skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's definitely a good example of where things get tricky, but smart contracts are not a dispute resolution mechanism, they're part of a shared infrastructure.

If you use a smart contract you don't need to maintain any sort of backend at all. Your infrastructure costs are basically zero because they're baked into the cost of using the contract, which is paid on every transaction. You also get interoperability for free without having to build out any sort of API layer.

Smart contracts are not the solution to all problems but I think they have some really interesting use cases.
Speak!

The best way to meet people will always be to leave your house and become socially active. You may even meet people of various genders just to hang out with ! Online dating profiles are more mostly bots / con artist anyway. The FTC filing against Match goes into detail here.

The best fun I've had was on the way to the club with my amazing friends, irrespective of if I meet anyone that night. The biggest sin of social media has been to convince people they didn't need real friends .

The world is great, is you save the 40$ a month Match.com cost for 12 months you can afford a trip to London or Paris, then at least you'll have some interesting stories to share at your local bar!
Twitter doesn't care about any business dispute, we're simply watching them chip away at the foundations of capitalism to facilitate a move towards communism. In this latest example, they're doing their part to suppress research visibility. History doesn't repeat, but often rhymes:

Per historic Soviet communism playbook: all research, including natural sciences, was to be founded on the philosophy of dialectical materialism. Humanities and social sciences [research] were additionally tested for strict accordance with historical materialism.[1]

In other recent examples, I don't think anyone would argue they aren't actively doing their part to suppress free-speech (a requirement for communism). The most blatant and concerning to me is their amplification of discussion around topics that would facilitate the piece-by-piece dismantlement of America's democratic republic. Most recently, getting rid of the electoral college.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_th...
Is it me or does it really feel obnoxious for vendors to then be claiming their hardware to be "TRULY OPEN SOURCE"?
Mumble can get very close if you tune it right.

To make it work well you Amy have to turn off lots of helpful processing that modern systems do.
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I'm writing AutoIT scripts for automating common tasks in medical software. It involves mental balancing the rage at how bad both the apps and the autoit are, with the excitement from the time saving and ROI I'm giving to the clinics.
This is basically a bespoke blockchain that uses BTC as oracle. It's not a smart contracts "on Bitcoin". By this logic, I could write an ERC20 token on ETH and use some BTC state, and call it "smart contracts on Bitcoin".
Love the home page. Instantly tells me what you do and what I need to do to get started. I'm not your target market, but wanted to give you a thumbs up!
Please, enough with Bitcoin. It's an environmental disaster.
Fortune teller in Japan is sometimes considered as a lightweight blackbox version of therapist. They listen customer's talk and give advive in blackbox way.
So how’s it working out for you?
If someone invented the concept of a library today wouldn't it sound, you know, kinda socialist?
Web-based visual piano using MIDI or ordinary keyboard
This is actually incorrect. For millions of years humans ate nothing but animals. When you eat an entire animal, including its organs, you are getting every macronutrient and micronutrient required by the human body. The forms that vitamins take in animals are the most bioavailable to humans.

We have been eating meat and saturated animal fat much longer than abundant carbohydrates have even existed. Combine this with the fact that all your health problems go away on carnivore, it’s pretty obvious that we were designed to eat meat.

It isn’t until you go carnivore that you realize how a plant based diet is actively trying to destroy your mouth and take away your teeth. Do you think ancient humans were brushing their teeth and flossing?

And it’s not just that your health problems go away. You become practically super human. You get ripped without going to the gym. Reports of higher energy and mental clarity are practically universal.

I know it sound crazy and that’s why I qualified my comment the way I did. There are hundreds of video testimonies that back up what I say on meatrx.

One of the things that is also universal is an increase in testosterone and aggressiveness.
Well the point is that the reputation accrues to the author, not the post. So that a post will get a boost if the author has been rewarded in the past.
They know who it belongs to...

They could, ya know, return it. Or hold it for the guy to pick up.

Out of curiosity, are they willing to pay him for the seizure of property, or shall we make an international incident of it?
Skin it then pull the pieces apart. Easier to figure out with a tangerine.
Perhaps Apple doesn't log your hardware UUID + IP. You'll have to take their word for it.

But there's even less guarantee that the government doesn't log that information.

After all, Apple dropped plans of implementing E2E encryption of iCloud backups after the FBI asked them [1]. So "Apple doesn't retain that info" might boil down to semantics since it might be allowing someone else to do it.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/apple-dropped-plan-for-encry...
WeWork->WeCook?
Taegan Goddard built a thriving paid membership for Political Wire
Well paid people have substantially lower obesity rates than poorly paid people.
> Wonder if there's a good way to facilitate finding such resources and avoiding the endless SEOed spam that one gets when googling any item for reviews/recommendations.

