skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any idea how that'll scale if ipfs takes off? Everyone will be using it to host copyrighted content and you'll end up with the same situation that places like youtube have. Either you'll get sued for making the stuff available through your gateway (I doubt you have the staff to manually take it all down), or you'll have to implement a system like youtube where you trust major copyright holders to take down ipfs content themselves. Right?

What are you going to do when people (on other sites) put up pages with fake ipfs links that are identified as copyrighted information, but are really legitimate files (let's say, <a href="ipfslink">Crazy Rich Asians (2018) 1080p</a> where ipfslink is the latest minified jquery on your gateway? You're going to get a takedown for a link like that, regardless of the actual content, if copyright holders operate as they do now.

Do you think you can require copyright holders to be more diligent and start ignoring their takedowns if they make too many mistakes? Require them to actually verify that the ipfs content (direct hash, or some perceptual hash of it) is their copyrighted content? That seems highly unlikely to be acceptable to copyright holders. If you could require that copyright holders do that before sending takedowns, the next step would be copyright violators hosting massive random files, linking to them as if they're movies. Copyright holders would waste tons of bandwidth downloading that random data, and burning cpu to hash it only to discover it's not their stuff.

I want ipfs to catch on, but I don't see how gateways like this can work, without getting sued into oblivion, or getting into bed with copyright holders and suffering so many mistaken and maliciously false takedowns that your gateway becomes a neutered content distribution platform... like youtube... with lots of legitimate content getting censored.
That's the way we've got modern web, where decentralized web sites need the Google Search as entrypoint, decentralized blogs morphed into Facebook, and Cloudflare is going to monopolize the transport layer of all that.
I looked into this recently. The free plan doesn't include custom domains anymore. If you had an account before they removed it, you still have it on the free plan.
I blame legalization. When you make common activities not illegal, less illegal activity happens. Shocking, but true.
Google isn't killing 'www' in Chrome just yet
Can't stand how people are too sensitive today. Linus is and has been a asshole for decades. But that asshole has given us one of the greatest contributions to computing. If you can't handle his attitude then don't be a part of the community or grow some thicker skin. Life isn't always soft.
Online surveys are a horrible idea for this kind of information gathering. You have effectively zero idea if the respondents are even in the EU. All it takes is a VPN subscription to completely trash an online survey of this nature.
> Again consider the fact that Walmart as a national grocer is able to milk the SNAP program on a national level to the tune of $14B/year.

Others in this thread have pointed out that "milk the SNAP" program is a very disingenuous and deceitful statement. SNAP is a wellfare program that subsidizes food purchases and both wallmart and amazon sell groceries, and somehow people like you spin the fact that supermarkets sell groceries to sound like these companies are stealing money from the government at the expense of poor people.

And even then what's your point? Either supermakets sell food to underpriviledged people or they don't, and I really doubt that anyone would advocate that poor people should be barred from supermarkets where regular people shop.
I was casually chatting with a small business owner about five years ago and he was raving about how much money moving to Stripe saved him, especially on AMEX cards.
I am actually in favour of developing nuclear energy. And I think we should also invest in renewables. And one day I think that another nuclear station is going to fail and will need to be made safe. Those things are not inconsistent.
No one ever argues we should all try to gain 50 lbs either. Both are valid possibilities.
Presumably, when hydrazine is "burned", what's spewed into the air from the end of the rocket is relatively benign. With mercury as an input, there's no way of avoiding spewing mercury compounds, which have a much lower likelihood of being benign.
"county" isn't the same word as "country". In the US, you bring small claims suits in a county court...county is very localized, and there are thousands of them in the US. Usually the terms of service of video hosting sites will require lawsuits to be brought in the home county of the company (probably somewhere in Delaware or California for Facebook and Google), and they're likely the offending party here (since Sony files through Facebook and Google, and those companies are the ones who're imposing a terms of service that prohibits uploading "copyrighted" materials), so it is not at all clear one could bring a small claims suit against Sony in your local county. If fact, it seems unlikely, based on my understanding of the law.

I wish it were possible, but I don't know that a county court would consider itself to have jurisdiction in such a case.
Aren’t modern safety features a policy decision?

The old plants were already one of the safest forms of energy available - so by making nuclear safer it’s making us all less safe.
Yes, 100%.
Just click on a lock icon in browser and drill down.

Eventually you'll see the weirdness that Google certificate (as well as Linkedin and some others) are issued by BlueCoat or something like that.

Big banks do that.
Machine Learning: it's time to embrace version control
Also why doorstep package theft has dramatically increased - it is now a catch-and-release crime.
Loved the demo, ended up headbanging to the music.

