skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your logic/argument is completely circular. Do you mean to say that undercutting competition is monopoly behaviour because you're strong-arming[1] your suppliers because you're a monopoly?

[1] "strong-arming" is left undefined, but let's continue.
>- Drugs. Delivered to your door in a plain wrapper.

What are the transaction costs like on BTC these days? I'm surprised many people still bother with BTC given the enormous costs I've seen.
open source, permissionless, programmable, trustless, unstoppable.
Artificial Artificial Intelligence?
I'm not seeing any solved problems here.
Following this mindset, blockchain can be described as low efficiency and high stability?
Seems great. What's the pricing or how do you make money ?
They're permissionless, open source, censorship-resistant, borderless, near instant compared to legacy finance, auditable, composeable (can build protocols on top of other protocols to extend various financial services), and they enable new capabilities that current system can't do.
Matrix has a single implementation that supports E2EE and it uses electron. XMPP has multiple of them that do not.
Yeah, it makes it sound like they are in the solar system.
Nothing is trustless. It just distributes trust which makes it harder but by no means impossible for your trust to become misplaced.
The post makes their mistakes pretty clear, I think. Public out-of-date Jenkins instance, SSH forwarding enabled by developers for all matrix.org servers, and not realizing they only rotated their personal Cloudflare API key and not their admin one.

It's very embarrassing for sure, but tons of huge private corporations have been breached through worse mistakes than this. Making their Jenkins public was probably the worst decision. They explain why they did it, and it's not unreasonable (radical openness and transparency, basically), but they should've thought it through more.
Debian will probably require someone making dotnetcorium that removes the telemetry.
> Getting money out of China

Replace `out` with `{in|out}` and China with `<any country>`, and now we're in agreement.

> - Drugs. Delivered to your door in a plain wrapper.

Sounds like a much better experience than getting shot when trying to get your dose (if you're an addict).
https://magic.link/ also pretty cool

and

https://handshake.org/ also awesome
theyve changed the blockchain a couple of times so no.
Mozilla has earned vast sums of Google Search money over the last decades. If that money had been invested into an endowment then Firefox and projects like MDN could have independent funding. Instead they used it on what? So now we have to donate money to an org who's executives make more each year than our home is worth? No thanks.
Kombucha
Agreed - They are pretty easy to assemble these days.
I used the pcpartpicker, like you, and had it done in an hour.

Unless you get case which is too small, and you have problems getting you hands in there.
Because I don't want to trust Microsoft more than I have to. It'd be the only non-distro provided keys on my computer.

I would subject myself to them. Maybe in 5 years they decide that to download, you need a Microsoft account login?

This weakens one of the core strengths of GNU/Linux, that every software installation is only an apt get away. Also, Debian packaging does a level of vetting that the software complies by their packaging policies, which ensures that it is truly libre.

I know that Microsoft has their UEFI signing keys in all the IBM computers around the world and has signed the desktop Linux bootloaders as well, and I respect that they do this, but that's a different part of the stack. I understand that some entity needs to sign the bootloaders, and Microsoft has since shown itself to be a reasonable guardian.
I'd like to point you to this Vice article titled "One Bitcoin Transaction Consumes As Much Energy As Your House Uses in a Week". Meanwhile swiping a credit card uses slightly more electricity than a google query.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-ele...
Yes. Social networks and categorising artistic output both seems like great uses and then ... very little else.
https://www.bitsorbricks.com/writing/the-government-of-the-f...
Sure, but my point is that you are describing power not capital
Isn't Handshake the thing premised on IANA handing over control of the DNS to a premined cryptocurrency network so they can resell it? I keep wondering if I can do that with ARP. It's like that episode of The Office with the business seminar and the guy whose business idea is just that he gets a 1c cut of every credit card transaction.
There is a single private key log in to ALL of them and they interoperate without requiring partnerships by way of sharing protocols and token specifications. It's quite unlike traditional banking verticals where each is siloed and never let the user share data or make it portable. (think 2-3 day processing times, shitty PDF exports and incompatible data exports).
We're working on the air for our start up. In the mean time the interns are matching stuff in spread sheets.
SPA?
I think you’ll find plenty of complaints with Facebook, Google, and Apple mixed into their relevant conversations. In fact, I’m pretty sure many people on here would have issues installing a key from Facebook too.

Admittedly though, it’s hard to avoid a Google or Apple key, if you’re using an OS from them...
It is antithetical for apple to create a for-profit store which allows for all avenues for profit to be skipped.

Apple's take is typically one of a referral/marketing relationship, such as how they charge different rates for acquiring a new customer subscription (30% for the first year) vs maintaining a customer subscription (15% for additional years) or having a customer come in through another subscription channel (0%).

