skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One of the big selling points of Bitcoin originally was privacy"

Really? I would say that the primary, and basically only, selling point was the lack of a central authority (I think it is interesting that Bitcoin was announced during a major financial crisis that shook confidence in the banking system). Satoshi stated this in the original whitepaper and took the time to explain the concept of electronic payments without central banks on the cryptography mailing list. Privacy seems to have been unimportant to Satoshi, who basically left it as an open problem (he speculated that something like an anonymous remailer could be created for Bitcoin, and ultimately such things were created).

As I say every time this comes up, the Bitcoin whitepaper makes no mention of the work on e-cash, which is telling for two reasons. First, it means that Satoshi was probably not very familiar with the academic research on cryptography and almost certainly was not involved in the cryptography research community (so we can eliminate Hal Finney, among others). Second, it means Satoshi probably was not very interested in payment privacy, since anyone who did even a cursory review of previous work would have come across David Chaum's work on e-cash or his Digicash startup. The fact that Satoshi used remailers and PGP does not mean he was someone who cared deeply about privacy; it just means he was a cryptography enthusiast.
so well said. So many people programmers, but not having their own way to handling notes.
I have Freenode #haskell open pretty much all the time. There's some exceptionally clever people in there, and they're all polite, friendly, and generous with their time.

Also the #postgresql channel is great.

I'm using the weechat client, which I found much easier to use and more polished than irssi.
For those who don't want / need to write it in C directly there's also a handy configurator[1].

1: https://config.qmk.fm/#/1upkeyboards/1up60hse/LAYOUT_60_ansi
The stronger "biological imperative" is to have sex; birth control is quite a recent invention. And once you had kids, it doesn't matter that your life expectancy or fertility drops a bit because your genes are already passed on.
Trying to cater to the generation who were kicked in the teeth the hardest by your blatant mortgage fraud by slinging emojis in an app?

Yeah, that didn't work, huh? Sucks.
The hayabusa spacecraft is not in orbit about the asteroid. It's in orbit about the Sun, in an orbit very, very close to the orbit the asteroid is in, so they stay close to each other for a long time (about a year and a half IIRC).
> Especially now that Uber has a STFU option

I never understood why people are so against talking to the people that give them a ride. I once was in a very rough spot in my life and talking with taxi-drivers almost daily about the most trivial stuff (weather, politics, traffic) used to give me a very healthy reprieve from the black thoughts I used to have.
Quantum Theory Clashes with Reality
No, the story is interesting because it shows the authorities on the subject do get things wrong, and because Townes and many other important scientists knew that the simple idea of instantaneous quantum jumps due to Bohr and Heisenberg and maybe Pauli (I think these three were one the most prominent proponents) wasn't that well secured by the general quantum theory and by the experiments.
Scan of this docs published on YuzhnoyeSDO twitter.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/YuzhnoyeSDO/status/1136535440541065217
At first glance -- and that's an important caveat, since I haven't dug in -- this looks like it's duplicating an awful lot of work that's already been done in the IndieWeb using existing, well-established protocols.

https://indieweb.org
What game is this from?
Every day. I run my own "thelounge" instance, which is a node app sitting on one of my VPS servers. It's web-based and running all the time, so it's very easy to read stuff I missed while I was "offline".
Putting in the address of the HOUSE (that I am renting, but still a house in an OK area of town)...

"Speeds up to 12 Mbps are available in your area!"
He's certainly convinced you ;)
Except the problem the author identifies is that in many fields, such as history, there's no way for the lay person to judge the predictive power of competing theories, short of expending outsized effort to become an expert themselves.

Since they cannot judge theories scientifically, and they cannot judge them based on how well they're presented, they can only fall back on social consensus and instinctive sense of weirdness. "Trust the academy", would seem to be the more accurate shorthand.
Yes! I am one of the IRC operators for the IRC network Tilde Chat[0]. It is the main source of communication for the Tildeverse[1] community which is a group of Linux/BSD servers that offer free shell accounts to whoever wants one. It's a niche little community, but if you like unix and chatting on IRC then you'll feel right at home.

[0] https://tilde.chat

[1] https://tildeverse.org
> "Can I live my current lifestyle without regular income from a job?". If the answer is yes, then you are rich. The trick here is to make sure to keep your lifestyle costs in line with your salary when you first start out, so that as your income grows you can save.

