skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, most cryptocurrency is nonsense sci-fi bullshit. I hesitate to even call it money.

Ok, let me try ELI5ing it.

Let's say we have an economy where, in order to determine who owns what, people literally just make and publish a list of who owns what. Everyone trusts the lists. But what if someone decide to change the list so that it says they own someone else's stuff? Proof of Stake says that if someone wants to change the list - say, if someone traded something on the list to someone else - the page they add to the list also has to have some of their money taped to it. If that change turned out to be fraudulent, someone else can tattle on them, and then that someone gets the money taped to the list instead. So if you want to make sure you're reading from a not-fraudulent list, just check for the money taped to the page.

This all continues fine for a while. There's a bunch of people who maintain the list, all of whom have their own money taped to different pages of it.

One day, someone tries adding a fake transaction to the list. You, of course, notice it and tattle on them. Except in order to claim the funds taped to the list, someone else has to... add a note to the list saying you own them. And there's no reason why they can't just write down that they tattled instead of you, because the only proof that you were the one who tattled is getting it onto the list that you have to tape money to in order to add to. So the only people who have a reason to make sure the list is valid are the same people who are updating the list in the first place. Everyone else can tattle but they don't get paid for doing so, which was the the thing keeping the system secure.
React doesn’t stop you (it is just a library) but doesn’t help you either.

NextJS helps with this kind of thing by letting you statically generate server side the first render in React (you can load data in prior from a source if needed) and then you can CDN that page.

You could also do this in rails but NextJS saves you needing say a moustache or ERB version of the same page for the static render. You use the same code for build time, back end runtime and front end.

Lovingly called isomorphic programming or as cynics call it: monoglot!

I knew of the progressive enhancement concept but what I
didn’t know was the 14kb thing. It is motivating me to experiment!
The comment I replied to was a statement of efficiency.

Not a statement of the pleasure you derive from transmission vinyl.
> This is all true… but GeForce now let’s you bring your own gaming library.

Some of your gaming library, for example no Blizzard games are playable. Though this is not Nvidia's fault. I think a few publishers realized where this is going and pulled their games by threatening to sue so they could work towards a streaming service of their own.
This is the kind of thing that makes me chuckle every time I see a comment like ‘just build your own PC - they work better and save money’.

Yeah, both can be true, but when it goes wrong, it can be very difficult and expensive to troubleshoot.
Sixt rental cars in France hasn’t been doing manual transmission cars for years - automatics get better gas mileage and are actually better on overall emissions (you’ll notice modern manual cars keep the revs up even when you let off the throttle). Germany has followed, I believe. But you’re right, it’s probably those dumb Americans’ fault.
like all scary experiences, start small
Our oldest known ancestor could probably walk, say researchers
> Olympian believes in reducing the number of buttons and switches to simplify the cockpit. We take a voice-first approach to control infotainment, HVAC, seats, doors, and lighting systems.

This sounds like the opposite of OP's request for physical controls.
>AFAIK the vast majority of vehicles sold in Europe are manual.

This is a common talking point but has actually swung hard in the opposite direction in recent years.
I can confirm what another commenter wrote - what I was told by my doctor is that this is very uncommon now, at least in California, where the guidance is to only do it in very limited circumstances.

On the other hand, even one IVF embryo has much more likelihood of splitting and creating twins than natural. I saw the science at 10X chance but a quick Google search shows slightly lower.
Also to be noted is the popularity of the AMT systems or the Automated Manual Transmission, where a manual gear box is mated with a computer which shifts gears for you. As of now Auto-enthusiasts look down upon these systems, but they have improved a lot in recent years, and seems mechanically much more reliable systems than CVTs and DCTs which have a lot more moving parts. Also with improvement in software they could become better over time. They seem cheaper also.
Worldcoin co-founder Novendstern leaves firm to start new venture
can we talk about methoxetamine while we're at it?
SARS-CoV-2 has evolved an incubation time more like seasonal coronaviruses
I think you're missing the point that you can stop cheaters without needing anti-cheat on their own computers.
Within the wider context of population decline due to low birth rates, both are bad because both lead to population decline anyway. 2 kids is a hard minimum for maintaining population count, 3 or more kids for increasing population.

As for what decafninja (or any individual for that matter) decides upon in the bedroom, that's for him to decide and his business alone. I'm not going to comment because it's none of my business.
Ford actually demo'd a 6-speed EV Mustang years ago that went nowhere. It could be done, it's mostly just a "why bother".