To prevent abuse (from Apple's perspective), they mandate that the in-app subscription and purchasing be available and 'encouraged' (as in, not actively discouraged through referring to any price difference from other channels as a 'tax', or linking to other channels rather than offering in-app options).

A lot of the recent news (such as the Hey email app fiasco) unfortunately come from developers trying to interpolate what is acceptable through other examples in the App Store, rather than reading the terms they have with Apple. IMHO different handling of different apps is actually due to the various business models producing a very 'jaggy' line around in-app purchasing and subscription requirements. For instance, Hey decided rather than supporting in-app subscriptions as an option, they would provide a 'free' service tier - but this does mean their app is restricted from pushing the user to a paid subscription tier, including indirectly via links to the hey.com website.

Developers often look at very popular apps which have the ability to publish with no functionality without an out-of-app account with external purchases and/or subscriptions. However, these apps are actually limited to a few types of products, so called 'reader' apps where presumably the user equates the products with consumption of already purchased/rented physical goods (music, movies, television episodes, books, magazines, etc). Presumably this exemption both came from the popularity of large apps published before in-app purchasing was added to the system, that Apple themselves had spent a lot of time implying their various media stores were for "purchasing" media just like in the physical world, and that limitations that would effectively prohibit the use of systems such as Kindle and Amazon Music would create antitrust issues.

Apple obviously is not willing to voluntarily give up any territory along this line of exemptions, which is why other services (such as email accounts or blog hosting) are not considered part of this "reader" exemption. Also obviously, it is also really unfortunate that this complicates what business models are acceptable when publishing on the App Store.
If you really want to, atleast on a pixel phone you could unlock your bootloader and put 3rd part open source OS like Graphene OS, Lineage OS or Heck even an AOSP rom
As a distributed ledger, that does not require a consolidated authority, it has the potential to have many uses.

Many think blockchain as a synonym for BitCoin and the like, while the central technology seems to be the distributed ledger.

However, with anything distributed, the network is only as good as it's participants. Which means, when thinking long term, it fails to give confidence in the system, because who knows, 20 years from now, will there by any participants in the distributed ledger?
Did not see that it was posted already. Sorry about that.
Any discount is enticing, but I wonder how many really go through the effort of -

1. Searching, Opening the web page in Safari.

2. Signing-in.

3. Updating personal details.

4. Updating credit card details.

5. Making the payment.

Instead of clicking a button to save $1?

P.S. I would.
Building a startup from $0 to $1 – Day 3: IDEA
Chase?
>> Unless actor 2 is both a) selling at less than cost and b) either a de-facto monopoly supplier or is acting in concert with most other significant suppliers, then there is no monopoly issue

Plenty of businesses have run into problems without doing this. You also use circular reasoning when saying there's no monopoly issue unless there's a monopoly issue.
You are right that the current situation is not ideal too, I would prefer if there was a single store for iOS and Android. That said, simply because these problems already exists to some extent, it doesn't mean that amplifying them isn't going to make things worse.

> Before Apple was successful with the walled garden approach I could develop and app and be 100% guaranteed I'd be able to publish it

Publish and do what with it? Collect kudos from strangers? That's not good, I can't live on kudos, I should be able to do business. Surely you can adopt a business model where you collect and sell data about your users or sell access to your users(known as browser extension business) but I find that business model unethical and I don't want to be involved in it.

Business happens when money change hands, writing code and putting it out there is not a business(unless you are payed to do it for someone but that's a different situation). After a communist revolution things may change but until then, that's how it is.
> Second, Xi Jinping can easily lose in a CCP court, he just has to go against the will of the party members of the CCP enough. Xi Jinping is below the Politburo as well as the National People's Congress. He simply is kindly advised not to act in ways that would lead to his removal, just as other Chinese presidents often had their hands tied. He is not reliably above the law.

Xi can certainly lose power, but the actions that would cause this lack much relationship to the stuff written down in books labeled "Chinese Law". Xi's power is a bit less absolute than a traditional dictator's (and that dictator still answers to the will of the military, of the business elites, of the citizens overall, or of anyone else who with sufficient motivation might assemble a coup), but not by much and with similar form.

The limits on Xi's power are primarily from that informal consensus of people capable of directing and exercising hard power, not any expectation that those people will behave according to their best, good-faith interpretation of written law. That written law always has ambiguities, and the need for judges to resolve those ambiguities creates a political element in any judicial system; but if you think the extent of that political influence is in any way comparable between the USA and PRC, then you're simply mistaken.

What is your experience with China and the USA? Have you dealt practically with either legal system, or business at a level that involves political considerations? I've seen lots of people develop views like yours based on stuff they've read on the Internet, but I've never seen such views survive actual contact with the respective systems.
“composability” has absolutely changed that

Its the interchangeably parts feature of smart contracts. Was missing before this year.

Analogous to how interchangeable parts heralded the industrial revolution.

