skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author writes:

> When I go to Github, the things I notice about a project are the number of stars and forks. These are easily gameable metrics that are supposed to indicate community engagement. The second thing I notice[...]

This is a habit that you have to train yourself into picking up. For that reason, I find it odd that the author acknowledges that these are poor proxies for the things the author is really interested in.

Maybe it's because I don't play video games, but it's easy for me to forget that GitHub even displays the number of stars and forks on a repo--it's part of the UI cruft that I ignore. In fact, it's jarring when people mention them in comments, or people tout the high number of stars and forks on project pages. It's like we're living in different worlds, each with a completely different set of values.
I'd be curious to know whether a breakthrough in quantum computing that broke cryptographic algorithms that cryptocurrencies depend on could prevent this by making non-quantum cryptography obsolete.

Or am I wrong to assume that there won't simply be new algorithms that are safe from such quantum-based cryptographic attacks?
You don't see why Jewish employees might be more concerned and in tune with safety considerations of the presence of literal Nazis than gentile employees?

Like I was saying, the decision would have been the same either way, but it's more egregious when weaponized against a Jewish employee.
My wife and I love to get rid of stuff. However one challenge using free cycle or free Craigslist is it seems to attract people with a hoarding problem. People that jump on any free thing without a sense for how they would use it. So I feel better giving things away for free when they say how they’ll use it or show specific gratitude for the item. Or give them to a thrift store where they enable a charity.

Does anyone else notice this or have this issue?
Centralization is not always bad. Google is a single company and can be regulated so you can opt-out.

I guess I just don't care who makes money off fingerprinting as long as I can choose that no one makes money off me personally.
I used to like such articles, but years and years of education made me realize what matters in the real world is the math you know in order to back up your claims. Otherwise, knowing a bunch of stuff (like this article) doesn't get you far at all, and in fact, may give you a fake sense of knowledge which is worse than not knowing these things in the first place.
I can’t seem to find the name, but someone built exactly this: an agent that sits on your computer and generates noise. Visiting random web pages, performing random searches, etc. You’d then get random, non-personalized ads.
Huh? I googled "signal server" and got https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
... but doesn’t consume anywhere near the levels of power that Bitcoin does.
How does this work? Who owns these properties, which look like individual single family homes?
> Does anyone else notice this or have this issue?

Personally, it hadn't even occurred to me that this is any of my business.
Miner centralization is not without risks, but is fundamentally very different from centralizing economic activity, with different security outcomes.

A dominating miner runs the risk of a 51% attack, which can cause denial of service or censorship, but game theory dictates that the missed opportunity cost is huge. A dominating economic actor makes the whole blockchain an obsolete backend to something like Paypal.
How common is it for the central banks of currency sovereigns to indulge in massive quantitative easing? If anything, they're far too reluctant to do so (even during recessions) precisely because of the kind of superstition on display here that money shouldn't consist of just a "magic number" - as if Bitcoin were any less of a token.
Well, the algorithm was developed in the 1600's, but I remember Turner Whitted's 1979 SIGGRAPH paper blowing me away. I mean, sure, they were slow, but before REYES, they were about the only solution to GlobIlum. (Forward from the lights and backwards from the camera - you could even do specular lighting!)
My mom is one of these, can confirm.
Tech titans give S.F. the finger as they flee
Not really! I have an old personal website, but I'm most active on Twitter, where you can find me as williampietri. Thanks for asking.
The splinter fractured and has his own little splinter too now!
I think it's important to remember this was all said in the context of private messages, so none of this was ever intended to be aired. The fact that messages sent in private are now made public is itself quite concerning.

> “Others have already said so, but I just want to say it

> explicitly myself - I think that nazis were present at

> some protests on Jan 6, and that it’s very scary to see

> those ideas on display,” wrote one engineer in Slack.

I am yet to see evidence of Nazis being at the protests - I don't think anybody openly displaying support for Nazi ideals would find wide support in a pro-America crowd.

Assuming there were some in the crowd, I am slightly concerned that what was actually meant was "all of those people were Nazis", in which case this is dangerous rhetoric.

> “100% Nazis were there, and 1000000000% Nazis are scary as

> fuck and do not belong anywhere. PARTICULARLY AT GitHub!”

> responded another.

This idea that any group "do not belong anywhere" is quite scary. Once you have gained the title of 'Nazi' (which seems to be a more abused label in modern times), then there seems to be this idea that you have no place in society - and that you can have all services removed from you.

Even if you are a literal Nazi (or Communist, or <insert bad ideology>), as long as you abide by the laws of the land, you can be a functioning member of society, and as such need the same basic protections. These people should be allowed to open bank accounts, buy groceries, go to work, pay taxes, drink at a bar, etc. We can't de-humanize people because we disagree with the way they think.

