skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New project in 2019, and development progress is 3 months faster than IPFS
What are you doing? We’re creating a more robust and efficient alternative to current centralized cloud storage providers like Amazon S3.

What’s wrong with the current system? From alarming data breaches and grand scale data outages to the rising costs of storage costs, centralized storage has a number of things wrong with it. We believe we can create a better system that’s faster, safer, affordable, and decentralized.

How will you do that? We’re tapping into the sharing economy of P2P systems and are combining it with well-designed blockchain-based incentives to make use of the vast amount of unused bandwidth and storage resources on the Internet. Your data will be split, encrypted, then distributed across a decentralized network. In short, you’ll be able to safely store your data on the blockchain and have access to it at a lower price and faster rate than ever before.

Sounds good but why you? We’re spearheaded by Wayne Wong and Bill Yao, co-founders of PPTV, a P2P storage and transmission network used by 450 million users worldwide. Having built one of the largest distributed P2P distributed networks, the experience serving millions of users, establishing a strong founding team of 30 people, and secured seed funding, we believe we’re the best group to handle the task of decentralizing storage.

Which stage are you at currently? Having formed in June 2018, we’ve already released our whitepaper, our TestNet, and published our SDK/CLI. All available on our website and Github.

Do you have plans for an ICO?
At this stage no. Right now we are focused on building our decentralized storage platform so it’s the best product possible.

What’s next? Completed versions of our SDK and MainNet are scheduled to go live in Q2. Then we’ll continue developing applications that best utilize our technology.

How can I support your project? Visit our website,and join our community on Discord.
offical discord: https://discord.gg/8Tbp3B4
WA. State condo reform gains steam amid shortage of property ownership options
It's easy to just plug a couple of key words from the title into the search box.
I can never understand those protesters. If they can sabotage military in all countries, that may be good. But they must know it is impossible. They know their kind of activism has zero effect on Russian and Chinese military (imagine Huawei employees sign a letter of this kind, which will never happen). So they are volunteerily sabotage U.S. military to help the Russians and Chineses. I'm not sure how they get their head around.
That’s handy!
Perfect timing for me. I was just about to push out a new release for my code counter https://github.com/boyter/scc

It appears to be ~3-4 ms faster when counting repositories like redis which is rather nice for me as a free speed boost. Probably related to the changes to GC listed here https://golang.org/doc/go1.12#runtime
I think a more charitable interpretation of Hickel's article is that all people experience confirmation bias and much of the data presented on OurWorldInData is inconsistent with the Hickel's political beliefs.

It is not just Hickel that experiences this. Many people have a world view and political view that assumes that the current world is in terrible shape and the prevailing political establishment is failing all of us. When people with these entrenched views encounter the trends cataloged on OurWorldInData, a great deal of motivated reasoning occurs in order to discredit the trends.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I totally agree, anyone with that much power and influence should want to make sure they are putting their best foot forward at all times.
Google Maps Satellite Mode Was Almost Named Bird Mode
To further highlight this point, which of these three statements would make you the most likely to invest in Tesla:

1) 350k-500k cars a year

2) around 400k cars a year

3) around 500k cars a year

The three statements communicate different information and (3) is the best, since unlike (1) and (2) it implies there's a chance that the production numbers can exceed 500k and would certainly be close to 500k in any case. Whereas, with (1) and (2) it probably won't be.

Furthermore, quoting a specific number, even if you have the word "around" before it, implies new information was obtained narrowing down the range given in the earnings call. Giving investors more clarity on how they should invest in Tesla. This makes it material.

If we can accept the information is material, then it's pointless to argue whether it's misleading or false, since that's not what the SEC is arguing about. Musk has to pre-approve material statements (due to his settlement with the SEC) and, according to internal Tesla policy, get that approval at most 2 days before posting them. The earnings call was on January 30, so even if pre-approval was given then (it wasn't) then it would have expired on February 19 when the tweets were made.

The fact that he misled investors (proven by the fact that he issued a correction 4 hours later), just adds extra ammunition to the SECs argument that Musk should have pre-approved his tweet as pre-approval would have caught the factual errors.

Seriously though, read through the court document, except for the bit at the end of page 9 (where they quote a bunch of cases) it's very simple to read and understand: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5750664-Show-Cause.h...
How to Accelerate Serverless Adoption (Webinar)
Small pox! Yeaahhh!!
I really doubt that people working on development in 2019 haven't even heard of critical development studies, especially Shiva who's been making these arguments for like 40 years.

Like, twenty years ago, a basic education on the topic would make the notion of "how the cultural, social, political, and ecological dimensions are neglected" a primary subject.

