skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I implemented a POC project with s contract and payment settling system. We settled on a solution where both parties would invoke a etherum transaction and would provide the details of the (business) transaction from their POV. I.e the goods (electricity) provided and the payment etc details. If there was a difference the data for that transaction would be flagged as "needs inspection/resolution". Otherwise the smart contract would distribute the payment tokens as agreed and record the data in the ledger.

But yeah all the data eventually has to come outside of the blockchain itself. This is always the weakness and shifts the trust issue to whoever is providing the data. Blockchain itself is no Magic bullet to resolve the fundamental issue of "trust"
No I agree with you on that but I think my definition of what is a luxury is quite well defined.

All these fake greenies flying to India to find themselves are still going to burn in hell though.
> "with a potato"

This is either a typo or I want to know more about it.
>Chromium has suffered from buffer-overflow issues, and that's a high-profile security-sensitive C++ codebase run by Google.

Like I said, I haven't worked at Google. But are you sure every programmer on Chromium is a genius? Google has a hard Interview process, but does it filter out every bad engineer?

And if Google's "probably better than other company's" engineers can't do it? How can we expect other companies to deal with C?

>I'd rather avionics code be written in verified SPARK than in Rust, but if they can build a rock-solid Rust compiler it would be good to have it compete in that space. I imagine it could be a nice alternative to MISRA C++, for instance.

Right now SPARK would definitely be favorable. But I think even current Rust would be much safer than MISRA C++.
That may be your case and so your bias.
You may want to evade the banking system even if you don't want to evade taxes: I was always very frugal and hard working in my life, and just put more and more money on my bank account to be safe. I didn't invest in the stock market or houses, as I thought that they are overvalued. Then one day in 2013 I saw that in Cyprus the banks just took away money from other people, who saved all their lives. It felt close, because I'm also from the EU, and Cyprus is not a 3rd world country....that's when I bought Bitcoin with a part of my money, because I understood it that if I keep the private key secure, nobody can take it away from me.
The money they _directly_ got out of this might not have been their only motivation.
So when he says "channel 3", what is meant by this? Is it a particular frequency? (I'm not an American)
WSPR managed to transmit data at 150,000 Km/W [0], so yeah, unfiltered transmissions are a pain in the ass for the rest no matter the power.

http://wsprnet.org/drupal/node/5089
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> but it's the society as a whole that potentially benefits from that (for sake of argument), not the previous slave owners.

A rational slave owner would sell all their slaves and buy stock in a company that didn't employ any - that it is going to make vastly more money. Slaves aren't an effective asset in this century. After a generation or two there'd be basically no slaves left because nobody would want one. Cost money to maintain with very little payoff versus alternatives.

Look at Apple, AWS, Google, etc, etc vs some slave-run plantation in wherever-they-have-slave-plantations. Which one would people rather invest in, just from a greedy capitalist perspective? All the money is in owning productive capital and businesses made up of motivated employees.
Denmark is bigger than you ever imagined

https://www.businessinsider.com/denmark-is-unbelievably-mass...
New settings for smart features and personalization in Gmail
Most insurance charges more than double what they pay out on average. That's why I self insure whenever it's legal to do so.
ConceptualJames seems like a troll to me.
I agree - HUGE problem is the monetization - the best models today are ad placement and job postings.

What if we re-used all the other tech (or nearly all) and:
a) ensured that infrastructure providers were paid in a market-economy that rewarded quantity of service in proportion to quality of service and
b) gave a cut of proceeds to application sponsors?

The Diode Network already implements these things - an answer to the broken systems of today's Internet. We can use the current Web2.0 to drive Web3 forward and allow this sort of "take back the Internet" to work at the local level while connecting globally with new systems that address the underlying problems.
Also, do you shut the door in a public toilet? If so, you must be snorting coke, I guess. Why on Earth would you shut the toilet door otherwise?
> The ability to turn on (or not) some of these individual smart features is not new. What’s new is a clearer choice over the data processing that makes them possible. This new setting is designed to reduce the work of understanding and managing that process, in view of what we’ve learned from user experience research and regulators’ emphasis on comprehensible, actionable user choices over data.

I wonder what prompted this in particular. Did someone lodge a complaint about this feature or is this a proactive move?
For some contexts it’s definitely helpful such as graphs in game engines, 3D modeling and synths.

There is always a code-graph duality, the question is which representation is closest to what’s being modeled.

Describing what is fundamentally mostly a DAG as a graph rather than as code really is helpful.

