skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what's the win? Why split up the cost per single watt or packet? No one cares about losing one cent per day due to rounding errors

Honestly with this question you've summed up most of my feelings about blockchains. Humanity feels like it's become more powerful in some very specific way. We have a new tool and we're trying to figure out what it's good for.

I've pattern matched this to early reactions to the internet. Many of the critics pointed out that the internet didn't really make anything new possible, we could already quickly communicate with people across the world! But, it radically lowered the cost of that communication and put it into a format computers could use and that was enough to put companies like Blockbuster out of business.

It's really hard to work backwards from a new tool to places it could successfully be applied. And if 10 years from now we haven't found a use for nanopayments I'll admit it was a silly idea, but it sure does seem interesting.
> it's easy to find out if someone is single or not via Facebook

That was many, many years ago. Ever since, they've been tightening up privacy defaults, and now when checking out that person you met, the best you'll get is a profile picture and a list of mutual friends. Everything else tends to be locked down by default for non-friends, and Facebook keeps regularly reminding people posting widely that they could tighten their posting range.

Whether that's a good or bad evolution depends on one's use cases and the views on whether being able to do little background checks on other people is OK or not.
The problem isn't too much reliance on automatic systems, it's that the systems are a half baked combination of the two.

The MCAS system is an example of that. As you say that overriding design is typical in Boeing planes, but MCAS purposefully overrides it, that is, pushing the controls hard, which overrides other automatic functions, has no effect on MCAS.
But then there would be no lanes for 10GbE+ networking right? I was going off the commercially available platforms such as https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/poweredge-r7415
Data Binding in Angular
Doesn't uBlock Origin in Firefox do the same by intercepting network requests? I really don't know...
Saltedge build their whole business on gathering bank account password and provide "API" access to transactions.

https://www.saltedge.com/
Yes. Linkedin was quite agressive about it back in the days.
Rating everything from your Uber driver to Airbnb host has become a nightmare
The guy in question lives in the US.
fs trigger to check actual bitrate could help
Using Titanoboa as an alternative to Ansible (with java and clojure support)
Clause Has ‘Grand Opening’ as Smart Contract Co. Welcomes All
AFAIK cellulose, for food packaging, is only available as a clear film and not as a firm rigid plastic. I also don’t think cellulose can be recycled so the end of life is either landfill or composting.

It’s also not as functional as OPP films, that is what most of the thin clear sealed plastic packs are made from and also the windows in some packaging. This is being addressed though with products such as Natureflex film which has a cellulose core and moisture barrier coatings on both sides. These barrier coatings themselves are a form of PVC which although not compostable is in an amount which allows the film to pass current certification for composting. This does have a limitation though as it affects the bags ability to be perforated, which many of the OPP bags are.

Natureflex is also, currently, a lot more expensive than OPP so where so much is price driven there isn’t the willingness to do this.

There is a lot of product development going on in packaging and as with most industries quite a few seemingly great ideas are not practical on a large scale.
My posture has been that you have no more right to keep your devices locked when crossing the border than your briefcase. You have a reduced expecation of privacy when you are crossing international borders. T
Courts have repeatedly upheld violations of privacy at the border as legal despite their illegality elsewhere. Assume the government has a legal right to violate your privacy to inspect what is crossing their borders. Even if they don't they will act as if they have that right.

If you transmit data into the US digitally the NSA has a mandate to do whatever they can to snoop at what you're doing. Border security has a similar mandate. This story happened to a CITIZEN who merely lost their express entry pass and was inconvienced and intimidated. A non-citizen can get in a lot more shit than what happened in this case. Especially if they're Arab.

It's generally easier to move encrypted information across borders digitally rather than physically without government interference. It's easier to blend in with the torrent of data moving across the border than it is to fight the law in regards to your right to privacy at the border.
Distributed locks are dead; long live distributed locks
They both look ugly to me. Furthermore, there is a cognitive burden.
There is nothing to think about in

users.map{|u| u.name}

I even use to write it more explicitly as

users.map{|user| user.name}

The short forms

users.map{&:name}
users.map{@1.name}

are like "oh wow, what does that mean?" and I've been using Ruby since 2005. And the ugliness...
It's because they want to sell if tor money. Not bad or good (although unreasonably expensive), just simple as this.
What about the other way, producing CO2?
I think their original pitch was that they had an OCR service for credit cards. It's still on the website: https://www.jumio.com/id-verification/bam-checkout/
It says right there in the article that Commento is open source and can be self hosted though.
> highly discouraged by the gatekeepers from sharing state

Source?

