skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> powered by blockchain technology.

Fascinating

As best I can tell, their "decentralized" moniker is composed of "we reward you in our magic coin for searches" (and optionally for running a local node), and "the search is executed on community nodes": https://presearch.io/vision.pdf#page=33

But my mental model of running a search engine was that it is a data/bandwidth intensive operation, not CPU intensive, so I wonder how they get the index down to those workers?

I do agree that paying coin to federate out the crawling is neat, but I hope they have some kind of consensus applied to those results, too, lest one runs the risk of indexing search results mangled by any MITM (intentional or otherwise) applied to the jurisdiction of the crawling node
None of my points are about connectedness. Not sure which points you are talking about. Only thing you might link to connectedness is loss of privacy. But you can leave privacy perfectly intact with full connectedness.

I also disagree with your point that such thing happens with all tech. Electricity didn't take away the agency of humanity. Electricity doesn't go out and kill a person based on what electricity judges to be worthy. Such answers are a copout.
Yeah, sure. When they started[0], the aristocracy were educated by private tutors, and these schools actually were for the poor (ok, fine: for 'poor', read 'slightly less than royalty'). That context has obviously changed a lot since, and it now feels a bit silly.

Also, while that person's comment is correct, it's worth noting that not all private schools are referred to as public schools. That name is only for the oldest, mostly-boarding schools that were big players when the system was (finally) formalised in the 19th century. The vast majority of private schools would just be called private schools. And then state schools are the genuinely-free ones.

[0] ETA: Mostly around the Tudor period I believe; i.e. by Shakespeare's time most if not all of them were well established.
I guess it depends on what you consider a default header. (I’m not too familiar with standards here; there may be some IETF definition you’re referring to?)

It turns out if you have enough control over your server you can make it do a lot of things! (Which may or may not conform to a spec.)
It's true that the olfactory bulb is a region of the brain, but this is a case where the loss of precision is misleading.

"damages the body" is just as accurate as "damages the brain", is just as accurate as "damages the olfactory bulb".
The moon is drifting away from Earth at a rate of about four centimeters per year [1]. Inbound impacts on the far side won't significantly affect this because of the way orbital mechanics works. To lower an orbital altitude, you need thrust opposing the orbital vector. (This is why spacecraft orient the way they do, with engines pointing in the direction of travel, for retrofire.) Thrusting toward or away from the orbital center of gravity (in this case Earth) can affect the circularity of the orbit, but that's all. In the case of the moon intercepting an impactor that'd otherwise strike Earth, the thrust vector is necessarily toward Earth, so the effect would be to render the moon's orbit infinitesimally more elliptical, with the increase along the major axis balanced by an equally minimal decrease along the minor axis. (To the extent the force vector of the impact is displaced from the axis through the moon's own center of gravity, that will affect the spin of the moon, but not its orbit.)

According to the linked article, it will take about fifteen billion years for the moon to escape Earth orbit entirely. I haven't checked, but I believe that's considerably longer than it is expected to take for the Sun to expand as a red giant and render Earth uninhabitable. Certainly more wondrous than either event would be for anything then living to remember having once had distant ancestors who called themselves "human"...

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/public.nrao.edu/ask/what-happen...
Most of the problems we have today are the result of our massive success, which in turn is the result of science and technology. We "made it".

One the one hand, this is great news! We already have all the technology we need to provide for everyone while we stabilize the Earth's climate and start colonizing the galaxy.

On the other hand, this means that our problems are now psychological or spiritual rather than physical. Those issues are less amenable to scientific/technological solutions. (At least so far.)
Based on just the current state of the economy I would LOVE to have Trump back in office.
That is very cool. I starred your repo, if I try to up the PPD I'll have a closer look.
I don't think critics should necessarily follow general audiences , anymore than you would want a food critic to rate mcdonalds.
Premature optimisation? 5 gb doesn’t matter. It’s not great, don’t get me wrong.
Yeah but characterizing a rise of 8.5% that happened over a year, as happening in one month is misleading.
Unfortunately, this is like Britain coast length in 1700s - constantly increased, few years more than 100% increase, because of development of science and technologies.

