skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats not a bad option but it’s a huge dif in price, specs, size. It really depends on your needs and wants. The pi’s are very tempting because they could be incorporated in many small spaces. Somebody else mentions that an used laptop has better specs and while true it misses the point. Rpis are ubiquitous, small, interchangeable, etc
And the price will most likely go down even further (in terms of specs and compared to other options). I persobally welcome them even if i dont own any yet
There are good reasons not to use a raspberry pi as a server. But lack of ecc ram is not one of them.
A vast quantity of paid labor is great for infrastructure projects. This is what pulled the US out of the depression, and is the reason we have so many gorgeous post offices and public buildings everywhere. (Particularly on the post office front, this included stone workers, but also artists and architects and engineers.)

(Expanding on edit...) And really, infrastructure is about building the solid foundation on which the nation runs. Fix the digital infrastructure at all levels of government. Put out wild fires, and provide other emergency relief. You're already paying people; that's generally the expensive part...
I think their motion controls flopped because they were an afterthought. It's like comparing touch screen controls on iOS vs Windows.
Virtues Not Principles
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Wireshark would show group messages in Telegram are indeed encrypted. However, they are encrypted only in-transit, meaning the server will see 100% of group chats. This can not be trivially detected with wireshark hence the advice to use the analyzer is useless and downright dangerous. It's like using a radiation detector to find cancer.
Encryption isn't enough. They could just suspect or arrest anyone who has Telegram installed. Or they could check teleoperators' logs for anyone who has used Telegram during the past weeks.

In Turkey, they arrested people who had the ByLock app installed. It didn't matter how people had used it. Having installed it was enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByLock_(application)
> You seem to imply that the activist/article is lying.

That's completely false. I said there is likely more to the story than was reported - and there is more to the story. I did not say that the activist or article is lying. That is solely your inference.

The article, however, is incomplete and inaccurate. This particular activist has a long history with MPD. Two years ago, he was involed with a lawsuit against MPD. This house belongs to his grandmother, so he wasn't specifically being surveiled. The police have arrested his cousin and non-related drug-dealers while at his grandmother's house - in possession of drugs. They also served papers at that address for another one of his cousins for aggravated assault.

As I wrote, there is more to this story than is written in this article. At best, this article was superficial.

> Apart from the video and that there being no good reason for him to lie

Yes, there are resaons for him to lie, but I didn't sat that he lied - I don't know whether he lied or not. But, why did he jump to the conclusion that MPD was surveiling him, personally, at an address that isn't his?

This is the website that he has had for years for his activism. It's been completely empty for years. http://15.org

> Your assertion that this is likely a skycop seems to however not based on any evidence.

I said based upon the thousands of already deployed skycops, the camera used by MPD, that if this was by MPD my understanding was that this was a Skycop camera.
A corporation is principally designed for passive investment of capital, making it easy to put capital to work as well as easy to take it back and put it to work elsewhere. And because the investor can be passive, that means he can invest in many different ventures at once, which is especially useful in a society where a small number of people have far more assets than they have time to personally manage. The motivation is that by making the deployment of capital more efficient, not only does the capitalist enjoy a higher return than he otherwise would (if he didn't he wouldn't bother, afterall), but it's hypothesized that everybody is made wealthier than they otherwise would be.

A corporation doesn't provide such reduced friction for labor. A vehicle designed to make it easier for people to pool and bargain their labor requires a different structure. Labor is an intrinsically different kind of asset than money. In order to provide symmetry in how easy it is to collectively bargain labor as compared to collectively bargain capital, you need a legal vehicle tailored to the characteristics of the asset.

That's the answer to the rhetorical question I said I'd pose if anybody wanted to play semantic word games. A "corporation" is not a universal, platonic construct for promoting socially beneficial cooperative behavior.

Whether we should want to provide symmetry at all is a different question, an empirical question (is everybody better off on average if labor can organize as efficiently as capital?), not one we can answer based on abstract principles, which is what was implied by characterizing unions as cartels.
The house has 435 members. the senate has 100. nobody thinks the 535 members are effective.

enjoy your user uncontrolled anarchy

do you have any response to > 50% attacks?
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I know I have posted this on HN before, but the guidelines also said that “a major overhaul is probably ok”, so here it is, there’s much more features Than before and the list/table/grid layout outputs has been optimised and looks prettier and neater. You can also search by topic, date-range, spoken language, and even basic github authentication. Feature requests and PRs welcome as always :)
How so? Seems very light and fast to me, with or without uBlock.
If I recall what I read in the Mueller report correctly, Russia sponsored protests on both sides of the political spectrum, reportedly focusing on topics they thought would increase racial tensions
Earth tends to move around (literally, or at least elliptically) quite a bit over the course of the year. It’s not much but it is definitely not still.

