skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change will do that anyway. The first thing to go when resources get scarce (I mean truly, decades-long-famine-level scarce) is individual liberty. We're talking back to a worldwide feudal warlord society within 100ish years.
Kubernetes the very hard way at Datadog
I have to say, that's a pretty classic click-bait headline.

"Mysterious illness blabla. Look what happened when unexpected blabla!"

How about:

"Canadian psychiatrist claims unexplained physical symptoms can be caused by unresolved emotional trauma"

I'm sure some people will still find it worth reading.
Radium Girls (Wikipedia)
I think at best this supports my point, despite the sloppy launch control none of these nukes were hijacked.

Extracting keys from a securely stored HSM designed to prevent key extraction should present a far bigger challenge than keying in 00000000 to launch the missiles.
I agree, the only advantage of this site it up-to-date data and detailed requirements based on your travel itinerary and passport/residence.

With visa requirements there are a lot of details involved, it's not as simple as nationality -> visa requirements mapping.
I don’t listen to a lot of music since I listen to podcasts while in transit and at the gym. I augment my music collection with free Spotify a little but would feel locked in to one provider if I didn’t own anything. The prospect of finding and rating what I like again would keep me with one provider, even if another’s price, content, or features were enticing.
It's useful to look at why the comments were wrong though. In the Dropbox case it was because the user forgot the size of the market of people that didn't use Linux on their desktop or wish to periodically upload folders using FTP clients encompassed most of the computer-using world. With crypto it looks much more like the evangelists who've erred on the side of discounting the level of inconvenience of their solution to non-niche adopters (including bits which are integral, like transactions being irreversible, secure private keys being the only way of retrieving one's funds or contracts being code)
This doesn't need cryptocurrencies, a centralized public ledger applying hashes/signatures with something like a Merkle tree can do the same while avoiding the necessity to constantly burn proof-of-work proportional to how valuable your data integrity is.
Funny. I have been able to send money cross-border relatively cheaply and relatively fast for quite some time. So yes, obviously I see value in that. But actually it has never been any kind of issue that would have even crossed my mind that it would need some fancy new solutions to enable me to do that. Would you be willing to share some more details on which kind of money transactions this is an actual unsolved problem? Where from/to are you trying to transfer the money and what are you buying/selling with that money?
"Law of Thermodynamics"? Which law?

Maybe it is number 4: "The entropy of a system approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches absolute zero".

-- I think we need more global warmings.
They go about EUR200+ these days. Sadly, the one I'd liked (DIN A3 format, so to be able to print out long lines of code without wrapping, with 4 colors for some basic syntax highlite) are in the EUR1000 range.

The reason for this being that they're still produced with the same level of quality they used to be, while "consumer level" printers have become more cost-optimised and less reliable. Dot matrix printers are still used in commercial/industrial applications so they haven't been subjected to the same race-to-the-bottom that consumer printers have.
She's traveling under either a normal Chinese passport or a Hong Kong passport
Similar things were said about neural networks in the 90's, funnily enough. I also believe the underlying blockchain technology is important. It's just that many tech-savvy fraudsters are using the cryptocurrency hype for scamming the general population.
Yes! i wanted to just validate the idea. Now that its fully validated, i will add more types of visa!
I find all this very hard to square with my understanding. I mean, what kind of "business operating constraints" stay the same over months or years? Or do you mean that, when constraints change, you just train a new model?

I think basically what you're saying is "we choose the data we want to reprsent, so we know when we're representing it well". But that's just what I say above, about measuring progress by hitting the targets you choose, completely arbitrarily.

It's as if I shot a bunch of arrows and then painted targets around them, then claimed I'm a great archer because I always hit bullseye.

I don't think that's the result of some fundamental difference in understanding between academia and industry, either. Perhaps, in the industry, assuming that reality will comply with your assumptions helps achieve business aims, but that's not because the systems work. It's becaus they can be made to look like they do and there's no good way to show they don't, as there's no good way to show they do.
The color coding between the two most popular categories could stand to be more distinct.

I second this. Came here just to say it. Far too similar.
Yeah, there is no standard for high level APIs provided by operating systems. Everybody has always just done their own stuff. And it's not like the Open Source world is any better, with Linux and the BSDs coming up with their own solutions for common issues.

