skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s amounted to a lot, actually. One of the stated goals of Bitcoin was to reduce government control. And it has, magnificently: in the drug trade.

Seriously, online drug marketplaces have become massive and highly lucrative. Estimates vary anywhere between $700 million to over $1 billion each year.

Cryptocurrencies have also become useful asset stores for the wealthy living in authoritarian countries. So much so, that an estimated floor of $3-4 bil of cryptocurrency assets during the peak was just that.

I used to joke: if someone says they’re into crypto currencies, they’re either a tool or have good ketamine. Years later, that rule still shakes out.
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Thermodynamical impossibility.
Your neighbor's lawn guy can get work in many other places.

But there is no comparable alternative to CloudFlare.

Same with Twitter, Google, etc. An individual or small business cannot escape the influence of these companies and being censured by them is a huge and sometimes unbearable cost.

That's the difference.

It's the reason that if the random person who owns your local monopoly power/water/phone company doesn't like how you look, talk, or think, he can't cut you off services.

Because if he can - if CloudFlare can - they gain massive unjustified influence over the discourse of our entire society.

It is a massive disenfranchisement of huge segments of the population. The only reason you support it is because you don't like the people getting crushed under this boot of technological power, just as you don't like the lawn guy. If you liked them, you'd be up in arms over the injustice and the overreach of corporate power. Please try the basic basic exercise of, "What if someone else was targeted?", if you don't you have no principles, you only have friends and enemies.
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Fair points. Sure, pointy ears I guess is expected, although I think they could definitely make it work otherwise. Regarding the races, it seems there is a vagueness to the lore which means an opportunity to stay within Tolkien and still expand it with these types of questions (what it means to be human, etc). This is one way they could work with what already exists while adding something new.
That being said, highways are terrible for mass mobilization, mostly because they also represent pretty easy targets to bomb (for either attack or defense), and also because of how quickly they become congested.

They were amongst the first targets of the war in Ukraine, for instance.
You can work backward from this and get the number of carbon-carbon bonds a human should consume as food, which is fun to think about.
the speed at which the vaccine was produced was not just administrative flexing, but was enabled by the nature of the technique.

old school would have taken 6 months minimum to grow a vaccine and large scale bioprocess plantization would have been needed.

the covid virus changes so fast that old school bioprocess would have left us effectively without vaccine.
My problem isn’t with quality. Their firmware makes you buy new laser jet cartridges like it was an inkjet. Stay Far away
I've been told credential easing is by far the easiest one to implement. Doctors often do 2-6 years of excess schooling residencies learning areas of medicine that will never be relevant to them. That's 10-20% more time working for existing doctors, and who knows how many more people would enter the profession. Nurses could be empowered to make doctor lite decisions very easily.
Except health is something literally everybody wants so much that they can charge literally anything. That's a big difference.

It's like charging for air.
I just want to see the literal characters as well. Computers are hard enough as it is, don't need to add visual tricks into the mix.
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>Should we apply the same sort of "stupid X law" to people who drink alcohol or drive motorcycles or play rugby?

Yes, precisely. Keep chopping down at these factors until all that's practically left is private healthcare -- that's a feature not a bug. It's enough that I have to pay the bill to scrape the blood off the street when a motorcycle is crashed, not interested in paying someone elses motorcycle related health premiums on top of that (I've gotten enough motorcycle injuries while carrying my own private healthcare :) )

>This is one of the moral hazards of a socialized medical system.

As you say with public healthcare the effect (you say temptation) is to socialize your health related losses while privatizing the gains you reap.
I’m on a mission to teach thousands of people to write online, share their ideas, and build an online audience. In order to do that, I teach an online course called Write of Passage. In five weeks of intense instruction, I give hundreds of students the tools to publish their ideas, build an online audience, and accelerate their career. The essence of the course is described in my essay, The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online. Students also leave with a network of friends who share their curiosity for learning.

Yes, David, please teach me how to write great OC that Arianna Huffingon can steal.
This is probably not a good thing for America and it’s Allies. As we see stronger relations being built by America’s enemies. BRICS now also placing pressure on USD dominance. Interesting times ahead.
Mars will never be terraformed, or colonized. Place is a dump with no appealing features.

Any off-Earth population will have to live in cans rotating to simulate gravity.
8GB in ‘16 would be a nice amount - 64GB seems a bit high for me today. And 8GB in 16 was common but I feel 64GB today is relatively rare.
Perhaps on a state level?
With that amount of RAM you could bind an entire VM storage on it by using /dev/shm or some other TMPFS directory. Amazing.
I read some updates about the housing first program you’re talking about a while back. If I recall correctly it fell apart after a year or two and was quietly abandoned. The reasons why aren’t very clearly explained, but the coverage I recall insinuated that the government failed to fund it or build new affordable housing
No, they can't because of economies of scale and network effects and cultural targeting from other parts of the leftist corporate cabal.

