skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distributed consensus doesn't require a leader. The same process used to elect a leader (i.e. change leader state) can simply be used to change state generally. See, e.g., There Is More Consensus in Egalitarian Parliaments: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/epaxos-sosp2013.pdf

In fact, for something like what etcd is used for in k8s, as the root and lynchpin of all state, but not direct application I/O (pods use their own data stores, and even for cluster management etcd usually just contains pointers to external data), a leaderless architecture makes the most sense. Protocols to choose a leader are latency and throughput optimizations, but the core state for a cluster (members, pod metadata, etc) shouldn't require very much state and therefore should be relatively low traffic as compared to most database applications. And as shown in the above paper, for certain scenarios (including, arguably, the k8s scenario) a leaderless architecture can have better latency and throughput, not to mention availability.
I share similar history too, nowadays it's minimalist shoes or sandals (minimum heel raise), and hoka shoes for longer distances and cold weather, these also being minimal heel raise shoes.
It was similar with FidoNet, which I had before I could afford internet in Russia. Every day you'd dial what was effectively a BBS (some dude with a modem on his home phone line), download the personal messages and forums (echomail), then read/respond offline, and if you wanted connect back to send your responses.

Ah, those were the days. No endless distractions of always being online :)
An extra bit of complication seems to be that CircleUp itself seems to be some sort of VC-like operation, so at times I wasn't quite sure if some of the funds they were raising were for CircleUp or their clients.

Time to rewatch Inception.
If any devs have experience, do you find that the effects of ADHD meds still allows you to get into “fuzzy” undirected thought? For example, I’ve found that a lot of my supposed mental prowess is predicated on me daydreaming and mulling a problem and suddenly intuiting some possible solution. I’m afraid ADHD meds might curb that part of my personality.
I skimmed across the comments and was surprised that no one talked about housing prices. A house is THE biggest expenditure for most tech people, because the tech jobs are concentrated in a few places with high housing prices.

Notwithstanding all the downsides of WFH, I will happily permanently WFH since I can move to cheaper place and enjoy a large house to myself, even if I need to accept a lower wage (but not so low that the cheaper house price is no longer worth the move). As for all the socialization, I'd rather find it outside work.

As for the mental health some people talk about, being able to afford a large house will do tremendously better for my mental health than being able to interact with people face with face, especially when those people are only bonded to me by money.
> To claim a lockdown is ineffective is to deny the transmissivity of airborne viruses.

Good thing I didn't claim that then
The Epley Maneuver https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
==The WH Press Secretary is a very, very loud voice that should be listened to whether you like it or not.==

This sounds pretty authoritarian. I can think of plenty of times this wouldn’t be true. What if she directly invited violence or knowingly spread foreign propaganda?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/feds-exam...
There are infinitely more alternatives that aren’t “gut 230” or “do nothing.” Why is this the starting point when it will affect so many sites that we all agree aren’t doing anything wrong.

You want to propose a law that regulates Facebook let’s talk about that directly.
Easy answer: he’s not a good father. It’s his choice. I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong about it, but it’s sad for his kids. Steve Jobs was a shitty parent as well. You can’t have a balanced life if you want to be extraordinary. It’s literally impossible.
> If you're suggesting crowd sourcing moderation in a democratic fashion, I would contend this both isn't effective and also that by providing systems that facilitate this, companies would be implicitly affecting the "censorship" of their platform. After all, someone has to decide what the voting algorithm is, what the chance of being a spammer before you are blocked is, etc.

I think that what is being suggested is that there be multiple, user-selectable, opt-in providers of crowd-sourced moderation services that are orthogonal to the unfiltered communication platform.

Something like the 3rd-party spam filtering services for blog comments or email.

I imagine, though, that a 3rd-party "view" of the Twitterverse would also be a Twitter client, have it's own web presence, and basically be a white-label version of Twitter. Twitter itself would be largely relegated to being a backend pipe that the different sites have in common for interoperability.

I can't imagine how these federated Twitter clones would themselves be able to provide a curated experience without running into the same liability problems.

The alternative is that these optional collaborative moderation services are somehow integrated into Twitter itself, which, while not impossible, poses some serious issues of combinatorial complexity, scalability, and sustainability.
I also use an iPhone 6 as my main (and only) phone. I have the latest updates installed on it and just had a new battery installed in June. It works perfectly well! Of note, possibly, is that I have neither Facebook nor Twitter installed. I do use a slew of other apps though, without issue.
OP has at this point stated that they've removed the censorship.
In the past, there are some cases hacker will attack encryption.

