skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you've described is provenance I believe. And that is the only, imho, use case for blockchain that makes any sense.

It's the only one where the substantial additional overhead and complexity of blockchain is actually still less than the alternative, as your example clearly illustrates.

To attempt to answer a question from sibling comments: these systems are private or closed blockchains, not public. You have a traditional credentials database (the blockchain itself could also be used for this, but that won't usually have inherent benefits) to track who is allowed access to read or submit transactions. Those parties may run a node or you may have one independent third party run all the nodes. It's so different from cryptocurrency setup that it's hard to apply too much of the stuff we've learned from Bitcoin et al to these setups.

At least that's my understanding.
This is a wonderful startup in Las Vegas. They definitely hire Felons.

https://pigeonly.com/about/#careers

Any chance your former employer would take you back on a reduced salary, while you work on your portfolio/freelancing/rehabilitating your record?

Why don't you have references?

I think long term you should focus on changing your name and getting a good profile and work history on UpWork. This could lead to a steady job, and no one will ever check your background for freelance jobs.

Why was the crime of flashing a 17 year old published in 4 major newspapers?
Astrophotographers also care about quantum efficiency and often shoot at higher ISOs. Astrophotographers use cooled sensors for a different reason. Long exposures build up heat, and heat causes noise, which is why you need to cool overclocked CPUs too.

Thermal noise is not relevant for food photography. Input referred read noise will dominate here 100% of the time, unless you're taking pictures of things lit so dark that you can't see them yourself.
I solve problems in my life, ideally within the effort scope I want. Ie, if it takes a year+ of side-work development just to get the alpha or MVP out the door, you're likely to burn out on the side project.

To me, for hobby projects they need to be usable QUICK. Once you have it usable, you'll spot a dozen things that you can do to make your UX better. After that, just rinse and repeat.
Push beyond comfort zone
Thanks for the fairytale.
I have read somewhere else a very interesting way to look at token projects. There are merely incentive for protocols that could have been baked into our browser.

For example, we could have had an identity verification protocol, bound to our browsers, that would have logged us in websites. We would not have needed FB oauth for ex. But it was not prioritized, and now that the Web has been taken over by closed garden, individual companies have very little incentive to contribute to these general-benefits protocols.

Token can be seen a way to incentivize adoption of these general-benefits protocols
I bought a license for Listary when I switched from Mac to Windows 8. It's ok, but it's not quite as clean as just hitting the Windows key with your pinky finger and starting to type away.
But that problem isn't solved by Bitcoin (not can it be solved by any digital currency); Bitcoin doesn't allow online payments to be sent from one party to another without the need for third party clearance, it just increases the number of parties required for clearance.
I'm no expert so bear with me.

My understanding is that the danger of miner control is not "double-spending" but making multiple spends and being able to pick the most favorable one after the fact.

As a non-controller if you try to double-spend, you can't know which one of your attempted transactions will be recorded in the ledger and which will be rejected. As a 51% controlling miner, you can choose the 'correct' transaction.

This allows the 51% controlling miner to engage in futures arbitrage.
You're just like every other entry level developer in the industry then. The only thing that is setting you apart is the conviction. Yes it will be harder, but with the items you just specified, everyone else is dealing with too. Get a portfolio (make one), get references (find some), and don't let your family starve. Take any job you can to make money while always looking for that better one, working on the references and portfolio. This is no different advice than what I'd tell any other developer starting out.
”the Journey is the Reward”

— Steve Jobs

(Also a Chinese proverb)
I don't know, seems like the conversion works well enough. You're always going to edit and change files in export anyways.
1.1.1.1 doesn't need to resolve. It is a DNS server. It's an open, recursive public DNS server, ala Google's 8.8.8.8, or OpenDNS, etc.

$ dig news.ycombinator.com 1.1.1.1 +short

news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.

104.20.43.44

104.20.44.44

Edit: It occurs to me you mean reverse resolution. A dig +trace seems to stop at ns3|7.cloudfare.com.
So you want to write a chatbot?
> If you’d like one in the future, though, you should probably start stockpiling hard drives: RAW photos shot by the sensor weigh in at 210MB each.

I would be more worried about the amount of RAM you need to comfortably edit these photos.
Even without the record I would expect you to have a hard time. I'm surprised you're getting offers. Try to keep in mind that there are people who 1) Have 3+ years experience, 2) Have portfolios, 3) Have references, 4) Have clean records, and 5) Still can't find work. Yes, it happens, believe me. So, you're going to have to get way, way, way back in line behind those people. And that's fair.

In the meantime, just get whatever work you can.
> consumer will not be fired if they habitually fail to clean things properly

You summed it up right there. Consumers cannot be reasonably expected to clean to the level of a commercial operation.

