skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But since it's working with legal liability there's no need for blockchain. That can be done through standard contracts and having companies certify that their items are authentic. You still need such a contract with a blockchain, all the blockchain adds is some complexity.
Note that btrfs support for RAID 5/6 is still in development and not to be trusted. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status It does store checksums though, so if you run dup or "raid 1" (which is not really RAID 1), it can figure out which copy is correct and recover. Not as efficient though since you need two complete copies of the data.
I once basically did just that, besides the image dithering. I ran a small blog off a Raspberry Pi, only using Markdown files and something to render them to HTML. I used my own IP address, which I know you're not technically supposed to do but in 15 years I've never had an ISP crack down on me for it, and had a script that would run periodically to update the A record for my domain in Route 53. (since my IP was dynamic)

Whether you're doing it for energy purposes or not, it's a fun project because it feels a bit like sticking it to the man, since we're used to always hosting our sites on someone else's machine.
You can't dockerize kernel modules, no. Though Linux mainline wifi support is pretty great these days, coming from someone who vividly remembers using wpa_supplicant with Windows drivers :-)
> [...] it's also the fact that running an ad blocker means giving a third party an enormous amount of power over your browser.

That's why Safari's content blocker API is so great[0]. Creators of these extension have no access to my data and it's faster than normal extensions to boot.

I'm using Wipr, which seems to work just as well as pi-hole on the example pages. Blocked his advert too, or at least I can't find it cough.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
> I think large business definitely has incentive to minimize liability through something like this.

I agree. I think that's one of my big problems with this.

It seems like it's going to be a way for [Walmart] to point the blame at some supplier. They can say "look we implemented the blockchain. X supplier said they did THING and they didn't. Not our fault".
Telegram's funds will run out, too.
what is Tyler Cowen's podcast ?
Yes, both. Honestly, it's difficult to have a deep public convo even on HN. I had some contact with people interested in the idea of a git for (big) structured data. The problem is that a) Data Science practice is not mature enough for the kind of problem my project is solving aka. collaborating around structured data to improve reproducibility and QA. b) mature data science project already have ad-hoc solutions and they are not ready to migrate to a freshly new solution.
It doesn't. You go to court like normal people.
Can Apple Watch be used without iCloud, with sensor data sent only to a local iOS device (iPad without LTE baseband radio, only WiFi) for local analysis?

If so, there could be open-source iOS apps that enable privacy-oriented health data collection on the watch, e.g. with E2E encrypted messaging initiated by the device owner, when data review is wanted.
Are Matrix clients reliable and fast enough to use them? I am looking forwards to install them to my family but last time I tried they were a little bit unresponsive.
They could easily do a diagnostics / analytics feature where user stats are posted back to developers
The problem is, how does the saas prove to you that you own the data and privacy is not violated? I see no way of doing it unless the customer owns the server.
It hasn't been always true, historically, that for-profit companies seek only to enrich their shareholders at all cost.

https://www.boston.com/news/policy/2018/08/16/elizabeth-warr...

"Warren attributes those problems to a shift, which she says dates back to the 1980s, in the obligations of corporations — from balancing responsibilities to all their stakeholders — including both employees and stock owners — to prioritizing their financial return to shareholders only."

(That's not exactly responsive to your point on maximizing profit, but the body of work on this topic shows that when companies care about long-term return, and about employees and other stakeholders, they aren't solely focused on maximizing short-term profit over all else.)
Actually I never used this argument for Perl. Perl was not really used for things like big data or high performance backend applications. You can use this reasoning for C++ or C# on the other hand and it stands. Many "big data" things re in C++ and a lot of high performance projects out there.

If you want to compare nifty scripting languages than you can compare Perl with Ruby or Python. In 2008 I was happily using Ruby for most of things we used to do in Perl, a bit slower yes, but who cared and it was much more readable.
But code isn't law. You would have to rewrite parts of the legal system to support blockchain tokens as representing actual ownership, and there's strong reasons why you would never want to, such as loss of private keys, forgetting of passwords, or security vulnerabilities, or user error leading to complete asset loss.

