skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not missing anything. I've developed a prototype blockchain for a supply chain before at the behest of a non-technical manager at some point. You hit the nail on the head with the problem of crossing into the real world. You can't validate the real world object mathematically, so if you lie to the blockchain, there's no way to tell.

So far the only use case that I can really find for this are digital identity systems where the blockchain itself serves a double purpose as both a highly redundant system, and a byzantine fault tolerant distributed storage system. I can see the value in being able to maintain a strong ledger of ID uses. The EU looked into this from what I understand, and I think they stood up a system for this kind of thing.

My big TLDR from working on chaincode and stuff like that is this: if your goal is to have a high security digital asset (eg: tokens and ID certs), then a blockchain might be useful. If your goal is to interface with the real world, then you're just going to be chaining yourself to a bulky inelegant solution that won't even address your core problem.
Thanks, this sounds interesting! Feel free to email me at noah@emergetools.com
That's good and fine but is not the same thing as operating like Google
I love seeing the Caro fans all gathered together, however few the numbers are. I read power broker about 8 years ago and have since read all his other books and it's wild the degree to which they influence my view of the world.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This is indeed a problem, but one for which there isn't an elegant solution.

When multiple versions of the same library are allowed to coexist in different dependency trees there is less incentive to solve these conflicts and versions proliferate (see npm).

I'd much rather solve the occasional conflict (usually solved either by settling on some older version of both parent dependencies - and later advancing as possible - or just trying to fix it and send a patch upstream).
This is a good time to remind everyone that Google has planted a hard-coded "X-Client-Data" telemetry backdoor that is sent to DoubleClick domains, is never disclosed to users and is impossible to disable.

The header, which is not available to any of their competitors, contains unique information about the install that could allow them to track people better than anyone.
I feel that in the case of Beam browser all cat lovers will be disappointed.
Wait wait. So Google kills off third party cookies, but then creates some new “more private” workaround, perhaps relying on some kind of trusted servers (called “FLEDGE” in the article).

And then, who gets to run those servers? Even if it’s not Google, it’s probably not just anyone, right? Does that lead to a situation where there’s some authority or group of authorities that decides whether you or your startup gets to track users? And would you suppose it would be free for anyone to join this list of approved advertisers? Or might there be a fee, or some conditions to apply?

This reminds me of a thread a few days ago where an open source browser was denied access to Google’s Widevine DRM, without which the browser would be pretty much useless for most consumers who’d like to be able to watch Netflix and such. No small-fry browsers allowed. Good luck getting out of that Catch-22.

And of another thread where it came up that if you’re trying to get a search engine off the ground, a large chunk of the internet will probably block your crawler bot, so good luck building up that search index.

Not all these things are Google’s doing (well, not that last one anyway)... but it sure starts to feel like the open web is closing up around us.
Double standard. You're a victim of the bias the article is highlighting.
I met a guy at a blockchain meetup in DC a couple years ago, who claimed to run a think-tank in town called The Center for Decentralization. IIRC his card had two or three slogans on it which sounded like the whole thing was a pretext for trolling the people there who took him seriously. He didn't act like it was, though.

I don't remember all of the copy but the best line was "decentralization starts here."
Yes... any human instinct, like the fear of spiders that you can observe in a days old baby, is a form of memory, and DNA/RNA could certainly be a storage mechanism for these.
Shape is on twitter if you'd like to ask him: https://twitter.com/shapegsx

Fun fact: The amusement park from his 3rd most recent tweet burned to the ground a few days ago, suspiciously shortly after the company declared bankruptcy.
Organ transplants: a change of heart in more ways than one?
I feel like he makes interesting points but may not really understand decentralized technologies. Certainly doesn't mention too many details about them.

It's true that at the core, many decentralized technologies not only enable more diversity of locality but also more holism. So it can be to some degree a "centralization" towards certain public but well-distributed and non-centrally-controlled protocols.

But you really need to dig into the details to appreciate how decentralized protocols work and provide advantages over literally centralized often privately controlled closed systems.

It's really about using technology to work together effectively. Part of that is staying in sync in some way, and part of it is avoiding control chokepoints, and part of it is just allowing for freedom.
I'm using a rss (as a chrome extension), mostly to get notifications for new blog posts/webcomic chapters for a handful of websites I'm following this way. I like it and I'd be sad if it was dropped. I also use twitter and reddit, but that's to consume other types of content (more random discussions and less long-form writing)
She either wore that coat for that reason, or because that consideration was so unimportant to her that she welcomed the interpretation. Either way it doesn't compare to a bad suit.
That is sad if 2000 is the last year.
I used to work for a CEO who was always going on about "we're going to be the google of x". No 20% time, no food provided, low pay, horrible management and would hire any random contractors that applied, but we had an xbox we were allowed to use after work "just like google". Half a billion dollars later they failed to be the ask jeeves of x.

