skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know there exist uses for timestamping, but I don't know how often this actually comes up in practice. Have you ever gone to a notary to timestamp something before Bitcoin came along?

The options are posting it to something like Twitter, including a newspaper headline in your cryptographic signature if you want to prove an after date rather than a before date, or indeed a notary. While I agree blockchain is a more elegant solution, it's the only solution I see in this thread so far where blockchain has an extra advantage, and I'm curious whether we need to have an extra country on this planet in terms of power consumption just to avoid going to a notary on occasion.
Interesting, I thought TTL didn’t like voltages that were too negative but I’m definitely not too great on the historical stuff.

This data sheet for 7400 logic, which admittedly only goes back to 1983, doesn’t like inputs below -1.5V

That could very likely be because ESD protection was added and 1970 TTL parts didn’t have that.

https://www.jameco.com/jameco/products/prodds/910901.pdf
On the other hand, curing death would cause many societal problems.

If you think the current amount of wealth inequality is bad, just wait until the young need to compete against generations of immortals who have accumulated hundreds of years of assets and interest.
> I'm in complete and utter disbelief reading this. How can stuff like this be happening in 2020?

> I mean this seriously but as a lowly computer programmer is there any way we can help these poor people other than offer our sympathy?

You are not a lowly computer programmer, but a person near the top of income vertical for as long as salaried people go.

The two most potent political instruments ever are the money, and firearms. You may not have the second, but certainly have first.

Saying this, people have to ask a question not who are the bigger enemies to the civilised mankind, but who are the biggest threat. Are they are the people who perpetrate genocides in parts of the world where the light doesn't shine, or the people who cover for them in the West, while living a comfy life, and enjoying all benefits of life in a civil state.

Without any hesitation I will say that while Xis, Putins, and Sisis are the biggest enemies of the civilised mankind, but the biggest threat to civil state as we know it comes from people in the West who made their ascension to power possible.

I believe the majority opinion of WW2 historians is that the war was very well preventable, or it was possible to nip it at the bud if the West wasn't stalled in its tracks by internal political sabotage by people who were not much dissimilar to those Western politicians who now flirt with rouge regimes, and sometimes directly facilitating them.

A very good reason to think to all of HN readers who were fortunate to be born in the free world.

From my lifelong misfortune with politics, I can affirm the saying that it's much, much, much more hard to "create" new power, than it is to take, or receive existing power from somebody else.

My advise, join all major political parties, and fight, fight, fight, until you can do something real, and the money you have can help you in this a lot.
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In the beginning, there were folks who did that iirc, and folks who hosted parties and large weddings. Masks are mandatory, but Dubai has a lax attitude towards them, while Abu Dhabi has been fining people like its their God-given mandate.
I was trying to buy headphones from a market chain the other day and all the models in 100 eur range were made in china. With some having designed in xxx and made in china.
If it can play Game Boy games I’ve made an easy to use game maker that’s starting to get quite popular https://www.gbstudio.dev/
That is pretty impressive. There's a fork/tree for the xbox in the description:

https://github.com/binarymaster/reactos/tree/xbox
That's right, we need to end fossil fuel usage right now. If we don't switch solely to solar and wind worldwide in the next ten years there's going to be an apocalyptic ecological event. It's a climate crisis. I don't understand why people can't just follow the science. It doesn't matter how much food and energy prices would rise if fossil fuels were abruptly banned; a few poor peoples' ability to eat or stay warm is nothing in the face of the climate crisis.

https://rebellion.earth
You're kidding, right? Google "India oppression" and I guarantee you'll see several links towards what's going on in India-controlled Kashmir.
Thank you, elantis. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

In terms of LATAM, I think the party's just getting started. Literally earlier _this month_ we saw the formation of the first ever Mexican unicorn as Kavak was valued at over 1$bn. I feel like the potential for both the market and the startups out of LATAM have not been fully appreciated or priced in, so there are many opportunities there. In particular "Series B" / growth financing rounds are unnaturally difficult to raise, so the first Sequoia or the like to double down on the space will likely perform very well over a 10 year fund lifetime.

