skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is impossible for the blockchain to prove anything about anything that originates from outside of that particular blockchain

True, but instead of having to trust a central authority for insertion, updating, removal and constant maintenance of your "ownership", the trust would only be required for insertion. Once you purchased a domain and it's inserted in the blockchain, no one (outside of yourself) should be able to revoke, change or question your ownership of the domain itself.

Honestly it would be a pretty good use case for a blockchain, but it lacks a money incentive for any part involved so it will probably never happen
My point was more that someone saying "even a vampire got bored" is less than helpful, as they're using a literally fictional character as their example.

It's like saying "even the tooth fairy got bored".
I have the M1 13” Pro, honestly I love it.

13” is the perfect size of laptop IMO, the battery life is insane, the performance is great, the screen is good enough for me (I don’t care about higher refresh rates etc)

If the M2 is just more of the same but faster, yes please. Why fix something that isn’t broken?
People aren't machines, they bend to their environment.

Even without crunching extra hours per day, you can be essentially as productive with fewer working days per week if you are more focussed on the days do you do work.
Doing this one thing but 10x bigger, has always given some extra science. So let's do the same thing but 10x bigger once again.

It's not like we have many other great ideas for science experiments. Apparently.
You're assuming people are 100% productive each day currently. If people are told they need to keep hitting the same KPI's etc. or they go back to a 5-day week, you bet they're going to work a bit harder on those 4 days. A bit less news, Facebook, chatting etc and a bit more actual work.
While this puffy talk holds no water of course if the tax man just demands you deliver files in a format he wants, you can easily do so for very cheap using the Office365 cloud offering, which doesn’t require you to be running a paid OS. I don’t think you can take someone to court for the $10 a month that costs.
They already have integrated it in a pretty reasonable way. The only thing that's missing is some of the alternative views for the hourly forecast, it's possibly a feature that wasn't as widely used (or as accurate as temp/conditions/precipitation) but as someone who burns easily, I do miss having e.g. hourly UVI forecasts.
Also, please no more Mars rovers. Sometimes it's good to do something radically different, instead of scaling up the same stuff
Mirrored from https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1534097850640093184:

Last week the global tech community engaged the democratic process to start a discussion with American lawmakers about responsible innovation and financial regulation concerning crypto-assets. The letter was covered widely by the global press, read by over 25,000 people and signed by over 1,400 new signatories.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/03/crypto-sk...

Signatories now include folks such James Gosling, Mat Velosso, Martin Fowler, Simon Willison, David SH Rosenthal, Dave Andersen, 25 computer science professors and engineers from Amazon, ACM, Adobe, AMD, Apple, Box, Block, CMU, Cornell, Disney, Dropbox, eBay, Google, GitHub, IEEE, IBM, Microsoft, MIT, Meta, Mozilla, Pixar, Shopify, Netflix, Oracle, Stanford, Shopify, Salesforce, Thoughtworks, VMWare.

Signatories are not only programming language creators, professors, and titans of industry but normal working software engineers who feel strongly about this issue and have the courage to speak up to help inform policy.

https://www.ft.com/content/f4b2fa1a-4057-4b10-9f3b-efa57e6bc...

The thesis is very simple: the status quo needs to change.

The most vulnerable in our communities are getting hurt because of regulatory inaction. And moving forward we need to proceed from a place of informed skepticism rather than reckless positivity.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmyzk/the-pivot-to-web3-is-...

This is all at the same time that the crypto lobby is spending more money than the entire defense sector put together to influence senators and push their corporate interests on the public.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-02/crypto-in...

A grassroots coalition of scientists, think tanks, finreg experts, and legal scholars are organizing to assist the legislative process and ensure that fintech innovation serves financial inclusion and that investors, markets, and consumers are protected.

https://twitter.com/RealBankReform/status/153382048602256998...

The window to sign closes this Friday, and the letter is sent to Congress thereafter. Join the 1500+ other fellow programmers, scientists and engineers in the technology community in making your voice heard on this important issue.

Read the letter at https://concerned.tech
If drug X costs 1B to research and you can sell it for a gross margin of $1 in Europe and $100 in US and you expect the lifetime total gross income to be 10.1B it’s a good thing to invest in.

If both countries are limited to a gross margin of $1 and you expect the lifetime gross income to be 0.2B this is now going to be a massive net loss. So you will not invest in it.
SHOW HN: Can you make $1000 as an Uber driver?
A country can print money, but there are other things that are in shorter supply. Namely natural resources and labor.
It sounds like I don't own the domain, but whoever has the Keys does.