My argument was that that initial statement isn't true - the incredibly rich can live lifestyles that don't hit that criteria.
Maine gov. signs bill banning ISPs from selling consumer data without consent
You are ignoring heat, cold, rain, etc. A car is a magical piece of insulation from the elements. And depending on where you live that can matter quite a bit during the morning and evening commute.
Mange takk :)
> unforgeable key internal to their hardware, like we have with PGP / GPG

PGP involves a private key, and if you have the private key you can "forge" any message. If you put the key in hardware, it can be read by an adversary with access to a powerful microscope.
I feel like we just need some comedians to make a bunch of entertaining, realistic but labelled-fake content with deepfakes. Production cost of making a show where each actor is deepfaked into a world leader or dead historical figure or whatnot is not a significant hurdle.
This scepticism is itself a problem. There's a whole branch of philosophy that claims that the objective truth is impossible to know. With deepfakes that's even more true, and might drive a lot of people into despair and apathy.
It's definitely a content farm; I suppose the other two accusations depend on one's personal definitions.

"The production process was simple. During a day shift—8 a.m. to about 6 p.m—four news editors stationed together near Clarke's desk assigned stories to reporters from a continually updated list of other publications' articles, to which I did not have access. Throughout the day, they would monitor the website's traffic to determine what was getting clicked on and what to remove from the homepage."

from: My Year Ripping Off the Web With the Daily Mail Online @ http://tktk.gawker.com/my-year-ripping-off-the-web-with-the-...

https://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/daily-...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/09/news-corp-accu...
> Content that comes from the device would be signed

Wonder if that is possible. One can always convert a picture to a 2-D array of RGB values, so signature can't be in the video (or image) file container. So it has to be a watermark of a kind. If the algorithm is known, it's interesting if the signature can be unforgeable. If algorithm isn't known, then other issues (like with DeCSS) can appear.
Is it just me or is google very good at a set of core products, but always puts out poor offerings when they try to expand into other spaces (G+, Glass, Stadia)

I read on another forum the best description of Stadia - "imagine if netflix charged you for each movie on top of your subscription fee"
OP is asking what the content type of the body is to be interpreted as.

You're assuming HTML string, which might not always be correct. What do you do with Markdown?

You need to have a standard way to represent things like this, because otherwise it won't gain traction solely due to the immense complexity of implementing viewers.

Edit: On top of this, HTML might not necessarily be the best choice. In that case it'd just be browser wrappers galore.
Ask HN: Auth by Phone Instead of Email?
Seems like for simplicity, using a cell phone instead of email account registration and login is the way to go. Email seems so outmoded in the world of mobile communications. I think using a mobile number with some form of Authenticator for important stuff is reasonable. This would bypass all the Social logins, email deliverability and help create uniqueness as well as remove passwords.

How far off am I in thinking this is an ok thing to do?
You are at odds with much of the clinical psychology community.

Maybe you should take a junior college course in reading comprehension.

Or, IIRC, "The fundamental problem in life is getting security in the face of the anxiety from our realization that alone we are vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature and society. Only four effective responses have been found, (i) love of god, (ii) love of spouse, (iii) membership in a group, and (iv) orgiastic or drugs (not recommended) just suppress the feelings.

So, we see: One of the pillars of love is (ii) love of spouse to respond to the anxiety that alone we are vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature and society. Or, it's not all about her eyes, lips, figure, or climaxes in sexual intercourse -- which he essentially never mentioned. Instead it's about responding to the anxiety of being alone, conveniently and appropriately enough, JUST as in the start of this thread.

THAT'S some really GOOD understanding of marriage, MUCH better than what get in pop culture.

Fromm's terrific.

Take a reading course then do what I advised -- read him again, compare with what you see in life, read him again and see what he says about what you just observed, rinse and repeat several times.
That's amazing that you remember using it under the old name Server Auditor. We realised it was not the best name for a product as it has this negative audit flavour. "OK", we thought and iterated on the name resulting in Termius. This time people (and even Google) started to confuse it with Terminus. "Jesus", we thought and worked on making Google understand it right. It worked with Google, but people still seem to like Terminus more. Now we're thinking to either fix people's perception or come up with a new name. How do you like the name, btw?
And that's loads more self-aware than other researchers' I've seen completely blindsided by obvious ethical questions at end of their paper talks.
From a full-system integration might not be cost ineffective:

1. Single SKU for Server & Client (volume reduces cost)
2. Games target & optimize for this hardware already (nothing new)
3. Microsoft & Sony are essentially *the* targets (no platform integration cost)
4. Proven user adoption (approximate ROI known for these projects)
5. Brand recognition (xbox and playstation are household names)
6. Price (Microsoft is doing subscription for service + catalog)
7. Bought publishers (Microsoft & Sony "own" many dev shops)
8. Primary library vendor (DX11)
9. Network Effect (I bought an xbox because all of my friends owned one)

The only new components Microsoft needs:

1. Mount Game (iSCSI)
2. Output (HDMI to RTMP transcode)
3. Input

I'm not saying either solution is better (I prefer Google's approach) but they're only doing it if they've run the numbers.
I assure you the police will do nothing.
Which one? BoardGameArena has quite a bit of them already (to name's a few: Carcasonne, Terra Mystica, 7 Wonders, Seasons, Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages, Puerto Rico) and they have nearly 100 more licenses available over BGA Studio that still require developers to make (here's a few: The Castles of Burgundy, Galaxy Trucker, For Sale, Santorini, Myrmes).

