skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ipfs and filecoin were done pretty much in parallel.

ZeroTier was mostly-p2p, product first, now moving to a fully decentralised solution.

Radicle is very much a well defined product with p2p in the tech stack.
That's the strategy of the Germans.
>There are people who believe this stuff as firmly as I believe the complete opposite. If you asked them, they say, with absolute conviction, that I'm nuts. How might that happen? What if they're right? What could I have missed?

After having read books on two sides of various things, I have found that most people don't have firm beliefs at all. Their beliefs don't even have anything to do with how they live. They have everything to do with what they're told will make them look good. So, just because someone says they believe something, I'm not willing to waste any more of my time on learning how it is justified on an intellectual or logical level (which is what books tend to capture). Even the believers most likely don't have any understanding of it themselves or how or why it matters to them. It's simply not worth it.
Hmm, Somehow our networking tech has this big gap in-between LANs and Clouds ...

I think there is more between LANs and Clouds, e.g. encrypted emails, or VPN tunnels which could be set up between sender and recipient, last but not least HTTPS or SFTP access to documents (which could still be encrypted Zip files. You'd have to share keys/secrets, but you'll need that for secure P2P connections anyways.
An M1 Mac vs. the Surface Pro X: How do ARM devices compare?
I think the only reason that a global reserve currency hasnt changed yet is that there are no sound currencies to use. USD was selected as the global reserve because it was backed by gold. We went and fucked that up. Now there are no currencies left backed by anything but promises. If there was a large enough country with gold backed money the reserve currency would have switched decades ago.
>people didn’t immediately sneer when they learned that you were a software developer?

People sneer now?
Don’t use drugs
I know this person and you are dead wrong. He probably knows more about nutrition than most people because of this battle. He has done pretty much everything you can do to help yourself stay well and lose weight. Try being less judgmental of a person you know nothing about. He’s been kind enough to share his journey to help others who have tried everything and lost hope. Crappy remarks like most of you have shared are why people won’t seek help. Try being more kind, people. It makes the world a better place. Would you hammer a vegan like this? I didn’t think so.
https://kframework.org/ has high level details. It says "K is a rewrite-based executable semantic framework in which programming languages, type systems and formal analysis tools can be defined using configurations, computations and rules. "

I was confused by the git repo because I thought the "K" was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language) which is a terse APL-style language.
> I think there is a genuine need for escaping echo chambers but every attempt is usually aimed just showing the opposite side/narrative.

I think the idea that there only exists a single spectrum sorted into sides is itself a sort of meta echo chamber shared by people in echo chambers even as they disagree about everything else. In modern politics, even the idea that the opposed party holds opposite views (versus just opposed) is a meta echo chamber idea. In many left/right topics, the disagreement isn't 'pro/anti', but often more fundamental.

Some examples: While conservatives might be anti-abortion, liberals aren't pro abortion, they're pro-choice and that's not just a rhetorical device. While liberals are anti-racism and see conservatives as pro-racism, a conservative rejects the idea out of hand because of a difference in definitions. A third, more nuanced view might even see the average conservative as non-racist (as opposed to anti-racist) which many would still argue is not enough, but it's not 'the opposite' at all.

I don't think recommendations need to necessarily go to the extremes, but I don't think 'a shade to the left' is enough either, because without understanding the fundamental differences, you have a you-can't-get-there-from-here problem.
This one can do it, but there are definitely even cheaper calculators that can also do base conversions. One nice thing about this one is that it can do log base 2. (any calculator with log can do it, but with this you don't even have to remember the formula).
No, Ph.D students doing vuln research understand that they are researchers in two different senses. Talk to some of them. They're not confused about this.
> Youtube stops them from talking to each other??

Yes. Youtube is used by people to communicate with each other.

> You aren't worth my reply.

You obviously aren't worth much either.
>This article places an emphasis on where the bottlenecks and problems have been forming in the system, explains why a continued weak dollar over a 3-5 year period remains my base case, and shows why some of these growing pains seem to be leading to a new re-ordering of the global monetary system over this decade.

3-5 years isn't really saying much especially given that the US dollar does not have much movement, and that this is effectively the same as being bullish on the Euro and Pound and Yen, which are the biggest competing currencies. I do not see any reason why those currencies will see a sudden inflow. That last time that happened was in 2002-2008, but that was when there are much more interest in foreign assets , whereas today foreign assets are shunned in favor of domestic assets and tech. Pensions, hedge funds seek safe US assets such as investment-grade corporates bonds and treasury bonds, not riskier foreign assets.

I do not expect any sort of fraying of the US dollar as the global reserve currency system though.

