skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Parking pages or any other use that intends to work around the restriction can be deemed illegitimate use.

My personal domain doesn't even have an A record in the DNS, only an MX record because use it for all my email. By your definition that would be an "illegitimate use" and I should lose my domain...
These are the top problems in my opinion:

1) computers handle bits and bytes, not information. If computers can be made to create, search, update and delete pieces of information, instead of bits and bytes, 90% of code would go away and life would be much easier for all of us.

2) programming is done wrongly and poorly: we write a program to do a specific job, without any proofs, with serial control flow, we compile it, we setup an environment for it, etc. Instead, we should write hierarchies of programs, each level of hierarchy should have its own proofs (i.e. the specifications should be part of our programs), control flow should be event based, programs should be running as soon as we write them in a live test environment etc.

In other words, forget files, processes, handles, databases, source files, bits, bytes, the command line, UIs etc. All these provide some level of abstraction that doesn't really scale to what we actually need. We need another level of abstraction: the piece of information.

Which should eventually include a piece of code that communicates with the outside world via events, and that code would be composed of other pieces of information, would be fully creatable, searchable, updatable and deletable just like any other sort of piece of information.

And UIs should be creatable, searchable, updatable and deletable pieces of information as well.

And a global communication language would replace all command line interfaces, UIs, and programming languages: we shall talk to our UIs with this language, and the UIs shall talk to us by using that language as well, using graphical representation when needed.
We were able to land on moon in 1969. How come are we not able to do it again 50 years later with all the technological progress?
It’s not just missile detection, it’s also countermeasures of the DIRCM variety: https://elbitsystems.com/media/c_music_2018letter_1.pdf
As dwg says, there is an optimisation of the grip for what is seen as good writing.

The interesting part is that stroke count and order is important, sometimes more important than the exact resulting shapes. That puts an emphasis on how the letters are written, and changes the tradeoffs between precision and fluidity.
Become Windows. That was Red Hat's plan all along. And then your personal data will end up on their cloud like with Win10.
Martin Gardner came up with a somewhat contrived but still brilliant extension to this:

"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sen...
Isn't it odd that prices are going UP instead of down ,even though they flooded the market with tlds? The issue is obviously their monopoly, and it needs to be broken down. Petitions are petty

Actually what would be even better is if browsers started supporting ENS or some similar competing name system
The idea that blockchain is the most in-demand technology skill does not pass the smell test. Blockchains don't actually solve any business problems unless you're in the ICO or cryptocurrency exchange business.
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Hi folks,

I have a query in regards to which one server is the best for work in Cloud Computing? Actually AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure offer their separate cloud server. All of that most popular server.
Let us know the exact difference between them.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!
True, but as a vertically integrated company you only need to slip once badly and the piranhas eat you up. Everyone else, collectively, can make way more mistakes and still come out on top, long term. Apple has learned from past mistakes, though.
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Had you actually read my comment, you'd know I'm not complaining about this recommendation. I'm complaining about Amazon's affiliate structure specifically. If I buy a hammer on Amazon 23 hours after absent-mindedly clicking the GP's link, they get a cut of that. A cut that they don't deserve.
It's compelling for DNS and CA replacement tech
I also do pay for podcasts, some via patreon and paypal but if I can find the IBAN I rather pay directly every month. I'm not paying much but (about 1 EUR / month / podcast) but I do it consistently.
Exactly. People complain how little it pays but forget that they're just a drop in the stream of how much people are listening to.

The best case to expect is an average Spotify user listens to about 500 songs a month (25 hours) and has an ARPU of about $5 (https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/31/spotify-108-million/). There cannot possibly be more than $0.01 (1c) per play available to pay the artists. Spotify paying out 37% of that actually looks pretty good.

That's as high as the users will go, it seems; the equilibrium point against piracy or other music services.
The Besties is now Spotify exclusive. It's my favorite video game podcast.

The fact that half of its hosts are Justin and Griffin McElroy makes me worried the whole McElroy family of podcasts might flip eventually.
Arguably so is America, but it’s hard to see what’s in front of your nose.
History Is Only Interesting Because Nothing Is Inevitable
I would prefer HN be one of the few places online where I can trust links because of the products behind them, not because of someone trying to drive affiliate revenue.
Most of the positions advertised have some amusing attributes if you read the description. We want someone with a PHD in cryptography that knows ReactJS. Yes I'm serious.
MS gave Nokia 1 billion usd
https://youtube-dl.org/

Always a workaround.
Cognitive Biases in the Modern World
Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS Is My Go-To Stack for 2020
We all know how this is going to end. Amazon bans the bots and then offers their own bot service in exchange for a fee.
I share your detest of the "blockchain", but there are some real world non-currency usage.

