skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So long as the electorate is asked to vote on policies, democracy will fail because for large nations the policy issues are too complex for the electorate to deal with.

The original idea in the US was for the electorate to elect representatives on the basis of their character and intellect. The representatives would then study the issues and create appropriate policy responses.

In fact, there was even a second level of indirection to isolate the Senate from current passions and fads of the electorate by having the Senators elected by State legislators for 6 year staggered terms.
"Hey boss, we're gonna use this hip new language that will break everything for no good reason a few years down the line."

Congratulations. You're fired.
Dr Missy Cummings on MIT's Autopilot Study
My first thought was about Dunbar's number too, but Dunbar's number for people is something like 100-120... yet we're still able to field 10,000-man strong divisions, expeditionary forces, etc.
Something like this could be developed for the WASM backend of Qt. It works really well, but you lose all of those nice accessibility features of the normal web environment.
Just think of it as Universal Basic Income... get your coinage into circulation, and when people use your coins to exchange value, now your coins have value! So as the coin minter, hopefully you've kept some coins for yourself too, and now you have money!
Any research biologist I know would balk at the idea that anyone outside of people that have had access to 5g in a bio lab for 10 years could even have a credible starting point from which to answer this question.
Where is the analysis on the percentage of traffic served via IPFS to back up any claims of the benefits of IPFS.

It appears to me that Cloudflare accepts IPFS as (another) source for it's CDN operations & any benefits of flat CPU utilization are likely from the CDN and not IPFS.

In fact, 3 VMs in 3 regions is complete overkill. If the traffic numbers are to be believed, one could simply post their Hugo site to GitHub Pages or Netlify with zero extra steps or dollars spent. No IPFS needed
for those wondering, perl has this source filter feature [0] that allows implementation of these things, see also bleach [1] and ook [2] modules.

0. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlfilter.html

1. https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach

2. https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Ook
Which is all completely dependent upon the implimentation of the executing software.

Lets take it from the beginning,
1. wasm is a set of instructions.

2. those instructions have to be turned into instructions the hardware understands to execute them.

No where in here is there a requirement of sandboxing. With a sandbox, a 'protected memory space' is dependent upon the implimentor. There's no such thing as a magic software sandbox that you just drop into software and congrats, secure. You impliment it.
i mean i get it, but there is a middle ground between "add 1.3582 grams of salt" and giving no numbers at all.
The Py3 string handling was beyond frustrating prior to 3.6. For what I do, Unicode complexity is not required. Having to stuff it into everything was more trouble than it was worth.
Yes! I found this text here: https://srfi-email.schemers.org/srfi-discuss/msg/12129771/ and I have never seen it before. It is brilliant.
Being able to erase a billion dollars gives you a colossal amount of power to blackmail the owner of that billion dollars.
Fidelity found that only 12 percent of millionaires inherited at least 10 percent of their net worth-- 88% are self-made.

https://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/on-retirement/articles/...
Our worst year yet, in the best-ranked school district
Right now, the article doesn't specify which states and/or territories they are. It says it, "is a developing story and will be updated," so the page may list them in the future.
So the way I think of IPFS (disclosure: haven't deepdived) is something like the world we could have if we had a broadly supported CDN protocol for the Internet (this seems really overdue).

This very naturally answers the repeated questions from people about the why of IPFS.

Yes you COULD serve this via 1 or 5 of the other 20-30 incredibly individually complex stacks with CDN functionality as well. But why would you if there was a common CDN protocol?

What would the upsides be if your ISP could offer you an opt in localish IPFS instance?

IPFS is a functional expression of the long term academic research into creating an internet oriented around content blocks vs server socket oriented as it is today -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking

We, of course, need both so its not an either or.

We are backing our way into this world via javascript SRI -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subresource_Integrity

Look at that, we need blocks of code that we know is what we want but we want flexibility in where it comes from.
So, is this all 50 States, plus assorted territories, or a total of 50 States and territories? If the latter, who isn't taking part?

The article links to a piece from a week ago saying that half the US State's AGs were taking part in the investigation. Looking forward to hearing more about how broad this is.
How to Implement Inter-Thread Communication in Java – TutorialDocs
Automated Visual Testing with WebdriverIO – You're Welcome JavaScript Engineers
This comment is boldly presumptuous. I could argue that you love the feeling of superiority and righteous indignation so much that you completely disregard general etiquette when speaking with other people. Your disrespect and lack of empathy make the world a far worse place. If you were a decent person, you would apologize for not taking your medication this morning.
Maybe. Having worked in the wire room before, that is not inaccurate. That said, transferring one billion would require advance knowledge, multiple signoffs, and adjusting permissions for people. Depending on the institution the payments may have to be split, but odds are the bank would eat the cost to maintain that relationship.
Assuming you CAN take unpaid time off, and not have that penalize you.
I don't your comment a controversial stance. I don't think the "sunsetting python 2" is controversial either.

