skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar issue one my Microsoft Surface a while ago. After several months of completely failing to install updates, it finally succeeded last month for reasons I can't figure out. The Surface didn't get much use anyway when this started, so I wasn't really interested in investing a lot of time if fixing it, but it's really amazing to me that Microsoft can't even get Windows 10 updates right one their own hardware.
The main point is likes/views/clicks don't have to be shown or displaying them can be delayed. It's that simple to reduce random group behavior.

If you don't understand what role they play, or even worse, misunderstand what role they play please read some Social Psychology specifically Conformism and how it is triggered.

The problem is most people who designed the platforms are only now learning about these things and are trying to undo the effects pretending they don't need to make changes to the original design.
Ideology is the exact opposite of what I would say is necessary.

We need to hold deep ideals loosely, and aim to not be ideological.

Political apathy, child-rearing as a primary objective of life, these things can be held ideologically.
I think the idea is to have a US-controlled currency before some chinese-controlled currency catches on , particularly in Africa
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I love the Remote SSH extension for VSCode (save for the frustrating workarounds necessary for ssh-agent forwarding -- an absolutely necessary feature) and expected VSO to be much more streamlined. But I find myself hitting early walls:

- No documentation on how to clone a private github repo, gitlab repo, etc.

- Cloning a private repo on the command line eschews the ability to bootstrap your VSO instance using the in-repo config, which kills a huge benefit of this product

- No documentation on forwarding ssh-agent or injecting RSA keys of any kind

There are some other needs addressed in other comment threads (particularly registering a remote headless box as a VSO machine) but the above are instant showstoppers. Perhaps this works with private Azure DevOps repos because of the login integration? I'd be willing to wager that the majority of folks interested in this are on other repo hosts, though.
Regarding your claim that blockchain has almost no good use cases, I see news every week which disagrees.

Here is the first article I could find from just today which shows a great use case.

Coca Cola is expanding their blockchain trial project to a $21 billion-a-year supply chain because they found very significant savings.

https://www.coindesk.com/coca-cola-supply-chain-firm-to-expa...
Well that's outrageous.

It's one thing to sue over similar names—I can see a case that people might have misconceptions over products. Saying you own the rights to a color is ridiculous. T-Mobile and Lemonade are in different industries.
Everything is a bitstring, and Solomonoff is optimal for predicting bitstrings. Probabilistic induction, if it is computable, cannot do better than that.

Halting oracles require fewer program bits to generate longer bitstrings, so they make compressible bitstrings more likely than Turing machines. Applying bayesian reasoning, the existence of compressible bitstrings implies the existence of halting oracles. Or, even simpler, given the fact Turing machines might not halt, but halting oracles can always halt, the mere existence of bitstrings implies the existence of halting oracles.
"Better achievement" isn't the only relevant metric. There are plenty of other reasons why separation could be justified.
One of the effects of deepfakes is that it makes the inherent value of simulating reality to the utmost detail vanish over time. Our whole mass entertainment industry is built by worshipping the quality of simulation (for example, those flashy VFX effects, realistic landscapes, and Lapunzel's long hair.) Right now, those details are achieved by hundreds of animators, motion capture actors, and technicians, and by having huge render/simulation farms. When virtual realism becomes easily replicable (by regurgitating previous data through a deep learning pipeline), the old values of simulating reality will soon vanish over time, and therefore the indie artists would be able to compete in a fairer level than the entertainment monoliths.

However, one of the problems of deep learning is that you need to have a good dataset first, but how are you going to build one? Well, the big game companies wouldn't reveal their models and textures that easily. For indie artists to utilize this technology, there needs to be a centralized community project built around gathering and preprocessing data, rather than waiting for someone like Adobe or Autodesk do it.
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Thanks, that's very helpful.

Looking at Wikipedia's entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_lift I don't see any commercially successful aircraft. There are some military aircraft[1], experimental aircraft, and a some unsuccessful commercial aircraft. None is "drone style" yet.

Being the first to type certify a new style of aircraft is very difficult and expensive, which was my point with the list of composite aircraft. Composite aircraft (in my mind) seems much less of a change than powered lift. Maybe ballistic recovery systems[2] will make powered lift certifiable with a reasonable level of effort. The nice thing about BRS is that it is already flight proven and accepted as an emergency recovery system.

[1] The military is willing to take more risks - helps that the jets have ejection seats. The Osprey had 12 hull-loss accidents with a total of 42 fatalities (no ejection seats and it cannot autorotate). Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey#Accide...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems
If an ebay seller delivers me a faulty product I can sue them for not delivering what I payed for and when I win the court orders them to pay the money back (plus my expenses). If they don't pay I can go after their assets.