Many US funds have Limited Partner Agreements that put restrictions on the amount of capital that can be invested in non-US entities. Some clever firms and companies have gotten around this by having LATAM startups create a parent company that is a Delaware C corporation in which investors invest. That has some nice auxiliary benefits like falling under QSBS. But it would be good to have large VCs have funds set up such that they could invest directly in promising LATAM startups.
+1 This is the first thing that came to mind. Like a torrent swarm of the repo where people can still make commits and pull requests so that development can continue.
Hence I said "and some more" . But I honestly don't know which one? Turkey?

I've seen Iranian trolls, Russian trolls, Sino trolls and Indian trolls only. Of course there are American trolls, that's not worth mentioning since it's a given.
CS 322: Compiler Construction
Weird flag traditions around the world
ShotSpotter? See if your city wants to do that?
Thanks for the reply. That answers the technical side of it, but I'm more interested in whether you could use Peergos to build a censorship-resistant system that still allows easy collaboration. It's a problem I have yet to see solved.
Exactly - all versions of Fedora are still archived and available, all the way back to Fedora Cpre 1. And people do install thos from time to time, usually for curiosity or to commemorate an anniversary.

Heck, you might even still dig out Red Hat Linux ISOs from somewhere.
Once it is digital isn't the money use-case really about proving the transfer of wealth?
The ranking algorithms are just leaking. I’ve noticed an innocuous post today only a minute old already downvoted. “RMS” and “nutcase” were in the post, but not in a derogatory context. Sub-120 second action is an improbable level of attention from human moderation, and the action would seem quite capricious. However, if there were some sentiment-analysis algorithm (which can’t contextualize words well) processing comments and “moderating” as they are posted, then that sort of thing makes perfect sense.

It’s social media. Nothing is on the up and up. Everyone has an angle, puts a thumb on the scale and talks their book. Just don’t take it too seriously.
I mean, we’ve been telling HN this was happening for the entirety of 2020 now but we just get downvoted and talked down to, so, I’m not sure what you’re expecting by finally being outraged about the whole thing.

We aren’t expecting anyone on HN to concretely do anything about it but feign morality.

Today me, tomorrow you.
I'm not the original poster, but judging from the answer it looks as though they'd already have an Emacs session open and can execute it without any extra startup-time; in which case the answer is yes, because there's no startup time.
Society doesn't really seem to want to strongly go to more anarchist structures, simpler lives and less stuff, but much rather trends to continuing how its going while hoping for some tech miracle to save everything. Otherwise deep environmental activism wouldn't be put in the "hippie" corner it still is. "Everyone has a Tesla" isn't solarpunk.
> very much in line with the direction that society wants to go

Or at least, he direction that society should want to go.

I don't see that much conscience about climate change, renewables, energetic sustainability, resource depletion, etc, around me.
The NBA is a totally different bunch from the EPL, and has been doing its best to bend over backwards for China. Sure, the EPL bends over for China too, but not as much as the NBA. I think it's because the EPL prefers the Indian fan base a lot more, idk, shooting in the dark here.
Guess it comes from this:
https://www.productboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-...

Which has a lot more detail to it
Still at least he's started the ball rolling on anti China tariffs and the like.
Interesting. I’m going to have to try this.

This GitHub issue has more info:

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/397
I had a friend who was at the Hanoi Hilton for nearly 6 years and did a stretch at The Zoo.

The Chinese & Vietnamese operate from the same torture book.
You're speaking my language. This is a shameless self plug but we - that is Pimoroni - are working on 32blit which is an STM32F750-based microcontroller games console that should be up for general sale soooon - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/32blit-retro-i...

Our beta backer tier have been godlike in their ability to make the STM32 do things I'd never thought we'd see... much less see before it's even launched. I mean it already has a Doom port.