Some of the conclusions the author draws are wrong or dubious, such as the purported inverse relationship between the US dollar and corporates profits. The dollar surged in 2014 but corporates profits did not fall.
Show HN: Abusing Imgur into being your datastore
dat/hypercore from what I've seen has been a lot better at that than others, e.g. with the initial work in a scientific dataset use case, beaker browser, ...
That Game of Thrones meme was quite unexpected.
> For example, it's more likely you'll say something like 'give candy to these kids' or 'wash these cars'

That's one of the reasons I like functional programming. In ML-style languages you have something like `Set.map giveCandy kids`, which is both concise and close to natural language.

Comprehensions are also cool in my book, because they're very close to set-builder notation.
> He didn’t do anything that actually slowed the loss of our manufacturing base while president.

Come on now. Say what you will about the effect of the tax changes on inequality, they're clearly designed to make it more attractive to do business in the US, e.g. lower corporate rates and allowing capital expenditures to be deducted immediately rather than amortized over a period of years. It's hard to argue that tariffs on goods from China don't make it less attractive to buy goods from China.
This is an interesting submission in that part of what you're proposing has been discussed on HN, and the ethical dilemma got nowhere. In that discussion it was just about growing brainless humans for scientific and medical needs. I think these topics have a lot of cover area.

Many people don't consider a body soulless, and many people don't consider decephalization moral to the potential human.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has studied at FernUni.

I have been toying with the idea of doing some kind of maths or comp sci degree for a while now. It would have to be part time / remote because I'm not willing to stop working. The only suitable thing I've come across is Georgia Tech's online masters.

I considered the Open University but their CS courses look poor and it has become too expensive for something that would be a hobby.

However, I'm not really sure what FernUni would offer over just buying OU books on Amazon and working through them.
Do you think the 19th century is a good anecdote for what would happen nowadays? Setting minimum wage seems to create this standard that may do more harm than good. Increasing the 'standard' harms the 'middle-class' and this 'standard' may set the wages lower than entitled per job.
These ideas are already being obsoleted as we speak by various edge computing approaches like Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, etc. It's not there yet and these are just the low level building blocks but I'm sure we are getting there, but in a different way.

Whereas aforementioned companies are working hard to actually solve people's problems without a pyramid scheme cult, Urbit has been mostly focused on engineering a cult following, so I won't miss them when all of what they are saying they will achieve will be completely obsoleted by a combination of multiple emerging technology trends that are actually useful.
Another Ponzi-like scheme: "Lifetime."
Do your needs perfectly match the most average Mac user? If so, get a Mac.

Probable norm: on public wireless network, just using the web

You can deviate from that, but not much. When your needs are strange, the Mac has nothing for you.
I made games when I was 13 years old. They are for Windows 98 and in German, but they should still be playable nowadays: http://www.benibela.de/games_en.html
Sorry the ‘33 business plot didn’t work out for you
Show HN: Micro framework for ESP32 applications connected to GCP with MQTT
Micro framework for writing applications on ESP32 devices connected to Google Cloud Platform with MQTT protocol.
>I’m always amused by how fixated Americans (even liberals) are on race in this matter. America is very diverse when it comes to ethnicities but it has a strong program of secular-national indoctrination, which results in a very homogenous culture considering its size.

Race in this case shows up because the mind wants to find an explanation for the discrepancy in social and public trust. Norwegians trust their institutions much more than Americans do. We also know that public trust was higher until the US's "lost decade" in the '70s and figure it probably depends on some factors that have been recently changing.

We look for instinctive, emotional explanations because we're interested in "forcing functions": it's not interesting to say that low-quality government caused by low-trust society leads to low-trust society because that postulates a universal dynamical property of social trust that doesn't really distinguish between societies. The hysteria surrounding the presidency of Barack Obama and the reputational endurance of a tyrant who came into the political limelight spreading ludicrous conspiracy theories about the same, in light of his significance as the first non-white POTUS, is one of many common-knowledge observations lending credence to the idea that racial resentment and mistrust drives an unwillingness to cooperate in American society. And then, of course, it's not really that easy to find truly well-run multiracial societies. Singapore and Israel have both invested in top-down integration and racial justice initiatives but resentment and discrimination stick around -- yet those are probably the best examples. Trinidad might be another example, but may be coasting on easy money from oil extraction.
Sure. But the vast majority of hn commenters are still as the Op described.
Disclosing the vulnerability isn't a credible threat because Facebook essentially lets you disclose the vulnerability anyways. We are commenting on a thread about a dude who disclosed a vulnerability after getting a $7000 bounty.
> Even if this anecdote is untrue, the point remains valid...