Otherwise you have a synchronization problem between the upcoming blockchain token system and the existing government deed registry, and of course the government registry would take preference, and has a history of working just fine for lower cost.

This video is an excellent overview of this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxmXIgLEAIE

I haven't seen blockchain systems as being more secure or more trustworthy. I see them being overhyped, subject to lax and magical thinking, and full of theft of coins due to hacks and scams.
From Wikipedia:

With SABRE up and running, IBM offered
its expertise to other airlines, and
soon developed Deltamatic for Delta Air
Lines on the IBM 7074, and PANAMAC for
Pan American World Airways using an IBM
7080.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)
That’s not the type of pain point that leads to a critical mass jumping messaging platforms
Which airlines, if any, run outstanding software departments?

The impression I get from these repeated fiascos is the whole industry still runs on mainframes and java applets held together with duct tape and bubblegum, and that their executives are dinosaurs with no appreciation for what it takes to build robust failure-tolerant systems. But maybe it's just a skew in the reporting.
That's not the issue, the issue is whether assurances that were made to them, with or without some legal backing, could be trusted. Companies can be motivated by profit and still be honest.
How China Systematically Pries Technology from U.S. Companies
How would the attacker do anything useful with a SSL connection attempt? They can either send the real certificate, and then not be able to decrypt the data, or send a self-signed cert which the OS/browser wouldn't trust?

Are you thinking of some downgrade attack vector?
At least the "glitch" let everyone get home from defcon before "happening" this year.
Our only java webapp is running on Java 6 or 7, JBoss EAP 6.1. Maintenance mode, no money to upgrade.
Yes, I agree completely. Reading the discussions, it seems that the chrome team had sidestepped doing this as it would involve a "non trivial UI" but I am scratching my head wondering how a dialog box that says "do you want to allow websites from the domain xyz.com to play sounds?" constitutes a non trivial amount of UI work.
For anyone interested in guile, guile 3.0 will have a JIT, making it even faster than 2.2 (by quite a large margin).

Guile is becoming really nice, and I find myself reaching for other lisps less and less.
Medical device engineer / founder here. I'd love for the Apple Watch to fulfill Steve Blank's aims here, but there are very real clinical problems that don't automatically go away because Apple is great at industrial and UI design. The false positive risk with their a-fib detection will cause thousands of patients to ask their healthcare providers for further tests, only to find out they were fine. This isn't unlike the issue where iPhones have been inundating 911 call centers with unintentional "butt dials".

This doesn't mean that Apple won't be successful in healthcare. It's just that the main challenge isn't in creating a nicer product. The challenge is in showing a net positive impact on patient outcomes.
“used him”

i have little sympathy for such actors. i’ve known people who got rich on stock options in the ‘00s and then fled california while decrying the rat race. this is the same thing.

if you really mean it, donate all the money to charity, an ed foundation, or some such. i’ll even forgive you for keeping 10mm for yourself. otherwise, cry me a river.
It's new tab in the first option for me.
NVidia actively denies others the ability to interact with their "Gsync" platform - an AMD card will never be able to take advantage of a Gsync monitor. I'm getting the answer that this is a Vulkan/DirectX Api, and assuming that's the case, that's great. But if it was a proprietary API (like Gameworks), that could only possibly run on proprietary hardware, I'd have a problem. As long as everyone can leverage those API calls at the same time I'm perfectly happy.
Now think of the day fb stock dropped 20% just over the course of few hours...
Thanks for the info. Very helpful.

>My part of the corp is all software.

I was hoping you'd say this.

Out of all the places I've worked, two of them were/are huge (250K+ people). For the first, I was in the business side of things as a data scientist/software person, and now I'm in the the software org as a data scientist.