That it also works for “non-programmers” is just a bonus.
As a reminder

https://www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com/
We're still taking about imagined devices pinpointing targets' brains from large distances and through walls. I find it hard to believe that these devices would be that accurate and never miss and, say, accidentally hit someone's eyes or neck and cause obvious tissue damage.
He’s still on Apple’s payroll, technically.
Today's Emacs experience. "I have a lot of stuff I have to study for work.. I wish there was an efficient way to make my notes into an anki deck.” ” oh theres a blog post about org mode captures too export in anki readable HTML” .. half a day and no study later I have something not half as good as the blog described kind of working.. the blog just says look at my init.el of you don't get it.. who has the time
Have you checked out https://developer.holochain.org?
The only reason I used a text format is because I wanted to keep the code as simple as possible. Only introducing extra complexity when I hit a wall somewhere. I don't know if the current format will scale to more complex use cases, but I really like the fact that you can read HTML and reason about it, so I kept to that in Hope as well.

As for the text part, that is simple. I like to be able to manipulate text as text. There are many many tools to work with plain text. I can use regular expressions to search through text, get ranges of the result and apply an annotation to those ranges. You lose a lot of that in any other format.
You should check out Carp[1]. The language is still young but it might scratch that itch.

[1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
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Yes, the analog channels each had specific fixed frequencies.
Good point. I mistyped and changed my comment to say "through". And that shows slavery halving as a % of the population.
but, where does it pull them from ? who's hosting the images ?
Highly recommend the channel.
His journey of reversing the Valve Lighthouse is also fun.
I've had this argument a ton with people used to new high level languages that make null safety "too easy" like:

next?.doThing()

Where doThing is never called if next is null.

Languages that do this use "scary" operators to crash on null:

next!!.doThing()

And it's drilled into people's heads the latter is a Bad Thing (tm)

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You really need to consider context in null handling.

Imagine an app that alerts a nurse when the patients heartbeat is out of range.

In an application where the UI context might have been closed out, it's common to see

someUiContext?.showAlert()

But what actually happens if the context is gone?

It's better to crash and have part of your startup procedure be communicating that a crash occurred, and the doctor should check that something went wrong, than silently continuing.

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The problem is when you tell people this, the kneejerk reaction is always "are you saying we intentionally add crashes"!

Because safe null handling was specifically added to avoid the situation where that crashes...

(For example, if the app was a news reader and the alert was "Article failed to load", you wouldn't want the app to crash just because the user left a certain page before the alert was shown)

But I think the pendulum has swung too far at this point, people are so used to just sweeping nulls under the rug, and it's not great for finding issues
Are you of the opinion that people shouldn't have the right of financial privacy online? Or is this just a quippy way of dismissing cryptocurrency as a concept?
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I call them mass, because that’s what they are. I watch even them intentionally because the comical onslaught of positive words and colors does have a mood enhancing effect
To be fair these results can be used as a representation of ML art output as being distinct in its qualities and related ease of production. It immediately appears as a hazy simulacrum when listened to be an interested critical ear. Which can work to your point; there vast production use cases for ML-quality media issues background dressing, eg music for cheap/free video games, infotainment videos , or any application where cheap production libraries will suffice. Huge amounts of human labor have been thrown at making throw away media assets.
Similarly a large proportion of serious, foreground art works consist of mundane background chores that ML can achieve with incredible efficiency.

But when ML generation is placed to the foreground, as the main focus, it appears like an unnerving vacuous simulacra. I can’t yet see it being something beyond shovel-like, in its function and form
Your reaction to my post is to ignore and dismiss my experience.

So I'm not surprised you think you "know nobody" in that scenario. Your immediate instinct being to reject reality and substitute what fits your own world view better.

I'm not being needlessly mean to you. People like you put other's lives in danger. Your bullshit attitude is so incredibly backwards, historians will look down on you decades down the line and wonder "what the fuck was going on in these people's heads" with the same disdain as ours when looking at people burning witches or sacrificing babies. Excuse me if I don't want to be part of that footnote.

You live in ground zero? Then go to a damn hospital and observe a bit what it's like at the front lines. Maybe you'll walk out a bit more humble.
Yes - and that is the point the OP you responded to is making. This is not a generic library function. It used in a specific setting where preconditions exist and presumably are checked _prior_ to calling this code.

Sure you could make the argument that we don't _know_ they are being checked, but it's a pointless discussion. Who cares? _If_ preconditions are met, this code is safe, if they aren't, it's not safe. Since we don't know one way or the other, there's no point in discussing further. The kernel developers know their stuff...
>“Tricked into installing it and can’t delete it,” said one user in a review on the Google Chrome store

