skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point which GP refers to, where corporations find they will no longer need to pay lip service, is precisely the point where governments lose that monopoly of force.

I think we have a lot to learn from how generations of infighting for control of the Roman empire led to the disintegration of civic society that allowed the Christian church to fill the power vacuum. The transition from the Principate, during which Emperors still paid lip service to the Senate, to the Dominate, where the pretense was lifted, was made possible because centuries of factionalism had destroyed the foundations that allowed checks and balances to be enforced.
Couldn't get started on what?

The point of cryptocurrencies wasn't to make people rich. Anyone can buy in at market value and start using coins for their stored value. That is the point. Your anger in the fact that crypto didn't magically create money where there was none before is misplaced.

Really poor individuals from poor, economically wrecked countries had quite a lot to gain from the accessibility of cryptocurrency. Look at Venezela's attitude towards Bitcoin.
They don't need to do anything as explicit as that. They can wield their vast power in much subtler ways - promoting competing political content, blackouts, etc.

Control the feed, control the people. Politicians will have to fall in line.
(I work for Algorand) The project will be open-sourced prior to the public launch of the network.
Fix the Internet with a Graph of Trust
The internet has a bad reputation with non tech users. People are afraid of fraud because it is so easy to put up a fake product websites. Some sites like trustpilot.com try to solve this with user reviews but these can also be faked easily. We need a system with Strong Identity to make fakes prohibitively expensive.

Imagine a Graph of Trust where a legitimate startup founder can create an ID based on references from their previous employers. The founder simply states their name and reference email addresses who can verify that they are indeed a real person who once had an employment contract. Then we need to define a global source of trust because your references could be fakes as well. For example take any company with a stock value > 1e6$ as "trusted". Then the trust of a founder (and hence his startup) is computed by the existence of a path from them to a source of trust.
Its not perfect, email accounts inside big companies can be hacked. But it will make it much more costly to create a fake ID. And importantly this Graph of Trust will give us an audit trail to respond to instances of fraud.

If this existed and was an industry standard would you go through the trouble of creating an ID and linking this from your new landing page ?

If you think this is worth implementing let me know by signing up to the mailing list https://mailchi.mp/15da4d92c851/graph-of-trust-betalist
Even when the access pattern is not random, random can provide some benefits.

It can prevent any otherwise harmless sweep/scan of the system from completely busting your entire cache for all of the other uses.
Let loose the automatons. K-mode, engage!
That's not a request to Facebook for help. It's a call to their fellow citizens, with Facebook being a (not very well respected) intermediary. Facebook can interfere with that means of communication, but it can't interfere with military/police chains of command, or physically stop a SWAT team from showing up at Zuckerberg's front door and at Facebook sysadmin's offices.
CFAIL 2019: Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology
People are naive and perhaps that is the only thing that the flat-earth founder is trying to prove.
1 Mbps * 5 = 5 Mb = 625 KB

That's not huge at all, you can barely fit a few pictures into that. The page we are on require 100 KB, the page it link require 300 KB, and both aren't big and have no image to show.
Firefox reader-mode solves this problem well (most of the time).
> and has a very wierd concept of how objects work in JS.

What is so weird about it? I personally find Vue vastly more approachable than React is, especially once you have to start writing all the plumbing to get all the libraries you need to go along with it to write a real world app.

> ] It's a templating system with its own rules and mini-DSLs that ends up being compiled into JS.

Vue has the option to use Webpack to compile html compliant templates to JS functions just like JSX (which BTW is not JavaScript and not HTML compliant and is also a separate concept that needs to be learned as well.)

CSS is just another add-on through Webpack when using Single File Components. Nothing really ground breaking here except for the fact that it creates a nice separation of concerns. This is especially true on teams with junior devs or designers. Or with a team that works on a site with mixed MPA and SPA features.
Generalizing to be applicable to any utopias:
‘Would you be happy if the utopia you bring up happens in the next 10 years, but you lose some or most of your savings?’
You grossly misinterpret what I mean by "power", because it has nothing to do with the differences between Nazis and Poles, as both of them have the same aggregate ability to make decisions.
Yes, if it means that my government cannot create inflation anymore.
As I said else-thread, there's actually a variation in MISRA-C-2012 (or possibly one of the addenda) for this.

Error handling using 'goto' is allowed, as long as you're jumping forward (i.e. to or near the end of the function). You can't go backwards through the code.

It may require a variation in the project's coding spec but it's certainly possible (because I've been there and done it!)
He was right though, it'd be just a circlejerk intended to present Facebook in a negative light and give a good show to voters.

