skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News organizations present a limited, curated view from fact checked, verified sources. The information flow is mostly one way, from the news organization to me.

A social media news feed might present the same underlying story to me, but via some opinion blog that has not fact checked it or verified sources. It might also come with assorted speculation by the posted, ranging from wild ass to outright insane conspiracy theories.

And social media is designed to get me to offer my opinion on it, and to see other people's opinion, and for all of us who read it to discuss it in a semi-pseudonymous free for all.

The news organization approach is much more effective if the goal is to actually inform people about the negative event.
It's a distributed ledger "distributed" among a permission group of owners.

The real test is if you can just replace it with a database is it still relevant? In this case, you change nothing by just removing the "blockchain" and replacing it with a database server. Same thing with XRP, it's not distributed consensus in any meaningful way and thus is not a cryptocurrency by any accepted definition.
I think I'm going with Winforms, and a close second is Javas Swing..
But I don't like writing software in Java or for windows only, so, QT5 has to be my fav.
> I don't buy it, the OP's first instinct was to see if they can pirate it. Only when they couldn't, did they pay for it.

I feel like this is intentionally ignoring the previous lifetime of experience which led to the OP's decision to attempt to pirate first.

After Google Play Music was announced to be shutting down a few years ago I've been trying to rebuild a (legal) lossless music collection. It's shocking how difficult it is to find some tracks and artists in a lossless format legally.

Some CDs I used to own years ago are now going for $250 used. Sites like HDTracks have apparently never heard of those bands, there's no Bandcamp site, the band site now redirects to facebook, all I can buy is 160kbps mp3.

Some CDs I used to own are available for $6.99, but it's the George Lucas style remastered content where they changed the lead-in and chorus and everything sounds wrong.

And that's not to mention the disks I still own that are copy protected. Sure I'll just pop this CD into my new car.... Oh wait it doesn't have a CD drive because it's 2020 and why would the manufacturer even consider including one? Is it okay to copy that CD? Why or why not?

So I still can't listen to some of my favorite bands, on whom I've spent $$$ on merchandise and concerts and their original CD releases, because I'm restricting myself to following the law. I cannot begrudge someone for choosing to pirate in the slightest.
We explicitly encourage the "let's invent name for this similar but unnamed thing" with our students, and use whatever name they come up with for the thing for the rest of their time with us.

Sometimes those student created names become legendary. They really enjoy the idea that they can have "Jane's relation" be used by students after they graduate. (Of course, sometimes Jane's relation is really Euler's totient function, and we have to encourage them that even though they found something a very good mathematician also found, we're going to call it by the common name.)
I think that's a bit uncharitable, I interpreted the phrase to mean "tried and, except in the very unlikely case that guilt cannot be proved, executed".
> Things good for the company should be and frequently are good for the people using the product.

I think there's a misalignment here. In traditional business what you said may be generally true (with some striking counterexamples like cigarette companies). In internet advertising things good for the company should be and frequently are good for the company's customers. Facebook's users are not its customers, and Facebook is generally incentivized to keep users on the site and consuming content (and advertising) by any means necessary - regardless of the long-term harm it might cause the users.
> it makes it impossible to afford to write as often as I'd like

DRM is not the solution because the solution doesn't exist. The problem of the impoverished writer predates digital publishing, it's hard to make a decent living by writing anything interesting other than through indirect benefits. Sorry but writing something interesting is a luxury, writing something slutty is the only direct business prospect in writing.

Consider this: did Charles Darwin make a living through the royalties of "the origin of species"? No, he was bankrolled, the book was simply the fruits of his investment.
I think most social media discussions have degraded to outrage of the week.

I limit myself to instagram stories once a month to broadcast that I’m still there to my close friends.
> The problem really is platforms that give people content to please them.

