to make sure the work is chunked down.

Where I see the mentioned problem the most is when teams are too busy. The manager (as in team leader) is putting out fires and does not have the time and/or will to mentor and direct the team members that go off track.

I think it is everyones job to make sure they are not too busy. Being too busy for basic processes is an antipattern and flag that things need to be reprioritised. Someone needs to walk away from the screen (or in covid times towards it) and talk to their boss!
> I disagree, we are having inflation because of supply bottlenecks, not because of demand.

I've seen this multiple times but what's the underlying evidence for either side. If demand goes up and the supply can't increase to follow, it'll look like a supply issue but ultimately caused by demand. What's ultimately the difference?

Is the idea that if the supply chain is scaled for X then moving from X-2 -> X is easier then X -> X+2?
I think it is nice to know some of the different ways to analyze reds and whites. Dry vs. sweet, tannic or not. Reds, how fruity they are and what kind of fruit (cherry, dark/stone fruit or bright and berry). Earthy/funky or smooth and light.

To me, those are things that allow you to elevate your enjoyment of tasting the wine itself. Anything beyond that (knowing region or grape by taste) is turning wine into a hobby, which is fine, but not necessary.
Take your argument up with the New York Times, their death tracker is showing that ~15k people have died from COVID in the last 7 days: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html Count up the daily counts yourself and check.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You have provided no evidence that 15k, as reported by one of the most reputable new organizations in the world, is wrong or should be considered misinformation.
I just learned the absolute basics of systemd the other day while trying to set up an auto-restarting game server on an RPi for my little sibling, and finding helpful examples was extremely difficult. This seems like a perfect solution!
Is increased buying power the actual cause of inflation? Or is it disruption in China? Or is it executives choosing to take profits because they can (for some particular reason)?

What evidence could be used to distinguish between the various possibilities? I don't actually know, and I'm curious.
Well, we also have a very nice manpage viewer.

I think systemd.directives(7) is an often overlooked manpage.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd.directives.7
> We actually use this tool so often that I felt it necessary to contribute to the author's Patreon account.

Thanks heaps for that btw!

Because of our Patrons, we've recently been able to buy an M1 Mac Mini. We should be able to start releasing ARM based macOS builds in the near-ish future. :)
Who is “we”? Who’s lives are being ruined? There are essentially no restrictions remaining in the United States for vaccinated individual besides mask mandates in public transit and schools, and those are at worst a minor inconvenience.
If there as no difference, the Moderna vaccine would be as effective as infection at preventing reinfection, but it isn't. So what drives the difference?

(yes, it is highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death, but it's clearly a muted response)
And where is King Cheng?
Your numbers are way off. Many of the deaths last week weren't necessarily from Omicron. Some were patients infected by the Delta variant in previous weeks before Omicron became completely dominant.
I've proved to you with examples over and over again that majority and popularity aren't good metrics.

A huge portion of the world is muslim, a huge portion of the world is christian and another huge portion of the world is Buddhist and another portion of the world is atheist.

Only one of them can be right. Therefore the MAJORITY is WRONG.

The example above is already definitive proof that POPULARITY and MAJORITY cannot be used as an accurate metric given most of the worlds beliefs are completely OFF BASE.

Yet here you are endlessly parading majority and popularity as the best metric and stating that if I claim otherwise I'm believing the world is flat. Try to be logical.

If your goal is to convince me (which I assume is the case given that you ARE responding to me) then you need to stop using popularity as a metric. By giving one instance where popularity is inaccurate I have ALREADY shown that it is not a valid metric and useless in your endeavor to convince me.

If your goal isn't to convince me then I question the rationality behind why you're even communicating with me? Is it possible that you're just defending your own beliefs?
Also a huge third thing:

* Large portions of the middle class and professional class got temporary, permanent, or indefinite semi-permanent Work From Home privileges, leading lots of people who'd been renting small apartments in the cities to buzz off for a larger house out in the burbs. This leads to a lot of consumption of household goods.
Does this bitterant leave a residue when the alcohol evaporates? That seems like one benefit of methanol vs bitterant: all of the alcohol can still evaporate without depositing bitterant as a side effect.