In the grander scheme of light years the sun is less wobbly in its position.

However, I live 50 feet above sea level, a baseline not known for its short term (or long term) stasis, so I suppose its not exactly as if logic rules the language of waves and stars.
Tether is what drives China’s crypto marke
Number mobility between Indian telecoms runs on private blockchain. AFAIK it is live and actively used. BC solves a problem there because operating a database for that scale would be very complicated. So every telco has their own copy that get synced via a consensus mechanism and signed transactions
I have a couple of RPis running Raspbian with a SMB server, and they keep on ticking without a hitch.

The only problem I ever experience was when I tried to run a RPi4 as a desktop with a 4k tv. Although everything worked out of the box, sometimes the system stopped responding.
I've seen many gas stations offer cheaper cash prices.

Here's an article which claims credit card surcharges are disallowed but cash discounts are not. https://www.cardfellow.com/blog/cash-discount-eliminate-proc...
The state serves entities in power, not itself.

To give an example: In Switzerland being a direct democracy many people would say that the state serves the people who vote, but I know someone who says that Switzerland is in reality a plutocracy, so in this case the state would serve the one percent.
Oh yeah that feature which conveniently deletes your "Down with the <dictator name goes here>" group and its member list every 60 minutes and forces users to create a new one.
DefiPulse is just a page with information about cryptocurrency. It's like calling coinmarketcap.com a scheme. Maybe you should bother to understand what you're looking before laying down your ignorant judgement.

Uniswap solves many problems (trustless cross-asset exchange, liquid markets without market makers, decentralized orderbook problem, decentralized price feeds, etc)

>Compound - it pays interest. But who's paying the interest?

People who want loans in cryptocurrency.
It's usually the company policy that use TFS for C#, not developers. Usually it's the Microsoft marketing scheme to include .NET solutions with TFS.
Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)
Adulthood necessary to vote could be one?
The group will leak member roles like the Owner however, so the black bag group will know who(se device) they should compromise next.
The national institutions you speak of are the ones doing the exploitation. I wouldn't lose any sleep if they'll have to cut back on droning villages or putting poor people in prison because Bitcoin disrupted their funding.
Police are not agents of capital. They are agents of the government and nothing more. Police make a modest government salary and do not (at least in the US) have a history of reacting well to bribes.

Police meet out punishment all of the time to capitalists (a.k.a people with retirement accounts and savings accounts). I’m not sure why you think otherwise.
Just wish I could tip my postman! He has been looking real sleepy, man.
So your analysis has been created by neural nets?
This article really hits the nail on the head: All these problems blockchain are supposed to solve are problems of coordination. And you don't need blockchain for that, you need buy-in.
Yeah, sure, buying an extremely volatile asset with ~2x price swing within recent couple of years is much less risky than paying 0.4% per year, while actively moving your assets to a different jurisdiction.

And the anonymity is guaranteed by design. You just send your billions through a couple of mixers registered to phony IDs and it they magically get obfuscated because hey, other billionaires do that every day as well.

/s
For perf, one generally uses memcpy unless memmove's semantics are needed. I think you have confused memcpy vs -move with copy vs move ctors. Certainly your last sentence is not correct for any reasonably written code. Check the docs yourself, but this doesn't match my understanding.
That must be a generational/geolocational thing. I've never even heard either of them was available in the app.
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Hey HN, I'm the creator of Codemap.

Codemap is a codebase visualizer that displays the structure of function calls of any Javascript, Typescript, or Python code. Given a local repo, Codemap statically parses the code and renders a directed graph of all function calls in the least cluttered layout. It helps programmers familiarize with a new codebase, trace possible scenarios that lead to a bug in a function, or understand the scope of impact when making a code change. Codemap runs offline on your local machine and never sends any sensitive code data to remote servers.

I built Codemap because I noticed that good engineers always spend quality time understanding the code architecture before making changes. This process is crucial, and it usually requires drawing a function call diagram on a whiteboard or in the head. Some people use IDE "Find usage of function..." search box for a million times, some people ask senior engineers for tribal knowledge, and some just get lazy and start writing code with ignorance.

As a software engineer, I think there's a better solution than this tedious and error-prone practice. I looked at existing code visualization tools and felt that the visualization tends to be overly cluttered and not that user-friendly. I believed that, with some level of design, I can build a tool that is pleasant to use, easy to navigate, and versatile for any codebase in the supported languages.

During the development of Codemap, I would sometimes grab a popular Github repo to test the Codemap app, and I often find myself exploring its call graph for hours to satisfy my genuine curiosity of "How does <popular project> work?" I'd encourage curious HN readers to visit the website and see screenshots of call graphs from React, Keras, Django, and Typescript (yep the one from Microsoft).