Every "popular" economist and UN official has doubtless engaged with these ideas. The fact that their work doesn't revolve around them or immediately agree with every component of them doesn't mean the development community is following narrow ideologies from 60 years ago.
> So they are volunteerily sabotage U.S. military to help the Russians and Chineses.

Choosing to not do work, or requesting to not do work, that is mostly (entirely?) unrelated to the work you were expecting to be doing at a software company in the US is not "sabotaging" the US military.

It is also no indication of intent to help the Russian or Chinese military. Your words are very nearly slanderous to the protesters, as you have placed a false intent to commit some kind of treason? on them, an intent for which they have shown no evidence of having.
> Myth 3: Machine Learning researchers do not use the test set for validation

Damn this hits the nails. People are essentially using 'test' set as validation set, the validation set as the early stopping helper set.
Just because you can't voice dissent in some countries doesn't mean it's okay to not support it. You can choose a side but shutting voices down is objectively wrong.
It's a form of pollution, really - and a sign that there are a set of perverse incentives which can cause it.

Somewhere out there, advertisers are paying dollars for those commercials, and in many cases no-one is listening, or worse - it's causing active irritation to the people who are.

If you think of the commercials as oil, and the speaker systems and infrastructure as pipelines, then cases like this where commercials are on incessant loop are like an unbridled oil spill.

Unfortunately, many advertisers likely aren't metric-savvy enough to realize they're being scammed and not getting a return on their investment; the folks selling the airtime likely take a skim of their deals and use it to wine and dine the advertisers' own staff.

Purchase and persuade one or two layers of staff and management, and you're unlikely to get too much organizational pushback.

Instead, there should be costs placed on the measurable negative externalities here: the stress caused to people who experience this noise pollution, the devaluation of the otherwise quiet, productive environments it seeps into, and the opportunity cost from the resources wasted on building the infrastructure to make it possible in the first place.
Indelible in the hippocampus
Amazon through entering healthcare

What has Amazon accomplished in healthcare to date?
Please read my comment again, make a good faith attempt to comprehend all of it, and try to respond to the whole thing rather than the first couple of sentences. Being an impatient skim-reader isn’t part of meaningful dialogue, either.

And once you’ve done that—would you agree that, by the “reasonable” standard that you are touting, that most developed countries including the United States are “utopian” in the sense of solving the problem of hunger? If not, why?
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher...
Sutro is well above everything else in SF. It doesn't obscure anything but, uh, fog maybe.
There are some great pictures in this PDF, entitled "Bomb Damage or Rent Control?". You really can't tell!

http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/R...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

We've known since the Viking landers of the 70s that clocks on Mars don't run the same as on Earth, and that's not even accounting for the speed-effects as the Earth keeps "lapping" Mars on their respective race around the sun.
I love how only now they realize that it lacks the expected Caltrain capacity.
There was once a bookmarklet to explore and preview
Optimizely experiments: https://growthhackers.com/questions/show-gh-spy-on-optimizel...
>HN echo chamber

Where the dissonant note is downvoted and flagged to death.
Whether Linux is "a unix" I suppose would be a big debate. :)
It's a model that doesn't work well without a corresponding tax on short-hop flights.
Different case but I usually open up HN while eating in non English speaking restaurant alone and the staff wonders what I'm reading and I just say tech news site.
well, DigitalOcean provides some credit in that pack.
You still don't need to sign in that case. Either it wasn't tampered with and still decrypts, or it was tempered with, and no longer decrypts.

Edit: to elaborate. What is your threat model? If you are handing over encrypted data, when it is given back you are safe knowing it wasn't tampered. Either that, or the encryption scheme you used is broken.

If you are handing unencrypted data to someone else to encrypt using your public key, then you could use their public key to validate that they encrypted it. But you are, by definition, trusting that they did the encryption like you wanted them to.

Now, if you hand them a key to sign with and a key to encrypt with, you also have to give them the data to encrypt. In which case... why do you trust every link in the chain between you and them that it worked? The game is already over if they have your unencrypted data is in transit between you and someone else to start with.
This is quite amazing. The code quality overall looks pretty good too. Pleasantly surprised to see it in Python. Was dreading complex C++ code. Thanks for sharing. The code will aid my learning.
Have any recommendations for good pieces related to this debate you mention?

