skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enpass, it's well integrated into browser and doesn't force to trust some random cloud
OK, I have to rant a bit on this.

I worked at Mozilla for about four years (2011-2015), on MDN. It's built as a wiki, with wiki features open to everyone. The code is all open source and on GitHub. Its issues and tasks and roadmap are tracked in a public bug tracker. We operated in a public IRC channel. We didn't have to do that. We could have just built something targeted to only be used by the technical writing staff at Mozilla, and never bothered to open it up or make the code available or make it transparent about who wrote articles and when. In fact, it's much more work to do all the things we did (and not just in terms of implementing features, but also in terms of dealing with spammers and trolls and other malicious people who wouldn't have had access in a less open system), but we did it anyway because Mozilla is a radically open and transparent organization. But... in four years, not many people from outside Mozilla ever joined in and got involved with actually contributing (either code or articles or edits to articles or housekeeping or suggesting/arguing for ideas of how to improve MDN).

And I've been doing open source for much longer than that, and I see exactly the same pattern: a handful of folks do all that work, and go to the trouble of being open and transparent and providing ways for people to see what's going on and get involved... but people don't.

And then those same people willingly install the software and use it every single day, and complain that they were never consulted, or never got a chance to review, or never got to provide input. You had chances to look at the source code, to see what was being checked in, to read the referenced Bugzilla bugs on commits, to leave comments on them, to submit alternative ideas. You didn't. You did install Firefox, though (assuming your claim is correct that this was installed on your computer). By installing the software while not participating in the process, you absolutely gave your "review" of it, and your "review" was "just make a browser for me for free and don't bug me about how".

Now, if you want to be involved, go start watching Bugzilla and the Mozilla project wiki pages, and CC yourself on stuff and join mailing lists. Because it's Mozilla. You can do that. If you don't want to do that, or you don't think it's worth your time to do that, then don't do it. But don't then come charging onto HN to complain that nobody consulted you. People practically got on their hands and knees and begged you to join in the process of making Firefox and other open source software, and you decided not to.
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Big difference between an extension and being integrated into the browser. It's directly analogous to the difference between your OS being closed source and your OS being able to run closed source programs. The former is a liability; the latter is an ability that you grant to users to use the system the way they want.
Not prior to 1990. Also, you are on digital with your mobile phone, the OP I was responding to was talking about old analog lines.
I'm not sure I understand correctly, but from what I got, Stellar is a distributed ledger, but not a currency. There are no coins as such. But the upside is that the consensus is reached without a taxing algorithm.

Everyone can run a node, but the whole system is not itself decentralised, because you need "anchors", which are banks or payment processors, to get your money in and out of the system.

So then, what is the point of the decentralised ledger? GNU Taler seems like a more simple solution.
The poster is not necessarily mistaken even if I think they are.
That's nice for you. I suppose you didn't notice that for a while gay people were only allowed to become "domestic partners", not married? I hope that now you don't now refer to your gay co-workers who are married as having "partners".

Because it's not about you. The Golden Rule is not "call people by the name you are ok with if you were them", it's "call people by the name they want to be called by". If you like, I can pull out my Miss Manners book and quote that rule to you, from the 1950s.
Yup, https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bjekedpipaedojkb...
It's bcash.

From /r/bitcoin:

>Starting a new company called Apple Unlimited! Please don't confuse this with our competitor, Apple. We did "borrow" all of their code, but we claim to follow the wishes of the great Steve Jobs, because the new guys that took over are ruining everything and censoring everyone!
The two most important things to keep in mind for friends from the printed world:

1) Digital has its own aesthetic.

2) Forget everything about the canvas, the web is a fluid medium.

There are tons of pratical resources about digital design. For a more theoretical perspective, take a look at Frank Chimero's writings, they are both inspiring and enlightening:

1) What screens want: https://frankchimero.com/writing/what-screens-want/

2) The Web's Grain: https://frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/
The hypothetically optimal crypto system would be cheaper for merchants, correct? So it would have wider adoption than Visa, at the very least.

