skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to digitise a sector that still uses millions of paper documents

So, they now use blockchain where sending documents as a PDF would have been sufficient...

I'm so proud!

edit: Read the article! That's truely their main selling point. Formerly it was done on/with paper, now it's "on the blockchain". This is another great example why we don't need blockchain.
I don't really agree with the reasons given, even though my conclusions are the same. The main reason why research code becomes a tangled mess is due to the intrinsic nature of research. It is highly iterative work where assumptions keep being broken and reformed depending on what you are testing and working on at any given time. Moreover, you have no idea on advance where your experiments are going to take you, thus giving no opportunity to structure the code in advance so it is easy to change.

To make a concrete example, imagine writing an application where requirements changed unpredictably every day, and where the scope of those changes is unbounded.

The closest to "orderly" I think research code can become would be akin to Enterprise style coding, where literally everything is an interface and all implementation details can be changed in all possible ways. We already know how those codebases tend to end..
I apologise for my choice of words, I'm not a native speaker, nor could I do it in a more diplomatic way.

However I do agree with you, for the opposite it might well see han population as a threat, probably right from the early dynasties. I have by no means implied Russian influence is 'evil', it is simply the historical narrative. It is only natural that from 1900s the powers around that area want to take control in the geopolitics. Same situation today.

My point is that if you understand the situation better (which is hard because of language / culture barriers, similar to middle east crisis), you might be able to know more nuances of the issue.
Gov. Abbott is planning to socialize the losses as well.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/02/20/texas-go...
From my brief experience with YouTube Music, the problem seemed to be even worse there. It wasn't just poorly curated public playlists, it seemed that much of the time it was playing poorly edited unauthorised YouTube uploads of songs.
If you are actually convinced of this to some degree, you might want to see a doctor as this sounds a lot like paranoia and/or schizophrenia.
If I'm going to spend the next few years working with that individual you bet I'll give it four hours, then some, and a few days to reflect.
I don't want to call cryptocurrency as money because they're not circulating as you'd expect from money. Globally limited transaction rate, relatively long confirmation time, and few adoption.
The only comment in this entire thread that actually attacks the root of the problem and offers THE solution.

A nonsensical "racial" hierarchy based on nominal colours is the SOURCE of the problem.

For what it's worth, the labels "white" and "black" were NOT chosen randomly by the architects of racial hierarchy (see Bacon's rebellion).

It was a very effective use of symbolism, to assign and label one part of humanity as the untermensch, and thus justify their enslavement and exploitation.

Changing branch names and policing language is akin to bandaid on a festering wound.
Ciitizen and the Patient Data Marketplace
I would like to hijack the comment chain to point to the right to repair movement in agriculture [1]. There will be some hearings in Nebraska [2] about the issue where lobbyists will try to shoot it down again.

[1] https://www.agriculture.com/machinery/repair-maintenance/rig...

[2] https://legiscan.com/NE/bill/LB543/2021
Thanks, I was confusing the VS 2015 update with VS 2017 as the one that got the big pieces like designated initializers and compound literals. I don't think anyone cares about VLAs, but I look forward to being able to rely on _Generic in another 5 years when VS 2019 can be assumed available. :)
People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks
Even with English language skills, maybe just scanning the text and not fully comprehending?

Slightly off-topic:
I wonder how impartial a human has to be - would the outcome be different depending if the reviewer was a devoted catholic or an atheist?
Why I’m Losing Trust in Open Source
Russian LNG Carrier Completes Winter Trips on the Northern Sea Route
Thank you.

I'm super familiar with the backend, but I know it's written in Node.js and that the current authentication solution uses express and passport with a custom table in the Postgres database.
The British empire is still Viking-levels of awesome among people who like naval stories (e.g. Patrick O'Brian) or the late-19th, early-20th century era of exploration.

It's just that the atrocities that come with empire building are recent enough in the case of the British Empire to still have emotional attachment among descendants of the victims.

Outside of a place like HN which has a huge South Asian readership, I think the British Empire is still viewed to be a mix of good and bad by most people in the algosphere, and not outright vile.
> 1 store of value akin to gold (bitcoin)

It's not. It has no other popular uses than crypto trading.

> 2 decentralised privacy money (monero etc)

Who quotes prices in only crypto (outside of stablecoins)? Noone. It's not at all useful as unit of account - it doesn't have 2 out of 3 properties of money (store of value, unit of account).