In theory I should have been doing the same job; using code to to address business problems using data science. Both companies were investing heavily into cloud and analytics, and were theoretically moving in the same direction.

My experience in the non-software org was a nightmare because nobody understood what it meant to build or engineer anything. Now that I'm in software org of big company and I'm MUCH happier because people actually understand what it takes to solve a technical problem.

Lesson: if you are a software person who likes to be technical (coding or not), work in a the software org of a big company!
Yeah, I don't doubt that there are many more Java libs. But for most uses cases today there are Golang libs as well. There's a Kafka client by Confluent, Elasticsearch client etc.
To be fair, Snowden said that the UK was collecting far more information on its own people than the US was.

He already said the UKs surveillance apparatus was terrifying in comparison.
I dumped that routine and just started pointing those video URLs at youtube-dl

vlc is a better video viewing experience (and better on battery) than a browser and you can usually start playing a partially downloaded file
There are a couple of downsides to pi hole, anytime a page doesn't work I'll have to turn it off and check the page again. And you only block domains so if you want to block Google analytics you can but you can't access their website without turning it off
Originally from Bay Area, went to school, but so glad moved to a small city in Texas. Good to explore other opportunities and everywhere people need programmers
There is no need to have a database replicated everywhere across a network and for all nodes in the network to be constantly engaging in a consensus protocol to agree upon the state on the ledger for some cars to communicate.

Almost always a blockchain is (i) useless or (ii) something kinda vaguely like Satoshi's blockchain but really more like Git.
"Further, You may not:

- use the Programs for any data processing or any commercial, production, or internal business purposes other than developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating your Application;"

To me this reads as, "you can use javac.exe and java.exe in development, but you can't use java.exe in production."

This is a huge change that I probably would not have noticed.
> You don't have to be a neo-liberal hellhole to attract successful entrepreneurs

What do you think Enterprenure leverage?
Xcode key bindings are pretty easy to use with HHKB. I used HHKB with Xcode "back in the day" (pre-iPhone). The main Emacs text navigation shortcuts work in Xcode, like most macOS apps, and the HHKB makes those even easier. Xcode uses simple shortcuts like ⌘B for build and ⌘R for run, which are easy to type on the HHKB.

Supposedly, Steve Jobs insisted that the original Mac ship without F-keys in order to force application developers to design new UIs when porting to the Mac.

Visual Studio, on the other hand, uses the F-keys aggressively (and they seem to change the bindings every few years?), and navigating through text on Windows usually means having HOME/END/PGUP/PGDOWN, so Visual Studio sucks if you have a HHKB.
Circle Launches USDC Stablecoin
Exactly. How does the real world's state get accurately put into a blockchain? My big beef with all the blockchain hype is that this doesn't seem to be addressed. They say "trustless" and "secure" and "transparent" all the time, but those assurances only exist within the very limited confines of the data structure itself. As soon as you hook it into real-world data, then those assurances only guarantee that fraud is accurately carried out.
Uhh Yeah Dude
The upside of Stoke is cheap housing, great beer, and it's the World Capital of Darts.
There is such a thing as business ethics.

Facebook's complete disregard for them should not be the norm, even if it, sadly, might be more often than not.
Netgear R7800 and any other router with the same Qualcomm chipset work great with OpenWRT.

Take care that the router has a boot mode which allows you to overwrite the firmware via TFTP. That comes in handy in case of trouble with a particular firmware version (e.g., router stuck in a boot loop).
Back in 2005 (when iTunes added podcasting), a group of high school drama friends and I used to do a weekly video podcast with a similar format to Screensavers on TechTV. I did a segment on a different "emerging" web technology each week (WordPress, FaceBook, Asp.Net, etc), one friend did one on the latest gadgets, another do something about Macs/iDevices. It lasted about 3 months before we all got burned out.