I mean, I guess the point remains valid in that everyone can see that a lot of manufacturing has left the US in the past, I dunno, fifty years. But if you don't even know whether the anecdote you mention is true, why bring it up? Why comment at all?
You of course spent 23 hours per day locked in your accommodations as well right?
Oh of course, wasn't saying that at all. It's just that I have noticed an uptick in using this kind of phrasing when trying to dismiss other positions on things as a version of the "thought terminating cliche". Not trying to say there are no delusion belief systems.

That said, the bar should be very high for calling other peoples beliefs as such. I disagree with lots of people on lots of things, but one of the things I've learned is that by approaching topics with such a judgemental, holier-than-though attitude, one puts on blinders to truly understanding a persons position, and more importantly, how they got there. The power of empathy is strong in giving the brain more information to work with, but the power of harsh judgement is that it stifles the flow of information prematurely.
>"If you can get it to us, we'll store it" is totally reasonable."

No it isn't. On the one hand you say we'll store it if you can get it to us, then on the other you build an obstruction to data getting to you. Data propagation is part of storage. I have to get bits off my processor, to your physical media to be stored, and you just built a barrier to keep that from happening. You don't get to use "unlimited" for marketing attractiveness, then bait-and-switch.

So maybe to you it sounds reasonable, but to anyone that values being up front about the service they are offering, that's nothing more than selling a product you can't deliver, i.e., deception and false advertising.
I find I'm usually shadowbanned after every comment or two, that's the only reason I make new accounts. I would prefer not to have to do that too.

I could pick an identifiable 'username' for my next account and increment a counter for each subsequent one (eg. PickledLlama001, PickledLlama002, etc), if that works?
The language REBOL used
`either [] []`
which I now miss regularly.

It was great in that by default it pushed to me consider and deal with `else` in every case.

There are allot of bugs left when stopping at 'if'.
> People want DOS

People want Docker. Solves packaging, resource management and isolation. They don’t want unikernels, or it would have happened already.
In some ways, pascal had such an impact that many of its revolutionary ideas (structured programming) are now so commonplace as to be unremarkable.

The way primitive sets and enumerated types fit together is still a rarity, as far as I know. (You can accomplish the same things in any low-level language, but the pascal syntax make it really nice.)

Interfaces in pascal are fairly interesting because they allow you to implement your own addref/decref routines for automatic reference counting. This was made for COM, but you can plug it into whatever reference counting scheme you like (say if you want to write python extensions or whatever).

The main thing is still probably the component system though, and the tight integration with the development environment.

It's kind of a trip the first time you configure an IDE plugin and realize it just recompiled the whole IDE for you.
One thing I don't see a lot of are SREing working with the business to set product direction - i.e differentiating features or tiers of service that reflect different operational, security, or infrastructure costs. Reliability, security, and performance are usually seen as binary in non-SRE land when they're just as much about tradeoffs as anything else and different customers can have wildly different requirements in these areas.
That site they're building looks dope https://beta.readng.co
A guide to scaling enterprise SaaS product and engineering teams, from $0 to past $100M ARR BUT we won't tell you where we work or who we are.

Am I missing something here? It's easy to give out advice anonymously and I don't really see anything in here that is groundbreaking.
To expand on some of these:

Judging: The NVC book refers to it as evaluating, but yes, it is high up on things not to do. What surprises many, but I found to be quite refreshing, is the inclusion of "praising evaluatively". People don't realize how often their praise can be a turn off to the one they are praising. Praising non-evaluatively is underappreciated.

For the advising portion of "sending solutions", I once had a miserable job where everyone was an expert, and I was just a junior non-expert who was working on an unusual side project for the team. It was very common that I'd be stuck somewhere and I'd get a lot of "help" (solicited and unsolicited) in solving my problem. About 50% of the times, their help was useless because they never understood my problem correctly! They would always transform the problem into something that fit into their expertise and suggest something else. It would always take a gigantic effort to convince them that they are not solving the problem I had - often more effort than if I hadn't asked at all. It got to the point that I had to be very careful not to mention my blockers in front of certain coworkers so that my time wouldn't be derailed. As I was the junior non-expert, it was always assumed that I was the one who didn't understand the problem.

This would have been solved had they practiced basic "reflecting back" to ensure that they understood my problem correctly.
This was written a few years ago with FPC v2.2 (latest is FPC v3.2), but generally matches my experience:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Size_Matters#Analysis_of_various...

tl;dr is that if you create a RELEASE build, should be about 2 - 5mb for a GUI app, depending on the platform. And if you run `upx` against the resulting binary, it will be even smaller.