There's POSIX which is pretty great because it at least allows to write somewhat portable networking & io code. But for pretty much anything else, you'll have to write separate code for every OS, and it's always been the case.
> government picking a winner

Bumper sticker slogans aside, seems to me like the program was quite successful and had no real downsides.
> is very different to other well-known implementations (C# and JavaScript [...]). Instead of performing a CPS-like transform where an async function is split into a series of continuations that are chained together via a Future::then method, Rust instead uses a generator/coroutine transform to turn the function into a state machine.

C# async/await is also very much resumable state machines
If the data is coming from an official web page, you could make something that notifies you when the web page changes. Then you can check to see if you need to update the requirements.
So how do you value open-source "commons"?

ICOs were created precisely because these projects aren't supposed to generate profit.
Yeah this is Dianetics i.e. Scientology! I'm not supporting them at all, they are a cult, but the the original basis for Scientology was Dianetics and it's related to this.
Sigh.

First-world governments start war and topple governments to secure fossil fuel resource, and spend $$$ to build infrastructure to handle it - infrastructure that will be managed by governments or multi-national conglomerates.

But we can't have carbon tax or solar subsidy, as they will lead to centralization of power.

It's the same kind of logic that leads to people asking "Why do we need centralized project X when we can have highways?"

Again and again.
Reselling of media is long established as legal in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
It became famous because she was clever enough to get the governor's data, which meant her work became interesting to the general press. The specialist press remained uninterested for reasons discussed in the article and elsewhere in this discussion.
There was a program called Fancy Font that let you do a primitive form of DTP on one of these. You typed up your document in the Fancy Font markup language and then sent it off to the printer using the Fancy Font runoff program (called 'pfont'), which would print out the document, using graphics mode to render the, er, fancy fonts.

Documents printed out this way on a dot matrix printer looked like ass, so when they became available Fancy Font supported the new exciting HP LaserJets.
Odd that the author poses this question:

Maybe it doesn't like the metadata in those tracks?

and doesn't go on to discover the answer. If my ripping and encoding routine were doing something funky that causes problems I'd really want to know about it, and it wouldn't require me to debug Android as the author implies.

It's true enough that Android playback probably shouldn't be glitching, but if the track metadata is invalid or pushing the limits of what you can do, whatever he's doing to his tracks is likely to cause problems in places other than Android playback...
Honestly I've seen this repeated over and over again, but nortel's down fall is ultimate the result of its bet on circuit switching while rest of the telecom world was moving towards packet switching.
It's an especially egregious example, but everybody makes assumptions that they can't guarantee will hold.
I don't think someone did a grafana, prometheus and elastic stack setup at home with relevant data.

Softwaredevelopment is a wide field.
Well said. Decentralization does not magically give you reliability or high availability. Sometimes it is quite the opposite. It is still just a bunch of software running on a bunch of miscellaneous computers over an unreliable network.

To me there are strong parallels between the cryptocurrency boom and the previous P2P boom. P2P technology was exciting and super interesting, but people assumed that it would magically be the solution to a million problems just because the tech was awesome and decentralized. But that didn't happen, instead Netflix happened. Netflix found a way to solve the actual problems that people were having and at the end of the day the underlying technology didn't matter.

I expect to see something similar happen with a lot of the current crypto use cases. More centralized solutions like Amazon QLDB[1] will provide the majority of the benefits that people really need: a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log, while also being performant and highly available.

Many people see decentralization as the solution to all problems because it will finally make things fair, a level playing field for all. I just don't see it happening. Not because of some sinister world order trying to retain control, but simply because that is not how human interactions and trust tend to work. I think we can continue to move towards more decentralization, but it shouldn't be the end goal in and of itself and we should always be skeptical when there is more focus on that than there is on solving the problem at hand.