I do agree that crypto keeps drifting away from p2p cash ... that's a good observation. But I hope people keep shooting at that target.
I use 1Password but AgileBits's push to cloud services is troubling — will definitely move to something else if they remove local vaults.
Stellar is not decentralized. It is federated, meaning a number of trusted third parties act as the intermediary, and eventually, will become the gatekeepers as governments deputize them to enforce their respective laws (e.g. capital controls in China).
doesn't verzion use VoLTE? which would mean that your normal phone app isn't your "analog" phone anymore..
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_LTE)

Basically there aren't many phone calls over non LTE based services.
Especially since VoLTE can be used over WLAN via Wlan calling techniques. (the latter isn't supported in all networks.)
YES, 100% right that was when they switched to digital from analog. The OP was saying that prior to the digital conversion it was better.
Not to mention the great amount of money they've wasted in certain previous frivolous, doomed projects, like Firefox OS - great idea, by the way, to make your "native" app platform the most power hungry, slowest of them all, and then market the OS only for pairing it with low end devices sold to third worlders - because third worlders totally need slow software running on the hardware they can barely afford - it's not as if they were people, with real world needs, just like us, and not lab rats. For a company that prides itself on its open values.. that's really treating people with contempt.
In grade school (well before the internet/IoT age) the central heat would be blasting well into spring and the central air would run well into winter. The thermostats installed in every classroom did nothing at any point in the year.

The excuse for this was always that "the district controls it from downtown."

I don't know whether or not that was true, but a hacker certainly couldn't have done any worse.
> Why can't you get rich building it?

Because it defeats the point. There is no "coin" that will exponentially appreciate in value, making you a billionaire. There is also no centralisation, so you cannot be the owner of the payment system in the same way that Paypal or Visa are.

At best you can be the Linus Torvalds of your payment system non-profit. Which would be a good gig in itself. But that comes with lots of hard work, not the easy riches that you can do from some hype-pump-dump scam in less than 6 months.
Not my field, but this[1] is kind of related. It looks at a certain type of squirrel native to southern Africa that uses its tail as a parasol to provide shade.

[1]: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/physzool.57...
We're on the same page mostly, but I think if forced liquidation is a real risk you should lower your equity % at the start to compensate. 100% at age 40 is overly aggressive, pretty sure you'd have better risk adjusted returns by including bonds in there from the start.
> Nobody cares about the true word of the Koran. Nobody wants a thesis on the accuracy of interpretation.

There are millions that do and thousands of great academic scholars who strive for that. I went to seminary and studied for over 5 years Greek and Hebrew so I could know better, but the issue is MOST don't care. They care more about what so and so says.
Agreed for ML. However, F# is not exactly ML. It lives on top of, and has to interoperate with, the existing .NET ecosystem.

That means, for example, that a lot of the datatypes you'll end up dealing with are object-oriented. Those can be difficult to work with in a generic way without resorting to reflection.
You didn't even realise for a long time that you lost access to it. It's like me remembering that I had some BTC, but can't access them anymore and blaming Bitcoin developers for not getting rich.

Stellar not being decentralised, even 90% of nodes are not run by the SDF, makes it somehow unsecure? If you have some specific complaint about the security point it out, instead you are just ranting on an anecdote.
Paradigm shifts would become much more rare due to ossification of power structures in intellectual and business arenas.
You might want to consider a target retirement date fund that Vanguard, T.Rowe Price, and others offer that balance the funds every year according to the target date with more risk the farther one is from the end time.
Here's one description

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...

If you really wanted to manage the risk yourself and rebalance it periodically you could do that too and indulge in more risky sorts of funds but that's up to your inclination/time.
With Moxie, I have to wonder what the endgame is for this?

After reading this, currency doesn't seem to jive with his persona:

https://moxie.org/stories/money-machine/
What degree of privacy can it actually offer?
This misses the point. I'm not talking about finding hot paths, I'm talking about limiting the total predictable path count so you can optimize better. Or, as I often saw, when you have so many paths to different data pieces, you don't test every permutation of every combination of paths, and a caller finds one that hurts for some reason (e.g. bad optimization choice by your RDBMS).
People are fascinated by it, but many people (even those seeking funding) don't really seem to have a solid understanding of what they are getting themselves into when they are seeking funding.

Specifically, I think that there are many people who make companies that are better off being bootstrapped, but they go the VC route because that's the sexy thing that gets reported on and talked about. They don't understand why they get no interest from good VCs when they have good product-market fit and are making money. It's usually a market that's too small or a trajectory that's too flat, but these ideas do not really resonate with most people who don't spend a lot of time around financial people/ideas.

Hearing VC explained in different ways and in different voices is a healthy thing. If anything, it will help people either correctly self-select out of the VC funding process or create a company that has the potential to work at VC scale.

I would spend more time writing about this topic using the questions and wording that you hear from people who are curious about the VC world but clearly don't know the answers. This will probably mean talking in a way that is more engineer/maker-oriented than financier-oriented.
Kojima Productions, pre-Death Stranding, was only a subsidiary under Konami.

As I understand, its purpose was to relieve Kojima of business responsibilities that a traditional executive would have. I would assume it was only a studio on paper and all assets and IP were still retained by Konami.

