skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just looked and saw it in the list... maybe someone else just changed theirs after reading your comment
It’s ok. They can put it next to the actual explosives.
This is what I do:

When a site initiates a transaction, you can see the address you're interacting with. You should then look up the address on etherscan to see if it has public code and a lot of transactions. Then you should search that address in google and see if the main site links to it. A lot of projects have a list of addresses in their github. You can also inspect the function code. Once you're comfortable, you should add it to your saved addresses on your wallet and next time you'll see the name of the address.

Also you can create a new throw away address, transfer just a little bit of coins to it and interact with the contract. If it does what you think it should do, then you can create a new account and do it again.

It's not perfect. It could be a proxy, so you're not guaranteed the contract you're interacting with.

There's no easy way to "see what a transaction does". You just need to do risk management.
No they’re not the same thing.

If you run a company then get a meeting with your Congressman to argue for a new bill, that’s lobbying.

How is that anything close to bribery?
> The argument was that the AVF wouldn't negatively impact force readiness, not that the draft was "bad" from a military manpower perspective

The argument for the AVF has evolved over time; the issue wasn't once and done, and the importance of longer service terms in a wide range of specialties has been increasingly cited in arguments for maintaining the AVF. But even in the original Gates Commission report, the AVF was not, contrary to your description, painted as merely non-harmful, but as a more efficient means of meeting military requirements, with extensive supporting analysis.
For ground combat tanks are very comparable. They can have an effect on any target within 2km or more within single seconds of spotting it. Tanks also have deterrents, such as the basics of combined arms tactics, but also smoke screens, etc.
Seems more like someone walking down the sidewalk at 1am and stopping to buy a drink from a lemonade stand, and getting jumped by a gang and mugged.
Lobbying is paying someone to advocate for you. Sort of like paying a lawyer to argue your case in court. Bribery is where you pay someone to make a decision. Like if instead of hiring a lawyer, you directly paid the judge to rule in your favor.

Campaign contributions like more like bribery, since they involve paying the decision maker. That’s where things get really muddy, in my opinion. You end up trying to distinguish between donating to support someone who already agrees with you, and paying someone to do what you want.
I think GitHub was a massive factor in Git's rise.

It would be much easier to displace if a huge part of the world's code hosting infrastructure wasn't using it.

Nearly every project will use GitHub, directly or indirectly.
A "food shock" variation...

My late grandmother, whom lived to the respectable age of 99 years, experienced the Dutch hunger winter. A period of famine during WW2.

For the rest of her lengthy life she could not tolerate any type of food waste. As an example, she'd buy a cabbage and then eat cabbage the entire week, even as it increasingly goes bad.

She had zero interest in food quality or nutritional value, just food in itself. Behavior learned during the famine where you don't have the luxury to discriminate. As an example, she once babysat me and my brother and made an abundance of snacks. Just way too much. Quite soon we were full, but the single word "finish..." and her stare told us all we needed to know. We finished, with stomach cramps. Out of respect.

Also, she had 9 children and survived 7 (genetic blood disease). She survived two husbands. In her extended family and friends, she survived...everybody.

We have a single photo of her childhood, where she stands in front of her house. Which was...made from clay and reed. An astonishing reminder of how even in today's developed nations, wealth for common people is brand new. Despite plenty of opportunities in her lifetime, she rejected material wealth outside some basics. Zero material desires.

Despite all this, not once in her life have I seen her sad or complain or moan. If us grandchildren did something bad or stupid, she didn't give a shit. You're still alive, in health...so what's the problem? Carry on.

She didn't eat very healthy, smoke a pack a day and didn't exercise. And still she made a daily trip on her bicycle to get her own groceries. Or make two trips in a row if needed. Up to the age of 98.

The collapse was short and sudden. After a hospital stay she was returned home to die. As she got carried out of the ambulance she saw my dad's work: her front-garden completely replanted with hundreds of blooming flowers, a sight to behold.

"That looks nice"

She was never very generous with compliments. And those were her last words. I'd call her Iron Lady, but it's an insult really. Iron is too soft to describe her.

She lives on as my compass for life. When I worry, see darkness in the world, contemplate about world events and threats, I think of her.

I'm alive, and I'm eating. I'm fine. Her scars are my lesson, and it's liberating.

She lived in an occupied country, ate grass and flowers, whilst nearly freezing to death. She encountered enough personal loss to fit several lifetimes. And still lived a full life and remained positive throughout.

So if at one point I have to cancel my Netflix, yeah...I think I'm going to be fine.
> Please stop with this. Ukraine is an independent nation that can do what it wants. They may have wanted to provoke this war as Russia threatened it.

Ukraine can do whatever it wants. It was up to NATO to flat out reject any prospects of Ukraine’s membership and prevent the war, but they egged it on.