Simple example is the kind of targeting that has happened on Gab and Truth Social and Hatreon, etc. Payment services shut down, hosting denied, domains unregistered, etc.

You're talking about being an upstart competing against an established behemoth, with your only distinguishing feature being freedom of speech. But of course if your big thing is being against witch burning, you'll be inundated by witches, targeted and shut down for that reason.

The "Just build your own internet and payment infrastructure totally cut off from existing systems, under constant media vilification, bro" argument has been made a million times, tried many times, doesn't work at all.
I’d pay for a local program that would fully text index every page I visit forever so I can search for them again quickly.
Bug report:

Sound permanently on after hitting next button once on Chromium 104.

Next button does move to next video, but also enables sound. Additionally, this breaks internal state, and the button still shows the muted symbol (despite the sound now being on). Hitting the muted sound button switches the sound button symbol to unmuted, sound still on as before. Hitting it again to mute the sound doesn't work, and doesn't change the symbol back to muted.
I agree. Your Democratic mayors and supervisors did that. They tore down the SOMA SROs and replaced them with tech campuses without a plan of where to house those people. But it is multi-factorial. You have mental health institutions closed down a decade earlier as well. They should have been reformed instead of closed down.
Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome from Scratch
Holy fuck, be sure to turn down your sound before you visit. That should be muted by default.
There was a service that one could register for a couple of years ago (Paribus I believe) that would automatically scan your Amazon emails and request a price match from Amazon if the price dropped. I believe that's the primary reason as to why they dropped it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/free-money-of-a-sort-paribus-...
so what you are saying is that only very rich people will be able to participate because:

- you need good hardware and access to good networks to meet the up-time guarantee s (can be solved with pooling the money I guess)

- you need to have enough eth to spare locking up portion of it for years (this can only be solved if you find another person to join the pool and take your place by giving eth to you but there is no incentive for pools to offer this)
I’ve been pleased with Skylines even heavily modded in 16 GB, but that’s with all the “save memory” mods running.
CSV only seems simple. Lots of parsing edge cases. Sqlite isn't readable by hand but it's basically bulletproof. NDJSON is literally just newline seperated JSON, it's just easier to process as a stream without a special parser.
I might, but I haven't so far. And if I do run out of password manager apps, then it is probably time to make my own.
Python may be easy but it’s a goddamn mess
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Top JavaScript Concepts to Know Before Learning React
I think this is very spiritually similar to the intent of Solid, and Solid’s creator often cites Knockout as an inspiration. I haven’t even looked at his Twitter yet since this announcement but I expect he’ll have a lot of nuance to offer on the subject.

At a very high level, the thing that this offers versus (anything) is a very minimal reactivity solution that’s small and designed specifically to be integrated into Preact’s VDOM. Other than that, it’s a whole lot of details at a level that most people won’t care about beyond the minutiae of implementation and the nuance people actively implementing these libraries can provide.
Yeah you had to go to Unix systems or similar because PAE x86 couldn’t get past 64GB.
Monzy – Kill Dash Nine (2006)
Calling these "videos" is a bit of a stretch I think.
IIUC Clasp is made from clang + lisp because it uses clang for the implementation.
That's a good point, I may have overstated the issue. However, from what I understand it is not too difficult to find oneself being treated by somebody outside of their insurance network. This could easily lead to a bankruptcy. Furthermore, many do not feel comfortable or confident navigating these byzantine insurance landscapes. This leads to people avoiding medical care regardless of insurance status.
Burnout is caused by lack of community. If they fail to create at least some sense of community, they end up hearing stories of employees burning out or just getting really jumpy and distrustful. These stories stick in their mind and they feel ashamed to be doing a poor job as leaders. They are trying to control what they can to minimize their own sense of shame.

They also don’t want to fire someone after paying 2 months salary to an engineer working 60-hour weeks writing useless code. They’d rather pay someone to spend 7 hours a week coordinating with their team and 30 hours a week writing useful code.

In theory they could hire leaders who have spent years running WoW guilds. In practice, that would redefine their own jobs into ones that they were years away from being qualified for.
The point is to make a credibly neutral network, yes. You don't get more for free, you get more by locking up and risking your capital in a validator for defending the network. You risk getting slashed for doing that incorrectly or maliciously. So no, nothing has changed with regards to Proof of Stake except that validators aren't performing throwaway hash calculations at the cost of massive amounts of electricity for rewards.
Aussie chipmaker Morse Micro banks raise from Japanese giant
Thank you for your kind words, and thank you @CharlesW for submitting this
Arsenic Found in Tap Water of NYC Public Housing Complex
This fellow is a hoot. Spend some quality time in his channel to see the other cool projects he hacks.
Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year
Is the main draw of this performance? I gotta say, I think it's a lot more confusing than React hooks.

