skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of blockchains seem so obvious to me, that I wonder if OP can be genuine.

ask_111: How can having a public log that is extremely tamper resistant not have value?

Let's look at a concrete example: Bitcoin.

You can write something into the Bitcoin blockchain and be very sure that the information you wrote into it will stay there pretty much forever.

Is that enough, or do we also have to discuss why having such a tamper proof log has value?
The underlying issue to me is the different velocity of different conversations between the same people in a room. Conversation 1 can be fast, with short messages and informal, Conversation 2 can be slow, with long technical messages or attached files. And all in between.

Sometimes one type of convo transforms into another. And the tool should reframe it so: either by providing a schism for a new thread, changing the topic of the thread, or so.

This is something that tools with N-level threads, where each message creates a new thread (technical email discussions with top posting) do very well.
I wish that each message would create a new thread. And that the UX allowed to me pivot from short and informal to long and thought out messages easily.

From an informal conversation of the daily, to starting a thread from a message, where we discuss a technical implementation in a long comment. And then back to someone opening an informal thread starting from a phrase of that long comment (ala document reviews).
Sayonara, trash cans – Tokyo Toei Subway to remove last receptacles next month
Just a single data point, but a family member in her mid-30s was fully vaccinated (Pfizer) mid-September last year, got Covid in late January and got re-infected a week ago. Both confirmed with PCR tests after positive rapid tests.
I have been deeply impressed with the unreal engine over the last few years. If a gaming studio picks it, chances are much higher it works well on mid- to low tier machines. It's incredible how well optimized it is. It probably takes the "looks per CPU/GPU cycle" crown if that is a thing. ;-)
Reddiquette – (Reddit's Guidelines)
In Spain we had MicroHobby[1], it was coming with a cassette tape, sometimes two.

[1] https://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhforever/index.htm
I like the fact that it appears to keep the same API as Storybook. But does it have a USP?
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Go to Palmerston North New Zealand. You'll be able to live 15 mins out of town and live on a farm. There are loads of tech jobs there.
Yeah as kadoban says, Matrix has no such restriction only Element does. You can do exactly what you're talking about above with other clients.
About algorithms: It very much depends on the thing one works on, whether one ever needs to look up what a good algorithm is for a problem, which needs solving. Often it is more about how to put pieces together, using APIs, building an API, making a service, etc. Similar for data structures. For most you only need to know the basics like when to use a hash table, when to use an array or whatever of the data structures that are often available anyway in the standard library of the language.

This even more diminishes the gains that engineers get from their expert knowledge.

Usually only when in a position to develop something ground up, does the expert knowledge of data structures and algorithms come into play.

Algorithm and data structure questionaires rather seem like mathematics in many cases. A filter to weed out people, but not often of use at the job.

Obviously I might be biased due to personal experience.
I’m happy you’re having a good day and learning new things, but this is just basic css overflow, which has been in the standard for at least 10 years
I think it is so extreme as to be just another calling card to "prove" your obedience to the cause. It is dystopian.
I think the difference is largely a culture problem. Most python devs think of typing as a “nice to have” extra, whereas someone using a typed-at-compile-time language see it as an essential feature of good code. You can see the results of this in the fact that a lot of popular 3rd party python libraries still don’t have type hints.

Even with typing, how often do you see Any in python vs Object in Java?
>Food (especially supermarket) is 1) healthier in San Francisco, it's 2) higher quality and there's more 3) variety.

How so, on all three points?
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Switch emulators are very much CPU bottlenecked. Simulator games too, though many of those are memory performance bottlenecked.
> there are easier to handle liquid gasses in common use (liquid ammonia).

I’m irrationally angry reading this comment.

I’d prefer to risk nitrogen asphyxiation that deal with the smell of ammonia. A cat has been peeing on my door step for the last few years.
The problem lies in the question of whether one can truly "support minorities" if you generally disregard their views and culture and only elevate their voices insofar as they agree with your politics. With conservatives do this, they're accused of tokenism and pandering.
Better to be over prepared than under prepared.

plus, you look official like that.
https://www.jpost.com/promocontent/glucofort-reviews-2022-bl...
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I think it has something to do with trademarks being lost once a name becomes too synonymous with a product category. e.g. Aspirin, Hoover
Cdecl: C Gibberish ↔ English
Are there still plans for Zulip-style threads? https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/232...
There are accidents, homicide, and suicide.

Bunching them up together lets the ones who are trying to control the narrative away from sharply rising mental health issues and toward guns (which actually got diminished when compared against auto accidents and/or strangulations).

- https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/u9der0/comment/i5qvp2...