I think, compared to the off-the-shelf Emu handhelds on which I cut my teeth (as far back as GP2X and Dingoo A320 days) it's underpowered and overpriced but you're dead on the money that they have a different charm and set of challenges.

MakeCode compiles down to native instructions, IIRC, so it should run on pretty much anything capable of running a screen that meets their - relatively forgiving - specs - https://arcade.makecode.com/hardware/adding

Edit: GP2X not GP32X!
I would put Solarpunk rather in the accelerate/anti-auth corner of a chart with axes for (anti)authoritarian-iness and pro-/contra-progress as I saw it on Twitter once.

Slow-down/anti-auth is primitivism (think: subsistence farming, no computers, ... ).

Cyberpunk is definitely accelerate/auth (like it or not but we seem to be heading into this direction).
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Just an FYI, the Digger game is a PC lookalike clone of the arcade game Digdug I wasted a lot of 20 cent pieces on in my escape from university demands in 1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug?wprov=sfla1
Training properly for long distance runs is different than training properly for high intensity runs. The two forms of exercise cause different adaptations. To get better at running long distances, one must run long distances.
Maybe Trump has started changes for the better. Let's hope. My personal worry is that he (and the US in general) is mainly about business and will ignore the human rights abuses as long as the money is right. The friendly position towards Saudi Arabia seems to indicate that.
At least with Alibaba you're going right to the source and not paying some reseller's markup or for the 'free' Prime shipping that just gets baked into prices on Amazon.
That does not make marathon healthy thing amd it does not make long distance running into HIIT.
Then next they come for someone else, then eventually they come for you. There's your answer, I guess in your world you lose either way, right?
You're never going to see the government walking in the door modifying source code. Those are tales they tell ppl. They are going to just blackmail someone or make some poor kid believe he/she can be a hacker by slipping backdoors into the software.
The article says this genocide should stop yet there's not a single mention of anyone dying.

Hundreds of camps have been spotted, plenty of interviews given by ex-detainees. No doubt Uighurs are being detained en masse but I wonder how many don't ever make it out.
Pieter Hintjens @hintjens passed away in 2016.
Oh yeah, for sure. I think it's just frustrating having that one more piece of mental overhead. Like, it should be that there's one sane way to do all this stuff in Python. Instead it's literal blobs of shell in some cases, and subprocess.STDXX pipes linked up in other cases, and maybe sometimes you use shlex to sanitize your arguments, or you give up on streaming and just use communicate() to get the whole result in memory at once. Blah.
It was published in 2012 though. Why do you say it is biased? I thought it was agreeable.
It's simple enough.

Put env vars in bash profile and functions, aliases and other non-env (completion, nvm, rvm etc) in bashrc.

Put the latter into the former and they aren't inherited. Put the former into the latter and path appends and other non-idempotent edits to env vars don't work correctly. Though I personally use some functions to make sure my path edits are idempotent for ease of iteration when editing.
Nothing proves that the timestamp accurately reflects when the photo was taken or that the photo itself is even accurate. If I wanted to joy-ride one of these cars I'd simply do so before taking the photo. The odometer display can also be trivially modified for the sake of a photo (i.e. roll back the odo for a photo and then revert to accurate numbers after the photo)
> How would you handle state other than passing it around?

By only passing and updating the relevant bits of state.

>The fundamental thing that Haskell and Elm do is that they don't have mutable values. They create a new value from the old one.

If we're talking about the context of a game, you'll be very likely using monads where this isn't the case (IO, ST). Not to mention, even if you do just use a normal state monad, if you don't keep the old value around, there's no functional difference between mutating the entire program state and creating a new program state while forgetting the old.
The {sp?} Haji tribe in Africa walk ~30+ miles a day - and they are said to have the best heart health...

