skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof-of-stake does not solve the Byzantine General's Problem. Therefore, it does not provide decentralized consensus.

PoW is the only known solution: https://gist.github.com/oleganza/8cc921e48f396515c6d6

This paper attempts to provide proof but fails (https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf), they effectively assume away the Bizantine Generals Problem.
Having handled 70+ exciting and complex projects since earning first client, I realized how critical the Discovery phase in product development is. If to get it right, the chances that the future product will be a success increase greatly! Because discovery is what helps one understand the product UX and plan the next steps of product development and not fuck up
> but if I were to do again I would just use sqlite

Yeah, I tried to use shelve for some very simple stuff because it seemed like a great fit, but ultimately found that I had a much better time with tortoise-orm on top of sqlite.

If you need any kind of real feature, just use sqlite.
It is not the same page.

Look carefully at point 10.
Taxis aren’t available “to everyone” they don’t go into “dangerous neighborhoods” or pick up minorities
The best solution is for the background color (and possibly other colors) to be configurable for the application, as many applications allow. If a user prefers white or black background, he/she usually prefers it in all applications.

256 or more colors has the drawback that the user can’t configure the colors anymore to his/her needs (light vs. dark, high-contrast, color blindness, etc.), unless the application also provides comprehensive theming support. In that case, the 16-color variant is a much simpler solution.
I really wish there was more use of Jitsi and other alternatives that would allow you to host on other servers etc. Not because I dislike Zoom but just because (1) competition is good, and (2) there's always situations like this either globally or locally that arise and it would be nice to have more options.
Effectively, the entire internet is privatized. To put another way, it is impossible to access those government websites without using a private service.

And since the government does not provide an email system, you still need to use a private service to access those public resources.
ETH as cryptocurrency mainnet still has the same high gas fee when it was PoW. Some layer 2 solutions will have the utility to use their token as cryptocurrency because low gas fees.
Putin Is Trying to Turn Ukraine into a Culture War
> According to a 2009 study of Australian men, short guys make less money than their taller peers (about $500 a year per inch); are less likely to climb the corporate ladder (according to one survey, the average height of a male Fortune 500 CEO is six feet); and, for the cis and straight among us, have fewer romantic opportunities with women (a 2013 study conducted in the Netherlands found that women were taller than their male partners in just 7.5 percent of cases). I’m five six on a good day, and I’ve found that being short is great for flying economy class—and not much else.

Unbelievable :(
Yeah, risk for the proprietary competition.
3x hash rate @ same $USD value == 1/3rd the rewards per hash
Financials – Simons Foundation 2021 Annual Report
I have certainly considered that censoring speech is harmful. Which is why I think we should minimize government involvement in this and let private platforms decide what they want to publish, and which people they want to associate with.

What you still haven't grappled with is that lots of individuals are working, solo and together, to restrict speech of marginalized groups. You seem to be very exercised about keeping Nazis active on Twitter, but not at all concerned about the speech of the people they are trying to censor.

> If law enforcement is failing to enforce those laws, that's an argument for justice reform

Oh? And how much work are you doing on this? Because if you are putting your time into "theoretical free speech rights of Nazis are very important" to the exclusion of "people targeted by Nazis must not be driven from the public square", then your priorities "follow trivially" from that.
My personal pet-peeve is devs using the number input for things that contain digits but aren't "numbers" (credit card numbers, 2fa codes, postal codes etc)[0]. Number input provides a lot of footguns and you're usually better off using something else.

[0] https://kilianvalkhof.com/2022/css-html/are-you-sure-thats-a...
I spent an unusually large amount of time trying to get this color change just right:
https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/pull/446

It's the blue and yellow only, but IMHO it made Solvespace a lot more readable.
To cancel a yearly plan, you must a) talk to their support staff (not available as an option in the portal) and b) pay the remainder of the period anyway.

The only time you can freely modify your subscription is one month before your renewal date.

It's borderline illegal!
6 comments, not a lot... Should show people that successful Show HN isn't the end-all be-all that some believe.