I'm sure there are lots of heated online debates, but any good ones in mind?
Based on the descriptions there, it doesn't seem to me like the mentioned studies actually show meditation causing a clear benefit. That's not surprising to me, since most studies on meditation (like most lifestyle studies) fall into one of:

1) only describe observational correlations, not causation (such studies are useful for guiding further research, but are a poor basis for recommending lifestyle changes)

2) describe an intervention leading to a statistically significant change, but one whose practical significance is negligible, unsubstantiated, or an unclear mixture of benefits and drawbacks

3) quality too poor to draw any firm conclusion at all (too small, no control group, neglect of known likely confounders, blatant p-hacking, etc.)
My assumption is that Google and Microsoft (and everyone else interested in this kind of work) will just do so in secret. There's obviously a social cost here, unfortunately, but companies probably should be more judicious anyway in terms of how they go about staffing these programs.
Completely agreed. I recently finished reading the book Dark Money by Jane Meyer. She lays out convincing evidence for how our political discourse and democracy is being undermined by monied interests. The Citizen's United court decision likely accelerated this as well.
I think Capital One Spark was shut down.
Rent control causes urban blight
Right, better than the previous time when the locals burned captured specimens for fear of retribution for having captured them 20 or so years ago.

For sure, this time protocol was followed as should be expected.
Just bring one! They may not ask you to remove it.
I used it for an Adobe Acrobat project years ago. Acrobat Pro let you store comments via WebDAV in a way that you could collaborate on a single PDF and see all comments from all users.

But, you needed to set everything else up on your own. I built a system that filled in the gaps that was used to proof corporate documentation and clinical drug trial materials.

Worked great for years.
This looks pretty cool, right now I drop down to the command line to shift subs either direction but if they are off by too much or commercials/breaks don't line up then it's game over. I'll have to drop this out on my server, I'm tempted to run it across everything but I'll probably settle for running it manually when something doesn't line up in plex.

Edit: Hmm, my first test moved the subtitles but they ended up 3-5 seconds after the audio instead of the original 2-5 before... I'll have to keep testing when I come across bad subs.
Yep. A deal with the devil they had to make to let Tesla be where it is today.

Musk should just talk about the tech instead of the numbers though. The SEC are under pressure to bite Tesla for anything it does out of line.
Were these problems you experienced a failure of a bad spec or a collection of software poorly following a good spec?
Who is the target market?
Thrown around the worlds largest casino as a facade for investment? Yep.
California Proposes Unlimited Speed Limits on Some Highways
I frankly agree with Robert Heinlein's attitude towards military service. Voluntary, but with the caveat that if you choose not to serve, you do not earn the right to vote.
Something like what you are describing is documented in Tripoli. In the late 19th century, archeologists found large stone structures.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/remains-of-the-olive-oi...

These were thought to be religious in nature. The structures had grooves in the rock, which were thought to be grooves for the the blood of the sacrifices to run out. Later investigation showed that these were in fact olive presses from the Roman era, and that the grooves were for the olive oil to run out.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259417162_Roman_Sit...
You're thinking in hundreds of years, while I'm talking in the tens of thousands of years.

We know that neanderthals ate a diet that consisted of 80% or more meat, while humans had a much more varied diet. We also know that neanderthals did contribute to European human DNA. A genetic affinity toward the taste of meat it certainly a reasonable thesis.
What does this do that fish://<ssh connection> doesn't?
> Using multiple IP addresses on the server box (one IP address per approximately 60k connections)

Please correct me if I am wrong. I thought the '64K' limit is per client per server port. So the correct statement would be Using multiple IP addresses on the server box (one IP address per approximately 60k connections per client). Also, it's not necessary to have multiple interfaces unless it is required to achieve more than '64k' connection per client.

Edit: updated text formatting
Fair point that my comment is off topic, I’ve been rightly downvoted and flagged for it : (

But I’ll respond to your comment in hopes that it might pique the interest of some sensible non-commenting lurker, and if it’s my lucky day perhaps you’ll genuinely consider my response as well.

When you say it’s a “totally reasonable system of money” I’m going to make the assumption that you believe this because there has been an absolutely, never before seen in the history of mankind, massive rise in the standard of living over the past 100+ years. Implicit in your statement, however, is that transitioning away from hard money (Eg a gold standard) and towards a fiat standard is in some way the cause of this rather than it merely being correlated (no doubt you’re well versed, like most people on HN, in the correlation vs causation problem).

My specific claim is that the massive increase in technology (including information technology) is the cause of this rapid rise in the standard of living, and this improvement has actually masked the serious and growing problems with fiat (such as recurring and exacerbated financial crises).

I can’t “prove” this conclusively anymore than you can “prove” a fiat/credit economy is the cause of it — we can’t re-run the 20th century on a hard money standard and compare the outcomes of the two. But it sure is convenient for governments to tell people that hard money is bad, but never let us test it out to see for ourselves, which begs the question, “cui bono?”

In this situation it’s clear who benefits from fiat currencies — nation states. The ability to print money at will and fund your own expenditures with that newly minted money (whose value comes from savers), is a temptation that no man can be trusted with. I believe this overwhelming temptation is WHY the market (billions of consumers acting voluntarily over thousands of years) ultimately settled on gold — it’s near impossible to pass counterfeits and the difficulty of mining it makes it a naturally low-inflation money.