Imagine, a Japanese (mostly fish+seaweed) diet + walking 30 miles a day, and how healthy that pop would be...
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Was the UN ever unified against CIA torture policies? I don't recall. It may be that the UN is strongly reluctant to call out abominations by superpowers.
Public Figures != Rich.

Bezos has no more free speech than Bernie Sanders, even though Sanders is only a millionaire.
The DMCA is not intended for taking down such tools.

The proper procedure to do so would be to sue the authors, and from what I can gather none of the core authors are in the US.
That’s why I said involuntary death. I am all for voluntary death.
Copyright included fair use and the courts ruled that a balance for fair use must be maintained for the monopoly rights of copyright to be enforced, but congress wrote the DMCA and said "nah"?

The Constitution gave Congress the power to right the laws on copyrights, not the courts. The courts don't write copyright law, they just interpret it.

Fair use, for example, is explicitly written into the copyright statutes by Congress (17 USC § 107), but with sufficient breadth and ambiguity in the language that the courts have added in uses that were not explicitly written into the law but could be reasonably read as being within the scope of the text of the law. That is indeed why the court in the Betamax case was able to characterize "time shifting" as fair use in the first place.

Yeah I'm gonna need to hear that from the courts, my assertion here is that the DMCA unfairly skirts around this provision of copyright, not that it superceded it outright.

Again, Congress gets to write copyright law... They get to change it how they want, so long as it does not violate the Constitution. (Note that the DMCA is an "act" of Congress, which is the method by which Congress actually writes and changes the laws of the US. When we refer to the DMCA, we are referring to the changes to US copyright law embodied by the DMCA.) Courts have upheld the constitutionality of the DMCA.

Those fair use rights are not an optional provision of copyright,

Yes, they are. The Constitution makes no provision for "fair use." In fact, by its bare text, it would appear that the Constitution would not support fair use because it provides for "exclusive rights" to go to creators and inventors (for the periods covered by copyright and patent). "Fair use" is entirely a legislative creation of Congress, and theoretically Congress could take it away.

unless you have relevant case law that superseded Sony Betamax

I don't know why you're hung up on Betamax. That case was based on the copyright law at the time of the case, i.e., the 1980s. Congress changed the copyright laws after that case (in the DMCA and other legislative acts), so Betamax is no longer relevant except as persuasive authority, and the underlying facts supporting the time-shifting as fair use ruling generally do not apply to digital content available on-demand.
> But in general, the poorer and younger you are, the more likely you are to be a tenant farmer in some feudal lord's computational lands.

An analogy that will probably define the 21st century...
NISTIR 8202 in Figure 6 (p.42) has a nice yes/no flowchart to determine if blockchain or something else is more appropriate (PDF):

* https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf

* https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8202

The DHS originally created it, but I can't find a definitive DHS source. Also here, at bottom:

* https://www.fedscoop.com/blockchain-for-government-technolog...
How does watching an ad decrease the amount of money I have?
I swear to God, have you posted this comment on reddit or some place else? I read this exact same comment elsewhere.
> There is no such thing as "French Islam".

I find it quite hard to believe that there is not any degree of distinct Islamic culture that has developed in France (both in the sense of present France and the broader sense of historical French territory) under the influence on broader French culture.

And by “hard to believe”, I mean entirely implausible.
Order of execution bugs rarely come up in game programming to be honest.
My toothbrush streams gyroscope data
The ECU would definitely constitute mere aggregation with respect to e.g. the in-car entertainment system.

Also, reprogramming the ECU is already possible, and it's also not illegal to do it. It may very well void your warranty and it might be illegal to use the car on public roads after having reprogrammed the ECU, but neither of those two things are incompatible with the GPL.
> Wouldn't sending a copy of the photo to the owner prior to transportation be sufficient?

Doesn't protect against the owner saying you didn't send the photo, or that it didn't arrive in time, ...

> Actually, why doesn't the owner take a picture himself?

Because they're not present when the car gets transferred between transportation companies.
>Running marathons and the like do not seem to promote health and can actually harm the body.