Here is some more interesting submissions with 30+ comments:

- Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685407 - 135 points|7 years ago|40 comments

- Introducing Vector Networks: Generalized path editing for graphics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070600 - 198 points|7 years ago|30 comments

- Figma 1.0 – Collaborative interface design tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597915 - 340 points|6 years ago|58 comments

One interesting comment made ~6 years ago

> I hope they'll eventually choose this route. I also hope they won't be as greedy as Adobe. vladdanilov on Sept 28, 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12599444
ETH classic hash rate went from 50 to nearly 300 Th/s. https://2miners.com/etc-network-hashrate
I work at a FAANG as a SWE. Never spent more than 5 minute on Leetcode. I do mostly frontend, but I doubt a manager’s interview would be very different from an algorithms coding perspective.
Look at the neighborhoods outside of Manhattan and you'll see plenty of places already near transit stations that could easily double or triple capacity just by putting in townhouses or triplexes.
A bank seems like one of the worst businesses to operate as a money laundering front. They are subject to a lot of disclosures and reviews other companies aren't.
I'm not AngloAmerican, you prejudicial, Racist fuck
I love solvespace. Thanks for contributing to it!
Anyone here can lodge this simple form. If you think this merger will substantially lesson competition and stifle innovation lodge a complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

At a minimum, they will investigate this and make inquiries (typically within months) if they see a high volume of complaints.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...

"Some mergers change market dynamics in ways that can lead to higher prices, fewer or lower-quality goods or services, or less innovation.

Section 7 of the Clayton Act prohibits mergers and acquisitions when the effect "may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." "
Any alternatives? Cookies baners are incredibly annoying.
The question isn't "does Cuba do shitty things?", though.

The question is a) "why is Cuba singled out over places like China that do similar (and often worse) shitty things?" b) "why are we ignoring decades of failure of the embargo to induce any meaningful change?"
Could be a good investment if you do it while you're young
> A 0% mortgage with a 1% property tax - theoretically - costs you -2% (x 5 for leverage per year).

How did you calculate that?
Same here, used it for three years. Never a problem, works great. It's trendy to hate on Microsoft here though.
> If a criminal spies on my credit card # as I make a purchase and uses that to go on a spending spree I can fix it with the credit card company with little cost but a few hours of time and frustration.

I'll take this one step further.

My credit card company has caught every instance of fraud on my card. So I've had zero hours of frustration yet multiple instances of people trying to use my credit card number. One time they even had the card - they had stolen it that night and tried to use it at a local gas station. A fraud alert woke me up.
The voting rights of those individuals were restricted, as gp said.

You're rephrasing it to make it sound like its something materially different, yet it's the same thing that goes against the spirit - and likely the letter - of the law.
Going public also leaves you to the short sightedness of the public market. There is a reason that public companies are taken private when they need to make long term changes.

Also, Adobe can invest money in a product without going to the public markets for more money or taking out loans.
Data point of 1: Try quitting caffeine. Worked wonders for my brain fog and anxiety. Again, data point of 1
I was thinking almost every B2C tech product has gotten worse or stagnated the last 5 years. Even if the underlying technology may have improved (e.g. perhaps YouTube/FB content is hosted more efficiently now) the end product for the user has basically not improved or gotten worse.
I think I agree, except I think it should explicitly be a vacancy tax. We need investors who buy builds to manage and rent out to residents and businesses. Investors who buy buildings to avoid inflation are a problem. I know many local buildings that have been vacant, but available for rent for over 15 years. That tells me that they are asking for too much. They need an incentive to rent it out cheaper, or sell, or forfeit the land. Most (all?) real estate ownership chains go back to someone just putting down a fence anyway, if you essentially abandon a part of a town you should lose the right to claim it as your own. But I do think the local municipalities should make these rules for themselves instead of being mandated by the state.
I don't think you should buy a house unless you really need one. The transaction and maintenance costs are usually downplayed, and you don't know how it will do as an investment. If you don't need a house save and invest.
I tend towards the theory that POS is more centralizing than POW, and the question is will it stay decentralized or end up with one address (or rather one entity) controlling 50%?

With POW a miner needs to continually provide new investments to be competitive, with new and more effective hardware and electricity.

But with POS you can just keep your coins in one place, and it will keep building up with no new investments at all (except running a node, a relatively small cost).

And in POS if someone ever reaches 50%, then it can forever hold that position, and it's essentially game over (baring a drastic hard fork).

It doesn't seem that unlikely that one big exchange will accomplish it.
> The price should not be a function of the interest rate, it should be an independent variable.

And what should that variable be based on?

House prices = How much the buyer can afford (savings and income) - Cost of interest

You are saying that somehow we should ignore the cost of interest, but like, how???

If interest rates go up, House prices go down. Makes sense to me.
Sell the news.

Besides, BTC and ETH care tightly coupled. Perhaps some people sold BTC because they think it is now at a disadvantage compared to ETH and bizarrely it caused ETH to drop in price as well.
The engineers are definitely not in charge.
Signing is very rare these days, non-existent for small purchases... and still seemingly rare for larger ones. I've spent hundreds of dollars in single transactions without signature or pin.
> It’s the biggest wealth producing opportunity of the next decade or two and HN doesn’t get it at all.

It HAS been the biggest wealth producing opportunity of the LAST decade , along with Bitcoin.

