skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like "HDMI fast switching" just means "open all the input connections all the time", which is sort of a hack. But yeah, that seems plausible.

Of course, in the time it takes for my television to initiate a secure transaction channel with the input hardware on the other side of the cable, my ?!%!? Netflix app has done a arguably more secure transaction with a server on the other side of the continent. Sigh.
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Do the downvoters care to explain themselves instead of just trying to bury my post? Do you guys think the constant forks, obvious coordinated market manipulation, constantly changing story about what Bitcoin is supposed to be, and general obnoxiousness and ridiculous behavior of the majority of Bitcoin cultists makes Bitcoin look good to outsiders?

As someone who has been involved with and supportive of Bitcoin for several years (I started mining in 2011), the fact that it's impossible to point out any of the negative aspects of Bitcoin and the community surrounding it without just being downvoted or accused of "not holding any Bitcoin and being jealous" is starting to become incredibly tiresome. Denying the negative aspects of this sector is just going to encourage those negatives to continue. You guys are your own worst enemy.

I know a number of people who won't touch Bitcoin with a 500ft pole because of this shit. These are people with large sums of money that could be flowing into the sector, who are being chased away by the stupidity and shysterish behavior of the Bitcoin community and shady exchanges.
1) Mozilla uses weird, spooky language in an add-on.

2) Users are justifiably concerned.

3) Mozilla explains that the add-on is actually anodyne; the developers responsible were having fun with an opt-in research service.

4) Some users try to justify their initial overreaction by painting Firefox as mysterious, dangerous entity, fabulating conspiracy theories about one of the most forthright and open OSS companies in the world.

Really, guys. If Mozilla was hellbent on invading your privacy, do you really think they would proudly entitle their tracker "Looking Glass". Or would they call it debugservice_1223?
Also, on things the average citizen can't/won't easily order online. Spokes are a trivial example but there are also lots of add-on components.
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How do you like your OP-1?
I'm not sure how blockchain would fit into the picture? Maybe more of a buzzword soup than actual plans, or blockchain as in mesh network.
agreed. nothing is more frustrating to me than when my windows computer delivers an error message with a “ :( “
I was wondering that myself. At least at a first pass higher bandwidth doesn't look like an advantage. The system you link to promises up to 2 Gbps, the same as a Ubiquiti AF24HD microwave system. Perhaps it's easier to put several of these on the same pole, and that's how you get the higher bandwidth?
I suspect something seriously bad has happened. From my Reddit comment on a discussion of this in /r/personalfinance:

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I wonder if this is related to the mysterious email I got from them early this morning.

That email said that a $165 credit from "STRIPE VIA QB*2 8 9 DE" was posted to my credit card account on the 13th and the funds are now available.

This was quite unexpected since I have never asked for any kind of refund or charge back on my Capital One card, and I can't even figure out who could possibly be doing this. In 2017, here is my entire Capital One card usage:

• in-store at Walmart (many times)

• in-store at Rite Aid (once)

• in-store at Home Depot (once)

• in-person at an automobile repair place (twice)

• online purchase of event tickets from Ticketfly (once)

None of these were for $165, and I don't think any of the in-store merchants above use Stripe. Not sure if Ticketfly uses them or not, but my Ticketfly purchase was only around $50.

In fact, going back to the end of 2007 I have no $165 purchases on my Capital One card.

So I wonder if they have had some massive screw up (accident or hack) that has resulted in the wrong accounts being credited or debited, and so now they are down while they try to straighten it out. It just seems too much of a coincidence that I get a reported credit that I completely cannot explain shortly before they go offline for an extended time outside of normal maintenance windows.
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Huh, I don't see the difference really here. If extending human lifespans is wrong (I think you and I agree that's not the point we want to argue), then doesn't that mean working to extend human lifespans is ethically wrong?

I think the conclusion of your line of argument is that you can never say a particular person is unethical. I don't think I like that consequence - it absolves anyone of guilt for anything.

In an extreme case, how about this: "Stealing thing is wrong. Therefore, thieves are unethical people." Seems clearly reasonable to me.
> What is cross-platform development like?

Sorry, never tried that.

> Also, what about Objective-C prevents business logic bugs?

Generically speaking C makes it easy to interact with the computer memory but harder to abstract things while OO languages have it reverse.

C has GOTO, Objective-C not.

Objective-C has objects that easily can encapsulate different aspects of your logic. Objective-C is very verbose and readable while most C API's aren't.

Obviously Swift is even better in that regard as it has better types and checks but it doesn't allow you to seamlessly use C.
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To summarize: I and many of my friends have made poor life decisions and It's all my parents fault!
Is organic farming all that much better? Are there any concrete numbers that indicate how that timeline of 60 years might be extended with different farming practices?