I don't know how they acquire theses licenses, but if they did, maybe you can too and if you can't, maybe they already have it made, or needs a developer to implement it (which can be you!).
> the limit as time goes to zero

There is no "time" at the "South Pole" point of the universe, or sufficiently close to it. The spacetime geometry in Hawking's model is purely spacelike in that region, not split up into "space" and "time" parts the way it is now. (As I understand the model, the boundary of the "spacelike" region" is at the beginning of inflation.)

> is the south pole still a point contained on earth or is it just a point you can get arbitrarily close to?

It's still contained.
Dev.to is great. It's part of why I don't understand the point of FCC and HN leaving Medium. Why try to be the go-to independent platform for programming articles when Dev.to is already doing it so well.
> which they don't have,

Can't directly refute this, but wouldn't you think GCP is peered with the vast majority of local ISPs (in America and maybe the EU)?
I also have been using Terminus from iOS to get to servers I manage. It's been great, thanks. They keyboard will always be difficult but you solved cursor keys and tab. How are you going monetize?
Conversely, even the concept of "everything" is hard to grasp. "Everything" in the sense of an infinite universe where everything is realized infinite times over. It's absolutely bonkers to me.
Is the number of billions the only thing you have an issue with here?
I've been constantly logged in to IRC at home since 2002 or so. I am active nearly every day.

At work most of the coordination between programmers is via IRC--even though we're all in the same room.

So yeah, IRC is still used.

Anecdotally the population of some popular channels on freenode that I frequent has never been higher.
In other words, women get a lot of "date spam".

Imagine a heterosexual relationship dating pool of 100 men and 100 women. 40 of the men are date-spammers, and 5 of the women are date-spammers. They will all attempt a first date with anyone with a pulse.

So each woman in the pool can easily get 40 dates, and each man in the pool can easily get 5 dates. These dates will likely not turn into long-term relationships, as the indiscriminate selection protocol does not correlate highly with sufficient investment into any particular relationship.

In short order, each non-spammer semi-pool will adapt compensation and filtering strategies to avoid the date-spammers. As the women have a lower signal-to-noise ratio (1.5) than the men (19), their filter will be more brutal, and block more false positives. The hookup bros make it harder for the normal men to find dates, as they increase the strength of women's filters, and then they profit more strongly from mimicry of non-spammers in order to defeat the filters.

With this hypothetical dating pool, the normal guys could cartelize, and join a dating site where men are only allowed a first date after a timeout interval of N days. New accounts have to wait N days before setting up a first date or accepting a date. While dating is in progress, the timeout clock stops at N days, communication with everyone else is suspended, and either person has to click on a "relationship ended" button--which notifies the other person--to start them up again. The ToS can penalize users with multiple accounts. It's rate-limiting dates, to stop the spammers.
While Freenode may not compete with Facebook, it's still pretty huge :)

There are 99 users and 84066 invisible on 32 servers
36 IRC Operators online
16 unknown connection(s)
53438 channels formed
I have 5185 clients and 1 servers
5185 5972 Current local users 5185, max 5972
84165 94773 Current global users 84165, max 94773
Highest connection count: 5973 (5972 clients) (476397 connections received)
Some can't conceive at all - the odds are still good well into their 40's, and no point scaring people into rushing into having kids when there's little evidence for it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_state

> project out the E&M field. Voila, now you have a quantum description

There is no wavefunction describing the state of the subsystem because the system is not separable.

> Its dynamics may look funny, i.e. they may appear nonlocal, they may not conserve energy, etc. but that's different from saying "there is not a quantum description of these dynamics" which is what you're claiming.

What is the “quantum description of these dynamics”?

Quantum mechanics is usually based on something like the following postulate: “The state of a physical system is described by a well-behaved function of the coordinates and time, Ψ(q, t). The function contains all the information that can be known about the system.”
If you work for a company that provides a popular chat service and your team is one of the main dependencies then you use IRC while working on finding and fixing the cause of the outage. It’s not sexy but when everything else fails it does the job.

Source: I worked on one of those teams.
Doesn't look like latency is taken into account, which is probably more important than bandwidth (when bandwidth is >10mbps).
I think that being empirically-minded requires, in part, accepting that not everything is known. Science differentiated itself from the rest of philosophy when it put aside big but unanswerable questions in favor of smaller questions that could be addressed empirically.
His opinion is valuable, just as much as yours. Don't be an ass. And he happens to be correct, so it's probably more valuable.
UD+ASSA (http://fennetic.net/irc/finney.org/~hal/udassa/) is an extension/refinement of the mathematical universe idea that I find very compelling. It explains why even though "everything mathematically describe-able is real", we personally see and anticipate that some things are more likely than other things, including why physics stays the same instead of spontaneously changing, etc. (One of the original authors of the idea thinks there's issues with it, but I think it's still a very useful idea: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zd2DrbHApWypJD2Rz/udt2-and-a...)

