skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
𝗪𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥?

There are a few reasons you may need to be able to prove who you are without revealing who you are.

Suppose you desire to share many different pieces of information online but must remain anonymous for security reasons. Since you are anonymous, you have no reputation online and therefore no trust or credibility.
You can release one piece of information that will later prove to be true, thus gaining credibility for yourself. People will now take your information seriously, except you were fully anonymous, so that credibility is useless to you as you can't claim it in the future when sharing future information.
What's worse, others may impersonate you, claiming to be the original author of the first piece of information, and then share bad information thus soiling all of the credibility you built up.

With AnoProof you can sign your first piece of information with an AnoProof signature using your AnoProof secret key.
Now, once it gains credibility, you can sign your future informations with your same secret key.
Using AnoProof, anyone can verify that the future information (signed) was authored by the same anonymous author as the original credible information.

AnoProof doesn't always have to be used anonymously, another great use-case for AnoProof is in proving your known identity, online, in an ever increasing world of spoofing, deep-fakes, and general impersonation.

Consider the case of Leoni AG, in which the CEO instructed the CFO to wire transfer $40m to an offshore account, the only problem for the CFO, it wasn't a true eMail from the CEO, it was a hacker pretending to be the CEO.
Had the company policy been that all instructions of such nature must be signed with an AnoProof signature, the CFO could have easily proven that the hackers weren't the CEO.

This example was just a simple eMail spoofing, but imagine a few years from now when DeepFakes, SIM spoofing, and a combination of other tools will allow a hacker to video call one of your employees, and pretend to be you not only with caller ID but visibly and audibly as well.
Signing protocols like AnoProof will become more and more necessary in the identity verification crisis realm AI will bring us towards.
The company needs money. They're the only browser out there not directly controlled by Google & Apple.
Depending on options etc, you could go up to X5...
> and every version of DirectX

Could you expand a bit on this? Are you referring to DXVK? Or does Zink have support for DirectX?
What about exposure to radiation?
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Would love an AMA from you. Property law is surely some of the oldest law, and how we define and understand boundaries and ownership must come with so may interesting dives into old laws, deeds, titles, etc.
Indoor dining can resume in NY on Sept. 30

* 25% occupancy limit

* All patrons must have temperature checked at door

* One member of each party will be required to provide restaurant with contact info for tracing if needed

* No service after midnight

* No bar service

* Masks must be worn when not seated at a table; tables must be 6 feet apart

* Strict adherence to all State-issued guidance

* Enhanced air filtration, ventilation, and purification standards

https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1303744894658371587?s=...
F.lux automatically adjusts your computer lighting to match your environment
Excited that you're considering JMAP! Hopefully it solves some of the pain-points of implementing IMAP and makes it easier to deliver a great UX. If e.g. Mimestream can deliver as good a UX with a Fastmail account (or Cyrus IMAP or Dovecot installation) as it does with a Gmail account, I think it will help the independent email ecosystem. (Though there is a big headwind, so I understand focusing on Gmail now.)

Edit: downloaded the beta. Will give it a shot with my work G Suite account.
That's literally true in Lua, where there is no such thing as object-orientation but there's lots of ways to do object-oriented programming. The simplest, most performant way I've found is to return a hash map containing lexical closures and data from a "constructor" function. Any enclosed functions which refer to values declared in the constructor use those values in a closure, so it's easy to do instance or static member fields by putting the field declaration inside or outside of the constructor function.

You can do it with metatable manipulation as well(changing the functions which map to specific table operators which lets you change how unmapped keys are handled) but I found the lexical closures to make a lot more sense.
Isn't this the idea of Gallium3D (part of the MESA project)? You write one driver and have support for Vulkan, OpenGL, etc.
It’s wonderful to see more native macOS apps popping up recently. Having a great Gmail client is certainly one of the nicest I’ve seen lately!

What’s your stand on the latest changes announced at this year’s WWDC for Mac development?
This is a rather weird article. Of course sentinels can be faster in some very particular algorithms. That's not the core contention. The core contention is that sentinels in general cause more speed losses than speed gains over the entirety of the application. Importantly, many useful algorithms such as string copying, string comparison, and string concatenation can be much more efficient using a size field.
This is why you should avoid Apple entirely. They can do this to you, your company, your apps.

I'm a big fan of FOSS as much as possible.
As much as I want new housing, I don't want to live in a dense city. I have lived in apartments long enough to know I don't want to live in an apartment anymore. I was born and raised in the suburbs and I want to continue to live in one. I don't blame people living in single family homes not wanting multiple family homes built near them or fighting infill development.