For example, those small shopping website which store users payment (not many do it now). Some store leave a plain text data, some have some sort of encryption.

I’ve been in some forum where hackers share the encryption for other members to brainstorm how to decrypt it.

As your point, I agree bad actors will look at the front door first
Email from a founder to a former board member
Because the us media and public are disarmed by bad faith arguments.
How to get more quality time out of the day
Lately i feel like i've been getting no more than 4 or 5 hours of quality time out of the day. Sleeping late, waking up kind of early (9 am) doing some work (9-12), than taking a big fat nap because im sleepy from like (12 to 5), waking up at like 5 or 6 then working from 7 to 10 and then pushing myself until 2 am again(losing all quality bc im sleepy and hating myself) then is the same all over again the next day. Any tips on getting more quality time? how are your schedules looking in order to take the maximum out of the day?
This is actually a funny and interesting way to look at it.

This might be a way for Apple to continue doing what they do and get away with it.

(AFAIK: It is not what they currently say so they'll have to change their terms and conditions before they use this in court ;-)
I'm not sure how you were doing it, but when I think of "hum", I think of making a noise with my mouth closed. I found opening my mouth and making a tone worked much better.

I'm not sure how many people think of hum the same way. I've noticed lately some words being used slightly differently than I am used to (the one coming to mind right now is "giggle" in a story that in context I would interpret as meaning "chuckle"), and at this point it's happening enough that I'm not sure if there's a shift in perception of these words or if I just always interpreted them more narrowly than they were intended.
https://github.com/rancher/kine provides a translation layer for etcd that supports various SQL flavors.
It is currently used only by k3s afaik
That’s terrible news and I’m very sorry for you. I hope your prognosis is excellent.
People take Lexapro and then suddenly break up with their significant others like a switch. It seems to be a behaviorally driven with some greater issue at the root. No where close to being ideologically driven like this rhetoric.

LSD and mushrooms are also similar in my experience but produces variable results
"That's one hell of a Twinkie." -Winston Zeddemore
Productivity has nothing to do with how long you work... but working until midnight does sound like a recipe for burnout. You should take a break to reset, as soon as you can!
Worked at numerous small companies. General stance by lawyers is if you write down a legal issue without consulting them first, they will have you fired six ways to Sunday. It is a big de.
I know a bit about turbofan engines in aircraft.

3D-printed parts are already going into them right now, as we speak:
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/airbus-gets-1st-production-j...
There are advantages and disadvantages to each. The computer failure methods are new to us, but we're all too familiar with human failings. Humans have much slower reaction times. Humans get sleepy, drunk, or distracted. Humans sometimes get angry or impatient and do dangerous things with their vehicles.

The important metric is accidents per mile driven. Right now, Teslas on autopilot seem to be significantly safer than human drivers. From Tesla's vehicle safety report[1]:

> ...we registered one accident for every 4.53 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.27 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.56 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.

Yes autopilot has issues and limitations, but it's already 3x safer than unaided drivers. Also, it seems to be improving in safety. Two years ago, autopilot's crash rate was only 1.5x lower than unaided Tesla drivers.

1. https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
Form is function in high performance manufacturing (including most of aerospace). Just switch materials is a huge deal. If you set out with "use additive manufacturing" as one of your requirements/design goals, you can probably use additive manufacturing in a lot of aero. Using additive manufacturing to drop in replace existing parts that were made with different materials and techniques is very unlikely however.
I don't think platforms like Twitter should act like such a gatekeeper. It's like being a rule maker and a judge at the same time, which could lead to abuse easily.
I would suggest that 'bullshitting' in this case would be a willingness to openly converse and express spontaneous opinions with a third party in order to learn more about a subject.

Caveat: The more eager you are, the likely more you'll be taken as a bullshitter.
And, soon after:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/feds-exam...

>Federal investigators are examining whether the emails allegedly describing activities by Joe Biden and his son Hunter and found on a laptop at a Delaware repair shop are linked to a foreign intelligence operation, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The story is light on details.
"A spokesman for the Biden campaign, Andrew Bates, said that Mr. Biden’s official schedules showed no meeting between Mr. Biden and the advisor."
Sounds different to Biden did not meet the advisor. Overly specific dementi are suspicious.
And is GRU using authentic emails or fake ones?
Because if they are valid, it doesn't matter who obtained them.
Just like when the DNC screwed Bernie Sanders during Hillary Clinton's campaign.
I wasn't saying definitively that the documents are fake. I simply have no idea whether they are authentic or not. These documents originate with Rudy Giuliani who was just revealed to be the target of a Russian disinformation campaign regarding Hunter Biden.[1] I will view anything that is coming from Giuliani with a healthy dose of skepticism until there is some outside confirmation.

