skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that’s correct. You can still have signed-but-contradictory messages, ie the double spend problem where the signatures are valid but promise the same money to two different people (or promise different attack strategies).

I think that statement would be correct if changed to “unforgeable messages with all same-side generals honest (and un-confused).
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I have to think there's a market for something like this, done in a VR environment. I'd love to walk around ancient Athens, even if there was little to do except walk, visit shops, or sit in on a meal with a family.

If I ever did something like this, I'd love to reconstruct Forbes Field and watch a Pirates game there.
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> (because Usenet is perhaps the dumbest imaginable way to transmit a large binary, a Usenet binary was a chain of separate posts, all of which were needed to reassemble the binary)

I just realized that this is superficially similar to how bittorrent works...
The PS2 Linux Kit was amazing
Another way to express this is that a 64-bit value can express every combination of processors, so if you want to say something like "this process should run on these 12 specific processors" you can do so in a single 64-bit value.
I grew up in a household that never really got over the Great Depression or the austerity of World War II, so a lot of this "reuse" thinking is in my brain. Especially when it comes to containers and cooking fat.

But my wife had the opposite upbringing, so she thinks I'm old and stupid because I wrap her Christmas presents in old newspaper and string. But you know what? A lot of those pages from the New York Times are more colorful and decorative than any wrapping paper. Plus, they're unique, and once you learn to tie string well, it's an incredibly useful skill.
> Should I assume you originate that kind of content?

No, you shouldn’t. Slashdot (in its golden age, which was also a golden age of inventive trolling) and 4Chan has shown that there are a subset of internet users who, while not creators of that kind of content themselves, actually enjoy the trolling, it brings them merriment.
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https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+x%5E%282%2F3%29+%...
Taken few courses related to AWS on AcloudGuru and Udemy.

For a crash course like ML, Photography, JS etc; Udemy is a great bargain for $9.99

Tried pluralsight couple of years ago. I found content to be bit old and not updated reqularly.

I have bookmarked below url containing list of courses offered by different universities worldwide.

https://qz.com/1437623/600-free-online-courses-you-can-take-...
Almost all of those can be answered by imagining the worst case scenario when your one device is put into a container with everything else. I just made a comment elsewhere in this thread about the same concerns, but in short, your one device could be put under something big and heavy that is leaking fluids. So your thin cardboard with the specs was the packaging put together to inform the consumer what the object is, because making separate packaging for retails shelves vs. online ordering is not realistic. But everything else is preventing damage along the way.

So yes, you are correct - standardized boxes that protect their contents, and all fit nicely together while shipping, and also are returnable would be great. Or... Amazon, UPS, FedEx, etc could just handle those outer layers of protection themselves. Hopefully the added cost of doing so is offset by the re-use you get from them. Either way, if somebody set up such a system, there would be no reason all those layers need to get to the final recipient of a package.
> Since browsers are the only important customer of DANE, it's funny to see them referred to as "the anti-DANE lobby".

In the context that's exactly what they are? DANE proponents securing server-to-server email wanted to have an HSTS-style flag for TLS so they could use it for "OK this server says it always does DANE, if I try to connect in future and can't get DANE that's an attack, I'll just spool the mail". They wrote a simple draft which was then proposed for adoption by the working group. The honest thing for the anti-DANE lobby to do was reject adoption. The draft could proceed as an independent submission and live or die on its own. But instead tactically browser vendor participants supported adoption, and then stalled the process asking for endless tweaks and extra stuff even though they had no intention to deploy it. Basically they ensured it wouldn't get finished and adopted in a timely fashion. AIUI Kathleen chewed people out for abuse of process, everybody was very contrite but the harm can't be undone.
Because I would really hate doing quality testing for every single product I consume. Rather let the goverment do its damn job
> we’re encouraged to keep buying, buying, buying, and to not worry about waste disposal: recycling will take care of all that excess waste. …plastics industry groups['s] goal is to create a false sense of security that recycling efforts are environmentally effective while justifying our continued consumption habits.

There is a lot of this "I did my part, now I can go back to indulging" in environmentalism: turning off light switches, turning the thermostat down a degree, paper/metal straws, sorting recycling, etc. As with charity, it makes the person doing it feel better but lets them avoid tackling the structural issue.

Systemic problems need systemic solutions. We can't get there if everyone thinks they already "did their part."