Are there bitterants that evaporate similarly to alcohol but are not toxic?
Article could have been titled “Andy Weir consider not to be something he never tried to be by a bunch of people who tried and failed”
In 2019 the Chinese covered up the early spread of COVID then later repeatedly stonewalled anyone doing serious research into the disease's origin. By letting COVID spread for months unchecked the Chinese effectively ensured that there was no way to stop this thing from going global, which it did, ultimately killing over 5M people and counting.

If we're unwilling to hold the Chinese to account for that in any meaningful way, I can't imagine we're going to do anything whatsoever about a little (or even a lot of) industrial espionage.

We'll gladly let the Chinese run roughshod over us and humiliate us repeatedly if it means we can still by our iPhones on the cheap.
It does suck that it can’t use standard typescript tooling because of a couple of small, key, breaking-differences (mainly the import path style, to my understanding). I don’t think they could have done it any differently, and with enough traction the ecosystem support is a solvable problem, but it’s still a shame.
Persian and Chinese have, if I remember correctly, no gendered pronouns.

No effects on gender equality seem observable.
Omicron is the dominant variant so you have to throw out all data prior to Nov 2021. When I use different age groups in the link you provided, the numbers imply a pretty small sample size. No deaths since Nov among 39 or younger, strange nonlinearity for 40-59.

Not the study from Reuters that I linked, but another with a specific definition of "vaccine effectiveness":

During the proxy omicron period, we found a vaccine effectiveness of 70% (95% confidence interval [CI], 62 to 76), a finding that was supported by the results of all sensitivity tests. This measure of vaccine effectiveness was significantly different from that during the comparator period, when the rate was 93% (95% CI, 90 to 94) against hospitalization for Covid-19 (Table 2).

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119270#:~:text=D....
There is also a Usenet group, news:comp.infosystems.gemini.
Even with iCloud there's a serious delay when you do this before we get on the whole Apple is disabling third-party apps wagon.
Omicron is not mild to the unvaccinated.. and as a result, to the hospital infrastructure.
Definitely second this. I have been downloading all my Switch games but bought one cheap cartridge just to see what all the craze was about.

It did not disappoint, no matter how bitter you think it can be, it is worse. The aftertaste lasts for a very long time and rinsing your mouth makes little difference.
Reading only the title, I thought "I am having this problem exactly now!". However, it is not about lack of security updates (it's an old Motorola phone). It is a smartphone that belonged to my late father who passed away in 2020. He had a google account with password and the phone has a pattern to draw in the lock screen.

I know Google and the phone manufacturers are concerned with the stealing of phones, so they make it as hard as they can to use a phone without authorization, even if you try to reset the phone and erase all user data. Does anyone know if there is a process to remove a google account from a phone even if I have to prove to Google that he died of natural causes?
Political suicide, certainly.

Ethically — assuming such engineering is even possible without unexpected consequences — it sounds like a trolley problem, only instead of 6 on the default track and 1 on the alternate it might be 6 million by default and 1 million with the airborne cowpox analogy. (Numbers completely made up, of course).
I use that site very regularly. Thank you very much!
Yeah....its unfortunate.

Currently I may just pay the cost. Or move to a more privacy focused service like ProtonMail and at least give my money to a place I support.
> I'm not aware of what we've learned from the International Space Station.

We learned about the effects of microgravity on the human body for one. Useful for future trips to the Moon and/or Mars.

Plus we’ve had the benefit of a microgravity laboratory staffed by world class scientists for two decades.

Putting people back on the Moon is valuable just as a technology demonstration and test for more ambitious missions like Mars.

As you say, Apollo taught us a lot about the Moon. But it didn’t teach us everything. So if Apollo taught us something then clearly there is value in sending humans.

> And the Space Shuttle was an expensive and needless boondoggle that killed fourteen people for no good reason.

Without the Shuttle there is no ISS. So any benefit gained from the ISS is owed at least in part to the Shuttle.
If anyone else is wondering, the only somewhat concise explanation I found was this[0]:

> Non-toxic is essentially a placebo term and unlike food-safe or food-grade products, has little to no government regulation in terms of its accuracy. [...]