How is that possible? Or are we simply looking at someone who doesn't know how to use her computer?
(disclaimer: I'm participating in the libRIST development)
RIST! It's a well thought out protocol without technical debt (which SRT has), supports multicast (if you need it), null packet deletion, encryption via PSK or DTLS and multiplexing (multiplexing support in libRIST is not fully there yet, it's on the roadmap together with DTLS).
Next iteration of the RIST protocol will support "backpressure" on your encoder, so if you have too much packet loss your encoding can scale it's video bitrate down, while together with null packet deletion you'll be able to keep your bitrate perfectly CBR.
Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015)
But it hasn’t really been adopted in a very successful manner, has it?
Maybe add that it's a "zero-click, wormable, cross-platform remote code execution in Microsoft Teams" :)
I don't understand either, I thought that all developments effort went into LuaTeX now and that XeTeX was obsolete... and, for, like, 5-6 years
Validate your product with those 6 user interview tips
Related: https://cfp.osfc.io/osfc2020/talk/TBSHA8

>"Pure open source on an AMD Zen

2020-12-02, 19:45–20:15, Main Stage

This talk will discuss project X, which is aimed at eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
How I made my brand new website rise on Google's front page?
It is a way of pointing out that hardly anybody uses Monero for anything other than crime.
There are 2.7 million people in Chicago city, it's total area is 234.21 square miles. Taht's 11,500 people per square mile

Are you really suggesting that 7% of Chicago's entire land area be given away for free to car owners -- because if everyone owned one car you'd need 1.7 million square feet to park them. That's in addition to the space used for those cars to move around which is at least as much.

If you don't own a car, how can you claim your free space?
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Isn't this SUV x CO2 a post-fact thing?

Or to put in another way, is a new SUV worse than an Opel Corsa 1999 regarding CO2 emission?
> The data that each smart meter will transmit will be validated and certified by the blockchain, so as to be able to unequivocally guarantee the savings obtained at a
certain point in time

Block chain doesn't validate things happening in the real world (energy saved, KWh consumed) only auditors/inspectors can do that. The data from the smart meter can always be faked before it goes to the blockchain network.

Have I missed something? I'd be inclined to give Woz the benefit of the doubt on most things but I don't get what blockchain gives here apart from marketing BS - for which its a year or two behind the times?
No, that is just the case with Monero. It is used mainly for criminal activity.
> The communication which the govt wants to censor gets censored

Only if social dynamics evaluate as a zero sum game. Which is the exception, not the rule.

Law making is really a modelling exercise. The proof of the validity of a model is measured via the success of it's implementation. The extent of that success is a function of the ability of an authority to enforce those rules.

At surface level, centralizing mass media into a handful of channels - whether it's public broadcasting or market dominance through a single private actor - seems like a boon for authoritarians when it comes to censorship. But what censorship really accomplishes is just stripping away the convenience with which undesirable information is spread. It doesn't necessarily strip the wholesale spread of information.

History is rife with examples. In the 20th century there were clandestine newspapers (French newspaper La Libération for example) and pamphlets, or listening in on the BBC via longwave. In modern times, there's sneakernets, streetnets (Cuba, even North Korea), datacasting,... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvent...)

When a big corporation doesn't play ball and seizes operating in a country, it only moves the needle in one direction, but never quite entirely to the end.
If they did, the containers at the bottom of the stack would be blocked from getting a GPS signal.

Last time I looked into this, which was over a decade, some of the containers at the top could have GPS and ZigBee, and would relay their position to the other container using ZigBee.

I also remember that the company I worked for, I was told that we paid a premium to have our containers placed lower on the stack, in the event something like in the article occurred.
> I was thinking in terms of Linux, for which those 90GB blockbuster games don't exist (?)

https://www.protondb.com/
My first thought was “why not?”

I think on mobile 5g might be not as revolutionary as 3g was back then. It won’t hurt either, faster download speed , same price I am okay with that.

I know your question was 5g on smartphones but I think it has even more potential in other areas. Remote surgery or closer to home think about Drenthe, Groningen or cities like Amsterdam where optical fiber rollout has been slow (kpn). 5g is potentially fast enough to replace your vdsl or cable from ziggo and be used as a main internet line.
Looks very cool, but it’s been almost a decade since I’ve last had an analog TV. Do people still have them around?
Ha! When I read the headline, I immediately had two thoughts: first one "yeah they'll just import it from elsewhere" and then "well maybe I shouldn't be such a knee-jerk pessimist".

Turns out I was probably not pessimistic enough (i.e. my first though was generic skepticism about "climate promises" by someone with no history of "climate fraud", but if what you say is true, my "skepticism" is actually more like "business as usual").
It's an Internet running Gag, if the quality of something produced by a technical product is bad, you might say: "Was this filmed/calculated/etc with a potato?"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/reco...
Hi, original author here, I just found out my old project featured here and love the thoughtful responses. If you are interested, I've been working on a new version of and on, called cobalt (https://github.com/poef/cobalt/). Hope was the proof of concept, cobalt is a more rigorous implementation. Specifically the range algebra is complete there.

It's still a hobby research project. There's a lot I've learned building and using it, about the things that HTML is good at, and what it isn't good at.