Consider a decentralized timestamping service for example. That's useful if you want to anonymously disclose a critical bug, but want the ability to prove you had knowledge beforehand (and thereby proving you were the one who disclosed it).
I've used the dynamic quadrupod grip my entire life, fingers very close to the tip of the pen by the way. I used to draw a lot as a kid and I think this grip gives good precision. It's not ideal for extended periods of writing perhaps, but it's not too bad of a compromise.
One thing that might work in our favor here, is that for this particular application -- simulating a guitar amplifier -- we are only dealing with the subset of behaviors that are physically realizable in an electronic circuit.
Looking in the eye doesn't work any more: people look at you, but they completely fail to register you. If you're not exactly car-sized (walking/biking/motorbiking/driving a damn LIGHT RAIL TRAIN ffs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tt8f_2kyRA), you're a part of the scenery, IDCLIP style, and drivers WILL ignore you.
Like someone did for Stitcher and it works great.

https://stitcher-rss.128.io/
This is pretty blatant marketing / SEO, should be flagged.
Is it though? I have never seen a bit perfect rip on tpb. I have paid for sketchy software to have access to blu-ray ripping software to get around this while trying to play with high bitrate material and understand a bit more about it. 25 GB is the smallest a blu ray gets, with most being 50 GB (and potentially up to 300 GB, though I have not seen this personally). UHD blu ray goes from 50 GB to 100 GB. No one is ripping these things, and certainly no one is seeding them, and most certainly no one is leeching them. Maybe on private trackers. I wouldn’t know.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_h...
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How does this compare to Intercooler.js?

https://intercoolerjs.org/
> I can't think of anyone more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Bill & Melinda.

What about this, though: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surprise-winner-dollar...

"Late Friday, the Department of Defense announced that Microsoft has won the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI. The decision was the culmination of a two-year process that also included Google, IBM, and Oracle, and where Amazon was long seen as the favorite.

JEDI, potentially worth $10 billion over 10 years, has been positioned by the Pentagon as crucial to modernizing its use of technology—and making the US military more deadly.

“We must improve the speed and effectiveness with which we develop and deploy modernized technical capabilities to our women and men in uniform,” DoD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy said in a statement. At an event launching the bidding process in early 2018, the department’s chief management officer, John H. Gibson II, told tech industry leaders that one priority was “increasing the lethality of our department.” "
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288645 - if the correct number is $0.00473 that's close to half of Spotify's revenue for streaming that in the first place.
My handwriting looks like I had a cerebral hemorrhage and then Parkinson's. I don't know how I made it through primary school when penmanship was still graded, although the grading was in its waning years.
You can invest in listed PE / VC funds and lots of larger actively managed funds have some PE element.

For example in the UK Electra and III are PE funds and Witan in the UK as 10 or 15 % in private investments.

And that's not including UK specific things like VCT's where you would need to have a few k to invest
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That sounds off. I had Google Maps on my Samsung flip-phone somewhere around 2007 - can't remember if it was before or after the iPhone's release though.
this is way to simplistic. "Blockchain" as "AI" or other sufficiently popular concepts are mere projects spaces of peoples hopes and fears.

A question now may be: can this "Blockchain" Idea give rise to technology which in turn helps people to coordinate better?

Its really interesting there projects who mandate for more transparency through blockchain and then there are projects who ride on "everything" should be private.

The answer to such problems very seldom lies in extremes but in the mediation between possible options.

Many Ethereum projects but also IPFS now finally offer tangebile (beta) products. In many traditional metrics they are lagg behind mainstream projects. But since decentralization over centralization and collaboration over competition are real values interesting things begin to emerge.

Now I could be counting to 3 until the next person jumps here on and (projects his values or antagonist dreams on this) says capitalism is it and socialism was the worst thing in history!!!111

But maybe a room can grow which is neither capitalism nor socialism but yet better. So lets start to ponder , some impossible thoughts - using this blockchain thing.