I didn't realise until now but Fox Engine has also been used in the yearly PES Soccer games as well!

After Kojima left, he reformed the studio as an actual independent company which is backed and funded by Sony with complete creative freedom.

He toured studios around the world and decided to work with Guerilla Games, who built Decima for their title Horizon: Zero Dawn.

They're simply using the engine and collaborating with Guerilla to make tweaks and modifications to suit their title.

I believe it's not unlike the working relationship that Insomniac and Naughty Dog had in the PS2 days, where they would share tech and insights.

So yeah, tldr: Fox Engine was always owned by Kojima. Kojima Productions was once a subsidiary and is now an independent entity. KojiProd is essentially borrowing Guerilla Games Decima Engine rather than building one from scratch.

P.S. I'm just a fan, not anyone who is speaking with authority ;)
How is the value of a coin created if there’s no miner or exchange, does it have a fix fiat price? Would you buy the coins with real cash?
you need "anchors", which are banks or payment processors, to get your money in and out of the system.

You also need exchanges for cryptocurrency[1], so why not admit it from day one and build that concept into the system?

And maybe it's possible to graft a cryptocurrency onto SCP by using consensus to choose nodes which receive freshly "mined" currency.

[1] The mythical closed-loop Bitcoin economy ain't going to happen.
You'd better be careful with that. You disagreed with a woman in tech. That means you're wrong. How could you so openly hate all women!/s
Automatic updates are a thing, but not necessarily good as this is the first thing disabled on windows since palladium for security, privacy and usability reasons.

Actually talking of good/bad dichotomy is inappropriate here, automatic updates are a tool that can be useful and comes with benefits and downsides. Firefox automatic updates is among the first things I disable when I install firefox because it caused me more issues than it solved.

Starting firefox to discover it has auto-updated itself and had broken half the extensions you rely on to make the browser usable is not nice, specially when there are no option to undo the update other than removing and reinstalling.

But when the autoupdate installed a new firefox that simply broke audio in the browser and now forces you to install something you've been actively avoiding or that is not available in this specific distro is something else.

I have a working update hygiene I'd rather deal with updates myself, thanks.
> This comment is ignorant of the reality of black military members

Sure, but the major internal strife within America in the late 20's wasn't based upon race, but upon economics and inequality. Just because it didn't remove _all_ strife within an entire nation(which will never happen) doesn't mean that it didn't smoothe things over for most Americans.
Look at the billionaires who spend their fortunes on charity. Do they give back to the community? Would they be able to give that much back were they not be able to make so much on their investments?

Being rich and living a fulfilling life are orthogonal concerns, once you're out of the poor-and-starving territory. This means that both can be achieved independently, including together.
>I think of it in terms of probability per year. The fact that we haven't had a nuclear war yet suggests that this probability isn't super high.

This is super misleading reasoning because of anthropic bias. There are many possible Earths. On all the ones were nuclear war happened, we wouldn't be here to observe it. You can only ever observe the "surprising" result that you continue to exist. So you can't use it as evidence in a probability estimate.

We came so close to nuclear war on multiple occasions. The chance can't be that low.
They're not even comparable beyond having a comment system. As stated by others, Hacker News doesn't have a team of psychologists working to addict you to its content so they can then gradually replace that content with ads.

Hacker News doesn't have corporate tentacles in mass marketing, VR, photo blogging, viral videos, breaking news, dining(facebook.com/orderfood), self-driving cars, etc.

Hacker News doesn't punish you for using a pseudonym.

Hacker News doesn't sort content into a "personalized" feed based on how popular it predicts the content will be.

Hacker News doesn't cheapen human interaction by reminding you to say "Happy Birthday" to people you hardly know.

Hacker News doesn't host everyone's entire life stories, and thereby doesn't take away reasons to just talk to others. In other words, it doesn't tell you more than you need to know about other people.

Not to be a sycophant, but yes, we are better than what most people think of as social media(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) That isn't because we pride ourselves in being smarter, which I'm not claiming.
Anchors are not inherent to the Stellar consensus protocol - that is part of how the Stellar coin works, but the consensus protocol doesn't include that, it is just the mechanism for the various nodes coming to a consensus on the blocks.
That's a smart idea for next time... :)
From great power comes great responsibility. We try hard to ignore that these things can be done, and we are reminded so brutally, it's always a shock. Maybe I've given the keys to my house to Chad years ago, for emergency purposes; that didn't mean he could come in anytime and start cracking Mr Robot jokes.

> I, for one, would rather trust the goodness of Mozilla's intentions than Google's or Microsoft's.