However the authenticity of the documents isn't even relevant to the overall point. If they are fake, there is a crime of fraud. If they are authentic, it is likely a crime to release this information. There also doesn't appear to be any evidence of a crime committed by either Hunter or Joe Biden. Even if a meeting took place, which no one is able to confirm, that alone isn't a crime. That lack of crime would seemingly eliminate this as an example of whistleblowing. The end result is that it appears that a crime was committed just to make Biden look bad and try to turn the election in Trumps favor. I don't know why Twitter or Facebook need to allow their platforms to be a pawn in that game.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-bi...
I think this illuminates the difference that makes the difference here.

A polymath is actually good at many things, not just has an opinion about them. This takes an unusual level of ability.

In other words a generalist is not a polymath, because the polymath is better at the generalised abilities.

That's what felt wrong about the article, it was conflating unusually talented polymaths with the ubiquitous averagely talented internet pundits :p
Please look into how this data was obtained rather than making up legal stuff to feel you’re on the right side.
If its P2P it means it uses other peoples' nodes as your exit node, sort of like Tor but without the onions.

That's risky. What happens to me if someone does something illegal via my connection? How could I prove it wasn't me? Maybe I could win in court by citing my use of something like this, but I really don't want to be dragged into court in the first place even if I end up walking out.
The idea to remove all billboards for teslas is really funny.

I would say that this billboard hack means anyone could install a banner on their balcony to get a tesla to swerve onto a neighbour’s house.

However, I believe this will be fixed in a later update.
> The repair shop almost certainly retains ownership of unclaimed deviced after some period of time. The shop owns the laptop. The data is theirs to do with as they please and they chose to publish it (at least, that's the story). No hacking necessary.

The "repair shop" is almost certainly a poorly-convinced backstory as to the origin of the hacked materials.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-analysts-hac...

But you are right in saying that hasn't been confirmed yet.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797040
>Speech that is false and intentionally causes a panic should not be protected.

70% of facebook posts and newspapers instantly banned.
What side? I was simply stating the demand by the BLM protesters in Washington DC and in NYC, as well as the demand by the leadership of BLM movement. There are multiple videos, pictures, and NYT/WaPo OpEd that showed such demand.
What legal liability? A lot of people especially here in the US are always invoking liability. What series of legal events do you imagine being initiated by the posting of this email?
I just read through the paper.

TL;DR: They compared the metallurgy of two different samples, which IMHO totally invalidates the result.

The setup revolves primarily around "Johnson-Matthey purifiers", which are made by a manufacturer for industrial hydrogen gas purification. It isn't designed to have calibrated or consistent metallurgy for this kind of scientific experiment.

They're essentially a long Pd-Ag tube sealed in a stainless steel pressure vessel and also the tubes have supporting stainless steel springs inside them.

The experimenters had only two(!) of these filters, both sealed in the factory. They had to cut them open to access the Pd-Ag tubes inside for analysis.

A) This is a destructive test, so they had no way to run the experiment on one tube for longer and longer periods to demonstrate a steady increase in the contaminants.

B) They didn't take a control measurement of either tube before commencing the experiment.

c) They have no reason to assume that the metal purity of the tubes is anywhere near consistent enough to compare two different tubes, which are likely to have been manufactured on different dates from different metal sources and hence would not be consistent enough for this kind of experiment.

D) Individual tubes could also have had point-to-point variations, which they claim is the result, not the error! That's insane.

E) This is a long-running experiment (months) with many actions taken on the filters. Connections and disconnections of gas sources, high temperature cycling, flushing with various gases, etc... It's entirely conceivable that a contaminant got into the tubes.

Essentially, the only scientific way to run an experiment like this is to manufacture a tube yourself, using either very high purity metals or a very well characterised and homogeneous alloy. Then you'd have to take samples at multiple points along the tube and at several different times during the experiment. You'd also want to make sure that the entire experiment is housed in a metal that is similarly well characterised. At least a dozen such setups would need to be run in parallel, using the exact same setup except for gases used.