I would love to hear what you love and hate, as well as any questions you may have. I'll be here to respond the best I can (PST time). Thank you :)
It is simple. They should close. This business model does not work. This is capitalism.
What percentage of defi assets are used for the purposes you described vs speculation? It's difficult to analyze rigorously but I could give you a lower bound on speculation by looking at interday altcoin movement on makerdao and compound. I think it's completely fair to characterize defi as "predominantly speculation", which I've editorialized into "unregulated gambling".
Where do you host your shopping cart? Your download server? “Using Stripe” doesn’t build your system. Stripe isn’t a standalone product. You have to have a developer to run and maintain your system. You have to pay server costs as well. And customer support costs dealing with payments and download and install issues.

And with fraud on Apple, you are never affected directly. For example, a chargeback on Stripe costs you $20, unless you win. If you are doing any sort of volume, that is not only expensive, but time consuming — you have to defend your case. You never touch any of that with Apple. At the very least, you need a developer to both build and “run” your store and all of its associated infrastructure.
Infrastructure work requires specialized training... that I don’t have. And most people don’t have.

We could certainly build a construction corps. But I don’t think many people in my neighborhood could be part of it.

Modern construction is far more technical than in the 1930s. Failure isn’t tolerated. Environmental impact statements are needed.

It’s insulting to the highly trained construction workers to say the average person could be conscripted into doing their job.
What does Data Science look like within your organisation?
After working in Data Science for 5 years and with 2 very different companies, I am fascinated to hear about the experiences of others in order to put my own experiences in context and to help me chart my course. I hope that this thread will allow others to do the same.

To get the ball rolling, here are my experiences. I began my career at a machine learning startup building machine learning models to address a narrow range of problems. Being a startup, the role often involved wearing a few hats (e.g. client facing activities, project coordination and platform testing), however, my core DS activities were all geared around building and improving our models through iterative feature engineering and some pipeline design. The narrowness of the company’s focus meant that we were able to develop a lot of domain knowledge in the area which resulted in better and better models for our customers.

After leaving the startup I joined a very large organisation who was hoping to expand its limited use of data science. As a result of structural issues and the organisation’s size, the route to productionising predictive models is much more difficult here than in the startup and so the majority of my focus has instead been in the area of using data science techniques to efficiently extract insights from data which can then be used to drive strategy.

Are these experiences familiar to you? Beyond predictive modelling and insight generation is there a 3rd application of data science which you see within your organisation?
This is not true at all. It's already available.

https://cwtch.im/

https://briarproject.org/

https://ricochet.im/

https://github.com/maqp/tfc
> You know what unstable governments in the middle of a revolution don't have? Reliable power and internet.

It's reliable enough actually (people are currently doing this). You also don't need it up all the time to move value into BTC.

> Sounds like a great way to get rubber hosed to death.

There isn't a way for them to tell that you've done this, and in the case in the Ukraine it allowed him to get out with his wealth intact: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/06/13/why-b...

> Deflationary, for consumers, is bad. I am also not convinced bitcoin in nearly divisible enough to actually be world currency. (And that's ignoring the fact that it would need something like 7 orders of magnitude improvement in throughput)

I don't think it'll be used for frequent transactions unless they actually can fix the time/throughput issues, but that doesn't mean it's useless. There could potentially be a future where you move BTC to some other currency with faster transaction times in smaller amounts for immediate or frequent use.

Just because a lot of blockchain tech is filled with people running ICO pump and dump scams, speculators, and an enormous amount of bullshit in general doesn't mean there isn't also some cool stuff going on too. There's a lot of nonsense, but there are also some real current applications, and I think, some real future potential.
That's why we need to educate people on digital etiquette. The script kiddies stealing stuff are just that, bored shitless kids.

Universities are failing and we've got bored, super smart kids running around 'hacking' and scaring the shit out of everyone.

The recent twitter hack wasn't impressive, it was stupid.
How is a judge going to override a blockchain state update? He may as well rule the planet to stop spinning.
Deluseional pipedream disguised as information.

Let's make a test for heart disease we can take every day. Let's make a test for cancer to spot the first mutated cell. Let's invent a time machine to fix it all.

There are three solutions, but not yours.

1. Open everything as long as the curve is flattened to rush to herd immunity. This was the plan. Why did it change?

2. Wait 2 years for a cure.

3. Allow willing participants to get the virus to make vaccine tests better. It will be cured in 2 months. We allow people to sign up for war and risk their lives. Do the same with science.
> Please evaluate claims on their merits. Are the judiciary, executive and legislative branches not dependent on the aggregate of the DNC and RNC, directly or indirectly?

