skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did exactly the same in a previous job but used flatbuffers for serialization instead.

I wasn't a part of the initial decision making but was pretty happy with how easy it was to work with both zmq and flatbuffers.
Why don't you skip the theatrics and state your point, if you have one.
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Saudi Arabia is currently on the side of Israel rather than Iran. China and Russia were never friends.
sorry. let me re-phrase: no mention of the kindle 1984 incident.. in the comment threads here in HN.
Please don't equate UX to a particular era. UX is how a thing works. That is a timeless quality.

Anki UX just sucks. I agree. Even if it were year 2000, its UX is not great.
Oh no, imagine resorting to terrorism when your ethnicity and culture is systematically being erased by the second largest regime in the world.
The State monad desugars to pure code, but the IO monad doesn't. If you use IORefs or MVars, then you do actual, real mutability by changing the value at a location.
I don't quite understand this one.

> If a file is signed and it can be matched against a distributed ledger, it can help ensure the authenticity of the file.

So I guess the point is that you don't want to have a central, trusted party. So someone can't simply hack or bribe that party. But what prevents a malicious actor from pushing their file's signature onto the blockchain? If only certain keys are allowed to use for signing, we're back to the trusted party: those with key access. What is the benefit here?

> Imagine that all land records are in a distributed ledger. The land owner has a signed certificate that can be verified anytime for authenticity.

Is this related to the file authentication thing? Perhaps because I don't know what benefit the former should have, I don't get what this is supposed to have in common. Here too, though, I don't see an advantage of doing it on a blockchain. The department of land records can publish a public key corresponding to the private key they use to sign land certificates: "that can be verified anytime for authenticity."
I think it's because ... reps are called congressmen/women, senators in the senate are well, called senators...
I find Wordproof interesting. Their technology is fine as blockchain tech goes, but I don't see how timestamping fights fake news.

Congrats to the team for their EU grant and traction, but this feels to me like a "problem looking for a solution". Take this with a grain of salt, as we are somewhat adjacent competitors.
And here is another article with more details: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-tunneling...

It was even discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917908
Yes, I agree, I was surprised they bothered to mention trying to seriously mine heat from hard rock, it seems like running fluid through a bore horizontally barely solves the conductivity issue since heat still has to get to the walls of the bore.

I'm not sure if you are unaware but:

"In 2007, Japan had 535.2 MW of installed electric generating capacity, about 5% of the world total."

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

Which sure, is the total equivalent of like two nuclear cores so small by any absolute measure, but they seem to be trying?
I use NAS for my photos since I wouldn't trust any cloud even if the photos are encrypted.

As for an organizer, nothing has replaced Picasa and it's a shame Google didn't open source it.
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Yeah it’s absolutely indicated for some surgeries but unfortunately it’s “defaulted” for many as well, so people end up going home on prescriptions for it after cases where they didn’t really need it. The movement is to ID which cases don’t call for it and then use alternative anesthesia / analgesia to make the post op care consist of extra strength Motrin instead of opioids. The other part is to dramatically reduce the number of doses that people are sent home with. Small barriers to access have a huge impact on addiction.
This is a poor example IMO. You're talking about something that can easily be handled by a database... you don't have trust issues or a byzantine generals problem to solve when it comes to egg tracking. Blockchain does nothing to ensure that the data is truthful.
> your data will be safely replicated and accessible from the cloud, and at the same time you are the sole owner of the data. Only your private key can access the data.

So it's like an FTP drive where the hosting company makes backups and you encrypt the files before uploading, like Tarsnap?

Trying to come up with any difference (advantageous or no) I guess the point is that there isn't a single owner? Nobody liable to keep your data available, but also not a single party that can go bankrupt or some such?
We have 20 internal podcasts, and they're actually really good, especially the Context podcast mentioned by OP.
but Apple definitely understood that iTunes had value to people who wanted to make digital copies of media in ways that did not strictly fall under fair use guidelines.

Ripping CDs for personal archival copies had already been characterized as fair use by the courts by the time iTunes was first released. If it hadn't been, the industry players wouldn't have just "accused" Apple of promoting copyright violation, they would have done something about it. The music industry has always been very aggressive about protecting their IP rights.

It would have been very different if iTunes had the slogan "Rip, Mix, Burn, Share."
My father served in the 8th Air Force at a time when the odds of completing a tour were about 20%. The airmen had various ways of coping with this, my father's way was to simply accept that he wasn't going to make it and just do his job as best he could.

He told me that after the war, whenever he felt down, he'd think about what a miracle it was he survived, and would feel better.

