skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practical IPFS image hosting looks an awful lot like image hosting without IPFS. Most of your traffic's gonna be through gateways, not over IPFS proper. You've still gotta have always-on servers pinning (storing) everything for reliability. There also doesn't seem to be a good way to make mobile devices—most of the clients out there—useful parts of the distributed network.
Hi, this is Dylan, a co-founder and engineer. I'm sorry we didn't get back to you sooner. It's tough to respond to every single comment on a Hacker News thread and we've been quite busy with launch. Hope you can sympathize.

Your code runs in its own Node execution environment and VM, completely isolated from other users' code.

Happy to answer any other specific questions you have! Feel free to reach me at dylan [at] pipedream [dot] com .
And the orbital velocity is also much lower, which makes talking about Mars SSTOs kind of weird in the same sense that talking about Lunar SSTOs is rather weird. (If you need a multi-stage rocket to get off of the Moon, I really want to see your mission architecture)

I think Starship is intended to go SSTE (Single Stage to Earth) from Mars, for instance.
this is a wonderful comment. as a new parent i'm in the same boat.
It is indeed the former. No one [of high value to society] would object to the discrimination, but it is still a discrimination occurring if the outright harassers are rejected for the benefit of the whole organization.
It's like Jamie Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, but applied to image hosting sites: "Every image host attempts to expand until it is no longer able to host images. Those image hosts which cannot (or refuse to) so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Yeah, the old parking lot around Hamerschlag became the new fab / nanotech lab when Scott Hall was built (finished 2016) -- they connected HH C-level to Wean 4, a major boon to winter-time indoor connectivity. Google Streetview has a pretty good view of it:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4420983,-79.9460873,3a,75y,3...
Can you use your phone with gloves? I snowboard a lot, and if I need to use my phone I take a break and go into the lodge - the mitts I need to keep my hands warm don't provide the dexterity to use a phone.

Snowboarding is basically the reason I assign unique ringtones to different contacts - typically there aren't many contacts that require an urgent response, so if I hear anything other than those urgent contact notification tones from my jacket, I can ignore and continue riding.
Applied Cryptography Research: A Board
Judging by how many open problems and paradoxes remain in physics and cosmology, I would not agree with the low hanging fruit being harvested along time ago. It seems more like they harvested the fruit from a spindly looking diseased part of the orchard and missed the healthy part of the orchard. If the physicists and cosmologists were to simply rearrange their models in a more sensible fashion I think they would quickly figure out nature and productivity would return. First there would be a lot of rewriting of all the current information in a much more sensible theory of nature. Then there would be pushing forward on a much sounder foundation. And biggest of all, the applications that would arise are amazing. Imagine drawing energy from spacetime. Imagine manufacturing with spacetime as your raw materials.

Clue: Start with taking that Big-Bang/Inflation picture and overlaying it on each of the jets from every SMBH. Now force yourself to believe that as true and it won't take long to figure out what is going on.
Pun Generation with Surprise
Done right, checklists set you free. They set a minimum bar for the completion of a task. You know when you've hit every point that you've considered at least the things you thought were so important that you put them on the checklist.

I have spent years refining one checklist. It has completely transformed how I think about that task and how efficiently/often I execute it.

Checklists are appropriate for procedural tasks, or tasks that must be complete before moving on, not directly to R&D. One can might a clock-cycle of R&D with a checklist (Hypothesize, plan, test, analyze, repeat), but if a checklist feels like it is strangling you, it has not yet been sufficiently refined.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
I do think you got the correlation correct, but causality inverted.

Abstract problems have the complexity removed from them, what leads to smaller code chunks (be them functions, classes, modules, declarations, whatever). Those are also more reusable and flexible, because they are focused on general features.

Concrete problems can not have the complexity removed from them. That leads to large chunks of code and an implementation that can not be used for different things. That is the code that is expected to specialize those abstracts chunks from above into something that solves a real problem.

All that people naively claiming that they've "seen short code and it is so much simpler to understand. Why can't everybody just write short code?" are completely missing the point.
>Depends on what you call decent. I mean for the cow it might have more space to walk around and eat grass.

Basically, yes. I can see how opinions would differ, that human exploitation makes it wrong. I do see farming involving raising animals for milk & meat as decent if done decently. It's a big question, and imo, fundamental in that it doesn't have deeper reasons.

Singer (you mentioned above) is famously utilitarian (in the bentham sense). So he does go one deeper. Right & wrong = pleasure and pain. For cows specifically, the question gets too weird to do the utilitarian math... for me.

In some senses, cows wouldn't have exist separately from farming, and for the most part won't. They did in the aurochs sense, but auroch are extinct and were probably pretty different. Would the world be better without cows...