And most such objects appear above equatorial locations (because originated from Galaxy plane), where not much science institutions exists.
Not sure how accurate it was, but back in history class in school, syphillis was always used as an example of a disease that was brought to Europe from the Americas (as a converse to smallpox being brought over from Europe). We were told these were part of the so-called "Columbian exchange": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
I think some memories are closer to lossless compressions than lossy which I wonder if it's more of a scale where memories can slide between the two modes with varying degrees of fidelity. Like there are memories that I know I shouldn't remember from childhood that I can remember clearly and others I barely remember what year it happened. So I have to wonder if some of this seeming lossless-ness is more fractal-like in nature where one can just reconstruct from the base encoding and expand it outward to fill in sufficient detail to seem like it's perfectly captured when it's really just merely the reconstruction.
The exploitation argument doesn't make sense. These economies have vast swarms of individuals doing nothing more than subsistence farming. Bringing manufacturing jobs to the region will do wonders for the local and the country’s economy.
I get what you're saying but this is all way past Marx now.
My filter is my brain. I just... don't interact with people who don't seem worth interacting with.

And, look, that's not perfect and I'm not saying that it's not unpleasant. I'm saying that it's materially different from every person who uses your service costing you actual dollars. And if you can't see that, I honestly don't know what to tell you.
> the main reason the democrats are antigun is that is where most of their funding comes from

From a perspective of a country where gun controls are far stronger, this idea that democrats are "antigun" seems hilariously partisan. Democrats only seem to be proposing modest gun controls compared to Republicans.

What do you define as "most of their funding"? What percentage of Democrat funding comes from Soros or Bloomberg?
>Can you name a single person in America who has been held down against their will and administered a vaccine?

You aren't arguing in good faith. "No, we aren't banning gay marriage, we just implemented a federal regulation that forces employers to fire anyone who is gay married. It's their choice!"

I'm not even against vaccine mandates (at least I did when the vaccines worked), but come on, admit what you are actually supporting here.
How would that work? "Please enter your Gmail password to continue placing an order"?
Even if they are getting a bad headache everyday that would be super bizarre. How bad was your office environment if almost everyone is getting headaches every day?
> Once your past a few racks of equipment, you have generator tests and service appointments, redundant AC, Redundant UPS, dual power to each rack, etc. Dual Internet connection, and a link to your other server room that you use for DR, etc. The costs and complexity quickly escalate after a server or two.

This is not always the case. For computationally-focused workloads like the OP describes, without direct customer interaction, it may be reasonable to accept risk of downtime in the event of failure. If you are doing computations that take weeks to complete, and you checkpoint regularly, does it really matter if your computation finishes on Saturday morning or Monday morning? If not, you can probably accept 6 hours of downtime once every couple of years and eliminate all of the redundancy overhead described above.

In HPC, the general rule of thumb is buy your hardware if you can be sure you'll run compute on it more than ~40% of the time.
Yes it does support RTCP. https://github.com/pion/rtcp

We also provide https://github.com/pion/interceptor. Interceptor is implementations of common RTCP workflows. Things like Congestion Feedback, NACK generation and Congestion Controllers. The idea is that you can use the ones we provide, or use your own!
Yeah, it is. A lot of these lists focus on the fallacy that all open source software == secure, and anything that is not open is instantly bad.

We list the Yubikey, as it is at the moment it's one of the better MFA products out there.

https://www.privacyguides.org/security/multi-factor-authenti...

https://www.privacyguides.org/multi-factor-authentication/
> and at worst rewrites a history of sexual violence.

Maybe not: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/lewis-c...

And entries from the journal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_(explorer)#York_and_Nativ...
I wouldn't say that I'm confusing those as I'm directly responding to anti-vax.

I agree completely that there is further study to be done on lockdowns and other efforts that were undertaken. For example, I'm monitoring this and we'll see, but perhaps China's COVID 0 lockdown strategy wasn't the right one compared, to, say, the US strategy. There's much to say about how historic human efforts to contain disease (we've always done lockdowns) may be or may not be effective with 8 billion globalized people.

But even in this case I don't think we need "sides". We need analysis. Sides create tribalism and suboptimal outcomes I think in this case.
Unlimited PTO to me would only be interesting to me if you had a policy stating the minimum number of days/hours you must take a year. Reminders are nice and all but (written) policy is better.
I think the lockdowns are because they were able to successfully beat the virus and contain it to mostly Wuhan last time with drastic measures, and even in Wuhan it was gone in 6 weeks.

There were no countrywide large surges till now, so they're still clinging on to it, a bit like Australia, NZ etc. with Omicron.

>Assuming a lab leak they may well be aware of these effects already from previous research and therefore enforce zero-covid to avoid it because it's riskier than we currently understand

What previous research is needed when in the past few years the virus has been studied in real life scenarios with massive sample sizes across almost all ethnicities, age groups, comorbidities etc. The dangers have been well documented by a huge number of real life experiences and studies in the west and else where. Every bit of the RNA code has been studied extensively for it's effects. So I think the scenario of "bioweapon designed so that everyone wh had it drops dead in 7 years" is super unlikely if not impossible.
150% annual attrition is not a sign of a healthy workplace. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor...
They don't have to be profit oriented, though. They just have to balance the money flow.
One thing is paying a gas bill. In my state, I can lock in a price for 6,12,18, etc months. Or I can pay month to month.