The other big cargo cult you often see is agile. Press an "agile" company on what agile practices the follow and more often than not you'll just get "we do daily stand ups". Ask them what they think the most important rule in the agile manifesto is and you'll get blank stares, they can't even read the cults literature.
Ask HN: Is Safari the New Internet Explorer?
It's a great article for HN. All the folks here working on ad-tech to polarize the good people of this country so they can squeeze another penny out of them. Then they have the gals to complain about people becoming radicalized. "Oh gee how did that happennnn"

They got polarized on Facebook. Because you wanted them to. Because it keeps them coming back and your stock goes up.

If you're a Facebook employee - congrats! This is what you've created. A radicalized cesspool of idiots to increase your bottom line.
I loved the story of the Chaparral 2J with "active downforce":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_Cars#2J

Two fans adapted from a military tank engine were housed at the rear, driven by a single two-stroke twin-cylinder engine.

...

The skirting produced a zone within which the fans could create a vacuum producing downforce on the order of 1.25 to 1.50 G when the car was fully loaded

Maybe this sort of thing will make a comeback :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_gas_thruster
Right, so that generally falls into the category I identified in the first comment: stuff that people on the left say in the heat of the moment, but don't stick to. She was, at the time, being interviewed by the notoriously fiery Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's kind of like comparing Elon Musk smoking weed on Joe Rogan to someone who smokes weed at work every day.

I really doubt AOC actually believed at any time that the world would end in 2030 (cf. Paris Agreement's 2030 Agenda).
For one, Arrow is columnar.

The idea of zero-copy serialization is shared between Arrow and FlatBuffers.
> I am not sure how you can claim with with a straight face, that anti-trust laws/regulation is being strongly enforced these days, and that this is the reason why most industries are not turning into monopolies.

As I said, my analysis applies to companies that have demonstrated economies of scale.

Mergers are rejected all the time, and further, you can't discount the mergers that weren't requested in the first place because of the regulators.

I would say in the US mergers tend to skate through, but in if that company operates in other jurisdictions they need approval from all global regulators, and the EU has no such objections to saying no.

You haven't posited a theory at all for why consolidation is good up to 14 players in the automotive space but 13 is just a bridge too far. It's not. There's external pressure. Competition is bad for companies because it reduces margin. Consolidation removes competition and improves margins. That's just fact. Companies don't care about capitalism, competition or free markets. They care about making more money.
As an Asian American, I recognize that racism against us is real, and that at the same time, the impact is far, far smaller than it is for people who are Black or Latinx.

There is no modern history of Asian Americans getting redlined, whereas Wells Fargo sold subprime mortgages to Black homeowners in Baltimore while internally saying they were selling "garbage loans" to "mud people."

Asian Americans are far less likely to be racially profiled by the police, while African Americans are far more likely to be wrongfully convicted of rape, for example.

Honestly, there is a bit of a meme on HN where affirmative action always hurts Asian Americans. It's been documented that elite schools use sports to discriminate in favor of wealthy white students. (Think about what demographic goes to schools with top-rated lacrosse or crew or horseback riding teams.) It's time for Asian Americans to be in solidarity with other people of color who suffer more from discrimination. Fortunately, 80% of Asian Americans support affirmative action.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-se...

https://cls.soceco.uci.edu/news/data-shows-african-americans...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-27/affirmative...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/70-asian-american...
shoot me a message alex@presearch.io with any feedback, ideas etc. (:
I think we're more on the same page than you think, see my comment about what I think dems should do[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26020497
RSS is still a heavy part of my catch up process.

every day I sort, and parse through about 600 + news articles via RSS.

takes me about 30 mins in the morning and then a few mins a few times a day throughout the day.
#metoo.
clicking through is what killed it for me too. I just never went through the trouble of setting up crawlers and stuff. Looks like open source is to the recue nowadays. I am pretty sure there was nothing as easy as that back in the day.
Thanks for sharing this!
I’ve been getting back into RSS feeds so I could follow news sources and blogs of people I know without an algorithm dictating what I see like all the news apps you get these days. You just gave me some real cool resources to add. Thanks!