The DeFi space would not be growing by orders of magnitude a quarter without that.
> If getting to the top of a field is what you want to do, don't have a relationship. And especially, don't have children.

Plenty of people are quite happy to have relationships with those at the tops of their fields. I don’t feel it’s my place to tell them how to live their lives. Many people are the children of parents who worked a lot all their working lives. Most of them have good relationships with one or both of their parents and are reasonably happy with their lives in general. I don’t feel it’s my place to say they shouldn’t have been born.
And what would this army of people be doing?

I have an image in my head of all my neighbors working at the same company. WTF would we be doing?

I’m a software engineer, my wife a reporter, my next door neighbor a nurse, the guy across the hall plays video games all day. His girlfriend is a cleaning lady.

This doesn’t include the sex offender down the street, the guys who shoot guns in the middle of the night, the drug addicted and mentally ill who hang out near the bus station, or any other “hard cases.”

So what would we be doing?
>What a fantastic link! This era in America's history is so rich with amazing stories, yet hardly ever touched by Hollywood ..

I can recommend watching The Molly Maguires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Molly_Maguires_(film)
DefiPulse - a scheme for speculating in the future price of Etherium.

Uniswap - a scheme for assisting with speculating in cross rates between various cryptocurrencies.

Compound - it pays interest. But who's paying the interest? It doesn't seem to make loans. Possible Ponzi.

Nexus Mutual - insurance against failure of smart contracts, based on smart contracts.

Bloom - "validate anything about anyone." A signing service for identity document / email / etc tuples.

Baseline - Main use seem to be sealed-bid RFPs.

Augur - "Your global, no-limit betting platform".

All of these are either gambling schemes or solve a non-problem.
On a PC in order to access every game you need to have Steam, the Epic store, the Microsoft store, all these stores... argh! You want game X? Only on Store A. Game Y? Only on Store B! What a pain for no reason!

This is a problem because each of these stores use their own proprietary client. If instead they all used a public API then there could be an open source client that can access any of the stores.

We of course already have a possible client: the web browser. It works great for all sorts of e-commerce sites. It just doesn’t work for installing games from these stores. That could be changed, though.

I think if Apple is forced to open iOS to alternative stores, then I would like to see an API based approach. Force all the stores to compete within the same app, so they’re only competing on price and selection.
The absolute worst case scenario would be somehow tricking the AI or taking control from it so jets start attacking/kamikaze-ing their own side en masse. I suppose this is theoretically already a risk for some UAVs and perhaps even some advanced human-piloted jets, but a hijacked autonomous fleet would be a wild sight to see.

No doubt some organizations are researching how to perform and defend against things like that. The future of asymmetric warfare in particular could get really crazy.
I've started reading Bohm's paper- it's fascinating, thank you for the recommendation. The focus on the "verb" or "happening" rather than the particular seems to line up with Levinas. In turn, I'd highly recommend checking out this paper "Essential Vulnerabilities: Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other" if you resonate with Hidden Variables: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3znz3r
Which one is the mythical "Nemesis" that throws comets and asteroids at Earth?
For drugs you must mean Venmo or Cash App, where orders of magnitude greater numbers of drugs are ordered.
Looking at all the comments here I have a single response to most of them: I'll call it a solution when it is implemented. You can talk all you want about solutions to some of the (minor) problems addressed here (ignoring the rest of the problems) but unless it is in use then the article's commentary still stands. Unless it has a ton of users, the article's commentary still stands. If you really do believe in block chain, prove us all wrong and implement the changes.
Thanks for fixing it :)
Looks like it's US$4.614/transaction.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f....
Unity also shows how you can use C# for high performance game code with their custom burst compiler. They even switch some of their C++ code to C#.
Spider solitaire is my jam. I played it every day of my commute on my phone for a year. Still go back to it sometimes. Definitely need to try other kinds.
blockchains are immutable for all practical purposes using social consensus/governance rules.
Motorola E7 Plus leaked specs
Here are a list of specs leaked to be on the Moto E7 Plus
These technologies try to solve for a lack of trust and avoiding regulation. This use case combination is exceptionally rare (as Animats enumerates, drugs, ransoms, and money laundering). As long as you have a functioning legal framework, financial distributed ledgers and smart contracts have very little value (what happens when a judge overrides your smart contract’s evaluation and result? A fork each time? The law supersedes the chain).

Instant payments don’t need a blockchain [1]. Avoiding financial regulation sends you to jail [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18302053/bitcoin-dealer-pr...
Are Go vs C# results there too https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Go being only faster in one benchmark
> the T-cell samples extracted through that process will be sent to a lab, where they will be genetically altered in a process developed by AGT. He said AGT believes the genetically altered T-cells will make them resistant to HIV infection and enable them to do what HIV has prevented human T-cells from doing during the course of the 40-year plus HIV epidemic – to neutralize the virus and prevent it from harming the human body.