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/things-you-are-...
Software as a wide spread phenomenon has been around since what late 1970s (I am talking about business and individuals using it). Compare it to building industry, accounting, law and any of the hard sciences. They have been around for thousands of years. It is kind of crazy that we insist on perfection withe less than 50 years of practice. Heck we can't even decide on one language yet - and the one that are standard (I am talking about you JavaScript) - people keep re-inventing them (Coffee Script, TypeScript, etc.)!!!
I never get a phone case. I’ve dropped my iPhone XS I don’t know how many times. Not a single scratch or crack on it. Pro tip: needing a case is a marketing gimmick “it’s made of glass!”
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Posted on Substack. Perfect.
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I think the important distinction is that it's worthwhile (financially) over there. People don't modify an old car to put a diesel engine in it in the US outside of hobby because it's a $1000 operation and nobody thinks that's worth it. You only see modifications like that in, well, car modification places, and they intend to turn a big profit on a classic car.

Umbrellas and packaging material is too cheap and bountiful to even bother trying to repair it.
Ok, third time lucky, I hope. Should a EU citizen relocate to the UK for IT or engineering work right now? Nope, in my humble opinion, until the Brexit dust settles at both governmental and practical level.
Given any non-deterministic problem, 98% programmers will treat it as a deterministic nail and hit it with their favorite C until one or both is dead.
Avoiding a Real ID is a great idea if you don't have to fly. If you do, though, it's a nonstarter. I'll have to investigate how feasible it is to take alternate forms of transportation for business trip...
What makes the HighLine great is that it was a repurposed abandoned railway track. Much of its value comes not from its actual form and structure but from the fact that they made something out of junk.

The efforts to recreate a High Line from scratch defeats the entire purpose. As great as the High Line is, you can do much better if you’re creating something completely new.
I've used this in a side project and it's still very hit or miss. Especially depending on how you format your domain URL.
I usually try to find a recipe to cook that uses the rendered bacon grease before it gets too old. We don't generally fry our food so I'd love to know how you store and filter the cooking fat between uses.
If this is a failing of the language, then at least blame the right one.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/mnist/samples.js
I'm afraid not - my personal knowledge of it just comes from having lived through the last few decades, with a year working at UPS, and some time spent helping small business owners figure out logistics for shipping their inventions.

There are likely actual experts around who could write a book, but I'm not sure where to find one.
I'm routinely amazed by the things that I buy which are wrapped in plastic that could just as easily be wrapped in paper or cardboard or something else that biodegrades.

I suspect it's simply because the food companies have already bought the plastic-wrapping machines and don't want to invest the money in new processes. But when I'm in the store, I will routinely choose an item wrapped in paper or paperboard over something in plastic.
I was surprised not to see Kip Thorne there. He has been heavily involved with Hollywood for ages apart from being an accomplished scientist.
>I don't think the problem with the modern internet is scale so much as a failure to build some constraints into its design.

Can you speak more concretely what you mean here?

Are you talking about technical "constraints" into protocols such as "http" or "TCPIP"? Or constraints into DNS? Or constraints on HTML markup language?

What would an "internet technical architecture designed to prevent negativity" actually look like? Is there an example repo on github or a computer science research paper showing the algorithms that would satisfy this ideal?
The big breakthrough for me was the realization that a transistor is similar to a 4 pin relay, but with a shared ground between the main circuit and the control, resulting in 3 pins.

The next step is to realize that solid-state devices usually control current instead of voltage, but that we can add voltages, currents and resistances to the circuit that let us work with voltage in a linear region of a device's response curve. So our normalized 0-1 control corresponds linearly to 0-1 on the main circuit. From there, it's straightforward to build amplifiers where the control voltage or current is thousands or even millions of times smaller than the main.

After that it gets.. complicated. It took me 4 years of math and physics to finally understand solid state theory and be able to analyze large circuits by subdividing them into simpler linear sub-circuits for my degree. Then the really interesting stuff happens when we abandon all of that and convert to the frequency domain using the Fourier, Laplace or Z transform. So discrete signals have periodic frequencies and periodic signals have discrete frequencies. Which lets us analyze the transient and steady state portions of a signal separately and gain valuable insights about what a circuit will do.

Of course I've mostly forgotten all of that. One word of advice: keep your college textbooks. I still find concise explanations there that haven't made it onto the internet over 20 years later.

