skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Signatures ensure the integrity of the data, but more consensus is needed to ensure that the data is not deleted and is well maintained on the network.

DHT (with data duplication, obviously), I said already. Or gossip protocol.
You don't need consensus, and blockchain doesn't give you one either.

> Your answer isn't enough to solve my problem.

As you have stated the problem? Yes, it is enough.

Maybe there are some requirements that make a timestamping protocol necessary,
but you haven't provided any. As I said previously, if you use blockchain,
you have to defend your choice, because most of the people who build on top
of it don't understand it, use it in stupid ways, and just want something
trendy for the sake of being trendy. You need to prove that you aren't one of
them and that you are competent with it.

> Although blockchain is not the only correct answer, blockchain is one of the solutions.

Very expensive solution, applied because you don't understand what it is and
why and when would you need one (if you did, you'd explain the necessity for
blockchain long time ago).
Why are wealthy cities seeing a surge of the down and out?
Nah, no single decision was made about keeping a huge portion of the population on the edge of desperation. And companies are not generally to blame for people's desperation, unless they somehow cheat or commit fraud (usually in collusion with the state). Furthermore, always assuming that the employer is always in the position of strength is wrong. Even though Chinese factory workers are paid very little by Western standards, they are seeing their wages rise, which is exactly because they are increasingly able to negotiate from a position of strength.

Lastly, a transaction is either voluntary or it is not. There are no degrees of 'voluntary' if you use the word in the conventional sense.
> I was referring to Apple.

The company Wozniak left almost twenty years before Facebook's founding?
...and we're not ok with that, not any more. Not when we can do something about it.
John Perkins does list specific examples in his book. Mostly located in Southeast Asia and South America. Not by name, of course. But by location. He talks about the politics of how these "deals" happened, who benefited and what role the military and state departments played.

His book is a great read.
Yes

/s
At my browser's default zoom level, this was rendered as a black rectangle. I had to zoom in to get it to show me the article.

Edit: I only posted this in case someone was confused by a black rectangle like I was.
yowsup has been online for years.
> maybe since the start of the Ming dynasty

Why do you choose that date? The following cycle is a well known model of Chinese history and has been true for millennia (I might misremember a detail here or there): 1. civil war -> 2. cohesion and ascendant power -> 3. corruption and declining power -> goto 1

As an interesting tangent: The model above emphasized order as the priority, which means centralized authoritarian power. A recent history published in Hong Kong[0] says that order was really just consolidated power for the Emperor (or Paramount Leader, as they are called now), but for common people the periods of 'disorder' provided more freedom, prosperity, and innovation. As the author says in one interview:

"Since the imposition of imperial absolutism and centralized government in the Qin dynasty, China has not produced the democratic politicians of ancient times, nor the great thinkers like Laozi, Confucius and Mencius. Quite the opposite – totalitarian society has produced many despotic and violent rulers and corrupt officials and brought China into a great dark age." [1]

[0] China History Revisited by Xiao Jiansheng, published by New Century Press of Hong Kong. I read that it was banned in China, but a best-seller in Hong Kong. This first link is the forward, which I recommend:

https://chinahistoryrevisited.blogspot.com/

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2010/01/chat-with-chinese-aut...

[1] https://www.asiasentinel.com/society/revisiting-chinese-hist...
Lots of videos on youtube have comment sections that are just full of people who like the content positively discussing it. Usually not the kind of content that makes top trending.

For example, I enjoy the videos of PeterDraws. Just now, I went to his channel and checked out one of his most recent videos. All of the comments are positive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykc_XIPhjPY
I should have made it clear in my comment that I did not have political intentions.

The Obama campaign innovated the use of social media data in elections. I wanted to know if the EFF had anything to say about it at the time. That's it.
I used a cardboard-box oven (box with 1 side removed; cover with foil; set over pan of coals with grating). Remember to bring the gas torch!
I'm honestly not so sure thats what is being constrasted. Its more of a hard-capitalism (as little state power as possible with exceptions) vs soft-socialism (a lot of state power and planning, with some affordances to private industry) thing in my mind.
Minneapolis? As someone who commuted via bike "before it was cool" in Minneapolis I want to ask what you're smoking :)

The density simply isn't there, and the infrastructure is pretty horrible aside from some exceedingly small areas of the city proper, and of course the amazing bike paths (which typically are not useful for anything other than leisure). If that's what you consider a high bar for "bike infrastructure" in the US, I think the situation is pretty dire.

I moved to Chicago largely due to transit-related reasons, and the bike commute here isn't exactly stellar - but it's at least night and day compared to the average suburban-oriented city in the US.