- https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761

- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
It would work for academic papers though
It's also just a very strange stance to take, since if you listen to most people working in start ups in technology their pitch is almost always expressly political. Whether it's the libertarian principles of some developing the early web, or talk of "democratizing", there's always some political aspect of changing the world.
Beware of muscle imbalances on a pushup-only regimen.
In accounting/finance, m/M has a very long history of being 1,000 units, and mm/MM of being 1,000,000 units (it's not a unit itself, you still need the actual unit, it's effectively a representation of magnitude.)

It is starting to be replaced in many contexts (e.g., AP style for financial headlines) by the newer still-not-SI approach where one thousand uses k, one million uses M, and one billion uses B.

> I don’t know why people have started willfully using incorrect units

They aren't incorrect, just different than SI, which doesn't have units of money.

> FFS, just Google it.

It's funny, because if you had bothered to take your own advice you would know that this isn't something people recently started doing. Do your research before telling people to do theirs.
Dang, these are some good guidelines!
https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1116670170980859905
> they're often overkill

Can you explain why? I never wants my Mac to sleep except when I close the lid. Amphetamine does the job; it starts at boot and I don’t have to care about it at all.
Even though HN recently added the prev/next buttons, I find it much more convenient being able to click on the indentation bar in Reddit to collapse the comment that the bar drops from.

Specifically, I often decide partway down a thread that I've read enough of it and want to move to the next one—on HN, this entails scrolling up to the parent comment of that thread to click its [-] or next button, disrupting the flow of reading. The root/parent buttons are supposed to do this for you, but they're only useful if the thread in question is top-level or only one comment deep, which is decreasingly the case with increasingly popular posts.

The click-to-collapse in Reddit is sadly only implemented by some subreddit themes (and in the redesign), but in the default theme the visible bar is still useful for clarifying the level of indentation of a comment following a deeper thread that puts its parent out of view.

Also, is there an accepted name for this sort of 'indentation line'? New Reddit gives them the 'threadline' class, a name I don't see anywhere else. There's something similar in IDEs for collapsing indented code blocks, and the vertical lines in Win32-like tree views seem related, but I can't find any names for those, either. Searching only reveals a few post-redesign Reddit threads complaining about the click-to-collapse being unintuitive. But considering all the 'HN secrets' threads we have here, that seems to make it a perfect fit.
> There is no way it's "necessary" to avoid that particular problem, yet at the same time unnecessary to avoid length extension attacks.

Length extension attacks work because of a common misuse of these algorithms. If you use them properly you aren't vulnerable to a length extension attack whereas you would be in trouble with the terrible "padding" scheme you propose as a counterfactual. Algorithms like SHA-512/256 and Keccak are prominent because they're misuse resistant.

Consider the guillotine used to cut paper to size. Used correctly it's not very dangerous, but we don't let kids have access to a guillotine because it lacks misuse resistance. In contrast devices like a Rotatrim are safe for kids because they are resistant to misuse. It turns out most programmers are kids and we should not have given them C++ std::sort() or SHA-256 or ECB mode encryption because they will cut themselves.

> by my reading they were making an argument that the method of appending padding and stuff doesn't matter.

If your "method of appending padding" turns 2^257 -1 inputs into 2^256 outputs that was not, in fact, "padding" in the sense anybody knowledgeable in this field would use. You're supposed to be able to remove the padding in cryptography, if some of the "padded" structures are indistinguishable from each other you can't do that.
Does OpenAI cede copyright to works created by Dall-E? I realize they may encounter some challenges in trying to claim copyright over the images, but will that stop them from trying?
To a degree yes, but you don't have to (or shouldn't debate) specific political parties, or whether Trump is better than Biden, etc.
This is disingenuous. Removing the bad actor in this sentence removed part of the cause for the effect. Not an attack happened, a japanese attack happened.
Thanks that answers my question.

Much appreciated
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Does feeling like doing what your job/manager asks you to do won't actually be good for their corporate goals make you an imposter? Kind of feels like being a fraud to me and I feel like that's something I worry about more than not deserving technical respect. Might as well work in sales and directly lie to people.

Or worse, finding out that what you do is good for the corporate profit motive but bad for humanity?

Getting what looks like a good job and then when you arrive finding out that you're just being paid with monopoly profits to find new ways of locking customers in, thwarting competition and extracting involuntary customers hard earned wages from real actual work with dark patterns.

Compared with that even getting paid to work on some middle managers pet project that will get canned and forgotten the second he jumps to a new org is probably a positive.
No. It is just meant to trip up and confuse people so that they can be re-educated.
Will there be arma4 on arm64?
How we made the FT Climate Game
Simple Ways to Be Less Divisive (2021)
https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2
Very rich and mature feature-set, with active development and active user forums.
If you're sending the password in plaintext with every request and using it for authentication (e.g. using HTTP basic authentication) you're essentially logging in with every request, so you will have to hash the password in order to validate it, unless you're storing it in plaintext on the server as well.
Replying to 2.