If I’m living paycheck to paycheck and my current term runs up, I would go month to month if this is a short term spike since prices should recover soon. But if it’s long -term, I should go ahead and lock in now because it won’t get better.

There are tons of those examples. Even people with no assets and just living month to month can use this information. Obviously, billionaires are impacted more, but people might literally be trying to figure out if they just skip meat for a month (short term) or buy a bicycle (long term).
I was like "this isn't so bad" but then I got to the photo of all the mis-matched bizarre windows on one side, like someone totally screwed up editing a house in The Sims. Yikes. It looks like the architectural version of painting yourself into a corner and just giving up and letting that part be screwed up, rather than rethinking the whole thing to fix it.

The... steeple, I think it's meant to be? Also kinda looks like a mistake, rather than something done on purpose.

The inside's OK but I concur with it still being one of the uglier "nice" churches I've ever seen. Overall looks like it'd be better as, I dunno, part of a monastery or something? Maybe Tony Stark's vacation home or something, from the better angles.
You would be shocked at how many people there are who have never seen an ocean. You would be shocked at how many people there are who live within an hour's drive of an ocean who have never seen it. There are a lot of things that the typical HN reader takes for granted that are unimaginable luxuries for billions of people.

I think you will also be surprised how hard it is to fill in the details of the experiments you are alluding to.
yes and no. it is somewhat alarmist as the olfactory bulb is anatomically part of the brain and is responsible for initial transmission of the olfactory signals for further processing in the amygdala. it essentially completes the circuit between the olfactory neurons and the amygdala. if the research shows that the amygdala has been damaged, then i'd feel much more comfortable with alarmist "brain damage" headline.

even so, the damage itself is devastating. my daughter and wife both suffer from covid-related parosmia. my daughter has dealt with it for ~18 months now and has given up hope of ever getting to enjoy tastes she once loved.
It’s probably a problem of non-specificity: if you say “the brain” some folks will consider just the prefrontal cortex, where thought happens. Olfactory nerves, where the smell happens, is a different enough concept that it might not align with the reader’s preconceptions of “the brain.”
Sorry, I mis-read what you posted, I was initially under the wrong impression you were mis-quoting me... I didn't realize yuor comment was just not delineated from my quote...

Carry On with Dangs Blessing.
I develop a DAW-ish thing with Qt, https://ossia.io and couldn't be happier
Elon Musk got everything he wanted out of Twitter
Ha! When ‘apps’ were still called progz! Sweet memories
Our customers of [Streak](www.streak.com) use zapier heavily to connect to all their other tools so we have a ton of experience with it. We're currently building an alternative for our users natively into our app (we think we can make a more optimized experience for our app).

I think we've stumbled onto a pretty key product insight - we're basing our automation tool on a spreadsheet. Zapier is clearly optimized for non-technical users so doing any logic, even basic if statements, is really cumbersome. On the other end of the spectrum, pipedream and tools like it rely on your users knowing how to code. We think spreadsheets are the perfect balance, most users (at least ours) know how to do basic formulas and understand references.

Spreadsheets are awesome:

- development environment is completely set up for you, no tooling needed

- editor, runtime, debugger are all the same tool

- by default you see the output of all your computation, its a secondary action to see the code

- you can preview the intermediate data results at every step of your computation making debugging a dream

Here's how we're thinking of applying it to the Zapier use case:

- a series of zapier like triggers and actions

- each step is just a 2 column spreadsheet (property name and property value)

- the value can be something hardcoded, a reference to a value in a previous step, or a complicated formula

Anyone tried something like this before?
I wonder if amazon will spin out AWS so that warehouse workers wont have access to its profits.
It also relates to stoicism, more specifically the practice of becoming aware of your irrational reactions and impressions.
Yeah I'm not planning on retiring any of the services. They require virtually no resources or maintenance, odds are I'll make even more attempts at exploring this domain in the future.

Having both an exhaustive link database from the search engine, as well as 300,000 screenshots makes for a lot of opportunities to experiment.
> If you re-price the market in another unit of measure, like “ounces of gold”, you will get an entirely different picture.

If you price the dollar in terms of ounces of gold, then you would think that the dollar is worth more than it was in September of 2011, and you would think that the dollar is worth more now than it was in August of 2020. While gold is stable over the long term e.g. centuries, its price can be quite erratic over the short term.

