skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well ok another way to break it down would be that they want to do something without using the consensus system we have.

They could use our consensus system to propose a new consensus system, but they aren't planning to do that.

You could argue that our consensus system is wrong and that they shouldn't have to use it, and it's oppressive to apply it to them, but at that point I'm not sure what to say apart from the majority of people I know think the current consensus system is the best we know.

How can you find out what the consensus is on our consensus system if you don't trust the current consensus system?
It's the paradox of the infinite horizon. Dictators in the past have justified genocide under the idea that the pain in the short term can yield infinite rewards by being the foundation to a utopia.
The fallacy with your argument, imo, is that cryptocurrencies are only marginally about technology. They aren't a new battery chemistry or transistor fab tech.

They are a pretty simple alternative solution to a longstanding societal need. But one that needs critical mass and low volatility to succeed (arguably).
Edit: I calculated this wrong, please ignore this comment
Flatpaks, sandboxes and security
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That's like saying fentanyl isn't particularly dangerous, because you aren't going to OD on the level that is pleasurable. Not how it works. If the difference in dose between what you would have wanted and a toxic dose is relatively small, that makes it dangerous.

Pure or high-concentration caffeine is quite clearly dangerous.
Even in the US, I believe the first large-scale IPv6 rollouts were by Verizon and Sprint.
This reminds me of how in the '90s my university gave out smartcard student IDs that had a little cash account on them for vending machines and dorm laundry rooms.

They installed readers into the soda machines, and they put a central panel in each laundry room with a reader and a keypad for you to indicate which washing machine you wanted to activate.

We found out that the vending machine hardware would query the card before selling you an item, but wouldn't debit your account until dispensing it, in case the vend failed. If you timed it just right and removed your card after it was interrogated but before the item dropped, you'd get it for free.

The smartcard project was only a 2-year evaluation and the university decided to move away from it, so the smartcard company came and took away all their hardware.

When they did this, they took the panel down out of the laundry rooms, but did not fully clean up the wiring coming out of the back of each washing machine. One of my roomates got curious and discovered shorting the leads of that wiring to a battery would mimic the signal the smartcard panel would use to tell the machine it's been "given" a quarter. Do that 3x and you got a 75 cent wash for free.
Imagine if everyone who had an issue with a program forked it and made their own version.
But it does at the redirector/Traefik level.

Worse, Kubernetes as a model doesn't use IPv6 internally when it should. No reason not to use e.g. ULAs.
V8 release v7.0
I am very interested in the book. Considering that other comments have been saying that his ideas are not widely seen as worth considering by the academic community I want to compare it with the ideas that hold more merit in the eyes of academics. Could anyone point me to a good book about some of the more widely accepted theories ?
That actually doesn't match the meanings of househouse and boatboat in the chart. The hovertext specifies that you can refer to the contained object by flipping the order, so a moonmoon can also refer to the smaller moon orbiting around a larger one:

> The <x> that is held by <y> is also a <y><x>, so if you go to a food truck, the stuff you buy is truck food.
What you can't say (2004)
It's not as if this is an unusual thing. Stanford University is named for Leland Stanford. Carnegie Mellon University is named for Andrew Carnegie and Andrew&Richard Mellon. Duke University is named for the father of James Buchanan Duke. Purdue University is named for John Purdue.

Those people got to name universities by being rich and donating huge quantities of money. They weren't scholars, nor so far as I know were they especially virtuous people. They wanted their name on things. If Schwarzman does the same, it'll be nothing new.

We can go a lot further back, of course. Consider, for instance, King's College at the University of Cambridge. It's named for King Henry VI, who was no scholar and doesn't even seem to have been a particularly effective king. Balliol College at Oxford was named for John de Balliol, notably mostly for being extremely rich; it seems he didn't even particularly want to found a college but was told to do it as penance after some sort of dispute with the Bishop of Durham. That was in the thirteenth century.
Ah, yes. The "worst of both worlds" design where you had to spend several minutes poking at every little piece of chrome on the UI to figure out whether or not it did something. And then about 5 years later came the equally idiotic trend of making all desktop UIs look like web pages. Dark ages of UX, indeed.
Sure, doesn't hurt to listen, but at the end of the day, that's just being polite. A courtesy. The decision is still entirely Canada's, and shouldn't be influenced by US congress critters.
> The annoying thing about these investigations is that they disproportionately target left wing groups while leaving right wing groups to organise more successfully.

One way to put it is: You'd expect a well-functioning spy organisation to select its monitoring targets in an objective manner based on threat level. Are these targets then the result of objective evaluations? Can the apparent skew be explained that way? If not, it points to a dysfunctional spy organisation.
Well that explains Los Angeles.
> Leave HN alone.