> 3 a platform on which to build decentralised technologies (ethereum, ada, thorchain...countless others - some with specific niches: gaming, streaming etc)

Many of those (probably most) can work just fine with centralized or decentralized non-blockhain apps.

One use case is (relatively) censorship resistant messaging and that's only because no major government has decided to censor it.
How does that even happen?
The P&W-powered 777 is just one variant.

British Airways for example went with GE90s, and some airlines like El Al went with Rolls Royce Trent 800s.
> I currently do not have a way to be certain that my vote is taken in account.

That is something we do a lot of R&D on @Electis, along with the fine fellows from InfernoRed, Microsoft and others. Because the value of an election is the thrust that voters have in it!

It is part of what the homomorphic encryption protocol we use (electionguard) aims at solving. Your ballot is encrypted with a joint public key, and all the "artifacts" of the election are published after it closes. You can verify that your encrypted ballot is present in the artifacts, and that the whole artifacts archive verifies mathematically.

https://www.electionguard.vote/
https://electionguard-python.readthedocs.io/
https://www.electis.io/
https://electeez.com/
Hmmm, I am not convinced. How do you see this stigma manifest?
For good measure here are two other JIT backend libraries:

* libFirm, https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/

* GNU lightning, https://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/
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> That may be true for buses, but trains carry no such stigma.

Google what MARTA stands for to white southerners. And it’s not just a joke - in Atlanta, until very recently, proximity to a train station would suppress the value of your home!

While we may be talking past each other, I posit that if a Danish-style system were built where America needs it the most, on a Danish budget, many Americans would relocate before living someplace that made it easy for “all kinds of people” to ride into their neighborhood.

Many, many Americans don’t want public transportation but to say their primary concern is budgetary is incorrect - even if that’s the argument they make.
What do you want to embed? web3.js? My guess is that is low hanging fruit, given that it’s mostly interacting with Ethereum nodes over HTTP and websockets, so if someone wants to do this, they could pretty straightforward. If their primary user of their integration are people on the web and cell phones, I think this was a good, scope limiting decision.

Or is it something else?
That destroys plausible deniability, no? How would that system work?
There's a separate attestation keypair that is static, is either unique per device or unique per 1k-100k batch of devices and signed by a manufacturer key.

There's no need to keep a "root private key" on device.

https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Attestation_and_Metadata/
https://fidoalliance.org/fido-technotes-the-truth-about-atte...
Short answer: it is Hell.

Long answers:

- "linking libraries" between FE and blockchains are constantly broken, have _a_lot_ of undefined behaviours, and their error codes are few and totally opaque to what's really happening. Bonus part: they also change fast, a lot, and mostly with breaking changes. See web3.js and ether.js issues if you wanna cry

- you mostly will have to use third party services like infura or web browser plugins like metamask to get a working user experience but it will be an extremely poor user experience. We currently use metamask and we had a lot of problems with it, and also it randomly fails making ofc the whole app unresponsive if you don't code defensively of this behaviour. Did I also said they frequently update it deprecating methods and behaviours they suggested just some releases ago? Yeah, enjoy.

- solidity is the standard language to write contracts and it is literally the worst language I ever used, with a lot of undefined behaviours I encounter daily. I cannot count the times I had to spend a dozen of hours to find information in obscure blogposts or issues about "hey don't use this language construct with this evm version while passing this type of parameter or the compiler will put a sort-of-nop instead of what you really want". You better create an internal wiki or you'll lose track of what you have to know to avoid to shoot yourself in the foot constantly.

- The tools around solidity (Eg the whole Truffle suite) are full of major and minor bugs, will fail on you without explicitly telling why and the documentation is basically not existent. The remix ide is barely passable but you have to use a bunch of disconnected plugins to get something useful. The plugins for common ides (webstorm) or text editor (vscode) are useless at the moment of writing.

I'll be honest, I am still working on these dapps just because I believe in the team I am in. If it was for the current state of the technology and the relative constant feeling of burnout I am accumulating, I would have RUN away months ago and moved to a corp job in a super ""boring"" stack (currently thinking about going the .netcore route).
Yup. My friend drives a bike and would sometimes like Maps to navigate him to his street, Włodarzewska. Good luck.
Not at all, the N spring from the anti competitive ruling in EU courts (2004 with associated fines) saying that MS couldn’t bundle WMP with a near-monopoly on the market.
The condition was that MS was allowed to sell it with WMP as long as they offered a version without it (that’s Windows N). This has been the case since Windows XP N.

