skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> as high as 10M

Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant yearly migrants. If every year fewer applications are processed then filed, it adds to the backlog. So the only information you get by looking at the backlog is total number of willing migrants. However they (or rather we, as I am personally one of the applicants in that backlog) are not gonna migrate here all at once, some are willing but not able (for whatever reason), some are old and no longer relevant, some are duplicate, etc.

In reality an open border policy would come gradually. So the number of yearly migrants would gradually grow, until it reaches a local peak and then slow down. Many willing people will delay their migration if they can’t find a job, etc.

So I pulled that lower bound of 1M from current migration trends. Last year it was about 700k but that was a covid year, so 1M is an easy guess of a lower bound. As for the upper bound I just took a wild guess... There is no way of knowing that number unless you do some extensive survey, and plug it into a computational model (I wonder if anyone has ever done that).

But honestly the actual number doesn’t actually matter. Societal modelling is a funny science with a lot of interacting variables. The current state of prohibitory migration actually affects the behavior of current migrants, if the migration would be free, the behavior would be different (think decriminalizing drugs).

My skepticism about the concerns people have for free migrations is that I actually see little evidence to warrant these concerns. People say stuff like: “puts a strain on society” without explaining how, or by showing evidence. Historically societies have grown by way more then 17% over a short period and did just fine. Currently the societies which are taking many migrants seem to handle it kind of well actually. There are rural communities in Iceland which grow by 30-40% in a single year by taking in 4-5 refugee families, and do just fine.

So given our evidence so far, I would say that any concerns about “opening up the floodgates” are unjustified.
> The MRNA vaccines are highly safe and effective

For some, but not necessarily for all. Everybody (in the US) who was going to get a Covid vaccine has got one, there is no need to continue the “safe and effective” talking point any more to try and convince the holdouts.

https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2021/11/2/22757739/fda-m...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/11/10/germany-f...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/finland-joins-nordic...
Reviewbrah famously went on a rant about RBI (after they ruined one of his favorite Popeyes items) and how they turn everything into garbage: https://youtu.be/5d5NJgO38AE?t=362
> PoS is inherently self referential. To know the state at time N you must agree to a subjective view of validators within at least some subjectivity period of N. PoW has no such requirement and a chain of headers needs no additional information to verify.

Considering that the weak subjectivity period is so long (months), having to sync "out of band" is not really a big deal.

And unlike PoW, where you need to wait some confirmations to make up for network latency, with PoS you have actual finality assuming no 33% attack, which can be detected and punished.

> This kind of censorship is exactly what I mean. You can't fork away a PoW miners hasherate without blowing up everyone's hashrate. The fact that this may be wanted in some form is one reason many protocols are better off with PoS, but it's still a censorship vector that isn't available in PoW.

> You're arguing reasons that PoS censorship points are ideal not that they don't exist.

PoS or PoW aren't any more or less hard forkable. Any network can be hard forked (ie people agreeing to run new software with new rules) if people agree so. This is basically the social consensus, which is always above any other kind of consensus.

The "censorship" that you mention here is not a matter of a network currently being PoW or PoS. You could hard fork Bitcoin to PoS and take away some people's money (therefore they couldn't validate) if peopled agreed to do so.

There are two types of censorship, which are being confused here

A) Miners/validators censoring certain addresses (not allowing their TXs to go through)
B) Not allowing certain people to become miners/validators

A is the real problem. However B can lead to A so it's also important.

In a PoW network where a malicious actor is doing A and has a lot of hardware and money to buy new hardware, you can't fix your network even with hardforks (outside of moving to PoS)

In a PoS if people agree to do so, they can hard fork and keep everything the same but take away their stake.

Now, your point is that people can do B via hardforks that take away people's stake. True but that is kind of irrelevant. With hardforks you can do whatever you want, steal anybodies money, switch the network to whatever validation system, etc. But why would people care about your hardfork? It's all about what hardfork people agree is the one that matters. Which is not something technical, is something social.
I think most importantly it's that sideways text is harder to process at a glance than what we're used to. So, it ends up becoming a design element rather than text. And the orange/straw icon is also, in some ways, a pictograph for recognition.
Gosh, I remember this so well (it was 2009, not 2008, as this article states), rarely has a new logo/packaging change had such an impact on a product (Gap’s aborted logo redesign in late 2010 is probably still the ultimate example. That one lasted less than a week before reverting.).

A better retrospective I think, is here [1], but it failed for all the reasons people in the comments have said. When you’re talking about consumer packaged goods, it is important to remain recognizable, especially on a store shelf. Getting rid of the iconic orange with a straw and replacing it with something that was very late-2000s Swiss type minimalist was just the wrong move. And an expensive mistake.