It was fun, and I wish it could have lasted, but after a few months our viewership was still under 100 per episode, and we all had to go jobs and/or school still.
I think the main point is not to get bogged down in whether or not phone books are this or that, or how legacy media relates to the internet era etc.

The point i'm making is not : "Do you sympathize with 'bad guys'?"

it's more: "Would you want whats happening to 'bad guys' to happen to you?".
Neither of you are wrong.
These people want VC money.

(I can imagine some genuine uses, but I'm not interested in explaining them to people, especially not technical people with an axe to grind. So boring! Much quicker and easier just to say nothing, sit tight, see what happens, and find out that way whether I'm wrong or not. Most technical people are myopically technical anyway, and the technical side is just not the interesting bit here.)
Google salary negotiation – How to negotiate a Google job offer
None that I know of currently. The OS is version 0.15.0. It's very young and doesn't have a huge user base. I'm sure there will be non gnu repositories that will eventually spring up. I've even toyed with the idea of setting one up.
I think the sleeping child is the "other person" here.
I think there are two key points to making such a system work:

1. Packaging it in such a way that it's easy to use for non-technical users.

2. There still has to be a mechanism for establishing trust in the public keys registered in such a system.

For one I'd imagine that farmers are doing some amount of work to go from raw "lettuce in the ground" to "one unit of shipment". Once it's a unit of shipment it could have an ID/Bar/QRcode generated that is then scanned with a handheld scanner that has its own keypair. The scanners keypair would be registered with the farm and so the farm would either explicitly sign off on the package or implicitly have signed that scanners pair as trusted by the farm. So a farmer and farmstaff wouldn't need any technical know how beyond operating a scanner. Depending on the farm adding such a granular tracking system may or may not be easy to implement.

For two, I can see two options. Walmart could verify every step of the chain themselves and register/receive the public key for each step in the chain. (So a farm would register with Walmart as a verified producer, a shipping company would register, etc). Or each step of the change could make a binary decision to trust the step before it and apply pressure down chain to resolve issues, since theoretically each step could fabricate the entire chain before passing it off. In this scenario, Walmart would go to the shipping company and say "E. Coli was detected in Shipment X. We no longer want to be sourced produce from Producer Y. The shipping company then takes this into account when sourcing produce, or else Walmart discontinues business with them.

I think the big benefit is by having an associated public key, you can verify the claimed identity of any agent in the chain and build trust in that agent over time. You could keep popping up disposable proxy farms, but Walmart/Shipping provider/X doesn't have any reason to trust your proxy farm's shipments; you have to establish trust either directly with a buyer of your produce, or establish trust over time as a commodity provider. As you build trust you can probably get better prices.

I'm by no means a blockchain advocate or a supply chain manager of any kind, just doing a thought experiment of how blockchains might be effectively applied in such a scenario. There very well might be better solutions, but I think at the very least a blockchain presents an interesting or novel solution.

Just thinking through, you could also create a sort of "doubly linked list" and include who custody was given to as part of each block, so a farmer is signing a claim of who they gave their produce to.
{Farm A produced unit of Lettuce X, Given to Shipper B, <no previous>}[Farm A signed]
It isn't any harder to use than on the desktop!

Instead of clicking on the uMatrix icon, you click on three dots and then on uMatrix

Rather than bringing up a small window, with all your settings, it brings up a new tab with your settings.

Other than that it is the same! And it will work when you are away from home without needing a VPN to a Pi-Hole.
From the article

>First-timers paid $450 in cash to see a doctor and get a prescription, undercover investigators discovered. Returning customers paid $150 to a receptionist, who would hand out new prescriptions after asking a cursory question or two about their health, investigators found.