I mean, the literal original Greek Marathon Runner who ran the 26 miles to warn of the war/invasion, according to lore, actually killed him upon his delivery of the message....
>Intervening in another's country internal affairs leads to a war

Not necessarily. Anti apartheid campaigns for South Africa kinda worked for example.
> genocide

Where in this article do you read anything that points to a genocide?
The bias is in which incidents get left out, which cases of self-defense are flipped to claim the defender is the violent one, and which FBI-instructed bumbling idiots are attributed to each side.

Spot checking it, I'm finding those flaws. This report has an agenda to push.
For the digger screenshots, yes they should be uploaded directly to wikipedia which has (relatively speaking) looser rules [1]. The screenshot of Logo and other things that are basically just text on a screen (and the text isn't literary) are totally ok at commons as {{PD-text}}.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Software_screenshots...
It's not really that important from where the population is reduced. There is essentially no big difference between the son of a farmer and the son of a factory worker.

China's life expectancy is two 2 years under the US, not 6 years. Moreso, the most important way of learning on the job is experience, learning from a 50 year old vs a 60 year old is not that big of a difference.
> So yes, it "tunnels" through the timer field also, but the probability of interacting with the timer field is not zero.

Of course, but it is less than one. Hence the measurement underestimates the proper time interval.
Maybe so, but it's still funny and there's definitely truth to it. I recognize all of these animals.
Punk is about change and rebelling fundamentally - including ironically against the concept of rebellion which has established its "norm".

We were at this before with both cyberprep and steampunk too in different ways. Cyberprep was more "work inside the system" and "technology has potential for good" and rebellion against tired old luddite science fiction 20th century tropes of fear and panic against science and technology. Steampunk is fundamentally dated such that its progressive or radical ideas and aesthetics as very old hat, its past traditional ways laughably obsolete. How much of the usual era suspect's past (Usually Victorian but one could on a trchnicality put in Bronze Age Hero punk as it is only an incorrect descriptor by convention) and old mores are included or not and how praised, condemned, or simply presented how it "was" unflinchingly.
> I'm not sure where people get the idea that Git provides what a blockchain does.

I think it's often used as a joke for how broad the definition of "a chain of blocks" is. Probably some people take the comparison too literally. Unless we manage to convince everyone and their moms that when EvilCorp pushed TheirCoin as "blockchain tech" (when really EvilCorp is the party controlling it) we should just laugh and call it EvilCorp Credits, which (last time an evilcorp tried that) we didn't, we need a more specific term than blockchain to distinguish EvilCorp Credits from Bitcoin.
Yes, that's the entire point. It's a digital thing that, at significant expense to run the system, nobody can forge a copy of.
It’s always “when is the McRib coming back”
This is disgusting, the level of genocide denial in this thread is something I would not expect to find on HN. We literally have satellite images of these camps, videos of the abuse and still people like you deny. @dang, do we have rules about this?
How can I become a data science / machine learning consultant ASAP?
I'm from Europe (Eastern Europe to be more exact). I have a master's degree in computer science and about 6 months worth of experience in software engineering. I'd like to get to a point where I am doing consulting work in data science or machine learning as soon as possible because I want to earn some money on the side. Aside from finding a full-time role related to machine learning, I am interested in:
- Where to find work?
- How to manage client's expectations? (so that I let the client know that I'm fresh in the field)
- What's the worst-case scenario if I fail to deliver something to a client?
- Could I charge 50 EUR / hour?
- Good books to read as it relates to consulting or freelance work?
- Good books to read as it relates to data science & machine learning?
Any tips from data science / machine learning consultants (especially from Europe) are appreciated.
Of course it has. Or do you believe native Americans have a chance at establishing a sovereign state in continental USA?
> Pay your taxes so that your military can keep an eye on the jackwads who do this

My taxes have frequently paid for US Gov led torture. If we ever hold China accountable in a meaningful way, it won't be due to authentic moral outrage.