Anyway, a lot of this relates to where I live. Visit Ireland, you will encounter cows. Decent farming is more than viable. I'm not even sure feedlots is what you would get in an unregulated market. All agg markets are subsidized & regulated, so who knows. It's even possible to do pork and poultry well, though here it generally isn't.
Crazy idea: an browser extension a user can install which downloads images as they come across them in their browser and uploads them to something distributed - perhaps built on top of IPFS? Users could choose which domains it would be active on. The network could be split up by either domain or topic (say, people interested in diagrams of space which might include several domains/sites).

Just thinking out loud here.
>If you had a guard sitting at a door ... you could not fool them.

What??? Of course you could. That's why no building that cares about security actually relies on a human guard for authorization.
Agreed! I like the UI. The snippets aroused my interest in the actual content linked a lot more than a bland (and often misleading) title.

These days I often scroll past pages of hacker news without clicking on anything. I used to check out the comments often. But now no longer. The snippets seem revitalize the site for me a bit.
You’re assuming that law enforcement doesn’t routinely force suspects to give up their PINs and lie and say it was voluntary.

On the other hand, it was reported in the UK (?) that law enforcement follows around suspects, wait for them to unlock their phone in public and tackle them before they re lock it.
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It isn't just that it was biased, but ridiculously so. It is sycophantic enough to make one wonder if it was a press release if I didn't know better that Apple the corporation wouldn't be writing these.

The praise is lavish enough and thin on substance to make it offensive to the taste if you were expecting any kind of real substance on Metal or direction for it.
Mine fails post rock climbing, so I registered a different finger in its post-climbing worn-down state.
UWP is pretty much alive.

WinUI 3.0 and XAML Islands roadmap at BUILD 2019

https://mybuild.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/77008

React Native for Windows reimplementation

https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

React Native @ Microsoft, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUMWFExtDSg

And even if one disregards the fact that all new Windows 10 APIs are UWP based, the sandbox also applies to Win32 apps deployed via the store or MSIX packages.

As for DirectCompute, game developers naturally.
Readable CNN Inference Implementation in C
https://blog.mathspace.co/stones-and-apples/

This is a useful description of space time.
Perhaps you are aware, but it is very simple to calculate.

(90-your latitude) + tilt of the earth (23.5 degrees) = maximum height of the sun during the year

(90-your latitude) - tilt of the earth (23.5 degrees) = minimum height of the sun during the year.

Effectively this means if your latitude is 23.5 or less, you get the sun directly overhead at some time during the year. If your latitude is above 67.5, you get polar night as the sun doesn't rise above the horizon (short one at 67.5, but as you go further toward the pole ever longer)

For Seattle, (90-47)+23.5=66.5 maximum. (90-47)-23.5=19.5 minimum.
IIRC creating an imgur login requires using a "non disposable" email address, ostensibly feeding into the larger surveilliplex.
I think a big part of that is that historically most games are updated relatively little after they are released, so maintainability of the code base is secondary to not letting the release date slip. But Factorio is a game that has been getting updates for a while now post-release, so the devs have to be happy revisiting the code, which increases the incentives for keeping the code maintainable and the code health high. It seems like more games are moving towards this model (lots of updates post-release), so I'd expect to see the game industry start to adopt some of the practices used by the software industry in general to keep code maintainable.
How do you know this issue is going to be 'solved' in a future software update?

Google never actually promised this. From The Verge:

> When reached by The Verge, Google didn’t say one way or the other whether this added layer of security is definitely coming. “We don’t have anything specific to announce regarding future features or timing, but like most of our products, this feature is designed to get better over time with future software updates,” a spokesperson said by email.
Detached fingers don’t work with modern implementations of fingerprint sensors.
Yeah I read the same thing and it’s a repeat of when Tumblr, Tripod, Yahoo Groups, etc all started their paths to remove NSFW content.
never used or cared about face unlock

could you just point the phone at a picture of the person? or if depth is needed, just use a projection on a dummy head?
I disagree, I don't think there is any need for proof of identity to not be voluntarily relinquishable.

I think relinquishable credentials are quite useful for a number of delegation related uses - but if they are relinquishable then they need to be expirable as well.
google doesn't need to care because their users don't care.
take a look at all the google apologist in this comment thread for a quick example.
An honest question: Why and who in the payment space penalizes sites for allowing NSFW content? I can't understand why Visa, or Paypal would have moral grounds to block that content if they also process payment for strictly-porn sites.
Now. But in a year, they’ll be as dead as Tumblr.
My understanding is that /dev/random "entropy depletion" is because of FIPS or other enterprise/government certification requirements. It does not make logical sense, it just has to be that way, because requirements, because security.
I find auto-generated documentation useful for libraries, and for powering intellisence kind of docs for libraries - it's pretty useless for anything other than libraries/APIs.

