skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note that the sentiment is "condescension is not empathy", and empathy is what you need to approach this problem.

I consider that an unproven assertion. A certain amount of empathy is certainly necessary to have a functioning society. But it doesn't seem to be the case that everyone has to be empathetic with everyone, and I don't think humanity has ever been at that or ever will be at that stage.

But even beyond that, "empathy" doesn't mean that you think everyone's opinion is equally right. Sometimes, empathy involves giving people hard truths that they may find hard to accept, but will be better for them long term.

> You then condescend. You are superior, the "general public" is too dumb ("ill-equipped") to "make certain decisions".

It's only condescending if you consider people's inherent worth to be tied to their intelligence or judgement. But that's something I disagree with: people who are right more often than others aren't morally superior, or inherently more worthy, or anything. They're simply right more often and it's therefore rational to listen to them more often.

Also note that I didn't say "dumb", that's your interpretation. Smart people have biases too, and being well- or ill-informed about a topic is not necessarily correlated to intelligence.

The general public is ill-equipped to decide whether P=NP or the Riemann hypothesis are true. That seems hardly controversial (and yet math departments continue to receive "proofs" of these statements from complete amateurs that usually don't even understand the problem correctly).

> How would you know? You simply feel they are ill-informed, but it doesn't mean that they are.

You never know anything, except for the fact that you exist. But that's not a reasonable state of being. At some point you have to start trusting your own judgement, especially when you know that you've done the research. That there are other people who disagree with your judgement doesn't fundamentally change that.

> By assuming (implicitly) that you must be correct, you deny them the agency of figuring things out for themselves: Clearly they cannot have done so, they are simply too wrong.

No, you're misunderstanding me. I don't claim that I'm a priori correct and that anyone who disagrees with me is wrong (if anything, I would consider my opinions to be more or less strong priors). That would indeed be ludicrous. But I do examine the arguments of other people, and in some cases have to come to the conclusion that they're a) factually wrong, or b) their argument doesn't make logical sense.
The only way to apply the court’s judgement (in the case of ETH) is to hark fork, because there is no governance contract in place.

A blockchain can in theory support such things, which would allow a majority vote to approve the court’s judgement, but not ETH as it currently stands.

Alternatively if you could get enough miners to just collectively agree to replay the blocks without that transaction you could let the owners move the funds, but it’s monumentally difficult as time goes on and the number of blocks to rewrite increases.

If it was detected in seconds, an emergency protocol does exist between certain large mining pools for this sort of thing.

Specifically, if you have contracts holding that kind of balance, if a transaction appears on the network which touches a percentage of the funds, you get blistering alarms ringing and someone can “break glass / pull lever” to lock the contract balance into an emergency cold vault. It freezes the DEX but better that then lose the funds. You partner with mining pools to pre-clear that TX and ensure your transaction gets priority in the next block, before the attacker’s transaction goes thru (making theirs the double-spend).

But they weren’t even watching. They didn’t even know until the next DAY.
I'm not a cryptocurrency person, but my understanding is that that's happened before: ETH effectively rolled back the DAO hack[1] in 2016. The end result was the "Ethereum Classic" split, which continues to this day. There are all kinds of financial ramifications to this kind of split, nearly all of which (to the best of my knowledge) remain unsolved.

The problem that you've correctly observed gets to the very root of why cryptocurrencies are a farce: if participants need the confidence of an ultimate human democratic process, you might as well kick the immutable public ledger to the curb, skip the tire burning, and use the financial system we already have.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
Which is what that horrible cringe rapper lady was doing when she and her boyfriend were busted.
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The pricing is actually one of Kagi's most interesting features to me. There's an old phrase "If you aren't paying for the service then you're the product". I'd be suspicious of any price too low, as it would indicate they have another revenue stream.
In this case we have evidence. Telegram is not banned in Russia, and now we have an explanation about why.
> So instead of changing to an electric car that has a massive material footprint and takes up the same amount of space on the road as a petrol car, buy a bike

And/or maybe we need to rethink the size of the "cars" (actually SUVs) we're driving around in. Not all trips are doable by bike (weather, health, etc are limiting factors). Instead of electric SUVs we should be looking at smaller vehicles like the Aptera [1] which uses much less power than most other electric cars (less than half the power / mile than a Tesla) and as such is practical to charge overnight with only 110v. (I hear the objections now - "but it's only got 2 seats", sure, but that's fine for like 99.9% of my trips. "But you can't go grocery shopping with that thing", take a look at some of their videos where they go shopping at Costco and get more stuff in there than most of us would need in a month.)

[1] https://aptera.us/
In a system run by people, the transaction could be reversed, traced, and the culprits eventually brought to justice.