Not Pepsi’s first or last logo/packaging mistake (there is a great meme that shows all the iterations of the Pepsi logo/can design over the years and then like one Coca-Cola design that has basically been consistent since the 1890s or something that isn’t technically accurate, but it true enough in the abstract), but probably one of its more costly, especially since it didn’t include a formulation change.

[1]: https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-fro...
Such a good point. I get that it's tempting for people to hold on to the idea of Proof-of-Work because it was 100% necessary to get the idea of crypto off the ground, but this is like people holding on to the idea of burning coal to run trains forever.

Bitcoin was the proof of concept, but it to me seems 100% obvious and inevitable that something else will replace it (if crypto continues to exist, which I believe it will) -- ESPECIALLY since the whole point of money is fungibility-in-practice.
Render has a free DB tier
I understand why you have a problem with Lenovo following the incident, but ThinkPads are something else, and they weren't impacted by Superfish.

Non-ThinkPad Lenovos are not great by any mean. They are unremarkable consumer-grade laptops. ThinkPads are a legacy from IBM that Lenovo is smart enough to keep separate from the rest.
SparkToro/Followerwonk Twitter Analysis: 19.42% of Active Accounts Are Fake/Spam
It basically depends on how accurate you want to be. I looked into this so I could generate lunar calendars for friends. I got the phases of the moon predictions from the BSD Games program pom by Keith E. Brandt[0], which is itself based on 'Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator'[1] by Peter Duffett-Smith. Lunar eclipse predictions came from the Basic Lunar Eclipse and Phase Calculator by Xavier Jubier[2]. These work well for the near future and with a reasonable amount of precision for regular people. You can get much more accurate using Astronomy Engine[3], but that was already a lot more complex than I wanted to get into

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/bsdgames/pom.6.en.html

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/practical-astronomy-wit...

[2] http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/LunarEclipseCalculator....

[3] https://github.com/cosinekitty/astronomy
I think you are confusing the ideal incentives of the system as designed, versus the actual dynamic incentives that the system produces. Purpose is almost irrelevant.

It is common to make analogous mistakes when considering biological evolution.
https://youtu.be/WANNqr-vcx0
That would have been the fallacy of unjustifiably arguing from the general to the specific. What you have stated are arguments why a company might choose to rebrand. They are not arguments that Tropicana should have done it, and not when it did.

My guess is that the marketing people drank too deeply of their own Kool-Aid, so to speak.
This is very interesting. Could a cluster analysis using this AI combined with genetics be used to create a new science of race, instead of the dubious pseudo-scientific theories of race from before the 1940s? It might help racialists actually get published, instead of laughed at like they are now.
With the release of their chicken sandwich, Popeye's had one of the most successful fast food product launches in the past few years. This launch was so successful that nearly every major restaurant chain launched their own chicken sandwich afterward, and it completely turned around the public image of Popeye's.

Popeye's was mentioned in two Grammy-nominated songs in 2022, and dozens of other rap songs in the past few years.
The SIM card in your mobile telephone is doing that right now.

You are correct - it is basically used as a back door.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

It's good to maintain an open mind. But not so open that your brains fall out.
> In 2000 there was still such a thing as journalistic integrity,

Nuts. The mainstream press has always shaded pro-conservative. Look at how preciously the mainstream media treated Trump. They rarely reported Trump accurately, often editing him for clarity. The mainstream press was and is extremely charitable to Trump.
Show HN: Bash scripts to create Nginx sites proxied by Cloudflare
I googled it and https://dailystoic.com/this-too-shall-pass/
Walmart did this back in 2013 under the Price First label. About 3 years later they dropped it.
I am using a fully custom Boba linears (assembled from spare parts bought from the man), 55gr springs to reduce the load on fingers.

They are nice
WOW, I HAD NIGHT SHIFT AND WAS 30 MIN TOO LATE. the moon was already behind the mountains
On the one hand, thank you for taking the time to respond.

On the other hand, I come here hoping for tech articles, and I'm pretty sure I only veer-off into ideological territory in response to other ideological comments/posts, which, for one reason or another, were not graced with a visit from the moderator.