They are now both priced for world changing paradigm shift and perfect execution doing so. Which means that there is no wealth producing opportunity at all considering that you need everything to pan out great just to mantain the current valuation.

Also everything is an S-curve and once you arrive to 750bn (or whatever they crypto-marketcap is) there is physically nowhere to go to from there.
When it comes to blockchains, it is considered good to have the "work" be spread across a wide number of parties. The goal is to have decentralized consensus. If any one entity, or a small number of entities, gain a significant share of either the mining hash-rate, or the staking pools, then there is a possibility of something called a 51% attack. While the two institutions from the tweet are unlikely to perform such an attack, their significant share of ETH raises questions about how decentralized the platform truly is. One such question that arises is, can the US Government impose restrictions on these pools so that transactions involving sanctioned addresses are not included?
I hate to ask, since you built this framework with vanilla in mind... but what happens when you use this with React? Does the "infinitely transformed DOM" work with React components and states? Should we not even try?
https://youtu.be/ULBj3Ne45wE at 19:13
Ah a fellow doktorkaroljohlnarnihfahèr connoisseur
It would be, except a lot of people were only able to get into the current overstrained housing market at all because of miniscule interest rates.
Check out Framer. It's actually a really nice UI/UX and prototyping tool, but is pretty opinionated in how you set up your file (IMO). I used it a lot when I was freelancing because it gave me a little more power than Sketch did, at the time, and was more mature than Figma. They are the one product I know of currently that has web, Windows and Mac clients.
I'm not a browser extension developer -- but I wonder how long it would take for another extension that does exactly the same thing.
If you know you're dealing with a number, use `.valueAsNumber` instead of `.value`. Value is a string per the specification, but `.valueAsNumber` does what you expect (for datetime there is also `.valueAsDate`).
Postmortem?
Anyone here can lodge this simple form and I'd encourage you to do so. Especially if you think this merger will substantially lesson competition and stifle innovation lodge a complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

At a minimum, they will investigate this and make inquiries (typically within months) if they see a high volume of complaints.

See
https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
For more info on the relevant law :)
I think it's worth mentioning that a pool large enough to do malicious things on the chain and get away with it is strongly disincentivized from doing so.

It would take billions of dollars worth of ETH to do such a thing, and then doing it would destroy confidence in the coin and absolute tank the price, costing the evil pool hundreds of millions.
If you use a locale where commas are decimals and use number input, it is a decimal in the code. I have my computer and phone set to en-NL, which has that style of numbers.
So who are you going to get to take their place?
My fellow countrymen, I am grateful for the time you have given to my humble endeavor, and I remain ever hopeful that you will find some small gem of beauty or truth that will illuminate your day.

The code, if one wishes to peruse it, may be found upon the GitHub website. [1]

[1] https://github.com/lwneal/victorianhackernews
you mean like PenPot?

Check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262
Proof-of-stake does not solve the Byzantine General's Problem. Therefore, it does not provide decentralized consensus.
This effectively "unsolves" that which PoW solved.

This paper is not proof (https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf), they assume away the Byzantine Generals problem.
You're still supposed to drive around the circle though, right? Or am I misunderstanding?

That intersection you showed is clearly big enough. This one doesn't look big enough. Or is it? There are smaller intersections than this one, also. (And I realized that this one might be a bad example because it's not four directions.)

https://goo.gl/maps/fBEysywZgdQVWH7N9
I am a card-carrying Microsoft hater and I have to say that I find Teams to be quite good all in all. Shockingly so in fact given my general expectations about Microsoft products. (I use Teams at work where I have no choice otherwise I would not touch it with a ten foot pole.)
In this case yes, it sounds like the pessimistic viewpoint may be the right one. However, for a while now HN has been going downhill with armchair analysis that inevitably concludes that any action taken by a business is wrong/harmful/bad, so I am thankful you took the time to be thoughtful before reacting.
Not yet, but when the combined effects of the merge + EIP 1559 drive ETH to flip BTC _and_ the ever-increasing "BTC wastes X countries worth of power per day" it will eventually happen.

No chance at all while BTC remains top dog (in market cap)
> is it that java.util.Random is not meant for serious cryptographic use?

Indeed it never was. SecureRandom (a subclass of Random in a different package, grouped with other cryptography related functionality) was introduced in Java 1.1 in 1997.

> I know there are other parts of the Java standard lib that are so terrible [1] that people for years have recommended not using them, like anything with dates and timezones...

The original Java date classes (also from the 1.1 era) were functional and correct, but badly designed. A modern time API was introduced in Java 8 in 2014.
Hi!

Thanks for this lib, it looks very nice so far.

