skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has kept up many sanctions on Russia and has added several more during the Trump administration. While there is room for debate as to the type or severity of any given sanction, it is undeniable the US is aggressively using economic sanctions to signal its displeasure with Russia meddling.

FYI: "U.S. Sanctions on Russia: An Overview" [PDF]

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IF10779.pdf
What is the physical evidence that collapse actually happens?

Flash news. Nobody has ever produced any.

To the contrast we have lots of lines of evidence that an observer described by quantum mechanics should, upon observing a quantum experiment, be thrown into a superposition of observers. Each of which appears to have observed collapse. The notion is utterly repugnant to our biases so many reject the idea out of hand.

But as we create ever more complex but controlled systems, we can perform ever more elaborate experiments verifying that quantum mechanics works exactly as predicted. At some point if we take seriously the idea that the most successful scientific theory of all time is an accurate description of ourselves, then we have to accept that perhaps there is no collapse after all.
Yeah, that might be the price to be 3d printed by a service. If you have the printer, the cost of materials should be ten bucks.
To update you need the data so you can rehash it. A typical tracker only has the torrent files and would take a very long time and spend a lot of possibly expensive bandwidth to download all the tracked torrents. And some torrents may not be seeded all the time.
uTorrent 2.2.1, which unfortunately seems like it won’t be viable going forward if v2 adoption picks up.
This seems a rather nonacademic response.
That would be about appropriate for SF: ignore the bike thieves, go after the guys going after the bike thieves.
I have worked for Netflix for over 5 years, and its the best place I've ever worked. It has the no-bullshit feel of a small company combined with the advantages (pay, benefits) of a big company. Almost everybody I've worked with is amazing.

I admit that the culture was daunting, and even after going through an L5 -> L6 promo at Google, I was worried about not being able to cut it at Netflix. I was very nervous about this the first year, until the first performance cycle, after which time nobody I knew had been let go. There is honestly much less turn over around me than at Google, for example. To me, this means most people are pretty happy here.

I'm not aware of any stack ranking. If there was, then 95% of my group must have been above average for the last 5 years since almost nobody has been let go. To be clear, yes, people in my group have been let go. However, I was seldom surprised when somebody was let go.
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Just because some political ideologies have their day, doesn't mean they all will. Representative democracies of the 19th century had been preceded by proto-representative democracies like the Parliament of England, they weren't a fully new thing at that point by any means, even at the large state level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_England

There have been attempts at large, nation-scale anarchist communities, like revolutionary Catalonia, or Makhnovia, but the most fundamental problem they have isn't functioning well, but simply continuing to exist. Without a strong state, they seem to just fall over to competing states or forces. And this isn't very easily fixed within anarchism, because the whole point is to not have a state, and certainly not a strong one.

The most fundamental flaw for a large anarchist, state-equivalent community, is the inability to resist state or state-like forces both internally (revolution/civil war) and externally (other states invading or taking territory). While certainly anarchists theorycraft on how this issue can be fixed, out in the real world, well, it hasn't happened yet, so it remains theorycraft.

Even some of the real-life examples anarchists point to, like Rojava, aren't really very anarchist; Rojava still has plenty of police, for example, which is a very un-anarchist thing to have around.
Yes, it does. Unless you subscribe to popular=objective, which I do. It is different now though. Looking at the past tells us that. It isn't like every other fact. There is a lot of disagreement in this thread. It isn't a fact like 2+2=4 is a fact.
I hope people who are diehard renewable promoters realize that hydrocarbons have many advantages, such as energy density and their ability to be stored and used at any time. It’s not hard to draw a line from rolling blackouts in California to their removal of coal and natural gas. Simply buying power from Nevada doesn’t cut carbon emissions if Nevada uses hydrocarbons.

Until we get nuclear back in a major way then we need hydrocarbons. Wind and solar don’t cut it.
Transmission. If you're looking for one on android, LibreTorrent looks absolutely amazing
I really don't like the idea of limited bandwidth or charging per gigabyte because I know ISPs will rip people off and still not upgrade their networks to handle more traffic.

But I think it would considerably change the Internet landscape. No more listening to the same exact song multiple times on Youtube or Spotify or whatever. No more downloading then deleting the same stuff over and over again. I think about it often, what a massive waste of bandwidth, I don't even know why. It's a lot of electricity used, I guess?

Even though I've got unlimited fiber, I'm looking for some sort of local "Internet cache" solution that would store everything so it would be re-downloaded from my home instead of across the ocean. Would be great for outages, too.
This is a really, really good game. I found out about it from HN comments to some article around a year ago, and then over Thanksgiving family gathering we had probably 5-6 people having a blast with it at a family gathering.
The use of SHA-1 in v1 seems like a major problem.

