skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the chicken are tracked on a blockchain so people know which chickens are kept outdoors and which are indoors.

A blockchain does nothing to ensure that an indoor chicken isn't marked as outside.

How an untruthful information is distributed or secured doesn't matter.

All those blockchain logistics tracking ideas fail at the same point: where the blockchain meets the real, physical world.
Here's a few reasonably recent articles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/world/asia/china-islam-cr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Inner_Mongolia_protests

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/30/chinese-communist-party...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/chairman-xi-se...
No. Land is too expensive and too rare. Maui can't support a thriving anything. Thriving as in growing. Sure, people there can be happy and productive, but there's no potential for a expansive infrastructure or population.
Because many companies with many conflicting interests need to be able to trust each other. If we put this data in a database, our enterprise customer can tweak the system to their advantage if they make a deal with us.

The global, open database provided by a blockchain solves this problem, and also allows anybody to read the state without relying on our company to maintain the database or for uptime.
Which is why the Chinese government needs to be called out, and their stoolies shamed publicly.
I don't know! My thinking is that if humans can read a Finnish book and learn facts about the Finnish grammar, there must be a way to exploit this in machine learning.
Synology has built in sharing over the public web, right? How have ya'll found that functionality to work? Can you just share files and folders with any email address, or does the person you're sharing with have to have a Synology account?
I am actually using it in production as an easy mechanism to add non critical rpc calls between services. The only thing I can say about it is that zeromq hasn't given me a reason to look for a replacement. Yet.
> The meaning is clearly that there shouldn't be a gaping hole on the top of a 5 story building that people can access. Or at least that you shouldn't walk around a building you're not familiar with at night.

Looking at the pictures, I'd vote for another option. The roof of that building isn't designed for casual use. The wall around the edge of the building is calf-height with no railing. What they're doing is likely trespassing, and they chose to accept the risks. The meaning to take from this experience is that you should be extra careful when you go places that are clearly not meant for you to be.
Just don't try to apply anything you learn here to GitHub Actions images because the environments are kind of wild and broken across OSes and your scripts will not be triggered the way you would otherwise expect them to...
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Actually the programming languages and frameworks are chosen by the buisness owners which have very little dev experience.
Because it is from a unheard of UK news outlet, it must been verified!
I've dislocated my shoulder twice. The first time they gave me strong opiates and then put it back in. It was painless.

The second time the doctor said pain killers would be dangerous and insisted I have absolutely no pain killers in my system before reseting it.

His description of it feeling like medieval torture is apt.
It's even more bizzare if you look at the original claim.

"China isn't committing a genocide like the Nazis, because they could just shoot everyone. But, the Nazis didn't do it either, so the Nazis weren't committing genocide like those damn Nazis either"

Bizzare argument.
> yet as Muslims they self-identify as separate from the Han culture.

By all accounts they appear to be justified in doing so.

> The Muslim community has a very us vs them mentality which is not healthy for national unity that china CCP desires.

Perhaps the CCP should find a model for national unity that Uighurs would overwhelmingly give their enthusiastic consent to.

> China has a 5000 year old culture and a majority of people experienced significant hardships and starvation in the last century.

>This Uigher generation is suffering so the future uigher can fit into the society better.

What relevance does the historical suffering of the Han? population have to do with the current, actively manufactured suffering of the Uighurs, beyond bitter vindictiveness?

> They emphasize national unity (vs individalism) in a way western people cannot even begin to understand, but belonging to such a group is not entirely bad. This Uigher generation is suffering so the future uigher can fit into the society better.

"Prepare to be assimilated; resistance is futile"
"Surrender or die."

There's a reason the Borg were considered villains.
Even in that simple of an example, we lack the data we need for that number to matter much, and the fact that it's a concrete statistic can easily lead to prioritizing one feature or another using that imperfect data as a cudgel.

In particular, you'd probably want to know how a feature would impact future sales, survivorship curves for current customers, and survivorship curves for whichever kind of customer would sign on with the new feature (treating a single feature in isolation for simplicity). This is especially important when comparing multiple features to put on the roadmap because it's easy for one idea to be simple to imagine and better than the status quo (hence asked for by many customers) but be nowhere near an optimal solution to whichever problem is being solved.

Having that kind of customer insight is better than not having it, as long as such data is used appropriately -- without additional data it can't do much more that guide or refine gut feelings and insights, and attempting to do otherwise is a recipe for an inferior product.
Because the person who owns the database has to be trusted, where here no one has to be
It's B2B2C - a modern payment platform for landlords and tenants.

The product can be used to:
- create installment plans for missed rent
- make security deposit payments over time
- pay rent on a flexible schedule
It's an alternative to writing your own complex networking code for any kind of distributed communications.