You can price it in barrels of oil, silver, copper, a collection of other currencies, bitcoin, median house price and get a different answer each time.

> The reason why markets go up when the Fed seems completely unconcerned or helpless to stop the worst inflation in decades, is because people are betting that this trend will continue.

It's a global phenomenon. We've got less production of goods and commodities because of covid and just as much if not more demand. So supply down, demand even or even up. What do you expect to happen?

While the USD has problems, other currencies seem even worse at the moment.

There is not some other fiat currency at the moment that is better than the USD. Things that people think are hedges BTC(Ponzi scheme), Gold(volatile) don't always work well.

e.g. here is real(inflation adjusted) gold prices.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyWSImAdvN...

it doesn't look all that cheap at the moment.

> If you re-price the market in another unit of measure, like “ounces of gold”, you will get an entirely different picture.

Like this? https://schrts.co/pAKzMCFc
This is only true at simulacra level 1 [1], when communication is focused on objective facts. This is not a good way to understand communication in business relationships, social media, traditional news media, or politics. I like talking with my friends who communicate this way, but it's not the only way that people communicate, and pretending that it is will lead to confusion.

There are other ways to persuade: You could lie about the facts of the argument, you could convince others you're in their group or that your opponent is in a group opposed to them, or you could say whatever you think they want to hear and sprinkle your message in among it.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fEX7G2N7CtmZQ3eB5/simulacra-...
This is typical of product driven organizations. Has nothing to do with agile itself.
> Are you seriously claiming that's there exists significant portions of the USA where children don't have access to school?

“functioning” appears to be a gateway for infinite malleability in meaning.
I try to make this point to people a lot and can never seen to quite get it across.

I really like your running water analogy.

Newer technology is usually easier. Especially if you pick the easy stuff.

I used to do all these tricks to work infra jobs but not be on call. Now - is it in AWS? Is the app in a container? Is it deployed with Kubernetes? Then I don't even care if there is on call!

I've woken up to fix Linux servers in the middle of the night dozens of times. And don't get me wrong - I love Linux. I have yet to have my first "kubernetes broke during the middle of the night" call.

Not to say that new tech doesn't have tradeoffs too. But good lord! It's so much harder with old tech. It's like you're purposely doing it harder to prove a point.
The Federal Reserve, which is almost completely independent from the federal government, is the biggest player in regards to controlling inflation. In reality, POTUS doesn't have effective levers for controlling general inflation. However, I agree that their messaging has been absolutely horrible. They could at least create the appearance of doing something about it instead of just dismissing it as the Putin price hike.
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Basically: I built a network and reputation over years as a tech leader in a specific niche (think Java Spring). This was done with articles, speaking at conferences, and building rapport and reputation with peers at these conferences and with co-workers (including non-technical peers). I was the lead developer at a startup for a long time and spent time building the platforms they still use today, which gave me a lot of credibility amongst my peers.

Those relationships were invaluable. The speaking/articles got me into professional networks that then got me referrals. I kept up with former peers enough such that I was able to get both business and employees from them.

I have done zero advertising and have projected $1.5-2 million in revenue this year. Most of that is profit. I'll personally have a net income of over $1 million this year... and at this point I'm spending a good portion of the day playing FPS. ;)
A common position on HN for many months now has been that the worst damages from covid are the economic and social ones caused by lockdowns.

There is going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance around, and resistance to, exploring long-term consequences of the virus itself for this reason.
Can you specifically point to the things we don't know about COVID as it relates to the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine? What are the exact details that you are referencing?
If we look at vaccine science 40 years ago and thought that it was settled, we wouldn't be where we are now. If we believe it is solved, how will it get better than today, why would anyone look into it anymore?
It's interesting to me that you're lumping together Medicare and the VA. Because while I here almost nothing but positive things about Medicare, I hear lots of stories of people not getting the care they need from the VA (and "slipping through the cracks"). Granted, those seem to be mostly older anecdotes, have things changed in the past decade or so?
I was very clear on what I was speaking against. Not wasting my time providing sources for an exceedingly common phenomenon is not a failing on my part. That was by design. Let the person who is unfamiliar do the research if needed.
>> Because I watch it every single day and so far

This may be hard to hear, but you probably shouldn't be watching it every single day. They're never going to say what you want them to say because it's not true.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine (and associated war crimes) is most definitely a root cause for current inflation spikes in food and energy. If you're looking for someone to say that it's due to other factors then you're looking for something that isn't true.

And food/energy prices are most likely going to get worse as the conflict drags on.