[edit]

That doesn't imply that BTv2 is the right successor protocol.
738GB of govt customer data leaked in NSW
A nice example of "Everything I dislike is Marxism".
Marx was extra specific in which his historical analysis was about economic classes. The framework he cites with the opossing groups is not exclusive to marxism, but hey, I guess it wouldn't be scary enough to the casual reader calling it Hegelianism for example.

Weird enough, the article gets a lot right, the critique of liberalism is on point IMO, but I don't really see the point of bringing this to the table. Radical liberalism is self-defeating as the framework fails to acknowledge the power relationships, thus is not surprising that liberal principles can result on illiberal consequences when tried to being pursued. Marxism was not even a thing when the french revolution became a bloodbath, and you can even say taking this event in account, Marxism is more descriptive on the outcomes of revolution than prescriptive.

On my perspective, on the recent events, I see only liberalism eating itself, and certainly I see little Marxist relationship with clear marxist tenants like workers taking control of their economic results. That's unless you're a liberal writing on a liberal magazine, doing mental gymnastics to avoid seeing the failures of liberalism, then you can loosely define Marxism and blame it all on it.
> So.. you actually do.

> like yourself, seems to see the left as some kind of SJW hivemind.

I'm unable to have a meaningful discussion here as long as you are putting words in my mouth. I'm not sure why you decided it was necessary to embark on this ideological crusade due to my honest question but I hope you find peace somehow.
They definitely have a system to mark down politics. It's top of the algolia 24hr ranking which I often use instead these days https://hn.algolia.com/?q=&query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...
You've been perpetuating a flamewar in this thread. We don't want those on HN. Please stop, and please don't do it again.

That includes not tossing in swipes like "This just makes me laugh" and so on. Your comments have been provocative to the point of being trollish, as well as outright nasty in places. That's not cool, regardless of how much you know about Erlang.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Awesome, another scam to worry about on Kindle. Kindle is already worthless for browsing technical books, anyway. So many of the titles on there tend to be low-effort books that get higher placing than legitimate titles. The rest of Amazon is fraught with scams. For example, I will never ever purchase cologne, hair, or skincare products from Amazon because there are so many fakes. Browse some of the reviews from people that experience things like hair falling out or chemical burns, and then they find out they received a bootleg product even when they use "Ships from Amazon." Amazon is getting increasingly useless for shopping.
I imagine the data whales would not cover the loss revenue from people who just use online banking yet pay the same amount.

I've used 15 TB in the last 5 weeks with my torrent client alone (and considering my Backblaze backup size, that's not nearly all of my traffic), but how many people like me are there in the general public?
AI Box experiment: https://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
Nice selection, haven't heard Megazone 23 in a while.
If you want to try a client with v2 (and v1+v2 hybrid) support, I've just released PicoTorrent v0.20 [0] based on Rasterbar-libtorrent 2.0 :)

[0] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.2...
> “A license for all of mainland China has already been sold, lock, stock and barrel.” This is precisely what the U.S. government was trying to avoid when it intervened in the previous acquisition of MIPS Technologies.

Why does the U?S? Government care? The MIPS is a mature design that has suffered from neglect for many years and while its useful I can’t imagine how it could be any sort of strategic asset.

What am I missing?
The other side of this is we spend a lot of money feeding people in the US. Unfortunately, it’s not an efficient system consisting of farm subsidies, food stamps, school lunch programs etc. If the goal was simply adequate nutrition for every American we could easily have that with current budgets. But, instead money must also end up in the correct people’s pockets while also feeding people.
They often just have the magnet links. I haven't looked into how that works, but I think the complete data is only on the seeders' machines, and the torrent propagates through DHT.
This was recently justified to me in an interesting way. Back in the heyday of print newspapers, you had your subscribers, who had the paper delivered every day. Then you had your casual readers who would pick it up at a newsstand if they saw an interesting article.

And then you had your "freeloaders" -- the people who would read the paper at the library or fish it out of the trash or would ask to borrow it from the person on train next to them.

These links are basically for the freeloaders who would never have paid anyway.

Interestingly enough, most US libraries actually offer way to read these things for free by going through the library website, it's just not as easy as using an archive link.
We know different people then. But that was not what I ment. I was talking about legislators looking at the whole society, not individuals. And drugs are even more things that can be abused in addition to existing alcohol which they tried to stop but could not.
I thought internet in Norway was cheaper than in Denmark. Interesting. For comparison I pay 449 DKR/month for 1000/1000 unlimited fiber with a guaranteed bandwidth of minimum 950 (they are upgrading the network atm. hence not a guarantee on the full 1000 yet as some customers equipment is too old).

Is it a normal connection or a business connection perhaps?
There's an MIT Press book.[1] Chapter 6, "Leg Design by Four Bar Linkage Synthesis" covers the four-bar linkage. They were struggling to get enough working volume for the foot out of the four bar linkage without the mechanism becoming too bulky. They wanted to be able to move horizontally using only one actuator per leg, which allowed manual backup control.

