skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't have decentralized DNS without some form of shared state, where the shared state must resolve the problem of "if I use key X to change the owner to Y, but then later on someone hacks my key and sends a message to change the owner to Z, how does the world know that Y came first?". This is equivalent to the double spending problem, and so a solution to this problem implies blockchains or some other architecture that can support a cryptocurrency.
Ask HN: How is working remotely working for you?
It has been a few weeks now of being confined to our homes. While the thought of kids actually seriously taking classes online was once a distant thought for some of us, it's now the new reality, kids are taking classes online, and engineers are working remotely, and my own neighbor in his late 70s told me the other day that he's keeping up with his mates on Zoom...

Remote has sort of been a thing to avoid for a lot of the large big companies. I want to ask all of you: how is it working out for you and company? For your kids? Now that we have finally tasted working remotely, even though out of force, do you think we'll be more accepting of it in the future when it's not needed? Anything else to share?
300 million each day would be the whole world population on less than a month. At current numbers ( 13000 per day ) that’s a few megabytes without compression.
It’s exactly because of the Author’s bio that I come down hard on him.

He knows what he’s saying is wrong, and he knows that if the FUD he’s spreading catches on, a lot of suffering will happen that otherwise would not have.

> when you build in tracking at such a deep-level it is open to abuse.

True, which is why he should do an analysis of this system rather than this. He could be using his platform as an authority and presumed skills as a teacher to explain the system rather than spread misinformation.
Synaptics is deprecated with no maintenance.

> The xf86-input-evdev driver is in maintenance mode at this point. The last commit was in May 2018 and, since the 2.10.0 release four years ago, there have been a total of 19 commits. It is still shipped in RHEL 8 in order to support "crazy devices" that don't work otherwise. Similarly, xf86-input-synaptics had a 1.9.0 release in 2016 and has had nine commits since. It is effectively dead and all touchpads should be working with libinput at this point. Since libinput took over from xf86-input-synaptics three years ago, no one has stepped up to say they want to continue maintaining it, Hutterer said.
Since the other commentor has already tried to address the benefits, I would like to point out that the costs are far from infinite: eg, NASA budget is 0.5% of total US budget (not GDP!). That is arguably a good investment, even if the only return is increased motivation to study STEM.
Unfortunately `&[u8]` is missing a lot of convenience methods that are on `&str`. It is getting better over time but I have definitely encounter the problem before where I tried to switch some string-based code to byte-based and was disappointed by the missing functionality.
Foreign central banks don’t really care so much about making or losing money on their dollar treasuries. They’re not currency speculators. They care much more about stabilising their currency and economy with respect to the global economy.

I don’t think you can un-pick dollar stability from its desirability. The value of fiat currencies is based solely on confidence, nothing else. You simply can’t say a currency is stable because people are confident in it, or that they are confident in it because it is stable. They are both different ways of saying the same thing. We measure confidence in a currency by analysing how stable it is in the market.
Turn off auto-update. You can still get security updates even without upgrading to the next major version of the OS.
It is utterly insane to trust Google or Apple for any reason whatsoever under any circumstance. They lie as often as they can get away with. You understand what they do, with with it or not despite any promises they make.

Fool me yet again and i feel bad so I'll trust you absolutely now? Come on!
If governments and cellular service providers already have the capability to track cell phones users and generate lists of people in close proximity, then why does Apple and Google need to create this contact tracing platform? Why are governments and cellular service providers not using this existing capability if they possess it?

I am not trying to imply that they do not have this capability. It just seems odd.

I also have a question: can this feature disabled simply via disabling Bluetooth?
>Why do things in America work so different?

I don't know about the rest of EU, but in my country we focus on knowledge, not on political correctness and politics. Thus we don't have many bureaucrats to feed so we can provide free education. WE also used to have a high barrier to entry in public Universities like tough admission exams, so only skilled people would be admitted. High barrier also meant very few dropouts.

In US they have a terribly large bureaucracy and funding that bureaucracy from public money wouldn't be wise or even possible.

In South Korea they have, if I'm not mistaken, one of the best higher education systems, centering on knowledge and performance, not on money and politics. China is starting to also have a very good high education system.
People always complain about this, yet nobody contributes: http://who-t.blogspot.com/2019/10/libinputs-bus-factor-is-1....
Exactly what I'd expect. There's also:

> Don’t refer to Apple devices generically as "smartphones" or "tablets."

> Don’t list Apple products that are not compatible with your app.

> Don’t display a blank screen on an Apple product, or on a television screen when showcasing Apple TV.

> The status bar [...] should show a full network icon [...], a full Wi-Fi icon, and a full battery icon.