It seems to me like we might have to make a big push towards solar-powered hydroponics or something of that nature.

How depressing. Maybe soylent green is more of a realistic future than we thought...
I've used cover letters in the past when applying to a job directly without a warm-introduction from someone. It's been a while.

I had three or four standard cover letter templates I rotated through with a couple of places to add research I'd done about the company and why I would be a good fit for them. Often stuff based on what stack they use, who is on their team, etc.

I think applying to jobs directly is worse than networking and worse than working with a recruiter, in that order. If you do decide to go that route and write a cover letter, only include in it what is directly targeted to that company and the person reading it.
Most sites require a email address to create an account, leaving a larger footprint for forensics. The sites I work on require much more personal data that is validated against other systems to confirm identity. Out-of-session page requests are scrutinized for patterns that look like a bad guy checking the locks.
Granted, many sites will have client side validation for passwords, but that should be considered a user convenience - not a security measure, and doesn't necessarily have to be as strict as the server side validation. New users won't 'accidentally' enter Unicode escape sequences in passwords, but we need to prevent that on the server side validation and show a generic error "your enrollment failed for some reason" so the bad guy doesn't know if it's input validation or personal data validation that failed.
"A poor retiree in CA" doesn't own AAPL. Not directly, not through a 401(k) or other vehicle. They're living off Social Security payments.

And retirement investment vehicles, smartly managed, start moving out of stocks and into less volatile securities as you reach actual retirement. So if that retiree is still in AAPL post-retirement, there are other issues going on.
You're inserting ad hominem attacks in a thread that didn't have them or need them. Settle down.
Handwaving.

Yup, they're a startup, they're having problems, they're doing their best, actually managing pretty well given the circumstances.

None of that changes the fact that they can't deliver the service as expected.
Correct, those ToS and EULA are considered invalid, if they contain unexpected agreements, such as "your firstborn belongs to us", or "we can install whatever software we want on your system".
They could (should?) have a non-user visible addons stash for this kind of functionality. Putting it in the Add-ons UI is a bad idea.
My rules for riding a motorcycle:

1. Everyone is trying to kill you.

2. Anyone who isn't actively trying to kill you cannot see you.

3. The day you forgo a piece of gear is the day you need it.

So far a year of lane splitting in San Francisco and I'm collision-free.
Even if that's what the doctor ordered, so to speak, it's hardly a matter of individual initiative.
It's more because the ISP can now charge tolls in both directions, so prices for streaming services will hike up.

This effectively allows the ISP to sell their one pipe to the internet twice. They can go to YouTube and Netflix and say, "You haven't paid us to send your content down your pipes." Meanwhile saying to the consumer "You need to pay us so you can get access to the internet."

So, some ISP's will still allow access to the internet. While others will allow access, to what I call, the interNOT.

Edited to add:

I suspect that someday someone will come up with some legislation that says if you don't have access to the full internet, then an ISP can't call it "internet service". Because it's not.
Coinbase has said they've scaled their support team 2x in recent weeks. Surely that's not an easy feat and speaks to the sort of volumes they are handling at the moment.
what is coinbase's stance on the future of cryptographic hash functions?

are they just trying to cash in as much as possible, like many of the investors, before the math is settled

or do they publicly state that they believe.. meaning without proof.. that p!=np?

are they resting their future, and the futures of all of their users.. and here apparently the economy writ large.. on faith?
The biggest problem, for me, is that these extensions obviously get less scrutiny in Mozilla organization. The "core" is made with a lot of "eyes" taking care that not something "wrong" for the user enters the code base.

Then some marketing people both in and outside of Mozilla push something that is probably not passing the same strict reviews.

It points to the organizational problem in Mozilla.

Re: "not sure": don't worry, some people do this not for the content but for the author, some lack reading comprehension and some just press the wrong button. Just vote yourself, and if you reply, say that you agree, don't mention the word you mentioned.
Why should they be?

Everything can be open, there’s no reason except greed for profit not to make them open.
The risk is still there. You can talk about economic reasons or MAD all you want, but then some idiot loads a training tape into the live system, or scientists launch a sounding rocket and somebody forgets to tell the early warning people, or a head of state starts going crazy, and suddenly you're one bad decision away from catastrophe.

Some things are much improved since the Cuban Missile Crisis. For example, the US Air Force is no longer eager to wage preemptive nuclear war on our enemies. Some things are much worse, though, such as the transition from bombers to ICBMs, resulting in a need to launch quickly to respond to an attack and an inability to recall a strike, or the change from a bipolar to a multipolar world with multiple conflicting nuclear weapons states.