It's an interesting piece of history, but there's no need to do it that way today.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Machines-That-Walk-Adaptive-Suspensio...
I once got told by a manager that they didn't expect new hires to make big contributions in the first year. That was after I complained I was feeling very unproductive and wanted some help to speed things up. I quit after a few months because the slowness of everything around me was making me depressed.

This was at a top5 website company.
Eh. It’s a pretty flat org - not a lot of layers between Reed and most employees. He was pretty approachable too - could often be found mingling with employees on campus at lunch, for instance.
> Don't people always say exactly that?

No, "they" don't. SHA1 collisions had been "in the wind" for a while, they had been in sight ever since MD5 started showing signs of clear weakness in the early '00s. Wikipedia has a Rivest quote about it from 2005. There is nothing like that for SHA2, although attacks are improving.

> What are the chances of a collision if we simultaneously use multiple hashes

Define "simultaneous". Shipping twice the hashes for each piece seems a big waste of space. If you mean re-hashing hashes, it's just a waste of cpu power, since an attacker only has to break one or the other to get in a position to poison data.
> Does that mean that with the kind of trackball you describe you'd have to move your whole wrist to move the ball left and right?

The trackball is fairly large, about 5.5 centimeters in diameter. So I personally use mostly finger movements with slight flicks of the wrist. However, the ball is so large one could keep one’s wrist rigid and use both shoulder and elbow to move it.

It really is a very comfortable device.
Indeed, kinda devoid - however, zoom out and can see a few blue dots of user submitted views in the area.
I've got one for my 404 page. Quite fun.
"there are a few company-made swarms hosted on industrial servers that keep everyone up and alive, so that the thing gives the impression the 'P2P' network does work"

What about the trackers?
You are thinking about common law (originated in England) vs civil law (based on Roman law) In both systems intent is very important in criminal cases.

The real difference is between criminal law and contract law. In contract law. In contract law the intention is fixed by the language of the contract document. It matters less if matter if one party didn't intent to violate the contract. It is what it is.
>It's a lot of electricity used, I guess?

Is it though? How much electricity is used to serve a 1080p Netflix movie several times vs. playing the same movie from a local storage medium?

If you asked me, I'd rather burn Bitcoin mining rigs if I wanted to get rid of electricity waste.
Yes, I’ve used it in Ruby and now I find myself using it a lot in Dart. Also, the Flutter widgets use it and I find it much easier to figure out which arguments to fill in with my IDE instead of always jumping over to the documentation.
I’ve seen other sites that do the same, it’s as if they just have a paywall permanently now and only say you can get a few free articles rather than mean it.

You can never seem to trick it even if you want to...
You pay for peace of mind that little Johnny doesn't download some crazy amount by accident. Now you don't have to monitor family usage so that makes things easier as well.
The Lock Picking Lawyer discusses why he uses a thick chain lock for his cheaper bike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpVOTEOMRuE
TCM was available for some older generation of ARM processors. Is there some new about this implementation?
The entire Landscape series from Macfarlane:

- Mountains of the Mind (a history and first-person account of mountain climbing)

- The Wild Places (a history and exploration of the 'wild' landscapes of the British Isles)

- The Old Ways (a history and exploration of the ancient paths of the world)

are all really excellent (and can be read in any order). He's a fabulous writer, kind of like a Kapuściński for the natural world.
I think that if you only do a few hours of actual time working each week, you are deceiving not only your employer but yourself about what is productive and whether you're a good employee.

There are no good metrics for programmer productivity, but spending < 20 hours a week actually switched-on as a full-time employee is obviously a problem, to me.
Not sure SW can do BP monitoring yet otherwise hospitals would have switched to them for doing patient OBS.

That's the regular checking of BP /Pulse temps etc done in hospitals if our on 4h getting woken in the middle of the night sucks.
It works just fine on Opera on Android thanks to text reflow.

Most of the time it's not web sites but browsers, who are unfriendly.
I would be keen to see if GNSS-SDR can run on a multicore version of this CPU. We are developing fully software GPS / Galileo receivers using the Analog devices AD9364, and are able to run it on a quad core Kaby lake laptop.
Pointing out a poor argument doesn't require the person to present a stronger on for it to be helpful.

A home inspection that reveals a crack in the foundation but doesn't repair it has still rendered a very important service.
The things you can do when you don't have to tackle child poverty or provide healthcare for all.

Its probably because of my Euro socialist identity but all I see is wasteful spending.
What frameworks/libraries do you use? I find that the reason I prefer using a shell script is:

* ergonomic integration with the shell

* easy piping

* easy input/output redirection

Maybe Ruby comes close with the backticks or `system` but it still isn't as nice as a shell IMHO
How to Get Trending Tweets in Any Country with Python and Tweepy
A tutorial about using Tweepy, an API wrapper for twitter, to get trends.
I also explain the difference between authentication and authorization when using Twitter API and some best practices.