Java is truly a heavy metal language.
Also decriminalization of being born to an immigrant.
Right, though unfortunately many companies do not respect these boundaries. Because companies can’t even respect such basic ideas and boundaries with regard to employee wellbeing, it feels like a big leap to all of a sudden care enough to reduce employee hours by 25%.
Sure, but there are a lot of efficiency killers to look for before you need to worry about individual hours worked.

Adding 20% more people doesn't make the software come out 20% faster because:

1) Multiple people need to work on the same critical section of the code, and then there are merge conflicts. (Or people disagree on the design, or refactoring becomes a higher priority than doing what users want, etc.)

2) People work sloppily and omit relevant tests, only for someone else to have to re-discover the bug, fix it, and write the tests (trading productivity from one person to another).

3) People work on the wrong tasks, adding 20% more technical debt but not fixing 20% of the highest-priority bugs.

4) People take 20% less responsibility so you end up with "someone else will handle that (where "that" is usually documentation, monitoring, deployment, or anything else not explicitly captured in your list of bugs/priorities).

It is very interesting to me how internal software development often fails (I'm sure I've been the point of failure before), but software development CAN scale. I use AWS, for example, and I'm sure their software engineering teams are messing with products/features that my team uses. But they don't make me 20% slower. Ultimately, overly-tight coupling gets you every time. But on the other hand, too much isolation can also be a problem (time spent overengineering). If you find that balance, you can scale your team infinitely ;)
if that's the case then omitting the link would make more sense.

Resume looks perfectly fine though,I didn't checkout your linkedin profile under your username but I assume it looks similar
Which is another policy decision - we could allow civilian plants with richer fuel.
> But at least it would be up to a community of users, rather than government decree. I doubt any of the crypto communities would decide to have ~10% long term inflation like USD.

Voting which is heavily centralized to a few massive owners is not a significant improvement on The Fed, I'm sorry, that's just ridiculous.

> Also a fair point against Bitcoin, but I think the future is PoS.

PoS has huge numbers of different problems, mainly that it is a system designed around plutocracy.

> I'm just saying that crypto privacy can be as good as cash.

And I'm saying that if the crypto currencies that actually allowed for cash-like privacy levels (ie anonymous transactions etc.) actually reached any level of scale FINRA would immediately shut them down. Anonymous transactions are not a technical feat, they are a political one. Again, the guys with guns already decided we don't get anonymous transactions so just writing the code for it isn't going to change things.

> I doubt low-inflation currencies would actually change spending/hoarding behavior significantly. People who want to hoard wealth can do so already, with gold, land, TIPS, etc.

Right, and the thing those things have in common is that they are "Not Currencies."
The update seems to have messed up the color profile on iPhone X. Colors are brighter, more saturated, more washed out and generally crappier.
Even though it isn't the case right now, we must be careful for the feature not to become a feeling of privacy rather than privacy itself
Vernon Unsworth vs. Elon Musk (defamation lawsuit) [pdf]
These is really nice for some, but on the other side, I'm worried the peer is going to be considered legacy.
> an iPhone without iCloud

Would it send less telemetry data to Apple?
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which ask: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work."

If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
> What would happen if the commission started asking for more policy-making input from citizens via online surveys?

They already do. At any given point in there there are multiple ongoing consultations[0]. It actually works fine.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations_en
* Figure out what is necessary, vs merely convenient

* Evaluate the money/time tradeoffs in your immediate environment

* Know when someone is trying to help you, is just living their life, or is actively trying to harm you

* Say no to anybody

* Make decisions (lots of decisions on things of varying consequences), and then actively look back and evaluate them, and being OK with them being wrong in retrospect

Right now or at any other time 13 year olds need to start learning how to become adults, because they are starting to look like adults in enough ways that they will progressively be less and less protected by the people around them. This takes a decade or so for most people, but it's mostly okay. Some things take time.
Here's a video of a classic Mac OS style UI running on 1.79MHz Atari 8-bit computers. I find this to be a very very impressive feat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T14dL9MeMHE

Speed-wise this appear to me to be about the same speed 8MHz 68000 Mac SE did run it's graphics.
Show HN: Twitch Programs a Commodore 64
until you find yourself in customer care hell.

I've rented a fake room (lied about size, noise, etc. and had three honest-looking reviews) and I was talking to a rep in the US, in english. Meanwhile the host was talking to a service rep in the country i was in, in french.

In the end, the US rep promised me a credit and help. But then the France rep flagged my account. Now i could not book anything until i reactivated a credit card. Even the US rep now couldn't help me until I did that. It was a Saturday. I needed until Tuesday to validate any credit card via their statement methods. Twelve international calls later, and there was nothing they could do. at all. And I was a several-year long customer with 5star reviews all around.

Ended up on the street, with three bags, hunting last minute hotels and paying counter price. Never used airbnb ever again. The savings is not worth the risk.
> There are a dozen gaskets along your car's power train that will set you back multiple times that amount if they fail, yet they don't and you trust them not to.