But it doesn't please them -- study after study shows a high correlation between depression and anxiety and social media use.
They said they would start doing it twice a year and since it's done remotely the pandemic won't stop them. I don't see why they wouldn't run it this summer. I think it will be open from now on.
For the uninitiated:

> Unlike JSON Web Tokens (JWT), which gives developers more than enough rope with which to hang themselves, Paseto only allows secure operations. JWT gives you "algorithm agility", Paseto gives you "versioned protocols". It's incredibly unlikely that you'll be able to use Paseto in an insecure way.
This is the hardest source I can find, but it only measures what happens on Facebook. The numbers do seem higher than what I'd expect for IRL conversations, though:

https://research.fb.com/blog/2015/05/exposure-to-diverse-inf...

> Online I am connected to those whom I socialize with or am otherwise professionally connected to. In the “real world” this constraint is largely absent.

This seems entirely backwards to me? Maybe you talk more with strangers IRL than online, but I doubt it. I only have n=1 (me), but we are talking right now. Who knows where we live in relation to each other?

So much of politics is split between urban and rural environments. Those groups are defined by where they live, so I expect very few conversations in person between the two, especially about politics.
Maybe something with a content security policy?
That makes sense, think there been evidence of ISPs throttling connections, except for speedtests, in the past, so would make sense. My own ISP also used to throttle Steam downloads for a couple of years, until suddenly they didn't.
Related to this is Scott Adams' Goals vs. Systems - https://www.scottadamssays.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
To the people anonymously downvoting, that was a question. Is it or is it not? Are we going to discuss or are we just going to downvote anyone behind the security of our screens just because I’m saying something you don’t like? The great firewall exists. China has a track record of duping products, not upholding copyrights, and manipulating their markets. They are trying to passive aggressively win an economic and cyber war, and if you want to pretend it’s not the case then and pretend we are all playing by fair rules and continue to preach fairness when there is clearly a bad actor and continue to let the bad actor get away with it then we will all be worse off for it.
That landing page is beautiful.
So which one is a JWT hackers?

A) v1.local.CuizxAzVIz5bCqAjsZpXXV5mk_WWGHbVxmdF81DORwyYcMLvzoUHUmS_VKvJ1hn5zXyoMkygkEYLM2LM00uBI3G9gXC5VrZCUM-BLZo1q9IDIncAZTxYkE1NUTMz

B) eyJhbGciOiJIUzM4NCIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkhpIEhhY2tlciBOZXdzIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ.IlIR9_imqGCgEVG_QUb4LhDwSeNhYc50t3Ij5x126scVNJFQqCveblmHx__tqjaI

C) ATkJzynwvPlX6PxBU5BO5xa96S6vymIbmIZnk9og7KxhLHqYLoneLK6WTkyyuGFk7uWZZUnQFVTaThmHzFvaf

D) gAAAAABezWTi-jcq7zlfBaR0vGUy-B9WJ_3lL6S48JO7t9LiW4283zOqBAJvJZEAvusn7OKpgyyoPp2p7okVE4TQfYuihDou67vOHH6G0zqdQz0_1NLvSTM=

If you know which one it is straightaway, then it is the worst choice out of all of them, (because it is not encrypted by default). I would chose the least obvious one here.
yes, it's never simply black-and-white, but you're overstating that case, especially with facebook. by now, nearly everyone in tech and many adjacent industries (e.g., entertainment) has heard about and probably internalized the downsides of facebook, particularly the mechanisms and tactics employed to advance facebook at the detriment of society at large. it's pretty clear many of those people at facebook are avoiding or ignoring inconvenient truths when it comes to removing those mechanisms and tactics to the benefit of society at large but at the detriment of facebook.
Real-time object detection is what YOLO does and darknet implements it, but I see where you are going with the edge detection in SOD vs. darknet. You add in OpenCV if you want to use it.
How can western leaders condemn China's lack of publishing info related to COVID-19 and protect private research for curing it at the same time? Research like this should be public and accessible to everyone. I don't know why I shouldn't applaud any hackers spreading this information.
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Ask HN: Can you name a “truly” diverse company?
Companies, startups, organizations, non profits - each manage "diversity" to varying extent.