In a system run by algorithms, designed to avoid oversight by people (governments), there is no such powers. There's no reversal. There's no checking the name on the account the transfer was to. It's just gone.

I do not understand why people who have legal intentions would want to be part of the crypto economy. There's nothing but more risks with zero benefits.
Watching that video, there's not much in there that you couldn't do with vscode vim plugin. Lots of it was just setting up vim plugins to replicate behavior present in vscode itself. In vscode, these features can also usually (always?) be accessed via the keyboard.

As for mouse-reaching, just flip it over (maybe put a sticky note over laptop trackpads). If you touch it, think, hey, there's probably a way to do this without the mouse. For vim usage, I would also say the same thing about arrow keys (especially in insert mode). Disable these training wheels & see your productivity skyrocket.
> Most populated areas of the world are also not suited to having everyone living in rural areas being herded together into an ultimately dystopian pod-life hellhole.

Most people in the world don't live in rural areas, and where they are the majority, you wouldn't want to live like that because they're subsistence farmers living in undervedeloped countries (think Somalia, Afghanistan, etc).

In developed countries and developing countries people are being "herded" in to cities, and they like it because the alternative is worse. And they are the majority.

The fact that you don't know this basic fact kind of says all there is to be said about this conversation...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS

Also, off-topic but still relevant:

One of the greatest triumphs of civilization is urbanization. All the cradle of civilizations are called like that because they built great cities, for their time.
HAHAHAHA. Good. Blockchain is for clowns
At least in the upstate of SC, I see lots of starter homes, some would say too many. Of course, the average price in the state has risen above $300K and I don't know where people are getting this money from. The starter homes/condos seem to have a sqft of between 1200->2000 (best guess unresearched).
No no no. Crypto enthusiasts reject the idea of the law, and the tyrannical governments that enforce them. Code is Law! Therefore, this is perfectly legal.

Conceding that this situation sounds absurd destroys the entire raison d'être of crypto.
Shoot. You’re right. Here’s the quote from a preview release:

“In this release, React is dropping support for Internet Explorer, which is going out of support on June 15, 2022. We’re making this change now because new features introduced in React 18 are built using modern browser features such as microtasks which cannot be adequately polyfilled in IE.

If you need to support Internet Explorer we recommend you stay with React 17.”

(Shoot because I have to support IE still.)
“The expectation is that quantum field theory does describe classical physics,” Roiban said. “It turns out that it is in this way that it does it, by having zero uncertainty in some states.”

> The upshot is that classical waves are easier to describe in the language of quantum mechanics than researchers feared. “A gravitational wave, or a wave of any kind, is something big and floppy. It should depend on many little things,” said Roiban. But “once you know the collision plus one photon or one graviton in the final state, then you know everything.”

Isn't this essentially applying QFT in high gravity environments? Something that's long been sought?

Am I missing something?
Fund a service that provides weekly, short (1,000 words or less) summaries of news events from multiple angles. Not just summaries of other news sites, but educated, informed takes presented in "we don't want to waste your time, so we'll get to the point" fashion.

I would love to spend an hour a week reading a newsletter about what's going on in the world. Especially if it lets me ignore the hype and advertising-led news cycle.
I think the majority sided with the move (which is why Ethereum soldiers on and EC is basically useless).

It's a good final social check on bad behavior. I think Vitalik as written about this (I'm pretty sure I read about it in one of his long form posts).
This is the same verbal gymnastics confederate sympathizers use when trying to say that the civil war was about "states rights." All you have to do is follow the logic to its conclusion.

What was the civil war about? States rights. What rights, specifically? The right of states to allow their citizens to practice slavery. Therefore, the civil war was about slavery.

What was jan 6 about? It was about an attempt to undermine the government. An attempt to undermine what, specifically? The election process. Why did they seek to undermine the election process? So that the mob could extra-judicially install a leader of their preference. Another word for this is coup d'etat.
Transfer to a bunch of USDC? https://etherscan.io/address/0x098b716b8aaf21512996dc57eb061...
Be wary of, or careful when using, these dumb adapters. Lithium batteries require protection electronics, in particular ones to shut off the tool when the battery reaches too high a temperature or the cells reach too low a voltage. Most manufacturers put the electronics in the tool, using the connector's other conductors to sense the battery's condition. Since these cheap adapters don't also adapt the sensing electronics and conductors, the electronic safety is substantially or completely disabled. If the battery's user doesn't take as much care as the tool's electronics would have, there is a great increase in the probability of premature, and possibly incindiary, battery failure.
>1. Interview · Interviews are conducted via Slack – they’re text-only. That’s how we work day-to-day, so we want to interact with you in that medium. The initial interview is a 90-minute chat (which we’ve found is the equivalent of a 60-minute face-to-face interview) with an engineer, which covers subjects like motivation, technical depth, problem solving, and managing complexity. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to ask questions, too.

https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/#....
In my experience, PMs and middle managers drive a fair amount of unnecessary design work. Looks better in a PowerPoint than most things do, I reckon.
>You are spreading FUD written by a notorious troll that has been expelled from FOSDEM, FSFE, Debian and other organizations as well.