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. 10% would be implausible given history. But 1% is pretty plausible. So is 0.0001%. There's a massive difference between those two probabilities, though! 0.0001% means it probably doesn't matter, and human civilization is very likely to either collapse from some other problem or advance to a point where MAD can't happen long before a nuclear war breaks out. 1% makes it perhaps the most dire threat we face.

I personally think it's closer to 1% than 0.0001%. The systems are error-prone and too many of the people involved are stupid or potentially insane.
If only the gains from that boom could go to more than just a few...
The truth is that there have been other text-only browsers both before and after lynx. I have tried every one I could ever find, since the 1990s. Some of them seem to have been forgotten. IMO, whatever is in todays package collections is not a true representation of all text-only browsers ever written. Most times when someone cites "lynx", as is common on HN, I interpret this as a signal they are not too familiar with text-only browsers. IMO, lynx is relatively big, slow and clunky with too many options; definitely not the best text-only browser I have used.

I happen to like text-only browsers for viewing HTML (e.g HTML tables), tcpclients like netcat for making TCP connections, and my own software for generating HTTP requests. Almost all websites work[FN1], with zero "loading time" as one may experience when using "modern" browsers to do these tasks. I can easily get the content I want (text, with option to download images, PDF, video, etc.) and skip the stuff I dont want. No autoloading of resources. I choose what I want.

Surprisingly, the web is actually getting more, not less text-friendly. Today I can often get text encapsulated in JSON, Markdown, etc. instead of wrapped in HTML, making parsing even easier.

There is heaps of Javascript written by others available on the web today but as a user I have little interest in running it. I would rather write my own.

FN1. "work" means I get the body the page that contains the content.
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You merely have to spend a brief time in California's Central Valley to realize that it's an extractive industry (consuming topsoil, water from a non-renewable aquifer, and oil) no different from mining. When you see orchards plowed up for replanting not only the old trees are removed but all the topsoil too.

Robots are our only hope.
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The primary concern of industrial food is moving large quantities of food efficiently, the same as gasoline or, well, insecticides; safety and nutrition only have to be barely high enough to support that. It's why we're absorbing insecticides and high fructose corn syrup, for example, in our bodies.
Last time I applied to jobs, and got calls from recruiters, I asked what stood out. It was always the resume. I asked if the cover letter helped. Response was usually "You submitted a cover letter? Let me check. Oh hey, I see you submitted one."

My advice is the opposite of another comment: Write one only if you have a "direct pass" that avoids the HR/recruiter filter. Recruiters don't seem to look at them, and HR folks usually don't know enough about the job to value them.
I still think the theater experience has value. Big screen, big sound, big popcorn. You just can't duplicate that at home without spending absurd amounts of money.

But so far as what I choose to watch in the theater -- a big part of my choices revolve around the quality of the movie. And there Sturgeon's Law [1] is definitely in effect. This past year has been filled with films that just weren't good enough to get me to open my wallet. The message to the studios ought to be clear: Make better films and you'll make more money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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It's already been like that for awhile, even at a lot of 'normal' theatres. Would you like two large drinks and two large pretzels? That will be $42. Would you like two 3d movie tickets? $36, thank you. So $78 at the 'cheap' theatre for two people. For that kind of money you'd damn well better bring my stuff to my seat.

That's why I usually avoid the 'normal' theatres if possible and only go to the 'fancy' ones that have real menus, nicer chairs, and drinks service etc. Costs about the same, much better experience.

But the nicest experience is usually just at my house where I can eat two pretzels for $2 instead of $40 and there is no chance I have to smell anyone else and I can pause whenever I want. And also, usually the movie is already paid for on Netflix/Amazon Prime or sometimes 'free' on Kodi.
Could it be that your dice was biased to begin with? Or have you already rolled them ~5000 times before you placed them in water?
Same story in Norway - first they tried very hard to push DAB receivers, and I, being a firm believer in radio over TV for mass communication duly bought DAB radios for the car, kitchen, bathroom, living room hi-fi - then they (in fairness, very sensibly) switched to DAB+. Off to ye olde electronics shoppe I went again.

I wonder how long DAB+ will last; I expect that sooner rather than later it will be scrapped for streaming via cellular networks - because doing so will be cheaper still than operating a DAB network.

Sigh.
> The change we need to make is removing the obstacles around discharging student loan debt via bankruptcy. Then, I trust, lenders wouldn't lend to students without a good career plan, students who took on too much debt could get out of it, and schools would stop the crazy artificial inflation of their prices.

While I agree with you in principle, I would never take that bet as a lender. What incentive would there be for a 22 year-old graduating college with a heap of debt and no assets to not declare bankruptcy? In 7 years - when they're 29 - they'll have a clean credit record and the earnings and investment on $student_loans worth of money. Planned well, you could easily be in a position to have a huge down payment for a house saved up the minute your bankruptcy falls off the credit report.