And:

> Don’t feature the Apple logo to take advantage of the promotional value of the Apple brand.

But:

> Don’t obscure or cover the [Apple] logo.

It's really treading a fine line between the two, figuring out what exactly is allowed.

Some of the guidelines are even more neurotic:

> Always typeset [iPod] touch with a lowercase t.

> For [iPhone XR/XS] headlines and copy, use an uppercase X, small cap S, and small cap R

> Don’t use the word "watch" or "time" as a pun or verb in your marketing materials.

And the final gem:

Don’t break Apple
Watch over two lines.

Oops.
This is a better explanation, but got censored by Medium. Joining Facebook in its propaganda efforts.

http://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com...
OpenTelemetry – Beyond Getting Started
I love how professors live on charity and lecture us on money.
That one's mentioned in the linked article too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_Medieval_Fortress
Yep, I'm waiting for MathML to be here so I can switch the whole thing over. Unfortunately, it's not here (yet)!
> You’re missing the main point: if the government can do this, it will, independent of this contact tracing platform

How? I'm not talking about getting a warrant to infiltrate a single suspect's device, I'm talking about mass surveillance. They need a means, and depending on how they approach it, they need to soften up the public so they are willing.

Apps like this provide a means - maybe they don't collect everything the security services want from the beginning, but we could see a creeping escalation, especially under coercion by the security services.

As for softening up, western governments are already very good at keeping the general populace fearful, whether it be the commies, Russians, Chinese, Islam, terrorists, etc, there is always some boogeyman de jour.

Apps like this could be the opportunity they need - the straw that broke the camel's back, convincing people it's all to save lives. "good citizens will use these apps to save lives - what have you got to hide?".
If we, at our core, have a drive to increase entropy, I wonder if there's a correlation between families choosing to only have one child and those having a positive outlook towards preventing global warming.
There you go, they don't realize that they're already reliant on society, they think that they're doing it all themselves, it's peak narcissism.
What I meant was clear (and not what you wrote there.)

Jevon does not say that prices cannot fall. So if you're trying to use it to say prices will not fall, you're doing it all wrong.
In our country we have state scholarships, awarded to both top students and poor students. While not much, that can help.
Since the article relates to email and mentions digital stamps, it seems worth mentioning Microsoft's Penny Black[1] anti-spam research project which had/has some similar goals.

In general the idea (from both the linked article and the research project) is to make it computationally expensive to send messages, in a way that is cheap for the recipient to verify. That reduces both the desire and the capability for scammers to widely distribute their messages.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project)
That being said, in 1700-hundreads they still depended on army. And the interdependence with other households was great too. The was reasons back then for people to bundle themselves into small cities - survival on you own would be quite hard.
I'm still using Firefox on XWayland (because of the subtle bugs in the Wayland backend), but you can also get continuous scrolling on X using XInput2 as well (set the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1).
It was done because of technical limitations - the compiler didn't support dynamic packages (collections of dynamic libraries). This was again due to technical limitations from the compiler having to work in multiple OSes (i'm not 100% sure on the detail) and how they share and export symbols from dynamic libraries, something that Delphi didn't have to since it only had to work with Windows and only with their own libraries. FPC and Lazarus are also technically separate projects with their own release schedules and Lazarus has to work with multiple versions of FPC that make things a bit harder. This made introducing dynamic packages very hard... and since there wasn't much of a benefit for most uses (recompiling Lazarus is almost instant after the first compile and even that takes less than a minute even on old hardware), it wasn't something that FPC developers focused on much.

Having said that, the next version of FPC will support dynamic packages. They had to change some things in how RTTI is stored, apparently, to accommodate the OS differences (this may break some programs that use the RTTI structures directly, though the fix is trivial and 99.999% of programs wont be affected - even some of my own code that does touch RTTI directly works fine in both the latest stable version and the development version).

However chances are Lazarus will still keep using the recompile approach for some time since it'll need to work with FPC 3.0.x... and also it will take some time to update all packages to work dynamically.

Anyway, what i'm trying to say, this was done due to technical issues and compiler limitations due to what FPC and Lazarus have to support and remained an issue for a long time because in practice it didn't make much of a difference. However it will soon be solved.
Twitter is not an information channel. Alt publisher aren't "alt" something if their opinion is promoted, they are mainstream publisher then.
And journalism is a full time job. You should look at how investigation journalist work before spitting on them to realise that it can be replaced by random stuff with unverified content, fake news, or propanganda activists.
Most of the time they don't care. They've got 4 million email addresses, they'll just spam all of them.
You must buy their books though.
It’s not just turning something on though.