For that reason, I maintain precisely zero of them myself.
It seems you may be correct -- I'll pass it along to Mitch.
Have ou tried iMazing?
> she said that the police in SF don't even respond

Sounds like SF to me!
There's some caveats to mention here:

First, quantum computers don't scale as well as classical computers. You can take two 64-bit computers, connect them together and emulate a 128-bit computer, in classical computers. Or you could take one 64-bit computer and emulate 128-bits taking twice as long to compute it. But in classical computers, if you need 128 qubits for a computation, having even a 127-bit qubit computer leaves you dead in the water. In practical terms, Shor's algorithm requires O(n lg n) qubits, so you need thousands of qubits to try to break computer. You also can't parallelize Grover's algorithm by farming it out to N quantum computers.

Second, only a relatively small (but important) set of cryptography is actually affected by quantum computers. Symmetric ciphers generally only admit the quadratic speedup by Grover's algorithm, so breaking AES-128 requires 2^64 time on a quantum computer instead of 2^128 (and as mentioned above, having more computers doesn't help speed up the search). Where exponential speedup is available is mostly in public-key cryptography and key-exchange protocols. Forward secrecy (which is increasingly the norm in TLS connections) essentially means you have to crack each individual key exchange to read past conversations, not just the private keys.

Third, as others have mentioned, people are working on post-quantum cryptography. By the time that practical quantum computers for breaking RSA/ECC crypto come around, it's likely that the most useful things to break won't be breakable.
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> the linear no-threshold hypothesis, which is looking increasingly shaky.

How is it increasingly shaky? In who's opinion?
Coca-Cola Is 'In Talks' to Make Marijuana-Infused Drinks
This. Let's all please not forget that FireBug is probably the reason Chrome's dev tools are so good. Someone will eventually fill that space.
Thank you very much. It's a delightful experience I have on all my machines.
Even private VPNs? I'm not that smart about networking but it seems like it would be difficult to distinguish an SSL/TLS connection to your DigitalOcean server because you're doing normal stuff and one where you're tunneling HTTPS through it.
For me it was how PG pushed the investor with the "they WILL get hotels" line. Expected more data and less gut feeling from Ycombinator.
> You'll have to add some checks on your end for this as HTTP/browsers cannot provide these guarantees currently

Browser extensions could by verifying content as it arrives.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
I live in a community with a massive number of Somali refugees. Amputated hands for crime/whatever are a common sight among the older men. Somalia is one of the most dangerous places in the world.

Over time, Europe has abolished the death penalty. They have the lowest murder rates in the history of civilization. In the US, there are wide variations between states for violent crime. Unsurprisingly, the states with the most draconian laws have the highest rates of crime.

I've concluded that violent punishment does not reduce violent crime.
AMD's Vega Graphics Coming to Gaming Laptops, Ryzen 7 2800H and Ryzen 5 2600H
So, you're suggesting this software would prevent a hosting provider from deleting your account data because you've used it for Perkeep data? I can't begin to comprehend the thought process that leads you there.
Everything still has to go through the EU Parliament, no need to panic...
I'm looking for something like perkeep, but with the ability to add (scientific) metadata. Oftentimes when doing science for the university your research fund is attached with clauses that obligate you to store all data of your research for a timespan of 10-20 years and to do (who would have guessed) scientific research - which entails saving information with every data point: When was the data obtained, how was it obtained, who generated it, for which experiment, what's the copyright on this, is it anonymized, pseudonymised, is it connected to any other research, what's the doi/arxiv/ark-id connected to it,....

An archive where you drag and drop your files that can upload everything to a s3 storage (no not amazon s3) and tag metdata to it would be a dream. Right now there is no good solution for this and in the beginning I took a deep look at camlistore and hoped for a solution in it. (I looked at upspin, ipfs and other solutions as well). If someone as a solution for this or if perkeep could be expaned (or has the option somehow hidden somewhere) I would be very happy if somebody could point me in the right direction.
These days decapping involves sandpaper and a magnifying glass.
The very first programming job I had out of college was working on a DEC PDP-8 (not an 8-I or and 8-E, a plain 8), and I remember one time when it failed. I ran a diagnostic program (from paper tape) and the result indicated a hardware failure. We had a service contract, so we called DEC and they sent out a service person. He re-ran the diagnostic and confirmed the fault. I expected him to swap out the failed board, but no. He pulled the board out of the chassis, un-soldered a transister, and soldered in a new one. I can remember to this day, my amazement that he could repair a computer like that.
I'm getting an "Error establishing a database connection" page
Hybrid Ray Tracer in Unity (Open Source)
It's pretty stupid to expect a corporation to pay people more "because they should."

This is what government/laws/unions should help with. I just don't get the idealism of the 21st century. "Jobs should pay more or we will shame you", say the people.