It's basically the same how a business would recover money from a bad supplier. With small claims court it's even somewhat efficient for small sums, but of course still orders of magnitude more work than a credit card dispute.
> I don’t know of any state that has ever tried to optimize for a low-overhead justice system “in the small”

Both small-claims courts themselves and rules giving effect to binding arbitration agreements are attempts to do that, as are many specialized, domain-specific administrative forums.
Why do you think triggers must be astonishing (but OOP not so)??
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No, not "hence the inflation".

You have not explained why; you've explained why you think we should have inflation. And why someone thinks something should be is a long way from explaining why something is.
Get woke. Go broke.

See Jillete.
I’m referring to a US audience (Ally offers 1.8%). These rates are designed to incentivize you to allocate capital accordingly. The point is you not put much of your money there. Depending on how you feel about the future exchange rates between the EUR and USD you’re welcome to invest in US treasuries, for instance.
Why would Coca-Cola need to use a block chain? They can run their own code on their own servers.
Presumably this requires a cloud API key of some kind? Google's speech recognition API isn't free.
If you start talking to most programmers about efficiency, you’ll almost immediately be shut down with “premature optimization is the root of all evil” (no matter how non-premature the optimization might be). There’s a pervasive belief among programmers that hardware is so fast that, as long as the software works, it doesn’t matter how efficiently it uses memory, or CPU, or disk space, or the network… yet the #1 complaint I hear from software _users_ is “damn, this thing is slow”. I yearn for a day when we start behaving like real professional engineers and strive to make the most efficient use of resources.
In Europe, I personally only use budget airlines because they have a variety of direct flights to different destinations, wheras nicer airlines tent to mainly fly through hubs, meaning you would have to have stopovers.

I think this is often the case for other people as well.
I'm in my early 30s.
Those blockbusters are so boring that only the sound, which is very loud, keeps me awake.

That said, the last I saw was Transformers (first one).
We have the idea of infinity. It'll take awhile for a machine to calculate that idea.
> smart contracts refer to logic deployed on public networks which allows escrowing, laundering money, and the issuance of extralegal securities and gambling products

I'm a blockchain skeptic but come on
> I really wish we'd see Google employees protesting AMP or abusive search practices...

I'd like to see oil company workers protesting the oil companies, or ICE employees freeing children from detention centers, but we all know why that isn't a thing -- folks don't apply to such work if they don't believe in the core mission.

If you as a tech worker dislike Google's practices, you should attempt to dissuade your employer from financially supporting Google. If they persist, you can go public about your objections, organize a strike, or quit.
> > and it can have function calls you don't know about because its body could dispatch just like triggers do.

> Please give an example of a stored procedure that does something else than what the code says it will do.

That's not what I wrote. I wrote that the caller of an SP need not know anything about the SP's body any more than the caller of a DML need not know anything about triggers. Of course that is true. And of course it's also true that the caller could know all those details in either case.
Blockchain gives the impression that the primary threat it is designed to defend against, is a government deciding (like Germany between world wars) to inflate their currency for whatever reason. So, not surprisingly, in order to defend a currency against being decreased in value by a central authority, it is vulnerable to all of the threats that a central monetary authority might help you with.

Which of these threats you think is the more salient is, of course, a matter on which people may disagree. I personally find the risk of a central monetary authority devaluing my money, to be not one of my top concerns, but I could understand why others might think differently (especially if they were in a different country, that used a different currency).
cryptocurrencies are replacing cash, they arent supposed to have protections. other services will be built on top of them
If you ever have the chance to check out JPL during one of their open houses, I highly recommend it. They have an exhibit with replica models of various satellites throughout history, and in the entry way there are screens showing data about what is currently being pulled in from the DSN. When I was there, it was pulling down data from New Horizons (at some absurdly low bit rate)!
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So the town in the article is going to be nearly completely unlivable without a vehicle and is about 20 miles from a Walmart.

There will be few decent jobs that are walkable, limited medical care, etc, in a town of 1,500, it is just the way it is.

Which isn't to say that these folks can't lament reduced access to food, but the literal availability of food is low there only if you ignore that other circumstances already pretty much force owning a vehicle to live there.
Subsidiaries of big, established companies.
USPS disallows 3rd party Mail aggregation and sorting / scanning services.

Why? The biggest USPS customer base (unsolicited bulk mail) got pissed.