You realise these things appear because HN users submit them, and other HN users upvote them?
Is anybody else wonder, how Bitcoin rise to 10000USD+ align with india's demonetisation.
Since the "memo" is part of a discussion between lawyers and execs wouldn't the memo be considered privileged?
That doesn't mean that Senators can't ask, but if you set the expectation of handing out privileged information whenever you're asked it kinda makes "privileged" communication not mean anything.
Good media hosts with all the fixins like CDNs, multiple formats, etc. are much needed on the fediverse.

And iirc this project has been ongoing for at least a year, maybe more than two, so this isn't a rushed 1.0. Kudos for the persistence and contribution.

Another win for ActivityPub!
Rogers already uses Hitron modems and has for many years, also Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitron
Why I Personally Believe Cryptocurrency Is Gonna Boom
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/v6pop
> But the users whose data was emitted should have been immediately notified.

If we’re still talking about the same bug… I thought that there was no evidence that anybody’s data was exfiltrated through this vulnerability? Granted, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but who, exactly, are you saying should be notified?

I would say yes, if some person’s PII data was improperly disclosed, yes, disclose the breach to that person. But if there is not any evidence that some particular person’s data was exposed here, do you go around telling people that their data “could have” been accessed, “if”?

Physical security analogy—let’s say I found out that the window was unlocked. It’s been unlocked for three years, and I pull security tapes. Nobody is on tape coming in through the window, but the old tapes have been erased. I don’t have any evidence that anybody came in through the window, and yet I can’t disprove it either.
"Bayesian framework is indeed a complete solution to inference in a formal/logical sense."

Bradley Efron, in TFA, begs to disagree:

"I wish I could report that this resolves the 250-year controversy and that it is now safe to always employ Bayes’ theorem. Sorry. My own practice is to use Bayesian analysis in the presence of genuine prior information; to use empirical Bayes methods in the parallel cases situation; and otherwise to be cautious when invoking uninformative priors. In the last case, Bayesian calculations cannot be uncritically accepted and should be checked by other methods, which usually means frequentistically."
This implicitly claims that your identity isn't even loosely coupled to "izzydata". A quick google shows twitch, youtube, twitter, etc. If these are in fact, you, then it is highly likely you could be identified. If you can be identified, you can be harassed.

Don't normalize harassment.
> you can search/replace Chinese with American and the statements are arguably as true

Not really. American companies can and do defy the American executive branch. Rule of law and an independent judiciary are things in America. They are not in China.
Transportation just passed power generation as the major polluter in 2016. Mainly because of the switch from coal to natural gas. If coal comes back on line expect the positions to switch again rapidly. I agree with your statement but getting rid of coal power plants would have the added benefit of reducing the production of coal ash, a source of particulate matter and heavy metal pollution.

Both would be major living standard improvement.

https://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11911798/emissions-electricity...
Thank you. I'm not a native speaker, so I'm usually mixing close enough expression/words.
If only a neutral third party, such as a respected auditing firm, could confirm they hold the cash in reserve.
Depends on the industry. E.g. if you're working in defense or healthcare, then just the possibility of a data leak might be something you're obligated to report on. And a Google- or Facebook-size company might easily fall into the category where even "near miss" events should be disclosed.

Basically you have to conduct an internal risk evaluation and depending on the overall risk assessment, you need or don't need to publicly report on it. Of course the bar is much lower than 'certain data leak'.
It really does seem like the early to mid 2000s was the pinnacle of the mod scene.
Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China – Episode 2
The application is not the server.
Create cool graffiti with QR codes
Sears has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy
I think it's definitely a bias of those who feel the strongest about an issue feel the strongest that they have to post. I don't love the term silent majority, because basically anyone can summon one up to make their point seem more valid. But I honestly to believe that there's a majority of people who just don't want to step into the political arena and get yelled at by people who are more passionate than them.
This site managed to disable right clicking?
Do you have a link to the studies you're referencing? I don't not believe you, but I'd love to share them. Living in CO, there is a problem with electric cars, (somewhat) as the electric is usually produced by coal, so the pollution is simply moved away from the source (although potentially lowered - but not by much if you compare it to a gas-powered econo vehicle)
Comparing or ranking APT capabilities and operational capacity
> All the security concern about Huawei may actually make its devices more secure in the long run

This makes no sense. Nobody argues for purchasing a product based on a manufacturer's history of security failings.
Maybe it is?
If you promise something to a client, it's you who delivers or doesn't deliver.
Is this going to be the new youtube for piracy?
wow, I was using London as an example of how NOT to do cycle infrastructure.
Yes, in a formal ideological sense. The practicalities of running a state were Soviet/Stalinist in practice, both formally (the SU was an ally) and informally (look up hitchens talking about Stalinist influence on the baath policies, especially Saddam's famous purge.

