skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a tamper-proof, automated, and distributed, 100% trusted devices providing statistics for your supply chain, why do you even need blockchain?

I dunno, this seems like the one-time pad thingy. If you had a mechanism to transfer a 10GB one-time pad to your friend in a secure manner... why not transfer your 10GB of "protected" data in that secure manner instead? Just because a technical solution "technically works" doesn't mean its useful.
What has he said that's racist?
A big tech company harvesting extensive user data by default and saying it's ok because "Trust us, we don't do anything bad with it" is not a compelling argument these days. Even if it's true (and that's a big if), that says nothing about what Microsoft will do with the data tomorrow, or the next day.
At the end of the day, that's for Facebook to decide. If Facebook decides they don't want to host content from them, that's their choice as the private company they are.

People keep bringing up "freedom of speech" when it comes to these trolls, like the world owes them something.
No, it really doesn't.

If you accidentally run someone over with a car, then there was definitely a failure of something, but it wasn't a moral failing. Punishment should never be used when correcting the underlying problem will have a more lasting positive impact.

In the car example, what do you think would be better - jailing the person who drove the car, or developing systems to prevent future such accidents?
Work from home, but primarily accountable to teams in other timezones. The regional teams coordinate their own in-person activities.

Culturally, the concept of remote work is not well understood in countries like the Philippines and India. The occasional social "meeting" is more to convince their family members they have a "real job" with physical place of business.
Hi HN, jaziir (pronounced 'jaza') is an experimental twist to an RSS news aggregator, think Stories meets RSS, thought I should share it with you, and see what you think of it sofar. Thanks HN.
Two of the smartest semiconductor process (physics) engineers I met in my 30 year career were both Evangelicals who were preparing for the rapture. Let that sink in.
Ultimate accomplishment is driven more by hard work than by innate talent. I coasted on my talent in school through most of school and came into the working world unprepared to seriously go do cool stuff for quite awhile. It wasn't until much more recently that I buckled down and got better at applying myself that I really started to see an upward trajectory. And none of this has anything to do with what school you went to for undergrad awhile ago.

I did get a 1580 though, so I feel called out :/
thecanary springs to mind. Not sure it's as bad as infowars though
Agreed. Facebook and Twitter are private companies so they can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned. But given their reach, it is disturbing that their censorship of content (and CNN's inevitable approval of it) is clearly political bubble motivated.

Recent examples are James Woods and the Unplanned movie. While far more egregious speech (assuming the same standard) on the other side is given a pass.

It would be great if they would list all those that are blocked (maybe only the high profile ones) so that we could have some actual data around it.
Legitimate question, is free speech guaranteed on Facebook's platform? Or do they get to decide what content is okay and what isn't?
It's a companies private platform, free speech does not apply, facebook can do any sort of censorship they wish.
I don't know about Paul Joseph but I believe Milo has had cases of publicly naming, threatening to name, doxxing, and mocking trans women that study on the campuses that he's spoken at. I belive this is dangerous behavior due to statistic that trans people are especially vulnerable for being murdered compared to the rest of the American population.
Freedom of speech is only enforced by the courts w.r.t government entities. Private companies can censor speech for any reason, including "I feel like it."
I'm always impressed by the quality of apps created with Lazarus.
> The word "fringe" used to mean something a lot more, well... fringe

Did it? How many people do you think were interested in old school conspiracy theories like Area 51 [1] or the protocols of the elders of zion [2]? Henry ford printed half a million copies of the latter!

>how exactly are Milo Yiannopolous and Paul Joseph Watson "dangerous"?

I think "dangerous" is probably not quite the right word. They're dangerous in the same way that, say, anti-vax views are dangerous [3]. The views themselves won't hurt you or hurt me. They're 'just' opinions. However, at some point, allowing those views on your platform make you complicit in promoting pandemics. You're not directly responsible exactly, but you're involved somehow.

Where the "line" is and how we talk about it isn't clear, but I think there is a line somewhere and I feel pretty comfortable that the people Facebook banned are probably on the other side of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51#UFO_and_other_conspira...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of...
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html