The structure of the US government naturally creates a two-party system; but the reason why those two parties are the Democrats and Republicans (and not the Whigs and Libertarians or whatever) is that those two parties outcompeted all the others for votes. Minor parties are constantly trying to break through. They usually fail, though not always--we don't have Whigs anymore. But even when they fail, the major parties are constantly watching for this threat, and adjusting their positions in an effort to keep their dominance. The dominance of the DNC and RNC doesn't mean the people who control those two parties can do whatever they want; it just means those people want to keep their jobs, know the only way to do so is to behave in a way that wins elections, and are pretty good at figuring out what those behaviors are.

That's probably not the best imaginable way to translate the will of the people into a government, but the path is clearly there. No remotely comparable path exists in the PRC.

Finally, I believe you've misunderstood the paper you linked. Quoting:

> As noted, our evidence does not indicate that in U.S. policy making the average citizen always loses out. Since the preferences of ordinary citizens tend to be positively correlated with the preferences of economic elites, ordinary citizens often win the policies they want, even if they are more or less coincidental beneficiaries rather than causes of the victory.

In other words, let's say the elites want A, B, C, and D, and the average citizens want A, B, C, and not D. We actually get A, B, C, and D. Then the will of the elites has perfect explanatory power (which they've described using the word "cause", though obviously nothing here shows causality), and the will of the average citizens contributes no further information; but the average citizens are still getting most of what they want. It can't be otherwise, or else the average citizens would vote a third party in. That doesn't need to actually happen to affect policy--if the current major parties are run by skilled politicians who want to keep their dominance, then the threat is enough.

At the margin, I do agree the two-party system gives the two incumbents considerable independent power--there's a coordination problem in choosing what third party to vote for, so an incumbent has to diverge significantly from the will of the people to lose. This is in no way comparable to the absolute power that the CCP enjoys over China, though.
I have a 4k monitor and it works but it's too slow with Minecraft so we run it at 1080p
Very true. We need to show the world how to do that! Got any ideas!?
I wish they were more common here. I haven't had much problem getting the lever nuts, but the junction boxes [0] seem really hard to find. The few Amazon sellers I've ordered from all ship them from Europe.

[0] https://www.screwfix.com/p/wagobox-junction-box/7355f
There's also stuff like ISIS communication and CP in Telegram, so the disgusting stuff is where people are at, no matter what.
That's the main differentiator?
Thats a hilarious way of saying 'At least the highway robbers are charging the same at all crossings so I don't have the burden of figuring out what is the cheapest path'
> How long do you think that this will stay like this?

If I knew how to answer questions like that, you'd see me on TV giving interviews about my trillion-dollar hedge fund.

> After competition dies out prices will skyrocket.

I have yet to see a single scenario where this actually happened without being a product of government-granted monopoly (e.g. patents in pharma). But if Uber is going to charge me 3x for the same ride (just as taxis do now) I'll stop using them (just as I stopped using taxis). In the meantime, I've been saving money for a decade. I think it's a good deal.
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Teenage targeted publications are actually pretty common ground for extremist viewpoints. It’s an audience pretty receptive to new ideas. Not having “adult responsibilities” nor having to really be a functioning member of society in general makes Marxism, Ayn Rand Capitalism, etc all pretty palatable and reasonable ideas (albeit normally to different cliques).
> You wouldn't want a plumber's convention to be a place where they collude to fix prices!

Why not? Maybe we have fewer plumbers at higher prices, but we also have a saying: "you get what you pay for."
Explain how this works. A blue party voter writes to another blue party voter: Hey, let's vote blue this year. NSA that intercepts the message and __________.
Bad UX imo. User types email and then the password field disappeared! How am I gonna log in now?
Maybe MDN should launch a KickStarter every year: "OK, we're up for annual renewal. If we meet our goal of $xx,xxx, MDN will stay around for another year. If not, we'll shut down our offices, lay off our staff, and just publish a static mirror of the current content."
A Lenovo M92p is about 6x the price of a RPi, and the noise/form factor can't possibly be compared.

If you really want to compare a 200$ desktop with a 40$ SoC then you should aim for stuff such as those mini PC's/thin clients from Asus, which nowadays even ship with Ryzen processors.
Not everyone is an uninformed cynic. I founded a crypto gambling startup and advised and managed ICOs for dozens of companies and syndicates.

Most economic activity in Defi is unregulated gambling, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
They were stopping operations not because they couldn't afford it. But because the courts and lawmakers banned their whole business model.
As the owner of web.dev we're absolutely not doing that. We're working with Mozilla and the PAB right now on what's need to support the future of MDN.
Reference? AFAIK this was proposed by Wipro in a white paper but was never implemented.
To add, we already contribute a lot to MDN.