> “Hubbers are free to express concerns about neo-Nazis,

> antisemitism, white supremacy or any other form of

> discrimination or harassment,” he wrote. “And of course,

> we expect Hubbers to be respectful, professional, and to

> follow GitHub policies on discrimination and harassment at

> all times.”

I miss the days when it was taboo to mention politics or religion in companies. I used to work with a "Nazi" and a "Communist" (as well as a whole range of political leanings), and we worked together fine. I've also worked with alcoholics and drug addicts. Generally we all agreed that if we want to do these things, we do it off company time.
This is really interesting. I wonder if we could invent a coin that can only be mined through renewable energy. This could be the incentive people need to move off of carbon.
But do people in Venezuela etc. really need all the requirements of Bitcoin? E.g. having to deal with a central authority other than their own government could still be an option.
func (db *actualStoreImplementation) GetTask(t *Task) error {
if (t.ID != 0) {
// query by ID, mutate the parameter, return nil
}
if (t.Tag != "") {
// query by tag, mutate the parameter, return nil
}
return ErrWhatever
}

usually I have some other package that defines all of the types that can appear on the wire (which I often call `wire` because `proto` is taken by protobuf), define some exported interface in that package with an unexported method so that no other packages can define new types for that interface, and then have a method on my db structs that returns the wire types, like this:

func (t Task) Public() wire.Value {
return wire.Task{
// explicitly generate what you want
}
}
It's worse than that. The assumption is that Bitcoin transactions eventually become the world's payment system. Then this is multiplied by Bitcoin's very inefficient work per transaction.
So.... not a scam, in that you get exactly what you pay for. And certainly not phishing, which this article was talking about.
I was suggesting the opposite.
I don’t feel good enabling another persons problem. Just like I wouldn’t feel great inviting a person with an alcohol problem to join me at an open bar
DJGPP.
Related, slightly earlier and still ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25814995
"Wrapped Bitcoin" is not "porting" BTC to Ethereum. It's merely a token that represents some sort of claim on actual BTC held with a single custodian (Bitgo).
> (other than blocking ads entirely)

Easily avoidable in such case. You just need to do two things:

1. Serve them from your own domain where the URL pattern isn't obvious (so not something like example.com/ads/ad1).

2. Randomise HTML elements (div names, classes, a random amount of empty divs in between).

Voila, ad-blocks are useless now.
Was happy to play around with Delta Chat today. Very nice progress. That was until one of our friends tried to logon with Gmail on her iPhone. Too much hassle unfortunately.
Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably
The idea that banks will dwindle if Bitcoin gets adopted is a serious misunderstanding of how banks actually work and the value they provide to people.

We're just not going to arrive in a situation where common people would voluntarily choose to manage their own private keys and crypto wallets, full stop. Can you imagine your parents forgetting the password to their retirement account and going bankrupt? Or your grandma getting tricked into a phishing scam that immediately and irreversibly sends her entire net worth to a scammer?

Even the average Bitcoin user prefers to keep their money in something like Coinbase rather than try to manage their own crypto wallet.

Likewise, gold doesn't simply disappear as an asset and get replaced by Bitcoin. The strange thing about crypto is that the crypto market cap keeps going up as new coins are added to the market. Cryptocurrency is a chance to create new asset classes, which altcoin developers are more than happy to oblige as long as the demand exists. Does this mean more money (value) is being willed into existence? No, in fact there's a lot of evidence that cryptocurrency is heavily fueled by an explosion in credit and leverage. There are literally exchanges that will let you purchase altcoins with up to 100x leverage right now.
Does owning a dog make people more active, or are more active people more likely to get a dog? I'd bet both.

I guess randomly assigning dogs to people and measuring their long term health changes was beyond the budget. And tough to make double blind.
Interesting, I suppose I missed that when skimming the GitHub repo readme.
Sectarianism is what we are seeing in India
That makes a lot more sense - I wonder if any are left that do it.
This is great news, congratulations to everyone on the team!

We'll cover this in more detail in this week's Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com), but the gist is that Virgin Orbit now joins SpaceX and Rocket Lab in the elite club of NewSpace startups that have actually made it to orbit. (Also in this club, albeit likely with significant Chinese military tech transfer, are iSpace and Galactic Energy. And we're ignoring "old space" companies like Arianespace, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and ULA.)
if it doesn't work out of the box, Linux is doing it wrong.

why should I have to install an os, then change my desktop environment, then spend weeks learning keyboard shortcuts for said new environment, to get basic functionality working.
How would "random" bag checks be milder than video surveillance?

- They're typically not going to be watching it 24/7. They'll only look at the tapes if something occurs.

