skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you let everyone enter your home?
I was thinking use-cases for house guests or very non-technical folks (what is a bookmark?).
There's a gentlemen's agreement between nations that this is permissible for poor nations. China is no longer poor and now must act like a wealthy nation and accept IP laws.

Also, China has grown an upper class whose interests most strongly align with strong IP laws.
The attacks that blockchain can protect against are:

- Fraud

- DDoS

- Censorship

The usefulness of a consensus protocol is that no one party can be trusted to have the most up-to-date AND valid blockchain. Every node has the incentive to cheat and the consensus rules define a method of evaluating the proposed chain of blocks and determine it's "trustworthiness". In PoW this is often an algorithm like Greedy Heaviest Observed Sub-Tree (GHOST) which favours the fork with the highest accumulated work.

This is why it's important that mining is an expensive activity, to discourage attackers from wasting thousands of euros in electricity and then losing the block reward payment.
One solution would be to have your own service (bound to a public IP) and point a nginx pod doing the routing.

You might be able to use an ingress type nginx, which might be a even better way to handle this. (not sure, because I always use the GCP Load Balancer for my ingress).

CDN, as suggested above, might work, but that has some cost and topology ramifications as well.
> you could run GuixSD and then use Nix to install whatever's missing.

How much cooperation between the two is necessary? If I wanted to install CUDA drivers with Nix would it "just work" (i.e. if it works on NixOS it works on GuixSD) or could GuixSD make problems?

I found a comment from a year ago claiming that the kernel wouldn't load blobs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14630581
So now that US companies have entered China, can you name some examples of first entrants who have “seized the market”?

I think your entire premise is dubious. The first mover advantage cannot be great because the Chinese government will never allow a foreign company to have a dominant position in an important domestic Chinese market. Without significant change since in government those first entrant companies are simply very foolishly assuming the regulatory environment will be anything like it is in the United States or Europe.
Really nice list, I recently switched all my email to Fastmail because I don't want to lose everything if Google decides to.

Is there any alternative to Youtube though?
I guess it would be video hosting paid by creators, eg Vimeo
> To US companies, that are driven by quarterly targets then it is very much a case of sacrificing the future for the present.

This comment comes off as trite and naive. Multi-billion dollar companies like DuPont and AMD Inc do not only think a few quarters ahead. They think years or decades ahead.
Do Telehouse / Equinix facilities do half racks nowadays at their NAP orientated facilities? I'm sure they do at their subrate places but not as many choices (rephrased s/subrate/acquired: ones they've acquired over the years, but they're poor for connectivity)
The parent means, logging out and staying logged out of the browser, would have exactly the same behaviour as logging out of your Google Account would in Firefox.

The whole point of the feature was just that:

1. “are you logged into your Google Account from the perspective of Gmail et al” is now the thing the browser chrome itself reports; and

2. you now need to be logged into your Google Account in the cookies sense for Chrome sync to function; logging out of your Google Account turns off Chrome sync.

Before, people could be in a state where they have Chrome sync enabled with foo@gmail, but are not logged into foo@gmail from a cookies perspective, and are potentially even logged into bar@gmail.

This is the state that has been eliminated—now, the browser chrome’s login state reflects your Google Account web-cookie login state, because they’re one-and-the-same; and every method that logs you out of your Google account from a web-cookie perspective, also logs you out of Chrome (and vice-versa.)

Consider the privacy implications of someone who logs out of Gmail, but is still logged into Chrome sync as said Gmail user; and then lets someone else use the computer. That is what is no longer possible.

