skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are saying they are removing "trusted" intermediaries. There are zero trusted intermediaries sitting between buyer and storage/bandwidth in Sia's model. Thus, value cant be extracted from providing trust/confidence.
Are you arguing for more government control of monetary policy through regulating Facebook or less government control of monetary policy through Facebook's competing currency?

It seems like Facebook is worse in both directions. Both serving the interests of activist regulations and governed by a corporation with it's own interests first.
This is a flashback for me to 2006. I was working on storage technology and reviewing a few products in p2p storage. There's too much burden to apply p2p to get space. Storage is cheap enough for this idea to work.
Instead of "White House"?
I love running with audiobooks. People I talk to are initially thrown off (don't you need high-tempo/"pump" music?) but if you're get into the habit and don't push yourself too hard it's easy to listen to fiction 20-40 minutes at a time while doing cardio. It's positive feedback, too - I look forward to running because I get to listen to my book. And I like my book because (after getting into a routine) running makes me feel good.
Lest anyone mistakenly believe this has anything to do with the public interest:

exhibit A:

>Mr. Thiel, in a keynote speech Sunday at the National Conservatism Conference

exhibit B:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000067823&cy...
Seems like its up to me, I'm on Sonic in San Francisco.
Rarely being below 35F does not mean routinely 35F as you're implying.
It's worth noting that in previous years an American businessman publicly attacking his rivals as treasonous would be regarded as engaging in unseemly conduct more appropriate to a citizen of more authoritarian nations.

The conclusion one can draw from this should be obvious.
> must practice persuasively and clearly communicating their ideas to non-programmers

If you’re a CS major, panicking over this sort of “technical skills aren’t enough, you have to be a persuasive public speaker and effectively do management’s job for them”, people have been saying this since at least I started coding 30 years ago, and I don’t see any evidence that it’s actually true any more than it was back then - focus on technical ability, that’s a hell of a lot harder to come by than “powerpoint skills”.
You can go look it up in public records. It takes a fair amount of effort, so I'm not going to do it for you, because I am lazy.
Good question.

I suppose that would only work if whatever keys the pirate needed to publish to allow the data to be downloaded wouldn't _also_ give the keyholder the ability to delete that data. Otherwise the copyright holder could just issue the command to delete the file themselves. I'm not sure if Sia works that way or not; would be interesting to see.
> "To discourage fare evasion, the agency should set up regular inspections (on moving vehicles, with unarmed civilian inspectors)."

no, no, no, no, no. we do this in LA and it sucks. fare-paying riders (i.e., most riders) are regularly accosted by transit police for fare checks and thus pay most of the cost of this in time and humiliation. instead, costs should primarily accrue to fare evaders, not fare payers.

for instance (off the top of my head), technology should be used to (anonymously) deduct fares at a distance while simultaneously detecting fare evaders (maybe triangulated from multiple NFC readers). transit police can then choose to fine the evader. to incentivize getting it right, give the rider free rides if the system pinpoints the wrong person. or even just allow cards to go negative (to repay later) and save on transit policing.
The Fibonacci Sequence Written in Lolcode
You tap on a California St address and Maps directs you to the same address but on California Ave...
You seem to be knowledgeable on the subject. Could you point me to material which gives insight on why dual quaternions work the way they do?

I know that unit complex numbers can represent 2d rotations, dual complex numbers can represent 2d rigid transformations, and similarly unit quaternions can represent 3d rotations and dual quaternions can represent 3d rigid transformations... I can derive their properties algebraically and indeed they work the way they do. Still I want to see the "big picture".
>which has a very deep and ongoing relationship providing counter-terrorism info and analytics to 3-letter agencies.

I mean it borderlines on his job to be interested in the subject matter of Chinese spying or whatever. Who watches Google? This all might come to nothing, but having tech companies watch each other would be advantageous for the public.

I agree there's politicing involved here.
Immediate DMCA claims? These podcasts may be free, but they're not copyleft.
You are splitting hairs.
This is so incredibly true. My company has internal services used between teams. For some reason my app can always tell when another app is down and they never can.
The non-owned apps and people hosting the feeds would be complicit in the distribution of copyrighted content, which is illegal. Of course, that probably won't stop them. There are apps that do this for television, like ApolloTV and PopcornTime so if there's demand it will happen with podcasts as well
It's not theoretically impossible for law enforcement to discover the encryption keys to some illegal files on someone's computer. Then they could go around arresting people who host the chunks. Of course those people wouldn't have known about those files in particular, but they were knowingly running software that enables hosting illegal files. A judge would have to decide if that's OK.
Ethical Advertising Will Transform the Blockchain Industry
And not saying anything at all after they dismembered a journalist with a chainsaw.
The Underappreciated Power of the Apollo Guidance Computer
Thanks a lot! Unfortunately I'm the only one, I tried signing up with Justworks but encountered the problem you mentioned.
> Podcasts should just be an RSS feed that anyone can consume