He lived to be 93.
The use case is money. That's it. All valid use cases involve a transfer of stored value. (eg. money, securities, collectable stuff)

For everything else there's a much cheaper option, even for time stamping. Anything involving "proving" something, meaning making some assertion at some time is not a good case. For those look at certificate transparency for a better example of how to handle that. When people say "storage", I say no. All valid cases which involve that are really about the handling of payment for storage, not the storage itself.
Oh wow, I didn’t know ikea had a motorised standing desk. Would be more than happy to pay $500 for that; hand-cranking the desk up and down gets tiring after a while.
I believe certificate transparency http://www.certificate-transparency.org/ is based on blockchain technology. (Haven't studied it in detail, just happened to notice this new SCT field in my Let's Encrypt certificate recently.)
It's not hard to get an ESP8266 dev board for that much.
What we observe at the moment is one thing that most people fear the most: Change

The future seems to be grim and dark at the moment, but in the darkness, the light shines the brightest! So, lets work together to make things work, burn away the darkness and do not let our self get trapped in depression.
As an American you have direct leverage over your government through democracy.

Lacking that kind of leverage, economic leverage is really the best next thing isn't it?
Have you tried installing an older version of Linux (since you're bringing up `apt`, older version of Debian)?

Those packages haven't changed. All of it will still run. Maybe you'll be able to just boot it in a VM inside your current OS and it'll just work.
I have to say that I have never really had a positive impression of zeromq. I feel like it is particularly unsuccessful and that seems to be for some pretty good reasons.

Zeromq is a bag of tools and it's not really clear to me how a novice would put them together safely. This is important for a message system because everyone has to start somewhere and it really shouldn't be "step 1: build your broker with our subroutines". Is that broker really going to be any good?

Secondly, for many years zeromq was a kind of monty python style 'judean people's front vs people's front of judea' community. They split from the AMQP standardisation process I agree had clearly gone wildly wrong and then...split and then...split again.

Right as far as I know people doing messaging are using a) RabbitMQ if they're deploying it themselves b) AWS of GCP's thing or c) some proprietary thing which has no name recognition among the public (who here has heard of AMPS?) d) Kafka. No one is using zeromq as far as I know! Look forward to anyone sharing their positive experiences using zeromq on big projects eg in banks.
This is a well written and interesting article. Large corporations will usually have a checklist with things like: Get the support of top management; Get the necessary resources (budget, people, office space); etc. This article tells you what those things should really mean. It is based on actual experience, not just some academics studying 3M and Apple, good stuff David! - Please feel free to write a similar blog post about Latin American startups, another area where on paper you would expect some big successes, but so far things have been underwhelming.
There's problems with that too, but they're talking about the fact that (for example):

$ apt-get install libfoo=0.1oldversion
produces:
E: Version '0.1oldversion' for 'libfoo' was not found

as soon as version 0.2newpieceofshit of libfoo exists, thus completely defeating the purpose of specifying a version.
Add github/dmca to the list of mirrors: https://github.com/github/dmca/archive/416da574ec0df3388f652...

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Aren't you describing a NAS?
What sort of innovations are you thinking of?
I think the article is working with an extremely wide and weak definition of the term, which indeed runs into that problem. But I think that's a problem with the term being applied to anything "green and hopeful".

The point of the -punk label is that actively working towards a solarpunk world is pretty much punk because it's not where the powers in society want to go. E.g. a lot of it has an anarchist tendency because of self-reliance and independence ideas, it emphasizes slow down/simplicity vs corporate green high-tech projects, ...

The cliche solarpunk story is IMHO more "groups of people that break out in small eco-friendly communities" than "Singapore with more green".
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Yes. You have reduced the amount of cash they have and increased the amount you have by the same amount. If that's not stealing I don't know what is.

Trying to say that's not stealing is like trying to say
"Someone hacked into to my bank account and "obtained" my money" is not stealing either just because there was no physical cash involved.
The most useful metric is the density as relating to people not land. Aka how many people are within 1 mile of each other on average.

As such nationwide population density isn’t that important, but local population density can be a very useful metric. Norway has 5,432,580 people and Óslo Norway is by far the the most populous city has 952,000 people or 17.5% of the population in the urban area at 8,500/square mile.

London has 8,961,989 people out of 63,182,000 (14.2%) in the Uk at 14,670/sq mile. And Birmingham at 1,141,816 people at 11,040/sq mi and you see the UK might have similar rates of urbanization, but it’s significantly more densely packed.

As to Stockholm Sweden, again the largest city out of 10,367,232 people in Sweden 1,605,030 million (15.5%), are living at 11,000/sq mi.