It’s a privacy improvement targeted at the people who expect “logging out” of their Google account to be one unilateral action that frees a computer of all artifacts related to their original logging-in. Which, until recently, wasn’t true: if you originally logged in by entering your credentials into the “new Chrome profile wizard” (where they set up the credential as both your synnc and web-cookie credential), and then logged out of one, it wouldn’t affect the other.
Zuckerberg was never known to be a founder with a good mission.
To actually use something like this for transmission, would I need to obtain a license for use of the LTE radio bands?
My day job was steady consulting work, but I used that to provide stability while building a company my partners and I sold last year. It wasn't a huge exit (in truth my cut barely covered the extra hours I put into it over four years) and one of these days I'm going to have to write up the history of this project as a cautionary tale about all the mistakes you can make getting involved with a startup. But it was mildly profitable, and with better marketing we probably could have tripled our valuation on exit.
The Web of Death[1] by Buzzfeed lists all the people related to Russia who died in unexpected circumstances on the UK's soil in the last 15 years, together with their personal stories and connections.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-1...
​What happens if you try to take your code out of Linux?
Detaching a comment means removing it from its original parent (the comment it replied to) and making it a top-level comment of the thread instead. Usually, but not always, we do that in order to mark it off topic so it can rank lower on the page.
Please note that it's a lot easier to walk away from $850M if you already own billions.
Well, but WhatsApp proved you what, because that's exactly what they were doing for a while.
The fact that there is a fork is a inconsistency per se. The log must be a linear chain of blocks, that's enforced by the protocol. If there's a fork, eventually all the diverging subchains but one (the longest) will disappear.
I think Google's behaviour probably has something to do with it too.
I would rather spend some time setting up a solution with minimal maintenance than constantly be adjusting and tweaking my solution to get things to work just to browse the web. I use uBo because I rarely have to go in an tweak something and it's mostly just a temporary pause on blocking. A pi-hole might be nice but I like how plugins actually remove the spot where the ad once was so the site looks less like swiss cheese.
Let's take a poll ... Who's submarines [0] are these?

Who's PR firm is behind this and the originally posted TC piece [1]? What's their angle? And Why?

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/26/whatsapp-founder-brian-act... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076008
Say what you will about Amazon, but what I did not appreciate about that Gizmodo article is they are misleading on purpose. They put a massive screenshot of the video showing a "TIPS" acronym that apparently stands for Threat, Investigate, Promise, Spy. Then in tiny grey text the caption states its a screenshot of what the company does NOT advise Management doing. Obviously very few will read that tiny caption. Sensationalism at its best.
I forget, what was this thread about again? Human nature or China stealing IP?
Apollo Legend [0] and EZScape [1] are two good channels to consider after binging SummoningSalt. SethBling's [2] Mario hacks should appeal to the HN crowd, too.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5t8u4kpE0WvLxkPWIp8n-g/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyZiiHXIH7KkqfaDvBmG-Q
[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/sethbling/
Also access Podflix podcasts by voice command: https://is.gd/PodcastByVoice
So the tech inside Zero Mass Water is not the same as dehumidifier. Instead, they use a sophisticated absorbent to selectively capture water, heat it to release the water, then sterilize and add minerals.

But you're right. It's the company that I was most surprised to see in the list. The economics don't yet make sense to me.

I pushed Carmichael Roberts (BEV's head of investing) to explain. He said he has studied water startups for years, and he really likes the tech. But more importantly, he is very impressed by Cody's skill to sell this unit and far wide. It's already in 16 countries.
Their strategies all have a common component: lots of government involvement in what people build and do on their property (the presence of regulation is but one aspect of involvement, how that regulation is implemented matters a lot, see TFA for examples).

Not wanting lots of government management of something is only anti-liberal because modern "liberals" in the US have hitched their horse to the big government wagon.
You are not grasping the import of being able to exchange value WITHOUT a banking system in place.

As for the credit requirements comment, yes - good point. But in the case of a micro-transaction, realtime agreement. I can consume 15 minutes of power and pay for it at 15:01. A credit requirement still exists -0 but it is one second as opposed to 60-90 days worth of power. This idea assumes many things into existence that do no currently exist - I am merely offering the idea as a thought experiment. Blockchain could make everything pay-as-you-consume.
Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)
I hope they dont cause any weird diseases..
I'm just thinking of asbestos-concrete.. It was amazing at the time, far greater tensile strength and fire safety.
Exactly, heaven forbid we read different new sources to view different biases and takes on stories.
Süchtig is an adjective, yes, and 'seeky' is actually a sensible literal translation. But just like the word addicted, it carries the connotation of a destructive obsession, not just a tendency-to-seek-out, and it is just as obliterating a word as its English equivalent.
Perhaps we should consider revoking patent and other IP protections for companies that knowingly or negligently allow IP to be transferred to jurisdictions that do not respect IP rights in pursuit of profit.

Otherwise it's a double whammy, your foreign competitors compete unbound while your domestic market competition is restricted.