Just the way the Podfather, Adam Curry, intended.
Completely agree that if it’s not accessible on any app then it’s not a podcast. I also would pay for a podcast app that could guarantee that the audio file was the same for all listeners.
I need 5
Thanks. I honestly wanted to get a cheaper insurance. COBRA is incredibly expensive.
No, I don't have a primary care doctor.
At least they hit the Butterfly keyboard, which I'd argue is worse.
The one I'm familiar with is ffmpeg, a free, programmatic tool for simple to advanced use cases: https://ffmpeg.org/
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Indeed, I imagine it would take a serious amount of effort. Thanks for compiling what you have.
I asked for a previous employer for a quote (<500 servers).

I don't remember the exact number, but their smallest licence was supposedly over 40k€.

Maybe it was a misunderstanding but I didn't pursue it at that point. Even a tenth of that price would've been a hard sale.
It's down for me (from the UK).

Edit: It's back up again a min later.
Apple didn't create the term podcast, though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038m811
Can someone ELI5 why you need a blockchain for this? Another startup could make a non-blockchain version of this that uses similar syncing technology to GDrive / Dropbox file sync that just syncs other people's stuff instead of yours and pays you monthly.
Someone could upload data to you then later reveal the keys. If the authorities have the metadata and keys they can determine who is storing the data.
The amount of comments with plain ad-hominems and zero counterarguments is telling.

Is there anyone with an actual counter, or proof, that what Mr. Thiel said was plain wrong, in respect to Google?
I really wish they'd compete by just making the Podcasts app not a pile of shit.

It routinely doesn't sync where I am between devices and never works correctly on my HomePod. Adding old episodes on one device won't add it anywhere else. The Apple TV version simply doesn't have the ability to add episodes to your library. The less said about iTunes' podcast functionality the better.

I know they're porting the iOS Podcasts app to Mac for the next version so there's some hope.. maybe.
I've checked and the top cloud players all have uptime SLAs (which according to the blog post don't seem to have the necessary granularity to matter). See https://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/, https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla, and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/summary/ for examples.

But are there other SLAs like for in-zone latency, or hardware performance (e.g. IOPS or bandwidth from your local or remote storage)? Are these kinds of SLAs part of larger private agreements (like, Netflix, a huge AWS customer), or is uptime the only SLA offered? Haven't been able to find any info on this in my searches...
Tweet has its own URL in it
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871174X1...

Maybe not gas clouds of rolling death, but some think it would be pretty catastrophic.
Since they say their intent is to compete on price with S3 / CDNs, it seems possible to be able to download a file without having permissions to delete that file. If that were not the case, then Sia would be limited to personal backup only.
That director sounds awesome. Wish managers at the place I used to work at actually followed through with initiatives / cared.
The Web Can't Survive a Monoculture
Spotify started this war, but Apple will finish it.
That's true, but most articles don't gratify intellectual curiosity, so everything is far from on topic here.
Road bike chains aren't that delicate. It sounds to me like this person's chain was already old and near EOL. An inch curb on a road bike isn't that big a deal either, unless maybe it's a time-trial bike or something. The main problem with road bikes is that the wheels aren't as rugged as mountain bike wheels.
I can't answer your question, but as someone who uses ruby scripts to do custom filtering on podcast feeds, I can say that iTunes is one of the biggest PITAs to work with. Constantly evolving to further obscure the inner workings. Apple isn't the only one, but they are definitely the 10,000 lb gorilla.
> Or perhaps they’re still so supply-constrained that they haven’t run out of fanboys

Tesla is approaching half a million cars sold in a year now. If your contention is that they have a problem because hundreds of thousands of drivers are deluded fanboys willing to overlook all their faults... I don't think it says what you think it does about the company.
are people using apple maps completely different than google maps? 90% of the time I use map for searching places, shops etc. If apple maps is not excelling at that, why do people use it?
> It's the same issue I have with Open Street Maps, if you're not in SF/NYC/Chi they're damn near useless

OSM long-time mapper here. SF and NYC are not our strong points. Europe is our strong point.
I wonder about whether it's right to be renting your storage space away without knowing what it's being used for. I don't want to directly contribute toward bad things happening.
Non-reliant on central services or entities.
I love my dog. I really do, and I'm sure she grants me some health and psychological benefits just for being around.

But, for all the benefits, she's still a multiple hundred dollar a month expense between food, vet bills, boarding when I want to go away on vacation and can't take her, dog walkers when necessary, etc. Being a good dog owner is expensive!

Then, there's also the fact that I'm a renter. My dog is 3, so, when you combine these two facts, that means I'm looking at up to ~10 years of housing problems, because the number of apartments that allow pets at all is maybe 10% of the total.