I didn’t appreciate RSS enough back when it was a hot new thing, now in these days of the algorithmic internet it’s a blessing and a relief.

I really like Mastodon as a platform for the largely same reason. It’s “neutral” with its chronological feeds and you control what you see, especially if you run an instance.

Saw a post recently that sums it up nicely and could equally apply to RSS: “On Mastodon the content is the product and you’re the algorithm.”
>>> Oops, thought this was a Show HN. <<<

If you don't mind, can you explain the difference between this type of Post and a 'Show HN'? Is it that this one was not submitted by the person who built it whereas the requirement of Show HN is that the submitter must be personally involved in the project?
Apple wants their Developer Transition Kits back soon
Also, you can try searching on our decentralized search engine through https://presearch.org
When Pushing Is Not Enough, a Git Story
Now I'm really curious. I took the drive I swapped hundreds of terabytes to, and put it in a server (unfortunately not running a checksumming filesystem) and it ran happily for a year.
The IRS is not stupid. They charge interest and add penalties on top. This guy saved $43m and paid $137m plus a bunch of other stuff. He did not come out ahead.
In the best case, your CPU needn't really be involved beyond a call to set up mapped memory. It is (among other things) a common memory format, so you can be working with it in one framework, and then start working with it in another, and it's location and format in memory hasn't changed at all.
Does anyone know why app store accepts binaries and not source code instead?
> After a few days of conscious effort, yesterday I remembered his first name spontaneously and then suddenly his last name too.

A background process completing and notifying the result to the frontend.
Its still alive because most blog software generates one by default. I found out my blog has rss and I didn't even know
Yes the raw data is all there. The analysis just generates more interesting pictures!
We currently spend about $750 billion every year on the military, not counting the "black" budget. The stinking, offensive waste will soon exceed a trillion every year. That ain't all going to the VA hospitals. Besides, at this point every American who could have remembered a more normal way to live, is dead. The reptiles won. We literally can't stop spending vast sums killing brown people and preparing to kill more.
A constitution that allows a 7/8ths supermajority clause is fertile ground for corrupt and insane laws like AB5. A party in Congress with a slight majority can pass a law that will be forever practically impossible to change. They effectively forced in a constitutional amendment.

This is a clear example of how the unions really control California.
If I want to attract top employees in the financial industry, who are used to making a lot of money, then I need to offer them something they can't buy. Exclusive talks with people they find interesting is one way to do that. As a company I would put that in my recruitment material. Any company who doesn't do this is now at a disadvantage. They're going to want to get their own exclusive talks now. You want top employees, you have to offer top perks, and you're competing with other very wealthy firms who have the ability to pay essentially unlimited money for said perks. That's going to drive the price of speeches up.
>> Chrome can't really be sold.

Chrome can not be sold for many reasons, being open source is not one of them, nothing prevents the selling of open source software, one just has to include the source or make the source available

Finding someone willing to buy chrome would be a harder problem
> The knowledge base should be primarily in your head.

I agree generally, then there is also a case to be made about writing down notes as a way to memorize the information. Particularly useful when starting on a new subject and could be great for teaching.

There is also information that isn’t worth memorizing but worth annotating. Shopping for instance.

I would appreciate a 2-way annotation system, where existing notes would appear when visiting a page and where pages would appear when visiting organized notes.
The "open web" only barely ever existed; MSIE killed it and Chrome is just a better weapon in the hands of a next generation monopoly.
> I think by this point, with your help, I've arrived at the conclusion you were simply embarrassed by what you wrote, thanks.

How so? I wasn't embarrassed. I was shocked at the immature reactions.
That is an awesome job.

Confocal systems are six- to seven-digit bits of kit.
This exact problem applies to podcast analytics. "Downloads" is only a proxy for "listens" / ad impressions.

It seems to me like there needs to be a standard pingback endpoint (either in /.well-known or, better, right in the podcast/rss XML) that your client pings when it seems like you've consumed the content (scrolled through most of a web page, listened to 80+% of a podcast), but only if you've opted in to that.
Did you have to reformat the data to get that size saving?
after the election I cut the ties with all long-term friends who holds a different political view, none of us can bear with another sides so let's get rid of each other. I feel so much relieved actually and never looked back, in fact I should have done this long time ago. There is no way to get along, YOLO, no need to bend just for the fake of outdated nothing-in-common 'friendship' anymore.

for those who are not even old friends and on the other side of the wall, I hope we live in different countries and never see each other ever on the street.

