skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt about the effects of a creatine supplement on the muscles, as there the action mechanism is well understood, but I am more skeptical about the claimed cognitive effects, because the mechanism for such effects is not known yet.

Moreover, for substances like creatine, which can be produced in limited quantities by the human body, like also for DHA, EPA, choline or taurine, there may be large differences between individuals. Some people might not need supplements for one or more of these substances, at least when they are young, while for others supplements may be indispensable, at least when they become old.

In general, it is much more prudent to take a supplement, even when its necessity is not certain, than to not take it, because in the first case if your choice was wrong it just does not have any useful effect, while in the second case if your choice was wrong it could cause serious health problems.

I have already thought that I should try sometime in the future a creatine supplement, to see if I notice any change, but for now I cannot not see any cognitive differences between present and how I was before switching to an 100% vegan diet.
Onshore algae farms could feed the world sustainably
There are plenty of high density apartments that have public and private gardens available. But yeah, not something that will ever be available to everyone simply because there is only one ground floor.

In general, though, density doesn't mean that you can't have yards. Do you need a front yard, back yard, and two side yards to set up a wood fired pizza oven, grow potatoes, and build things? Nope. Just a backyard could be fine. So you could share an exterior wall with your neighbors, stick your front door right up against the street, and do all the same things as a freestanding house but at lower cost and higher density. If townhouses were more of a thing, you could have everything you want, AND not have to drive. The only problem is zoning laws.
This is the way I see academia, which has been thoroughly institutionalized by the industrial era. I know that you only mentioned the technical aspect education (which has been impacted as well), but this is a existential problem with humanity. The system attempts to divorce human beings from true knowledge that is based on experience to create artificial and theoretical constraints on human value. This is done to create a power differential by separating people into classes. This is why studying for specific fields are largely theoretical and not experiential. When we allow ourselves to be removed from experiential knowledge, we become automatons that are easy to control.
RSS doesn't let people lead discussions through their posts, or did I get something wrong about RSS?
School vs. Wikipedia
TLDR; yes.
Fightcade is the community-adopted way to play older fighting games online.
There were quite a few actually, most of this was sony's doing.

The most destructive was XCP around the time of MediaMax, which used randomness in what tones they produced, which would damage speakers unpredictably.

"MediaMax introduces a large amount of random jitter, making the
disc sound like it has been badly scratched or damaged;
XCP replaces the audio with random noise."

Key2Audio was the first tech that comes to mind that did this, originally employed on Celinne Dione's "A New Day Has Come" album. It would cause all types of issues, but one being random audio blips that sounded like when you turn on a bitcrusher and press the overdrive, it's easy to see how this can damage a speaker.

https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2017/cmsc818O/papers/less...

https://www.xboxaddict.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-10494....

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2127-copy-protected-d...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/dion-disc-co...
I wonder how much stuff its including there. I use the alpine package for transmission and its 1mb https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/tran...
#3 was warned about long ago. Look at the debates with Ross Perot in them. He predicted precisely what has happened. He essentially said if we have free trade with the rest of the world and they make $2 an hour and we make $10 an hour then jobs will not stop leaving until everybody makes $6 an hour. And that is precisely what is and has happened.

The question to me is how the political class in the US has become completely captured by globalist robber barons for decades.
> I feel like these are just kind of common sense opinions?

The difference is that you've answered every question as a probability of some unknown, which is just not something that most people do.

> I am pretty sure that most of the stories in, for example, the Bible were always meant to be read as metaphorical anyway.

That seems like a hot take. The bible being intended to be metaphorical seems unlikely. Especially given how much of it is just a straight historical log of things that happened. The stories were certainly embellished to convey certain takeaways, but it seems unlikely that you as the consumer were supposed to read past the embellishment. Retconning interpretations of things to be figurative because they no longer hold up against irrefutable science these days doesn't mean the text was intended to be figurative.
I lived in a recently-built high-rise in the U.S. that had a trash chute. A problem is that bags tear open easily, people throw away liquids in their bags (which leak even without tears). I've seen trails of trash juice leading from people's apartments to the trash chute, and even with the ventilation, when you open the door to the trash chute, it smells and it's dirty (because of torn bags, and the fact that the chute hatch is smaller than the average full trash bag, meaning you have to squeeze it in, usually causing more tears).