I was wondering if DFlex supports nesting containers inside items in infinite depth.
I saw you had nested example but I couldn't drag on item on the other container.

None the less promising, you say it's still in development, is there some aspects you are more specifically working on?
Reminds me of my favorite crypto joke: "cryptocurrency is an alternate banking system for people whose primary complaint about the 2008 financial crisis was that they weren't _in_ on it."
use ublock origin and you will continue to spend as much as time and still not be bothered by ads....
Worst of all, the actual phone call app.

Why much I jump through countless hoops just to make it so a third party doesn't have the ability to take over the full screen and audio of the device I was actively using?

Ideally an incoming call would only vibrate the device briefly and put an icon in the status bar. That's it.
Instead, I don't remember what I did anymore but it's completely suppressed on my device now. It's actually worked out OK because I don't give my number to anyone new and anyone who does know it also knows by now that I don't pick up and to contact me some other way. Means that ~100% of incoming calls are spam and my device is correctly filtering them all to /dev/null
Quiet quitting is a response to toxic management.

With the establishment of “remote” working came the expectation of “always available” working. Forget work-life balance. You’re working remote, your work is your life.

No, it isn’t.

I’ve worked remote off and on since 2003, and never seen work-life balance this bad.

Since 2020, I’ve experienced 8pm emails with a request for some specific results “by tomorrow”, a seemingly unlimited expansion of duties, and similar tactics that seem designed to extract maximum labor for the privilege of working outside the office.
By paying an early termination fee, which is 50% of the subscription cost of the remaining months[0].

0. https://helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/creative-cloud-...
form method = ‘POST’ and a submit button. Usually.
Funnily enough, I left a comparable (to Boston, in incomes, house prices, political attitudes, etc.) metro for a smaller city in a stereotypical "red state", which the residents of my former city are fond of describing as a third-world country. My quality of life has increased in almost all the ways I care about.

I entered into a 30-year mortgage at slightly above 3% last year, with a reasonable amount of money down, and my mortgage payments plus tax on a bigger and newer house are substantially less than what I used to pay in rent. Plus I deal with less traffic, I encounter more diversity in my day-to-day life, and people, even the less well-to-do, are happier here. The only real downside has been that overall the availability and quality of fine dining is less here.

Naturally, people don't move solely for the ability to buy a cheaper house, but it is something worth considering, depending on your circumstances. I was in a similar boat as yours before I moved, where I could theoretically have afforded a house where I was, but I didn't want to.
> Adobe has been unable to find technological innovation organically…

In-house innovation is not the problem¹. What Adobe hasn't been able to replicate with XD or Illustrator is Figma's success with network effects related to collaborative editing and review.

https://research.adobe.com/research/
The only problem with this analogy is that “cloud” was able to quickly produce numerous examples of material cost savings. You’re right insomuch as the banks were all over it as soon as the business case was proven. But there’s nothing comparable in the crypto space.

Who is using crypto to deliver mainstream financial products (banking, insurance, credit cards, loans, mortgages) at lower cost?
I hope the antitrust authorities take a good look at this one.
Are you going to use LiteFS then for replication [1]?
LiteFS replication is asynchronous, meaning failover can lose the latest data.
Will LiteFS scale down to 0? Does scaling down to zero mean electing a leader when scaling back up to 1 and will that have a delay? Will the read replicas scale down to 0 along with LiteFS when the primary scales down to 0?

[1] https://github.com/superfly/litefs
DropBox isn’t doing to well itself if you haven’t checked. How well are their previous acquisitions doing? Would you rather have a company acquire Figma with no expertise in the area (MS)?
Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at scale
> "normies"

The context was "us normies"

I literally just came here today to tell everyone that I learned something, and you ruined it. You raised the bar, it's no longer enough that I learned something, I have to make it accessible for everyone else too, or I am a bad person. Thanks.
It is well on the other side of that border. What a crappy hit piece.

Big pharma’s moves into the cannabis industry are to be watched, but painting this broad stroke is just ridiculous.
It makes HN worse in your opinion. The fact that these posts get so much engagement shows that most people do enjoy these kinds of posts.
However, email is easily portable, you can download your messages, and even own your domain, so you can switch email providers without changing emails.
ReplyDesk
Multichannel eCommerce customer service helpdesk - simple and effective
Just checked out Penpot, it's pretty good! Definitely usable for daily driving although I'm sure looking deeper there will be some features I miss. Going to try importing some Figma designs...
Yep. Just import their filter list to uBlock Origin, and move on.
I've never seen any policy actions in the US that indicate housing is supposed to be affordable. There's a whole bunch of talk and politicians largely proclaiming how their going to solve things, but I've never seen it play out.

A few areas have rent control, that's about it.