That said, spending significant time in the Netherlands may have raised the bar too far for me to really think of any US bike infrastructure as being much more than an afterthought at best.
This has been my experience as well. Granted, my audience is primarily tech people, but man do they want a feed. I had no idea.

(I am curious though, I may just try using feeds myself.)
San Francisco’s website that connects homeless residents with resources
Unbelievable. Thanks. The top decile actually consume over 75% of the alcohol (by number of drinks, probably less by dollars)
I wish I could find the article but a few years ago I read a story that was every well written the went through in detail all the ways the cops have much more access to our private lives and data then they did even 20 years ago, and how the entire "going dark" excuse is really more accurately stating going back to the level of information they had around year 2000
Apple's Entire Business Is Now Being Powered with Clean Energy
How Are Things with Open Data in Russia
Also, extremely scary. This means that if you want to do any political action, you need to entrust your most detailed personal identification to Facebook. And if Facebook is latter served with a subpoena to disclose these data, they will be only too happy to oblige. It may not be too much a concern in a country where there is a functioning democracy and strong judiciary protections, but in countries where you could disappear for criticizing the government it makes Facebook completely unfit for use by anyone but government propaganda outlets. It will also have chilling effects for speech even in the US - there are numerous examples of people being subject to bullying and personal destruction campaigns for either publishing or even sponsoring messages that some influential groups did not like. Of course, Facebook has no legal responsibility to support this - or any kind of - speech, but elimination of this kind of speech from any public place hurts the democratic process much more than minuscule influence of some bad actors.

Anonymous or pseudonymous political speech is very valuable for a robust democratic debate, and it is extremely sad - though not exactly surprising - that it is being eradicated under the guise of "transparency" and "protecting the elections from foreign influence" and all kinds of bullshit like that.
The hypothesis was that the correspondence of visual perception with tactile perception is learned, not innate.

That's a perfectly valid scientific hypothesis, and turns out to be testable and correct.

Science, from Google: the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

They hardly need a theory for how you gain those experiences - you gain those experiences by seeing objects and by handling them, obviously.

Granted, they didn't understand Maxwell's equations and photoelectric effects and some complete model of the light-retina-nerves-brain-mind system, but they didn't need that in order to make scientific hypotheses about whether we learn to correlate sensory stimuli with the world around us or if it just automatic.

We know more now (but hopefully not as much as people 200 years from now will know), but that doesn't mean they weren't doing science: the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment
How did we end up at this point? It's like a self-enforced ceiling on evolution of technology. The tar pit gets more tarry every year.
I think you can find some scary stories in this old thread: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pxGYZs2zHJNHvWY5b/request-fo...

Though I can't say for sure without going through it all again how many rely on smarter-than-human intelligence (achieved via FOOM or not), or how many explicitly end up literally eradicating the planet quickly and thoroughly.

Another thought experiment to consider instead (but it generalizes somewhat to AGI) is the Age of Em scenario, that is, human emulations become possible. The economic shift caused by this would be at least on the scale of the shift from forager -> farmer and from farmer -> industry. Post-transition doesn't mean (immediate) eradication for the old group, but close enough: they no longer control the world and their numbers as a percentage of the rest of the humans are vastly reduced. There's also a hierarchical control systems point I could throw in here that reaction and correction time at higher levels is going to be slower than that of lower levels, so any claims of "we would just squash it in a month" would highly depend on what level of control has to do the squashing. Some levels can't move that fast.
Because poor cities with no slack in the budget are sending them there?
China is a People's Democratic Dictatorship! Its by the will of the people, for the people!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_democratic_dictator...

/s
Advertising is the best way to pay for the servers, lawyers, developers, office space, and everything else FB needs, while keeping the cost for users low.

I believe they are investigating options for letting you pay for FB to turn off advertisements, however.

In the end, it's hard to know for sure what Mark's true motivations are, just as it is for anyone else. The only person who knows Mark's true intentions is Mark. That said, I personally believe him. When I listen to him talk about what he wants to do with Facebook, it seems obvious to me that he has good intentions at heart.

He's about my age, and when I was young the internet let me communicate with people from different areas of the world, different backgrounds, and helped me expand my own understanding of humanity. The internet made me a better person -- a more tolerant, more thoughtful, less prejudiced person. I hoped that the internet could facilitate the same personal growth in the rest of humanity, too. By drawing people together from the disparate corners of the world online, we could become a more tolerant, more understanding species. Mark has said similar things.

Unfortunately, things haven't quite worked out as he, or I, hoped, it seems. =(
IMO it's probably both. Probably harmful for most people, but maybe only a bit, and for some it can be a terrible negative feedback loop.
What does this mean for hardware accellerated decoding?