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20950148/ford-electric-mu...
Why your website should have less than 11 fonts in the first 3 sentences: So I can read it
> their costs are fixed

Their costs are in dollars. Ceteris paribus, this is coming out of Starlink's margin. (They may also be anticipating a compensating bump in volumes. Or they found some cost savings.)
I don't know how big the change is but assuming it's not crazy big, if you make a pull request with the relevant changes and send it to another eng who isn't a dick, you are going to get it in. If someone asks why you spent time on it, you say it took 45 mins.
Manual transmission is cheap, easy to repair and allows towing. With everything equal, I, personally, would prefer it to automatic one.
I agree with you on the latter point, but I want to also point something out on the former. Many people who are of no "proper" means to do so continue to have children. And they make it work, even if it may be uncomfortable and require sacrifice. So the issue is not one of finances, but priorities. Winning an IPO lottery being the baseline where you feel comfortable for having children doesn't mean that such is the inherent baseline, but that you simply prioritize comfort and wealth over raising a family. And that is okay.

This nuance is important; it emphasizes the real issue is not economics, but culture! We've created a society that values the pursuit of wealth and comfort more than family, and it's likely this system is not sustainable. Not everybody can be wealthy, because wealth is relative and mediated by what exists. If 30% of people want something and there's only enough for 3%, then it doesn't matter what the relative wealth is among these people: 90% of people won't be able to "afford" it, and that will never change. A post-scarcity society will never exist alongside consumerism; we'll simply take what we can have for granted and lust over the new scarcities.
How landline telephones became a must-have in old San Francisco
I wish I could do this without breaking all the obnoxious sites that use fonts for icons.

Someone should invent an HTML tag for putting images on a page.
That's confusing ordinal and cardinal numbers. The element with index 0 is the first number. The element with index 1 is the second number, and so on.

Using the term "zeroth" is basically some form of showing off (even though it's kinda fun), but will be utterly confusing when you get to the fifty-second element which is the last in a group of 53 elements.
I'm an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever?
Age 8: Started learning 3D software and CAD.
Age 16: Got a job doing CNC programming for an aerospace mold tooling company.
Age 17: Got my first web developer job.
Age 18: Got my second web developer job.

On every team I've worked with, I've always been the youngest. I learn very quickly.

I want to be one of the best programmers in the world, but I have a long way to go.

What is the best use of my time outside of work?
What are some strategies for success?
I want to push my limits as far as possible.
Working hard during the work day is fine, nobody is failing to do that. They just say no to all the off-hours effort that business tries to extract for free.
How I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video]
Or the Europeans are too ignorant and lazy to update to new stuff like AC (and auto transmission). ;p
Wat.

1MB per photo is tiny when the photo is the content. You need ~100KB for a high quality 512x512 WebP. AVIF will be slightly better but still doesn’t have universal support.

We’ve had 4K (8MP) screens for a decade now and normal DSLRs shoot 25MP so you can zoom in.
At some point we're going to have to stop letting EULAs and other click-through contracts supersede basic consumer rights. For example, when/why did we lose the right to resell stuff we bough?
One of my favorite stats is that a VisiCalc screenshot is larger than the VisiCalc executable.
Did you mean Liberals on that 2nd to last sentence?
“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”

― Kent Beck
Kara Swisher: So, I am bringing together the trio who knew Steve Jobs best
Regular Expressions and Solving the Food Taster Dilemma
Incredible. This is straight out of Silicon Valley.
I feel Europe situation is by far better than here in Japan. Here, land is small, 75% of land is mountains (so hard to bring wind parts), suitable sea (shallower) for cheaper offshore wind is rare than it looks, much area heavily snows, grid is smaller and divided for 50/60Hz, and almost zero natural resources exists. Even if HVDC connection to foreign grid is possible solution, closer bigger lands (China and Russia) are obviously no one want to rely on.

Hydro is a thing thanks to mountains but building new is unpopular to protect naturals. Geothermal is a thing and should be encouraged more, but it seems that it's not enough. Perhaps South Korea is in similar situation but they are still fine to operate nuclear plants.
>>In 1960, Pakistan had 45m people compared to South Korea's 25m. Now, Pakistan is forecasted to reach 450m in our lifetime as South Korea implodes. That looks like our future.

Social factors are not considered enough. As societies get more materialistic, and socio-economically advanced, there seems to be more individualistic, privacy[in the wrong way, escalating to extreme isolationism], lack of social interaction and bonding etc.