Let me take these one-by-one:

Commenter called me a nutjob. That wasn't very "thoughtful or substantive," and was actually very flamewar-ey, yet he didn't get a dang visit. I responded politely, and here we are!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384784

Commenter politely suggested Marxist economics. I politely suggested Bible economics. Where's mmastrac's dang visit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31381302

Not ideology. Factual case of the Rolling Stone getting caught, red handed, recycling someone else's (false) story without verifying it. Pointing out that Gell-Mann Amnesia has progressed to full-blown Gell-Mann Dementia isn't ideology or flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334684

The internet getting in the middle of a beef between total strangers. We have an entire legal tradition built upon this being a bad idea. Absolutely nothing "thoughful & substantive" in this tweet. If I'm curious about the bowels of windows terminal, I go to github, not twitter. If I was the first to flag it, shame on HN, not me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31286305

Have you read that 2nd wikipedia page? This is also not an ideology post. It is a facts of life one. My dear country, like previous great civilizations of the western hemisphere, likes its human sacrifice rituals. This was not a pro or anti abortion post, since I lack a womb, and fence-sit on that particular subject. I was just pointing out that a diminution of one ritual will only be offset by the increase of another. The Florentine Codex has been beautifully translated into English.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31243595

I am just an old man trying to drop a little hard-won wisdom in the hope that it will save some of the younger people from a few scars. But it's your board. If you don't want that kind of wisdom, I'll just have to take it elsewhere.
The payout is often in a mix of cash and stock, and the stock will vest. Sometimes there are holdbacks for performance. That can result in not-too-much cash being available upfront, and it'll all go to preferred shareholders leaving little for founders and none for employees.

Of course, as an employee you'll now have stock in the acquiring company, should you choose to stay and vest. If the acquirer is itself illiquid, though, you've traded one lottery ticket for another.
Refer to SENS foundation for actual serious research on reversing aging[0].

0. https://www.sens.org/our-research/intro-to-sens-research/
Do you have any evidence that the profit margins of Vitamin C are increasing? At least on Amazon, it looks like the price has been fairly consistent for the past 8 years. I wouldn't be surprised if the largest cost of Vitamin C is the opportunity cost of shelf space. It can't imagine it being a common purchase.

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0000DJAVX

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0019GE9HE
Amusingly, I denote my asset/liability sheet in the amount of mcdoubles I could afford
Yes, continuous brand refinement keeps thing modern without breaking the connection to the consumer.
Tricking my way into NYC’s billionaire penthouses
The article indicates the re-design in question was "launched" in January 2008. This is the date where planning the redesign began.

Another article [1] indicates that the new design was deployed on January 8th, 2009, and Tropicana announced a return to the old design on February 23rd, 2009.

A quick search shows an article [2] indicating around 2018 was when the panic around plastic straws began (with, for example, Seattle banning plastic straws starting in July 2018).

So in this case, the plastic straw issue does necessarily appear to be related to the redesign.

1: https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-fro...

2: https://www.eater.com/2018/7/12/17555880/plastic-straws-envi...
The amount of electricity (and gas too) imported from Russia has always been quite small.

Finland has always had laws ensuring it doesn't become too energy dependent.
I also have the 85h and I managed to find an unofficial solution:

The Jabra Link 370 usb dongle. The headphones will then pair with the Jabra software on PC.

That said, I haven't had issues pairing the 85h with a MacBook Pro without the dongle.

And finally, it's ridiculous that Jabra doesn't support this or any other solution.
There is no such thing as a "miner takeover" because miners don't vote. Unlike with proof of stake.

The only powers they have are to censor transactions, conduct denial of service and (if they have over 50%) conduct a double spend attack.

What you are describing in #1 is a government takeover of miners.

Definitely a nit pick, but what are we here for if not for that?
> Correct but how do I know what my browser cache is doing

Look at request inspectors, log files, etc. Network behavior is easy to observe.

If you're an enterprise, typically, your employees have great connectivity to your corporate resources, so you're not going to get much out of prefilling the browser cache for them through desktop management software.

Make sure as much of your corporate intranet stuff as is reasonable counts as same domain for purposes of cache sharing, and standardize on a single version of your frontend libraries, etc, and you might actually get cache hits naturally. Standardizing frontend libraries is hard, but if shaving the couple of ms here and there is important, I'm sure you can find a way.

Now, maybe you've got a lot of work from home with terrible networks; that's pretty common today, or maybe you're work from the field and have had terrible networks forever. In that case, it might make sense to do something like wrap your web pages in electron where all the html/css/js is included and you only need to fetch data and you've got full control over the caching. Nobody on HN likes electron, but it would solve your enterprise problem. You might consider actually making an application, but that's unfashionable these days.

Of course, there's also the possibility of drastically slimming your pages down, etc, but that's a lot of work, so nobody wants to do that either.
> how do I know what my browser cache is doing

Browsers expose this information.

Firefox, for example has `about:cache`

> as my enterprise I want to push objects to my employee's cache using an API

I've never heard of this being a thing. Why would you do this, and for what kind of sites?

Allowing an API to push objects into a browser cache en-masse sounds like a great security vulnerability.

Combine it with some basic packet capturing of new TLS connections and I could push arbitrary JS that did event capturing on all the sites that employees visited.
Unless that was sarcasm and I'm whooshing, I really don't get the big deal about xlookup. It's like vlookup but I'm no longer forced to have the lookup column as the first column in the range? I mean, that's nice, it makes my workflows one or steps shorter, but it's hardly groundbreaking.
> The idea here is to abstain from food for a full year

I'm not a diet expert but... how about not.