I was asked for citation. I more than delivered with quite a few links there. All of which were unique folks with unique situations. It seems to me you are referring to one of these but I genuinely don't know which you are talking about.

Something abundantly clear to me is that there's some serious harassment going on at Debian. No question at all to me.

It also seems to me, the harassers are not gone. People are requesting secret votes to avoid harassment. So this "expelled" troll isn't the problem.
> I'm not sure how we can hope to stop that inertia short of being limited by cheap energy or running out of actual land.

Having the residents of the suburbs paying for their true cost seems like a great way to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

As the video points out, would people be willing to start paying $9000 in property taxes instead of $1800 to stop operating the city at a loss every year?
Generally yes.

As someone who has actually purchased real goods with bitcoin (silkroad) and has dealt with the blowback of the MtGox scandal (still receiving court details to this day...)

Those crypto people are snake oil salesmen. Full fucking stop. They aren't interested in making anything usable, they're interested in wild speculation, gambling, and outright scams.
>Does anyone of Hispanic ancestry actually use the term “LatinX”? The Spanish language is explicitly gendered and there’s no such thing.

i'm latino and i (along with all my friends) absolutely hate the term latinx. it's american colonization.

not only that but there's already a gender-neutral term for latinos in english: latin.
I like it. I thought it was pretty calm and reasonable. Maybe some things could be worded a little better, but I'm not sure why there are so many strong, negative reactions about it.
Yes it’s terribly flawed, but most copyright holders see that as a feature.
A million dollars would be a lot but with some funding I'll like to work full time on https://formester.com and build a go to place for any kind of form on the internet.
> I’m finding myself doubting the amount of time I’m dedicating to configuring/practicing vim

If it's not fun, then it's probably not worth it. It really depends on what VIM can do to improve your current workflow. So, you may need to drop the VSCode mindset while you start using VIM.

> but now that I’m trying to navigate medium/large projects,

I actually have trouble navigating large projects in VSCode. The buffer, tab, window model that Vim uses makes more sense to me (but it's unique to VIM afaik, so it may be jarring at first). Combine that with a fuzzy finder[1] and it allows:

- rip-grep to search for files with text / file names

- Searching through currently currently opened buffers

Whenever I have to use VSCode (mainly for the live share feature, I find myself pretty lost with VSCode's tab based interface (I usually end up with like 20 tabs cluttering my workspace, and tabs are local to a split, which is jarring for me).

> the vim endgame looks like

It never _really_ ends. Some VIM features that I miss when I use another editor are:

- Really nice integration with terminal commands. One thing that I do very often is copy the name of the current file: `!echo % | xclip -sel clip` so I can use the filename as an argument in a terminal split (running tests for example)

- Filters (`:help !`) so I can pass parts of a file in to a program that accepts standard input. Example: `'<,'>!jq` to prettify bits of JSON.

- Global commands and macros. VSCode vim supports them, but I've noticed that they can run pretty slowly.

- The buffer, tab, window, model (probably the biggest one I miss when I start using VSCode)

For LSP support, I've tried to migrate to neovim's native LSP tools, but I still find COC to be a lot more intuitive. You should feel right at home with it since a lot of the plugins are similar to their VSCode counterpart.

If you'd like a really general and guided tour of VIM, I'd recommend picking up Practial Vim[2] It really helped me understand the workflow a bit more. Approaching VIM with the mindset of another editor wont give you all the benefits of using VIM. Though, if the workflow doesn't click, then that's not a big deal. You can always go back to VSCode.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/denite.nvim (many people use Telescope: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim)
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Thought-Pragmatic-Progr...
I get that it's better (from the victim's perspective) to have to deal with fraudulent credit card transactions, but I don't get the difference from the point of view of the fraudster. If anything, breaking Apple Pay would be better than cracking a hardware wallet containing ecash, since someone's credit limit on the linked cards would generally be greater than the amount of cash they have on hand.
One student may outperform another because she is currently working harder, has worked harder in the past and is thus better prepared, or is simply more intelligent. The professor does not know why some students are doing better than others, and it's his business only to the extent that he can adapt his teaching
to improve student learning.