I've already decided that, if it came right down to it, if I need to move and my dog becomes an impediment, that I will need to find her another good home. But, as I am in a rent controlled, pets allowed apartment in a location that has a "just cause for eviction" law, I don't see that day coming any time soon.

TL;DR: Pet ownership isn't all benefits. It's expensive and also can bring housing problems.
For some users, at least for me, it is actually possible to just replace the video file in the upload interface on YouTubes website, within the first hour or so. Using this method this would be easy.
Maybe I've had the misfortune to work at companies that were especially bad at MySQL, or maybe I'm just a Bad Programmer (actually that's probably it), but I've never worked on a project using MySQL that didn't have issues which could have been resolved by switching to Postgres.

The first time you need to run a DDL statement on live data (usually: "2.sql"), you'll be thankful for transactions. The places where Postgres shines aren't exactly uncommon situations.
I agree that the use cases don't seem to be lining up. So is this for personal use or corporate data center replacement? Consumer companies will give you 2TB for $10 with no bandwidth costs with guaranteed replication and sharding built in. What happens when one of these nodes goes down? I didn't see anything in the post about that. I think the thing that always gets lost in these ideas is that there is a reason that people pay these current prices. It is because is solves a real problem and high reliability requires paying people to make sure that is true. A smart contract and collecting micro payments on the hope a cryptocurrency will rise in price have much different skin in the game.

I've always thought the most important use case around decentralized storage was more around censorship. You can post content that is harder to block in countries that firewall AWS, etc.
> Mostly just to publicly shame a bunch of people.

For sure, but that's great, shame can be very effective.
> I guess that depends on how you define managing.

The Board of Governors are government employees appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; the Fed is as much part of the government as any of the other “independent” executive board/commissions/agencies.
Ya I gotcha, I thought it was going to be cheaper to go on the market and was sad when it was ~15-20% more than my Cobra. I have a family thought which adds to that.
Would your quality of life browsing the web not be infinitely better if you just span up a VM and sat behind a vpn on it?
Synecdoche: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=syn...
If they’re exclusive to Apple, there isn’t much of a reason to have a RSS feed.
To me the iPod and iTunes around 2006 were there peak of my interaction with music. Before or after everything has been worse.

I've seriously considered building my own music hardware company just to recapture a few features and UX experiences which for me at least made music a much bigger part of my life.
It's a PDF, a ZIP, and an HTML page:
If you drop it on itself in a browser,
it can give you a PDF viewer, a video
and a PNG explaining the whole file structure.
All these files have the same MD5.

https://twitter.com/angealbertini/status/1111329484647616513

The explanation for how the MD5 trick is achieved is in the PDF, starting on page 21.

Edit: whoops, probably more relevant is this earlier issue, which has the MD5 printed on the cover. https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/contents/issu... The relevant article in that issue starts on page 46.
I promise I'm not trying to troll-bait you into saying something that will get you downvoted into oblivion. I'm really curious (please people don't downvote the response, assuming one comes).

Why do you say:

> and will hopefully keep Spotify from taking over the market.

Why would that be such a bad thing in your opinion?

Spotify seems like a clear underdog with a ton more vulnerability here. If anything I worry about the giants (like Apple) continuing to approach monopoly/gatekeeper status and closing those of us non-Apple users off from more and more.

Somewhat off topic but I literally can't even text some of my friends anymore because I'm a "green bubble" or something like that, and it drives them nuts. I hate the emerging world of have and have-nots that are not for technical reasons at all.
There's an option to report previous navigations. It breaks the route down step-by-step and lets you correct and report each one.

In addition to reporting wrong directions, you can also report the arrival entrance (ex: moving the pin into a parking lot vs. the entrance to the parking lot)
Please give me a summary of what you intend to express here.
I just don't have the time to cherry-pick the information here.
Can you provide some of the reasons?
Where “the country” is the US, of course. This doesn’t hold true in Europe at all.
With market pricing, the people involved are responsible for their own irrational behavior.

Brilliant. It's all their own choice. They should have chosen to be born into a rich family. They should have chosen an expensive education. They should have chosen good health. They should have chosen a job that pays millions.

All this, of course, is commonly believed in the US. I sometimes suspect that actually it's not so much believed as just something that rich people want very much to believe; it means they can feel like they deserve and earned every last penny, and that they don't have to feel bad at all about all the people being screwed over.
Pied Piper lives!
I bought a 40 lb bag of wood pellets for use in my smoker. If somebody really wants to steal compressed sawdust....
Sails are coming back, I guess.
Because nuclear would be The best choice for these massive ships.
There are a lot of details such as finding servers with available space, paying for storage, posting bonds, collecting bonds with fraud proofs, and doing all of that in a decentralized way. You pretty much need a blockchain for the decentralization.
Please don't copy-paste comments into multiple threads. Repetition lowers signal/noise.