A lot of people these days might use something like flink or spark to build a pipeline whereas I'd prefer to write a number of small servers with various fan out or fan in operations, broadcast style operations, request/reply semantics etc where appropriate

Makes way more sense and much simpler to my mind and allows much better control over performance characteristics.
All of the science I've been seeing lately in this area seem to say, 1. short-term high-intensity training (sprints, for example) and 2. weightlifting are the best forms of exercise for general health.

Running marathons and the like do not seem to promote health and can actually harm the body. And anecdotally, I've known a few folks that are obsessive long-distance runners and cyclists, and they physically look older than others in their age group.
One good use case I've found is file authentication. If a file is signed and it can be matched against a distributed ledger, it can help ensure the authenticity of the file. I can imagine uses for this everywhere from piracy prevention to checking authenticity of documents, records, etc.

Imagine that all land records are in a distributed ledger. The land owner has a signed certificate that can be verified anytime for authenticity. The only way to access the certificate is with a 12 word passkey.
Macron is trying to incorporate French Islam into French society. His tactics may be good or bad, I'm not qualified to say, but he certainly is not trying to eradicate a population or its culture, and he is not rounding up religious minorities into concentration camps. Whataboutism only works when the crimes are on vaguely the same scale; this is like comparing bank robbery to music piracy.
Dave Ramsey isn't the only personal finance pundit out there. Nor even close to being among the best ones. Dave is downright mediocre.

You're also denying people of color agency by saying that unless personal finance education comes to them, they have no hope of finding it by themselves.
In agreement and I'd add that I think it is a bit arrogant to assume a more junior programmer or a team of them can't learn better programming practices.

A good lead will demand good code and support it with mentoring, pairing and time to refactor.

It still doesn't give them license to do tech for the sake of tech. Every architectural choice and added complexity has to be justified by the value it brings.

But programming for the lowest common skill level on a team is generally a bad idea.
This is a great way to put it.
At some point the sensor noise swamps any signal, given your setup and processing.

So from a philosophical view every pixel holds a galaxy, but from a practical point of view sensor noise obliterates it.

I think it's reasonable to call the area in between visible stars "black" when received light is below the noise floor.
The point is that you start with your program as a function of the entire state tree, but as you break down the problem into smaller functions they only use or need the subset of the state they intend to “mutate”. In a dynamically typed language, doing this safely requires selecting a subset at the call site (at either the parameter or from the return value). In statically typed languages this is more easily expressed with interfaces(/types/protocols/contracts/whatever the language calls them) and you can still safely pass the full state if that’s more convenient.
And by whom? The RCIAA loses all licenses to open source software. No water off their backs.

Individual music companies might be hit a lot harder.
Why would GPL 2 vs 3 matter? Is the company doing hardware appliances or something?
I'm appalled at how little coverage the Uighur story is receiving worldwide.

It's pretty much a modern day holocaust equivalent, yet pretty much nobody is caring about this.

Unbelievable.
I try to maintain a cross platform set of bash startup scripts but the biggest problem is that macOS and Linux don't follow the same rules.

.bash_profile is only supposed to run after logging into an interactive shell, and .bashrc is for every new shell.

But macOS runs .bash_profile every single time you open a new shell window, so you have to do some creative scripting to make it do what you want to do.
If you're buying and selling "tokens" that don't do anything other than provide proof that you've added or subtracted an appropriate amount of value into the system, you've just created a currency. That's basically the definition
I love these posts and I could probably ask a thousand questions. I'll constrain myself to just... a couple. :)

Does the 8008 get ground internally or does the IO just drive Vdd (-9V) as the low level? The data sheet you linked to has no min for Vol so I am guessing that it does but it seems like that would make interfacing to peripheral ICs kind of annoying (assuming TTL levels). All the pinouts I found online [1] have no ground pin so I must be missing something obvious, right?

[1] http://www.cpu-galerie.de/html/intel8008-m8008.html
> On the eighth day, the forty-year-old hobo said to Billy: "This ain't bad. I can be comfortable anywhere." "You can?" said Billy. On the ninth day the hobo died. So it goes. His last words were: "You think this is bad? This ain't bad.
I tend to mentally repl
You joke, but there's an actual market for that on Reddit.
If you have ever written non trivial TCP sockets code you would notice for many purposes that using this saves you lots of very non trivial socket handling intricacies.

For me 0mq works internally, and not for interfacing outside a closed system. I think that might be the source of some confusion
Love zeromq. Used it in production for years and it never posed any issues. Well documented, reliable and has a clear purpose. V good.
It is not only toxic content that is threated that way... but I think that they do it less nowadays... or they are getting better at it.
nice, we're also using it for rpc calls using protobuffs.
I'm a big fan of this newsletter.
So much this.