There's nothing he can do or say that would make any politician emphatic to him and Facebook in a hearing.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf]
Have you tried the Ultrafine displays? I use the Ultrafine 4k with my 13" tbMBP and it is pretty streamlined. Even features like True Tone work. Volume control and Brightness control is controlled by MacOS itself natively. Also works as a dock for my keyboard, mouse, webcam etc and charges my Mac. One cable is all I need.
One reason health data is so valuable is that the older you are, the more problems you have. For example, neurodegenerative diseases can be serious, and when they begin to develop the patient may still be working! Imagine if your boss found out that you had ~2 good years left.

Even worse, people with dementia are prone to being scammed. We need to do everything possible to stop adversaries and scammers from having a list of people with neurodegenerative disease. Unfortunately, most people have little fear of their health data being hacked and hospitals have little incentive to protect it. Although I hear things are "getting better," the protection of you health data remains in a terrible state.
Because, if it's possible, someone will do it.
Well, if our education doesn't help people to be less wrong, then we need to improve it (that's what I mean by raising level of education, not just giving people diplomas). Or reconsider what we think is wrong.
Model-Driven Artificial Intelligence for Online Network Optimization (2018)
I think we can assume this data is now part of a dataset in some data mining engine somewhere.
Remotely Debugging .Net in AWS Lambda (with Breakpoints)
How many divisions does The Zuck have?
I had a neighbor that was working on this to fix cartilage in race horses. They take connective tissue cells from the horse with bum knee, multiply them, turn them back into stem(ish) cells by exposing them to a series of chemical signals, purify them, and then inject them back into the injured area. They were stem(ish) cells because they would only ever turn into connective tissue, which was a guard against them turning into the wrong thing. He said full on stem cells had a tenancy to turn into cancers if used for this process. The purification process was the hard part, they had special plastic sheets that would stick to only the right kind of cells, they wash the cells over the sheet and then check with the microscope to make sure they only have good ones. Very tedious process, but a race horse is worth enough money to make it possible.
I'm glad I'm not anymore in a workplace with Slack (or any kind of instant messages) and there's not expectations of being available to answer messages outside of office hours.
His generalization that modern culture has become completely machine-driven and dehumanizing. Quoting the article quoting him...

“the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency”

“technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgment”

“human judgment cannot be trusted because it is plagued by laxity, ambiguity, and unnecessary complexity”

“subjectivity is an obstacle to clear thinking”

“what cannot be measured either does not exist or is of no value”

“the affairs of citizens are best guided and conducted by experts.”

Now, I'll join Postman in criticizing Fredrick Taylor and scientific management all day, but Postman is utterly reductionist in his argument, turning a valuable and important point into a mere strawman.

For a much more subtle and cogent critique, read Matthew Crawford's "Shop Class as Soulcraft".
> They are actively looking for something that doesn't suck. Aren't they?

It looks more of "we are working on it excuse" to keep people at bay.

Rob Pike has done a presentation last year where he stated that he doesn't have anything to do with it and is very sceptical of it being ever added.

So WIP is kind of euphemism.

> Not sure what was your intention behind that statement.

That even languages born before generics are willing to move forward.

Google is majorly a Java, Python, C++ shop. Go is usually more outside than internal Google projects.

If we reduce Go lack of features to stuff that C doesn't provide, maybe bounds checking, modules and GC aren't required as well.

As for complaining, projects like Docker and K8s ensure that those of us that rather not use Go, have to deal with it in some form anyway.
You can touch type the F-keys too?
Just a general heads-up: the rest of the world hasn't quite noticed this yet, but it seems like biology has turned into a blink-and-you'll-miss-it science of rapid breakthroughs in the last decade.
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The most recent Hardcore History episodes are about WWII from the perspective of Japan, and they’ve really opened my eyes a bit to just how much of their side of the story was left out of my education.
> What is so weird about it?

I go a bit in depth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471199

> Vue has the option to use Webpack to compile html compliant templates to JS functions just like JSX

Vue's templates are not HTML-compliant. They are just that: templates. That get compiled to JS anyway.

> JSX (which BTW is not JavaScript and not HTML compliant and is also a separate concept that needs to be learned as well.)

JSX is a very thin DSL on top of Javascript. It's just function calls: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-without-jsx.html

Once you understand that, everything falls into place.

> CSS is just another add-on through Webpack when using Single File Components.

It's not a webpack add-on. It's a part of Vue's templating engine that is essentially CSS-in-JS, they just give you a template to work in.
I always thought, and still do, of Skype being the "If a human on this planet could design a user interface and experience the exact opposite of easy, efficient and friendly." it would be it. I almost feel like the developers are playing a trick on me every time I open the app.
Vue's single file components are incredible. They're so great for the developer experience, which is Vue's entire ethos.

Add in Tailwind utility classes and you've got a great design system that can be built on the fly with consistent standards.
I'm not a lawyer, but I presume Sweden has laws governing patient privacy. Even if not, Sweden certainly has the GDPR.
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Have you tried a whole-foods plant-based diet? It has been shown to be effective in treating and in some cases even reversing digestive issues:

https://nutritionfacts.org/2012/09/13/dietary-treatment-for-...