Nazism also had some (mostly earlier) influence. Some was informal. Some is formal. The Syrian Social Nationalist Party is still quite influential (also to an extent in Lebanon). It's part of Assad's coalition and one of the parties allowed to formally exist in Syrian politics.
I'd like to see some pictures of QuickTime 3.x for comparison.
you're probably right, and i'm not here to bash C#, just to show what can happen to a healthy language when external things are occurring in the meantime.

C# 2.0 was released around nov 2005. even with two solid years of use, that's 2008, and means i haven't touched windows in almost 10 years professionally! coincidentally, intel macs were released jan 2006, and vista was 2007.

those same enterprise customers that wanted desktop apps started wanting web-based tools, for mostly good reasons. developers, especially web devs and designers started using macbooks. virtualisation, containers, etc. all came from linux/bsd, and that showed for a long time.

but hey, who knows. maybe they'll magically fix all the issues with windows 10, regain people's trust especially w.r.t. to updates, captialise on Apple's hardware weakness (if you see it that way), make .NET and GUIs with .NET first-class citizens on other OS', then maybe?
That's a stretch. Bitcoin hasn't been defined (and probably won't be for a variety of reasons) as a security.
Volume, coal plants produce massive amounts of pollutants. Cars as a source of pollution only just passed power generation and that's because of the switch to natural gas. Individual coal plants can burn millions of tons of coal per year each. Coal ash is also radioactive.

https://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11911798/emissions-electricity...
Is that true?

Gobs of money transformed the Internet from an engine of open communication and information sharing to an engine of privacy invasion, mass manipulation, and disinformation.

The web was created at CERN and TCP/IP was created by DARPA long before the dot.com bubble and for significantly less money. The people who got rich during and after the dot.com bubble did so not by greatly improving on these technologies but by using them to commoditize human beings and monetize peoples' data. The biggest growth industry on the Internet today is the leveraging of that data toward active deception and con artistry.

I'm speaking of the Internet as most people experience it. You can still of course use the pipes for productive things, but the bulk of the user-facing Internet is now a giant surveillance and manipulation machine targeted at the average user.
Is the particulate pollution just as grave as emissions pollution or a completely separate issue?
> the biggest waste of computing power and energy in the history of the planet

If we except the tetris, or minesweeper...
Buffett has always preferred businesses that he can understand, so on that one alone I can see why he doesn't like crypto.

Secondly, I don't think crypto is good as an investment (as opposed to a vehicle for speculation) but I see all sort of opportunities in killing the middle men of banks. No more boom and bust because the fed won't read Hayek; No more having to beg and scrape to be allowed to send a transaction through the archaic inter-bank transfer system; No more inflation forcing people to put savings in riskier and riskier businesses to keep up with the printing; No more dirt poor refugees who have to leave every thing behind; No more hyperinflation because dictators needs to be the sole source of food.
Instagram is part of one of the world’s largest tech companies, which makes most of its money by having people freely use and live on its service. Considering its user base is in the hundreds of millions, this makes it a company worth covering by news organizations.

Your comment is as inane and oblivious as me telling you to stop whining about The Atlantic, because it’s free and if you don’t like what you see you should just log off.
It's in Sepia tones and everything.
That's never going to happen.

(but no mention of solar, wind, drastically reducing our energy consumption, etc?)
Why are those mutually exclusive in your mind?
Based on Cloudflare traffic data we see this over the last 7 days:

US 39.56%
IN 39.03%
BE 36.97%
IE 36.23%
MY 30.55%
DE 28.24%
> Only one person has made that accusation: Brian Shields, and he does so without any evidence

There was a lot of evidence of the hacking [1][2]. What was unsubstantiated was Brian Shields' belief that "the extensive cyberattacks on Nortel contributed to its downfall" [3].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203363504577187...

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400242,00.asp

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel#Hackers_had_free_access...
I don't think it's possible due to issue #1229. I know I shouldn't judge a project by it's closed issues but honestly I think the issue closure here has branded PeerTube as forever small fry in my mind

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1229
Google admitted that they don't keep any logs around. So in the absence of logs, I am not sure how they are making the claim that their API was not abused. So there is definitely more transparency required about their internal investigation and how they are so certain. Just because Google has a great security team, I would not put my blind faith on them.
Such a coin wouldn't be evenly distributed for long, unless you banned free exchanges with it.
Because a press release has a different aim than a news article.
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Ask HN: Basic web analytics without cookies or GDPR consent?
Are there any tools that can do some basic analytics (e.g. hits, unique users, pages per visit and not much more) that can give an idea of how many users are visiting a site without showing annoying cookie/GDPR banners, and being totally compliant at the same time?
> It doesn't seem entirely out of place to keep an eye on them.