I actually like how useEffect has an explicit dependency array because you know when it will be triggered. Signal effects are implicit, and if you don't want it to trigger you have to use .peek(). I think I prefer React's explicit accessing of previous state to peeking when needed.

Why can you destroy effects? That seems like a recipe for disaster. Again, I like how hooks are permanent top-level calls. You know they always run.

When are effects executed? React makes it explicit that they are executed after the render.

What is the purpose of batching other than performance? Are there any possible negative effects of making multiple signal updates without batching?

Writing this has made me a realize I really like the explicitness of React's model.
Here is a really cool automatic tool that rewrites floating point expressions to be more accurate: https://herbie.uwplse.org/
Nokia always wins the pivot contest.
Don’t get so hung up on precise numbers. We all know Americans are obese and that greatly adds to healthcare costs.

I can’t imagine any downside of trying to prioritize lowering obesity.
Taken to its conclusion, PoW and PoS are exactly the same.

In a PoW environment you can take some of your coins, 'stake' them by buying a share in a mining pool, and then 'un-stake' them by selling your share in the mining pool.

The only difference is how much coal is burned and e-waste is generated along the way.

In both cases control and reward go to those with the most resources to deploy within said system.
What you're describing is referred to as governance in the blockchain community, and there is a ton of pre-existing literature and live examples of governance in action on chains like Ethereum. Go fork or try to build one! Governance is a killer feature of smart contract systems.
I think he later got a virus from downloading illegal music.
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see: page 20 https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/tools/TL200/TL221...

> We could certainly do much better, but blaming health care cost on metabolic diseases is disingenuous.

How so? Only recommendation for all these chronic conditions is 'diet and exercise' is it not ?

Obesity isn't the only one. I am not obese , not even close, but I have hyperlipidemia. I am managing it with 'diet and exercise' after initially being put on statins. Same with hypertension, heart disease ect. All of these are metabolic diseases. Sure, I'll give you 'mental health conditions' may not be a lifestyle disease ( Even those are being now linked to diet ) .
If the value of the currency has anything to do with the value of the energy spent, then there may be a significant shift away from a protected base value. And let's be clear, I'm thrilled. Waiting for those eBay GPUs as I write this.
One stupid old VM server from eBay throws me past the mark, and that doesn’t even count the other space heater that’s just off.
What difference does the population make other than that at 330 million economies of scale might appear that aren't significant at 5.6 million?
> Real people who haven't seen this have mobbed online votes because somebody else has told them to hate it.

As stated in another comment[1], Amazon already has the data on who has watched it and who hasn't. It's pretty clear that they're acting in bad faith by completely ignoring this data and removing all negative reviews, when they could have simply removed reviews from people who hadn't seen it.

> only allowing votes from people who used an Amazon account means cutting legitimate votes that saw it under another Amazon account, from an IMDB account, etc, etc. There is no perfect solution.

The solution above is more than good enough. The majority of people watch streaming content on their own accounts, and I'm willing to bet that that's also true for the vast majority (>95%) of watches. The solution above is more than adequate - the fact that Amazon isn't using it speaks to the fact that they don't actually care about the reviews being representative of what individuals thought when they watched it, they just want positive reviews.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32734997
Researchers train AI to predict EV battery degradation
IMO, everything post 2014 is of little importance.

By that point, Ukraine no longer trusted that Russia would respect its sovereignty and Russia no longer trusted that U Ukraine would remain neutral with NATO.
I use an analogy with perfect pitch to illustrate colour-blindness to those with regular colour vision.

People with perfect pitch can be played a note on a piano, and identify it sight-unseen. "That's a C-sharp", they'll say confidently. Most others can tell if a note is higher or lower than another, or can pick an interval.

Regular colour vision is perfect pitch for colours. Most folks can identify a blue or a green in isolation, but some like me can only see relationships between colours (one is "bluer" or "greener" than another).
To a non-observant reader, it might seem like a twist.
I was using obesity as a standin for metabolic syndrome to compare populations. Not sure if measure how many ppl have 'metabolic syndrome.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/metabolic-syndrome

metabolic disease = all things that can be fixed by lifestyle modifications ( unless you are too far gone, ie).

see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32744868
So many upgrades to meet “minimum” specs back then - I recall scrounging around to find a video card with just enough RAM to run SimCity 2000.