The thing is with these brushes, they are sold right alongside other scrapers and brushes as if they can be used with exactly the same level of casual concern. There is often, at best, tiny legalese text on the packaging about the bristles being a hazard. There is no commercial kitchen staff training about the dangers of these tiny pieces of wire getting into food. People at home do not have huge liability to customers eating at their house and expect the burden of safety to be on the producer of the products they are using.

I am not necessarily saying ban these things, but they should come with clear and obvious warnings and realistic operating instructions that if followed would result in no chance of harm. That's on the manufacturer surely.

What if I made a skillet that secreted tiny amounts of arsenic that unless scrubbed thoroughly with bleach and then run through an ultra-high temp dishwasher after every use would eventually poison you? This might be fine for a kitchen crew who is educated about the proper usage, but the average home user would just wash it with dish-soap.

I'm all for keeping legislation light, but when there is a known persistent problem that manufacturers ignore and don't self regulate, it's time to step in and apply a mechanism to ensure reasonable responsibility.
So, you are saying that the certifications are not meaningful in that companies and certifiers cheat on the standards, or that the standards are inadequate?
They're fairly receptive to technologies that decrease their operating costs.

If there was a scenario where blockchain-based solution was cheaper to operate than their current database tech, you'd think they'd be all over it.
I don't know. What about Git ? Errors happen, then you correct them, but you can see the error and its correction, and it's considered quite healthy, right?
I've heard the standard C++ criticism that everyone programs in a different subset of the language leveled at Scala. How true do you think that is?
How do you handle duplicate, non-verifiers email? Would you create two non-verified records?

If the first user created the record, but the second one legitimately owns it, then the second user will not be able to use their email address - that doesn't seem right to me
I hadn't played video games for close to a decade before I kind of randomly bought a switch, and it's actually got me back into gaming. Nintendo has kind of always done their own thing though, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
I am mildly surprised this is a problem. I've used a wire brush to clean the grill for as long as I've grilled and had no issues. But then, I've always combined using a wire brush with pre- and post-cooking heating the grill at full power to burn off accumulated stuff. The wire brush is far more effective at scrubbing things off when the crud is beginning to ash, as opposed to the partially-caramelized state it was in when the food first came off.

Edit: I will additionally add that I also scrub the grill plates on occasion, because as mentioned in other comments, the accumulated crud makes food more likely to stick and can also impart a bad taste.
What's the advantage over a scanner? Speed?
Hi, just a few days ago, I had the same problem and no text2mindmap. :(

So I started a similar project but with a different approach: I use a local webserver (written in go, because everything written in go is automatically awesome, obviously) with a filewatcher and a simple websocket to send everything to the browser.

And I use 2 spaces...

https://github.com/cdreier/mind-surf
As someone joining Windows and Devices group out of college this summer, should I expect this to affect me?
Phase One make a 100MP black and white digital back.

Slightly out of my price range.

https://www.phaseone.com/IQ3-100MP-Achromatic
no need to shill here. I don't know which projects will end up successful, I am however convinced that some of them will be
Some people are happier with rote, meaningless work.

I have a relative who for 40 years has done the exact same job -- he drives a large dump truck from a stone pile in a rock quarry up to the crusher, dumps his load, and repeats, endlessly.

He's had many opportunities to transfer to other positions, but he enjoys his "meaningless" work.

He's retiring soon, which is good since the company has been testing an automated truck.
We need a better file format that JPG for sharing these large images.
and yet children read picturebooks and point with their fingers to explain things while adults read text and use language..
Consumers who are attached to eating food like Oreos or Coca Cola, the ingredients of which have been demonstrated to be unhealthy in every way possible, are generally not as concerned about avoiding GMOs as consumers of other products.

I suppose there is some overlap, but I would think that as a first step people with dietary health concerns would cut out things like white flour and high fructose corn syrup.
I guess you haven't read this then :)

https://blog.mingthein.com/2016/08/19/stabilisation-is-good-...
That marketing video seemed to be highlighting specifically that. They even had the shot of the security woman at the very end.
I completely understand why you can’t get a job. If I were a women I would not want to work with someone who did what you did. Even as a guy I find is pretty gross. You got caught not once but twice, who knows how many other times you did it. You also had lots of kids without the ability to take care of them. There are people I have sympathy for but you are certainly not one of them.
Well put. I think I saw this very dynamic in action with my car insurance this year. AAA tried to bump it 40% over the previous year with no claims in previous 5 years and no changes in major underlying parameters.

I think mileage may have gone up slightly but I'm still well below the norm.