Should the police also infiltrate the Labour party? The Republican party in the United States? Just to, you know, make sure that they aren't doing anything improper. Keep an eye on them.
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Google and Orange team up to build 6,600km cable between US and France
Your Flip-Flops Are Grossing Me Out
Those “studies” are pretty much nonsense.

It’s true that tire wear may be increased slightly due to weight, but electrics aren’t that much heavier than combustion vehicles: typically 10-20% more for comparable vehicles of the same size/class.

Under normal road/wear conditions, most tires degrade into relatively large particles that are not actually aerosolised. They end up on the road and get washed away by weather. The main place where they become a problem is in tunnels where the dry conditions and passing traffic keep picking them back up into the air.

Finally, brake pads. Electric hugely reduce brake wear due to regenerative braking. Most EV owners will tell you that they’ve never had to replace their brake pads!
My perspective is that I don't know whether or not crypto will take off. I am guessing people who are even a little more skeptical get tired of all the pumping. Also, dramatic phrases like your "If most of HN readers call crypto a scam, then I’m out of HN." tend to turn people off. Though I would miss you - you are probably the only person on HN I remember by username. In fact, I recognized you by post style, and looked at your name after reading.
Just a note:

On bitly, you can add a + to the end, to get to the stats page for that link; it also gives the destination.

On the goo.gl links, add .info to the end.
I wish top-rated institutions stopped pretending "AI" means "the last 6 years in statistical machine learning".

But I guess we all have our pet peeves, eh?
Please link to tweets showing that other countries have a superior level of debate on Twitter.
Forwarding errors upwards is one character in Rust (?). IMO that is pretty much the perfect balance between forwarding errors easily and explicitness.
While GCP has IPv6 support for their global load balancers, it's very limited and not sufficient for many uses.

For example, I've been working on contributing IPv6 support to GitLab.com [0], which is hosted on GCP.
Turns out it's impossible for the main site right now, because none of the global load balancer types allow port 22, which is used for Git traffic. I've no idea why there are even such restrictions, but there's of course a "feature" request for allowing port 22 [1]. I was able to repurpose the work for other parts of GitLab.com, but I've yet to get even those to work, due to the load balancers gobbling up HTTPS/SSL requests [2].

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-com-infrastructure/merg...

[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/77944636

[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-com-infrastructure/merg...
No, I have consistently been against media-driven fervor against tech companies for a while now without regard to the company. It's how they build terrorists, druggies, communists, etc. I think you're confusing my comment with HN in general, or attempting to derive too much sentiment out of comment votes.
There's always been a fringe of people willing to say horrid things but the scale of it is much larger today.

You must have missed out on Brexit, Marine Le Pen, and many other things if you think this is unique to the US.
Yes...annoying. It's in the main html as an embedded script:

function nocontext(e) {
return false;
}
document.oncontextmenu = nocontext;

You can paste "javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null);" into the address bar to get it back.
Bringing this to a top-level comment:

People wildly underestimate how dedicated and adept some people are at finding PII given even minute details [1]. The only real way to avoid sharing PII is to stay off the internet entirely.

Even then, pandora's box has already been opened. Your PII is available even if you haven't explicitly chosen to share it [2].

Once it's out (and spoiler alert, it's out), "stepping away from the computer" is no longer an option. The article describes in detail how it transitions from online to real-life harassment: Swatting, stopping by your personal residence, calling your work, calling your friends and family, etc.

Yes, it happens to people of moderate means and very minor celebrity. Yes, you can suffer physical harm or death as a result [3]. Yes, we should also try and solve the swatting problem from the police side as well.

1: https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/4chan-shia-labeouf-secret-l...

2: Equifax

3: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/us/kansas-swatting-death-affi...
Actually though, the SWP isn't a tiny ineffectual fringe group. They (or their satellite organizations) been key organizers of pretty much every big lefty demo for the last 2-3 decades. Back when I was more involved with this sort of thing, we used to find the SWP's enthusiasm for appropriating other people's issues quite annoying. This is why I find the extent of police involvement in the SWP rather startling.
All pollution is some kind of particle - here it just means that emissions are coming out of the tail pipe as a byproduct of the internal combustion engine, as opposed to the particulate created from braking, etc.
Tether isn't what cryptocurrencies was/is supposed to be. It's as if you took Herbalife as a valuable/honest/model player in the dietary supplement market...
I lived in Paris for a spell, and one of the great things about the city is that it is so bike-able. It's not a large place! And it's dense. Lots of traffic, but the French seem to understand that bikes belong.

We almost never used the Métro, what was the point? Saved money and no one ever stole my wallet!