We really need to reduce the population. It will help with carbon footprint reduction too.
These can be from the same Chinese supplier that supplies home depot and Tesla: "Ok send the fake wood ones instead."

Or it can be sign that Tesla still runs their supply chain management in a style that works for small volume luxury sports cars.
Well, I could tell you our heat-pump saga from the early 1990s, or our difficulties dealing with painters in 2004.

But the best is probably the contractor drama of several years ago. One plumber left the country and did not return. This would have been fine, except that he left a vent pipe unblocked when he removed the toilet or sink or whatever. Then we had a really cold winter and the rats found their way into the house by that route.
> "I really believe that for commercial cellular in urban areas, 5G is more of a benefit for the carriers than the consumers."

3.6Ghz 5G has been a big benefit for me in London, where I consistently get 200-300 Mbps and low pings. 4G tops out in the 50-70 Mbps range.

Whether this will still be the case once there's a ton of new 5G iPhones added to the network, I'm not sure!
If I bought scissors that could only cut certain types of paper, thickness or proprietary paper, I wouldn’t later complain about their inability to cut all paper.

“Ownership” of a tool has always been limited to the feature set the manufacturer originally intended for it. This entitlement over the tools Apple creates, accurately advertises, and legal sells is the only problem I see.

[1] https://www.sliceproducts.com/safety-scissors
When I was still on Gmail in 2012 or so (?) I really really loved that app!

Actually, I’d easily pay $25 or even more for a similar app, for Fastmail.
I wonder if they could just make that an option on purchase? “Do you want us to enforce security and privacy or do you want to take that on yourself?”. I for one would opt for handling my own privacy on some of my own devices, but would definitely lock my kids down with Apple approved only option.
See also the observable universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe. As the universe's expansion speeds up, we will never receive further information from some parts of the universe as it "moves away from us" faster than the speed of light.
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Co-designing electronics and microfluidics for a cooling boost
Those totals include all deaths in the region which includes ISIS and other conflicts - important info to include
When did they say they wouldn’t do that?

I am not seeing the big concern around promoting paid ads on the add on site assuming they are clearly marked as such.

That’s how they’ve made money since the beginning except it was ads on all searches, and it was google doing the infrastructure work for them.
> Wood will not self-combust until reaching around 300°c

Staying below the "fail fast" temperature does not make it safe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA

The question is, how will it handle years of the daily heating and cooling cycles that the cooling system will undergo? I don't know and likely no-one does ... because it hasn't been rated or approved for that task. it isn't even a standardised part, how can it be?
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
the recommendation is RTG + rad-hardened battery, naturally the question of will there be enough RTGs is a perfectly valid one.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2002/2002.11871.pdf

for downlink can't they launch a few extra sats that just sit around the Sun and form a big virtual dish (via baseline interferometry or what's that occult DSP magic called these days)?
Maybe because I'm PCmasterrace, but all of those alternative examples are bad too.
Even the Best Language Models Don’t Have a Clue What They’re Doing
This is one of my top 5 underrated ideas that I'm so excited to see launch. This could redefine the relationship between investors/founders/operators which is clearly driven by quarterly financials. Then go listen to how people like Jeff Bezos think about building strong companies. Clear misalignment. You have to be so strong as a founder that you can resist the urges of the market to think long term.

Excited and hopeful that LTSE might make that type of thinking engrained in all businesses!! Just might take building a stock market to get there :P (which is an incredible feat)
It's definitely easier than conventional RDBMS. Adding a column in ClickHouse is just a metadata operation. BiqQuery has great nested structure support.

Still, it's hard to beat MongoDB in this respect. In my first app I was amazed that I could just insert a BSON object and MongoDB created a queryable table automatically. You pay for it of course in other ways but the ease of use is quite extraordinary.
In a scenario where the thermoplastic would melt?

I imagine there’s industrial-grade 3D-printing material, but if they’re in such a time crunch to get these out the door for Q2, it was probably quicker to just send an intern to Home Depot.
> But the scale of quarks increases just as much as every other scale

No, there is no scaling of matter or light. It just has a bigger space to play in.
I thought this community was left leaning until I read this thread. Individualism running really strong here.
I think that says a lot more about your combination of software and hardware than webasm.

If someone says "webasm is slow, this demo took 45 seconds to run" and you say "it ran slow for me when I made the window so big that between my browser's webgl implementation, my gpu drivers and my graphics card, a hundred cubes make everything run at 1/10th the speed" what point is that making?
> R blows Python out of the water when it comes to expressing concise and readable linear algebra/stats computation. Done right, base R looks like mathematical pseudo-code.