Indeed, it's a freaking scourge. My current tactic is to append "reddit" to my searches. Often there's a subreddit of mostly genuine enthusiasts about $thing.
> I can see how this would work for new things invented outside the Amish community. How does this work for new Amish inventions? How do they judge an effect a thing will have on society while they are still building that thing?

I'm no expert, but I believe they have walked back decisions to allow certain technologies, or allow things for trial periods before making a final decision.

Also, it's not like the non-Amish haven't rejected technologies because they came to dislike their effects on society, stuff like lead paint, asbestos, and chemical weapons come to mind as examples.

Also, their decisions aren't arbitrary, but respect certain principles and customs, so I would assume an Amish inventor would take those into account.
By almost any measure, global health has improved and global testosterone levels have declined.

Absent any other information, you should therefore assume...
A scripting environment for Android devices
https://phonk.app/

It has APIs for BLE, MQTT, Arduino, OSC, Websockets, Processing, Open Street Maps, quite an easy way to make UIs and more!

I've been working for years already, first for my students then as a hobby project. I learned quite a bit during the process :)
If you have others to vouch for you it's helpful since one thing everyone look for is creepiness - how much of a danger could you be? If you're just shy or awkward it might mean tough luck since it's hard to differentiate, but with an introduction this is much easier to overcome.

Seriously, the first hurdle is not 'is this guy sexually attractive' but 'is this guy potentially dangerous', and it's far safer to err on the side of caution.
Malicious browser extensions are a very serious problem though. The user has almost no way to know if their data is being stolen.
Is this thread being botspammed?

Seems to be a bunch of comments that look like they've been generated with some kind of GPT3 type setup, almost sensical and somewhat related.
oof glad i didnt implement my plan to do this...
One thing I'll tack onto this in case someone with the right knowledge comes by: anyone know a site for good reviews of charging accessories?

We ask a lot of our chargers these days (e.g. 100w USB-C PD), and the price-quality curve seems to be very jumpy. Have had good experiences with companies like Anker or Aukey, but also seen tear-downs of failed units one price tier down that had zero isolation between mains voltage and what's going to the device. Would love to find some better guidance on buying such things.
"Design your own living space," pretty much.

Like legos, but with rooms, desks, occupants, etc.

Im going to be spending the next month or more in doors due to a medical concern, so I've been looking for ways to look at my living space a little differently.

Voila, learning Rust along the way.
From your source, Fox is further right than Bellingcat is left, and Bellingcat is much better on factual reporting. I understand what you're saying about getting news about conflicts from a particular point of view, but your source seems to contradict the analogy.
Oops! Thanks, it was from this challenge. Lots of neat stuff in here.

http://dcase.community/challenge2021/index
~1000 American kids die a year from drowning - the rate has went down since pool fences became common. I'm not sure it's quite "vanishingly rare", though of course it's not common.
My go to is Club D’Elf. 1/2 morrocan trance 1/2 jam band with an impressive lineup of guests. Hundreds of live shows with professional level recordings on archive.org.
Single-page contact form where the sender must pay to prove they're serious about what they're asking.
related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lkCsKXAxfo (and other videos of the series)
What about the fact that the core ethereum team revealed that they’d reverse a smartcontract with a hard fork when members of the core team make an expensive mistake in one while bitcoin has no such culture?
A crypto-mining botnet is now stealing Docker and AWS credentials
So, my understanding is that Facebook happily scrapes users' contact lists from their app. How exactly is that legal, and this not? The most obvious difference is that Facebook likely claims users are informed of Facebook's scraping, but I'm sceptical of the number of people who actually understood that. If these extensions said in their ToS that they did this, would it be okay?
Put your succulent or cacti in a self watering planter and go on holiday for two or three weeks, come back to a flourishing plant.

That's the dream behind ceramic, hand-cast self watering planters designed with a hyper-ellipsoidal footprint, a project I've been working on for a few months now.

Lately I've been working on the manufacturing pipeline from 3D printed master -> silicone case mold -> plaster working mold -> cast ceramic. Looking forward to launching this spring (just in time for everyone to go traveling and take advantage of self watering planters!)
I would argue that AirBnB is successful because of its "growth hacking" -- I remember they were spamming all of their listings into all of the various Craigslist temporary housing, housing swap, vacation rental, month to month rental categories. Obviously don't remember a specific timeframe but this was well before they were even a well known name in tech.
Yes, when quoted.
Same here. Seems like there's a subreddit for just about everything (for instance, I consulted r/backpacks recently). Good advice, but unreliable in terms of finding an active community.
Yeah, I think Greenwald has blinders about Winner because what she leaked doesn't fit his narratives about the Dems and Russia. I wouldn't link his quitting because they tried to edit his Hunter Biden takes with Poitras' very legitimate outrage over not protecting a source.
Network delay can be just a few milliseconds across a city, or you can discover, like my brother who teaches elementary music, that your kids have different ISPs and some are awful.