The biggest downside to gold, however, is that governments have successfully prevented it from being used as money (through coercion, obviously). I believe this is why cryptocurrency is an interesting experiment, no doubt governments and their 3-letter agencies are using propaganda to control the narrative there, but unlike gold they can’t control the supply or prevent its circulation with coercion.
SEC: Elon Musk should be held in contempt for unauthorized tweet about Tesla
I've also been guilty of this for a long time. I annoy myself, and fear I undermine my credibility when talking to peers and managers.

> I think that when I'm speaking, I want to say words faster than my brain can build a sentence.

This is the explanation I've thought of for myself many times. What I find helps is to practice mindfulness and try to listen to what I'm saying.

I recall at one job, the companies core systems database tables had really absurdly long names. I made a point of learning these names precisely. People would look at me in amazement when I would precisely rattled off the names during meetings and technical discussions. Oddly, this really helped.
> the board of directors should just demand deletion of his Twitter account

That’s extreme. Just give the securities lawyer the password. Elon clearly lacks the discipline to work with pre-approval. So have him draft tweets, send them to the lawyer, and then watch them go live. He can read his feed but not write to it.
> high profile journalists (mainstream media) stating that "Twitter is where we get the news from"...

Wow. This is unbelievably scary.

Imho news should be curated & not first to the wires. News should involve individual fact checking and less web of trust.

I understand how we consumers might want to listen to a journalist's feed, but journalists using it as a source too? It's nothing but a self referential feedback loop otherwise!

One word describes the problem: covfefe
It’s Time for Digital Products to Start Empowering Us
Rich people don’t just put their money in a vault and let it inflate into oblivion — they spend it or they invest it, both create jobs.
I can never understand those protesters

I think it's hypocrisy to say that defense/intelligence work is evil but manipulating individuals into giving away their privacy to the entire commercial space is fine and dandy.
WireGuard VPN: What You Need to Know – Not (Yet) Recommended
Go 1.12 fixes a bug in os.File.Sync() on MacOS, which didn't actually fsync() properly.

This affects several popular database libraries.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26650
Usenet still exists and is moderated in a similar way against exploitative content in partnership with The Internet Watch Foundation (https://www.iwf.org.uk), depending on your provider. Giganews, the largest Usenet provider and owner of other affiliated providers, is a member of the IWF: https://www.iwf.org.uk/member/giganews-inc.
I agree, this is a great representation - I think of it as the heap ordering - but it assumes a fixed-height tree. For my use case, I want to overlay increasingly large trees (with leaves appended to the right side) to a linear array, so heap order is a non-starter.
It’s not a coincidence — you use “we” because you’re a progressive and progressives view themselves as part of the government. Conservatives use “they” because they (rightly) understand they’re NOT in power.
Dead Simple Wildcard DNS for Any IP Address
It's a terrible interview question, not least because I spent however long writing 4 pages about it and still don't know what it is. :-)

But it's not made up: this comes up in a real system and I would like to know more about the answer.
I actually often go to one chain because I always pick up one or two nice new songs while shopping, and I like their clothes.
The data is in. Frogs don’t boil. But we might
They aren't just choosing to not work on the project, Microsoft said that they will help employees find other projects at the company to work on. The protesters are trying to get public support behind them so Microsoft drops the contract completely, preventing anybody at Microsoft from being able to work on the project, even if they want to.
Is iOS a thing for Go?
Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/ah2m1d/if_i_have... (I couldn't find any other one than the one linked in the article).
It took me a second to realize what the heck it was trying to ask me to do. It was not immediately obvious that I had to trigger the inputs to get the various states, and then answer the query.
Sonny Scroggin of Bleacher Report gave a talk about writing NIFs in Rust (using Rustler) at last year's Code BEAM SF conference -- the video's on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86JXaCPowo
The idea that "functional requirements" can be decided independently from "technical architecture", as opposed to in interplay with each other, is exactly the opposite of what I've learned from good experiences with "agility", although some people seem to somehow take it that the opposite.

But yes, you can never just do what "the users" ask for. The best way to understand what they need is to be in conversation with them. Silo'ing everyone up isn't going to make the overall product -- which has to be composed of all these sub-components working well with each other -- any better.
I don't know about rovers, but some smaller spacecraft (mainly satellites) use mysql, as well as postgres. Disclaimer: I'm not the right person to ask.
I think they are idealists and think they can extricate themselves from realpolitik.

Obviously this is not possible and usually leadership understands this, but occasionally bow to small numbers of activists because they have painted themselves into a corner. I don’t think MS (or Amazon) have done that though.
Not if they are already known.