Make bigger trash chute doors, better bags, and smarter people, then trash chutes work. #1 is doable, #2 is hard because it's always a race to the bottom, and #3 is impossible.
Absolutely; as an example, last agency I worked for offered both directly integrated and headless Shopify builds. Headless costs a bit more, but came with a translation layer that also integrated with Magento's API in the event the client ever wanted to move away from Shopify.
Yup. Why break 2FA when we could have the Obamaphone program work with the case workers so that they don’t loose track of people in the first place?

Also, homelessness isn’t the problem we think it is. It’s millions of problems. Any solution will never help more than a subset of the homeless population. We need to iterate on small solutions to make progress.
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See this article

The “10,000-hour rule” was debunked again. That’s a relief.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/23/20828597/th...

"Which is why I find these debunkings of the 10,000-hour rule to be a complete relief. Because implied in the rule (at least, to me) is a deeply self-deprecating message: that if we fail to achieve greatness, it’s our own damn fault. And what screw-up would forgo greatness?"
https://github.com/mac-a-r0ni/mame/releases/tag/mame0248
Okay, so you’re saying something can be a pure negative, while not being an existential threat. Thank you for explaining your position.
Since you aren’t installing something that can be checked against an audited open source build, you always have to TRUST the publisher of the software.

You just take their word for it. They could always phone home any kind of data using steganography!

I replied to Moxie’s opposition to decentralized open source software, with arguments like this.
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You also dont have to look very hard for large communities that absolutely will not tolerate racists.

The difference between the fediverse and most other online places for manyyyyyy fediverse users who use it day to day is that if a bunch of racists show up and start making things shitty then somebody (mods) will ACTUALLY do something about it whereas every other online platform just didnt really care or defend the vulnerable.

Are there large communities of racists on isolated parts of the fediverse? Sure. It is an open source software, even Trump's shitstick social network tried to steal and use mastodon.
Hanwha was previously Samsung Wisenet?
Been using Transmission for years, my instance's stats is up to 1,902 days active across 72 sessions. Really rock-solid software, excited for the new version.
Funny to see anything Racket related rocket up to the front page of HN. My alma mater (Northeastern) is heavily involved in its development and the infamous intro CS class (Fundamentals of Computer Science 1 / Fundies 1) is taught in it. I only appreciated its beauty after I learned how to code deeper into the program. Horrible experience for anyone coming into it with no CS background.
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Closed source dies with the lack of money. Open source dies with the lack of users and attention. The problem is, money buys users. So for FOSS, it's a chicken and egg problem with the interplay of money and eyeballs.
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The community regulates it. The community is sovereign over the individual. The individual can either accept this or leave the community. If they continue to violate the community then the community will shun them or exile them. This is how social systems work. Some people call it "cancel culture" but that's just the same thing at a larger scale and with new rules.
That's definitely a problem, and a tricky one to solve in the context of 2FA: One of these factors is usually knowledge (your password); the other then has to be possession or inherence, and the latter has problems as well.

Essentially, if you rule out possession, your choice is between server-side validated biometrics (if offered at all), or "double knowledge" (e.g. a password and email 2FA, with the email account also only protected by a password), which is pretty phishable.
land is basically access to food and water. Remember for most part until 1800 or so taxes were paid in food
Not spending more time with family members to have since passed away.
Read the Gervais principle
Oh, boy! I blame my low college GPA on a Mortal Kombat addiction. They had a MK2 machine in our commons next to the pool tables that I'd play during every free moment, then sprinting to and from classes. Then later during junior and senior years when I moved a mile across campus, I'd hit up the local arcade which just got a brand newly released MK3 machine. The great thing about playing fighting games in the arcade was that it financially rewarded skill. The better you got at the game, the cheaper it was to play for a night, since the winner of the match got to play the next game for free. I'd go to the machine with one quarter and play for an hour with a line of people behind the left controller waiting to pay a quarter to lose. All the good players kind of had a pact not to play each other, to maximize our game time. When it was just us in the arcade in the afternoons, we'd play each other with variants like "random character" and "one handed" and "blindfolded" just to screw around and wait for the evening when the fish would show up.
I mean, Facebook is doing uniquely badly over the past year.
> Whatever is written on blockchain A cannot be considered true in blockchain B without breaking the security model of blockchain B by making blockchain A a trusted third-party.

To be more specific, when I said "like proof of stake", what I meant is that there's a trusted pool of validators but the individual validators are not assumed to be trustworthy (only the pool in aggregate), and the validators use a adversarial staking model to punish dishonesty.

In the case of bridges, that pool is external to the chain. So yes, there is external trust happening.

I'll try to address your example, but I've researched this a while ago so I'm sure I could be off the mark.

