skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Billions across the globe rely on the Web to enhance their intellectual capabilities on a daily basis, building understanding through its rich mesh of connections.

> Not really, billions across the globe check out funny cat pics, play games, watch you-know-what, etc. :)

This!

Many resources seem to be distributed asymmetrically, so is being interested in intellectual development, and only a tiny percentage follows the ideals of enlightenment and intellectual development.

So yes, even though we have the biggest resource of instantly available information under our fingertips, many seem not to use it at all for education and development.
It can be very frustrating that, even with updated statistics, the optimizer decides to go a different way with a query. While using Sybase, this happened quite a lot when tables got rather large (corporation large not Google large). The normal response is to force the indexes on the query. Due to log space issues, I do remember having an awk script between queries back in the Ingres days.
I did research Hyperledger Fabric and compared to other "Blockchain platforms". My conclusion was that it made a lot more sense to use Ethereum in most cases due to:

- Ethereum has a bigger community that is more open and inclusive. While Hyperledger is mainly an IBM and friends like project and a lot of decisions and information is kept inside. Goodluck getting things done without involving consultants from these "supporting" companies.

- Consensus algorithm is what makes a Blockchain a blockchain. Hyperledger says something like you can use whatever consensus mechanism you want but in practice there is not a real alternative to proof of work. Relying on a in public production battle tested algorithm will save a lot of effort and headache.

- crypto economic incentive is what makes a Blockchain a blockchain. Without having a coin to motivate participants in a balanced way to act in a specific desired way, there will not be any real advantages to use a blockchain platform and it is in most cases smarter to just use a distributed database. Hyperledger doesn't provide a practical way to create an incentive mechanism.

- The underlying philosophy of hyperledger is around "federated networks" which means that it is trying to create a controlled environment where transactions take place between authorized participants. This leads to centralization by authority which leads to data immutability according to the degree you trust this entity. This defeats mainly the purpose of Blockchain to create a trustless environment of immutable data record.
They served the metadata. Whoever hosts the actual audio files isn't really a factor in the debate.
Not so long ago the same could be said about AI.
I kind of think that an intelligence tests should moreso try to evaluate how “Turing complete” you are , rather than how quick the processor is at a narrow range ...

Kind of reminds me of the programming language shootout dilemma . X is better than Y because it does Fibonacci sequences quicker ... mostly has no real world utility
Should you raise your kids religious?
A culture war is brewing between Bitcoin’s old and new money
Maybe you don't know how the iTunes and App Stores work? Apple does "police all content" already.
Create the 1979 Atari game Asteroids using vanilla JavaScript [video]
FWIW, you could get free webspace on Geocities and its contemporaries with 2 clicks, 20 years ago.
That's not a bad thing! Acknowledging each other on the social graph.
I’m more concerned about always having to have a backlight. I guess people just don’t care enough.
Aren't ring confidential transactions (RingCT), used in some cryptocurrencies a form of homomorphic encryption which is being applied now?
Unless you manually manage your keys, it's only zero knowledge if you never log into their website or use their Android app, either of which gets your key onto their servers.
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sound just like email or twitter or facebook before everyone's parents were on it.
You think suppressing speech is a great way to combat "fascism"? The irony.
There is a video on the webpage that includes the recovered audio. It is low quality, but enough to understand the speaker most of the time, and definately enough to pose a security risk when analysed by a specialist
> I find this argument increasingly tiresome. There has never been a time in history in which speech did not in some way depend on private support.

That doesn't make it any less true. Free speech doesn't depend on private support. The reach it can have does, but that's a big difference.

What is tiresome is people believing that every opinion has a right to be heard at the same volume and reach as any other, regardless of how the majority of society perceives them or even, in some cases, how despicable it can be.

> How long will conservatives sit back and watch as tech firms systematically attempt to erase their world view from the political conversation?

Let's stop pretending that this is true. Twitter is not "shadowbanning" anyone and, if anything, it's been the opposite. In a clear case of false balance they have been over-representing ideas held by a minority of the population in order to appear fair and balanced.

Now that is clear that the message doesn't resonate with many people as expected, there's a lot of frustration among conservative voices. It's time to start accepting that certain ideas are not being suppressed. They are just not that popular.

> doing nothing to an NYT journalist who (as noted above) says repeatedly she wants to kill all men, that she hates whites etc?

Context matters. And reading comprehension does to. And cherrypicking cases to prove a point is not really effective.
Swarm Computing. The hardware and networking to make it practical and useful exist now, but the field is still in its infancy. There‘s some discussion about its use in autonomous driving, construction, warfare.
Can anyone explain why Infowars are bad? I keep hearing they are but no convincing arguments to support that claim.