Edit: I should note, lest anyone think this is all "in the past," that people still claim that "the protocols" is an authentically jewish document that describes real Jewish people.
While I have no definitive answer, Farrakhan to me has mostly seemed like an extremist who doesn't neatly fit into the (probably overly simplistic) right-left dichotomy.
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You also need to keep in mind cognition declines with age. There is a huge prevalence of Alzheimer’s in the elderly. It is very hard to plan for the future when your brain is damaged from years of oxidative stress.
Perhaps once people get old enough, people become despondent with trying to help everyone, and instead just make sure their tribe/family gets as much of the pie as possible.
I've never seen audit reports from a trusted source of personal data being confirmed deleted for Apple, Amazon, etc. So I'm not sure what makes Google unique.
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Putting Louis Farrakhan first, when his relevance has faded a while ago, seems to be a way of trying to paint this as a "both sides" thing.
It depends on the specific use case. Some of the use cases I envision have sharp spikes in demand, and serverless can provide better service and price/performance. Part of faast.js is a cost analyzer that can tell you in real time how much your workload costs. What I found is that most people are probably using the wrong memory sizes for their lambda functions to optimize for price/performance. More on that when I write my next blog post... If you want a preview, check out this chart from the documentation: https://faastjs.org/docs/cost-estimates
Don't know about Watson, but Milo had been previously slapped for an Instagram post that was seen as cheering on an attempted mail bomb attack in October:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/instagram-refuses-to-pull-down...
That's how the rest of the world does it, so, yes? Also note that pre-marital relationships are often not very common.
We heavily use Grafana - It's not limited to 5 seconds that's just the default they ship it with, edit the template from the UI and it does 1 second without any issues.
It affects our interaction. Because I assume you'll act in good faith, I only add verification in the range of errors not in the range of malice.
I feel like "blockchain" must be a mental shorthand for something different to these people, and that they are not all delusional and insane. What am I missing?
Suff's comment, at best, is humble bragging. I found it pretty disgusting, to be honest.

Implying that the ordinary person has the opportunity to make more than another person's entire family is -- by it's nature -- a joke. You can't be anywhere near average and make more earn more than 3+ average people. Using a normal distribution, that puts you a MINIMUM of 3 standard deviations above average -- literally the 0.1%. Using the actual income distribution (since it's distinctively NOT normal) -- it puts you in the top 2%. But if you actually work for a living (as opposed to collect returns on investments), it's likely in the top 0.1%.

A state senator is likely to be above average -- as are family members. In general, we don't strive to elect average. We strive to elect excellence.

Maybe it was meant to be a pep-talk. But just because one person dropped out of school and did well, doesn't mean that everyone can do the same. Maybe the OP is a genius. If not, he got lucky. And not everyone can be a genius or lucky.
By that reasoning, people who "scream" demanding that all races be let into restaurants are also being willfully dismissive of the property rights of others.
This is why they don't upgrade everyone at once. People in the early-access program get the updates earlier and do so with the understanding that there may be bugs.
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Just because you disagree with Milo's opinions or consider him toxic is not a reason to ban him.
> That being said, the learning curve for someone not familiar with C++ to write code using Eigen is much higher than writing the same code in Fortran.

Moreover, the algorithms implemented inside eigen are hidden behind dozens of onion-like layers. Once you peel all these layers you find code such as this:

https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/JacobiSVD_8h_source.html

I can read and write C++ and I teach numerical linear algebra for a living, but mother of god, this SVD implementation is horrendously unreadable to me. Most of the lines of code are stupid bureaucracy necessary just to add and multiply a few vectors. The same algorithm in linear algebra textbooks requires about fifteen lines of pseudo-code, and similarly for a fortran implementation.
My understanding is that the conviction was for deliberately (disregarding the accused's claim to the contrary) publicly sharing his employer's proprietary source code and private keys. Assuming this is actually true, then it's justified that there are legal consequences for sabotaging his employer like this, and most countries have laws penalising such behaviour.
I would’ve went with “Lust”...
Smart contracts are stupid for a variety of reasons, the biggest one is that the main feature of contracts is not automatic and literal enforcement.
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So cool to see a CVC success story on here. Congrats Kunal and team!
I've been using PeaZip for years. Once I discovered that it didn't extract files to a temporary folder, then copy files to the destination from there (resulting in two needless file transfers), I haven't looked back.
Yea but you've breached NDA and likely committed some kind of intentional sabotage because this was done 4 times, so what happens to you is up to the courts and how you can argue it.
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Simpler than that. The car market is cyclical. When people buy a car, it takes another 5+ years before those people decide to buy another car.

It seems the last "boom" cycle was 2018 or so. So we're now entering the years where most people are NOT buying cars. In 2023 or so, all of the buyers from 2018 will be buying cars again.

There's nothing mystical about this behavior, its just how the crowds work in general.

https://www.autonews.com/sales/sales-fall-saar-dips-1641-mil...
> According to one estimate, Himalayan salt is 98% sodium chloride, with negligible levels of minerals such as magnesium, potassium and calcium.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_salt

And as far as taste go, I can just taste the lack of iodine.