You can maintain a reasonable weight without doing extreme things. Cut sugary drinks and deserts. Stop snacking. Eat good meals, just not super huge.

Don't freak out every time you feel the slightest hunger/appetite.
I think that fatigue of seeing the same design is real. But I also think that for the most part, company employees, executives are the only people who see the sites frequently enough for it to be a problem.
Come on, let’s at least talk about sending a letter to their attorneys threatening legal action first. Class action plaintiffs’ lawyers eat this stuff up.
Yes, fair. In fact my best headphones need a dedicated headphone amp too. I'd forgotten that! But it doesn't need to be posh power. Just power.
Not amusing it all, but deeply concerning. The obvious choice would be Quarter Pounders. They are vastly superior b/c cooked fresh and don’t cost much more.

I am not going to follow your portfolio!
Play Classic Doom on a Mac
Congrats Manu! Great launch <3
For those who like me did not know what's a cyberdeck, here are a couple links I've found:

What is a cyberdeck? https://cyberdeck.cafe/mix/what-is-a-cyberdeck

Some examples https://www.makeuseof.com/best-raspberry-pi-cyberdecks/

Reddit community https://libredd.it/r/cyberDeck/

Even though I wasn't familiar with the term, this is actually something I always wanted (a self-built portable device, that I can customise in the same way I can customise a desktop computer).
> Considering that the weak subjectivity period is so long (months), having to sync "out of band" is not really a big deal.

Needing to do it at all, at the beginning, means there is no mathematically pure way to validate the consensus state and nobody can affect the concensus unless it's rooted in this initial distribution.

> In a PoW network where a malicious actor is doing A and has a lot of hardware and money to buy new hardware, you can't fix your network even with hardforks (outside of moving to PoS)

Yes, this is exactly the censorship that is available in PoS and not PoW. I help minority PoW protocols integrate PoS features for this reason, and it's also the reason there will always be PoW chains. Because some social networks demand uncensorable participation that can't be selectively hard forked away.
> Proof-of-work requires, by design, that the electricity value expended on mining is proportional to the total market cap of Bitcoin.

This premise isn't true. Funny you have this big confident argument when you're wrong about the basics.

The electricity expended is proportional to the value of mined bitcoins plus transaction fees. Note that the mining rate goes down over time, approaching zero.
The median commute is 27 minutes. Fewer than 10% of commuters have an hour's drive [0]. At a software engineer's income level, a commute like that is a reflection on your personal choice of home and neighborhood, not something inherent to working from an office or something your employer is doing to you.

[0] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
From the doc

> DSNs are safe to keep public because they only allow submission of new events and related event data; they do not allow read access to any information.

https://docs.sentry.io/product/sentry-basics/dsn-explainer/
I'm also bummed they stopped selling the Chromecast audio.

But if you can get your hands on on they still work perfectly.
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, USSR have all disappeared in my lifetime. Austria disappeared briefly in my grandparents’ lifetime. Somaliland’s legal existence was extinguished in ~1966 and the international community is not letting its practical existence get in the way of refusing to recognize it.

Wars of conquest, civil wars, dissolution and change happen.
I really like listening to a game’s MIDI soundtrack with different sound cards. Each almost feel like their own musical instrument interpreting the soundscape. All of my nostalgia for Sonic 3 is different than the official YM2612 renditions.
Oh, that's handy. Thanks for sharing!
> but why do bitcoin proponents always assume people to be ignorant on a website with some of the smartest people on the planet?

Uh... because your comment is just straight up wrong?

For instance, miners don't have a vote or a say at all, unlike proof of stake systems. If a miner changes the consensus algorithm, that is forking bitcoin, but bitcoin itself goes on unchanged.
In practice though, many places that used apply/call tend to bind instead.
The ASA controversy on P-values as illustration of difficulty of statistics
You joke, but recent changes to the NEM3 proposal would have you taxed for electricity generated by your own solar panels that you use directly (i.e. it doesn't even go to the grid).
Eh? You measure productivity by output.
This was actually the form factor of numerous 1980s portables, most notably the TRS-80 Model 100 mentioned in the article, but also others such as the Epson HX-20 and Clive Sinclair's Z88. You don't really "crane your neck" any more than you do with modern smartphone which likewise has the (virtual) keyboard in the same plane as the rest of the screen.
Well sometimes "why" is just to stay current. When I was a kid I thought those dated-looking boxes of "JIFFY" cake mix were actually boxes that nobody had bought and had been sitting there for 30 years.
So much yes. IMHO this is some of the most consistently hilarious material I have ever encountered.