Since considering it and the mathematical universe idea, the question of why anything exists at all no longer feels so mysterious. Even if there were somehow an objective universe with nothing in it, as long as the basic concepts of logic still held (which of course they do, they don't depend on the universe), then there would still be logical/mathematical structures that describe entities that see themselves as conscious.
Happy to see this here again.

I suspect that argument from authority, like "goto considered harmful" and Moore's Law, have entered the public consciousness in a warped popular form that barely resembles the original.

In topics in which I am not a subject matter expert, I can and should defer to the actual subject matter experts, absent very compelling evidence to the contrary. I'm not perfect at this, but I first read Epistemic Learned Helplessness at about the right time several years ago and it re-appears unbidden in my consciousness to hit me in the back of the head any time I start thinking an expert might be wrong in their area of expertise.

Reluctance to do this because of misguided applications of the argument-from-authority fallacy is probably one of the root causes of antivaxx, climate "skepticism", flat-eartherism, and other hot political topics with a vocal population who have convinced themselves that authorities are not to be trusted. You can never successfully argue for instance that "AGW is probably true because 98% of climate scientists agree with its foundations", because the answer is always, "that's the argument-from-authority fallacy", even though reliance on authority is the correct approach. What you inevitably get instead is two or more laypeople clumsily trying to debate the nuances of a subject that they have no academic background in.
> Is the hypothesis still that the limit as time goes to zero still exists

Note that in other models of the universe, the ones that have an "initial singularity" which can be thought of as "the limit as time goes to zero", the initial singularity itself is not part of the universe; it can be approached as a limit but never reached. (The reason is that spacetime curvature increases without bound as the singularity is approached, and the equations of GR break down at the singularity.)

One of the nice things about Hawking's model is that it totally avoids this problem; spacetime curvature is finite everywhere and there are no singularities and no points where the equations break down.
Mythic Macintosh: Revolution or Derivative
I know what "no fees" means, what the article doesn't help me understand is what the real value add to my banking experience Finn would have been that I wouldn't get from walking into a brick and mortar and opening an account with a banker sitting across from me and opening a checking account and using the "normie" mobile app.
You can use Termius CLI that syncs the data to your machine and enable working with it in the terminal https://docs.termius.com/termius-cli/termius-cli
Yes. While it certainly has it's faults, it provides simple basics and has a wide variety of clients (which IMHO is the biggest downside of many alternatives, in that they either do not have alternative clients or the alternative clients do not function quite as the main ones)
Fake video news debunker tools and services
> if you were on Venus (or even in Venusian orbit) - could you detect Earth's satellites currently orbiting Earth?

Inverting it, we could probably not detect any artificial satellite on Venus here from Earth. But we've had launched satellites there, that should be able to detect other ones if they have a good camera (because satellites shine).

So, the question becomes, does any of the satellites there has a good enough camera?
You have no proof that it's simply nothingness when you die. If this universe has countless beginning points, what makes you consider a single ending point would exist anywhere?
Exactly, I have shown my friends media of their favorite politician contradicting himself and their response is fake news
What you wrote reminded me of an old film from 1986, _The Mosquito Coast_. Specifically the quote, "everything we need is right here."
The format is exactly for the purpose of getting clients to behave predictably!

Without defining these schemas to allow for flexible mixed media documents, you're always going to have chaotic implementations floating around.
When we met I was skinny AF. I started gym and now I no more feel awkward when I see pictures with me and her. But the main profit of gym is in my mind. I'm more tolerant about everything. When people do shit I can act with a clear mind and without mental agression.
Slightly OT but if you want to get a basic understanding of double-entry accounting in a few minutes I found this article really great: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu... (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471)
ha-hein... psssstt...

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> There's no privacy when you post things publicly on the internet.

Arguably, making material posted by children on the internet public without approval of a responsible adult should itself be considered a dnagerous privacy violation, given the history of such material being leveraged for cyberstalking and cyberbullying—not exclusively by school administratoes whose zeal exceeds their judgement and competence, but also by other children and by adults other than school administrators—and also those seeking targets to groom for sexual abuse.
If they are in a low competition (natural monopoly) market, maybe open books on where the money is going should be a regulatory requirement.
Yeah, Nim has impressive coverage of targets. I dislike almost everything about Nim: the syntax, complexity, weird case insensitivity, documentation, community, package manager...Yet this trait alone makes Nim worth leaning for me.