For your example, lets say we're moving A-token in A-chain to wrapped A-tokens in B-chain, so we can easily assume it's a 1:1 exchange rate by construction. User moves 100 A-tokens in A-chain to a bridge smart contract and as data passes the address of their B-chain wallet.

A subset of validators in the trusted pool (chosen via some distributed protocol) together sign a multi-sig transaction that authorizes the bridge contract in B-chain to mint 100 wrapped A-tokens and send 99.9 of them to the destination address that the bridging user, and collect 0.1 of them as fee.

(If transaction were dishonest, a larger subset of validators would together sign a transaction purging those validators' stake in the pool; so the subset of validators chosen are honest out of desire to keep their staking capital and earn the 0.1 fee)

That's at a high level how it works. If you want the full details I recommend finding a technical writeup for a popular trustless bridge.
Yup, and the entire fractally meta-toxic concept of "labor is fungible, just move it offshore to where labor is cheaper", that nearly destroyed the entire set of advanced societies and still threatens to destroy democracy — that is a strategic blunder of historic proportions. Not only have the US and EU shipped off much (and in some industries effectively all) of the R&D and manufacturing know-how required to lead an industry, but we have put ourselves in a militarily weak position by relying on manufacturing in adversary nations and even subjected to espionage from uncontrolled manufacturing.

The MBA schools focusing solely on short-term optimization to extract greater superficial profits are truly toxic for society.

Worse yet, they are toxic for the businesses that rely on their "expertise". Everything is optimized away, including R&D investmentand market development, and the numbers look better and better. Until they don't. At that point, the company has zero capability to recover, because it has lost all the internal talent that knows how to develop products and markets, and the death spiral begins.

My company was once invited to bid on a large software project for GE, very cool document management system. Later in the process, we were given some astonishing terms — this was developing new-at-the-time technology, and we were to be both paying our software developers something like 3rd-world rates, and exposing all our books to GE, and could not have more than iirc 10% profit on any hour of labor. Basically, they were hiring us only to run a software sweatshop, and showed zero interest in state-of-the art development. I passed and decided that with that attitude, GE was on the road to failure. It took over another decade of the stock rising nearly 10x, and then some before all the chickens came home to roost, but it really was a true sign of MBAs rotting the company from the inside out.
They haven't established how many people actually want it. If 60 million Americans live in communities with such rules, presumably at least a substantial number of them, if not an actual majority, want visible hanging laundry to be prohibited. They don't seem to have even asked how many of those people actually want to hang laundry versus wanting to keep it prohibited, they just picked that to have a big number to put in glorified press releases.

And there's no evidence at all that it's an issue worth addressing on a national scale. Presumably in some places a majority want it prohibited and in others a majority want it permitted, why not let them all do as they please?

Unless of course somebody somewhere draws a fat paycheck for representing "Project Laundry List" (exactly who is really funding that anyways?) and needs to justify their position by getting glorified press releases published as news articles.
> It's a great way to turn the commit history of a project into one of logical changes, rather than a simple temporal log of every change.

This seems a bit like an unhealthy obsession. I would be curious to know if the benefits of having a perfect git history outweigh the costs. A temporal log of changes is good enough for me.
Different sides of a polyface coin.

For example, I'm from Israel. Two hundred hundred moons ago, I was involved in a civil peace initiative. The point was for citizens to discuss this unofficial peace document so that it could form the basis of an official one at some point... Peace agreements are "war by other means" par excellence.

Anyway... this conflict is most definitely about land. What made this specific initiative ballsy was the fact that it included maps and took on land issues directly. This also meant that only extreme peaceniks from either side would go anywhere near the project.

What where our discussions about? Narratives. What were our disagreements about? Narratives. What compromises did we fail to make? Narratives. What happened. What it means. What proverbial schoolchildren should be taught. What symbolic steps must be taken to in recognition of the correct narrative.

BTW... active fighters were involved in this initiative. Israeli soldiers and palestinian militants. A lot of them. They even had their own groups. Disavowing violence was not a precondition to participating. Disavowing violence rarely came up as a demand or request by participants. People could, often, understand and live with past and future violence. Disavowing narratives and symbolism was constantly demanded as a precondition to everything.

Hostile, competing narratives and symbols are a deep essense of conflict. They aren't just caused by conflict. They don't just cause conflict. They are conflict.