"For almost 10 years I have been studying inclusive pedagogy, which focuses on ensuring that all students have the resources they need to learn. My studies confirmed my sense that sometimes what I was really grading was a student’s background. Students with educational privilege came into my classroom already prepared to write A or B papers, while others often had not had the instruction that would enable them to do so. The 14 weeks they spent in my class could not make up for the years of educational privilege their peers had enjoyed."
Typical 1D barcode has a size limit, and the RFC is from 1990. Nowadays you could just use a QR code, which would be comfortable enough to have a 1500 MTU in a single QR code. It probably warrants an additional layer so multiple QR codes can be transmitted by a single carrier.
I just finished reading The Cryptopians by Laura Shin. I am 100% convinced that this will be the rule of smart contracts (where a certain percentage will always be "hacked").

Structurally, smart contracts are very complex vehicles - and the financial reward to hack them is always higher than being a good player.
> Java is getting something right that I don't see much elsewhere: Dependency Injection. Combine this with a mocking framework and you can write _actual_ isolated unit tests for every single part of your stack

Since dotnet core started this has been front and center in C#. So there are other stacks doing this.
The problem would be establishing a web of trust of which PGP keys are valid, who still is "law enforcement", and whether they're on gardening leave or have retired etc.

There's too many (US) law enforcement bodies to make a centralised system work, as you'd need to get a certificate authority managing every individual officer's status for every one of these (small and large) agencies, and handle onboarding and offboarding.

In other countries there are more formal structures for these request through verifiable channels, with standard operating procedures in place.

The question is whether the companies are adopting a lowest common denominator model (a false but assumed valid US request can request any user's data) or not, as that might start to make it a more global concern, and get it on European data protection regulators' radars.
Posting about Web3 on HN is like driving around with a tank with a ‘Z’ painted on it in Ukraine.
Depends on if the study tried to control for this by also testing 2 more groups with single donation before/after the stressful task.
Can't access the original paper to confirm though.
I love how crypto brodudes are all like "fuck the government, we want anonymity and no regulations", and the second their dumb system stops working and they lose all their gambling money, they come running back to the government. Fucking pathetic.
It's the artist's choice.
There’s always a genius in the comments who’s convinced they’re getting some “alpha” by indefinitely postponing battery replacement.

You’re ignoring the fact that your insurance will account for willful negligence of recalls, you’re missing out on 8% more range now, you you’re missing out on a slightly faster charging curve, you’re holding up the replacement process for other Bolt owners… just stop lying to yourself.
I've been picking up Morse Code on my walkie-talkie when I'm scanning regularly. Apparently GMRS radio-repeaters share the same frequencies as FRS (FRS being the "common walkie talkie" protocol). So while my FRS-radio is unable to use those radio-repeaters, I'm able to hear their Morse-code callsigns (a GMRS requirement is to broadcast your callsign at least every 15 minutes).

I don't know if I actually want to be "proficient" in Morse Code, but... I've been wanting to understand these dits and dahs enough to get the callsign of this nearby GMRS Repeater station...

I don't know why I want to do it. I guess I just happened to hear these callsigns and I'm curious. Its probably just going to be a jumbled nonsense sequence though (callsigns aren't exactly English-sounding, they're almost just a collection of random letters and numbers).

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Anyone out there who wants to properly learn Morse Code probably should start with this tree: http://www.cranburyscouts.org/MorseTree.htm

And furthermore: your ears are *ridiculously* good at sounds, language, and coding. Don't try to do this visually. Use your ears, they're practically designed to decode language.
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Would one of the commercial antivirus products have caught it, though? Did you check?
It was the centralized nature of this bridge (5 private keys required) that allowed this hack to happen in the first place.
That's nice on the surface but the whole "don't create clean alternatives in the short term, instead influence city planning that will take multiple decades to bare any fruit if at all" is worse in my opinion.

You're also asserting that everyone should live the same when the the reality is that we're all different and want/need different things. A lawns are largely a waste but yards, gardens, and green spaces are very important and in many ways culturally ingrained in people. Telling people to live in shipping container sized spaces a short walk from their job is delusional at best.
I hated this. I literally had every advantage growing up, I'd been seriously programming since I was like 8, I took the CS AP tests on a whim without even taking the class because "eh why not." Then my freshman year I watched some of my classmates get wrecked for no reason other than they made the mistake of not having a decade of real world programming experience under their belt day 1 and all they were taught in class was basically math and pseudocode. I partnered with our CS club on campus and held workshops/hackathons aimed at actual beginners just because it made me so mad.
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The iBook G4 only officially supports Mac OS X and Classic (a Mac OS 9 virtual machine), don’t waste your time ordering old CDs that won’t work. If someone has managed to get Mac OS 9 running, they’ll probably post instructions or a download on a forum like Mac OS 9 Lives.
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