> What non-toxic means is that the product contains no ingredients that have been linked to toxic responses in humans. Toxic responses are things like hormone disruption, poisoning, or cancer.

[0] https://www.greenmatters.com/p/does-non-toxic-mean-food-safe
Young children should/will be tested at one of their normal pediatric "well check" visits.

If you live in an older house (let's say built before 1980) check for cracking/peeling paint on woodwork. Paint on walls is less likely to be peeling in my experience, but of course be on the lookout for that also.

By now, any lead paint has probably been painted over, so if everything looks solid it's best to leave it alone.

You can buy inexpensive lead paint test kits at any hardware/home improvement store.

Also be aware of older venetian blinds, some of these can contain lead.
Ah... I hadn't heard about that:

> Pellagra was first reported in 1902 in the United States, and has "caused more deaths than any other nutrition-related disease in American history", reaching epidemic proportions in the American South during the early 1900s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra#United_States
Why do you think lead paint tastes sweet?
This is really good, but I feel like you should have come to us with this topic sooner.
Yes, we need more transparency on all the trials, e.g. comparing methodology and benchmarking against standard practices. Justifications for corner cutting in 2020 trials should not apply to 2022+ trials. If this issue were more widely understood, there would be several open-source repos aggregating "lessons learned" and public info about the trials, across countries and vendors.
I think air duster cans for cleaning firearms does not have the bitterant in it.
> for the same reason it doesn't execute or torture criminals.

I don't disagree with the idea, but to be precise torture and execution at the hand of police and secret services is still a thing in the EU. Especially since the covid lockdowns started almost two years ago, it seems police murders have raised significantly in some parts of the EU (like France).
Flexible 3D printing material is a cosplayer's dream
I've got a pile of Switch cartridges next to me. They're bitter all over. Trust me.
Not as extreme, but not far off. I believe I'm the youngest person on the team I manage.

I've spent a lot of time in startups - including way too many hours in my 20's working on side-hustles (wife was in med school, so it was kind of my thing to do). I've ended up in a situation where my technical skills are strong (but not the best on my team), but my business/startup knowledge is much better so I can help to ensure everyone is working towards the most impactful/valuable outcomes.
Yep, good catch. "buccal administration" is a bit more obscure so I often just refer to sublingual unless I know the audience.

Mucosal absorption is definitely way faster than pills (unless you chew them) or drink.

One time a friend and I tried making caffeine patches with DMSO as a transport, and put it on our arms with a cotton ball and tape...NOT PLEASANT. Extreme pruritus and erythema at the administration site. Hoo boy were we alert though. Nowadays the gum is perhaps a bit too fast even, it's easy to overdue and I get palpitations.

Follow me for more horrible ideas and biohacks. /s. I don't actually have a channel for my misadventures and shenanigans...maybe I should?
Which parts do you think are doing poorly?

The names of their products. How do you keep anything straight when the name of each product is UUID?
Pretty sure OS X is based on the Mach/XNU kernel and Darwin, not FreeBSD.
There's also rateyourmusic.com which has a forum that I always thought of as the online hub for those who enjoy having petty arguments about all things music
That is not the point. The point is that the grape variety is just one piece of the puzzle. Ordering wine by variety is therefore basically nonsense.

It’s very common that waiter tells you we have Pinot Noir or Merlot, but without telling you at least from where they are, that information is pretty much worthless. And I’m almost sure most people can’t tell the difference anyway.

I’m a lifelong wine lover, even with some education in wine tasting, and the more I know about wine, the less I’m sure I’d be able to tell them apart in blind tasting. It’s more like I roughly know what style of wine I can expect from different countries, and which varieties have good conditions in those countries and which are better avoided.
> Is there something like pgAdmin?

A fairly well used GUI is https://sqlitebrowser.org (a project I help out personally).
macOS at work, Linux at home
It is a big change in the messaging, as the director of the CDC as well as fauci use "natural immunity" to refer to immunity acquired through natural infection. I can provide numerous examples of this.
1% inflation seems about right for the 2020->2021 tax year. Most indicators are lagging so if inflation started taking off during 2021 it wouldn't show up right away.
I appreciate the effort to answer these important questions.