I'm also irish, and the story of northern ireland is also proof of this idea.
If the crap security on these cheap cams is a concern, one thing that is pretty easy to do if you buy a "managed switch" or similar is put the crappy cheap IP cams on their own private VLAN with no internet access, firewalled from all the other VLANs on your home LAN, perhaps with a few exceptions for NVRs or devices who view the feed locally at home. I just assume these devices are broken and compromised from moment I plug them in, because inevitably they always are.

Cameras can't be accessed from your LAN, cameras can't access your LAN and they can't phone home easily. They just sit and feed the NVR with video content, offline. I don't even connect them to the internet for firmware updates unless there is some show stopper bug preventing them working as plain ole cams - they are just dumb RTSP endpoints.
From the FAQ:

The version you use will depend on your computer processor. In theory, the most up to date version of MAME you can use will result in more accurate the game emulation which usually required a faster computer processor to run the game at full speed. If you have a 64-bit processor then you want to use a 64-bit version of MAME (games can run up to 40% faster). It’s best to use the newest version of MAME as long as your computer processor can handle it. We recommend that you use the version of MAME that is offered on the ‘Download’ page. This special version has been modified to recognize Mortal Kombat 2 Plus (etc) as its own game. You may chose to use a different version of MAME, but you may get an error when trying to load MK2.ZIP. Don’t worry though, we will go over how to get around such problems in a later section.
"Validators", and we are making the strong assumption that they can actually support your claims of ownership against scammers and they don't choose to side with the enemy, aren't necessarily going to be around forever.

They can suddenly leave your cryptocurrency of choice by simply cashing out and switching to the "block rewards" of another crypto scheme, and then you are going to be alone with the bad actors.
I hate to say it, but it's looking more and more like the Bitcoin maximalists will end up being proven right in the end.
FBNeo is just a fork of FinalBurn Alpha emulator which has been around forever.

Fightcade provides accounts, rollback netplay and a lobby system and is the main way that the FGC (fighting game community) plays older games online.

It works really well.
>Mortal Kombat 2+ is compatible with any version of MAME between 0.119 and 0.203.

It seems that it works in standar MAME builds, but they recommend their custom compilation for best performance.
So the hope was that IBM would become Big Red, but instead we're getting Blue Hat.
Telegram had bounties for years, and ran specific challenges and no one ever cracked it to collect the bounty
How is GPLv3 any different from MPL when it comes to use (as opposed to modification or distribution)?
I was very surprised to see scsh mentioned in this thread. I'm glad to read that it was of some use for you.
Music theory is just a labeling of the grouping of sounds that sound a certain way, right? And the reasons why they do.

Like you could combine a bunch of random notes together and it would sound terrible. THe reason why a certain scale is a scale is that it all jives together in a way that makes sense to the human brain.
If you want to do it, do it. Fuck everything else.
Harder, how so?

And even if harder, wouldn’t it still be a productive means towards the end of moving into that field?
Shareholders literally own the company and thus hold all the strings.

Your point regarding business = people stands though
Please take this with an open mind.

To the extent I care, it is a mater of aesthetics. I enjoy seeing a less cluttered and more maintained environment. Because they are my neighbor, I see their front yard frequently, as do my visitors.

This is basically the same reason that I don't like it when people litter and leave their garbage in the street, or I don't leave dirty dishes around my house.
Nobody can steal money from a 'properly secured' safe or centralized database either?

And to be clear, what I mean is that there's nothing to stop validators from not doing work on your behalf, therefore killing the chain.

Remember when that literally happened to Solana?

Edit:
>You should probably understand the basics of how validators work before making a comment on them....

I'd love for you to walk me through, in detail how Ethereum and Bitcoin compile transactions into blocks, since you're the expert.
if you don't mind sharing, why did you file the complaint?
Funniest thing I read today. Thanks.

Thanks to GP, too. That’s a lovely quote.
Reality has always been a game, it's just that we've gone from a few players to a multitude of players. The few players version has been a meta-stable state since the development of orthodoxy.
On the lighter end I certainly have situation where I'd like to know how it would have played out had I made different choices. It's minor things like I would what would have happened had I asked that girl out 15 years ago, but I was to stupid to notice that she liked me, or maybe I should have applied for that job six years earlier, because they clearly wanted to hire me back then already.

The thing is, every choice I've made, even "the wrong ones", have put me in a better position overall. Perhaps I could be richer, but I don't really care about that. Maybe I just view everything in a positive light and ignore all the good things that could have been, who knows.
ok but Electron? For an emulator hosting fighting games? Is that not a problem for games which require fast reactions?
Tidal also has Atmos playback.