Edit: Do people giving me thumbs down care to explain themselves?
I was amazed when I took a distributed systems class what exists or is known about but is almost never used. Still, an expert there is probably pretty industry friendly, and someone somewhere must have a distributed objects/CORBA system that can't be dismantled.
The Russians are coming
I'm pretty sure the fediverse feed just shows all people from all instances who are followed by someone on your instance.
Just as an angle to answering the question (I don't have answers of my own)....

What was the most interesting CS field(s) in 2008, 98, 88, etc?
Out-of-order execution and caches are once again emerging fields, unfortunately.
Apple never hosted the podcast. It just provided a search engine. If Google and every other search engine decides not to index the Pirate Bay, I will still know where to get my uhh -Linux distros.
Not so much science in this list, more personal and practical view:

As a web developer: WebAssembly

As a DevOp: Kubernetes

As a backend engineer: headless (CMS) API systems like Strapi or Wagtail
Perhaps I should have asked for the most obscure :) I wonder how many truly emerging fields still exist within computer science. I feel that resiros [1] may be correct in suggesting applications in other areas of science are most interesting / obscure (in the context of that discipline, at least).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696498
You clearly see value in HackerNews—my use case for Mastodon isn't that different from my use case for HN.

My instance (https:/fosstodon.org) is mostly focused on free and open source software (hence the name). Conversations there tend to be a lot like conversations on HN, but with the benifit of a local community where you get to know the regulars.

(I'm not saying that there's no purely personal talk—but think "office water cooler" not "high school lockers")
Can you share your definition of common law?
The potential for division in the fediverse as a whole is worse. On twitter, there were McCarthyesque, opaquely curated user blacklists to worry about. A conglomerated instance could enforce this kind of arbitrary censorship across entire communities by imposing rules on who their federation partners can federate with, and control network disruption by refusing to federate with new, <100 user instances under the excuse of "preventing spam". Centralized social networks have already isolated people into information bubbles bad enough as it is.
This is a great time to mention gpodder.net, a libre alternative to the iTunes podcast browser. Aside from not promoting censorship, it also integrates nicely with third party FOSS programs such as AntennaPod for Android or Armarok.
Every year for the last 25 or 30 I see this kind of thinking about "information processing" show up.

What it represents, is a gigantic failure of computer science departments world wide not connecting their theories of information with the department of education's theories of information.

Most techies who mentally masturbate about how information should be organized and optimally consumed to maximize the production of good outcomes have never heard of the word pedagogy.

Without understanding that complex topic, they spend their time busy producing articles and collecting them in libraries that only they can navigate. They do this scratching their head wondering why it isn't creating global enlightenment. Ever stuck in some fools quest for a better magical library that will inject wisdom automatically into their heads.

After they hear of pedagogy and after they read a couple of text books on how to turn a first grader into a tenth grader they finally understand the difference between a library and school. They then proceed to think up ways of converting the web (a library) into a school. Most of the time not even fully aware what they are attempting.

And thats why it always fails. Schools have already been invented. They already exist. They are constantly evolving. And they will always be better than a library at producing information processing in the human mind. Every first grader knows not to walk into a tenth grade class room and try to solve the problem on the board there. Now step back and take a moment to think about why that automatically doesn't happen on the web?
And what the consequences are of first grader constantly exposed to problems of all sorts of grade levels without any indicator of grade or path to that grade. Naturally these first graders get it into their head there is something very wrong with the web.

If you want to "improve the web" understand pedagogy.
Can someone explain what a Warrant Canary is and why it needs to be removed?

From my understanding, a Warrant Canary is a provision to disclose subpoena(s) that a company is not allowed to disclose and now SpiderOak is shutting down that provision?
Money is power. Money is quite literally the ability to make other people work for the things you want.
400 million years ago, there were no trees. But there were giant mushroom forests
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-...
Yes, the title needs to be changed. This is not related to Linux in any way.
The developers have avoided implementing full text searching to reduce the risk of harassment
There are currently huge opportunities in applied computing for people who can break out of the status quo. There has never been such a big gap between what technology can do and what technology culture can't. Of course it isn't easy. As there also never been easier to waste time in technology.
OK, let's open a history book. How is Alex Jones a fascist? Can you elaborate on that?

Historically speaking fascists were hard left. The Fascist government of Mussolini had the following features:

- No democracy

- Massive state control over private industry

- Forced suppression of the opposition by censorship and intimidation

Has Alex Jones advocated for censorship of his opponents, massive state control over private industry or the institution of dictatorship? If not, what makes him fascist, exactly?
MSM Follows Chinese censorship program to destroy Infowars
The latest episode of the Off-Nominal podcast[1] had a great interview with Shannon Stirone[2] all about DSN. They go into just how critical the infrastructure is, how little support it gets, and just the insane level of planning required for any planetary mission. Definitely worth a listen. See also Stirone's longread[3] about the DSN.