- Random bag checks, like in programming, is not really random. You either have a particular target or type in mind or you apply it to everyone and bag checks are a lot more invasive than video surveillance.
That's not quite what I'm saying. Gold is intrinsically useful because you can do things with it, regardless of what those things are. Whereas literally the only thing you can do with Bitcoin is trade it to someone else.
And as a separate thread:

UTXO is just “unspent transaction outputs”. The reason Bitcoin and Ethereum can send transactions of any size for the same fee is because ALL transactions are secured by the entire network, regardless of their size. So they just charge the cost of what a consensus process would take (proof of work, nakamoto consensus in this case) for the entire network to agree on the linear order of that transaction in the sequence. It’s a brute force inefficient approach. Like transporting $1 in the same armored vehicle with a convoy as $1,000,000
Organize what you'd email yourself straight into productivity tools
In hindsight it makes a lot of sense. The cost of a transaction for Bitcoin is always going to be higher than just updating a value in Visa’s database. Visa may have some increased costs due to consumer protections, but consumers are pretty clearly willing to shoulder the cost.
That person is not saying that 100% of the people there are Nazis, but that there's a 100% chance that Nazis were present and prominent, which is absolutely true.
Mostly issues with lsp servers; particularly ccls and omnisharp.
Not even close. Professional car racing is a vanishingly small contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.

Even twenty race cars running a 1-hour race doesn't even hold a candle to the average commuter driving their car back and forth to work for a year.
Exactly! Without the math to back it up, the additional rationalizing is not a foundational study. It cannot be built upon, and that is why it isn't a great idea.
I want none of this stuff in a messaging app, it's not a social media platform.
Because every month media are happy to bash on bitcoin energy consumption, but no one wants to talk about working ACs in banks during non-working hours or poor housing insulation like single glass windows or uninsulated bricks. I'm sure these cause more energy waste then Bitcoin mining.

I know Bitcoin is wasting it for nothing as there are faster and zero-mining (and zero fees) cryptocurrencies that eliminated that problem, but please someone with enough knowledge estimate energy waste from AC in US banks during non-working hours.
ZFS copies=n is not a substitute for device redundancy (2016)
> …universally hated butterfly keyboards.

Not true. I would choose butterfly over a wobbly one (e.g. 2019 Macbook Pro).

> Nobody wants a dongle.

Not true. I do agree that an SD card slot is convenient to have. But I have no significant problems using an adaptor. USB-A feels like a thing from the past to me. So I am not sure I would want it on the laptop.

The HDMI is the only thing I would not mind to retain (because of overscan issues, etc.)
I don't think that any American civilians own a working MANPADS, regardless of willingness to undergo background checks or pay for tax stamps. And that's explicitly designed for a single infantryman. I'm not well versed in the constitutional law but there seems to be a principle that extremely dangerous weapons will not be owned by civilians in the US, regardless of historical precedents, textualism, originalism, or any other contrary principles.

I'm also curious about the constitutional ramifications of the ban on civilian ownership of machine guns manufactured after 1986. Could any class of small arms be gradually banned by specifying a date of manufacture cutoff for legality in a similar way? Seems contrary to a plain reading of the 2a to phase out weapons this way but I know that my layman's plain reading is worth very little here.
[ditto the UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts), now 60 years later some of it is slowly being restored.

surrendering rights of way was an extremely expensive thing to do.
Creator here,

I email myself all the time and hate having to deal with my laziness later on when I have to organize it. Whether it be todos, links for later, notes, ideas or you name it, I'm always stuck with a cluttered inbox.

So I'm building Hitsnag, email shortcuts so I can just send the info where it will eventually end up ahead of time. Saving myself from future despair is something that makes Hitsnag so appealing for me to keep building!

I've always loved building ways to make things much faster than used to be, and this is no exception.
Would love any feedback or ideas, and you'd make my day if you could sign up to the waitlist (you'll get a discount).

Cheers!
There are some. Thinkpads can go to 135 and if I recall correctly, maybe even 170W.

The bricks weigh as much as an ultrabook, though :-D
There's a wonderful 4 part BBC documentary about Italian Gardens, presented by Monty Don. Monty travels around Italy and visits some amazing gardens. He discusses how gardens where used by the rich to flaunt their wealth and display their power. The competition between the wealthy as to who could build the most beautiful garden, resulted a sort of one one-upmanship. It pushed technology and art forward, and columnated in gardens that amaze to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY413RwBzB0
I meant desktop software, but even so most Android users also use Windows, and pair Android with Windows. Most Android developers use Windows.
GDPR is actually technology agnostic, it doesn't mention cookies or any other technology. If you store extra PII in any way, cookies, fingerprinting, localstorage or whatever you need to ask for consent with opt-in.
There are many pessimistic comments here. I'd like to go to the opposite direction.