Intel implemented VP9/h265 decoding in its processors just recently.
Breakdown of Apple's SKAdNetwork
TBH why would anyone fly there if the divided highways going to it...also go nowhere as evidenced by the satellite imagery.
Just assume every country is bugging every other country.
If you could go ahead and just outline that program in point form as a reply to this that'd be great
Dating? That's the least of his problems. I wonder if his score gets dinged significantly under the assumption his comment was sarcastic. Now that might put him below the minimum level required to buy food!
Not anymore since 3.30.0. Also CopperheadOS maintained a fork on their fdroid repo without the hard Google Play store dependency.

https://copperhead.co/android/docs/usage_guide#signal
The oceanic version of "back hoe fade"
Can you point me towards the local government that supports the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base?
Essentially the GDPR does this. Barring some explicit opt-in to the contrary, or other laws that take precedence (such as book-keeping).
If you’re interested, give this podcast from Recode a listen: https://www.recode.net/2017/8/18/16165116/brad-bao-limebike-....

According to Brad Bao of Limebike, generally the cost of a bike is covered in 4 months.

In a recent Time magazine piece on bike sharing, the Chinese company Ofo is listed as being able to produce a bike for $50 USD. Assuming you’re charging $1 per hour, and even factoring in depreciation and maintenance, I don’t think it’s hard to see how bikesharing could be financially lucrative.

These bike sharing startups may actually have a business that is capable of generating an operating profit. The trouble comes when they produce 2x or 3x the bikes needed in a city, and end up with junkyards full of bikes.
The United States is kind of special in that we enshrined slavery in our founding document in 1787 and this insinuated itself into the fabric of society in a multitude of ways. Apartheid era South Africa may be the only equivalent for the past 150 years.
I see a lot of "just use X instead."

Unfortunately, unlike the old chat protocols, switching to any other platform means convincing your contacts to use a new platform. They like you and all, but that means they also have to use a special app just to talk with you now.
America is also the only democratic nation with First Amendment. In other democratic nations (like Britain) you can now be investigated, fined or jailed for posting a video or retweeting or sharing something on Facebook. I somehow prefer the former.
One could argue that the form of democracy being spread by the US is in fact creating more instability and terrorism due to violent methods in which it is being spread.
You can probably get 100gbit/s between satellites, maybe more. A single fiber link can already support several tbit/s, some submarine cables can transport 40tbit/s or more. And the Atlantic and Pacific are full of submarine cables, 20k satellites won't be enough to replace any of that. Just the amounts that Google/FB/AWS etc push between continents is more than a satellite link could sustain.

For latency sensitive applications (e.g. finance, video links), starlink can indeed be a good alternative but it won't replace backbones, e.g. distribution of youtube videos to edge locations around the world.
It might be correct if that would be what happens. However people who create more are usually at the bottom end of the food chain in our current system. People who don't do much more than play political games usually end up at the top, sometimes earning 5 times of what the actual creators earn.
GitHub pages are for that. The git repo itself is for code.
The first chapter of the book, Debt, the First 5,000 years by David Graeber, articulates how Western, multi-lateral institutions such as the IMF, in effect, set debt traps for developing countries.

https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf (pdf)
The cost of doing it is a small negative effect on some (predominantly older) companies' bottom lines.

The cost of not doing it is widespread violation of our fundamental human right to privacy.

It's definitely worth it.
Both links work for me; They go to debian wiki pages (which could be confusing), is that what you mean?
On the github page, he writes this:

> Normally for multiple teams with heavy traffics, Wey should not have any significant CPU usage, and RAM ussage is usually under 100MB. However if you have a team with more than 10k users in it, the memory usage may increase a lot.

Bloaty technologies was what made MS great in the 80's/90's, because 18 months later, the speed of the CPU would double.

I feel like we should think hard about optimizing for memory/cpu again.
I say that because the last major overseas voyages by Chinese sailors (cf. Zheng He) happened around the start of the Ming dynasty. Neither the Ming nor Qing saw any need to sponsor expeditions, and the Ming further lost control of the seas to the wokou. You could argue that the late-Qing modernization efforts could have ended up with overseas voyages, if they had had Meiji-style success (and not fallen apart), but ifs and buts.
Ask HN: Late career changer looking for resume and job advice
Hello! I’m a self-taught web developer who switched careers from architecture and construction management a bit over 2 years ago when I finally decided to follow my call. Since then I’ve been learning to code and building some projects, the main one being a blogging platform (https://blogme.space), which design is inspired on Medium’s.

I’m now looking for a full-time job and would really appreciate any advice on how I wrote my resume, which includes some of my projects and previous experience as well as transferable skills. Also much appreciated is any advice/suggestions you may have regarding job search for a late career changer.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a88655lepkgba26/Regen_Resume_2018.pdf?dl=0
800MB? Is that for the Linux or Windows client? My mac client is consuming 77.0MB per activity monitor. Which I assume on Mac is power of 10, so 73.4MiB.
I live in the biggest dockless bike market currently and its an eyesore. Our corrupt government has decided not to even think about making legislation about the companies until September.