Windows 10 comes with Skype pre-installed.

I’m starting to think you’re merely guessing instead of actually having used Windows 10, because nothing you’ve said so far has checked out with actual installations.

You can just go to the Microsoft store and you’ll see “Windows 10” and “Windows 10 N”, which should be sufficient enough to prove that not all Windows 10 are N editions.
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This may surprise you, but most voting systems make verification hard deliberately. If you can check your vote at home, others can verify your vote as well, which means you've lost the advantages of a secret ballot.
If in 2021 you think of “C/C++” as a single language, you are missing out on the last decade of C++.
Yes and no, but likely mostly no.

Keep in mind, the "intelligence" of those AI algorithms comes from datasets of previous behaviors. Given the popularity (?) of the cancel mindset on this particular platform it's reasonable to expect a bias in said data; and in turn the algorithm.

Rinse and repeat.
I think you both said different things.

Skill level does generally increase experience.

Curiosity with the world does generally decrease with age / experience.
> ...eg. widespread retina and fingerprint scanning...

This previous HN discussion [1] about a "Falsehoods programmers believe about Biometrics" article might be relevant. Careful, here be dragons, edge cases still abound the unwary implementer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25700026
That's one of the point that makes little sense to me. The government/bank regulation kicks in when you try to convert to your local currency. They now have your full history of transactions and can decide to refuse your bitcoins or find you guilty of fraud or whatever illegal thing you tried to hide. Regulations will always be present at the edge.
That's plausible, but he was also turned down on appeal, which was probably by a different pair of eyes.
> resolved once the right person at Twitter sees it that is being pushed by a biased website

Which only validates the existence of that "biased website" if Twitter and other giants in the industry decide to ignore such issues otherwise. Except for Google, which just won't care at all.
Yes!

When inspection frequency gets too low, airplanes fail, leading to more frequent inspections.

When inspection frequency gets too high, airlines and authorities decide to save money, leading to less frequent inspections.

So the inspection schedules (somewhat) satisfy Hook's Law, and thus we should expect wavelike oscillations.

[Edit: The system also requires momentum. That's provided by labor unions agreements, maintenance contracts, and the time needed to change regulations.]

Thanks, I'll be waiting for you at the pub.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113/
I recently installed custom firmware on my 3DS and was amazed that I could scan a QR code on Twitter using the camera, and a few minutes later have a fully working port of SM64 running.

Even more amazing is that Nintendo haven't taken it down, as it's the full game including all art and music.
Due to namespacing, anybody can appear as root to the kernel, at least if unprivileged namespacing is allowed. So you kinda need the separation.
After experiencing both thought systems as an outsider (I'm neither European nor American) it feels like American system wants to win life and European system wants to live life. I honestly do not want to create my own financial future plans. I find investing and dealing with my own money incredibly stressful and distracting. I do not care for investing nor do I want to care. I want a guarantee that I will have a minimum lifestyle and the time saved can be used to enjoy right now.

People like me, who take stress when it comes to such things, love European system but people who find it trivial to invest in markets and such find the American system better. I wonder how many people think like me and how many like Americans. I have met Americans who don't think like what I just categorized as the American mindset, and European which are opposite to. So I really cant just take the populations and answer my own question.
What’s funny is how this shows how bad poor algorithms can be at scale. Even with human intervention.

These cases have lots of exposure and people who notice. So the real QA is in these edge cases where customers find bugs. I worry about how not so visible algorithms.

I had a company market to me about sentiment analysis. I asked their accuracy and they answered that they can’t actually test but their training model has x%. So to make decisions accordingly. But then I had coworkers doing stuff like what percent had what sentiment vs the other with no assumptions.

I think the problem is people are kind of bad with probabilities so something either is or isn’t. And I seem to witness a gulf where there are people who kind of understand and then people who don’t but trust the output.
Why does it matter if the flagging is automatic? Does that somehow make it more acceptable?

The popularity of this view makes me wish more people read Kafka. A future tyranny might end up not being Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World, but a kafkesque nightmare where people are lost in a world of AI giving out absurd punishments. [1] Kafka's book The Castle [2] is essentially about this, although I think his aphorisms and short stories are much better than his novels.