If I had to recommend an alternative, for those that are not doing IF, eat a kiwi (double the amount of vitamin c, way more fibres) and some nuts (magnesium and potassium).
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Actually you're not entirely correct. Private property rights have been ignored in court cases before where that property was the "public square".

This has come up in cases of corporation-owned/built towns meant to house workers that then violated their residents (i.e, employees and their families) free speech rights in said towns. Constitutionally protected speech was upheld vs Private Property rights.

There have been very good arguments made that the same should be applied to Facebook, et. al.
If a group is marginally more likely to suffer violence, anyone mocking them should be denied access to widely used communications platforms? Doesn’t really make sense, does it?
That would only be true if Facebook was truly private and not taking direction from government-funded entities like the Atlantic Council. The government isn't simply allowed to outsource censorship to do an end-run around the 1st Amendment. This remains true whether or not they claim to be doing so because of the dastardly Russians or anyone else.

http://fortune.com/2018/05/17/facebook-atlantic-council-elec...
I for one would prefer that constraints on fundamentals like speech be kept only between the government and citizens. Not between citizens.
Jehovah Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays or any other holiday. To them it's wrong to single out any specific day among the majesty of all the days that God created.
Legally they have no obligation but IMHO Zuckerberg does have an ethical obligation to uphold freedom of speech, particularly as a citizen of a country founded on the principle.

Facebook is as influential and dominant over information as the U.S. government has ever been. Responsibility comes with power and money is Facebook's only motivation here. They're worried about the financial repercussions of upholding this most sacred of American principles.

They fear the backlash from least principled people among us, people that simply can't comprehend the concept of defending even your sworn enemy's human rights.

Zuckerberg is compromising his own ethics for money, clearly proving once and for all that he truly cannot be trusted great power. An intelligent billionaire that is unwilling to stand up to a mob is truly a sad excuse for a human being.
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It's not that mmap per se leads to double caching, but that combining the page cache with application-level caching leads to double caching. Say you're reading hugecactus.png into your image processing program. Whether you use mmap(2) or ordinary read(2), the first step in reading hugecactus.png is the kernel DMAing the bytes into the page cache. In the mmap case, the kernel maps the page cache into your application's address space. In the read case, the kernel copies from the page cache to the application read buffer. Now suppose your application PNG-decodes hugecactus.png into RGB raster data. Now, whether you used mmap or read, the kernel has both the decoded RGB data blob and the original PNG data in memory. That's usually wasteful.

(Yes, you can reduce the severity of this problem with MADV_DONTNEED and friends.)
Sorry, not Ticketfly, but "Eventbrite Music", which is the future version of Ticketfly. Just launched that last week.
Power plant failure also generally happens due to extreme environmental effects. During those events renewable energies often reach their maximum production capacity and therefore actually contribute to grid stability.
Right. It means you can't be forced to say anything - Facebook is under no obligation to proliferate things these people want to post.
> Your scenario means you have to sue Google and win, as well as prove damages.

I understood the proposal to be making corporate lying illegal, such that proving damages but not be necessary.
When you’re talking about someone like Farrakhan, and the explicit racial basis for slavery and segregation, is simply being “racist” sufficient justification for a ban? By that same token, can Facebook ban say Armenians for being racist against Turks? Should Facebook step blithely into these very complex issues?
Because it's the same thing. Angel, alien - what's the difference? "Holy books" will likely be exactly useless.

If one can't tell the difference then one can't tell the difference.
NP. (Replying from my other id.)
What about old backups (e.g. tape archives, which I think I've read Google uses), how do those get deleted? Do you store and encrypt the data with a user-specific key and then delete that key upon receiving a deletion request? Perhaps user data is never stored as part of tape backups? Perhaps you have a system which (very slowly) is able to load the appropriate tapes and purge the user's data?
Farrakhan recently re-entered the spotlight due to the controversy over the Women's March earlier this year.
Doesn't Serverless (the framework, not the concept) abstract this away?

https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/

(not familiar enough with that framework to form an opinion one way or the other)
The lack of parties and happy hours is music to my ears, personally. I can't stand these events, and they often work in the service of this strange social construct that we all know and love - "culture." At some point socializing with your teammates outside of working hours became part of the job. Its strange really, to almost force these things on people, as it doesn't even serve to strengthen the team bond that much. Soldiers don't bond at the bar, they bond on the field; they socialize at the bar.