Edit: IMHO, the above way of translating between abstraction and application is the primary advantage of getting a degree from a university. For anyone young reading this, I highly recommend applying to the best schools you can. If you just settle, then you might miss out on the underlying theory behind each discipline. You'll want the theory later when you've forgotten everything like everyone else, because you'll be able to re-derive everything you've learned from first principles when you need it.
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My dad always kept our used milk jugs because it was much easier to use those when he needed to change the oil on the bulldozers and bucketloaders at his work than trying to get a pan in place in the godforsaken places that the drain in the oil pan was always located. Especially when you are doing that out in the field and you are lying in the mud or on a chip pile.
I buy a lot of bulk foods from the grocery store, and keep them in re-used containers from other food products. It still requires one time use plastic bags to move the food from the bulk bins to my pantry, but it's significantly less plastic.

I'm nearly to a point where I don't need any more containers though, and I'm not sure how to cut back. It would make a huge difference if there was a way to buy more liquid/perishable foods in bulk but I just can't figure out what the logistics would look like.
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This is awesome, such a great post.Interestingsoup has great to the point articles great snack for thoughts, I crack myself up .
There are some pretty aggressive rules in some blocklists. I had to disable one to read about an Aggregated Discovery Service because it just looks for /ads/ in the URL and decides to block it.
While you can download it from MSDN, and it will activate, check your licenses. In most cases, these licenses are intended for development and it is forbidden to use them in production.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=batman%20equation
I don't think you've ever worked at a corporate help desk -- people do forget passwords, even ones they've used for months - they'll swear up and down that the AD server is wrong.

I once helped a professor decrypt a zip file by brute forcing the password (it was only 6 characters long). He swore it was his wife's name and that the file must be corrupt because he surely knows how to type her name. Turned out that it was a misspelling of her name, and he said "Oh right, I misspelled it to make it harder to guess".
To be the best business man is to do good business without compromising your ethics. Aim to be the best.
Yes, at least indirectly.

The majority of people using Excel in a business environment at least sometimes use those functions, even if most don't actually understand them.

There is just about always someone in the office/department who "knows excel" well enough to use the Macro Recorder and occasionally tweak something in the code, and that's enough. So they get the task of automating the thing in the spreadsheet and then everyone else uses it.
I think potentially pointing out the humility of the author. But unsure.
Some counterpoints (devil's advocate):

* Would you trust a cardboard box that looked like it had been opened?
* The thinner box would be for display in a shop.
* The other packaging points are for longevity; there's a lot of products that will bounce around shops, warehouses, cross country lines for years until they're sold and used. I don't know who sets the guidelines for packaging but they sure plan for the worst.
No, pg said that downvoting for disagreement is ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
> Consumers have become lazy: they expect purchasing and consuming to be the extent of their participation in the long supply chain through which our goods travel

This is a little unfair on "consumers". I don't have a choice in how my local supermarket packages its products. I bring my own containers to the butcher, I bring my own bags for fruit and veg, and we still end up with at least one bin worth of waste every week. That's not counting the packaging that the products are shipped to my local stores in either.

Consumers aren't lazy, companies are cheap. it's cheaper to wrap something in LDPE + friends, and transport it across <insert landmass here>, then force the consumer to pay to dispose of it (and their local authority to bear the brunt of managing it), than it is for the manufacturer to make it closer and get it to me without shrink wrapping.

Until suppliers, manufacturers, retailers are held responsible, consumers are _not_ the lazy ones, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still try.
>Assuming that ranchers will want to continue to raise cattle amongst protected wolves is just as irrational.

I wonder how humans living amongst wolves could raise and even create all races of cattle in the last 4000 years.

This a problem that we had solved yet with shepherds and shepherddogs. You can find people raising three thousands of sheep all alone and just with the help of a few dogs. They never lost a sheep and they live in one of the european areas with more wolves.
This is the first I've heard of the cyanide in Tylenol. The wikipedia article is really interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
Usenet somewhat has that division of space, in that it's divided up into thousands of individual newsgroups, each of which is (ostensibly) about a particular topic.

It's more like having thousands of parallel NYCs, each one focusing on just a specific subset of the overall culture. To your point, they're still public spaces though where anyone can come in and yell about their thing, that is undeniable (and it happened).
You can kill it by blocking 1st party scripts, but you probably dont want to do that as it will kill the site as well.

Best bet if you really hate it would be to add a filter. But as they are "dogfood" ads those are some of the few I find acceptable.
People do meet and have discussions in Starbucks. You're probably right though that it's not really the same thing--if only because there are so many ways to have discussions that don't require physically sitting at the same table.
There's probably something to the average user IQ declining towards the overall population mean as a site becomes more popular.
You touch on the very difficult legal conversation that was just bubbling up when the commercial providers stepped in: Companies that had their own Usenet servers had to not only keep a massive storage pool with serious bandwidth, but they were without question hosting illegal material.