Ukraine can do whatever it wants, but the simply truth is that Ukraine is now just ground zero in Washington’s proxy war with Russia. They could have remained neutral and avoided this disaster.
Only very vaguely related pet peeve: the term "Digital Twin" implies that a simulation perfectly matches what is being simulated. This is really almost never the case.

Let's just call them what they are: simulations.
Kinetic (water gravity, flywheel) or thermal (molten salt baths which can be supplemented with solar thermal).

None of these things exist at a large scale except for pumped hydro / water gravity, and that requires very convenient topography and geology to work. Generally, any non-chemical storage system is overpriced (too inefficient) or a maintenance disaster.
I have a CS degree and have worked at FAANG for 6 years and that was straight gibberish to me. I guess maybe because I have only worked at FAANG using traditional tech and not crypto startups?
I personally struggle with LeetCode-style coding tests.

It would be interesting to hear other people's experiences. I'm a Front-End Engineer with experience in Machine Learning. I've built Deep Learning Neural Networks and am proficient with NextJS and ReactJS, in particular.
That seems basically impossible. Black holes are either so small (in diameter) that you'd have trouble hitting them if you tried or so massive they're going to noticeably throw off your navigation well before you reach the event horizon. Or both.
it's like a turducken of scams: crypto, NFT, NFT-drainer-siphon
Nope. Doesn't require AD either.
I hope to see more pure virtual ones like one I started on software internals this January [0]. Means anyone within a few timezones can present and attend and there's no hassle finding a physical space. Of course you miss out on chatting and free pizza but I think it's awesome to be able to get speakers from anywhere in the Americas.

The only hazard is zoom-bombers. Don't make your zoom link public or you'll have weirdos join.

[0] https://meetup.com/hackernights
Trends and fashions come and go. My daughter is wearing pants that look that the ones my mother wore some years before I was born. At that time, nuclear power was still popular. And now, perhaps, it is becoming so again.

Indeed, the NYT article in the topic is discussing this very question.
And will be back up in less than 18 months.
These topics are incredibly important, and yet it's extremely difficult to make a living studying them, and people are routinely mocked for attempting to do so. One day we will realize that an entire society made up of engineers and managers is not a healthy one. How can we fix this when "stuff that people will pay for" is pretty much the only meaningful measure of value?
Ask HN: How do you reverse committee-based decision making in scaling orgs?
As an organization grows, new stakeholders tack on additional processes to account for secondary concerns. When it comes to cross-team decision making, the decision maker is no longer anyone in the group but instead an executive with little context. As a result, I see "committees" being formed where the executive delegates the responsibility to a group of subject matter experts, who can advise and green light projects. This has been a huge bureaucratic bottleneck at the company, and reduces the accountability individuals have to make sure things get done or implemented.

What are some solutions you've seen implemented (at companies that have >250 engineers) to minimize the amount of "death by committee" decision-making an organization does?
A quote attributed to Hemingway I’ve always loved: “Writing is easy. You just sit at your typewriter and bleed.” Whether or not he actually ever said that it’s quite true.
You can downvote, flag or vouch comments when you reach a higher threshold. By the way, I recently reached 10k karma and I was expecting a written letter from @dang himself, but still nothing. I guess I gotta work harder.
Don't screw up your PAM config by knowing what you're doing by experimenting use-cases and usage elsewhere.
Apparently per other comments it's only editable if you have 250+ karma, so maybe it is more common for that group to change their color? Although I'd be surprised most people, even with higher karma, know about that feature. I didn't until today, or at least had forgotten
You can exclude necessities from sales taxes and alleviate most of the taxes paid by the poor.
Nope. But replace “Bitcoin” with any other form of money and the answer remains “nope.”
I hope we can be adults enough to acknowledge the historical fact of substance use and its (potentially positive!) effect on the output of some writers without jumping to the conclusion that such an acknowledgement rises to an endorsement or recommendation.

Alcohol is known to reduce inhibitions, and I've noticed in my own work that the fear of imperfection will inhibit me from working at all, so even anecdotally this isn't surprising.
He is a smart person, but not as brilliant as I thought he was (and I am not getting this impression just from this interview, I have been following him for a long time).

And the same is true for many other VC types, who, if it were not for the fact that founders and companies need their money, would have the same intellectual and "lived-life" weight of your run-of-the-mills 9-to-5 office worker.

He speaks way too fast which gives the impression is "throwing up" words instead of making a point. Chill. It is an interview, not a slam poetry the-quickest-wins contest.

He is asked how to identify talent and after working in VC for 15-20 years he gives a made-up answer on the spot. I don't think he is guarding some secrets, it appears he has not developed a theory. Which is fine, or the theory is implicit, he is looking for "vibes" more than "hard" traits after all the necessary boxes are checked (smart, persistent, able to articulate thoughts). Hard to disagree. If there were a secret, it'd be out there already found. But the made-up answer was not impressive at all (a videotape of when they were kids? Come on).