Curiously, curiosity (exploring tech) is cheaper in the US. I don’t see why it necessarily has to be, though. EU folks are more educated, hence they can select promising avenues and avoid boredom and even upfront costs. E.g. you want to train a new language model? Harnessing your polyglot nature, you find a far better kind of language model where you eschew the latest TPU. You learn quickly from Juergen Schmidhuber, whom Americans do not realize, has already solved everything in machine learning. It is hard to do new things in the EU because there is nothing new in the EU — someone already did it.
I guess that's pretty cheap. I've also wondered about a Mac Mini running a bunch of Linux VM's. I've to this date never seen a piece of hardware as reliable as the Mac Mini, based on my own and anecdotal evidence.
It definitely is, the demographic seems to completely have changed from when I began using Reddit a decade ago. It use to be fairly technical in nature similar to HN. That has completely changed as even the commentary is so poor compared to just a couple years ago that I can’t believe a company would be so hostile to the user base that initially built it in favor of becoming an application the market has little need for.

There’s plenty of social media companies out there already I don’t see why Reddit decided to become a worse version of Facebook when it could have charted a different path. I’m bitter I guess, as every other social media company is realizing they need to take a step back and add ways to make discussion more civil Reddit is doing the opposite and their karma system actively helps bad faith actors due to how much it affects the perception if a given post.

I’m completely done with Reddit, the last two times I’ve reinstalled it the UI has added improvements that I don’t want and I haven’t a productive conversation there in over a year.
I do agree that tamper proof log is very useful, but I don't believe that it is something you can't achieve using traditional database tech.

I have a question for you that can short-circuit our discussion. You claim that the value is "so obvious" to you, why then one decade in there isn't one serious application of blockchain in the real world (not even in the dark web with early adpaters)? I mean a workflow that has been entirely transformed by it, despite all the investment and smart people working in the space? The lack of examples is the point that I find most baffling at all.
Why wouldn’t you submit two different branches to review? One where you fix errors for types and another for the feature with the fixes:

(git main) > git checkout -b abc-1234/type-fixes
<do work on types and commit it>
(git abc-1234/type-fixes) > git checkout -b abc-1234/feature-branch
<do work on feature and commit it>

Then you can submit the feature branch as a PR on top of the type fixing branch and a PR for that branch to main. You only see the type fixing changes on that PR and only see the feature changes on its PR.
Be the change you want to see?
We did all this stuff for packages in fuchsia and it works really well. We went further though, the on-disk storage is a write-once immutable store of read-verified data.
Nothing about this is about empathy. Not using language that white people at Google deemed offensive does little to help the actual problems. You know what would help?

Not hiring union-busting consultants to convince employees to not join a union against their best interests.
Indian living in Germany here - just came back after 3 weeks in the US.

>the quality is much better (especially food and education), the infrastructure is head-and-shoulders above (especially the roads, internet, phone plans, environment, litter, buildings in general).

I was there with you until you said internet. Internet and phone plans in Germany are painful. Most of the major providers are still on VDSL - though they are rolling out optical fiber. My current phone plan from O2 is 10 euros for 3.5 GB a month - that data volume is peanuts. I do not know if the US is any better, but I used to get 1 GB _per day_ in India.

> buildings in general

Oh this. So much this. I was surprised how much more sound insulated and better-fitted the German buildings were. This is also reflected in the prices - buying a house in the US is cheaper than doing so in Germany. Here in Cologne, I see ads trying to sell very normal looking apartments (decent location, not at the center) for upwards of 600k euros. I mean, who can afford that in Germany? Meanwhile, I remember walking around in DC and seeing ads where the normal-looking apartments were all between 400-600k USD, which is actually affordable adjusting for income and purchasing power parity.
The Future at Five A.M
> There are accidents, homicide, and suicide.

Those are overlapping categories; homicide is broader than just intentional homicide.
Is this why Tinder is now flooded with girls who only have their snap in their bio (or try and get you to snap asap?)
Thanks for the feedback. It’s my fault and I apologize because I hadn’t taken accessibility into account while development. I will look into making the app accessible in updates.
I had the very same experience, and ended up using the wikipage posted above. But I had to fix it because there were some outdated information.