My understanding is the app permission model never asks for network access, so all "apps" are effectively web clients with a fancy UI.
Needs more detail, though. I want to know if he's using Mad WiFi or a wired connection, and listening to music very loudly while using it ;)
Of everyone I follow it seems it’s only a16z still believes in crypto.
You have a knack for explaining statistics in an approachable way.
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A plane can still fall out of the sky and kill you.
Every single Ryzen/threadripper/epyc board I’ve played with has supported bifurcation.
I’ve been using the 43UD79 exclusively as a computer monitor for several months and I really, really like it. I replaced an iMac+Apple Thunderbolt Display and felt that the 43UD79 was a real upgrade. I don’t use it as a TV at all but I do spend long hours writing code, editing docs, doing some light gaming and it’s been very good for that. Blacks and color variance has not bothered me after turning on the black stabilization in the monitor’s settings.
A surprising amount of Kickstarters are already funded, or at least, partly funded before starting their crowdfunding. I know of one case first hand that had secured X amount of funding based on the ability to secure Y amount of crowdfunding. So, very possibly that's the case here. Some investors see it as a way to prove there's at least some market for the product.
Take a look at this teardown of a 2.5" Samsung 860 Pro:

https://www.myfixguide.com/samsung-860-pro-ssd-teardown/

Notice how little of the case is actually occupied by circuitry: https://i.imgur.com/lzPTC3T.jpg

I think the better question than M.2 vs. U.2 is the "plugs directly into motherboard" form factor vs "uses a cable from the motherboard to plug into an enclosure for a separate circuit board that needs separate mounting points in the case" form factor.

Since forever, hard drives have come in 3.5" and 2.5" form factors, so when SSDs hit the market it made sense for them to come in backwards-compatible enclosures, in the same way it made sense for them to implement backwards-compatible protocols like SATA.

NVMe, as a protocol, breaks backwards compatibility, to great benefit, so I don't think it's surprising that breaking backwards compatibility on form factor happens at the same time.

U.2 seems ideal if you've already got a server chassis design that accepts 2.5" hot-swap SSDs, and you want to use the NVMe command set instead of SATA. For most consumer purposes, having M.2 storage that you just plug into the motherboard like you do RAM and the CPU is completely worth the switch away from the 2.5" drives.
We got stuck there too, moving away everything to alternatives. Just analytics left to remove now.
Oh yes the trips-feature! For me Inbox was the perfect email client. Felt much more organized and clean. The only thing missing was to attach images directly from Google Photos (although I think they had it for some time?!).
I am incredibly drawn to the appeal of refusing to play. It's not only the fact that they take an exorbitant amount of my cash flow, but they also act as a full-stop from having potential customers interact with the content on my website (of which I've built a lot). God forbid the day when Amazon's listing for my product outranks my own domain's ecommerce listing.

But, (and I can attest to this myself personally), some people just won't purchase if it's not sold on Amazon. I know when I buy on a third party site, I am very worried about shipping, accountability, giving my CC info out, etc. The peace of mind that Amazon offers is tremendous. I get that. So, there's a huge fraction of my overall volume that I sell on AMZ that diminishes completely when I stop (happens, for example, now, and other times, when inventory runs out). It's a shame but I totally get it.
Monzo in the UK recently added a beta ("labs") feature in their app to check your Barclaycard balance from within the app. Sounded ideal as the Monzo app is the best banking app I've ever used. I figured they'd be using Open Banking (the new OAuth style authentication system rolling out across banks here).

I went to turn it on only to find that they use a third party who ask for all of your Barclaycard credentials (including your full "secret word", which you normally only enter a few characters from at login time). I've no idea why they'd go this route, but exactly as you say - it just trains users to get phished.

It also wasn't clear what this third party would do with the transaction information they scrape from your account. Overall a terrible idea.
Good to know, in the past it has been kind of random where motherboard manufacturers enabled it.
Adding to todo list! :D
I keep hearing things about Phoenix (specifically LiveView) and I am very interested in Elixir. Whats the learning curve look like for someone who's primarily a Javascript (with a little bit of PHP/Laravel) developer? Is it a purely functional language?
To elaborate, I'm pointing out that redundancy has been an integral part of aeronautical engineering for ages so to ignore it in any situation, never mind in one where the pilots are kept out of the decision making loop, is criminally negligent.
A totally n00b question.

Isn't VC the person with the money, so they are more in control.

While an "investment advisor" is just advising or suggesting where the money can be put for maximum returns like an investment advisor in banks? So, presumably less in control.

I don't understand why a title change was needed. Any technical or legal reasons?
In your compost heap a plastic fork isn’t going to make much difference.

In commercial composting, where it is sold on to farmers etc., I’m fairly sure there will be a specification as it’ll need to run through their spraying systems and a plastic fork or piece of bag/film could inhibit that.