Are you including Numpy as part of Python in this statement? I've found Numpy to be as mathematically expressive as R, although I'm not a R power-user.
Do they though?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-go...
I would love to use this to "record" voiceovers for my weekly radio show. Would fix one of the least enjoyable parts of the process, which is actually recording the voiceovers.
Maybe in the ideal world this decision wouldn't be made unilaterally.

In the real world, usually a husband's deference to his wife's choices makes it her choice. If he doesn't defer, there will be arguments until he does.

That's not the ideal view of the world, but it's what I've observed in many friends' relationships.
It's behind a paywall so I can't read it. But has the Senate ever really been great?

Robert Caro's Master of the Senate discussed the history of the institution in some detail. My takeaway from the book:
The Senate basically never really worked as it was intended. The Senate was designed to be more deliberative than the House, and to slow down the pace of political change, primarily by having longer and staggered terms for Sentators and giving them a lot of negative power: the ability to vote down legislation even if the house wanted to pass it. But throughout American history it seems to have slowed down things far too much. The only time it worked was when LBJ was majority leader. Once he left the Senate it reverted to being the bottleneck for political change yet again.
You forgot to read the part where they will block certain directories, and your 12 year old could easily install malware or give out his password, and Android did't fail in terms of privacy. Apple has failed by locking you into a closed-source ecosystem. Android is open source and has a lot of options, and a lot of open source apps you can review yourself and pick the best cryptography algorithms for password management, etc.
This is something you saw all the time back in the day from normal car manufacturers (heck, some GM cars were famous for coming off of the production lines with bottles and trash inside of panels).

This only seems so chintzy to us today because of how much we take for granted from manufacturing today. Modern automakers are running lean operations that are insanely optimized (being able to keep consistent production with barely any inventory). Tesla has famously had problems achieving lean production (keeping huge inventories of other parts, and consistently running out of others).

This wouldn't be so embarrassing if Musk had not spent so much time throwing shade on other car manufacturers.
I agree that if you dug into the engineering the math probably works[1]. It's just a weird culture to be out on the floor substituting random materials in a load-bearing, if perhaps not life-safety-critical, part.

1: Compressive strength of wood perpendicular to the grain varies but you can estimate with a healthy safety margin about 200 PSI. 100x - 1000x weaker than metals, but still not zero.
Then I think you should get a Facebook account and and have a look and experience the problem of people spreading misinformation first hand.

I used to think that the right approach was to be completely hands off. The reason was that I thought it would have to be an all-or-nothing kind of affair. Because if you censor some of the crap, you have to be able to censor all of it or you will be sued into oblivion.

But "nothing" is considerably worse than "some" in this case. And if how law is practiced stops companies from doing some good and choosing to do nothing, that isn't a good way to go about it.

So I think there needs to be some legal protection for companies that do try to remove misleading information. So they don't get sued if they fail to remove all of it.

I can understand if you are against removing information on principle. I'm not fond of it either. But when people get hurt for absolutely no good reason, it starts to matter.
Contracts are not necessarily lawful.
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The Code Breakers
On my analysis, I'm shearing what I believe you mean by "faith claims" from the term "religion". But I'm definitely leaving in dogma and the funny hats social club cultural aspect.

For example, look at the scandal from some years back in which some European (Spanish?) meat products were found to include horse meat. Everyone agreed that (1) there was no risk of any kind involved in eating the "contaminated" products; (2) you could not taste the difference; (3) a recall was in order; (4) this was and deserved to be a HUGE scandal.

I'm saying that the modern Western prohibition on eating horse is a religious phenomenon, regardless of whether people are comfortable calling it one. If you are using a definition of "religion" that doesn't include things like this, your terms do not carve reality at the joints.
I've seen a number of religious cults dressed up as bookshops in my life, and this, with all of its expensive "counselling", "therapy", and "classes", looks to me like another one.
I guess, based on all that we know about BigTech, is there any reason to actually think they're behaving this way? And if they are now, they'll continue to?
I use it to not get the red eyes.
> archive.is always seems to be struggling to stay online

Very good point. I will donate to them too. I've been donating to Archive.org for a long time but I use Archive.is more often these days so they deserve some love too.

I have a list of places where I make donations to on my profile page here.
> Base conversion with arbitrary (and even mixed) base can be done in entirely linear time.

Are you saying Bitcoin uses an O(N^2) implementation because they are naive?