It would also align the game theory to prevent companies from "selling out" to such jurisdictions.
Does this impact gaming latency performance? I play Quake Live so every ms is important for me.
- The Dollop -- Comedic American History

- Omnnibus -- Pop culture minutiae with that guy who's good at Jeopardy

- Mission to Zyxx -- Improve scifi comedy

Occasionals/not currently airing:
- Mystery Show -- solves a mystery they can't google while being very spunky

- Revisionist History -- Uses history to make a point

- Alice Isn't Dead -- Hard to describe. Best listened to in a car at night

- Darknet Diarier -- Old hacking stories

- Hardcore History -- Very long engaging history stories
Cool! Thanks for sharing this.

Out of curiosity, do you have any idea how they prevent the scenario I outlined (e.g. metadata, traffic analysis)?
Very mad. Also, I can't find anything easier to publish content than this aside from Medium.
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I'm glad I live in the country where these tactics would be completely illegal, as workers have the lawful right to unionize in businesses that have a certain number of employees. In fact there are agreements, per industrial branch, large corporations have to follow regarding unions.

In US even workers who would benefit from unionizing think unions are a bad thing. This behavior is definitely a vestige of puritan morals. I guess that's why the richest men in the world are american as well.
An EKG is done via a 12-point lead at specific areas of the body. At the moment, there is only one ECG sensor on the watch. When I told my SO who is currently in medical residency, the look on her face was of pure horror. I think to physicians and medical professionals, all this feature will do is to create more false positives and needlessly clog up already stressed clinics with wasteful checkups and add to the number of hypochondriacs.

Maybe through ML Apple could enhance the accuracy and precision of the measurements but given Apple's history with iterating on intelligent features(Siri), it won't happen for a while. If Apple wants to have a meaningful impact on the health of their users, then maybe they ought to use the ECG sharing feature as a means of getting their foot in the door of the medical records industry where their product approach and design rigour is much needed. Moreover, Apple could leverage the ECG feature as part of the product experience to motivate people to engage in activities that get them moving which, at the end of the day, is where most users derive the most value from.
I’d say international trade was a bigger part of the world’s GDP back in the late Antiquity- going well into the Middle Ages, that is back when most of the know-how migrated from East to West (from water mills to the silk industry, gun powder etc). I think the world was a better place because the Europeans got to “steal” that know-how, I’m saying the world will be a better place if the Chinese (or the Indians) get to “steal” today’s latest know-how. Of course, if you’re a US citizen whose pension money was invested in US companies and their IP assets then I agree, the situation is less than ideal, but in the great scheme of things and for humanity as a whole I think that the pluses are bigger than the local minuses, so to speak.
SF is not currently space constrained, only area constrained. They could build upwards if they wanted, but most of the city doesn’t allow buildings over 4 stories. Building up and having a functioning public transportation system would at least allow more people to live in SF, if not solve the housing price problem.
Aw, that's a bummer. First Vanguard and now AWS support only Yubikey brand U2F devices. I wonder why that's happening?

Hopefully this practice remains limited. I really don't want haul a bag of different security keys around with me to access all of my services.
I wouldn't think that is a likely possibility given the impact tariffs would bring to all of us. What is more likely (and lets keep in mind we are discussing public policy of economical super powers) is that we would reach an agreement that the unilateral blockades and sanctions are really unilateral.
I got my last employer to agree to change the IP terms. It was a typo in their document nobody caught, that asserted ownership on everything. They were only too happy to fix it so it only applied to work done for them. I did have an industry specific non-compete as well, but it's a fairly narrow segment, so I had no problem signing.

My current employment agreement specifically states I can run whatever enterprise I want outside of work so long as it doesn't interfere with my duties (and presumably their business).
Though generally, mimicking imperative languages (C and Ada for Verilog and VHDL respectively) is just such a bad fit for the massively parallel, circuit combining nature of FPGAs.

For my private projects (admittedly the only setting I currently use FPGAs for), I’ve since discovered clash, which is essentially Haskell for FPGAs, and am impressed how much more productive I am, how much abstraction a more fitting paradigm opens up, and how much more terse and readable the code is as a result.

I came about searching for an alternative when I got fed up with reimplement the same AXI protocol schemes over and over again, mostly through slightly altered cut and paste, and have instead slowly been building my own library of commonly used patterns and AXI protocol abstractions.