Now almost all upgrades are to make it better, not make it work at all.
Thank god we aren't discussing your imagination, then.
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I am that guy in the second row. Noted and will be corrected.
I hear stuff like "Comcast offers the fastest wifi for your gaming needs" anytime I am accidentally exposed to ads.
Yeah, well, that's just one study, man.

The "benefits" of psychedelics have always been hard to quantify. Yet people persist in consuming them. For thousands of years. Is all of that a placebo effect?

My personal experience of microdosing has been very positive. 100 mg of psylocybin allows me to actually feel the effects, slightly, and vastly improves my mood. It's been quite a while since I've had a bout of depression. If that's just due to my expectations, I don't really care.
Trustless for thee but none for me thanks.

I still can't believe anyone uttered the phrase 'code is law' unironically again after the ETH/ETC fork. After all, Vitalik effectively said he didn't care if your grandma's life savings got stolen, that's decentralization - but when it happens to the important people, well, it's time to have a come to Jesus and fork the chain.
Comments like this make me wonder if people are just making shit up because they hate Brendon Eich. If you're not just making it up, where did you get this idea from?
Either I spend too much time on HN or those were really easy.
The "problems" identified with the Kübler-Ross model seem to be twofold:

- That the popular perception of the model is not what Kuber-Ross herself had in mind and communicated. This can hardly be laid on her.

- That the empirical research, and it was both, has subjective elements and is again interpreted in contradiction of K-R's statements as some specific sequence of phases.

I'd bring to this a few additional observations:

Emotions seem to be common among at least many mammalian species. That is, both that they're a shared inheritence, and an evolutionary one. This isn't a novel observation, and the connection between emotion and evolution was first proposed, at book length, by Charles Darwin in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expression_of_the_Emotions...>.

Grief is one of those emotions. The notion of animal grief is well developed and much studied (see the Wikipedia overview: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_grief>). It seems highly likely that it serves some positive adaptive purpose.

As studied by K-R, one characterisation of the grief observed was of a profound change in the worldview of the patients themselves. That is, coming face to face with their own mortality or morbidity.

There is also at least an anecdotal understanding of stages of grief being associated with challenges to individual or group worldviews, paradigms, or understandings. This can be seen in, e.g, responses to the notions of limits to growth, in politics, and other social contexts.

What I suspect, though I've not come across any clear expression of this in scholarly literature, is that what we call grief is in actually part of a spectrum of responses to radical shifts in understanding of one's world. And that the stages, or perhaps more accurately phases or expressions relate to unlearning and relearning new patterns. That there's a value in not dropping a particular model too quickly, but that similarly there's not value in blindly holding on to a model which clearly no longer serves any specific use.

The lack of any significant discussion of these elements at least to my knowledge has long struck me as distinctly odd. Checking Google Scholar currently I find at least some theoretical work, e.g., Doka Understanding Grief <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/97813155...> and Hall, Bereavement theory <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02682621.2014.90...>, though by the blurbs, these don't seem to take the leap I'm suggesting.
> There's a comedian who does a bit about how humans might be the bad guy in horror movies made by aliens, because we can scar in situations that would kill other animals, and we can run in intervals for far longer than most other mammals.

I tried to find this skit but couldn't! Any more hints?
I have a desktop computer. But thanks to COVID days even I have a webcam attached.
Limiting it to non-desktop/laptop use does seem to be an oversight.
Firefox is also full of bloatware, telemetry and potential privacy concerns. Try enabling a firewall for Firefox and see how many domains are contracted on startup ...

I've sadly felt like I had to switch to Librewolf, a fork of Firefox that resembles Ungoogled Chromium. Sadly because Mozilla really needs all the Firefox users they can get... to stay alive. But they make it hard.
Rouge syntax highlighter removed support for Solidity “pyramid scheme”
Bittorent's main advantage (aside from not hosting every single chunk a file as separate entity) is that with tracker it effectively creates its own small network of hosts sharing a given torrent, and even in case of DHT you kinda just use it to find other peers for the one big torrent and that's about it.

Even in massive torrents with thousands of peers you just pick a bunch to talk with and that's it.

And publishing one was same thing essentially. Just that each peer's peer network will mesh enough to propagate data quickly.

> Also, bittorrent has more than 20 years of implementation experience and i'm sure with further work IPFS can be made to scale better.

It honestly looks like fundamental design issue. Bittorrent was blazing fast from the beginning and it only got better.
Euro slides below 99 cents after Russia halts gas supplies to Europe
But you don't use bitcoin to buy drugs, you'd want to use monero.