If you saw how much spam I get via snail mail maybe you’d understand a little more.
> bundles the JDK

Not being pedantic, honestly - do you mean the JDK (which includes the compiler) or the JRE (just the VM)?
Read tip: https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-p...
previous HN talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225857
I'm with you in that I seriously doubt the idea can be made practical anytime soon. However, I don't think it's fundamentally flawed.

If the trip is much shorter in the air, it may bring the energy consumption closer to ground travel, but even then if we're talking electric energy, renewables are set to make that so cheap it doesn't matter compared to other factors like convenience (it's already that cheap, and dropping every year.)

Commercial air travel is far safer than most forms of ground transport , so it's at least possible that personal air transport could one day be safer than driving.

The big thing really is the advancements in materials science and energy storage density. I don't think we're there yet. But in the next 50 years, very likely in my opinion.

The one thing that may not be fixable is the noise. But this is primarily important for rural living. Air taxis could pick you up and drop you at the subway station outside the city, where the nose won't be that big of a concern.
Exactly what I needed to hear, thanks again.

I reckon the only way to error-free is redundancy, i.e. 'out of the box' we just put two boxes, or actually three for "high availability"; the underlying controller being just a dead man's switch — if A's life signal dies, failover to B; set up C as new failover; reboot A.

> I personally believe that some formal methods can greatly improve correctness, and do so affordably, but the question of which formal methods are worthwhile when and by how much each of them improves correctness is very much an open question.

Oh I can see that.

In general terms, I think cost should be focused on the most critical components; like we don't need to test every single bit of code before production. You just crash gracefully and resume state when the loss (if any) is acceptable. When it's not, then it's not a choice to front the cost, it's an imperative, part of your 'spec' as a business/product/service/free thing. Tor is slower than normal browsing, but that's the tradeoff. Fast forward 10 years and costly workloads have become either accelerated by hardware or simply benefit from general improvements, like encryption is now fundamentally cost-free for usual things like TLS (AES-based things), or increasingly AI workloads.

> blockchain is rarely the most secure with respect to the most relevant threats in a monetary system.

I very much agree. Key words being "in a monetary system", and indeed it's about economics more than tech (what I alluded to in saying 'Earth circa 2019', i.e. globalized monetary system, central-bank driven, mostly insured for most customers, etc).

Hence why I advocate that blockchain proponents explore other domains. I know businesses are, but it has more to do with topics like compliance (internal, legal).
Me, but I tend to be optimistic about this sort of thing and I know it.
> Blackbird’s defense to these allegations was that it (i) was not a law firm (despite the fact it is led exclusively by lawyers who are actively engaged in the litigation it pursues)

This is interesting. When we think of "law firm" it generally refers to a company providing legal services to clients. If a company comprises nothing but lawyers pursuing litigation to enrich themselves, what is the term for that, and why should it be legal?
Agreed. I would see it as a listing of companies with appropriate citations for the claims as to steer clear of defamation. However, you are still going to be dealing with constant C&D's as a result of the content, regardless of its merit.
Raytheon does this as well. At least they did 15 years ago.
95% really don't care and want to work.
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Am I the only one who doesn’t like the backwards-compatibility that Microsoft Windows provides? I find it frustrating to see the operating system itself not coherent, thinks like having multiple places for configuration (settings app and the control panel), non-HiDPI panels that popup from various parts of the operating system, etc.

I find it frustrating to not have an operating system that has the polish & coherency of macOS on non-Macs, and that’s one of the biggest reasons why these Mac people (myself included) doesn’t even consider moving out of macOS.
The federal government directly issues loans now, and they won't give you $250k in student loans. The private lenders who will don't have government backing.

So if they give someone $250k for a basketweaving degree, they are unlikely to ever see that money fully repaid.

No one serious thinks private universities that cost $60k+ a year should be free btw.

Also most STEM degrees are about as economically viable as liberal arts degrees if you don't go to grad school. Computer Science and any degree that can get you into CS are outliers.
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> If you really want to "question corporate power" then don't work for a coporation.

What should I do if I want to question all power? Become an hermit?
Angostura's suggestion is a good one, that will allow us to test ghaff's conjecture:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ski+touring%2C...

The establishment of Backcountry Access in 1994 would also seem to a compelling countervailing argument against my recollection.
Or, you know, legislators just ban it entirely until the changes are made.