Imagine somebody suddenly "owns" my house because they pickpocketed my house keys, without any recurse. Then I really don't own the house, do I.
I know some GP practices that still do this (quite astounding given the current issues in the NHS).
A pretty bad article to be honest, just creating confusion.

Emacs buffers are not the reason why functions like forward-paragraph exists.

That’s just normal abstraction (in programming).
The most I got after all expenses was $800, sad.
I can never take Brainfuck seriously because it has such a juvenile name.
The difference is that guns are literally deigned for killing people. There are nonlethal alternatives, so when people buy guns (the exception being hunting) the purpose it to be able to kill someone.
I’m actually paying MSRP without any mark up. I called around until I found a dealer who would be reasonable.
What you're describing actually existed in the form of the Continuum feature on Windows 10 Mobile [0] or Ubuntu Touch's convergence
No worries. Came across the concept from interaction (positive) with Teachstone (teachstone.com), which is one of these B Corporations.

They have a whole write up about their getting certified:

https://info.teachstone.com/blog/pioneering-developer-of-ear...
I'm hoping that offshoreing will lead to better pay and more opportunities in New Zealand. We have some great developers that are all native English speakers and after the exchange rate are cheap to hire.
Things are always breaking, everywhere. The people analysing and fixing that are engineers too, but what they do is not innovation. It's maintenance. Nothing wrong with that.
println! is only a declarative macro, whereas Maud is a proc macro.

The declarative macros aren't too head-twisting for tools, they just expand as declared, this can sometimes have a few surprising effects but generally it is very manageable. Procedural macros have essentially unlimited power and thus are sometimes entirely impossible to analyse.
No, because if the server gets hacked and the attacker can intercept your password, your password manager is managing a password that is, unbeknownst to it, known to an attacker. Who can now use that password to just login to the service.
I've seen https://jsonresume.org/ posted here before, so its being attempted at least.
Is this just their version of DroidCam? :-P
"Meta" in Greek doesn't mean what he thinks we think it means.

Certainly the term is overused, but the expression "metalanguage" seems perfectly respectable to me.
You said that the most interesting stories get adapted into anime, not that there are some anime that are good. The first statement is false, the second is true.
I think stage manager is a great idea, I get motion sick sometimes from swiping between different desktops all the time.
Yes but if you can base your company in those cheaper countries you can have the best of both worlds.
Maybe renewal makes sense to prevent squatting but the question remains: who receives the money paid??

If the money were to be used to secure the network somehow, it would make sense.

If the money just goes to the creators... it was all just a money grab.
But there were systems in that realm that weren't ROM based. In fact in the 80s it was more common for systems to load from slower media like floppy disk or cassette than it was from ROM cartridge. I'm not denying that the access speed of optical media was definitely noticable (than and now) and required designing games a little differently to cartridge based systems, but the GP's claim that it was a deal breaker is completely false. And I have a collection of Mega CD (PAL) games sat behind me that demonstrate just how good the device really was. As well as Famicom FDD games. And games for various Commodore, Amstrad, Acorn, Atari, Sinclair and IBM-compatible PC systems too.

The downfall of the Mega CD had nothing to do with CD access times.
Always on for VMs with the emulator shared filesystem attached.

That's... a weird way for coding a feature flag, but I guess it "just works".
Ask HN: Registrars least likely to screw up?
I've been pondering on and off again how best to avoid ending up in some kafkaesque algorithmic loop where your gmail account, domain name, etc. are suddenly blocked by the registrar for unspecified reasons with little to no way to resolve the situation, as has happened to "many" here.

I thought Cloudflare would be pretty good, out of the non-enterprise priced options, but even there someone had a really worrying incident recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573854

I'm inclined to think that the buck always stops somewhere, and no place is really safe in this regard, but is there really no way to have some reasonable safeguards for these?
The individual domains may be of little value to a registrar, but they're potentially enormously valuable to their owners, and the apparent asymmetry of incentives concerns me.

Are we just forced to generate noise on HN to resolve such cases or are there any reasonable alternatives out there that offer guarantees about only resorting to blocking/deleting domain in extreme cases, and provide the means to escalate without HN outcry?
What kind of culture has poor spelling as some kind of central tenet?
We avoid electrical energy storage currently. Couple of reasons:
1. Product has to be simple to be adopted effectively. Batteries or overhead tanks imply additional management overhead on the part of the farmer, and that management has to be instructed. Difficult to do in this market context.
2. Support - we’ve talked with customers of competitors who do feature a battery storage element, and they’ve complained about getting support when the battery was failing after some time.
3. Cost. We try to get customers onto the first rung of the income-generation ladder. Higher-income rungs can be achieved with incremental investment, and energy storage is a good example of this.
4. Agronomy: Water-logging plant roots consistently at night is no bueno: fungus, restricting nighttime gas transfer between the roots and soil.