I've added share buttons for most social media, please feel free to share it in any platform :)
uTorrent, it has always been fast and stable.
What are "the individual components of the wave function"? They are a mathematical construction. The wave function can be decomposed in many (and infinity of) ways. Why is one decomposition chosen and not another? Or are all the decompositions equally "(un)real"? The issue is not so simple and it's related to the "mysteriousness" of the first part.
Perhaps this is good for someone that is generally healthy and perhaps for folks that stay in assisted living (not sure what the qualifacations are). We'd need more information, though: How often do changes in blood pressure lead to falls compared to other causes? Is it worth the cost and does it save more lives than other sorts of alerts?

This certainly isn't a good fit for a nursing home. First off, you have general health issues, like thinning skin that tears and cuts easily paired with folks that are in declining health and may or may not have good control of their limbs. Psychological issues and things like dementia is going to make this more difficult as well. One horrible scenario is finding the device covered in feces, since some folks, as their minds degrade, handle their own feces. And I'd hate to have to fight with someone daily to put the device on (other folks won't care).Of course, if your nursing home is staffed well with folks that do their jobs, it probably won't make a difference.
There are probably military systems that use MIPS processors.
to me it was told mostly in terms of delivery not "performance" per.se., ie. basically the only thing what matters is failing the delivery vs. successfully delivering . The employee empowerment comes naturally as they are going to lose that great job if they don't push back on anything what impacts delivery.
Why not 3.x?
It seems "neger" was still debatable according to this reddit thread from 2012 https://www.reddit.com/r/Norway/comments/ylcpw/what_do_i_cal... and Marrianne Gullstead paper seemed to indicate it was still being hotly debated in the early 2000s, not that it had fallen completely out of fashion by then. It sounds like the situation is still evolving. Is there anything that highlights the controversy around "svart"?

The main point was that if you continue to use a word that someone described as offensive to them then it's hard to argue "best intentions", and it comes off as either laziness or disdain for that person.

You can take those offended by proxy with a grain of salt, but in some cases there is truth behind what they are saying, and it should still be considered.
Linear regression is reasoning, but on a very small scale.
The weakness is a collision, not a pre-image attack. That means that a pair of payloads can be crafted together, one innocent and one malicious, that have the same hash. But it is not feasible to take a given file and make a new malicious payload with a matching hash.

So if you get your hash from whoever made the original binary, you can know that any binary with a matching hash is fine. But it could be a problem if someone creates a new pair of binaries and uploads the hash to TPB. You might see lots of good reviews from people who got the innocent version, but then the peers you connect to send you a malicious version with a matching hash.
Albuquerque Police Engaged in Secret Intelligence Gathering Operation
OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7476127#map=13/51.573...

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broomway
That's straight up American imperialism, I suggest you to do better and think it through next time you suggest horrible things like that.
But we aren't comparing them to a random company, we are comparing them to the rest of FAANG. Do they have a much stronger engineering culture than Google/etc?
Wait until you hear how much CPU time and RAM is being wasted...
Now that's a more modern way to use a four-bar linkage. The ASV used it to simplify the kinematic problem, which is doing arithmetic with big steel connecting rods. That little quadruped is using it to get two degrees of freedom without the first actuator having to carry the mass of the second one.
Been a fan of Transmission on macOS for many years. I just wish I could install Transmission on a Linux box and still keep using the fantastic Cocoa interface it has on macOS.
Seems like he answered your question and you did not like the answer.
How does someone in such a high position see things so black and white?

Either way, this world wide work from home experiment isn't even a good one because there's a massive pandemic going on that... Judge wfh after the world is vaccinated.
And a "Cracker Jack Pencil" :-)

For those of us from the UK of a certain age Cracker Jack was a kids tv show that ran on Fridays.
Day 630 dealing with Git changes
Many moons ago I visited Jersey (the one in the English Channel). One of the many highlights was visiting La Corbière[1], a lighthouse only accessible via a causeway that is submerged at high tide[2, 3]. Fascinating place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Corbi%C3%A8re

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@49.1806882,-2.2470043,3a,75y,22...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/@49.18135,-2.2449889,3a,75y,243....
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a back-end tech lead to scale mobility tech
I use deluge just because it has a nice client and separate server which I leave running on another box.
In the article he says he'd be up for 4 days in the office and 1 day work from home after covid. These CEOs just can't let go of the 5 day work week. It's so frustrating. 5 day work weeks don't leave enough time for employees to take care of their personal lives, in my opinion. This results in employees taking more sick days and not concentrating at work because they have to deal with their personal business while at work. I think we need to move to a 30 hour work week. Four 7.5 hour work days would vastly improve working in my opinion, whether it is remote or in the office.