If there is demand for python2 maintenance, there will be people--like you--working on it and companies selling support for it.

All this announcement is saying that the python community at-large (aka "We are volunteers who make and take care of the Python programming language") is focused on python3 and isn't going to work on python2 any more.

Their position makes sense, even large communities have limited budgets on development capacity, and they want to spend it only on python3. You control your own capacity, so if you want to focus on python2 you'll likely find some like-minded compatriots.
Nah, the smarter plan is to keep the dream of bitcoin alive while you trade your bitcoin for other assets; this is how companies buy other companies with stock-only purchases.
We know, but Lean (initially) didn’t. When writing a computer theorem prover/checker, you want the part that isn’t proven by the system itself to be bug-free first, and expressive second. The only way to get the first is by giving up that second goal.

So, you rather give your users something bug free in which they can express the basics of numbers, starting, for example, with the Peano axioms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms) (and that isn’t even the bottom of the stack; an even more basic system could replicate Principia Mathematica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica))

It’s a long road from there to high school math and an even longer one to mathematics research, so users not only will be able to do the above, but they will have to, if they want to do something at the front of mathematics.
Learning How To Learn (https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn) and Barbara Oakley's book A Mind For Numbers. Completely changed my approach to studying and learning, and my academic efforts after taking it were tremendously better than before.

Also related: highly recommend Anki. It feels like magic when the spaced repetition works!
Glycerol is glycerin, glycerin is glycerol - it's mainly a matter of UK (glycerol) vs. US (glycerin) terminology.
See also (2013)

https://metro.co.uk/2013/11/06/faggots-firm-fights-for-its-f...
It's probably the DOJ. They raided BTC-e and stole 2 billion during the Ukraine War.

BTC-e was the longest running bitcoin exchange and the single most reliable. I had more money than I'd like to admit stolen from me. Their statement was only people who participate in tax evasion use btc-e.
"Hey Joe, why did our customer database get leaked and published on a dark-net site?"

"Hey boss, we're using an outdated programming language for which security updates are no longer provided, because we were told there's no budget for fixing technical debt."

"Congratulations, you're fired."

Same outcome either way... might as well make some effort to do the right thing along the way...
Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency High Quality Voice Chat
This is amazing, and I also would like to make a meta comment about how creative "dekuNukem" is as a screen name.

Re: custom script, can I plug the receiver into, say, a RP0 and fire off an arbitrary webhook?
Is this level of pedantry generally helpful in offline interactions? Because it's certainly not in this particular online interaction.

Virtually all humans would read the parent's post with an implied preface of "Unless I'm killed by an accident or asteroid or murder or one of a million other rare things not relevant to the topic at hand, it's VERY LIKELY that I will die from a smoking-related condition, or to put it colloquially..."

BTW, "lung cancer" isn't the only smoking-related condition that can kill.
The title is slightly confusing. According to AP,[0] current participants are 48 States, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. California and Alabama are not involved.

[0] https://www.apnews.com/042b0989b2404c34a57e8ff9c8bbd0db
In the UK at a large company, I took TOIL for out of hours working at OT rates 1.25 up to 8pm 1.5 up to midnight and Saturday and I think it was 2x plus a day on Sunday.
Yes, we use that to use TS together with Closure for all our TS code at Google.

It's a bit difficult to hook up though, and we haven't had the cycles to make the open source version user friendly, I'm afraid :-(
Yes, I get that. So is Keybase banking on XLM itself to drive their revenue?
Not really. Over a certain amount, for fully-convertible currencies, the process basically looks the same for any sum.
I'd normally be with you on this and I get the sensitivity to cryptocurrency (more-often-than-not-snakeoil) posts, but I think this is interesting because of the broader implications:

(1) Keybase is an interesting product -- on its own, it's a great product (I've been a user since before `kbfs`) that's well designed, its architecture and implementation is interesting and its features are practical/useful to a lot of us. I don't know that they've made public/private key cryptography accessible to everyone, but it's a far cry from every other attempt I've seen.

(2) At least, for me, I didn't understand the reason for Stellar's integration. A lot of people ran to "quick buck"/"another crypto-play", but it just didn't seem consistent with the way keybase had been operating up to then. There were already many shared technologies involved, along with a company that, thus far, has had me excited with every new feature announcement, I remember saying "not sure how good of an idea this is, but if it can be done, they're the ones that could probably do it".