This system doesn’t do what the author is talking about. It’s decentralized, opt-in, and transparent. The government would have to force Apple and Google to make it centralized, automatic, and secret. In others, force them to make a completely different platform.
Rewriting My WordPress Site in HTML/CSS and Comparing Performance
Welcome to the confusing short hands of pound-force and kg-force!

It's huge part of why Newtons were used in SI instead of gram-force in CGS.

Still persists in thrust calculations, especially as metric ton-force, due to ease of calculating TWR and related.
Everyone is a slave to money.
Apparently this is not presenting in the lungs as either ARDS or pnemonia which has been the problem. There is a doctor in this thread who was saying vents were making O2 levels drop so they just provided low pressure oxygen.

My focus more on nutritional genetics and biochemistry so I am trying to put something I know well with something I can maybe understand. This is why I reached out here.
Are you using the official releases? If you are using Lazarus from Debian or some other repository, it will not work due to these packages not setting up permissions for the executable to be replaced.

In general IME on Linux the best approach is to install FPC (either from repositories or, better, using the official release) and then download the Lazarus source code and compile it somewhere in your home directory with 'make bigide'. This will avoid any problems with Lazarus packaging that often tends to be broken (again, IME).
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If you want wealth, stop renting out your time. Lean towards equity. You need to be able to make money even while sleeping.
I wish macOS would just drop back to major releases every 2-3 years. Sure, drop a point release in September to add compatibility with whatever new feature iOS has gained, but my Mac is the computer I do work on. I need it to always be reliable.

Right now it seems the only way to do that is wait a long time before installing any update they push.
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In Germany there are, as far as I know, also a number of ways to get an exception. The normal way to attend Uni if you did not get the right Abitur from your high school however is to simply repeat high school from age 18 to ~21. This is called "Zweiter Bildungsweg" (Second Path to Education).

There is the colloquium doctum in the Netherlands, but you're still at a relative disadvantage if you're not put on the right track (VWO) as a child. So while the Dutch do a lot of things much better than the Germans, I think this one is only marginally improved.

Also cost of living in the Netherlands is far from cheap and as far as I know the Uni doesn't really help with that. So I'm still not sure how one would go about completing five or six years of full-time studies here without any financial assistance, either from their parents or by taking out a loan?

At the end of the day, it's always possible to go to Uni somehow, even if you had the bad luck to get sorted into the wrong bucket as a child. But it obviously takes much more effort than would have been required if you were placed in the right high school from the start. And even once you are admitted to Uni, not having a steady stream of passive income puts you at a huge disadvantage compared to most of the other students that do have it.

So my point is that, even in Europe, having wealthy and well-educated parents still puts you at a huge advantage when it comes to education. It's not exactly a solved problem here either.
I've been using this for years. IIRC it's called "chaining". Unfortunately I've come across many sites that don't recognize, or allow, the + character in their input field. For those sites i can still crates either a group email from my Gmail, or just add another alias.
It’s ad reductio it’s like saying soccer is pushing a ball. You could also say life is waking up eating sleeping and then death. It’s true but it’s definitely an emotional argument. I preferred the lectures on free will by Conway, it does not answer anything but it allows for a nice réflexion
Ancient Egyptian home-defense techniques to protect yourself, your family
Everywhere I've lived in the United States, you can find bats, even in NYC.

But like rodents and (also pretty much everywhere) different species pose different risks.
Other than the author having the ability to use large words I'm not sure what I was supposed to have come away with from this piece at all, it's just word salad.
No need to spend 50% in taxes for free public education. Just spend money for knowledge, not for politics. Don't give any money tu bureaucrats and diversocrats.
I went to a meetup on TerminusDB. It seemed like a cool project and quite mature. https://terminusdb.com/
Would that make you the slave owner?
AMD SEV has the same problem, with an even larger attack surface. But - at least it's compatible with the rest of the world, since it runs ordinary VMs, and can be used as a drop-in defense-in-depth measure.

Intel SGX, on the other hand, is a severely constrained alien environment and porting stuff to run in SGX is a massive undertaking, requiring special compilers and SDKs. The cost-benefit calculation does not add up, given that it does not provide the level of security it claims to have.

I wouldn't be surprised if SEV will eventually be adopted as the industry standard, while SGX disappears into irrelevance.
Curious to know what people here think about industrial PhD programs.
Seeing the quality and attitudes of the students, I don't think having limited access to university would be a bad thing.
The last thing I would want to do is re-invent Unix once again.

I would probably try to hack myself some sort of Forth-like language and have fun.
>But today a good chunk, 40% maybe, of the student body is, to my eye, nonwhite. I don't know how much of that can be ascribed to the diversity officer but it is IMHO a very good thing.