At a certain point before that it was flying under the radar: most people seemed to assume that it was just text since that’s all the technology supported, but of course 7-bit encoding, multi-part archives, and parity files all had changed that. Once the rights groups got wind, the clock was ticking

Some “scene groups” chose to encrypt uploads and change post names, but that only served to splinter the usefulness of it since most of those became group specific.

For everyone else, it was ISPs committing more and more resources to fighting to keep illegal files off their network, and end-users scrambling to either grab stuff fast before it was taken down, or move to a grey market “full archive“ provider for a fee.

Somehow, as bittorrent took off, the newsgroup technology never ended up having to “pay the piper”. But that is definitely something that could happen very easily in current day.
Somewhere along the way 'haptic feedback' went from meaning 'tactile/touch-based feedback' to 'vibrations'. It seemed less limiting under the earlier definition.
Thanks for these great resources my earlier searching of StackOverflow did not reveal.
I reduced the TTL values - thank you for informing. Thought it had propagated, so I increased the values a bit recently.
Not at all. BitTorrent is forward error corrected. It splits binaries up into chunks as an optimization, and ensures that you don't need a precise sequence of chunks to reassemble the file; an error correcting code ensures that you only need k of n chunks. Usenet binaries were literally just raw binaries, uuencoded(!), and split up into n chunks, of which you need all n chunks. Those streams of chunks were then broadcast to every node on the network, despite the fact that only a subset of nodes ever wanted any particular binary.

It was and remains the most batshit file transfer mechanism ever devised.
I'm just curious, did you construct these tables manually? I mean did you type those html tags manually?
I think the umbrella guy was a genius ... part of the problem with repairing "your favorite umbrella" is a lack of parts. Umbrellas tend to be fragile and his operation really only worked because of volume. He seemed to be repairing an umbrella every 5-10 minutes and was selling them for $3-$4 CUC each (about $1.13 US per CUC) so he was exceeding even the US minimum wage while offering a cheaper product - both these are amazing in a country where the official average income is around $80 US. Yet his business would have been impossible without the stockpile of donor umbrellas - which is precisely why we can't (economically) repair one umbrella at our house.
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What about using PGP or something? They could require as a matter of corporate policy that internal e-mails be sent using PGP, and that storage be encrypted. More sensitive stuff they could use OTR for.

I suppose it's not a good look if you're looking at an archived conversation and they switch over to PGP, but it's better than this.
Your software is all the same quality. The copy one customer has doesn't have a series of bits in it that are mistakes in the production that can't be removed. Everyone's binary is capable of the same actions. Software is malleable, hardware by it's very name is less so.
That's why it's cool; coolness is value, independence, and self-control (lit. "keeping your cool").
Wolfram Alpha crawling. They should be caching queries.
Nice. My initial reaction is that the serif fonts are hard to read. Can you try some console or san-serif fonts, or make that configurable? Someone else suggested toggleable themes, so it would go with that.
It's a metaphor. Not literally a physics or math statement.

In the system where most people operate most of the time, there's friction between all moving parts. Likewise, in the person-realm, every choice or action has an opportunity cost. "No such thing as a free lunch."

You can tell it's a metaphor and not a literal mathematical statement because it's not written in TeX /s
Issues, CI/CD, and code review are a huge part of the development process that git does not do.

Committing directly might work for a small team, but I can't imagine that scales.

I suppose we want fundamentally different things here, and sadly for you, I don't think you're a large enough portion of the audience that GitHub will ever create the tool you need.

Their APIs are open, though -- you can probably make one yourself.
> Now goods are packed in 3 or 4 layers which then get thrown away quickly.

Just so you konw, this isn't new with online shopping. All of that packaging is thrown away by the retailer if you buy it from a store.
These are all a bit old, but I still think they're cool!

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

https://github.com/marmelab/gremlins.js

http://processingjs.org
I’m seeing the “ranchers should deal with it because they graze bellow market rate on federal land argument” thing is that 68% of Colorado is government owned, so there isn’t much of an alternative. And the percentage of federally/public owned is even higher in other western states. Maybe offer these ranchers a chance to buy the land they graze on? That should adjust grazing rates back to market price in time.
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Depends on how you define "real engineer." In the US, you do not need a certification to call yourself an engineer.
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