They did none of this. They simply noticed a filter got hot, cut it open, and assumed that what they measured was an increase relative to a different unused filter they had lying around.

This is garbage science.
Yeah, I think our schools have long done US students a disservice in underemphasizing “information quality” — how to deal with incomplete, ambiguous, questionable, and bad info. A very large fraction of tests in school reinforce that every question has only one right answer. The notion of minimizing error is seldom even imagined. Instead it's taught that all learning must seek only one goal: “knowing the one and only truth”. Yet all too often, competing facts are not mutually exclusive and can change with time.

And don't get me started on the poor coverage of concepts like “necessary” and “sufficient” in judging evidence in support of an assertion or model.

After working in science for the past 15 years (drug development), I've come to appreciate how little in medicine we know in absolute terms. With any system as complex as the human body, generally the best you can hope for is to be less wrong.
That's more of an active process than this.

This seems like hanging a rock painted with political slogans off the side of a bridge (presumably by some sort of rope) and letting people drive into it.
You've been breaking the site guidelines so egregiously and repeatedly that I think we have to ban this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: to be clear, I'm not just talking about this comment, but similar ones like these, which I didn't see at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518160

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517881

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517448

You simply can't post like that to HN, no matter how wrong or ignorant others are, or you feel they are.
> When they want the protections of section 230, they claim to be platforms

No they don't, because section 230 does not require them to. It does not even contain the word "platform".
Not OP but I've been doing it in SEA for about 5 years now. Usually I stay in one place place for 6 months or so then take 6 weeks off to travel until I find a new beach to work from while sipping coconuts, but I'm feeling more like being settled now and I've been in Vietnam for the past year (bonus: no covid here). There are large communities of like minded people out here doing this, lots of couples in their late twenties and thirties and even a few families. Not to mention the local culture and people are amazing.
For myself, it allows me to work freelance part time and work on my own projects which are far more interesting to me than working for other people, which I couldn't afford to spend time on back home.
The biggest pain point is visas - depending on the country you'll probably have to do a border run every one to three months. Also, technically, you'll be working illegally but at least in SEA this is ignored as there are loads of co-working spaces that cater to the digital nomad crowd and nobody official has ever complained about any of them to my knowledge. The countries presumably view us as rich long term tourists. Thailand is the first country to make moves to legitimize this with a (very limited) working nomad visa.
I hope in the future more places will do this as this movement grows.
I have written that last sentence in my journal to record for posterity.
Cruise to test unmanned self-driving vehicle fleet on San Francisco streets
“Email to former board member”
maybe this is just the trend towards greater understanding with increased information transfer speed - the average amount of knowledge one has will increase. The people back in hunter gatherer tribes knew very how to hunt and make weapons very well, i'm sure they would consider someone who knows about darwin's theory of evolution and newton's laws of physics a casual polymath, even though those are considered commonplace mental models today
> or that Hillary Clinton received some debate questions in advance (again, not a crime!).

Also, not actually true!

There were claims that she received debate questions weeks in advance, which are a complete and total fabrication by a probably-not-innocent prank website.

There were separate claims that she received debate questions shortly before the town hall debate. And there was an effort to do so from someone outside of her campaign - but the questions that were provided were not the ones asked, so.... It's false to say she received some debate questions in advance.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-received-debate-qu...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/31/ha...
I think the point is more the general technique, not this particular usage of it.

Regarding the ternary, nested ternary expressions aren't the most readable thing.

Regarding table lookup, sure but only if all values of y are sequential integers.
They moved it to the console under a gear icon.
So many people downvoting my comment but no substantive replies. No irony wrt censorship here.
Add a honeypot field for humans (visible) and bots (hidden). If visible honeypot field is filled or hidden one not filled, that means you have a human
> Twitters official policy is to not allow publication of hacked material or information with Personally Identifying Information - and this material was hacked and had unredacted personal email addresses.

Give me a break. The unauthorized leak of Trump's Tax Returns were all over social media and nothing was done about that.
Nobody likes to date people who are trashing all their exes but one is fine.
OSX has had FileVault enabled by default since 2014, though we don't know how old the laptop in question actually is.
I would love to see a monospace version of this.
Hunter Biden's iCloud backup was hacked, which isn't too hard. Combine those real photos with some real (and some fake) emails the GRU hacked from Burisma last year, you have a ready-made "October surprise".

The degree in which you "fall for it" is the degree in which you want to see Trump reelected. No one that could fog a mirror would normally believe such nonsense.
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