You can't (and shouldn't be able to!) repossess human capital. Knowing this, the smart kids would be baking in a high-cost education and bankruptcy as a part of their plan. I think the only way something like that works is if you have someone with assets co-signing the loans - ie, the parents - and that still raises barriers for smart kids whose parents don't have significant assets.
Oh, man, I'm getting Hanson's "Visualizing Quaternions" for Christmas and I can't wait, so I'm definitely gonna print off that visualizing Clifford algebra article and go through it with my sketchbook this evening to hold me in the meantime. Thank you!
> They have a higher quality

That's how it is sold indeed, but not entirely true. There is definitely a better signal to noise ratio, but the sample rate is pretty bad which makes the quality lower than normal FM. It's only a 128kbs MP3/AAC stream!

It's only because people don't hear noise anymore they think the quality is better. Analog FM is by the way much more robust too as a signal.

A shame the government forces people to invest in lower quality qear..
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But by then, he had won four major marathons and the Olympic gold medal, and what he lacked in raw physical potential he made up for with … something.

It seems like the next frontier in distance running optimization is the mind. Given the analysis on the runners' physiology, the only thing that really separated them was mentality.

This seems obvious, given the nature of distance running, but the article never mentions sports psychology or mental exercises the runners do to improve performance.

That's pretty interesting, given that so many elite athletes have put such an emphasis on the mental part of their game:

I knew I was going to wrestle in the finals of the Olympics against a Russian and I knew he had been training specifically to beat me, but then I knew the guy was on steroids, That would help me. Whereas some might think ‘oh he’s cheating, for me you didn’t pay the price. You’re not as committed as I am. It’ll tear him apart. He may be strong, but all I have to do during that 9 minutes of wrestling is loosen one single wire in his brain, make him do something that isn’t perfect, and he’ll fall apart.
Besides the health effects, what you lose when you use steroids is mental toughness. The key to victory is that the strongest mind wins. You can get physical strength with steroids, but you lose the mental toughness (you would have gained) from brutal hard work. Steroids hurt mental toughness by serving as a crutch. - Dan Gable[0]

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
To be a champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. - Muhammad Ali[1]

Physically is a little bit easier, but the mental part is the hardest part, and I think that's what separates the good players from the great players - Michael Jordan[2]

[0]https://www.bjjee.com/articles/wrestling-legend-dan-gable-st...
[1]https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-power-of-vis...
[2]https://youtu.be/xlFRZmUmaYI
3.5) Most users insist that this isn't okay, that addon installations should be approved by the owner of the computer.

This isn't about what the addon itself does or does not do, it's the principle of force-pushing unwanted content without prior affirmative consent.

This would apply even if the addon was just a stub that didn't have any executable code in it. In this case, it's worse: an ad.
> If only one person in twenty is needed to grow food (in the US, presumably), that means we can easily feed everyone.

Who is this "we"? When I translate what you say into plain English, what I get is: One in twenty people will grow food and be forced to give it to everyone else, whether they want to or not. I agree that is an outdated ideology, yes. But the fact that food needs to be produced somehow is not.

> we can't find jobs for everyone

Again, who is "we"? Whose job is it to find jobs for everyone? Why is that necessary?

> Automation will make it worse

Automation can make things cheaper and cheaper; that's why it has continued to increase. That's making things better, not worse.

What makes things worse is pretending that products and services, whether produced by automation or any other means, will magically get distributed to where they are needed, or that "we" will magically decide correctly how that is to be done. That is indeed an outdated ideology, but unfortunately many people have not yet gotten the memo.

What will make things better is admitting that products and services have to be produced, and then traded for other products and services, in order for people to get the things they need. So the more efficient that process is, the less effort it will take for people to get the things they need, and therefore the easier it will be for them to do so.
You posted a JOKE. Have some DOWNFOTES
EMR is really expensive, especially you are using spot instances. It is roughly $2 for the EMR tax on $1 instance
The software developer's commute
Someone needs to write an Ethereum contract for data archiving! Pay for storage based on market rates, regularly verify integrity with hashes, etc.
Thanks for the details! BTW, this sounds similar to the pseudotime ideas from David Reed (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.126...), where you 'compute' a transaction timestamp and use it for ordering.

My question was more about how, of if, this 'feature' is usable externally? Guarantees made in terms of synthesized time are theoretically not useful to the callers, who are in a different 'real' time. I.e. when the doc says 'X happens after Y', it's talking about synthesized time, how does this translate in terms of 'real' time?

E.g. is the synthesized time returned to the caller, which can then be uses to make subsequent queries?
Yeahhh I go by that, too. Except I only learned that post-collision.