Is there really a truly diverse company, or even close? One that weighs color, gender, ethnicity a naught.

Since ~4yrs, I have markedly noticed serious attention on increased female presence, across the leadership, board and in general.
(at least, amongst companies housed in western developed countries)

Yet, I find this shortsighted.
For instance, in a global company operating in 50+ countries, with non trivial growth and revenues coming from US, EU and Asian markets - key leadership is always rooted in country of origin.

A German global company never lets power quorum go non-German.
Leadership needed in a fast growth asian market? Send a German leader to China for 4 years, instead of hiring a local talent.
40% asian workforce? In 10 years, 0% representation in board, or even corporate executive leadership.
Thank you for your reply, and for telling me I died.
Haven't posted a comment in a long time, and unfortunately I can't see that I'm dead :)
Made a new account as suggested.
Yeah. There's a lot of relief in letting go, accepting that other people are outside of your power to control, and just practicing acceptance no matter how wrong or annoying or stupid you think people are being.
Map of Computing Architectures (AWS)
A visual map of AWS inspired by the periodic table. Places every service on a map made of area (data, compute, move) vs scope (human, data center, cloud)
What Boris Johnson Should Have Known
what kind of mathematical models do you guys use (like convex optimizations?), I am very interested in this subject and would hope to learn more.
>I also think there’s an art to deescalation and discussing ideas or persuading someone you disagree with to see an alternative view

This doesn't really work with core views like politics. Some of the most polarizing topics are not because the opposite side can't see your view, it's because you fundamentally disagree on priorities.

Examples:

Anti-abortion people aren't going to be persuaded by yet another view on women's rights. They think you're arguing to murder babies. The plight of a woman in poverty is not going to suddenly make them go, "oh, well then I guess a litte murder is okay."

A libertarian isn't going to be swayed to suddenly think a planned economy is a better approach even when presented with spectacular market failures. They completely understand the failures suck and understand the alternative views just fine. Another anecdote is not realistically going to alter a belief that central planning is worse overall.
eeek. Yeah that's a rough article.
Succinctness is power.

Paul Graham explained this way better than I could: http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html

On the other hand I don't agree with your point about visual structure. Personally I believe visual structure is mostly about code indentation. Visual structure can be apparent in any language, functional or not.
Also Atomic Habits[1], based in part on Adams' system[2].

1. https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0...

2. https://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
BBC update:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52808059
We'll have to agree to disagree. I think the numbers clearly show Elixir is obscure and declining fast and that in general that can't be good for OSS projects, you seem to think otherwise and that's OK.
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ISTR that seaweed was a folk remedy for goiter. It contains relatively high amounts of iodine, which prevents thyroid conditions.

I also vaguely recall that the doctrine of signatures wasn't a complete and abject failure, but some cursory Googling indicates that maybe it was after all.
True. Do you think there is a tipping point?
++++ on Earthbound. Absolute masterpiece of a game.
"mb" is not millibar; "mbar" is.
> how such discussions go

In my case, I told my manager about a system design problem that would cause a daily annoyance to 100k people, forcing them to input their passwords more often than necessary. He said, "they'll accept it." I said, "I quit."
Thank you, sorry, I probably should have included that.
The point was you don't have to define it at all. You just need some things that were previously dismissed as "alternative medicine" in the past (say) 50 years, but which are now widely seen as ordinary medicine. I'm looking for examples a lot of people might actually remember from their own lives here... if you have to go back a century to find something then that doesn't count (sorry).
Libraries with TS codebase almost always have a prebuilt bundle.
Very nice two phrases ... I can imagine the rest...
The simple, free, and secure telemedicine solution
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here? Only one of these is a valid JWT.
It's about 8km off for me, in a different city.