There is also the issue of partially degraded micro-plastics which are then spread across the field and potentially getting into the food chain.
I find it fascinating how big tech companies are intent on spending enormous sums of money seeking out the top tech talent in the world. Then rather than listen to them when they voice concerns they try to beat them down into submission. I get that if you worked at a company whose core mission is evil that you just have to accept that when you sign up, but there's no reason facebook needs to be make these active moral choices to pursue things in the worst possible way and yet they consistently do.
It's not a position I agree with, but I think it is tenable. A lit of good could come from allowing everything to be freely copied.
The airline manufacturers have to push for automatic systems as they are the one of the features that sells.

One of a close friend of mine who works at Airbus said that the company believes the next gen aircrafts would only require a single person in the cockpit, and everything will be handled through automations.

Airbus aircrafts are more automated than Boeing. If Boeing does not work on the automation part, it could loose to Airbus. Airbus faced AoA problem back in 2009, when Quantas flight suddenly dropped from the air. But they were able to patch it up within a month and no reported case has come up since then.

So I believe Boeing working on Automation is a good thing, and they should be able to fix it up.
Btw. ice hockey is _not_ the national sport of Finland (it's not even the national sport of Canada!). The Finnish national sport is pesäpallo (Finnish baseball).
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Glance, with over 26M DAUs, far surpasses Tik Tok
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Thanks! Shame it did not work out, it was an interesting (and inspirational) endeavour.
https://github.com/alaserm/VisualTAF/blob/master/README.md
The problem is that any given PCIe root complex does not necessarily support operating those lanes grouped into an arbitrary number of PCIe ports. When you have an x16 group of lanes coming off a CPU, it usually supports operating as x16, x8+x8, and x8+x4+x4, with the latter two requiring some help from the motherboard to re-route lanes. Operating as x4+x4+x4+x4 is usually not possible on consumer-grade CPUs. I'm not aware of any CPU that supports splitting an x4 down to x2+x2.

The Southbridge/PCH on the motherboard is at heart a PCIe fan-out switch that is designed to offer bifurcation down to x2 and x1 ports, but on the flip side doesn't support aggregating lanes into ports wider than x4 (which is the width of the host connection to the CPU).

There are already plenty of low-end NVMe drives that use x2 connections instead of x4. If you put them into a PCIe port that's coming directly off the CPU, you'll have at least two lanes rendered unusable.

Intel has a SSD coming soon that is essentially two x2 drives on a single x4 M.2 card (one with 3D XPoint memory and one with QLC NAND flash memory). I'm expecting this to only be fully functional when attached to the PCH or another PCIe switch that supports bifurcation down to x2. When attached to a CPU PCIe port, I expect only one half of the drive to be accessible.

The bifurcation limitations of CPU PCIe ports may end up changing as PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 make their way to the market, and make SSDs with x1 and x2 connections more viable.
To be fair Golang modules fixed this somewhat. To that end, go modules are not cargo or ruby gems.
The fundamental problem is probably with the possibility of fork - if it is decentralized then everyone can fork it if he disagrees with the way it works.

But maybe there are some good in-between solutions, less dogmatic, more pragmatic.
> In Clojure you can do `%1` or `%2` similar to `@1` `@2` in Ruby

I very much like the feature itself, esp. for one liners you can come up with on a pry prompt. What I very much dislike though is the use of @ which is a glorious hack if there is any since currently @ tokenizably resolves to 'instance variable' in many a brain (and @@ to class variable but those should die since class variables can be implemented as instance variables of an instance of Class which is both much more elegant and less prone to corner cases, but I digress). In fact I'd very much be happy to use %1 as a syntax since that would match the "%1" placeholders in strings right away. "%1" in strings, \1 in regex for backrefs, $1 for regex groups, {%1} in blocks somehow works as a metapattern, but reusing @1 vs @myvar is such a mismatch that it brings a terrible cognitive dissonance (just see e.g how in [1, 2, 3].each { @1 + @I } both @ have different scopes!).

I can see the argument coming (if it did not already happen) that "OMG this is going to special case stuff in the parser so that the % method can be separate from this new syntax! plus this may break existing code!" to which I reply %1 won't ever appear in the same place in the AST as a modulo operator with a right hand integer argument and this is your job as a language implementor to make the dev job easy, and it's crackpot anyway since that will already special case the @ syntax in the parser. Simple is hard, bailing on implementing the simple solution as a language implementor even if it's internally tough is a copout.
No, no - I definitely miss the autobundling. The auto bundling of github emails by repo is possible the only thing that's been keeping me sane, since I get a _lot_ of notification traffic, much of which I should read about, at least... I can't really setup rules for that - I could setup rules for repos I already participate on (ungh, that's a lot), but every random new repo would be another tag and another rule. Eck.