Of course this is still just an approximation. 1,000 people in a single apartment building sharing elevators adds a risk of transmission those same people living in duplex housing doesn’t.
> The crime of infringement requires distribution.

At least in the US, criminal copyright infringement may be for any act of infringement. The statute 17 USC 506(a) [0] describes the necessary conditions for a criminal prosecution, which are not limited to reproduction or distribution. Here [1] is a nice article from the department of justice about the crime.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
What does the blockchain add to the equation beyond what the photo already does?
Why wouldn't you trust it if you encrypted them yourself? Are you afraid they'll break the encryption, lose the data, or collect other data such as when you upload?
> If you decentralize the certification process you can have a trust-less system.

Okay so with a bit of hand-wavey stuff I'm sure we can make a parallel where you also solve world hunger with blockchain and trustless systems where there are no centralized parties that can do bad things. But realistically, how would this work? Whose key will end up signing the TLS certificate for my website? You're not really proposing anything more concrete than "let's move CAs to a blockchain".
I don't believe it would and I think Steve Jobs summed it up better than I could on the subject "Death is very likely the single best invention of life". It puts pressure on us and if we take the correct view of death it empowers us into action. It's funny I don't really fear death and I don't really understand the existential crisis that people have over it. I do however understand that living forever in this existence would soon grow old. All of my ancestors have lived for unusually long lengths of time. Most of them going to 100-110 years of age. My last great grandparent died when I was 30, until 2013 all of my grandparents were alive. The reason I bring this up, is none of them where in fear of what was coming after nearly a century on this earth they were ready to go. My last great grandfather was 107 when he passed, he was diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer. The doc told him it could be treated and that even at his age his chances of survival where close to 90%. He looked at the doc and said WTF are you going to give me 5 years? I am 107 years old, my wife has been dead for several years, I am going home to die. You see he saw death as mercy from a long life and the older I get the more I understand that. If there is something after and it is eternal then I would think it would be of a vastly different nature than the life we experience now. Simply put we are not designed mentally or physically to live forever. Now I have faith there is something else, and I believe that this existence is a learning experience along that path and one of those core lessons is learned via death and that is on our own left to our own devices immortal existence is a futile endeavor. I think that is pretty apparent just looking of the last two centuries of human strife and the state of current affairs. Without death, life would just be a default not something to appreciate and enjoy, it would be taken for granted and our very nature would be different. I have the benefit of if I am wrong well then I am just dead. Either way I am OK with the outcome, because I really have no choice in the matter. Worrying about it only distracts from what we should be doing and that is living in the time we have.

As a side note, I am not trying to be somber and I enjoy living, but living for eternity in this reality, based on what I have seen just in my lifetime, seems like a hell and not something I would strive for.
Often it is excessively complicated because it’s divided into dozens of services to be able to scale, or having extra abstraction layers to deal with imagined future requirements.
It does. I just used it to reupload my pics to Amazon last week.

However, it has tons of metadata files, empty folders, etc. I highly suggest unticking 'preserve directory structure' when unpacking.
> But you’re going to run into ethical quandaries ... if you’re attributing responsibility of government actions to the whole of the people.

This is true more so when the people didn't even elect this government.
Biden would be what 107 years old by that time.
That's multiple different licensing scenarios. Paying for Youtube Premium doesn't give you a right to download whatever videos you want, since that right has to be granted by the copyright owners of the videos.

If you purchased a movie, presumably this included the rights to watch it offline (and most of the movie lockers like Vudu, etc, generally include such rights), then the selling website generally makes available copies for offline viewing (and many Blurays include codes to activate on movie locker service to get a license for a digital copy). In such case, you would need to use that service for downloading the offline copy, because the Youtube copy isn't part of that license to you.
My 15 year-old cousin collapsed during the half-time of a basketball game and died - in a time before AEDs were so prevalent. This sent my aunt and uncle on a quest to make sure there were AEDs anywhere people congregated. To date, there have been many lives saved due to their efforts.

If you care to donate, go to https://gregaed.com. If you need help getting an AED for a location that should have one, there are discounts and in some cases funding available as well.
Barely related: "Fucko" is a valid graph6 string
The timestamp of the photo. This way we know that the photos were taken before transport, and the state of the car when it's dropped off should match the state of the car at pickup.
I don't mean the order, but the number of paths with given number of nodes of given color. This is independent on the chosen order or layout of the graph.
Why do you think it hasn't caught on?