I use Anki for more than a decade, and every single time there is a touch of frustration that Anki UX stuck in mid-2000.

Another super annoying feature is that historically Anki is free except iOS – somehow mentality of "iOS users are rich" sneaked in – and Anki for iOS costs ~25$. This makes it prohibitively hard to recommend Anki to non-Android users, especially to younger generation which virtually don't use desktops, type much faster on mobile rather then PC keyboard, etc.
> IM nail

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intramedullary_rod
Any Amazon engineers want to comment on why a country of origin flag is not on every product? Has this been discussed internally at Amazon?
This reminds me of just how bad regular Linux apt repo ecosystem is at backwards compatibility, you always have latest edition or nothing in most cases. Trying to get C64 emulator running at moment and only latest version of VICE is supported by Debian/Ubuntu repo .. issue with disk images for me. Literally no other version to try unless I self compile which accordingly let me down the usual garden path of impossible lib reqs. So. Yeah. Hope some sort of static compile reality or NixOS comes around to save us all at some point. Loathe the advertising show Windows have become but neither do I enjoy the history-less reality of current mainstream Linux dists :/

edit: forgot to add that I've been using C64 emulators since late 90s ... accomplishing this emulation feat was not a problem 20+ years ago!
Broadly speaking blockchain only solves a singular problem: Trust. If there is some work that needs to be done between parties and you don't trust the parties involved then you can use blockchain to do the work in a trust-less setting. This is why money has been the first and most prominent use case; people are less trusting with their own money.

For a specific non-money potential use case of blockchain I would say identity services. For example, currently the internet runs based on implicitly trusting a set of root CAs (hundreds just counting the big ones!). The CAs certify that a site is what it claims to be. But if the CA becomes malicious (either through intent or hack) there are limited mechanisms for combatting this.

If you decentralize the certification process you can have a trust-less system. This also works beyond CAs - any sort of identity management falls under the same principle: Credit scores, citizenship, etc
If you are training properly at running however, then you are doing high intensity exercise. The track repeats, the hill reps, they are that high intensity interval training, with easier runs the rest of the time.

The idea that running is just shuffling along at a steady pace is a straw man, and looks nothing like what actual runners do!
> But things like PUSH/PULL become...harder to follow.

Surely that implies incorrect use of the socket types vis a vis their design characteristics?
Uh, HP printers are very good printers.

The real question would be: why did my Apple laptops suddenly decide not wot work with my HP printers?
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What is worse is when some developers maintain and mutate global state, write functions with side effects, and still think their code is "functional" because they aren't using any classes. A lot of JavaScript developers are moving to that camp because of React and Hooks.

More on that here:
https://medium.com/weekly-webtips/dysfunctional-programming-...
Hello World in every computer language
What a disgusting comment.
The Belt and Road Strategy Has Backfired on Xi
Back at the uni days if I struggled to understand a math concept, proof or algo, I would just memorize it. After a while the understanding part would also come.
I tried raising awareness about China's bullshit at work once, and was met with awkward silence and was later told in private that I came off as ignorant/immature.

All because I said China should be regarded by the West as an enemy/hostile state. Hell, it's the one thing I can side with the current administration on.

To me China is not much different than pre-WWII Germany: over-the-top authoritarian, has ambitions to influence the direction of things at the world stage, and is currently scapegoating an ethnic minority and putting them in concentration camps.

That wasn't the first time I tried bringing those things up in a group setting. In other occasions I was only met with awkward silence too. Feels like there's some subtle but insane denial going on.
The preprint with full text is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13523
Uh, last time I checked Macron did not set-up concentration camps for the french muslims.
Explain like I am a Scientist: The Linguistic Barriers of Entry to r/science [pdf]
talking about the poor general health of americans is brushed aside seemingly because it only stirs negative feelings like helplessness, even though improving nutrition and fitness would do much more to reduce illness, declined quality of life, and premature death than nearly any other health mitigation (even in relation to covid).

it's the same as with the performative aspects of masks: worn in public to feel affirmed for positive action but having no meaningful impact, while doing nothing in private (due to psychosocial awkwardness and its negativity), where some distance can meaninfully reduce transmission rates but provides no positivity (esteem).
Not so.

On 14 Jan, WHO was still saying it was not person-person transmissible.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Chinese authorities knew about the disease at least by 6 Dec.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

And were punishing doctors for talking about it on 3 Jan, probably later, too.