Edit: Its also pretty ironic that the crypto currency is banking on "too big to fail."
It’s round and 2cm in diameter when we do in vivo studies in mice. But with the printer we can potentially scale up and make any shape we want. The advantage is that we can create personalized shapes with different thicknesses to fit the wound site. You’re correct: in this study 3D printing is being used as a tool for high throughput production of skin tissue. This will be important to make this a cost-effective treatment. However, we are also working on the inclusion of hair follicles which require patterning and later self-assembly. Microvasculature in skin doesn’t really require patterning but higher caliber vessels in other organs, such as heart, will likely need it.
What result do they expect increasing trade with China will have? Something other than China doing all they can to take over key industries, and expanding soft power? Because that is what they've done so far, and they're adamant in maintaining that course.

I can't blame them too much for doing what is best for their country, but I sure can blame western businesses selling out their countries for short-term profits.
We could retain the ability to launch old apps and still have Settings in one place. They don't inherently go together.

Microsoft might need to add something like a legacy control panel which only appears if you install an old app that adds something there. Users who don't use old apps wouldn't see it, so no harm done versus dropping support completely. And, I don't understand why Microsoft couldn't integrate those panels into the modern Settings UI, even if the underlying framework and visuals were different.
Not to sound troll-y but yes, maybe. What if they had an actual unique name? What if instead of paying lawyers they were serving their customers?

They have trademarked a VERY common word. Now they're distracted by "defending" it. If that one word is all that stands between success and failure they're doing it all wrong.
Ace the GRE and get letters of recommendation and it doesn't matter.
> At the same time they proven not to be corruptible by sorting out the tax system to the effect of increasing the budget almost by half

There is currently huge affair in Ministry of Finances because they were covering tax frauds and even doing them themselves :) https://www.money.pl/podatki/afera-w-resorcie-finansow-szefa...

There was also a corruption scandal with KNF chief Chrzanowski nominated by PIS. https://www.newsweek.pl/szef-knf-oskarzony-o-korupcje-rezygn...

And the tax fraud by chief of controlling agency (NIK) Banaś - also nominated recently by PIS.
https://www.tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/afera-prezesa-nik-...

Of course nobody cares because social money flow :)

As for the "increase of budget" - mostly it comes from changes in the system already introduced by the previous government but with vacation legis (like electronic reporting for microcompanies - JPK). And of course PIS has the luck to rule during a worldwide economic boom.
One can build any amount of consumer protection required into most cryptocurrencies. In their bare form they don't have that, exactly like cash doesn't have that.

One can use the desired amount of third parties for fund protection.

The new thing about cryptocurrencies, is that some of these third-party services can be made non-custodial, so the third-party never has access to your funds. They arbiter, but not transmit.
True, I also occasionally run XP inside a VM.

The only issue is that the version of IE bundled with Windows XP cannot be upgraded to a newer engine, so for software such as Office that defer to the IE browser engine shipped with the OS to access the web, it is unable to access HTTPS-only websites like GitHub that use modern ciphers.

GitHub also doesn’t downgrade the SSL connection to use old ciphers that are still supported by a few large websites.

Firefox shows a startup warning it no longer supports XP and Chrome wasn’t usable IIRC. I wonder if there’s a way to upgrade embedded IE on Windows XP?
I miss NT 3.51 - it was rock solid (it didn't have a compromised driver model) and smooth even on 486 hardware.
That would be true if cities didn't adapt to the capabilities of ubiquitous flying vehicles.

Cities that can go vertical rather than horizontal has tons of benefits. It means less environmental impact, less distance for people to travel, more efficient energy usage, and probably a ton more.

Imagine New York City with landing pads not just on every rooftop, but every few stories spiraling around the outside of the building. People could live without ever needing to travel to the ground level.
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That myth really needs to die... there is no law and no requirement of any business that dictates that shareholder value/profit must be primary focus above all else.

I really encourage you and anyone else that thinks this way to spend some time learning about the growing "Conscious Capitalism" movement.
Should trademarks for generic everyday terms be allowed in the first place?
Ah, that's true -- "backcountry skis" tended in the past to refer to off-trail XC skis rather than the more expansive usage it sees today.
Gotcha! I've had similar requests. Users want the ability to mark a list complete before the timer expires. I think a success message would be a nice addition as well. And the cancel button needs to be moved! Thank you so much for the feedback. I really appreciate it.
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Thanks.

> eg tor connection goes down, suddenly all your traffic goes through clearnet

They did write a short doc on it on other possibilities, too [0].

> using whonix mitigates this problem

Yep and whonix is one among Tor's recommendations [1].

[0] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Transparen...

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Transparen...