Building better technology - finding better ways to coordinate with people - in the real world. Through digital technology but not only limited to or by it.
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Do people still have this requirement in 2020?
Also, they made the awesome rougelike Dead Cells.
the twitter of the maker of nomadlist , levels.io . He doesn't seem to have time to write blog posts, but he 's actively against the VC and publishes his company's financials 100% in the open

He gives real advice rather than wannabe advice
In truly free market when government do not intervene shelves will always be kept at the minimum to profit from panic. It’s because demand and supply is controlled by rich and high price exclude the non rich. That’s the reason systems are crumbling in Hong Kong.
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Fixing the quote format so people can read it:

> At Mondragon, there are agreed-upon wage ratios between executive work and field or factory work
which earns a minimum wage. These ratios range
from 3:1 to 9:1 in different cooperatives and
average 5:1. That is, the general manager of an
average Mondragon cooperative earns no more than
5 times as much as the theoretical minimum wage paid in their cooperative. For most workers, this ratio is smaller because there are few Mondragon
worker-owners that earn minimum wages, because most jobs are somewhat specialized and are classified at higher wage levels. The wage ratio of a cooperative is decided periodically by its worker-owners through a democratic vote.
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It's not really that applicable there either. NameCoin attempted this in 2010 and ran into some serious engineering issues with non-obvious outcomes. It's not reasonable for every device to store the multi gigabyte UTXO, so delegation to DNS revolvers is necessary on some level. Ideally you'd be able to do something with attestation to prove that the results came from the blockchain itself, but you can not.

Due to the UTXO design in Namecoin, you can attest that a particular record existed, but you can't ever compactly prove it exists. This distinction is important because it means that you as the client have no way of knowing if a returned result is stale and has been changed to something entirely different.
> It’s particularly popular in the web communities, which hopefully should make it easy to link user credential data from the web and from local systems more closely together.

Was this written by a CSI or NCIS screenwriter?
This isn't what is normally meant by pig Latin. It's a humorous/parodic piece of classical Latin.

It's pretty funny! It's striking how well it would fit in to 20th century comedy, and the author's translation does a good job of preserving the spirit of it. For a modern take on the part where the pig bequeathes his various body parts, here's John Prine's Please Don't Bury Me

https://youtu.be/JfBdMXhpQnU
I also enjoy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
Bad title. Should be "Google Chrome to block HTTP file downloads on HTTPS origins."
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For a seemingly real-world application of Blockchain technology, Fluree DB [1] has announced a Blockchain/graph-database secure-communications contract with the U.S. Air Force [2]. The Fluree platform seems a compelling base for similar applications.

[1] https://flur.ee/
[2] https://www.ledgerinsights.com/airforce-blockchain-fluree-se...
Blockchain can be useful outside of crypto, or even leveraging crypto for anything that needs trust.

Example: you might take a fingerprint of a recorded interview and save that to a block chain. When you distribute the interview the receivers can verify it hasn't been tampered with based on the fingerprint and when it was added to the chain.

This way you don't need to trust the source of the video or the person giving you a fingerprint, as that's stored immutably.
No it should not. The discussion here alone makes the post worthwhile.
I, like OP, am an "overhand" left-hander. Imagine a line bottom-left to top-right across the page, then mirror your hand in that plane.

(I've no idea how I came to this adaptation, but I've always written that way)
When I was a kid, several hundred moons ago, writing a certain sentence in cursive hundreds or even a thousand times was a real punishment. (Bart had it easy.)
I was just trying to explain this to my niece last week. She responded along the lines of how messy the English language is, but my counter argument was that it highlights the flexibility of language, which allows its use to be artistic as well as functional to a degree that's entirely at the discretion of the speaker / writer.
>You have less space to make your own way in life

I'd say that this has to be emphasized, especially if the extended family has a lot of conservative people.
You mean this [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipTwo
There is a famous Marilyn Monroe quote where she commented that she could turn the Marylin Persona on and off
I really like what Gates is doing with his money.

He's making the world a better place, through a 'voluntary' tax. (People don't have to buy Microsoft products, if they don't want to. But when they do, they enrich Gates a bit more and thus contribute to his actions.)

I hope to see more of this from other rich people. I think it may be one of the best and most efficient ways to equalize the world.
> Does anyone know of any sizable examples of this ownership-model in tech?

There is a tech-aligned version of the worker co-op called a platform co-op, with some examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_cooperative#Examples .
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https://drpop.org/mondragon-how-do-you-become-a-member/

> The path to becoming a member of one of the cooperatives begins much like any other employment relationship – a position must be available, and the individual needs to be the right person for the job, as well as pre-disposed to cooperation. Once that is established, the worker is hired into a six-month contract as a temporary employee, much like the provisional period for many employees in a conventional enterprise.