Unfortunately, in my experience a lot of devs turn on auto docs in their project's settings and call it a day, especially if it's not a library/API!
It’s hosted by Google.
Whatever you know best.

"But deployment" deployment is cheap.

"But hosting" hardware is cheap.

"But time" time is _not_ cheap.

You don't need to screw around and learn another language/framework/ecosystem to get an MVP off the ground. You need to be able to hit the ground running and never let off the gas. This means you need to be able to change/adapt/feature what you need to. That takes brain cells. So does learning another language/framework/ecosystem. Don't make it harder than it needs to be.
Now I'm in front of an actual PC let's explain a bit more

It's absolutely critical in SSH that we end up with a unique session ID which will be the output of a cryptographic hash function (these days maybe SHA-256) but obviously the input to that function must be secret. Everything in the higher level parts of SSH assumes that there is a secret unique session ID. The session ID stays the same for the lifetime of a connection, although you can run key agreement itself again if the connection is long-lived or moves a lot of data so that it's unwise to keep using the same symmetric keys.

If you do any variant of DH obviously this session ID is the end result of the first DH key agreement process and so it'll be different every time because you're using random numbers.

But if you want to add a "fixed asymetric keys" mode you're going to need to agree a secret session ID for each new connection... somehow.

At some cost you could pick at random and send it from one party to the other, but then we're exactly back where we started about how we're assuming we have a good source of entropy.

If we just pick any fixed value it might as well be 0000 0000 0000 0000 and so on then obviously a bad guy can break everything and we should have just used telnet.
> Throughout history, there have been a number of aerospikes that have made it really far in development, but to date, none have ever really flown

http://www.astronautix.com/g/garveyaerospike.html

During 2005, GSC and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) conducted several notable small launch vehicle R&D activities through their partnership in the California Launch Vehicle Education Initiative. Using a single-chamber, liquid-propellant, annular aerospike engine concept developed by CSULB, the GSC/CSULB team validated the basic design and ignition sequence with a successful static fire test at the Reaction Research Society's Mojave Test Area (MTA) in June 2003. The team then mounted one of these 4,444-newton thrust LOX/ ethanol ablative engines onto their Prospector 2 vehicle and proceeded to conduct the first-ever powered liquid-propellant aerospike flight test at the MTA in September 2003. In response to several issues observed during that flight, modifications were made to the engine fabrication process. Another flight test with the Prospector 4 vehicle followed in December 2003. Performance was entirely nominal, resulting in complete recovery of the vehicle and key trajectory data.
Never gonna happen.

I worked in consumer electronics before. Your release date is set in stone as you have millions or even billions of € tied in marketing, ads and promotion prepared months in advance to go live on that one date.

You already booked air time on TV and rented billboards worldwide months in advance, you can't delay it on a short notice as airtime would be fully booked and you can't have ads for a product the consumers can't immediately buy.
Not just for their own sake, but the blog posts can be very enlightening indeed. Clearly they take some time to produce, which I very much appreciate.
Oh, I was unaware of that - so I'm not certain I want to rely on the knowledge of someone in a position to cut off my finger... additionally, they don't currently work, but I'm sure there could be developed ways to spoof them by artificially circulating warmed blood or some such.

Just... biometrics are such a terrible idea - let's not even open that door.
For developer use, sure. But if you want to do anything commercial at all, you start to shell out ma$$ively.

The express (free version) may work for you but it's diversely crippled.
This is all true, but I’m not sure the authors of these libraries are that interested in performance.
The NBA has to choose between its $4B China business and its values
I've got the devs using "password123" as the default in code because that value gets over-written.

Freaks me out every time I see it and I'm trying to get them to use "overwritten_on_deploy" or something similar.
Oh my god. I live aerospikes, and i love expander cycles, even though neither of them are actually practical, so the idea that each one might be able to solve the main problem with the other one has given me an enormous space boner.
Paypal doesn't process such payments.

Mastercard have a huge list of arbitrary rules.

Visa and Mastercard charge significantly extra to process adult payments.
In japan where the crime rate is so low, old people voluntarily commit crimes so that they can go to jail and be cared for. This occurs because the punishment is basically not negative at all. It's hard to say whether this is actually a really bad thing given the state of japan.