What I'm trying these days is to see if I can get a WYSIWYG editor with a user experience that comes close to the user experience of writing markdown. This isn't easy and its interesting to explore what makes that so.
Isn't that just an application layer protocol? How will that create a new hardware network?
Show HN: A 1KB CSS-in-JS library with all the bells and whistles
Lots of suggestions saying to use black boxes instead unless you save to a pdf and your editor just added your black box as a layer..
But I have seen no evidence of such promises by ms. Everything seem to be build on assumptions
Why is this so downvoted? I'm unfamiliar (and not Canadian) but it seems informative, apolitical, and not rebuked in replies (so far anyway).
Jim Gao: how AI can disrupt energy (ex Google/Deepmind, CEO Phaidra)
Does anyone think this story might be fake? How cold would the cargo compartment be on a long haul flight? Did he speak French?
Blockchain and Energy saving. Oh god...
How to Use Bitcoin: mining, wallets, payments
Whatever, enjoy your C99 then.
While in absolute terms there may be a fair number of people using them, in relative terms the amount of people who know C++ and/or Rust is absolutely dwarfed by the amount of people who know "easier" languages like JS, Python and Ruby.

Are you sure? JS is huge today, not least because it's the only game in town on what is currently the most popular easily accessible platform. However, I've never seen anything to suggest a huge difference between the number of programmers who know C++ and the number who know Python, for example. Both are very popular languages with at least a few million developers who know them. At that scale there's no reliable way to get an exact count and the difference doesn't really matter anyway.
This is amazing news, I was not aware of this. Thank you so much for linking! Do you know if it also applies to the cpu/memory limits and health checks? Is it a true full merge of the two specs? (I will investigate myself and post back too)
Get on Soulseek / Nicotine! It's still great...
My personal experiences differs.

I recently spent a year working on a Qt app for drawing circuit diagrams, aimed at nuclear engineers. I've lost count of the number of times I found myself wishing for some feature that React has implemented for years.

The parts of the code that were easiest to maintain were the ones that reinvented reactive UI: every modification to the underlying data called some "updateGraphicsView" function that would then re-render the entire thing. Not great for performance, great for avoiding bugs.

Seriously, for me Qt goes in the "never again" category.
why do the workers of VW have to pay with a loss of their jobs for the wrongdoings of their managers? Several of those responsible have already spent time in prison, others will follow.
I live in Oregon and none of this surprises me. They’ve had some pretty big software/vendor blunders over my adult life (38yo), but I don’t imagine they’re that different from any other state/federal organization with big software projects.

To put it bluntly, government contracts under pay for the complications they provide, are never straightforward, have too many competing stakeholders, and huge changes will be required mid-way through every project.

On top of that, only certain companies that have been vetted and approved to be a vendor can even apply, which effectively weeds out most potential companies. What you wind up with is Oracle selling a one-size fits all “platform” to one state for DMV, and the next state for Electronic Medical Records.

Additionally, the FTE pay scale is shit compared to the private sector so they will never have any chance at getting, let alone retaining, any decent talent.
A central blockchain is an oxymoron: a pointless waste of time. A distributed, trustless, permissionless data structure on the other hand is a useful thing to have for a small number of use-cases.
Keep in mind the org stuff makes that config file look much bigger than it really is.

Though, 186 does sound surprisingly low if this is truly just 186 lines applied to vanilla Emacs.

My bindings file is a little over 200 (one binding per line). custom-set-variables block is 170.
Total across a few files is around 3-4k. But some of that is config code, patches/modified versions of functions from other packages and simple wrappers. It accrues rather easily. Actual original code that does something non-trivial is probably below 1k.
I was noting this exact thing while watching Township Rebellion mix music live that they produced in the studio.
Android is open-source but large parts of it aren't - for example, the google play services libs.

The open parts can take literal years to get a fix merged and deployed, so "some open source contributor fixing it" happens very rarely and isn't something you can rely on. Even when that happens, if the bug was in the core SDK instead of in one of the support libs, you'd have to wait like 5 years until most users get the fixed version of the code on their devices.
What is the best platform for you to manage branded content
I would guess it's VHF channel 3, which is from 60-66MHz, with the NTSC video carrier (Luma) on 61.25MHz, audio on 65.75MHz, and the Chroma carrier some nasty number about 3.58MHz above the Luma carrier.

In my country, VHF TV transmissions started going out in the 60s when colour came in, and were fully turned off in the 80s.

Modern DTV runs over UHF channels (replacing the previous analog transmissions between 2009 and 2012)
Founding and contributing should be the measure here.
Banning slavery won't make them wealthy - they'll still probably be starving. Make them wealthy and the slave markets probably go away.

That argument requires substantiation. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are arguably some of the wealthiest nations on the planet, yet slavery (or slave-like working conditions) are prevalent throughout society.
You have to remember 99% of the general public do not think in this manner. Same dilemma as alcohol vs weed/psychedelics.