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/vegan-health/ib...

Other than that, since you work from home, maybe you could see if polyphasic sleep works for you. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard good results from others.

https://www.polyphasicsociety.com/polyphasic-sleep/beginners...

I would also suggest getting your bloodwork done to rule out any hormonal issues or nutritional deficiencies that could cause or exacerbate your fatigue, if you haven't already. Taking B12 and Vitamin D supplements might also help.

Ultimately, I don't think you're as unproductive as you think you are, but it's always shitty to feel like you're not reaching your full potential. Be aware of the symptoms and consequences of over/underworking (burnout/boreout). Good luck!
First you build a space elevator to geosynchronous orbit, then you can use full batteries as counterweight for lifting empty batteries. That way you only have to overcome friction losses.
I'm not a Zuckerberg sympathiser, but whatever he is doing is a really stressful job.

Scaling is hard, and everyone fails a few times on the way.

Still, these UK lawmakers taunting him is extremely ironic.
I think make-do-and-mend kinda comes with the maker ethos, at least to me.

I've repaired the washing machine twice -- once for an open-circuit dryer thermistor (bad batch apparently) and again for bad wiring on the door interlock latch/switch.

The sensor cost £5, the interlock cost about half an hour of cleaning the old switch with Q-tips and fifteen of crimping new Faston spade terminals onto the wiring harness. The IDC connectors Indesit use on their wiring harnesses are truly awful things.

I've seen similar in an AT&T 3B1 (aka UNIX PC), with the same failure mode: the connector gets warm, the IDC contacts loosen, contact resistance increases, the connector gets warmer and eventually it either burns up or shorts out.

Can't say I'm a fan!

I've also lost count of the number of things I've fixed with the 3D printer... I'd rather spend a few hours modelling something in OpenSCAD to fix something else than throw the broken-thing away. It's nice practice for when I'm making new things.
Because one is an extension of the underlying technology, and the other one changes the technology out altogether. I still believe CSS is a vital part of the web ecosystem, and we should work to fix the underlying issues rather than just try to work around it via JS.
Announcing 3D region maps
0x42133742 is clearly someone having a bit of fun. 42 from Hitchhiker’s and then 1337 for “leet”, short for elite.
I'd imagine the answer to 1 would be placing your corporation at risk of being sanctioned or dissolved within the jurisdiction in question. There could be criminal charges as well.

If I recall, the U.S. crime of contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor, escalating to the felonious perjury if you show up and lie.

Both are criminal offenses, and both based on England's Parliamentary power to hold people in contempt.

2. If you wish to benefit from the protection of nation's laws, you'd best be willing to give their legislative bodies the benefit of your time. The fiduciary responsibility to U.S. stockholders means doing something that could severely depreciate share/stock prices could open an executive up to legal problems as well.

3. Not losing the capability to do business in another country ranks pretty high on best for the company. Morally speaking, the pursuit of profit normatively should not jeopardize diplomatic relationships between allies as well, but I won't pretend to know much more about international business than that.
The LHD paper lacks a robust analysis against different workloads. The few traces they use are either private or not considered representative workloads. For MSR, the provider (SNIA) specifically states:
"WARNING: These traces are over 10 years old! They should not be used for modern research!".

It would be much more interesting if they used the traces from ARC and LIRS, perhaps also UMass and Wikipedia. These traces are publically available and used by multiple papers from a variety of groups.

I have not seen a sampling-based policy that outperforms a policy that has tracks history outside of its working set. Since the examples specifically avoided that comparison, I suspect that it under performs in comparison. That isn't to say it isn't a useful advancement, but that a more robust analysis is needed to validate their claims.
Indeed. Attitudes toward civilian casualties in warfare, at least in the West, are less tolerant today--- but the West hasn't been in an existentially-challenging shooting war since 1945.
As the internet matures we're probably going to have strengthening access controls on information, not weakening ones. This is likely a bad thing, but nonetheless is what these various locales actually insist on imposing upon themselves as local custom/local law, soo..
That's a fair point. I emphasized physical presence because governments exert their power within a physical space that they control. If you defy the power of the state within its own territory, you're in for a bad time. But you're right that there's no need for it to come to guns and muscle when their ability to make money depends on their compliance with local laws.
A down-sampled image has less noise than an image in its native resolution. You can experiment on your own monitors if you don't believe the theory, just remember to use font smoothing for non-native resolutions. You can also ask about it on the appropriate stack exchange, it is a frequent topic of confusion.
Bezos to NY: Drop Dead; Not Enough Sucking Up?
Thank you for the archive.org link. Those episodes on NPR were fantastic. I encourage everyone who hasn't heard them to try a couple. Ken was incredible, RIP Mr. Nordine.
I would name Nano, a very underrated cryptocurrency. Uses DPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake) instead of Proof of Work, so it doesn't do mining, also it has zero fees and minimal transaction times.