On the other end of the spectrum... the abstract threat of punishment itself can mold a society. Look at singapore where you can get whipped for spitting gum on the ground. Such policies have created a city that is virtually spotless. I don't think it is the punishments that cause the city to be like this but it is the threat of the punishment that keeps the city this way.

The problem is people are too intelligent. Can the threat of punishment be deployed without an actual punishment? I don't think so. It's also questionable in singapore whether or not the punishment fits the crime. It's hard to say whether lashes till your back bleeds for defacing public property or even death for possessing drugs serve to rehabilitate the criminal.

I don't know why singapore chose such extreme policies. One thing is for sure though, the death of a drug dealer serves as a sacrificial lamb to generate the abstract threat of extreme punishment. The death of one prevents the creation of many. Moral or not moral? Either way you can't argue with the results.
Android for a while has a feature called "lockdown" where you can force a password entry instead of a fingerprint for the next unlock. Takes a little forethought but it's easy enough to remember when going through customs or being pulled over.
I don't have a phone with a face sensor, but I use my phone in the kitchen quite a lot, for recipes, timers etc and there have been many times with wet or floury hands, I've fancied FaceID. Similarly when carrying out outdoor activities wearing gloves.
That's kind of my point. It was probably poor planning, although it's possible something very unlikely went wrong. But it's not really that cutting edge of technology anymore so either the engineering team was underwhelming (a little hard to believe at Google) or the project was poorly managed (very easy to believe at Google).
I was there around the same time; I was also involved peripherally with Superdome - saw Carly's reign and left during Hurd's. IMO he was a breath of fresh air in contrast to Carly's whatever-that-was, you are right that he turns out to have fundamentally gutted HP R&D. It was sad to see.
Great optimization. I wonder if the second video is also real-time? The first video is captioned that it hasn't been slowed down, but the 2nd video, I'm not sure. If it is real time, it still seems like it takes a few seconds to generate the path.

I wonder if it would be sufficient to generate the chunk-level path, get the entities moving, and then do local A* to navigate through the individual chunks as-needed. Right now it looks like the algorithm generates the complete A* all at once (just after the chunk-level pathing where most of the bad paths are thrown out).
How the hell do people get to a skill level where they can do this stuff.
Is there a public database of spectral lines that would enable you to do some kind of lookup, and determine the chemistry of what the spectroscope is looking at?
I've got thin inner gloves that have metallic threads in the fingertips so I can use a touchscreen. Enough to protect bare flesh from frigid cold while remaining dexterous.

I use a ski tracking app, and communicate with my wife and kids while on the hill (we often go on different runs).
Possibly because MSSQL is 'better', or was. MS could pump almost unlimited money into its optimiser. Posgres doesn't have that and I've been informed a few years ago postgres wasn't as good. Maybe it's caught up now; I don't know as I've no experience with it.
That was still over 5 years ago on the first generation Touch ID. I couldn’t find an easily repeatable hack for the newer version.
QUICK! Let's look at their personal logs!

Like come on guys, there's more than personal logs. There should be more barriers before you go there. But to also be fair, it is stuff they know is going to be used in that way and it isn't just a log of everything they've said in their room. So there is a little more consent involved. I don't think you can really give consent to always listening devices.
Unbelievably Brilliant!
It’s probably because the code optimized out the frame pointer; if you really wanted a backtrace you’d need to look back at the stack to see where the return address was.
I wonder if sadistic Zeus would sometimes not give him a boulder to push for a day or two.
.NET Core Web API is absolutely perfect for this and the fact you already have some .NET experience makes it a no brainer in my opinion.

Just get started knocking out a prototype running locally and break the analysis paralysis, you'll have no end of hosting options to choose from later. You'll be amazed what a 5 dollar a month Ubuntu server from Digital Ocean or similar will handle running .NET Core. Azure is obviously an option too but don't rule out AWS.
There is a war on porn in the UK and Australia to say the ones that I am aware of.
I'm pretty sure that's the Hammerschlag Hall faculty parking lot and the staircase in the background is the one that goes up to Porter Hall.
Why? (Honest question, hear me out)

Is it a vocab consistency thing?

I see pretty consistent vocab used across orgs anyway, so given there is shardd domain knowledge / language at play, im not sure what the goal for standardization is?

Don't take this the wrong way, I use a lot of these when appropriate, but I don't think I could agree that refactoring must be just a refactor, and I don't think I want to limit anyone's commits to this list of change types either.

Forcing changes into these words means a lot of stuff is pointlessly bucketed when more appropriate wording could be used.

Say I want to push a commit "prioritise shipping route a over route b".

So I have to put it under start? Optimise? Fix? Why? Prioritise is the right word, why not just use that? Why play mind games when we have a whole dictionary to draw from?
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