So you'll still have the virus, and be able to give it to others, but your immune system won't be compromised?
It's been a good solution for authentic digital arts! Check out https://knownorigin.io/ https://superrare.co/
There are also virtual worlds to see the art in https://www.cryptovoxels.com/
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24181586
Hey finger, I tested on iPhone 8 on 13.5.1 and did not see this issue. Were you using an iPad? Any more info?

Sorry about this!
Exactly, if we fix that how are we going to deflect everything accurate and bad by yelling “whataboutism” at anyone with a brain
Tangentially related... an entertaining blog post involving Greylock.

https://random.waxy.org/arsdigita/
Can you give some examples of ubititous systems in the real world which don't use crazy amount of energy in absolute terms? It would be helpful if you could provide an estimate for your notion of "crazy amount of energy" in terms of powers of ten kWh.
You don't pay in BTC for drugs though. Montero is usually preferred and transactions are much cheaper and private.
I scoured the web but wasn't able to find the JavaScript course that you're talking about. Can you share it here?
Funny how this post went from #1 on the homepage to #22 in a couple of minutes...
Paul Buchheit: A Possible Third Solution to End the Pandemic
I'm a bit in the same boat - I'd like a heads-up that something like this or last week's "Crack Me If You Can" is coming up, without drowning in a sea of other NetSec/InfoSec/OpSec/PhysSec chatter. And ideally, more than 24 hours before it starts, so I could arrange my schedule and responsibilities around it better.

Is there something I should be subscribed to that would do this? Everything I've seen so far is a one-off ("subscribe to XYZco hackathons") or swings the other way to kitchen-sink levels of inclusion (DEF CON, Black Hat, etc.).
> Calling C is unfair, though. JVM can do the same and it should be implemented the same way.

If you want to benchmark C code you can just benchmark a C application. You run stuff in a VM like the JVM or CLR because you want things like memory safety. If you allow native code in something like a regex benchmark then all your benchmarks are basically about: How fast can the JVM/CLR call native code. And say absolutely nothing about how fast the VM itself is.

So using native code in these benchmarks is just silly and basically makes the whole thing meaningless.
> But the problems that they're trying to solve, decentralization, censorship resistance, sound money, true democratic governance, etc.

Noble goals. Still, blockchains are inherently limited to the digital world. No amount of digital freedom or security stops you from being oppressed by an unjust government, or robbed at gunpoint.

Taking Bitcoin as an example, there have been many cases of bitcoins being seized or stolen. The reasons behind these losses were much the same as the reasons people lose fiat currency. Someone with authority came and took it.

Frankly, I don't really understand what there is to "get". You can create a perfect system, but people have to operate within it. That means laws, and it means ceding authority to regulation.

None of this is to say that I am not interested in blockchain tech, and am not open to it as a solution. I just haven't seen a problem solved by it yet. I would be happy to be proven wrong.
sure. it's immutable. they'll just fork the data and force you to choose.

a lot of people enjoy not playing by the rules.

https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-executes-blockchain-hard-f...
Seems like this is probably true for the vast majority of people. I don't know why we circle jerk on passion and it's not very healthy. Sure I love to write code and most days I don't hate my job, but if I didn't need the money I'd rather write code for myself or open source projects, or do other things.

There's nothing wrong with that, and when I'm at work, I do my best to do a good job and make reliable, maintainable systems. Those two things aren't in conflict.
> Money was obvious as it's impossible to have internet money if you can just ctrl+c and ctrl+v it to make copies.

Ah, yes, that was Amazon's mistake. Accepting Internet money has meant that I've been able to just email them photocopies of the same money over and over. Hahaha, it has been the perfect crime. I hope Amazon never embrances Ethereum and I can keep getting free merchandise forever.
> I think if Apple had a flat 15% for subscriptions they’d still get a fair bit of usage, as there are big conversion advantages to using the IAP system. They might even get more revenue by attracting dev’s with reasonable terms, growing the amount of subscription apps using.

As a personal aside, the 15% rate is a bit odd in the App Store, as someone loses money on my subscriptions there. My personal App Store account is funded heavily by gift cards bought at 15-20% off, and I strongly suspect based on deals I've seen over the years that merchants have historically gotten a 15% cut on gift cards sold.

I also have been trying to figure out whether this has changed recently, as Apple has consolidated their "App Store" gift card with the retail "Apple Store" gift card - the same gift card can be used for movies, subscriptions, or toward new headphones. Coinciding with this, all of my channels for purchasing gift cards at discounted rates removed their card displays.

This could very well be part of a coordinated effort to reduce the average cost of IAP to be capable of offering a lower rate around in-app purchases. It could also be Apple realizing they are now giving up significant profit on people applying these gift cards toward Apple-run services, like Apple Music or Arcade.