However, the one thing I’m not so sure about is whether I would be able to effectively use clash if I didn’t have any experience in using Haskell for software before, or whether I would be constantly banging my head against it just to finally give up instead. I suspect that the price of clash’s power of abstraction is a very steep learning curve.
Ok, fine. That's just what I got from the quoted text. But I see that was wrong.
Don't they have some kind of whitelist you can use?
Isn't this an admission the internet is not safe by default, and you need specialized knowledge and hardware to make the Internet safe(r)?

Xfinity/Comcast hardware (cable and WiFi integrated) works with the Pi-hole how? I can't change the DNS addresses on Xfinity hardware. Ok so I have to buy my own router, in which case Xfinity blames all problems on running by own hardware.

Another ISP with which I'm familiar, when running my own router and assigning DNS of my choosing (any, DNS Watch, Google, Cloudfare, OpenDNS, whatever), and the ISP actually redirects the DNS requests to their own DNS servers anyway. The only two ways I've found to get around this is: always on VPN, or DoH using Firefox+Cloudfare's test they're running. In this case, it's deceptive having a router that permits me to assign DNS addresses of my choosing.

In either case it means distrusting ISP hardware, getting your own cable modem, or getting your own network router, and also a Pi-hole. It's esoteric knowledge. This is a remarkable industry failure.
Does anyone know how this works if you build a consulting business, or build software, but then don't claim any of the IP?
> The crux of your argument seems to be "it is more valuable to be able to point an IOT device at the wrong IP than it is to get UXSS on a machine on that network". That seems obviously wrong to me for any user, technical or not.

If PiHole is malicious, there is already an attacker on your network, DNS Spoofing is just one example of the possible consequences. The PiHole can also port scan, connect to services etc. I don't think mounting an effective phishing attack on a user would be very hard.

My point is that both scenarios are catastrophic, and its hard to justify choosing one over the other on the grounds "the developer might be malicious". Telling people "don't worry a DNS server can't do much" is massively understating the problem, considering all the local network devices directly exposed to the PiHole device and the fact it is the DNS server.

As I said, I use both and cross my fingers that Mozilla / Open Source code review / the GDPR mitigates the risk of a bad developer
There is absolutely an industry built around doing corporate shakedowns. Pretty much every major corporation has been sued https://www.wired.com/story/new-lawsuit-exposes-googles-desp...

You can wave your arms and shout "conspiracy! conspiracy!" like a mad man if you want, but that won't change facts and what's really going on.

You're acting smug and condescending because you think you're right, but the reality is that you are the one that doesn't know what you're talking about.

Maybe someday Netflix will release a documentary that wraps up all the facts and puts a bow on it for you and you'll be able to understand it.
I have a finance career, plus I built CanadaPups.com. Very little maintenance and costs, but lots of fun to tinker and improve it as a hobby. Just letting it grow on its own as I'm kinda out of ideas of how to kick it up a notch - suggestions welcome!. https://canadapups.com
Really?

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/20/texas-population-gre...
The guy has a BS in Business Administration, a MA In journalism and a PhD in Marketing. He is a professor of Marketing at Cornell's School of Economics.

In what universe would such a person be called a scientist and not a huckster doing what hucksters do?
Using parametrized containers for deploying Rails micro services on Kubernetes
An app people actually use would be a more obvious choice.
Anecdotally, I tried to teach myself programming in the summer before starting University. I went with Python since it's available by default on Linux, and managed to get a little CLI board game with a main loop that asked the user for their move, updated the game's state and printed the new board.

One of the first CS courses at University was OOP in Java. I really struggled to grasp OOP, for most of the first year. It didn't "click" until I tried doing it in Python; after that I went down the rabbit hole into meta-object protocols, Smalltalk/Self/Newspeak, etc.

Java seems to occupy the opposite of a sweet spot: it makes learning difficult for newcomers, yet it's very limited and restrictive for those with experience. Not only is it overly verbose and ceremonious compared to untyped languages like Python, but also compared to ML/Haskell, whilst being less expressive and less safe!
Performing operations using the segmented registers is no faster than using the 32-bit analogues. Benchmark an add of eax,edx vs Al,dl in a loop.
LA has been building a lot of housing the past few years; DTLA itself nearly 50,000 units built/being built over a 3 year window. The problem wasn't zoning.

Unlike Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas, we have these things called "earthquakes" that can cause significant amounts of damage and death and our building codes are more rigorous to minimize those risks. This also makes it more expensive to build housing--but that's a good thing. You don't want a ton of people living in shoddy houses that will collapse and kill them.