You need to propagate carry to the rest of the digits. I wonder how it’s possible for Base58 to be implemented in linear time. Do you have any sources I can read?
This is really less “sentinels can be faster” and more “assuming invariants can be faster because you’re reducing comparisons”.
I calculate a rather better figure for the Empire State Building:

365000 tons × 9.81 m/s2 × 1 m = 1 MWh

which ought to at least be enough to provide short term backup power to the whole building.
Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
This is a 34 minute video with 500 views and no description, and no transcript.
I'm pretty sure you didn't know that, but Xbox doesn't have any restrictions on tools and payment methods. You can literally just download their SDK, build a game, and monetize it however you want.

In other words, Xbox is already more open than iOS. I believe they opened it up with the Xbox 360 around 2007.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/developers#developerprograms
Yeah, with 1 bar of signal strength though? I work remote as a nomad and I frequently have to depend on 4G for connectivity. I don't get anywhere near 200 mbps in most parts of the U.S. I'm lucky to get 20, and often limited to the low single digits.
It's not clear that there are any specific legal TOS for 'Sign in with Apple':

https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/resources/
Any string representation is faster for some hand-picked task. But still, I think it's reasonable to assert that certain ones are better than others for general use.
I was going to say that I thought token ring MAUs handled disconnected stations but then I read this (including the "setup aid" with an included battery) and now I'm not sure any more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_access_unit

(un)fortunately I didn't experience this period of network history first hand. :)
I think he was trying to do exactly what you're saying, normalize to net income.

When we say "22k of 75k" it sounds like 1/3, but the 22k is net and the 75k is pre-tax. Once we normalize the 75k, we realize that 22k is almost half the person's net income.
> at least I haven't seen a lot of people disregard these benchmarks

https://old.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/ikpgbq/benchmark_ph...

> the CLBG treatment

Please say what you mean ?
Bitcoin uses the naive scheme, why?
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Since you're a fan of fallacies, that's moving the goalposts.

Earlier you insisted we name the device based on what it is, not merely a part of it. Now you want to name it after the case, which is merely a part of it.

Feel free to use that formula yourself but I see no reason why you should insist that everyone else use it.
I just noticed this comment. I appreciate your and tome's obvious concern for the community you're a part of, and I hope very much that you both continue to enjoy it and thrive. I mean you no ill-will and wish you best of luck.
So sad. If only their team of physicists, engineers, and scientists had done basic internet research. Too bad. I guess they’ll plow ahead and try it out, anyway. Maybe humanity will just accidentally be a better place, despite the extraordinary negativity.
More people report reading a book than you'd think. But the median books read per year is still too low for this to be a problem the author thinks it is.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/26/who-doesnt-...
> Electron exists to poach web developers into app development, because native code and frameworks are hard.

I don't agree with the "poaching" statement, but I would argue that "frameworks are hard" should be replaced with "desktop gui frameworks are appalingly poor".

Webview-based rendering frameworks trade away native look-and-feel for a myriad of tools and processes and techniques and workflows and expertise that you simply do not get with plain old widget frameworks. GUI developers know this, and in particularly GUI frameworks vendors are well aware of this. In fact, check XAML or QML.
I think most modern languages shifted towards slices due to security issues with sentinels. C++ span, rust, zig, go. It's very sad we need to use libc interfaces and deal with null terminated byte sequences.
They're fairly visible on band 7 IR.
MS doesn't require Xbox developers to use their IAP API. Most do, but that's just because it's so convenient for the players.
Like many people here, I’ve been wondering for a long time how they are planning on keeping companies focussed on the long term. Here is a summary that is shorter than the SEC filings.

https://longtermstockexchange.com/listings
I think this is something C++ (and other later ones) got right; A size field and a sentinel’d (null-terminated) char[]. So getting the length only requires reading 4 or 8 bytes, but if you want to pass that string to a function that expects a null terminated string, just pass x.c_str().
I never had breakfast as a high school kid (still don't). 5 minutes for a shower, 5 more to get dressed and pick up bag, that leaves 10 minutes to get to bus stop.
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I found it pretty disturbing that an installer was immediately downloaded on clicking the 'Get Started' button. Won't use.
AMP isn't specific to Chromium
Great app, looks really neat.

One criticism though, the swiping is incredibly annoying right now. You have to swipe an almost painful amount to archive emails without a click, it should require less than half the swipe-distance of what it does now. Look at how little swiping Chrome needs to go back to the previous page, and emulate that.
Exactly. Even if you do care, you can only exert so much influence on the platform you're developing for, unless you're working for a company like Apple or Sony. Even then, there are many, many layers to the latency problem.
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Is Andrew Mason (Groupon CEO) involved in Descript? I see a note from him in the initial composition after installing.