1: http://offnominal.space/10

2: https://twitter.com/shannonmstirone

3: https://longreads.com/2018/03/15/welcome-to-the-center-of-th...
I'm glad to see him go, but we're at the point where large tech companies essentially control what information we have access to and are beginning to engage with regulating the content for real, but we do not yet have legal or social norms about what they can or should do. I think that means we're in a dangerous position. Right now people get removed it banned based off how much pressure there is to remove them. We should instead have real institutions, either in the company or broader, where the rules are made, the cases are decided and appeals are possible. If this isn't regulated by the government, then we need to demand our information oligopoly helps us hold them accountable.
The complex art of apology in Japan
I’m about to start a project where four Arduinos will be talking to each other every other minute and also to a central server ~100 times a second and haven’t really found a satisfactory way to handle the communication. Had been hoping to use ZeroMQ as I have some experience with that but it looks like there are no Arduino compatible libraries available.

However, this looks just like the thing I’ve been looking for. Serial communication and TCP and CRC checking!
Welcome to the Center of the Universe
That's not my point. At all. My point is that a public broadcaster is accountable to the public, so they would have offical avenues of complaint.
I believe that is the case with the old default being if more than 30% of the table was being returned, don't use the index.

I think that is configurable however.
If you use OpenVPN, add the following (without quotes) at the end of your config file:

"block-outside-dns"

then run this test:

https://www.dnsleaktest.com/

I pass the extended test with it. Very easy and worth doing.
Well, "2 clicks" is a bit of hyperbole, but in the spirit of your comment, yes, things improved even over that. The free hosting schemes available today are much more powerful. Just think about what you can do with a Google account. Docs, Drive, Blogger, Sites, Forms, Picasa & on & on & on
I have reviewed most of the history my kids learned as they were growing up. Most of it is actually decent.

Often, uncomfortable truths are avoided where contemporary standards differ wildly from a historical context. This is unfortunate because students do not understand that "normal" changes over time. This is probably most pronounced wrt race relations (e.g. what passed as normal race relations in 1860 throughout the entire US would be considered outrageously racist now...or the idea that in 1943 Americans sympathized with imprisoned Japanese citizens, the normalcy of anti-Semitism throughout most of history etc).

Instead children are taught to view the past through the standards and tastes of the present, and history becomes a matter of making moral judgements and shaping present morality (a valuable function but not the point of history). But indeed even our study of history will one day make great history...what happens when history is written by people who have never had to kill to survive?
> Hyperledger says something like you can use whatever consensus mechanism you want but in practice there is not a real alternative to proof of work

With the latest crop of PBFT consensus algorithms (notably Tendermint/Cosmos), proof-of-stake is shaping up to be a real alternative. Though I'm a bit worried about the inherent complexity.
I still don't get it why the actual database tables are so far down the tree.

I'm guessing its based on some pg internals but a tool doesn't has to follow it.

Saw this in multiply tools for pgsql
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It's not ironic, it is the Paradox of tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Yeah that first wave are huge with using content warnings for the silliest of things.

[cw: food]
I ate a burrito

I've since disabled content warnings, because I think it gets in the way.. But then it fails the second and third waves, because they post childporn and sex ads..

So I've ended up blocking pawoo.net and switter.at

Which is kinda the problem on mastodon, there's nothing in between silly content warnings written by people that are offended by the slightest thing, and content warnings for childporn drawings
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I was about to make a similar comment. I believe that "fascist" here is being used at a political pejorative (much like right-wingers will call someone "socialist" as an insult.)

There are many negative adjectives that can be used to describe Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories, but to the best of my knowledge he does not support totalitarian dictatorships.
direct acyclic graphs for blockchain use. homomorphic cryptography.
I hate to keep sounding like a broken record, but Apple isn’t “distributing” podcasts any more than Google is distributing web content. Just like you can go to a web page without going through Google’s search engine if you know the URL and you can get to it from Chrome. You can still subscribe to his podcast in the podcast app if you know the URL to the RSS feed. Neither the RSS feed nor the audio files were ever hosted by Apple.
You didn't ask a question. You did ask me to "help you" see into the future and I informed you that my crystal ball is cloudy.
I think that's how HN works :)

If you try to submit an existing URL it takes you to the latest post about it or a list of submissions.
It's an unfortunate characteristic of many in the cryptocurrency community, that they think anyone who doesn't support crypto simply doesn't understand it. And by extension, as soon as they do understand it they will become supporters.