And their purpose for the currency, from what little I (probably don't) understand, is not to hold/trade but use it to purchase.

I hadn't touched the Stellar wallet feature, at all, because I didn't care to figure out how to put cash money into a crypto account "for no reason". I'm not a cryptocurrency investor (I've mined a bit). The thing of it is, I cared so little about it that I didn't even bother looking if there was a reason to toss some funds in. Now I don't have to and they just bribed me to investigate, further.

I'm guessing this is mostly a marketing play. Hopefully I'll find some good reason that I want $20 in Lumens; if that's the case, then they saw what was needed to hack me.
Just do a search on the subject, there's plenty of credible journalism trivially found.
In my experience a lot of people don’t necessarily start projects with strict mode — and they _really really_ should ... most people I’ve talked to who couldn’t figure out how to use typescript never figured things out because they ended up somehow with a compiler configured with noImplicitAny: false — typescript really needs to find a way to change the default here ...
3 months ago, BTC price was ~8k USD/BTC, and now sits at ~10.5 USD/BTC... So is it really sitting without earning interest? What other investment gives you ~180% interest rate year over year[0]? I wouldn't exactly calling this "$1 billion sitting without earning interest".

[0] I know I'm oversimplifying here, there have been ups and downs in price, etc
ACH transfers are generally free. I transferred 100k USD from bank A, in to bank B, then out to bank C and it didn't cost me a penny. This was quicker than setting up a link from A to C since B was already linked to the others.
Thanks mate. 50 State-level governments no matter what the exact mix is, makes this a huge story.

I would be interested to see what the State omissions are, if any, more out of morbid curiosity than anything because you don’t often see any 50 States and/or Territories do anything in concert like this.
Test tx of 0.1 before sending.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/9895f1e94d0df7fd04e1289f34...

I usually test with 0.00001
Ask HN: Do we need to disclose data sources?
We are selling our AI system and one of interested clients (big corp) is asking about our data sources. Are we legally obligated to disclose that?

FYI: We scraped the data from one of the video platforms for training purpose only.

Any founders who have similar situations before and how did you deal with it?
The stupid-simplest solution I ever saw for this was all the way back in the Slashdot era, where people would filter on refer headers and redirect all traffic from news sites to the Google cache version of their page.

That works great for static pages. Hugo and Jekyll are basically precompiling static pages.

For a more dynamic site? I know some people who do special handling for bot and spider traffic. The bots get not exactly static content but much less dynamic content. I could see rerouting all traffic, especially for everyone without session cookies, to that version during a big spike.

Those solutions behave a little bit like the eventual consistency you see on very large websites, where values are approximated or cached with a very short TTL.

As others have commented, the simplest way to get that on a small site is to pony up money for a CDN. Maybe not the cheapest, but certainly the simplest.
Having a high income doesn't make you rich if you just spend it all... By definition, being rich requires spending much less than you make, unless you inherited it. Whether that counts as "penny pinching" is a different matter, but the ability to live within your means is certainly accessible to most people if they're willing to delay gratification.
great stuff, lol
And £250k with BACS (GBP/UK).
I don't see any details on this in my keybase, it's a big confusing to say something has already happened and I'm wondering if I was included or not... I've verified my HN and GitHub.

Perhaps it's still being rolled out, can't complain :)
> The most natural parsing is that 50 entities are investigating

That's now how I parsed it at all.

> For the life of me, I cannot find anything in the article which lets me figure out who is actually investigating.

Perhaps we should find another source to corroborate instead of wildly speculating.
State specific rules are all trumped by IRS rules when federal withholding is involved (always). The reason companies use contractors is to make the contractor responsible for federal withholding as it provides higher cash flow. There is a clear IRS test that almost all of these companies fail. Is the contractor wearing a company branded T-shirt? Yep: Employee. It's not all that grey, it's about enforcement and risk tolerance. However, I'm not arguing the FTE vs. contractor point. It doesn't apply here.

For reference: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee-vs-contr...

I'm saying, at the most basic level, unless the company is specifically offering a "match making" service, the service provider is stealing from the company by cutting the company out of revenue they expected to collect. None of these services advertise as match makers. Examples of match makers in this space are yelp, angies list, thumbtack, home adviser. They each have a clearly different busines model from Wag.

Like I said though, this applies to any company. If a company has made the effort to attract and close the customer with some expectation of LTV, that value can be realized in a couple of ways. 1. Providing service to that customer in perpetuity. 2. Selling that customer to a service provider at a price that provides a profit. If the service provider cuts the company out without compensation, the provider has taken unfair advantage by being on both sides of the transaction, having nothing invested and being compensated for the work completed before stealing the customer.