I never felt that disappointed in the so called democracy, for a 50:50 split in this country, something must be changed or it will tie both sides deadly, nothing can be done then. Maybe a war is indeed the way out.
>>FWIW, I think centralization has been a net positive for humanity. I'm glad I don't grow all my own food.

Decentralization doesn't imply you grow all your own food. You could still purchase your food via multi-trillion dollar markets, but the suppliers to the market could all be independent farmers, for example.

Trade and specialization are completely orthogonal to the centralization <-> decentralization spectrum.
FWIW, you can support tensors etc. natively today by using Arrow's structs, such as `column i_am_packed: {x: int32, y: int32, z: int32, time: datetime64[ns], temp: int32}`. This will be a dense, packed representation for whatever fixed type the column has, including dynamically generated. It ends up being quite nice to have that passed around, esp. vs say protobufs.

You wouldn't be sending mixed-length values, and ~all metrics systems I've worked with would be fine there. The nullables end up a win for those. However, you'd need to do a manual (likely zero-copy) casts between the struct-type to whatever tensor-type you're using. Massively popular ml systems like huggingface do this fine afaict for their Arrow-based tensor work. Likewise, as we do a lot of GPU stuff, what's additionally common is compacting the in-memory stuff as big memory blocks ('long recordbatches') instead of CPU-land's typically more fragmented ones, and that ends up making casts even easier. Annoying to have to add an explicit cast for some interop cases, but preserves end-to-end type safety & hasn't been a deal breaker for us. Having to write the cast being annoying/difficult, esp. for whoever does it first.

More frustrating for us has been sparse data and compression controls, but most formats are even worse here..
I don't own a car, so Amazon Prime is almost an essential service to me. I agree with your dad that this is a modern marvel. I know certain things are priced higher, especially cheaper items, but I don't care because it saves me so much time doing something I don't enjoy. It's cool to hate on Amazon on social media these days, but I don't personally know anyone who has put their money where their mouth is and switched to a different online retailer.

I've attempted to buy from other places and the experience has always been so terrible that I just end up buying even more from Amazon. As an example, I bought some stuff from Lowes, they sent me the wrong items, and my only choice was to drive a few hours to return it. Unless I price my time at $0, this isn't worth it. Another incident happened with Home Depot, where their delivery person was some random dude who banged on the door loudly in the middle of the pandemic saying that they absolutely had to get my signature on a <$100 order. I begrudgingly opened the door and signed, and then decided to never buy from them again. Something like this happens every time I try to buy from anywhere that isn't Amazon. On Ebay, the last time I used it I received a very used item when it was supposed to be new. The reason Amazon is doing so well is just that everyone else is so terrible. I've had issues with them as well, but it literally takes me minutes to resolve any problems.
> What would really benefit users is real competition in the mobile app distribution market.

Wouldn’t that be race to the bottom tho?
I have a question for you.

Let's say a trader on the cash trading desk buys shares from a short-seller who fails to deliver. Does sec lending know that those shares have not yet settled?

If it is incorrectly assumed that those shares settled properly on T+2, would the bank potentially loan those shares out prior to delivery?
It’s lazy and uninformative to call someone a crackpot.

More informative to state the views you disagree with and say why.
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>the people

Doesn't say which people, certainly doesn't imply slavery. The people the Pharaoh addresses seem to be foremen. And it only implies that the people addressed were distributing straw, not making bricks.

6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
> You can't respect someone's freedom to murder without approving of said murder.

Sorry, but I disagree.

> You actually do not believe what you are saying or are being intentionally obtuse.

No, I just have a viewpoint that you apparently can't understand.

> Your implementation of that forced choice is currently handled by the law.

This is obvious nonsense since having a law against murder does not prevent someone from committing a murder. It just imposes a punishment on them afterwards.

> In the future, it might be before they are even able to generate a murderous impulse.

Which is very, very different from the current scheme of law we have now. And, as I have said elsewhere in this discussion, to me looks like tyranny worse than the worst tyrannies in history.
It wasn't creepy. It seemed like they were worried about folks who thought it was more like 23andMe "spit in a tube" than an actual lab instrument.
Yeah... we're all too lazy to relay our data through our own backends. I recommend this to clients but there's always some killer analytics feature that requires the JS integration.
If you use an alerting system you should eventually get one at MSRP from e.g. Amazon. Yes, it's a hassle.
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