He talks about web3 and he comes up with ways of monetizing, say, podcasts with proposals that you would expect from a teenager. At the end, he basically admits he has no clue and the future will take care of itself.

He has watched many movies, but he doesn't have a favorite one.

He seems unfazed by selection biases. Peter Thiel is a great at recognizing talent, he says. How many would be recognize with 1/1000th of his money and how many he did not recognize?

He repeats "insights" and "talking points" gotten from twitter, social media, the usual playgrounds that myself, a total nobody, could repeat with more flavor.

He had a few interesting insights (saying they were "brilliant" would be quite arrogant on my part), surely. Not enough to be considered "brilliant".
Ah thanks, I have closure now.
Still beats swimming. Besides if it means not having to transfer to a connecting flight I'll take it. Airports are hell.
Energy Prices in Europe Are Creating Power Outages in Pakistan
Damn, finally someone else who remembers that in November 2020 liberals were screaming everywhere that the Trump vaccine wasn't safe and that they would never get it.
fun for a couple rounds, although I didn't get the powerups. Good job shipping
What is it with NFTs and solving theoretical problems in extremely complex ways. Car thefts at at 1/3 of what they were in the 90s, and the existing mechanisms for buying/selling cars work just fine. Why do we need to introduce car DRM with brittle, distributed access control systems? You're more likely to get your tires or cat stolen - no NFT is going to prevent that.
Fascinating, these short stories are generated by GPT-3
Yes, the whole article is sort of tone deaf: it's like they see a problem but not the actual problem. It's very typical of the whole thing: complaints without actually doing the painful work of restructuring things, because that would cause too much inconvenience for the people who have benefited.

So we have these discussions about pay and supply and demand, which is part of it, but not the nature of the positions themselves, the ponzi funding scheme underlying it, the status hierarchies, none of it. No one wants to cut or line-item justify indirect funds, or turn those postdocs into faculty positions.

The last place I was at this issue came up about being able to have grad students without funding: the argument was if you can't fund them off of grants you shouldn't have them. On the surface, this sounds great, pretty reasonable, until you realize that now you're incentivizing taking grad students to support grants, rather than as an end in itself. Basically you're incentivizing a permanent student culture, because the expected lifecycle of the researcher is maybe 30 years, whereas the student is expected to only be there maybe 5 in theory.

It's so hard for me to wrap my head around it it: the best analogy maybe really is a ponzi scheme. The desired product is the input. It's so broken in so many ways. It's like no one is actually paying for research, they're paying for attracting students, attracting the money to pay for the research, the trappings of research, etc. That actual useful research gets done is a convenient side effect.
Audi Is Recycling E-Tron Batteries to Make the Slickest Rickshaws Out There
Know of any companies/industries that have started switching to Rust for embedded?
If process engineers are so rare, why don’t they pay them like they are rare? My wife got the hell out and into data science. Much more respect and pay.
State media desperately searches for ways to distract the populace.
Non paywall version:
https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/engineer-who-fled-charge...
I love CloudFlare workers EXCEPT the ridiculous limit they place on outgoing web requests. It makes doing something like writing a distributed web scraper or crawler impractical, so poo poo on them.
Who is "we"? How many? How are the SNPs and larger differences in genes and unique genes placed into an ontology?
Not all cheats are “god mode” and there are games that use various cheats the same way other games use multidimensional difficulty settings, as the means to disable or enable particular subsystems or dimensions of challenge (or bypass them, e.g., by providing infinite resources of one kind so that the system addressing that resource can be ignored.)
Thanks for the excellent response.

Yeah, even if a time-limited OCSP validation cert is stapled to the app download (which seems like it would be easy to do on the Mac App Store at least), that doesn't seem to meet Apple's apparent desire for fast revocation based on online validation. (Or perhaps for user and app "analytics", but let's assume they are motivated by security and care about privacy.)

As a user I think I might be fine with something like cert stapling for App Store apps, and a cert blacklist for everything else.

On a possibly unrelated note, it is astonishing how long it takes Xcode to validate/install/start up the first time. I thought it was simply hung but it finished in a few hours.
It did a lot of good? TMI slagged the core but the containment held, and Fukushima's cores (the ones that melted, obviously) was still mostly covered, the hydrogen explosion was the major problem.
Keto is about making your body regulate body weight on its own.

Why exactly do I need to know this equation? My body can do that for me automatically.
I’ll see if I can find a link, but there’s a small program the army is running for unmanned tanks, and the RCV-M is electric with a diesel genset to charge the batteries, range of ~450 miles I think?
You might want to use a Wideband-Delphi method of estimating. Have everyone give you an estimate with their reason. Then send each one the list of estimates with the reasons attached and give them an opportunity to adjust their estimate. They will start to converge.
> key areas like coal/petro are actually down over the past 5 years.