1. https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/
I presume this is a joke, but, if not, good luck. If you can pick the next Google reliably, you're presumably already worth tens of millions.
people are afraid of any risk in their life and the mobility and ability of those who can harm people either singularly or in groups has never been greater. however the sheer number of people there are means your individual chances are pretty low but it only takes a few high profile cases to scare people.

plus politicians gain power this way by making you fear the other guy. when they cannot find a way to make you not like or trust your neighbor then they drop back to people "over there".

still most would trade a lot of freedom if they don't have to think about their own safety and that is only going to get worse as schools ensure children look to their government for that protection
It's great that people are talking about the Green New Deal in a broader context, and that Ocasio-Cortez is pushing it into the US mainstream, but it's worth remembering that the idea (and policy targets) of a "Green New Deal" have been around for at least 10 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
Ok that difference makes sense, thank you for the explanation.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are treated equally to legal tender in Germany.
Some projects will die in this during this current crash. The most likely force to kill off projects will be:

1. lack of developers to adapt to cheap 51% attacks,

2. cheap 51% attacks will lead to those coins getting delisted from exchanges since attacks will cheat exchanges via 51% double spending attacks (something which has happened a few times already)

3. With no ability for people to safely buy or sell coins those coins will die.

I don't think this will happen to BTC or ETH. I think Ethereum will look very different in 5-10 years.
I believe Asian in this study means Asian Continent and not the american 'Asian'
> semantically inaccessible, not syntactically inaccessible.

You can give the semantics of everything that happens in a safe d-t language in terms of church encoded tag-value pairs and yet the programmer can't break the abstraction because abstraction-breaking operations are syntactically unavailable.

It should count as testament to the success of dynamic typing that the abstractions are so safely enforced that you can squint and suddenly the whole language is semantically founded on them.
Is there any evidence that those countries got access to US nuclear secrets?

Science and engineering technology has advanced considerably since it took a Manhattan project for the US to build them. Plus, even from the beggining, the US was not the only country reasearching the tech; so if those countries did use another countries classified nuclear info, said info might still have originated outside of the US
Maybe they can win a battle...China will live to fight another day. Let's be honest: if today is in doubt, a couple of decades ago China had no chance. The trend is on China's side. What will happen two decades from now with China having relatively unlimited money for this cause?
If you mean that measuring generalisation is a poorly defined problem and we need to develop new theoretical tools- I'm totally with you. Unfortunately, in machine learning, the ratio of theory to practice is 1:100, or so.
> I think everyone can agree that cryptocurrency got way ahead of itself but HN almost seems Luddite in it's treatment of the underlying technology to the point that we are going to have our own "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." moment that people will link to for years to come.

Well, as long as the underlying monetary policy of the cryptocurrencies is well tried and failed directly from the medieval times, I would personally:

1. Be quite careful who I blame being luddites.
2. Not holding my breath waiting for any kind of success as a currency.
Even if you removed every other part of this comment, Mark Karpeles as CTO is more than enough by itself to stay very far away from this. Might as well hire Bernie Madoff as CFO of your new investment startup.
I'm very pro-renewable and new nuclear, but when you say "60% of Portugal's energy needs, and have topped 100% on occasion" do you mean the entire country's energy requirement, or just 'electricity'?. Because as rosy as that sounds, I doubt it takes into account oil-based travel infrastructure, which if the last pie-chart I recall seeing for an average country has any bearing, is a BIG slice.
Extra virgin olive oil is the first press oil. It contains particulates that have a very low smoke point. You should not be cooking with extra virgin olive oil. Pure olive oil is a later hot press extraction and does not have the particulates. It has a much higher smoke point. Im not convinced that US stores are actually selling extra virgin olive oil anyway outside of specialty shops. Olive oil is supposed to be fresh and should taste spicy at first.
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I think it's Luddite (specifically sheep mentality) to believe their claims without skepticism when their results are worse than the things they say we need to replace. My model, which predates Bitcoin in various projects/products, is to generate signed, hashed logs that can be checked in a decentralized fashion all using high-performance databases and fast checkers. Check the results more often than computational steps to reduce unnecessary re-computation. If format and protocols are open, using common tech can allow for diverse implementations to reduce one-attack-to-rob-them-all setups. Also, where possible, do hashes of hashes like one, checkable report per day per bank to reduce overall size of chains over time.