Loneliness and isolation is often cited as a downside of remote work, but as someone who doesn't like to mix work/personal and has a healthy personal social life, I just can't see it being an issue for everyone.
Deplatforming works to achieve what exactly?
Developer time is neither free nor infinite.
Right on top of my head? A dozen plus :-) I just don't see how Blockchain would solve any of those.
This is a non sequitur. Your car still has code in it, whether or not it can get OTA updates.
If anyone has data on this, I'd love to know.

But I'm willing to bet globalization (wages in China) have a much larger effect on wages for average US jobs than immigrants coming to the US do.

There's a lot more competition to do almost anything in China or India than there is from (potentially) lower paid immigrants in the US.

Sure, not everything can be outsourced. But for everything else...
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In other words, it would be the same type of theater that most companies engage in. I know plenty of companies with "strict security standards" administered by the infrastructure department so they can pass an audit or some other type of security compliance. But most security breaches happen because of badly written software that the "compliance department" never reviews and they wouldn't know what to look for if they did.

Developers could have:

sql = "Select * from Foo Where FirstName = '" + firstname + "'";

All over their code and no one in "compliance" would be any the wiser.
Thanks.

For giving me a place where I can comment and others can disagree with me.

Thanks for not being overrun with stupidity. Not saying stupidity doesn't have its place, but ...

Thanks for the upvotes ... and the downvotes. I deserve both.
They've announced a little over a month ago that they're going to ban white nationalist content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19503094
> What has replaced it? Amazon Prime, precarious contractor jobs, cheap replaceable crap brought in by cargo ship, startups claiming that they are just like “a family”. Of course this leaves a gap in people’s need for a sense of place and community. Of course it’s the perfect opportunity for charlatans who know how to tap into exactly that.

Long ago, I read this quip: (paraphrased) "Factory farming took a working integrated solution (use livestock waste to fertilize crops on the same diversified farm) and neatly turned it into two problems (where to dump the concentrated livestock waste from one specialized farm, and where to find fertilizer for the crops of another differently specialized farm)."

Seems like a lot of modern "solutions" have the same character.
> how exactly are Milo Yiannopolous and Paul Joseph Watson "dangerous"?

"Pizzagate," for example. Milo and InfoWars pushed a loony conspiracy theory until some guy believed them enough to show up at a random restaurant with an assault rifle, which seems dangerous. They did it to sell fake nutritional supplements.

EDIT: They're welcome to continue ranting away on their own blogs, but I don't see any reason that Facebook should give them a free megaphone.
TACC is definitely a really nice thing to have. I'm a little less convinced by the stuff in the FSD package above it.
The ignorance in these comments is astounding. Facebook has already banned many anti-war voices that can in no way be construed as "racist" or bigoted. Its one thing to claim that private companies have the right to silence and censor people, and quite another to cheer on the practice as somehow being desirable.
Hacker News is rapidly becoming the National Enquirer for Silicon Valley.

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What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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I guess our collective intellectual curiosity now amounts to shitting on Dorsey's pretty unremarkable diet.
I don't know much about GMO, but am intuitively against things like it and cloning. Personal opinion.
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Yes, of course trust is a spectrum, and socially important, etc. But none of that answers my question: In the case of "trust but verify", how does this trust manifest in a provable way?

Consider it like this: For me, trust is feelings/thoughts. I might trust you a little, a lot, etc. But for you, my trust can only be demonstrated by my actions, because you can't peer inside my head and tell whether I'm genuinely trust you, or I'm only claiming to.

"Trust but verify" recommends adopting a mindset of trust but a pattern of behaviour externally indistinguishable from distrust. If I'm verifying everything you do, that does't signal trust, whatever the reasons I might give for it.
I wasn't 100% sure if I chose the correct term, thanks for the explanation!
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Being intentionally vague about income metrics by diffusing it among a population. State senator salaries are publicly available, so really more than anything making the point that I'm not some keyboard warrior making $1 over the median wage, trying to give advice. Hopefully it comes across as useful to some. Apologies for my lack of context.
You've actually just made me realize I overstated his duty to shareholders in my original comment but it's too late to edit. My apologies. A director doesn't owe a fiduciary duty (which is the highest standard of care one person can owe another) but a duty of "care and loyalty" which is a step below a fiduciary.

The outcome is the same though. A director's "duty of loyalty" means that he or she cannot personally benefit at the expense of the corporation or it's shareholders. The number of shares he owns and the voting power is irrelevant as the duty applies to all shareholders.
South Texas is a 4 loop Westinghouse design and Palo Verde is a 2 loop System 80 Combustion Engineering design. Neither is experimental or unusually dangerous.
At least Debian has dropped GTK1 and qt3 - it's not trivial to get old libraries on a modern system.