*"In the case the match making firm is providing no value, I think most contractors would eventually decide to take a customer on directly."

I think you are applying the idea of value in the wrong place. The company has no obligation to provide anything except agreed upon financial compensation to the service provider. It's the break down in value to the customer where many of these services have fallen. In that case the customer can shop for a new service. It does not mean that the service provider can use their unfair advantage and build a business from the unhappy customer. Because in that case, the "match maker" did provide value. It provided the LTV of that stolen customer to the service provider. This, again, is why Wag is also applying a fee to the service provider. For the provider, stay on the platform, get paid or pay for the customers to build your own thing. What's wrong with that?
Handy!

Why not Bluetooth?
Any extreme and illiberal policy is now acceptable - - except for just burning less fossil fuel.
I can be done will, with effort. Google manages it.
Yeah this also took me a while. I thought someone found a vulnerability in Bitcoin that, instead of burning coins, actually is a valid transfer but somehow without revealing wallet addresses.
Epstein’s plea agreement is something Epstein had access to, he could have provided it to others on request. Epstein’s crimes being something others didn’t care about seems even more extraordinary when the worst crime in high society seems to be associating with Trump, at least according to Dershowitz.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/alan-dershowitz-martha...

Please don’t be so dense.
Even if he got 6k views in the course of 30 minutes, I still think a raspberry pi running nginx and serving static pages could handle. It would have trouble if everyone open the link within 5s or so, but I doubt that's what happened. I think we'd had seen that graph if that was the case.
If I moved 1 billion dollars, I too would say that it was not me, by fear of kidnapping
Poor people measure their stuff by its momentary monetary value, rich people measure their assets by their long-term projected intrinsic value. Rich people look for good value, not a good price.

The rich man’s mentality can also work for middle class people if every purchase they make is a long-term well-informed decision, rather than flying with the pop culture of what everyone else is currently buying, wearing or visiting. For example, buy timeless durable unfashionable clothing, buy a used but durable car from which you can extract the best value in the long run, buy products which can be utilised for many purposes, etc.
Technocracy
The fee is less than a thousand for a BILLION dollar transfer. Cryptocurrencies are amazing.
> We ought to protect data, not code.

Code is more dangerous than data. Personally, I'd be most worried by someone getting a virus that hacks into other computers and encrypts them and/or wrecks the network. Both can be protected against, first by cold backups and second by resilient / disaster recovery network, but both would also severely affect the company for a few days, so I'd rather avoid them.
How do you decide which dimension is the width versus the length? I assume height is often significant for packages containing things that shouldn't be turned upside down, but length versus width seems pretty arbitrary. Is width just assumed to be the shorter of the two dimensions?
the church rejected it because it did not fit observations (the ultimate scientific reason).

No, the Church rejected heliocentrism because it clashed with scripture, and because Giordano Bruno had promoted it, so they associated it with heresy. Their argument was that it was OK to use heliocentric models purely as calculational devices, as long as one did not attempt to argue that it somehow reflected reality. The Church did not begin to formally accept heliocentrism until the 1750s, when they dropped the general prohibition against heliocentric books. The prohibition against Copernicus's book De Revolutionibus was only rescinded in 1835.
Reminds me of Uplink's Motion Sensor.
Property crime is the most visible and common sort of crime, and it's the sort of crime that has personally impacted me and my friends more than any other sort (I've been the victim of violent crime once, but the victim of property crime more times than I could ever remember.) I think for most people in normal situations, losing sleep over fear of murder is irrational. But concern about property crime is totally rational. It's the difference between a lightning strike and a termite infestation. One is certainly a lot more dramatic than the other, but which is more likely to actually visit your home?

>But let's also keep in mind what's really important.

Because of the factors mentioned above, I think I'm doing that.
Suddenly, global warming feels very minor.
I'm okay with this as as interviewer as long as they allow me to ask my own questions. There have been a few candidates over the years that swamp you with their own questions that you don't have time to ask them your own. In this case it just leaves doubt in my mind.
> No where in here is there a requirement of sandboxing

Let me quote the Webassembly spec [1]:

> WebAssembly provides no ambient access to the computing environment in which code is executed. Any interaction with the environment, such as I/O, access to resources, or operating system calls, can only be performed by invoking functions provided by the embedder and imported into a WebAssembly module.

[1] https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/intro/introduction.h...
The rich and powerful wouldn't be affected by this. Having this kind of transparency would be annoying and inconsequential for most people, and then it would be border line dangerous for many groups (the poor, those in abusive relationships, etc). No thanks.
The IRS is only writing its definitions for the sake of people in the US. That's presumed from context. Otherwise, why care what the IRS has to say?