Also, please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mapbox.
"The cloud storage industry is very similar to the financial industry in that trust is a necessity ..."

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

"I Found the Holy Grail of Backups"
The climate has changed rapidly in the Yukon (see below), but I am wondering if you could provide a (scientific) source for your claims? Especially:

> even 20 years ago it wouldn't go above -40 for all of Dec/Jan.

This seems to be contradicted by [1].

Climate has changed dramatically in the Yukon, see Fig. 5 in [2] (open access). The average temperature in the Yukon has increased by >2 deg C since 1900 AD and >1 deg C relative to the 20th century average.

[1] https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Canada/Yukon/temperat...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09622-y
Hmm, I'll have to look for that next time.
I think the OP mentioned the difference between agrarian and industrial economies. There is a world of difference (this also goes, and relates, to the environmental impact between the two).
You can still use Spotify with this launcher. It gives you 4 options for custom apps by default. I have it installed and I'm using Spotify now.
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Any recommendations on books on Vipassana?
Weird. Why punish people who are attempting to pay? Seems like a self-defeating move.
I was totally expecting /my_shiny_metal_ass to have some kind of easter egg.
Yes, because the culture there is very different.
A lot of systems that work in Europe just can't be transplanted to the US without a massive shift in the culture.
Doesn't AWS also have the same problem? Someone could upload encrypted illegal content, then later law enforcement could discover the key. Why hasn't AWS gotten in trouble for that yet?
This also cuts both ways. Your business needs a file but your customer can't connect to that node because of some political blocking of internet connections. Who can you rely on? What central service can you call to get this fixed asap?
So basically Jeffrey Epstein gives you a CD full of encrypted files and asks you to hold on to them for him? Shouldn't be any problem with that.
That's so unnecessary.

If Apple wants to fend off rivals, then just stop treating podcasts as second class citizens and built tools for creators, including detailed analytics. I'm not talking about the type of analytics that Google would built (one that reports that you were sitting on john while listening to this part), but one with anonymized usage data that helps creators producing new content and generate revenue through subscription and advertisement.
Powerpoint skills are where the money is, in large businesses that aren't FAANG. And probably even there, somewhat. I've come to this conclusion after seeing a lot of not-especially-smart-or-effective people-person folks with Powerpoint skills making serious money.

[EDIT] it also seems to me that good presentation and communication skills are how you achieve "you don't apply for jobs, jobs apply for you" status without top 1% tech skills.
Sounds like yet another reason to have private offices.

Like dogs, some people just don't shut up, and once two people are talking, the rest often don't see much reason to stay quiet, since the silence has already been broken.
> They all went vegan for a while after

Haha...I can see how that'd happen. The food at the retreat was amazing. I was most of the way through my first 10-day before I realized that the food itself was a challenge for me to stay in the present moment and not look forward to whatever amazing dishes they'd serve in the next meal. Maybe it's just the centers in Asia, but it really helps you understand what's possible in a vegan diet. So much of the vegan food you see in the US is either really bland or just swaps out the meat for tofu or other such vegan protein. The dishes that they served were extremely varied and seemed conceived from the start to be vegan. Many of the people there who eat more meat than I do said they expected to be challenged by having to eat vegan for 10 days, but actually enjoyed it and never felt like it was missing anything.

Foodgasm aside, I think it's something that everyone with any interest should try at least once to see whether it's for them. If nothing else, just unplugging from the world and doing a digital detox can be a worthwhile experience. I'd encourage you to find a way to go, even if it doesn't become a constant part of your life going forward.
You need the blockchain to secure venture capital investment and a vocal online community.
Part of my monthly maintenance on an independent Mediawiki install is to cross-reference our robots.txt (which is based on Wikipedia's) and server logs.

If a client or IP range is misbehaving in the server logs, it goes into robots.txt. If it's ignoring robots.txt, it gets added to the firewall's deny list.

I've tried to automate that process a few times but haven't ever gotten far. It's unending, though. Feels like all it seems to take is a handful of cash and a few days to start an SEO marketing buzzword company with its own crawler, all to build yet another thing for us to block.
This takes me back I still have a few of there coins sitting around from years ago that have done nothing but tanked ( this was somewhat expected but I wanted to diversify in alts and this looked like one of the cooler options )
What part of Google analytics do you think are different from what you described?
Except for the software developers.
It would be more useful if Google / Youtube's API allowed 'reserving a slot' which would create a video ID endpoint but not finalize the content. Accounts might have a per-account limit of some small number of floating slots which would also timeout after a day or two.

This wouldn't violate the write-once model since the submission wouldn't be completed, it'd just defer finalizing and publishing it for a little.