Well, I guess AAA finally hit that "gap between your changes and the long term change in churn" for me. I dropped them for GEICO. But even before I left, I called them back and gave them a chance to match the GEICO quote. Their phone agent seemed to have no path in her script to consider or escalate this offer.

It sounds like we may need a catchy term for that gap you mentioned, the one where as a consumer I'm ready to jump but the alternatives (if any still exist) don't feel like they're worth the trouble. (I'm at that point with my cable internet provider.) Something like the "Recurry" or "Gamey Valley".
I've actually had AAA for my car insurance for a dozen years. Only had very small price increases during that time. No accidents, no tickets and yet they just increased my rate 25%. Been happy with them but if they think that I don't pay attention to the price I'm paying they'll learn.
I very much struggled with training a junior developer that cane out of a boot camp. I couldn't teach him how to logically find an issue just by tracing the data flow.

While I stagnated for years and became an "expert beginner" (https://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-o...) at one company, I've never been a "junior developer". By the time I got my first job at a small company, I already had 10 years of experience as a hobbyist and knew how to program.

It's easy to mentor someone who knows the fundamentals of how to logically break an issue down and throw out some ugly code to get them to a "clean code" stage or even teach them a language.

But if they already know the fundamentals of development as a junior developer, it's pretty easy to get to the next step with time, lunch and learns and reading a lot.
That's a different point altogether. The original question was what does a blockchain solve that a normal DB can't.
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If scamming something like this is possible, the scammers have an incentive to scam as much as possible, so the "scam ratio" will tend to grow to 100% quite fast unless there's a huge amount of legitimate business.
It's clear to everyone that he has been fired. Otherwise they would have let him resign by himself.

Saying "we have been planning for is for Terry Myerson to pursue his next chapter outside Microsoft" is a stab in the back. Not only did they show him the way to out but they also gave him a kick in the ass while on the way out.
Really something like this shouldn't rely on being hosted by one person. A decentralized protocol like dat[0] would solve this problem.

[0] - https://datproject.org/
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It is a misdemeanor, but a second offense turns it into a felony automatically. My lawyer could not get it back down to a misdemeanor. I am utterly and completely screwed.
I would try leaving the country. In fact, it would have been preferable to do so before the conviction.
That seems like an even less bullish fact. Batteries are never going to command the same margin or moat as cars, and hence would have even lower market cap comps.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Amazon builds things like this (their phone, their tablets, Alexa, and apparently their social media platform) based on what Amazon wishes were true, not what actually is.

Amazon wishes people built their daily lives around shopping at Amazon and would share that with their friends. Amazon wishes people wanted to take pictures of products so you could buy them from Amazon (this was one of the "innovative" features of the Fire Phone, it was called Firefly, and I never used it once in the year or so that I used that generally awful phone). It's like they start from the premise of, "Sell more stuff!", and then build products around that. Anything else that gets into the mix is just a flashy gimmick to get you into the store.

There have been Amazon products that have succeeded, obviously, since they're bigger than god and still growing (and I shop there all the time, and use/like AWS). But, boy, do they suck at consumer technology.
0.018 is way above the threshold of sensation, well into the territory of very painful shocks (18 times the threshold of sensation at ~1mA). Of course this will usually be local with a 9V battery, but with some deliberation you can pass the current through your heart via the blood stream, where the resistance is sometimes much lower which can get you very close to what'll likely be fatal.

Edit: the above holds true for AC but not necessarily for DC from a battery, where the thresholds are typically higher. But the heart is very sensitive and fibrillation occurs at very low currents passing directly through it.
That's the start of a new cycle, so yes, it gets taken out, unless it evaporates again before it reaches the oceans.
This is like a blog or what?
ISO performance has already increased amazingly over the past two decades. I wonder how much more possible headroom it has.
What would be useful on their site would be a comparison showing the same image shot with an unmodified sensor and then again with their filter-less sensor. If no one can tell the difference, is it worth it?
That is still an avoidable error. You shouldn't be adding parts without understanding how they work or how they will affect your circuit as a whole.
Hehe. Thats actually a nice artifact, thanks bitcoin. Now individuals can consider the potential of ideas to pan out and participate in funding them. Sure, sounds good -- I'll throw in 1,000$. Suddenly 1,000 like-minded individuals can satisfy the need of projects. Of course thats not always so popular here ;-). I should just mind my own business and focus on the coding right?