Me too, but when a company bases his reputation on a certain platform ("we will not spy on you, your privacy is important") and then stuff like this happens (and it's not the first time, not even this year), it shakes one's belief in their trustworthiness.
Because bcash is overwhelmingly run by bitmain, a chinese company, at every point in its service delivery. The miners, the nodes, and now the payment processor are all one chinese company. It is also not surprising that they have specifically disabled the privacy improvement of segwit in their altcoin. So no atomic cross-chain swaps are possible either. It is a walled garden where they control all of the access.
On reason, in the U.S. at least, is that you're supposed to pay capital gains on every little bit you spend. There's a bill in Congress right now to exclude crypto transactions under $600 from capital gains, which would be a big help.

Even if you do want to hold long term, you could just replenish what you spend along the way, if it weren't a tax reporting nightmare.
Germany Pushes for a Backdoor into All IT Devices – Stasi 2.0
6 million parts is probably misleading. Bolts, screws, and washers are replaced perfunctory and with aerospace-grade parts that are presumed to be in compliance - half the parts on a plane might be things that are replaced that way.

Also, that part count is probably inclusive of the engines and avionics and those are inspected on separate schedules by separate technicians. Lord knows how many parts are on a 747 circuit board, but as long as the board is working correctly, do you need to check every capacitor on the board?

The D service also takes tens of thousands of hours and months - each panel is removed and every inch of the aircraft is inspected by master technicians and factory representatives. IT can only happen at special factories that have the space for the plane to come apart and come back together like it should.
> The hypothetically optimal crypto system would be cheaper for merchants

Incorrect. Decentralization is always more expensive and slower than centralized system(both hypothetically optimal) due to extra sync cost.
Essentially, the CPU has a private key. Using the corresponding public key you can send code to the CPU to execute and the CPU prevents even the OS from looking at the decrypted code. You can also check the signature of the CPU against a public Intel key to verify it is indeed an Intel CPU you are sending code to.
I think your two points explain each other- there’s just so much general reckless malarkey going on in finance already, that banks don’t see the point in even thinking about a risk that involves less than half a trillion dollars.

Bitcoin isn’t any more volatile than it was, but the potential bust has gotten big enough to garner attention.
It needs to be both well-documented as well as easy to find in "native" internet circles. Currently I would humbly suggest that the content is not easy to find for most people.

As a simple example in a different field, 'patio11 has taken standard practices in the online marketing world and exposed them to the engineer set with a fairly decent level of success and exposure. Very little of what he has said is original or novel... to those who hang out in marketing circles. That said, he has been able to open the eyes of many engineers to the realities of marketing via using appropriate communication style and sharing it in appropriate forums (in the broad sense of the term).
Ahh, I always wondered what that was called
My uncle in Texas had to deal with the transgender pronoun bit while doing IT contracting work (for an oil company I believe). It's not as-if these issues only pop up in California.

There are plenty of people in the bay area that have more conservative values, if for no other reason than that tons of people move here. Nothing particularly bad seems to happen.
Like if 90% of mining power owned by 2 companies makes something more decentralised. I would argue that the Stellar Consensus Protocol is more resilient to centralisation than any proof of work one.
Alternatively you can give waterfox[1] a try.

Features

Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
Removed Pocket
Removed Telemetry
Removed data collection
Removed startup profiling
Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Allow running of unsigned extensions
Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
Addition of Duplicate Tab option
Locale selector in about:preferences > General

[1]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
It's not even called bcash. It's called Bitcoin Cash. The 1 MB maximalists call it bcash because they don't want it to carry Bitcoin's legacy in the public mind.
The title here says "A new Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike."

But the article describes his involvement as "Marlinspike has been working on as a technical advisor."

Those two descriptions sound different.
Maybe it's somewhat promotional, but there's a meaningful and interesting story here.

What do you want? For-profit stuff can never show up on Hacker News?
No kidding.

When I was younger, my parents moved out into the country and they bought a lot that had been intensively overgrazed and over farmed. Our neighbor farmed hay / alfalfa for the nearby dairy farms and he told us it would be centuries until the land could support a crop.

The 'dirt' was dust, rocks, and fossilized manure. Within 3 years of being let alone it recovered enough to support the hardier plants and weeds, that winter we planted barley and rye to add organic matter, compete with the weeds, and put some roots in the soil to stop erosion. After that, it came back with a vengeance. 7 years after our neighbor said it'd be centuries until we could grow anything on it, he bought the rights to plant alfalfa on some of the lot.

I have no doubt that people could manage the soil better, but things return to nature pretty quick especially if you can help nature do what it's trying to do.
Like most other tulip breeds, the craze over their creation will turn to sudden death before the practical concerns they raise need to be considered.