I myself felt odd during the time I stayed in the US, the whole concept of individualism and privacy was taken too far, and everybody felt lonely in their own way. People moved around in fixed schedules and paths, almost like an open air prison. Given limited social interaction outside work[where you can't even sneeze without offending some one]. This really felt like passion and purpose in life was slowly fading away. I can imagine how a society with this sort of a lifestyle could fare on the longer run. People would want lesser and lesser people around them, and interact with them even lesser as time would proceed.

Countries like India and Pakistan definitely have third world infrastructure, but the social infrastructure is very strong and likely to remain, this is due to socio-religious reasons. For this reason, people get married and have 2+ kids.
Accent != race.

So you're the racist for assuming you can identify someone's race by their accent.
In my rural unit in the densest area of Seattle, I routinely have to hold my phone slightly to the left or all network requests are a crapshoot. I also often have to force quit the browser just to resume any network requests. If your website requires that much hand holding, most people don’t know how to do it even if they know they need to or want to.
Clickbait title. No one wants to jump through the current elevation of hoops to become a law professor.

Obviously the previously lower hoops led to poor outcomes for the students, or the hoops wouldn't have been raised.
Whenever someone talks about page weight they mean from a cold start with an empty cache.
I find this topic very interesting. My observation (anecdata-lly, but I would love to see RCTs or perhaps a cleanly designed ANOVA study) is that these symptoms of infertility are particularly (world-wide) prevalent in people who have (usually undiagnosed) metabolic syndrome & low cholecalciferol.

In almost all South-east Asian countries in particular, I have noticed high levels of sucrose consumption so I am curious if Korea is the similar to SEA, or if either of these factors apply to either of you?

Koreans have famously long working hours, but as you are not there, those stress factors should likely not apply to you.

Another point to note is that I have heard adoption is at least as difficult as IVF, emotionally & financially speaking, although there's less physical pain. At least IVF can point you to where the problem lies (the knowledge of that can be disconcerting) providing you perhaps avenues to mitigate/ameliorate those factors, which could improve your overall QoL and also lead to better health-outcomes.
You've reviewed ALL regulations? Must have taken a while
Tell HN: About every week I get a new letter for a data breach
I got one from Plex today. Usually I get them by mail. I got a letter a week before and a week before that. So it seems the frequency is increasing.
WOW. that is a huge jump. what is going on? twins are generally not favored in Korean culture I believe, not sure what the attitude is outside of it.
This feels like those jokes that end with:

> That man's name? Albert Einstein.
A lot of icon frameworks are moving to SVG embedded on the page.
Better usability - compared to the lazy fontawesomes out there.
Thank the EPA.
That point doesn't seem particularly intuitive to me. A society in population decline is a society where the old outweigh the young. You would seemingly have a higher ratio of long-term experts to young learners than you do under a population growth scenario.

If there is a risk, your risk isn't that you have too few experts to offer training, it's that the young learners are spread too thin. There aren't enough people looking to learn for all the people who have knowledge to pass down and so you lose knowledge in that transition.

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With that said, I find the general premise that we would be looking at some kind of dark age with the level of population decline any of us are likely to see in our lifetimes, nearly comical.

The global population now is around 8 billion. It was around 3 billion in 1960 (4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1999). It doesn't seem to me that the pace of change or technological advancement was particularly slow in any of those time periods, and the substantial productivity gains since then would alone suggest that we'd be more efficient for those population levels than things were at that time.
What platform did you use to build your website? I like how fast it loads!
That's exactly it, lots of people grew up with it and enjoy the skill of it.

I just came back from Monterrey Motorsports Week where lots of rich old guys race many decades old race cars around the track. Again, inferior in every way to a modern car yet its a thing, a big thing.
Manual transmissions unfortunately seem like, as they die off, are being relegated to shitbox cars or (mostly high end) sports cars.

That said, if you can find them, there are still some modern-ish BMWs that aren't M-series that come in manual. I picked up a 2016 340i and modded in CarPlay, and it feels like the best of the old world and modern world - rides the line perfectly for me. Will be sad when I finally have to let it go.
Yes I'm agreeing with you.

My point is their terms of service preclude basically anyone holding Tether from redeeming Tether in exchange for US dollars at Tether's sole discretion so even so-called good actors are being ripped off. This is by no means a substitute for OFAC compliance.
That's a pretty car.
>Having a global pandemic led to the urgency to adapt them to human conditions where they have saved millions of lives

They've been trying for 10 years to get approval for human use. COVID was just the battering ram used to get them authorized for emergency use.