He's been teaching music remotely since August, and one of the first days he demonstrated why they have to be on mute on Zoom by having them all sing happy birthday to one of the students. It was utter chaos. I worked with him to try to find a solution, we tried various tools, but found nothing that worked across cable, DSL, WISP, and cellular connections.

Some tools could sync after the fact so the recording sounded good (if each musician keeps the same tempo), but the whole point is that the kids needed to be able to hear and follow each other, and just one student at 500ms latency totally ruins the tech.

So he teaches music to second graders by zoom, and they're all on mute unless he unmutes them one by one.
you are mixing up net neutrality and a platform.

Net Neutrality ensures that ISP do what the name says, providing Internet service without interfering with it, like restricting which sites you can visit.

A platform like twitter, facebook, parler. Is something that was created from scratch and is owned by these companies. As of now it's not their duty to allow everyone in. And enforcing it is stepping on their freedom.

Someone here or on reddit, suggested that perhaps the government supposed to provide such public platform. That's an interesting thought, because at that point I would agree that if such things would happen there such complaints would be justified.
A YouTube video showing neural style transfer to paint the Mona Lisa in a wide variety of Artistic styles. Here's a test picture I made of the Taj Mahal in the style of "Starry Night": https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/ktsx3e/taj_mahal...
That's great news! I'll check out his newer videos.
I'm sure Google is merely interested in having another great product and this wasn't just another way to expand surveillance data collection.
Sounds like it's perfect for Facebook, land of the MLM and foreign and domestic propaganda campaigns.
> live performance with people on the other side of a large continent is completely realistic and has been done. :)

In case you're not aware, I'm the original author of JACK, around which JackTrip is built, which is the most likely and reliable tool for such a collaboration. I certainly know people who've done this, and I regret that I didn't realize back in February how useful it would have been to make something like JackTrip into a much easier-to-use tool for computer-naive folks.

37ms cross-country in the USA is optimistic, but certainly possible. US->Europe is not so great.
The sum of kcals is not as easy as that,

In take is the kcal of the food times the digestion factor. The kcal out is the metabolic need, which depend on factors such as fat building vs energy usage, which in turn is influenced by stress but also things like dieting.

This is why counting calories can be an ineffective strategy for some while for others it is a good match.
> The real issue with nix is amount of building that needs to take place.

Good point, but this is one of the best problems to have: it can be solved with modest amounts of money for build infrastructure, and it's unlikely to ever get orders of magnitude worse than it already is.
A ginormous space-based sunshade for the Earth would be pretty useful.
Sadly nothing. Still barely getting along during COVID with the 9-5.
I simply cannot believe I have never seen this before! What an exciting project. have you had coverage in Make or Hackaday or Hackspace?
There are a bunch of these already, what's your USP?
One of their problems was they wanted video as well. They had already tried separate audio solutions, and found it lacking.

This makes sense if you are trying to teach, you need to see the techniques not just hear them.
I'm building a collaborative meal planning site for personalized nutrition. If you've ever tried to improve your wellness or fitness through nutrition, you likely found yourself preparing more meals yourself. It takes too much time to pull together recipes into a well balanced, tasty meal plan that helps you achieve your goals. Fresh Batch will fix this.

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Its not christian sex angst, it's christians upset over the feminization of men. They cant cope with the new non hetero normative reality we find ourselves in, which is that men are increasingly turning to non binary forms of self identification without the pressure of gender roles.

I think this is a good trend because without the pressure to be masculine, the patriarchy's power is dismantled and we create a more equal, fair, and just society.
Historical price graphing for HomeDepot.com. Does any one know if something like camel camel camel exists for HD? I just want to buy tools on sale... Any interest? Would people use this?
SAPUI5 / OpenUI5 drops support for Internet Explorer 11
Argh I can't remember what piano piece that is. Anyone know?
> Four of their extensions — Web for Instagram plus DM, Blue Messenger, Emoji keyboard and Green Messenger were malicious and contained hidden computer code that functioned like spyware.

Headline is missing context. I run a Chrome extension that's a non-spyware web crawler so I appreciate the distinction that they're not just going after any scraping tool.
I've recently spent some time experimenting with Tcl, and I've developed some affection for it, but what tripped me up is that "everything is a string" means that Tcl is one of the few truly weakly typed languages. This Tcl notation:

{a b}

might represent any of the following data structures in JSON notation:

"a b"
["a", "b"]
[["a"], ["b"]]
{"a": "b"}
{"a": ["b"]}

This can make reading some Tcl code quite a puzzle.
I admire a lot of Japanese culture. But I dislike their extreme “work ethic.” It is a mark of pride to work to the point of literally passing out.