No. There are those who do understand blockchain and still don't support it. A great example is professor Jorge Stolfi. He is one of the more prominent detractors, and yet he routinely displays a very thorough understanding of the technology.
Twitter is not "shadowbanning" anyone and, if anything, it's been the opposite.

Are you sure? Even VICE News says it's true:

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/43paqq/twitter-is-shadow...

Twitter didn't deny it either, although apparently they "fixed" it once it was called out.

By the way, you appear to believe Twitter is a newspaper? Since when does Twitter attempt to have a "balance" on anything? Given its automated nature, it has historically just been a way for people to announce their opinions, right? Not an attempt to fairly represent all the issues.
88 (taking a stab here as I was pretty young):

DTP

OO

RISC CPUs

'graphics' (as in render farms)

98:

Linux, Apache, Mozilla, OSS in general

Perceptual audio compression : MP3 (layer3.org, MP3 vs TwinVQ, codecs created during the period before Fraunhofer announced the source code it uploaded to ISO without a license and that people had been working on for free, in fact had a license and everyone owed them 10 grand).

2008:

Cloud

mobile (location in particular). Think Foursquare vs Gowalla vs Burbn, Grindr, other early mobile location-aware apps. App stores for popularised by Apple that same year.

AJAX, Rails

blogging.
Emerging as in not leaking through side channels emerging?
Apologies, it was a (failed) attempt at sarcasm :)
Rust looks like a step towards practical formal verification just because of its design philosophy. I think what we're doing is making engineering languages more and more verifiable as research languages become more and more expressive. Eventually they'll meet in the middle and we'll have formal verification in "real life."
> There's several browser plugins that work that way, I think the main obstacle is you need everyone on it.

That was the basic decision of making hyperlinks work one way, instead of two way like it was envisioned by others, eg Ted Nelson's Xanadu.
Oh, that's interesting about the reaction time. Not having played DotA I have no idea how big an issue it is (and I couldn't make heads or tails of the video :D ).

It occurs to me that for a really even playing field, the humans should probably be allowed to make and install UI mods if they want to. E.g. if there's an advantage to using an ability precisely when your hit points hit 50% (or whatever), an AI can easily do that reliably so the human should probably be able to if they want to.

(Of course, for heavily twitch games like Counterstrike, being allowed to use UI mods (i.e. aimbots) would break things. But then, I suppose that the extent to which UI mods break a game is more or less the extent to which that game favors twitch over strategy.)
And, still, asks me to log in.
Yes, but it works now.
No, not really. Two reasons:

- water access is a source for income in quite a few places (e.g. [1]). Drilling a few wells in remote villages might fly under the radar, but "solving clean water" means cutting people very much capable of violence from their income. That can't be solved by NYC nightclub promoter, unless they are willing to wage urban warfare.

- it's not enough to drill the wells as they will dry out eventually if there are no regulations and water distribution infrastructure. It's just not sustainable. And to solve the water problem sustainably requires a lot of infrastructure, water treatment, pipes, pumps, maybe some desalination plants. Even US itself is too gridlocked to solve its own problem of water supply, allocation, and aging infrastructure (e.g. Flint or CA's almond orchards), despite having all the money in the world. Why do you assume it's somehow enough to throw a few trillions at a few dozen countries with wildly different political and cultural climates?

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/thirsty-v...
It has an very large social housing sector (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Hong_Kong). Almost half of all the houses / households are subsidized. Housing is the least "free market" part of the Hong Kong economy.
I have wondered the same thing while using pgAdmin. Every other DB GUI tool has your tables in the top 2-3 levels of of the tree.
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Have you ever had a look into analyzing processes with a graph database like e.g. ArangoDB. Wonder if that would make sense for your needs. You can traverse along the processes, find patterns or use distributed graph processing with Pregel analyze from different angels.
edit:typo
They don’t “host” the metadata any more than Google “hosts” the web pages it caches. When you create a podcast, you host the RSS feed wherever you want (not on Apple’s servers) and you submit the url to the RSS feed to Apple. Apple crawls the RSS feed periodically.

Once you subscribe to a podcast - either by clicking on a link from the podcast directory or by entering the url yourself - not an iTunes hosted url - the podcast app goes to your server directly.
He says lots of polarizing bullshit.

He's not crazy. He's just driving sales to his on-line store this way. These days, even conspiracy nutjobs aren't honestly crazy.
Just another hype. Sensors and internet are here for decades. Internet is ok, but “things” are way too expensive and not reliable yet.
AJ may be a pos but a fascist he is not. It would be helpful if you and the many others who use this term to open a dictionary and encyclopedia to learn what it really means and not what you think or want it to mean.
The geochemistry goes without saying.