> Depending on the proven suitability of the employee for the job and the availability of long-term work in the company, a good employee may be proposed for membership, or in cases where long-term work is not yet available, offered a renewed contract (for no more than three years). In some cases, “unsuitable” workers, who just don’t work out, may be asked to leave.

> Once membership is mutually accepted, the worker has 36 months to contribute his or her initial capital share of €15,000 , which represents the system’s minimum annual salary. This can be amortized through salary deductions, or in some cases borrowed from a bank as “capital to work.”

> At any given time at least 80% of the workers of any Mondragon cooperative must be full-fledged members.
Correct albeit no Google daemons, just OpenSSH server, PAM and NSS configurations:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/oslogin/#how_os_login_...
U.S. Air Force contracts data blockchain Fluree for secure communications
I already have a Swiss army knife program that manages my life, makes sandwiches, and takes my dog to the groomer. It's called Emacs. I don't need another.
I’m not opposed to it if needed. This part is the one that convinced me it shouldn’t happen right now,

> $7.85 of your registration or renewal payment goes to Verisign. The actual cost to Verisign to provide the expensive infrastructure and the management of the registry has been estimated at between $2.50 to $2.90 per domain name per year. Other registries have said they can offer the same services for cheaper.

I’m wondering why the ICANN wouldn’t simply go to another company that would provide them the same service at that same rate. Is Verisign innovating somehow?
IE a subway. Which works well for trains. No need to call them cars or buses, since they never leave the guide way and there are advantages to trains in fix route situations
Do you even need a blockchain for that? Can't you just encrypt a message detailing your discovery, and publish the result? Then at a later date, you can prove it was you by decrypting the message.
Windows Phone 7 was still based on the old Windows CE kernel which couldn't support multiple cores, didn't have true multitasking or support background services, had a limited network stack, the list goes on. Windows Phone 8 finally came out with a true multitasking NT kernel based OS that could compete with the iPhone, 5 years after the iPhone launched.

This is why developer access to the system was so limited, it simply didn't have the sort of process isolation capabilities and the system services this enables that you need in a modern app platform. There's no way they could just open up low level programming to anybody to develop for it and everything would be fine, the skills and knowledge needed to develop for it efficiently and safely were highly specialised.
Damn, this is so weird. I had the same experience, and was desperate and sad by how many years went by without me "actually living" (as I so thought at the time). I went to an extreme of really thinking with this internal monologue for everything that I did, even going to the bathroom. Otherwise I would feel like a robot from the cartoons I watched.
This article pits individual freedom/empowerment against the family unit and argues the latter is vanishing and we need it back. A familiar topic lately.

I’m afraid this is a false dichotomy. If we’re actually trading the family unit for free self-empowered individuals, there are positive effects like decreased susceptibility to influence and belief in unlikely things.

But that’s not what’s actually happening. Signs point to social cohesion being traded for an uprooted, uninformed individualism that is susceptible to targeting and influence on mass scale.

I’d say what we want for social resilience is not the family unit back, but to nurture individuals as highly informed skeptics.
Good luck defining "legitimate use" in a way the squatters won't get around.
It’s really about the willpower and desire to have it happen (by which I really mean budget...)
.We have the technology to go but it doesn’t make any sense to devote the resources it takes to make it happen. Yes it would take years to put together a manned moon mission again, but I feel confident that if for some reason the US absolutely needed to it could put men on the moon by 2024.

Certainly our knowledge of how to launch Saturn Vs has atrophied. But we do still routinely launch things into space. We put lots of robots on Mars.
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Timestamp proofs are interesting but a little hard to find a solid use for in that context. Most people are very happy trusting a post on a mailing list, or even the standard at this point for security researchers is a hash of your disclosure on twitter or IRC. It almost never needs to be cryptographic proof, only social.

They also have a significant issue in that they are non-exclusive. Imagine I timestamp the following messages.

for i in {1..999999}:
print "on the 21st of Feb 2022 the Bitcoin price will be exactly $i"

By revealing only a single proof of the possible million, I can prove once and for all that I have complete foresight, and you can't ever prove that I didn't make that prediction. Lots of these things have not entirely obvious issues like that. posting a million hashes on Twitter might raise some eyebrows, posting a million lines on IRC will get me K-lined. I have actually timestamped all of those messages though.
Is the 3200nm range while at cruising speed or for max speed? The link mentioned it was in afterburner for a long period.