Karoshi or death by overwork.
https://www.insider.com/karoshi-how-overwork-in-japan-killed...

It seems like Morimoto opted out of that suicidal culture. Good for him.
Yeah, just picked up a Fitbit Sense since it's on sale at Costco. It's almost great, but has some serious flaws. The capacitive button is dumb. Not allowing me to upload music is dumb. The processor is slightly underpowered or the software needs optimizations because occasionally it has serious lag when swiping on the watch face. Having the watch accidentally turn on with full brightness while I'm trying to sleep just sucks.

Other than that, it's a pretty nice device. Unfortunately it requires a subscription to get the most out of it.
This is such a cool idea. The gap between the "aha" moment of a programming challenge and the implementation is high for me since I don't get to code very much anymore. Can't wait to check it out!
I see c shaped scoliosis so just general weakness through whole body too
Seems like a great place to use state machines. That’s not a total solution, of course: if “hold X” and “hold A” have very different behaviors, developers still have to code those states to be exclusive...unless they shouldn’t be. Ain’t easy, that’s for sure.

A robust solution should probably use state machines coupled with generative testing, so that all of those unexpected combinations can be generated and handled before the testers try button-mashing, without relying on developers to think of and write all the individual test cases.
actually they were from the start, or more accurately telcos were required to provide their lines for ISPs.
Looking forward to what Fitbit can do within Google. Many people with Apple or Samsung watches started with Fitbit.
If you could link what you're referring to, it would help us in responding. What I'm reading could charitably be considered related and written by a human.
Everyone trying to be funny here except that you’re all missing the point.

That data was public in the first place. These extensions can scrape anything, including your messages.
I finally got sick of using Activity Monitor on macOS since it uses too much resources and am making good on a promise I made earlier to rewrite it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401791. It just needs some XPC refactoring but other than that it's at the point where I just never use Activity Monitor at all anymore, so I'll probably put the source up soon. I have a bunch of things in mind in the future that fit in with the goal of answering the question of "why is my Mac slow" that has so far either existed in scattered tools or not been easy to gather data on at all.
I sort of prefer Google Results too. Specially when searching in Spanish.

What I dont like is the amount of captchas Google makes me solve (perhaps because I dont use Chrome or keep my Google account open)
I wrote an in-memory, write-only caching library for C++:

https://github.com/ccapo/ephemera

I am planning on using it for a game server, to keep track of player scores.
I'm building an app that helps employees get more feedback at work with a strong emphasis on data privacy. It's kind of like the anti-performance review app.

https://kaizen.app
In my experience, egg white foams are thicker and more stable than those made with aquafaba, and the egg white has a softening effect on booze. Whether this is desirable depends on the cocktail, the booze, and your personal preference. For instance, I don't think a whiskey sour tastes quite the same with aquafaba (it's a bit harsher and the flavors don't quite marry as well), but I don't notice a difference in a sour made with a clear spirit like pisco. On the other hand, I actually prefer aquafaba in a Ramos Gin Fizz; I find the egg white foam to be too thick, to the point where it just floats on top of the drink and you can't really sip through it.

Pro tip: Instead of doing a dry shake with the egg white, as is traditionally done, try blending it into the cocktail before adding ice. (I use an immersion blender for quicker setup and easier cleanup.) I've found the texture of the foam to be smoother if you do this.
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The guy who invented the Elo system was actually named Elo, it's not an acronym.
Fitbit/Google did not have DOJ or ACCC approval
https://danielbetteridge.com/musings-on-consensus/

I wrote some thoughts in this vein a while ago funnily enough
its russians psyops dude
Since I'm not a Cockroach expert, I'm sure that there are ways to configure it that eliminate some of those latency issues that were common early on. Both Vitess & Cockroach can replicate across regions and survive regional failures.

As for cross-shard transactions, that's mainly what I'm referring to about slowness. Vitess does have 2PC, but as you mention, almost nobody uses it in production. Companies using Vitess architect their data and sharding patterns so that cross-shard transactions aren't necessary. There are definitely cases where that is part of the requirement, but in far fewer cases than many people think.

At the end of the day, I'm still waiting to see any major tech company push serious workloads onto Cockroach. Until that happens at scale, and as I continue to see more and more of those major companies adopting Vitess, it's going to be hard to convince me that Cockroach solves all the problems that they claim to. What they are fantastic at is great docs and beautiful interfaces, both of which are lacking on the Vitess side. :)
I'm sure creating the first spreadsheet application was more expensive than hiring an accountant. But not doing it 1 million times. Someone will make "contracts as a service" and competition will drive down the cost, until it's nearly free (as spreadsheets are today).