That said, the case for storing energy during dark hours can still be a good one, provided 1-4 are satisfied/mitigated. Early morning hours are an excellent interval to irrigate over, and the solar irradiance at those hours is often still too low to utilize the pump’s full delivery & depth (head) capability.
Central NHS negotiations for the whole country also saves a lot of money by reducing expenses related to insurance, administration, pharmacy benefit managers etc.

On the other hand, it may take away some choice people have in selecting health care provider. For example, some people are not happy that they don't get semaglutide (which really helps diabetics to lose weight) because they don't qualify according to the NHS criteria (not obese enough). Of course, they always have a chance to go to private health care providers and pay full price (or private insurance) but not many can afford that. Although I suspect that even in the US many insurers will have similar criteria whether they reimburse the drug or not.
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If you were an important, powerful or influential organisation, you could just get DNS servers, OSes and/or browsers to special-case a domain rather than refer to the blockchain.
Unless you have a legal authority enforcing the rule that "what the blockchain says, goes".
Sectoral and national collective bargaining in use in many European countries make minimum wage less important (sectoral bargaining is not allowed in the US), but it's probably good to have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_collective_bargaining
I feel like this article does not discuss the real reasons why LHC++ would or would not be a success. It absolutely depends on whether you expect it to provide tangible evidence of new physics; that is, physics beyond the standard model. It's easy to say "high-energy physics has become highly academic and mathematical", but if it provided results there wouldn't be a problem with that. Mathematical beauty has proven unreasonably effective at driving innovation in physics [1], and cutting-edge research being academic is nothing new.

The fundamental problem for high-energy physics seems to be the "tyranny of the standard model", as one of my professors called it. We know that our current model of fundamental particles must be incomplete towards extremely high energies (trillions of TeV), because it conflicts with general relativity. However, almost all experimental results are consistent with the standard model.
There are some barely-significant [2] results from muon spin and W-boson experiments, but the effect sizes are minuscule and and two data-points are in no way enough to guide new theory development.

This leaves theorists with almost no experimental input, so they pursue purely mathematical ideas that are in some way elegant, able to describe the standard model as a low-energy limit, and in some cases include a description of gravity as well. But the more advanced and theoretical the ideas get, the more difficult it gets to make experimental predictions. The ones which predict non-standard-model measurements with current equipment are already ruled out anyway, because we did the measurements and the standard model just keeps getting validated.

So what should we do? We can hope that a larger collider will find new evidence of beyond-standard-model physics, but (as I understand it) there is no concrete reason why there has to be anything interesting in the newly-accessible energy region.

[1] As just one example from particle physics: Gell-Mann's "Eightfold Way", which uses advanced representation theory to describe hadrons and was successful at predicting new particles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_way_(physics)
[2] Note that high-energy physics has an extremely high standard of significance at 5 sigma, so it's not comparable to "barely significant" in the social sciences.
Absolutely, and there's definitely a strong argument to be made for increasing awareness of existing tools and attack vectors.

Importantly though, that aim is served by proofs-of-concept and information sharing more than it is by releasing point-and-shoot attacks. This comment puts it rather well [1].

As above, I'm not saying this shouldn't have been created, or even that it shouldn't have been released. I am saying that there are important ethical considerations and questions raised that should be addressed directly by the creators, rather than being handwaved away as in the quoted disclaimer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652008
How could you believe that to be true? Western Europe is just 20% or so of global pharma spending. You believe that rd can continue full steam ahead with 20% revenue, dropping the most profitable part?
> Does anybody know of something similar, but written in a more elaborate book-like fashion?

Not book-like, but I put many things that I learn into Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

I sync it to my phone with AnkiDroid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki

I occasionally review the actual facts as flashcards. But having the notes already in flashcard format has been my secret weapon for seeming intelligent for years.
~Two decades of social atomisation and commercial brainwashing have left their traces...
The biggest problem in almost all charts is very basic. Luminance difference between adjacent areas should be high. So basically alternating dark and light patches.
The fact that this wouldn't be favorable to you given your particular situation does not make it a "scam".
Reminds me of Oppenheimer: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
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Proof that something was there at some time in the past + proof that the contents haven't been tampered with.
It goes back further. Sunshine laws of the 70s enable vote buying and coercion. Addressing the lobbying issue would play a big part, but ultimately the ability to apply public pressure on how representatives vote is going to provide enough leverage to control those votes. Make votes (and many committees) secret like every good election. There will still be corruption, but individual legislators will be less beholden to private interests and the party line.
The C source for Emacs buffer: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/buffer...
I don't have any expectations. In fact that idea that there would be an answer that I would be 'very satisfied with' would make such a question meaningless, it would presume that I am about to judge the author, which I'm not. It's an AMA so I did just that.
Deepfakes are for deceiving humans. There are still way too many artifacts in the outputs that are easy to detect in code.
Unless we cut off the chain of responsibility somewhere, the creators of the programming language, the computer and its components, as well as the people who have designed the computer and those who mined the required minerals are responsible as well.
I understand. I don't like that behavior much myself.
I didn't think of that. Thanks.
On my desktop I do not see such artifacts. Are you on mobile? It is possible that your provider is recompressing images to save bandwidth.
Sounds pretty negative to me!
Sure, but the argument was that Classroom “already does this”. Not by Apple’s standards for such a feature, it doesn’t.
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I've never been able to teach myself calculus, it's one of the reasons I went down the infosec path -- I'm in a weird space where I can read most papers from anonbib and grok them, but anything involving curves etc, and I'm lost.

I know a lot of things for pleasure, but it always felt like folks would zero in on whatever I didn't, to the point it destroyed my interest in a few things that didn't require calc.
How could it possibly be otherwise. If you have a bunch of drugs that are made profitable, net of r&d costs, only because of the American market, then these would never get invested in without American spending in. And remember, you can’t go pointing to single examples because you also need to consider all the funds that go into funding drugs that don’t pass clinical trials.
They are indeed using the name interchangibly. I guess what I meant to say is they are not claiming to be providing a proper TLD when they aren't. I guess it doesn't matter much in practice and that's why people in this thread are using it interchangibly too.
> I can floor it and it doesn't go anywhere.

This is a difficult sentence to parse. Shouldn't you want the opposite from a car?
Did you also notice that certain electromechanical components like connectors (e.g. from Molex) had supply issues? I wonder what the reason for that was.
This makes me anxious, but am I overreacting?

Normally, these attacks need the target to open the document and enable the use of macros. Follina, by contrast, doesn't require the target to open the document, and there's no macro to allow. The simple act of the document appearing in the preview window, even while protected view is turned on, is enough to execute malicious scripts.
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how did you do it? I can't get mine to work
> “Who is going to write the prescriptions for this magic insulin?” she asked.

I don't get this, but I'm not in the US. Over here the prescriptions are for the active ingredient unless something specific is required and then you get both the name and the "no substitutions" box is ticked. The pharmacy will just ask "are you ok with a generic" otherwise.

Is it much different? Why wouldn't people be prescribed "insulin" in this case?

Even then the question seems weird - people will know about this happening, they will ask for it. How would it not be prescribed?
Break from routine, plus presumably a tendency on long weekends for people do things that impact their energy for days after, like travel or excessive drinking.

If every weekend was a three day weekend I don't imagine you'd see so much of this.
Claybook[0] uses SDF throughout. I don't think any of the game is conventional poly-based geometry.

Having built with both SDF and conventional geometry, it's much easier to find excellent 3D modellers than it is to find people who can build with SDF though.

[0] https://ubm-twvideo01.s3.amazonaws.com/o1/vault/gdc2018/pres...
I've worked for 3 days per week for about 16 years now.

I have so much more energy and emotional stability in my job that I feel I do not contribute less, but more.
The "best" thing to come out of CERN is HTTP.

I think breakthroughs are often perpendicular to the energy, so the best investment in understanding the universe is probably to explore it.

Unfortunately that also requires alot of energy.

Rate of change is going to slow down with the price of energy going up.
Let me guess: they are planning to use the amazing mechanism that proved to be so effective at reducing prices and improving availability for stuff like food, clothes, computing, communications and entertainment: the free market.

Consequently all they have to do is remove the barriers for competition to enter said market and patiently watch as the problem solves itself, thanks to the amazing ingenuity and creativity of the entrepreneurial spirit.

Of course, that would make it clear for everyone that the actual culprits are the politicians who erected said barriers and we'd all be better without their interferences in economy, so... there is a perverse incentive there... let's see what they want to do:

> market failures that plague the pharmaceutical industry

> disrupting monopolistic drug prices requires state intervention and that California can pull it off because the state “has market power.”

Yup. So, any ways to bet on the outcome of this action? Favorite prediction markets?
If you make an addictive pay to win mobile app, and you make $1/user but have a single whale user who dumps $1000 a month into the game.

If the whale suddenly stops paying, you can continue to profit from regular customers you just don’t make the obscene profit from before.

Can corporations continue to survive with less profit? I think some individuals have to learn to live with less income, so I’m sure a big pharmaceutical company can figure it out, I’ve had to cut out most meat from my diet in lean times, I’m sure pharmaceutical executives can do something similar.