Win 7 x64:
------------
- 12.3 mb == Default build
- 3.2 mb == Default build without debug info
- 2.1 mb == Optimized compiler
- 2.1 mb == Optimized compiler without debug info

Ubuntu x64:
------------
- 13.4 mb == Default build
- 7.5 mb == Default build without debug info
- 4.4 mb == Optimized compiler
- 2.7 mb == Optimized compiler without debug info

Optimized compiler means:

1. Project|Compiler Options|Code|Smart Linkable (-CX) -> Checked
2. Project|Compiler Options|Linking|Debugging| Uncheck all except `Strip Symbols From Executable (-Xs) -> Checked`Strip Symbols From Executable (-Xs) -> Checked
3. Project|Compiler Options|Linking|Link Style|Link Smart (-XX) -> Checked
4. (Optional) Project|Compiler Options|Code|Optimizations|smaller rather than faster -> Checked (Warning: this might decrease performance)
For clarity: an approximate solution
The beauty of inflation is that it hurts you in direct proportion to how well off you are, and it can't be dodged (i.e. it's like a wealth tax, only actually achievable). We could drive inflation while also ameliorating a lot of the pain it would cause by implementing UBI (in fact, I'm pretty sure big deficit spending is the only way UBI will ever happen).

Defaulting would screw a lot of institutional pension investors, while a lot of the super-wealthy could just dodge into less vulnerable assets, potentially worsening wealth inequality.
Cool : ). Yeah I honestly wasn't sure and appreciate your response : ). And I agree.

Just for fun I'll throw out Ursula le Guin as one of my favorite science fiction authors because she explores issues of human nature via anthropology and such.
The pandemic response in much of the West versus more successful countries
I doubt it's illegal, because posting a vulnerability that you found legitimately on Twitter isn't illegal. You might be dancing close to the edge by using Facebook's authorization to test their websites in an unauthorized way, which brings you back under the aegis of CFAA, but that seems a little far-fetched.

But whether it's legal or not, it won't work. Facebook will likely never do business with you again, but they'll watch your Twitter account for the free bugs you're promising to give them.
There's a lot of history there, unfortunately. The US medical establishment has a long track record of experimenting on Black people -- from performing experimental surgery (without anesthetic) on slaves to infecting Black US soldiers with syphilis to study how the disease progressed that continued until the 70s.

All this to say nothing of how the medical establishment generally under serves minorities. There's quite a bit of writing on why it might be so hard for these major pharma corps to find volunteers from these communities.
Rollercoaster Tycoon - By Chris Sawyer. 99% written in x86 assembly. Imho, the most impressive example of a game of its magnitude, by a single dev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_(video_ga...

http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq1.htm
It’s a long shot, but try Ctrl+R. That re-enables local echo after it’s disabled in some scenarios (usually by Ctrl+S when connected to a remote session with the right tty settings).
At the very least, an official degree. You can legally call yourself MSc or whatever degree you went for.
I do, but it’s in my “real name” GitHub and I’m not willing to out myself here. ;)

Sorry. Google I guess?
The only problem is the bear is tireless and insatiable. It will get everybody. Gotta kill the bear.
> What problem is this solving?

You have two machines on networks you don't know/control and no established identities/accounts. You want to pipe some data between them without setting up a more permanent network like ZeroTier with SSH or other access.

> Normally things like transit don’t have encryption because it occurs at a higher level.

OpenVPN, IPsec, nebula, ZeroTier, Hamachi, and many others would disagree.
The top comment (in the parallel reply[0]) actually seems to agree with me[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25333255
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
I forked Python “newspaper3k” and hacked bits of it to work better on sources I like.
ok yarvin
The thing to remember is that the universe does not care, and nobody owes us anything. That's what's really terrifying until you come to terms with it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the US does not need any factories, as it can print any amount of money and buy whatever it wants from any country has factories. Money talks. Or not?

It has enough military for safely making this again and again for tens of years at least.
Mere Coincidence or Conspiracy or Conspiracy theory?

> "The Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan is owned by Glaxosmithkline, who happens to own Pfizer! (The one who delivered the vaccine in Record Time)
Thanks for this article. I can see both vaccines consider the use of PEG to be important. Still looking for the other lipid ingredients in the Moderna vaccine.
The collapse of the dollars strength and rise of crypto being thought of as 'a store of wealth' may lead to the next financial revolution.

Imagine a world where etheruem has enough market cap where it's volatility decreases, smart contracts for services are wide spread, everyone works free-lance giving the economy a inherent conflict of interest problem that rockets innovation forward while at the same time of having the effect of directly capturing some of the wealth you create by charging on a 'free-lance' model.

No need for the dollar, but it does change the inventives built into the system and will have radical effects on globalism.
Roadmap for that reading app is here https://readng.nolt.io/roadmap

Personally I'd like to see audible integration, which ironically goodreads does not provide :(