This model can work with existing tech producing just some logs that can be hosted on CDN's, checked with hardware acceleration on commodity hardware, and even hosted on $5 VPS's if you want. That's a total cost of $5 per suspicious party running checks if minimizing costs and energy use. Current payment methods work at POS with 16-bit MCU's and such. The signed checks can themselves be sent in as just extra database transactions. The organizations should be non-profits or public-benefit companies whose charter, licensing agreements, and contracts make specific behaviors either mandatory if good or prohibited if bad. Possible sign auditing agreements with organizations that defend consumers with severe penalties for anything shady. Start with credit unions, though, combined with non-profit, payment processors with lean operations.

If you're wondering, the common pattern of my methods is to use the simplest, fastest, most-proven components, whether technical or legal, to build the improved version of current tech that solves the specific problems most people worry about. Nine times out of ten, it's just a shady, for-profit company being assholes due to their incentives. Just changing the model over to a public-benefit Paypal or Venmo with multinational implementation cross-checking each other by itself gets past most of that. Plus, using existing databases, crypto acceleration, and tamper-resistant smartcards keeps performance high with checking cost, hardware and energy, very low.

As I read cyptocurrency and blockchain stuff, it's like they never thought about any of this before going onto solve problems 99% of people with checking accounts and credit cards don't have. Volatile currencies, exchanges getting robbed, and no chargebacks allowed are good examples where most people wouldn't trade their bank and plastic. The folks working on these things should start with user requirements, look at existing solutions, enumerate problems, find simplest changes that fix those problems, deploy solutions, and iterate from there. Strangely, the exact advice YC gave to the startup founders that made it big.
But I think people can still visit and have to obtain visas. The Israelis put and an extra page in the passport and stamp it.

I know, I know, why and how is that possible? The ways of the world are strange. I just know Pakistanis who have visitors Israel.
Re. flac downloads, Bandcamp (almost?) always offers a flac download option. You'd be surprised how many bands have a Bandcamp page, even if they're signed to labels.

The option is not well advertised. After you purchase a digital download, there's a tiny arrow next to the 'download' link that allows you to switch the download to flac.

I always download flac and consequently spend a lot of money at Bandcamp!
I can confirm similar pricing here in Canada. I have no idea where the author lives but their statistics there seem incredibly off.
there's no pressing need for ethereum, it's a cool experiment but it's much less efficient than the centralized databases that power 99.9% of the worlds computing needs today. it will die from lack of use once the hype and funding runs out. bitcoin will survive because people actually use it to evade currency control laws and launder money. not to mention traders will keep it alive as an alternative asset and good source of volatility
>Netflix found a way to solve the actual problems that people were having and at the end of the day the underlying technology didn't matter.

This, one thousand times this, it is always this. People have problems and they want solutions, they don't care about particular technology architectures.
Doesn't both JS (via Babel) and C# implement asynchronous functions as state machines in a similar fashion?
What you Seem to ignore is that my aspiration is to fix the flaws and come up with a Better system and you Seem to focus on the past and currency Which is just a small part of the picture. Control of nodes is just a reference to some current implementation details. DAO was also just bugs exploited. Being able to alter the current State of the Ledger doesnt make it invisible that you did it, or prevents others from not agreeing with you.

Im thinking about civilations destroyed or Winners of war rewriting history, or powerfull companies and poltiticians covering up information that was already out there... eg recently we found out its easy to delete from waybackmachine. If you cannot Imagine we Can build true decentralized tamperproof systems or could ever have a neeed for one i suggest you study human history.
I think you've made a mistake there. Pakistan isn't in charge of deciding who can visit Israel. It's up to Israel to decide that.

There are a number of accounts on the internet of Pakistani citizens asking Israel for a visa, and receiving one.
Why is it false? It's basically the same territory Taiwan is claiming
Ask HN: What's your techstack?
> the DA in those lightning converters is even worse

Absolutely not true.

https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...
Yeah, I'm not at all a fan of detailed style guides, and your last section gives an excellent example of why.

I wonder if the purpose isn't often to at any price avoid discussion and disagreement. I can see how a style guide is preferable to firing the people that are impossible to talk to, but that would be much healthier for the team.
Yeah any business can create a bank account, but no bank is going to let you just dump $30M in the account without accounting for where it came from. You’d need a relationship with both the bank and the regulators before doing the ICO, which almost none of them had, especially early on.
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