"Get fucked", says the company. And now we are here...
) ) That school massacres aren't real

) ) but are staged by actors and the "lying" media.

) Both sides on the gun debate lie.

How can both sides lie at the quoted example? Either there were people killed or not? How can both sides lie at the same time about it? Can a person be half killed? Even if there was a Schrödinger person, wouldn't fact checking collapse the state to either one?
funny argument. you think it's a horrible idea, propose a flawed way to do it, and debunk it to serve your initial idea. :)

how you do think online voting is done? you really think a simple VPN is enough?

oh, and btw.. I send my tax statement online. let's hope the russians don't have a VPN connection to Switzerland :)
That sounds like a valuable experience report to write up and link to!
There are actually two phones called iphone se. It was updated from iphone6 hardware to iphone6s hardware partway through it’s life cycle withou a change to the name. The updated SE is also availible in rose gold while the original was not.
Wow, since when was that illegal? That's like the entire country at this point.
It definitely won't of course, and I'm not saying it's right, but people who think that a mass people-to-automaton transition is going to go smoothly without a plan in place for the 'people' may lack perspective.
What caused the 2008 financial crisis as explained by 5 movies
>and irrational fear of "radiation"

Radiation is very harmful, and very real. You don't get nuclear power without it. Nothing irrational about the fear of radiation.
It's not just or even mostly the direct "kid smoked weed went to jail". It's growing up in a culture of drug war were the police are the enemy cause they round up, hassle, and jail your older brothers, parents, everyone you know for doing things you know are not criminal. The pushers, gangs, lookouts, mules, etc. Surround kids with crimes and criminals, they will pick up the lifestyle.

Pot is not a gateway drug. But pot illegalization was a gateway into crime.
After installing it, head to https://purecycles.com/products/urban-commuter-bike to see the best feature. Placing 3D models in your house via ARKit right from Safari.

Writeup on this Shopify rollout: https://www.shopify.ca/blog/shopify-ar
I'm surprised no one has coined the full recursive version of the effect :).
Yes, rockets do. However most of the really toxic stuff becomes much less toxic after it reacts.

Mercury by contrast is bad, stays bad once it reacts with something, and once it gets in the environment quickly concentrates up the food chain to give you maximum odds of experiencing just how bad it is. Usual lethal doses are 1-4 grams, and occasionally less. See https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents... for more on that.

Mercury compounds generally don't get better than that, but they do get worse. For example 0.3 grams of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury causes a bad death, and famously goes through things like latex gloves.

Filling a rocket with 30% mercury by volume may make the rocket go faster, but spewing metric tonnes of mercury all over your environment at each launch is..not recommended.
I found this medium article investigating fishiness in Georgia elections a couple weeks ago. https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/georgia-6-and-the-voting-mach...

Kathy Rogers was GA election director, now has a golden parachute at the company who manufactures electronic voting machines for GA. She came to my attention for writing a menacing-but-technically-incompetent letter to DEFCON vote hacking village attendees.

Skeptical because only published on medium, but seems like Cohn might be onto something.
Completely agree with you. In NEXTSPACE at this point available animations are: window miniaturizing, application hiding, application launching from File Viewer (icon slides to the place where application icon will be created), dropping icon dragged from Dock and Shelf (icon destroying).
Tektronix was over the top on quality. Ceramic terminal strips, silver solder, and all the component color codes facing in the same direction. They even put a little spool of silver solder inside the scope in case you had to make repairs. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvbNBZX6kNE
Well, FF+FB ruled supreme back when there were no decent alternatives, particularly on Windows - which was a very popular platform back then.

We're talking pre-2008, which is before smartphones, most people were browsing on Windows, and the only real alternative to MSIE on Windows was... Firefox.

Of course, it's great that Firefox was there, and that Firebug was developed, and it probably did contribute to the fact Chrome Dev tools are so good.
I'm all for rapid unpleasant but not cruel consequences.

The biggest thing seems to be preventing those administering the consequences from indulging in sadism, or exploiting those who they administer.

If the consequence for minor property damage(think public defecation, minor vandalism etc) a 2-4 hour shift cleaning the streets, potentially connects people with the consequences of their actions without becoming cruel
The one about the new iPhones, not WWDC.
You can force cast a boolean by doing if(!!value == true) {}, but at that point you might as well just say if(value)
How is using a custom keyboard on iOS? I remember it being really bad... like it always resetting to the stock keyboard etc.
If pay gets raised, the unemployment number goes up. If you believe in supply and demand.

For those that don't believe in supply and demand, why are they so stingy that they only want a $15 minimum wage?
> It's why meetings are generally best in the morning (in my view), since meetings are mostly a waste anyway.

I wonder how much of meetings being "a waste" is from the people involved not being "in the zone."
Awesome news - can't wait for this to land in the UK
Bike shedding at its finest.