They appear to be putting me exactly where MaxMind's GeoIP database thinks I am.
It isn't as fast as your LAN. It's shared between dozens (hundreds?) of flats, the upload bandwidth is very low, latency is relatively high and security can be questionable if encryption is not enabled due to the shared nature of it.
I don't understand. It looks a little like Ruby and Elixir mixed together, maybe without some colons that would otherwise be there. There's nothing crazy going on in the examples in the way of single letter variables or anything else I'd consider reductive.

It's not really all that novel, and more of a pleasing combination of existing ideas. So why pin this on "functional advocates", whatever "this" even is?

Maybe you could expound on your ideas a bit to help me understand your reasoning. Perhaps your comment is just incomplete rather than being wrong.

(also, hopefully your qualms go further in depth than the syntax, because literally-skin-deep comparisons are a little boring)
I'm currently doing this, but with close to 16k slides. As I also felt uncomfortable with sending those to someone, plus the (small) risk of something getting lost while shipping, I decided to try it myself. The price difference wasn't that great at that point either.

Turns out pretty much all the professional scan services use the same scanner, able of scanning a whole magazine automatically. Since there basically is just that one device that can scan magazines and delivers good quality.

But as I slowly learned, this is a typical niche market with no competition, so you can ask any price you want.

The device is made in China and sold under different brands in the west. In the US its pacific images and costs only around 1200$. In Germany it's either Reflecta or Braun, but they want around 1900€.

The device feels cheap, sounds cheap, moving parts feel flimsy. I spent two month tinkering with different software, different settings. It has some quirks. It's slow. If the image is too bright, the included software sets exposure so low that it's scanning to fast for the internal processor and stops every second or so, creating a tiny but notable seam in the image. It's USB 2.0 but definitely not coming close to saturating that bandwidth.

After about 1000 slides, the scanner produced serious artifacts in every scan. Had to send it in for repair.

I don't know how you can make money using this device for scanning services. Not at the prices they charge. You barely cover the retail price once you reach the advertised life span of 20k scans.
Yes, this is a huge problem throughout the industry.

The tech world is gibberish. The real world is gibberish too, but the comparatively large number of tech products (because of the ease of releasing software) really exacerbates the problem in tech. Everything is a code name, in-joke, or initialism.

If this were limited to public products then you could write it off as overly ambitious branding, but you can tell it's an issue because internal products suffer the same problem. You know it's bad when you can't even navigate your own company's hierarchy because you don't know what half the team names mean.

Unfortunately, this will probably never change; there's too much precedent. Naming things incomprehensibly is fun, it creates a barrier to entry that makes developers feel smart, and the tech world doesn't value communication enough to change it. In a world where stackoverflow serves as de facto documentation for many major tech products because their own documentation is terrible, I hardly expect those same companies to value coherent naming.
I separate my identity from my job, and my "work product" from my personal projects. If I get paid to make something for somebody else, it belongs to the person or organization who paid for it, and they can do what they want with it--including burning it down and throwing it away. I already have their money; what they do with their property is none of my business. As long as I know that I did a good job on what was asked of me, that's all that matters--I can be satisfied with my work.

Now, if they tried to tell me what to do with my own personal projects, we'd have problems!
Used this years ago for twitter https://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ It was amazing... everyone thinks you're working with the terminal open ;)
How about using http://us.metamath.org/ as a db for math theorems / definitions and do some heavy data mining there?
So, when do we launch the nukes?

If you're talking about conflict, be clear how far both sides might be willing to escalate.
wish that I could actively decide not to pay attention to this comment, but I am unable.
I fixed a bug in one of the U.S.'s systems for detecting nuclear explosions
They did not always have 5% market share. iOS and Android pushed WebKit/Blink hard, and Mozilla did not quickly respond; the ecosystem has suffered as a result.
Still think "Libra" was a badly chosen name. In (at least) spanish and portuguese languages, the word "Libra" is most of the times used to refer to the british pound. So "50 pounds" is actually literally translated to "50 Libras" in those languages.