You can do better by rejecting all whites, asians. You can allow them to donate though, so you have more money for diversity programs.
A decentralized content ecosystem develops, content tracking and discoverability become a problem, a bunch of aggregators emerge, eventually one or few dominate and become the default destination for a critical mass of the users, decide they might as well become a platform, the ecosystem is no longer decentralized. Rinse and repeat.
Do you feel like you're getting something out of all those email updates? My solution was to simply cut down the amount of incoming mail. Nowadays I receive about three emails a day, with some days of zero emails in between. Feels like a good number to me personally.
I don't know man, lots of other people agreed with me and you seem to have several low voted comments defending yourself, seems like you're the one who may need to reflect. I'm not going to argue any further, though, I'm comfortable with my position and I'd rather not waste my time with you.
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If machines are slaves then yes.
By concentrating you risk getting over focused and boxed into some small branch. Having many, many directions with cooperation across them means you get significant interdisciplinary benefits, from just "someone looked at it the other way" to (quite common!) "we need some fancy material, fortunately space R&D already prototyped one that fits!"
A Mechanical Masterpiece: The Konstantin Chaykin Moscow Comptus Easter Clock
I am delving into speculation here, since I am not familiar with AIT and I don’t know any other definition of algorithmic information besides mutual information as defined by Kolmogorov which, remember, relies on Kolmogorov complexity but is a separate concept.

My point is that if I ask you, “given a bit sequence A, is it an optimal program?”, your answer would probably be: “I cannot even say if this represents a computable function and, also, is it an optimal program compared to what?”. You must establish a frame of reference such as the Kolmogorov complexity of a given program.
TBH in practice i never found showing more than one error useful since way more often than not these errors are either related or the first error also causes the other errors. I only find it useful when the compilation process is very slow, but i try to avoid slow compilers whenever possible and always just recompile whenever i fix the first error. Most IDEs move your cursor to the error position so the build key also acts as a "move to next error" key :-P.
Wouldn't it be fantastic, if Apple had an easy way to help users learn, why their mac woke up? Currently that is complex scientific work.
I like Mr. Beale in that movie.

But this rant completely misses the fact that only in socialism (or earlier, slavery) can Mr. Beale be "forced" to do something. Mr. Beale could have chosen to quit his job and become a fisherman or something.
This is not a new idea - it's been around for decades now[1] - and the suggestion that it's related to individuality is a distraction that carries a lot of political, psychological, and emotional baggage that is irrelevant to the topic.

There is no individuality in information theory. There are only systems.

It's been debated whether or not there's individuality in evolutionary theory. You don't lose anything - and you may gain a lot - if you stop thinking of evolution as the survival of "fit individuals", and think of it more as the survival of complex ecosystems shaped by a blend of cooperative and competitive strategies with environmental feedback and randomness.

[1] The first example I can find is Schrodinger's book "What is Life?" published in 1944.
If you go that route, "bricked" is now indistinguishable from "broke," and we already have a word for that. Broke. We would have then gone from a situation where we had two different states and names for each of those states to a situation where we have two words for the very same, very fuzzy state and no way to talk about the other state.

It makes a mockery of the idea of advice. Imagine your parents calling you and telling you that their machine is bricked. Well, I guess they must buy a new one and the old must go to electronic recycling. No need for a diagnostic of any kind, it's bricked.

Linguistic descriptivism will be the death of communication and standards. Only pushing back at the creep will allow people to discuss anything technical. Imagine the trend should it overtake medicine. If a certain kind of stroke is suspected, the patient should take aspirin right away. No, aspirin-aspirin, not ibuprofen. Then you have someone who says, "Well, ibuprofen is an aspirin sure!"
True but for a lot of people that's pretty much it. It would not be absurd to say: "For my 4 year old soccer is just pushing a ball".
If I can piggyback on this, as someone who's learning Rust right now:

One of my first trial programs in any language is a tcptraceroute, since it's a good mix of super-beginner tasks and one slightly advanced thing. I hit a problem in Rust right at the beginning: obviously I need to make a socket, but which crate do I use, "socket" or "socket2"? Socket doesn't build anymore, but it's still available as a crate and I have to include it as a dependency and "cargo build" my project to find out that it doesn't work. To make it more frustrating, the only other example of a Rust traceroute that I found uses socket, not socket2, so it doesn't build anymore, either.

I did figure it out, but it felt like an unnecessary speedbump.
> ever more marginal students who stand little chance of graduating

> Before their inevitable withdrawal...

> ...even larger pool of likely dropouts...

rambling mishmash of concepts and overt racism gets in the way of complaining about tuition and crass lack of support for students during COVID here. Oh well.