People are getting very sick of seeing them laying all around and its starting to go the way of Paris, whose people rose up against the bike share companies and got them to pull out through sheer vandalism.

Someone cut one in half and mounted it on a telephone pole the other day
Amazon is a master of tax avoidance
This issue must exist only in poorly made apps, no? At least Android is designed such that it should be natural to navigate views across different apps as though they belonged to one. Apps aren't really emphasised under the hood as much as specific views are.
They're using online surveillance to breed stronger proponents of Xi Jinping Thought? I did not see that one coming...
Taiwan was an oppressive dictatorship for decades under US protection. I don’t think the US should get all of the credit for that one.
> AV1 leapfrogs the performance of VP9 and HEVC

Does anyone have any evidence of this claim?
The more I dig into Signal, the more complicated everything with it is.

Just go XMPP with OMEMO, so no hard smartphone dependency, no electron app monsters. Thankfully XMPP doesn't have a problem with 3rd party and federation.

https://omemo.top/
Any sufficiently flexible tool for development is pretty much indistinguishable from a programming language. No-code programming is still programming.
Depends on your perspective. There are worse things than death. And equalizing misery is almost romantic.

And compared to other revolutions, the French Revolution was not that bloody. It was just the localized executions that made for all the blood running in the streets for weeks.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/scheide...
No it is not. You don't have the right to invade privacy of groups of people no more than I have the right to invade your privacy and inspect your bank accounts. Maybe you're Russian troll? Maybe you are paid by Putin? Would like to make your bank accounts public for everybody to ensure it is not the case? Probably not. Then why should other people who make political statements?
Without more people society has no future, eventually everyone will die. So you need to make a decision: will my kids be a net negative or a net positive to future society?

In this case with what little I know about seymour333's situation (one HN comment) I would call it a net positive because these kids grew up in an environment where they or their parents experienced upward social mobility. Perhaps mom and dad can't break the middle class ceiling, but since the kids know escaping poverty is a thing that gives them incentive to elevate past middle class.
> Raising an animal is giving it natural food and let its different organs do its work and let it grow into full animal by using natural processes that has been happening for ever.

Is a laborious and error prone process that consumes a lot of land, and won’t sustain future populations.

Mad cow and diseased spinach result from this system

Enjoy your organic and “natural” protein unraveling, E.coli

Having grown up in hog and cow country, seeing how the sausage is made on an “organic” meat farm... eh yeah it’s not as neat and tidy as you might think
I live in the U.S. The tap water in my neck of the woods is disgusting. It is a water tank on top of a hill that has open vents and is surrounded by trees, moss and much worse. There is nothing stopping anyone from throwing a water balloon filled with (insert whatever) at the vent. Hikers pass it every day at vent level. The pipes leading up to it leak about 20k gallons of water into the mountainside every day. There are testing taps every few miles on my road and I see them sometimes taking samples. I do not feel comfortable even showering in this water. I certainly would not drink it intentionally.

For bottled water, I get the bottles made of rigid plastic that may have less chance of leaching chemicals over a short period of time. Only time will tell if I chose correctly.
In Reddit, these type of comments are usually upvoted to the top because most users don’t bother reading articles.

My guess is that we have a fellow redditor here.
Seems clear that you could instruct the AGI to do anything it could to interfere with other organizations efforts to build an AGI. Obviously Nation States would have strong reasons for pursuing such a course of action and unscrupulous corporations would likewise have strong capitalistic motivations to do so.
I think you meant "Rationale"
killed AFTER 12 billion over spend, not very effective
Which direction in AI is most promising towards AGI, in your opinion (regardless of the hype it receives)?
Who's "we" and what can "we" do about it? If you're suggesting taking more money from people who earned it to give it to people that didn't, I think you'll find that "we" doesn't include a lot of people.
Not to be a snarky, but this worked in 2002(?) to combat 12 year old trolls.

The point it really speaks to is

What is an appropriate barrier to entry for an online community where two conditions are satisfied?

1. The online community can scale.
2. The online community is susceptible to what is essentially a sybil attack.

It may be the case these two conditions are inversely related and can't be simultaneously satisfied.

In the case of SA the admin correctly identified that 12 year old trolls aren't willing to pay 5 dollars to troll. This is an economic barrier to entry that just doesn't apply in the current landscape.
"Things like murder are criminalized because they involve the infringement upon the rights of others against their will."

Correct, that's why murder is criminalized, and not the reason why prostitution is criminalized.