First, I think the intention is very good. There are some problems with email that I don't know if they are possible to fix. Yes, JMAP [1] try to fix some of these problems for clients, but other flaws cannot be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. Even unsuccesful, audacious experiments like that bring about discussions about what are the limits of current technology, what alternatives we have and what alternatives we can build.

Anyway, the best solution for asynchronous communication is still email. An incompatible solution would have to provide a compatibility layer for that. People refer Matrix here but I've always thought that, although many teams have adopted Matrix as a solution for general communication, it is a chat platform and not a replacement for asynchronous communication.

I just glanced over the site so I may sound repetitive: as a suggestion, I'd recommend adding some screenshots of client applications, diagrams explaning how mnm works, an explanation about federation and something that highlights differences to email.

[1] https://jmap.io
> it puts the responsibility on the user to change their habits to avoid toxic content, instead of on the platform.

Why do you think this is true? Taking action to control what you can of your own welfare is entirely orthogonal to and doesn't diminish at all the responsibility of other actors. It's just wallowing in self-destructive victimhood to pretend that you can't take self-protective action while still advocating just as strongly for actors like Facebook to be held responsible.

Ie, the leap you're describing from "you can use Facebook healthily" to "Facebook bears no responsibility for the unhealthy usage patterns of most of its users" is one that no one but you (and the commenter you're agreeing with) has made.
This is also what happened. Larger blocks was implemented with segwit. This played out during an infected debate that provided the perfect cover to launch an altcoin without it, that changed the name and some constants in the code. The free PR gave them more economic activity from the start compared to similar coins, and was likely quite lucrative.
Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions).

It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote:

"""

* 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster)

* 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get)

* 300-400 various other instances, less picky, generally 8-16 cores w/ 32-64 Gb of ram as available

* Internal traffic ~300-400 Gb of traffic/minute

* External traffic ~100-120 Gb of traffic/minute

"""
If the user is using Chrome, and is logged into their Google Account...

What does it do if the user isn't signed in to Google?

Google's engineers would have to have an unbelievable level of contempt for users to propose a feature that claims to improve privacy by signing in to Google.
The threshold that matters isn't extincting humanity, but collapsing modern technological civilization. That's much easier to do.

The current pandemic revealed how fragile our supply chains are, and I still consider it a small miracle that the impact so far was so small. Lots of people are in dire straits, yes, but the world structurally didn't change much.
The Julio-Claudian era of Roman history is so incredibly fascinating. The family ties are hard to keep track of though. But it helps to hear the stories told multiple times. Currently I am listening to the Emperors of Rome podcast. It is one if the best podcasts I have listened to, all categories included.
Just speaking for how it works in Seattle, buy nothing groups are often more about making hyper local connections with neighbors and not quite so focused on the efficient transfer of goods. For example as soon as one gets too big, they split it up into smaller groups. It diminishes the audience for your post. I've also observed some odd behaviors in the buy nothing groups on Facebook I've been on where it seems like people are putting way too much effort into a posting for one single t-shirt or dress with elaborate descriptions. It seems like there's something going on that's not just about getting rid of stuff.

Freecycle on the other hand has broader distribution in one sense in that they don't force you to limit your audience. And no reliance on Facebook.
But the article doesn’t actually explain any of those politics! That’s the point, they just dropped in Biden’s name, despite the fact that he has no position on this issue, and despite it being largely in the hands of congress to decide the fate of the program’s funding. They took a newly published technical report and said “how can we connect this with the big news this week to make it sound more relevant”, just as they did with Caligula’s garden.
Hey mate, does it make sense adding https://www.libhunt.com/lang/nix to the "Links" section of nix.dev? I think it could be helpful to new Nix ppl trying to discover new projects. (Disclosure, I'm working on LibHunt)
Australia's floating hotel and its journey to North Korea (2018)
It's possible that Parler's moderators liked that comment but that seems unlikely; I'm sure some people are already going through their dataset looking for such things. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the left is creating/has created blacklists based on Parler accounts and postings.

My claim is that Parler's moderators and/or management is fine with such content existing on Parler - Amazon, Apple, and Google are not. Twitter has its own issues but comments like that aren't going to last 2 days.
For me, the value of emacs lies in the fact that it works from the cli ie. Ssh, and that I can use it productively from termux on my phone- with a Bluetooth keyboard I can do split-screen working with ease. Vscode would be considerably harder to setup.
Bitcoin mining can possibly finance the building of new solar / wind farms without government subsidies. In time, mining will become less profitable and it makes sense to sell the energy to grid. Obviously, fossil fuel energy should be taxed more heavily to get rid of it faster.
It does have the technical merit of not collapsing so far. A lot of the previous attempts at digital currency collapsed because they had more of a dependency on some quasi trusted intermediate party.