And your last point on saving millions of lives is complete speculation which is unknowable and unprovable. I can just as easily make the claim that cross reactive immunity from a precious Coronaviris infection saved millions of lives.
I avoid companies that don't have live chat (text) support.

With live chat, if the person sounds dumb or unable to fix my issue, I just ask to talk to a human.
I assume you don’t have small kids and you live in a flat sunny part of France with good road infrastructures for biking.
OR we could say "you had 65 years to save up, no way in hell are we going to keep crippling the economic prospects of our youth to fund your retirement"
The mark of Cain was a mark of protection. He was actually quite successful starting a city and siring the first Enoch.
I, too, can pull numbers out of thin air.

But realistically, what additional work are we looking to have done to accommodate a manual gearbox over automatic? Very little I'd imagine.
The important thing to know is that they did so because the economics of defensive aggregation were insufficient to return capital to the investors.
https://watabou.itch.io/village-generator is lovely, though I don't know the backend specifics.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2017/02/22/how-u...

Government involvement is part of the reason we're here. A college charging more money isn't 'dark'--they too have bills. Attending a college to major in something is an investment which should include a cost/benefit analysis.
> That this bike friendliness comes from a conscious shift and a lot of hard work in the last few decades?

The infrastructure and safety comes from a conscious shift and a lot of hard work, roughly starting in the 1970s. But cycling used to be the predominant mode of personal transportation until well into the 1960s; the average Dutch person simply couldn't afford a car until then. There are films of throngs of bicyclists completely blocking the road for cars, purely by overwhelming numbers. There were campaign films "educating" bicyclists about "their proper place on the road".

(A short, easy example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTcQ9tSyUCs . It's a commercial, it's message is "It's no fun driving a car in Amsterdam; bring a bicycle!")

Bicycle-safe infrastructure was as much about clearing the main road for motorists, as it was about making bicyclists safer, and relatively speaking, bicycles have dwindled in importance since the country started building bike-safe infrastructure; correlation, not causation.

So I'm a bit uncomfortable when people mythologize the infrastructural revolution of the 1970s. Yes, impressive work was done. But it happened within a specific cultural and economic context that doesn't exist anymore.
Yes, although I don't think a site as such is a good idea. Instead I imagine a WebRTC application connecting to many peers and exchanging text with them. The main website then has little to do with the content.

Furyhermore, it's not like people can't post illegal content even if they can't spam. In a way, your readoning regarding it is like responding to a threat as if the person in question can't realize it even if his conditions are met.
>Some consumers are replacing their smartphones with feature phones ... and still others are turning to apps that track, filter, and limit smartphone usage (e.g., https://inthemoment.io/). Our research suggests that these measures may be doubly beneficial for the digitally weary; by redefining the relevance of their devices, these consumers may both reduce digital distraction and increase available cognitive capacity.

It's good to know my decision to uninstall all the social media and disable notifications from almost everything on my smartphone is backed by evidence. 8)
Could you elaborate on this? What is being proxied, http requests? And can you use any CF IP?
Stop noticing patterns!

-Joking
Well we can't hold manufacturers accountable when a 12 year old is killed by AR-15s so i don't see why we care about a bike.
> there is usually always someone willing to be on the other side of the trade

This is usually true in financial markets. When it's not, we call it a crisis.
That would be further down the path.

In this design, I have to imagine both groups' sessions were very much affected by thoughts of "am I about to trip or is this just allergy relief?" To be honest, I am uncomfortable with the thought of a participant being unsure if they had been given a psychedelic.

Consider that a non-trivial number got it wrong! To me that signals some of the control group participants may have been quite agitated.

I wouldn't mind seeing a self-controlled design where participants are randomized to receive either psilocybin with therapy or non-psilocybin therapy first, but ultimately end up receiving both. As others have noted it's not just the drug, it's the drug and the experience of therapy so I think the two ought to be packaged.

Ultimately though, what I am most curious about is the long term sustenance (and/or repeatability) of any effects and also whether any negative effects appear later.

The first wave of psychedelic research also showed some promise, but their utility faded. Have we gotten any better? Six months of alcohol use disorder or depression relief is great and useful, but the goal ultimately is long term relief.
Just at meta where he was involved in Oculus. He's moved on to working on AGI on his own company (see news here https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/john-carmack-agi-keen-rais...).
It's mental how much has left CA for Texas. Not just people, but companies. Tesla, HP, Oracle, Charles Schwab, about 60 headquarter moves out of CA per year for the last few years.