Not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't sound suggestive. I don't mean it suggestively at all, I'm just curious why I heard of it at its inception but then never heard of anyone actually using it. You say it's a marked improvement so I would expect people to jump on it and stop paying the random companies running our TLDs?
Maybe I am an optimist, but that seems really bleak thinking.

1/ « Keep an eye on » is different than « Intervene ». We have to have satellites out there mapping this stuff in excruciating detail, and spies tracking who is responsible for what, and special forces hit them if they step out in a zone where they can be hit. The people who perpetrate this must live in fear.

2/ The UN is full of problems, but if a resolution grants universal asylum to Uighurs anywhere in the world, then at least those people will know there is somewhere they can escape to. That’s something.

3/ Your kids might one day be in a position to do something about it. Telling them why this is wrong, and why they should care, might just be the most important thing you do in your life.

I don’t want to start a big argument. I just want to say that we can all do little things that do matter collectively.
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It is partly historical notoriety. It allows one to prove certain statements that seem counter-intuitive. So proofs that employ it can often be viewed with some skepticism.

Moreover, this axiom is _independent_ of the other axioms in ZFC. It is in fact possible to have entirely self-consistent "worlds" of mathematics, ones where axiom of choice is true, and ones where it is false.

More details and examples of alternate axioms are in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice

If it seems weird that math can give you contradictory results, remember that the difference only shows up when you deal with some form of infinity (e.g. when performing an operation on an infinitely large set). For any usage of math in the real world, the truth or falsity of this axiom won't give you contradictory results.
Hmm, my impression was that it was blockchain based.

Well, I guess that brings the useful applications I know of to 0
What kind of fool would vote 3rd party in an election with the gravity of this one?

This isn't the time to make some symbolic stand, it's time to vote Trump out - if that's what you believe in.
That sounds ridiculously impractical, and far more technologically complex and time-consuming than the solution we've built. You're free to compete with us though — I'd be interested to see how you manage the route files, how you make sure that the database is neutrally controlled, how you use the car computer to determine whether or not there's a dent in the car body...
There is no such thing as "French Islam". It's either French culture or Islamic culture. Macron has said (I don't really believe him) French culture is the only option.
> cannot violate copyright by merely downloading something. You only infringe once you distribute the content further.

Wrong. Copying something, without distribution, is still violating copyright. It's just taken less seriously than distribution. It's the same difference between drug dealers and drug users.

>> It's not hard to predict that's coming, especially in Europe given Article 13 last year.

> This is wrong. Article 13 regulates content hosts (in this case, Youtube), not end users. Hence, Article 13 has no bearing on ad-blocking software.

No, I did not say anything at all about Article 13. Please re-read what I said.
> the lies we frequently tell our loved ones, our children, our coworkers, ourselves for the sake of genuine happiness. Are these lies morally problematic? [...] such half-truths are not only permissible but required in the living of a virtuous life.

One argument against lies, is they undermine people's thoughtful engagement with the world. To an uncontrollable extent. Given the story, this paragraph on honesty for me has a flavor of "here is one root cause my life's difficulties... but I'm not yet ready to face that or change". Though he does emphasize the topic (eg, '"John, you with me?" I think I nodded. It was a lie.'), so maybe WIP?
"Steinberg admits that his team’s interpretation will be questioned by some quantum physicists, particularly those who think weak measurements are themselves suspect."

Here is an article about some physicists who think weak measurements are suspect: https://physicsworld.com/a/are-weak-values-quantum-after-all...
This is obviously quite horrible for Uighurs. But to me this is actually also a very serious security issue for westerners. For multiple reasons: 1) this type of inhumane treatment has historically been used to justify wars, 2) there is a starkly different culture, and worldview as well as a very effective authoritarian regime "supporting" it.

3) We have very dire global economic conditions.

4) The people being tortured have more racial, ethnic and cultural similarity to people outside of China than inside.

In the past we have seen global wars in similar circumstances. There needs to be a serious effort at an alternative resolution. But it seems like it would be much easier and likely than any clever development in a positive direction that the massive arsenals would start to be deployed.
The thing that matters when engineering a solution using software is meeting the specifications. There's no real reason to look at the efficiency when it's not affecting whether you meet the specification.

But that's a difference between developers and engineers
The "literally" parts help the RIAA make their case.
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Wouldn't sending a copy of the photo to the owner prior to transportation be sufficient? Actually, why doesn't the owner take a picture himself? After all I could easily manipulate the picture before timestamping.
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These days, many computers only run authorized software, and trusted boot is fairly secure. They’re integrated hardware/software systems. This article is out of date, and a bit biased, to boot.