Anyhow. I do think you are right. The integrity of the data has to be questioned. But I question why we have to assume that its useless just because it cannot be trusted? This paper trail is immutable. That is valuable. Future evidence can expose prior lies. Once you know that you have to maintain a lie for life, suddenly you are questioning if its really worth making.
When an automated vehicle get's a ticket, who pays for it? I never thought about this before, but I am really excited now for automated vehicles because the police will no longer be able to stop you for any (made up) reason. Pulled over for going over the speed limit? Just check the log.
Git-bisect – Use binary search to find the commit that introduced a bug
I hope this doesn't come across as a personal attack. This is meant to be a message for people reading your comment.

If push-ups can treat your (undiagnosed) depression, then you do not have depression. Full stop.

This is not to say that you did not have a mental illness, or that you did not experience real suffering. However, doing a session of push-ups will not treat depression or significantly alleviate its symptoms. For anyone reading this, if you think you may have depression, you absolutely, urgently need professional treatment. Push-ups, running, or meditation will not fix it.
The check is a positive one for presence. Items which aren't tagged are untrusted.

If they throw out a signature they don't like, the system works perfectly fine - it's treated like any other untrusted product.

No one should trust a system that has a "don't trust this, it's bad" flag, it should always be "trust this, it's clean".
The site has a page explaining how to get around it.
I loved this article. Stories like this make me feel a weirdly intense connection with everyone. One thing we can all have in common is our evolutionary history and how it made us the beings we are, flaws and all.
I would take any article like this with a grain of salt. There is not a lot of useful or technical information here, and I believe it is more designed as click bait and FUD to create shock value and hurt the public sentiment about Blockchain technology and investing in crypto currencies.

That said, on the flip side, a lot of people have been considering Blockchain as some kind of magic solution to all of the world’s problems, and that is also very far from reality. If it takes an article in Reuters for people to realize this than so be it.

I have believed for a while that Blockchain technology in the context that many big companies refer to it is not very useful. Usually these are the same people who claim that Bitcoin is useless and Blockchain technology is where the real value is. I think they are either mistaken or misinformed.

In my opinion, anyone who plans to build a centrally controlled Blockchain is making a mistake. Even if the data is signed/hashed and distributed, it only takes one bad actor inside the organization who has access to the nodes to alter the Blockchain by performing a 51% attack (changing the transaction data on more than half of the nodes). Therefore the entire idea of a Blockchain being immutable is thrown out the window. You would be much better off using an open source database like MySQL or Postgres or Mongo. Blockchains are expensive to run and operate and are extremely slow.

However, the idea that Blockchains are a solution in search of a problem that the article suggests is also a bit misleading. I think it’s more likely that these companies are trying to find solutions for things that aren’t problems in the first place which isn’t the fault of Blockchain technology itself. I feel pretty strongly that blockchains have already solved a few problems.

- They solve the double spending problem (the idea that the same tokens can be spent more than once)

- They allow people to store value without depending on any third party (such as a bank)

- They remove all the intermediaries required for sending payments/data from one person to another.

- They make it cheaper and faster to send any amount of money to anyone in the world

To me, those are all transformative properties of blockchains, and anyone who overlooks them is somewhat missing the point. That said, in order to check off all these bullet points, you need to have a peer to peer, decentralized network where peers are rewarded with crypto currencies for securing the network, not just a few servers running inside of a company as a replacement for a centralized database.

Will there be good Blockchain applications outside of crypto currencies? I’m not sure, but to me, there is nothing wrong with that. If, in the future, banks and cash become obsolete and everyone stores their money on their own secure, digital wallets, then I would say that Blockchain technology changed the world for the better.
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This is exactly what's driving my skepticism. The people who I've met who are most vocal about "blockchain" are also the ones who know little to nothing about the algorithm itself (and algorithms in general).
The Dilemma of Leaving Everything Behind and Travel
I still think this video from 2014 is pretty impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1W-bPyYR0k

I wonder how latest models (a7 III would be a good candidate maybe?) fare in comparison?
>Turning up the lighting is very difficult for food photography. Lights are hot and food doesn't last long under studio lights. (That's also why a lot of food photography has such shallow depth of field — a wider aperture lets in more light.)

Sure, but that's only if you use non-LED continuous lighting. Alternatively, you could use flash and then not need a longer exposure. As long as you can balance the ambient with a low enough continuous light that it wont affect the food. Plenty of ways to skin the cat..
That and less handling, very important in the case of fragile documents.

https://picturae.com/en/

Very interesting company, and from what I know one of the first in the world to take delivery of that sensor.
I think that's a vendor implementation. I used a Lenovo for a long time, worked perfectly without a pop-up. Just got a Dell XPS 15, it pops up a prompt when I plug stuff in (but it also allows me to set a default behavior, so.... ‍️
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Ok, so I do wipe it with an onion or some wood piece after heating it up. Would never dream of using a metal bristle brush...
What smartphone photography is doing to our memories