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/the-2019-coronavi...
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What do you mean “foreign adversaries”? The story is based on a laptop which has always been in the US.
This is such a bullshit argument, "Why, only a small percentage of police interactions end with a shooting, and most of them are armed!" And you link to a conservatives opinion piece, which isn't biased at all.

US police kill 33.5 people per 10M, which is nearly 3x our closest neighbor (who has imported our policing strategies, unfortunately).

Canada: 9.8
Australia: 8.5
Netherlands: 2.3
New Zealand: 2.0
Germany: 1.3
England: 0.5
Japan: 0.2
Iceland: 0
Norway: 0

There is NO excuse for how many people police murder every year, when most of the world has demonstrated it isn't necessary.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
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Yes I agree on the bills etc. It was more of a if someone could wave a magic wand and I just did not have to deal with it for 3 months, just knowing that I would not have to deal with it, at that very moment would have been such a relief.

I had that feeling of if I could just walk away from my life for a year too, just leave it all for a year and maybe I would be better. Tired in the soul is the only way I can describe it to people. At the time I did not suffer from depression and I was not depressed, I have ADD and had a bunch of life event stack up on top of me to where my ADD was so bad that I could not put one foot in front of the other. Something as simple as washing the dishes seemed like moving a mountain.
Funny - people say "Rødgrød med fløde" because very few non-danes can pronounce it correctly, making it very "funny". It's simply a dish.

I don't know what is more funny ("haha") - people not being able to pronounce it or how stupid hard Danish is to speak.
Replace Uigher with Jew, Chinese with German and CCP with Nazi and this comment would have fit right into 1939
People want the information, and if they had it many would adjust their buying behavior. I see the "where is this made" question on Amazon products all the time. Even if it didn't make a difference, having the manufacturing origin, and shipping origin clearly labeled would be a good start.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aamazon.com+%22where+i...
So the customer set up an IT service with multiple servers to sync with yours so that both can sync to the ledger? How does that work in practice? Is someone also monitoring that nobody is doing a 50% attack? Are both parties present when something is inserted into the blockchain?
There are none. Git (with post-commit hooks) is always a superior solution.
It's based on data that is of unknown origin.

Maybe it came from the laptop (which is also of unknown origin) or maybe it came from somewhere else. None of this information has been validated despite the FBI being in possession of the hard drives since Dec 2019.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-new-york-po...

Manipulating people based on some kind of political wish fulfillment seems like disinfo 101 to me.
Your reaction is "this is horrible and should be stopped" and that's what makes you susceptible to anti-China hysteria. This is just "we don't negotiate with terrorists" in another context. Apparently anyone uncooperative with American business interests in the Middle East turned out to be a terrorist who needs to be bombed/assassinated/coup-ed.

America has sanctioned North Korea for going on 50 years now, has that produced a measurable improvement in human rights? Or has it just caused endless suffering?
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Listen to the sounds of different forests around the planet
There is undoubtedly a strong connection between the Chinese government and business there, But you’re going to run into ethical quandaries in any country in the world if you’re attributing responsibility of government actions to the whole of the people.
As an American, I am appalled at some of the things my government does. I don’t avoid things made in the US because of that.
Are you posting from 30 years ago? Because of the greed and stupidity of Western governments and companies it is literally impossible to avoid buying China made products.
You should complain to the medical board. If the guy is too lazy to look at the chart, what else isn’t he doing?

I had spinal fusion and due to an unrelated issue ended up on the medical floor instead of the neurologist floor overnight. I had zero pain medication after a significant surgery and couldn’t sleep. The floor nurse and useless hospitalist straight up accused me of attempting to get pills.

The surgeon came to do rounds in the morning and was visibly shocked, and the overnight bozos didn’t do other stuff, because they never read the orders.
There may be dangerous animals of product development but they don't look like the header image. That's the cutest otter picture I've ever seen.
Is your organization unusually susceptible to that kind of corruption? It seems like blockchain or no, the clients have to trust that you'll provide the service you agreed to and not cash their checks and disappear etc.
Thanks for sharing, it looks great from the start.

Is iOS/MacOS only?
Any chance it's going to be open-sourced?
> The wall around the edge of the building is calf-height with no railing

It doesn't matter how fit you are, all it takes is a strong wind gust, so many people underestimate this. That kind of roof access is meant for maintenance work only.
You're getting down-voted because trump derangement syndrome. But it's true. No President has taken a harder line on China and the CCP. If you're in the US and you want to do something about the CCP, probably the most effective thing you could do is vote Trump. And I'm saying this as liberal who can't stand Trump.

If that's effective for the long-term future and prosperity of the US, which is also important to counter the CCP - I don't know.