I've ran a full node for some time to support the network, the whole blockchain size was about 5GB, but the downside of zero transaction fees is that there is less incentive for people to run full nodes. I stopped mine out of boredom when the market crashed.

Unfortunately the market is so full of overhyped projects and buzzwords that people are no longer interested in something that just works.
I really appreciate you taking the time to comment on that! I put a ton of work into the design, so you saying that makes me feel really great.

Thank you!
The coverage is not global - there are gaps over the oceans and in remote areas (as the article states, it mostly requries unobstructed direct line of sight).
Quite something that we are now at the part of the privacy debate where the argument is "well, why do you care about private medical records? shouldn't this be public?"
I did the same thing. I had a funeral to go to and needed a suit (of course that is not necessarily true but I did not know it then) and walked in the door at the Men's Warehouse and got hooked on the two-for-one deal. Spent a lot more money than I needed to, for my purposes I could have just gone to the Kohl's department store and picked up something inexpensive and it would have been functionally equivalent.
In 5 years, we’re going to have another post like FooLang is 3x better than Kotlin. And in another 5 after that, BarLang is 4x better than FooLang. And so on. In 30 years, we’ll finally just be at LISP.

Jump ahead 30 years and just use LISP already.
The speed of light puts a hard limit on places that can easily exchange ideas and customs. At the very latest when we leave the solar system there will be significant diversification.
Duplicate with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19191241
My mistake. How ironic. Everything depends upon the red wheelbarrow. Here's that link without the trailing ":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19181362

> My main problem with blockchain is the excessive energy consumption of PoW. I know there are PoS efforts, but they seem problematical.

One report said that 78% of Bitcoin energy usage is from renewable sources (many of which would otherwise be curtailed and otherwise unfunded due to flat-to-falling demand for electricity). But PoW really is expensive and hopefully the market will choose less energy-inefficient solutions from the existing and future blockchain solutions while keeping equal or better security assurances.

>> Proof of Work (Bitcoin, ...), Proof of Stake (Ethereum Casper), Proof of Space, Proof of Research (GridCoin, CureCoin,)

The spec should be: DDOS resiliant (without a SPOF), no one entity with control over API and/or database credentials and database backups and the clock, and immutable.

Immutability really cannot be ensured with hashed records that incorporate the previous record's hash as a salt in a blocking centralized database because someone ultimately has root and the clock and all the backups and code vulnerable to e.g. [No]SQL injection; though distributed 'replication' and detection of record modification could be implemented. git push -f may be detected if it's on an already-replicated branch; but git depends upon local timestamps. google/trillian does Merkle trees in a centralized database (for Certificate Transparency).

In quickly reading the git-signatures shell script sources, I wasn't certain whether the git-notes branch with the .gitsigners that are fetched from all n keyservers (with DNS) is also signed?

I also like the "Table 1: Security comparison of Log Based Approaches to Certificate
Management" in the CertLedger paper. Others are far more qualified to compare implementations.
Towards AI Transparency: Four Pillars Required to Build Trust in AI Systems
That's an interesting use case for IDs. I'll have to keep that in mind.
Also, I can't remember the source (maybe it was a "What If?"), but I seem to recall that it's actually to create a lens that allows us to focus a point on the moon to allow us to make out current man-made items on the surface of the moon.
Cryptocurrencies are not a replacement for banks; they are a replacement for gold.

If cryptocurrencies ever become mainstream, banking services will be built on top of them, just as they were originally built on top of gold.

The only thing I can think of that cryptos let you do cheaper than banks is rapid, relatively frictionless funds transfer, so I’ll admit their utility there. But other than that, what banking services do cryptos give you?
Ok, but, the average startup web dev stays at a company for like two years? And then the thing eventually gets rewritten anyway in the latest flavor of the week, because nobody is using the same tools as two years ago.

I guess the concern for longevity most devs have is amusing when most software, if its not like systems level stuff, or problems most devs dont want to solve, tends to get disposed pretty frequently.

By the way, most of the software that actually sticks around was written in C and generally solves a problem most people wont tackle. Like zlib or sqlite or nginx or the linux kernel. You can almost pretty much judge the longevity of a piece of software based on how hard the problem it tackles is. Like encryption or compression? Those libraries are going to be around forever, because how many coders do you know that can write a semi compitent encryption library? And how manu coders can write a templating engine?

Like most of web dev is throwaway code. It just is. Arguments based on like "will they be able to restyle it in 10 years?" Well are they even going to be around?
How do satellites prevent overheating? Radiators!