Quoting from Wikipedia:

> The villagers hold the officials and the castle in high regard, even though they do not appear to know what the officials do. The actions of the officials are never explained. The villagers provide assumptions and justification for the officials' actions through lengthy monologues. Everyone appears to have an explanation for the officials' actions, but they often contradict themselves and there is no attempt to hide the ambiguity. Instead, villagers praise it as another action or feature of an official.

Replace officials and castle with AI and it is almost the exact same scenario.

1. This is already happening: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/courts-using-ai-sentence-crimi...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)
> American settlers killed loads of people and nicked stuff

The diseases brought by settlers did more ravage than actual confrontation.
With that it makes much more sense.

I think the interviews at apple had such big scope because the applicant had it on its CV, they had other good applicants so they have to really choose the best ones and/or they were trying to figure out what to offer him/her according to his/her skills.
> where the constant fees that have to be paid for actions

I agree, this has to change. I see Ethereum fees as the early days of the internet when we paid for every freaking minute! Today you can have high-speed internet with no bandwidth limit with a fixed monthly fee. The only limit is maximum download/upload speed and that's probably the key question: What is "maximum speed" for Ethereum? Instead of paying for every action, we would pay fixed daily/weekly/monthly fee, but it would be limited by that "maximum speed".
You ever watched CSI or Criminal Minds?
> As a non-native

i am a native and this confuses me constantly.

the windshield wipers in my car change their speed based on a UX showing an in increasingingly long bar. i can never tell if it represents time or 1/time until i futz with it.
No company is perfect, but it doesn't mean they should stop trying to hire competent people.
In short: Chinese hacker(APT31) stole NSA hack tool(EpMe), repurposed it(Jian) to targeted US company(Microsoft).
Hard to say it's related to the grounding of the planes, futures are down which commonly means the market is going to open overall lower. currently down 0.5% - 1% which is pretty large.
Today one car smashed one of my earbuds. I will organize a fare the well party
> On the other hand, the UK has done atrociously. I think the core difference here is taking things seriously. Neither the UK nor the US has actually taken this seriously.

Is it your belief that Japan (which experienced some significant community spread this winter) is "not taking this seriously"? Do you think that's true of every European country that has had large outbreaks? What do you make of there being relatively little relationship among the different U.S. states between severity of lockdown policies and cases/deaths?

This is ultimately a kind of non-falsifiable hypothesis. If significant endemic spread occurs, it is simply because they "didn't take it seriously" (and there are always at least a few malingering rule breakers who can be blamed no matter where you're looking). The only data points which are examined are places where there was either strict lockdown and no spread, or "something less than" strict lockdown and some significant spread, even though globally there is a broad mix of outcomes which calls the whole relationship of lockdown severity to Covid case counts into question.

I agree that earlier action might have spared us a lot of grief (although I'm not sure how long the necessary border and travel restrictions realistically could have been maintained, or whether contact tracing would have had wide buy-in), but in the timeframe it could have been done (i.e. before there was significant community spread in the U.S.) most of the people we are now admonished to defer to as "experts" were saying to be worried about the flu, bungling the testing situation, etc.
But what I don't understand is: they claim their approch side-steps the "unfeasible" configs, which is and would be a major achievement, however I don't see how the unfeasibility is captured in their evaluation function, which measures mostly runtime and area, and none of them give negative clear negative rewards to unfeasibility since for example, as you noticed, unbuildable configs would return high runtime... Area might correlate negatively, but at that point I don't see how some methods work (eg evolutionary algorithm) and others really don't... Did you understand that part?
Please update us about this!
The collapse of the roman empire is still visible today as far as I know. Thats a pretty big event that has had a major impact on Europe as we know it, and the world at large.
You can only know my vote if you have a way to associate an address with an identity. Unless that's the case, you may be able to check the set of votes, but that's it.
when I say English language skills I don't necessarily mean they don't read English, but just that they don't read it well enough to have understood the distinction under whatever constraints they were working - if those constraints include scanning quickly then they did not have the skills to read that text quickly and understand it.
IIRC Dogecoin was born as a meme. And now I'm supposed to believe it is a serious investment or cryptocurrency?
Also, this is not the first incident and it it's not the first Airworthiness Directive against the PW-4077.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=PW-4077+%22airworthiness+directive...