It's not that Lazarus lacks features, the problem is that the documentation is lacking and scattered. I found that the best way to learn Lazarus is to refer to some good Delphi books, provided that they are not too recent. (The Internet Archive has a few.)
I'm not saying web applications are always better (of course they aren't), but they are better for when you either can't/don't want to install any application that gives access to everything on your computer. If a simple navigation to the URL can give you the same thing as installing a application (implicitly giving them access to all your files and more), wouldn't you normally prefer the first?

Again, web applications are not better for everything, but they are more safe for the average computer user, as they run in a restricted environment, compared to native applications.
Since there is some activity here, I'll mention two of the discussions that seem like a credible overall assessment of "masks work" to me:

- A meta analysis of mask research indicating that they do work, and results to the contrary suffer from low statistical power [1] [2]

- Studies on masks are not all born equal; some have better chances of adding to an overall sensible picture than others. Especially the implementation of concrete RCTs seems to have produced some discussion [3] [4].

I am not an expert on medicine, but I trust these authors and the statistical arguments make sense.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8499874/

[2] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/24/masks-bloc...

[3] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/10/22/how-did-th...

[4] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2021.001...
Not sure if it's comparable but at some point I couldn't eat anything but raw veggies and after a while my brain started to sense finer taste and flavour in stupid lettuces or tomatoes. Made me realize the modern diet is so filled with supplements (fat, sugar and salt apparently) that it hides everything subtle and blinds you into seeking addictive unhealthy meals.
indeed! I was confusing it with nitrous oxide
Lazarus is great! While FPC and Lazarus make it very easy and productive to make cross-platform GUI software, people should know that mORMot (https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2) makes it very easy to develop cross-platform web apps.

mORMot has been around for over a decade, the feature-set is very rich and mature, and the development and user forums are also very active - you can easily confirm that by checking the github repo's commit logs and visiting their forum.

mORMot's ORM is quite interesting - it's based on SQLite and supports all other mainstream databases through SQLite's virtual table mechanism.
Cancer patients seriously ill after struggle to access COVID-19 drugs in England
You could try something with a regular syntax. It doesn't work for everyone, but when it works it works really well. Racket comes to mind, and it has a progressive suite of languages from neophyte to full-blown. In addition to a community focused on pedagogy and CS fundamentals.

https://racket.discourse.group/
I guess that had to be expected given how people flaunted their ignorance of basic calculus curriculum around in the past. Turns out uneducated citizens lead to suboptimal decisionmaking.
Perhaps use „Small Flat Rate Box“ rather than „small flat-rate box“, to bring it in line with usps website and indicate that it’s the name of a specific product.
I think part of the reason for feeling like a know-all can-do-everything in junior years and afterwards as well is, because of not reading the right books. I am talking about really good books about the core competence of programming. I have read books authored by people with more than 50y of experience. The ideas and wisdom they come up with is unparalleled. Reading about such great ideas and how to avoid issues with code makes me feel like: "Woa that is sooo neat and clean! Why did I not get that idea myself?" and there you have the humbling experience, that should introduce respect for seniority.

Of course it is not a blanket. A senior should adapt to new ways as well, if they make sense. For example functional constructs have become more popular in recent years. Just because one is a senior, does not mean, that they should go on writing their sequential do-while loops (usually it would be for loops, but exaggerating here), when things could be written with multicore in mind and using map reduce style. That is not seniority, it is lack of self-education and development of ones skills. No need to join the web framework churn either though. One should understand their essence though.
Generally they don't.
On the order of $10k to ship a 40,000lb, 40ft shipping container from China to LA without insurance now, prices have increased a lot recently. So the per item cost into the US is around $16 on the low end for this anvil. But then there are other costs associated with shipping something to the amazon warehouse once the container gets to the US, and amazon will either charge a fee or require the seller to split the shipment to different states. It costs about $2-$3 a mile to ship a container across the US by truck or train, and less than truckload shipments are generally more expensive per item. And they need to pay someone, or pay amazon to put labels on everything, handle/repackage damaged items. Or another $5-$10 to ship it to the warehouse.

Amazon negotiates with UPS and other couriers, and they have their own shipping service, so their merchants pay a lot less than the "retail" cost for shipping to amazon customers. For that 66lb anvil, amazon charges ~$35 for fulfillment including picking, packaging and shipping. About 50 cents a pound. Amazon also charges other fees including the commission/referral on the sale, storage, etc that are mostly not based on item weight, this is about $20 more for a $150 sale.

Retail cost to ship a 66lb anvil UPS from LA to SF would be about $90. With a regular commercial discount about $65, more for longer distances and less for shorter. If you are in the business of shipping a lot you can negotiate a slightly better rate than $1 a pound.
to me Snapchat features feel more like actual real life communications then say... telegram/imessage, it encourages a more personal connection
I’m not anti free speech.