The source I provided (current to 2019) does show coal down a hair (Peaked at ~45000 TWh in 2013, hovering around 44,000 TWh in 2019), but oil continuing to increase (49700 to 53600 over same period) and natural gas increasing even more (33700 to 39300). Renewables all increasing (solar 356-1793, Wind 1628-3540, even hydro 9765-10,455).

The part that I think is unrealistic is dropping the fossil fuels to 20% and simultaneously restricting growth to negative 8%. Increased energy usage is desirable for anyone, so while decreasing renewable cost will certainly encourage wider adoption, I think a more realistic prediction would be at least 20-30% growth over the next 30 years (compared with ~75% growth over the last 30 years, ~20% over the last 10 years alone). Fingers crossed we can do this simultaneously with abandoning current fossil assets.
Gonna say something that would likely be downvoted but a functioning society does not need democracy. A governing body needs legitimacy because it's power springs from the people, but democracy and voting are not necessarily requisite.

e.g. China/CCP (which isn't really communism, but definitely not democratic).
I was once on a United 757 from Chicago to Dublin. It wasn't my favourite flight.
If every transaction required perfect understanding by both parties, there would be no markets. We have regulations to reduce the amount of understanding needed to participate in markets without getting fleeced, which makes the markets function.
Theoretically automatically popping up that dialog could result in you authenticating without being aware you did so. It would require you resting your finger on the right spot but it might be the reason for this behaviour.
The terminology is vaguely defined. In the mouth of a techie, I'd assume they mean "everything that gets studied but isn't STEM or business", with a connotation "and is therefore easy since it doesn't have a rigorous grading system".

There are links between Renaissance humanism and what is now called "humanities". The Humanists weren't just about the re-naissance of Greek and Roman works, but also about creating new ones. A lot of humanists were poets, painters, and writers -- fields often lumped in with "humanities". There was also a rebirth of what the Greeks called philosophy, which also included subjects that we'd call sociology (laws, ethics, forms of government, etc.) Sociology is also treated as adjacent to humanities.

Techies do need to learn that the easily-measurable aspects of a technology are not the only important ones. We use tech because it appeals to us as humans, using the yardstick of our perceptions of things. Humanities are easily dissed because they're hard to measure objectively, but that doesn't mean they're unimportant. Indeed, they may be more important precisely because we haven't (yet) learned them well enough to be simple.
The Euro, Yen, and US dollar are the same to people?
As a counterpoint, I would quote the great John C Bogle: "Never, never get out of the market." [1] Knowing when the market has reached the bottom is not really possible.

During the dot com crash in 2000-2001, investors sold all the way down to the bottom (and lots of them sold at the very bottom), and then they eventually sold all the way up to the peak, when instead they could have just held onto their shares.

Rebalancing doesn't really work. That's another thing Bogle showed us.

Of course, if you need the cash, that's another matter. But then you arguably shouldn't have invested it in the stock market to begin with. If you have a time horizon less than 5 years, the market is just too volatile.

[1] https://youtu.be/1SLb1QJvTvg
Indeed, I'm keeping my eye on WASM but still expect it to require more time to bake

I may have also reached the point in my career where I don't want to use the latest and greatest runtime. Stability has its merits
Show HN: IoT device to warn you of a supernova hours before Earth is destroyed
you can start with the investopedia entry:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wildcat-banking.asp

here's a whitepaper from the Atlanta Fed,

caution PDF:

https://maysweb.tamu.edu/sage/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/20...
As a postdoc I also have the option of contributing to a 403B plan - but my school does NOT match our contributions (specifically for postdocs). For 'regular' employees they match upto 7.5%.
My experience in physical media makes me want to add

1a: Keep your water reservoirs well away from your drinking water. This prevents drinking paint.

:)
It depends on the website and the wallet, but either way the wallet app tells you what permissions it's giving the website. My guess is people don't pay attention or think about it. But it's not as parent described "the way the crypto community designed it". It's actually the opposite. The crypto community designed wallets that give you control over what third parties are allowed to do with your accounts. It's a lot more than what debit cards offer (I say debit cards because credit cards do of course offer a good rollback system).
Indeed almost all EV charging happens at home, but the parent comment is talking about city living where people may not have access to charging at home.
It's hard to take A16Z seriously after they opened a crypto fund and invested in Adam Neumann.
Because it is processed garbage. If you want to get fat on fat use highly concentrated oils.
Yeah they should pay Plaid a grand a month for that privilege instead.
Physics-based cryptocurrency transmits energy (not just info) through blockchain