So the renewals didn't even come from Dr. Hoover, but from her receptionist using her prescription pad. That's crazy!
Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel
I've got mine running at Digital Ocean. Been using for four months. No downside.
That's still the case.
Rebranded: Maniacal Turk
I have to wonder if the subsidizing of the Apple watch is a huge push for healthcare on it. For instance I was able to get the Series 3 for $120 through my provider. Which is a hefty drop from $400. I can't get the same discount on the Samsung watch, or any other smart watch, which is ironic since my Samsung watch works on both Android and iOS and does health tracking as well.
when you’ve already got $4bn, it’s not that hard.
Business and hosting (distribution really) are two very different things.

To the degree podcasting declines as a viable standalone revenue stream, certainly podcasts that depend on people collecting salaries are going to go away. That's certainly not all podcasts, or even most, but it probably describes a lot of the better known ones.

It seems as if podcasting apps and sites are already pretty distributed. I think there are a lot of differences with RSS although I'd argue that directly consuming RSS was always a pretty niche activity. I suspect the decline of portals and the rise of social media had more to do with how blogging as we originally thought about it declined than Google pulling the plug on Reader.
Eh - I find this public over-scrutiny of a company just because it's a nonprofit to be a little offputing. Sure, you want to know your donations aren't being wasted, but I keep in mind that most non-profits where my friends work have people under-staffed and without enough budgets overall compared to their parallels in commercial businesses.

Do you know for a fact there that what they were doing in 2012 was sustainable for their employees, and building a solid future path for growth? If everyone's overworked and not efficient, keeping it overly lean isn't good in the long term.
I’m happy for you but you’re at the extreme right of the curve :-/
> You'd lose a lot of software choices. Actually, the restriction to "GNU-friendly software" was what made me skip GuixSD so far.

Guix includes free software packages of all sorts (more than 8k today), be it "GNU-friendly" (whatever that means) or not; you can browse them at https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/browse .

> I guess that my WiFi wouldn't work.

Maybe, maybe not; see https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Consider... (the same issue applies to other distros that value user freedom.) Note that you're talking about GuixSD here, not Guix, which can be installed on top of other distros.

In the end the choice is up to each one of us. It's also up to us to determine what to do with hardware companies that deny us, collectively and individually, the right to control the devices they sell us.
Are We Predisposed to Forgive
But if your 3rd party library keeps a file handle around internally that does not have the flag set, you're still going to have a bad day.
Assuming I'm only interested in blocking ads in one computer, is there a software solution for this on Linux or Windows? (I know that Mac has Little Snitch).
Then knew what Facebook would try but they choose to believe it woudln't work. It's easy to choose that with that much millions of incentive.

It's not their fault as it was not their responsibility to provide a private message service for free to millions of people.

This is just how it works, if want to be principled you can't make agreements with the devil.
Thank you; it's really encouraging to read your comments. I agree - I'll take anything now. For most countries I already have the visa requirements memorised, and I can afford a one-way plane ticket and one month of survival costs. Even though that probably means taking a job in a place where I can't settle long-term, I'll take it now because something is better than nothing.
will this do what ngrok does as well ?
And of course the best protocol for a real time, latency sensitive application is... using a blockchain?

Bitcoin has a throughput of about 3 tx per second. Ethereum a little better at 7 tx per second. Confirmations are on the order of minutes at best.

Why do you think this would be a good idea?
21st Century Fox Announces Intention to Dispose of Its Stake in Sky
I’m glad to hear more people slicing through the bullshit on this. I’m building a company that aims to build a centralized and impartial means to trace food through the supply chain. Every time I pitch this to people the first thing they’ll do is cock their heads and say... “so is this going to be blockchain?!” and I have to explain in layman’s terms why that’s not necessary nor beneficial.
Before starting to read the article, I tried clicking and dragging on that element and searched the page for "brightness" and "dim" before peeking at the source to realize it isn't a brightness control after all.
Works for me on an rMBP.
Maybe it’s just a vocabulary quirk — to me, “shelved” implies “postponed indefinitely, but might come back someday”, not “cancelled forever”. So it is “shelved” according to how I understand that word.

As you correctly point out, it’s not necessarily cancelled forever.