Inbox made that management drop dead simple. I lament it's loss.
> They do, their message is usually related to their field of expertise. A good sportsman will act as an example of how to be a good sport, how to conduct yourself when you lose, how to be a good winner, etc. A good OS maintainer will set an example through code and their leadership will show the team what is and isn't acceptable.

It's rarely that easy. Suddenly you'll be forced to either accept a code of conduct, or actively choose not to do so. The decision will be seen as a political one regardless of whether the person making the decision thinks it is.

The footballer will need to decide whether or not to take a knee during the national anthem, and by no decision of their own (it wasn't their protest!) they are now forced to take a political stance and probably motivate it. There

So in some cases you are lucky and you can "just be an engineer" or "just be an athlete" and the positions you take are harmless and apolitical "I like charities and being a good sport!". But suddenly they will be forced to take positions that are both political and controversial. The audience wasn't there of course to hear Linus Torvalds' views on equality or some footballers stance on politics or racism - but there they are. You can't follow an engineer or a footballer that isn't also a human with opinions you may or may not like. So while it's some times nice to not have to worry about politics in some context - it's always just beneath the surface.
ola/uber cannot affect infrastructure. even companies like google have tried and failed to compete in infrastructure oriented areas(google fiber).

until infrastructure is privatised(which opens up it's own can of worms) farming is a dead end in developing nations.
Isn't the blog post facilitating the types of open vs. closed source discussions we should stop having as a community?
Very little (or nothing) of what McLoone introduces as "reasons" cannot be achieved with an OS approach. In the end, it's a business choice someone has made a long time ago and McLoone is now arguing backwards.
The very concept of unified computation has been largely led by Wolfram.

For "unified", try sandboxed, walled harden or evolutionary dead end. Just look at this literal Hello World example:

GeoGraphics[Text[Style["Hello!", 150]], GeoRange -> World]

In any other language, if I wanted to write some text on a graphic, I would find a routine to load an image into memory and another to render text into that memory. That's genuinely easy.

But in Wolfram's case, I'm apparently just supposed to know that there's something called "GeoGraphics" that does this kind of thing, that the text goes in a Style[] block (what?), and "GeoRange -> World" is how you tell it to create a worldmap as a background. WTF. And don't tell me "read the docs", because even if I found this, it wouldn't help me much with the rest:

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoGraphics.htm
You would use an old bridge, trusting that someone somewhere is responsible for inspecting that bridge and guaranteeing that it holds.

In the same way, "we" are responsible that our software fundamentally works to a certain standard so that other people can trust using it.
Nationalistic slurs will get you banned here. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s not fine. Safari lets me disable the requests globally, which I did, because every stupid website asks for notifications permissions.

Since then, there’s a lot of in-page popups asking the same, exactly as described above. No adblocker seems to be effective against them, and writing custom rules for sites I visit once isn’t sensible use of time...
Interesting idea but there is no way you could get worldwide manufacturing to have a fixed colour scheme for products. Having said that, never say never…..
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You can have decentralized money without crypto - just use gold parity - but somehow no country uses it now. Maybe they are all corrupt - but maybe it is just not good way to manage the economy.
How does it differ from the haveibeenpwned service?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Both offer email alerts but Firefox Monitor said my old email was found in 11 data breaches while haveibeenpwned said 14.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how ignorant someone might be about Hinduism and Buddhism. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and avoid posting like that to HN again.
I'd say this is why they are half-baked : human integration was not thouroughly thought of in the design. When I speak of overriding, I mean human overriding.

This is something I think Boeing had got right with its manual overrides : when you design critical systems, you need human backup schemes, but you can go further and make these backup tightly integrated with the rest of the (highly automated) system.
> I got up early this morning to look at the fog that had rolled across the city. Politicise that.

What are you doing to ensure that in 10 or 20 years time other people will be able to do the same? Your ability to look at the fog rolling across the city is the result of a finely balanced set of climatic factors. If it's something you cherish, it is something you should think about preserving.

> Some of us - on the other hand - believe that the fewer the vectors of political co-ercion there are - the better.

But you're happy to do nothing, other than hope that technology will fix it.

... Clearly I'm exaggerating to make a point, and I know nothing about your political beliefs, but I hope you understand the point that I'm making.
.NET and the languages C# and VisualBasic.NET are open source (definitely not free software) but tightly developed by one central R&D. I find the second argument especially weak. You can be completely open source (and probably even free) without giving up any control over your distribution.
Trustly does this, too.