So, if this thing ever takes off, there will be around 700 million people that will be calling it "Facebook Libra" and not just "Libra" in order to make the distinction. Not sure if this was what they intended in the first place, but I don't see why.
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I think it’s important to note that Facebook didn’t invent any of this. They just built the biggest mainstream distribution channel to do so. Nothing they ever did in terms of facilitating pointless arguments has been all that original either.

People have been doing this forever, and even on the Web much, much longer than Facebook has existed.

Now that said, they know what they have on their hands and how it makes them the money. They aren’t going to fix it. It is a big feature of their product.
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Color can influence how your coffee tastes
Has anyone thought about how the color of your coffee mug can influence the flavor of coffee? How big of an influence do you think psychology has on our perception of flavor, compared to origin and brewing methods?
Looking into the page inspector shows 165 http requests on the start page. It includes ads, tracker and analystics from multiple sources (google, twitter, linkedin, facebook etc).

Can anyone sugguest an (offline?) alternative?

I used jwt.io a lot for debugging and it's great.
Currently it is decoding the tokens on the client but I am not sure if I should continue using it.

A hacker could take over the site and capture thousands of access tokens and some are valid for multiple days.

Edit: Installing uBlock origin reduces the number of requests down to 67 but I still see the analytics stuff from google and twitter.
I dunno: the last sentence of the abstract of [2] is:

> A better understanding of voter irrationality advises us to rely less on democracy and more on the market.

To my mind this immediately brings up the question of why people who are irrational voters would be expected to be rational economic actors.

- - - -

...Ah! I just looked at it again and saw the sub-heading: "Cato Institute Policy Analysis Series No. 594"

PLONK!
It's a good deal if you want to own the ability to read digitally for the agreed upon time period. Read = 1, Property = null.

It's a terrible deal if you want to own the e-book for a second read, because you haven't bought that.
> It starts as soon as you visit, other speed tests don't, which violates a user's consent.

1) fast.com, 2) this feels like a reach, isn't "going to a speed test site" a pretty clear indicator of what the user intends to do?

> It gives wildly different results than other speedtests, with no explanation as to why.

I'm confused what your platonic ideal of a speed test is. Off the top of my head, I may care about:

* "speed to my ISP"

* "speed to something I care about that's 'nearby'" (fast.com to a Netflix box peered close to me)

* "speed to a CDN" (speed.cloudflare.com)

* "speed to a random data center somewhere" (speedof.me and friends)

* "speed to a box I own"

I'd be amazed if I didn't see significant deviation between all of those measures.
Pretty sure this will work on iOS 13 too

https://codeshare.frida.re/@machoreverser/ios12-ssl-bypass/

Here's another Frida snippet that'll extract the TLS keys so traffic can be decrypted (magic number in the code might need changing for iOS 13 though)

https://codeshare.frida.re/@andydavies/ios-tls-keylogger/
'Infringing copyright' is also a correct verb for this situation. I 100% agree that 'stealing' is not a valid word to use here. But I also don't expect most authors to be happy calling it 'sharing'.
They're a cult of aesthetics. FP is just one tool in the toolbox. And for most things, it's the wrong tool.
Having built a few CDNs, I can tell you geographic proximity isn't a good metric for which POP is "best".

You might be located in Delhi, but maybe your ISP backhauls all your traffic to their head office in Mumbai for example. It wouldn't make sense to then ship your traffic back to Delhi just to serve it from the geographically closest location when Mumbai is your "network closest."

The Delhi POP might also be overloaded, or down for router maintenance, or they can serve your traffic cheaper from Mumbai.
Wow, I had no idea this blog existed - I loved Marilyn Burns's children's math books as a kid, awesome to see her still in action.
I feel like I've heard of this world of exclusively hyperlinked simple web pages referred to as "the document web".

But in my brief searches I can't find another source for that term. Maybe I'm inventing it in my head right now, but regardless, it feels like a good name.