skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a cryptographic use of hashing, but just simplification/identification. There is nothing to gain from being able to impersonate some malware because you could always just include the malware itself to match any hash.
I’m open minded to the lab leak hypothesis, but it’s still just that: a hypothesis.

We know that industrial scale meat production results in increased disease risk.
> on-the-fly transitioned half their product line to a different CPU architecture

And did that for the third time nonetheless.

Ok. For the second time, because the first one was on an entirely different OS.
The Culture novels are fairly unique (although I'd probably say that about most excellent things). There's some decent fanfic out there (You Just Need Opponents With Gravitas, alas it's stalled out for the second time).

"Iron Sunrise" and "Singularity Sky" come to mind. Maybe also "Quantum Thief".

What of the style / vibe / etc are you looking for more of?
>Nano throws that away and says people will invest to protect the network just because.

Can you provide sources for this claim?

https://docs.nano.org/running-a-node/overview/

>Transaction fee savings for businesses and organizations accepting Nano as payment

Which is why I run a node, so I can have access to the network.
The installer needs root (admin) permission, which may be abused.
Nice Pump and Dump Analysis
Funny you should put it that way, because Psychiatry as a field historically evolved directly out of the witch hunts of the Inquisition.[1]

As the Church fell out of favor during the Enlightenment the very first Psychiatrists literally asserted that all the people who were labeled witches by the Inquisition were actually just "mentally ill", even though their understanding of the mind and their methods used to "treat" it (torture, mostly) had hardly changed at all.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Manufacture-Madness-Comparative-Inqui...
Perhaps a dumb question: why is Coinbase even entertaining an IPO? Give away shares for fiat money? Isn't that antithetical to what they're trying to do?
It is not production ready so yes, there is still a part that is centralized and it is being worked on. It is not a secret, they are very transparent about it.

You can read the white paper. https://files.iota.org/papers/20200120_Coordicide_WP.pdf
My cousin had a getting bullied problem in elementary school. His mom switched his school 6 times to no avail.

My other cousin had a similar problem, his mom switched his school 3 times and in the end he wanted to go back to the first school. In the meantime, he fell way behind in his learning.
It's a matter of priorities. Apparently recovery and reimaging scenarios are not considered priorities. Personally, I want those to be absolutely rock solid.
Historians (professional or otherwise) help me out:

Empires rose and fell based on spice trade, and I cannot bring myself to believe it is just because they taste good. Why were they so valuable?
Agile works but where companies fail miserably is the implementation. Especially many of those that go with Scrum (or its flavors). They treat Scrum Master as a person instead of a role within the team. So they assign a non-engineer to an engineering team permanently that has some influence on the way of working without ever guiding the team to be self managed agile team.
Yeah, I'm well aware that DNA encodes proteins which, when deployed properly, become nano machines.

I have a genetic disorder that is essentially a salt-wasting condition. It also results in my body significantly misprocessing fats and oils.

So I know something about salt and about fats and about how those interrelate with biology and how those can weirdly impact things.

Beyond being aware of how those nano machines get broken when protein misfolds happen at the cellular level, I haven't taken much interest in the chemical properties of protein. It wasn't essential to my survival.

So someone else can look up the proteins of bird feet and go crazy with that if they care to. It's not my niche.
You get undef, that's part of the reason we added an undef concept (it's a value that isn't a value, though if you treat it like an int I believe it is zero, like a string and you get "").
It’d be a surprise to me. I was ethnically and culturally an outsider, and was bullied for that. It was rarely because of people I’d consider friends. When you’re different and othered, you’re targeted by the toxic masculinity crowd. It’s how the nerds ended up halfway together. High school was tame in the bullying regard. It was a magnet school full of dorks who were escaping the rest of society.
The new law simply removes the requirement for airports to manage their own internal transportation. So it leaves the possibility for public transit to connect riders directly to terminals, which was previously not allowed.

This doesn't force airports to use Public Transportation or restrict them from doing what they are already doing.

The fact that most large airports where this would apply are already built to use the system the way it is, seems to me that it is unlikely we will see any change for at least a few decades. This change is a significant overhaul of the organization and layout of an airport. Airports aren't changing that often and new ones don't pop up very often. Likewise, I am not sure the demand for the change is really there to pressure airports to change.

From the airport user's perspective, the only change is that they could now take public transportation directly to the terminal that their plane is at. This is different than the current system where you get off of public transportation at a main terminal, check your bags, get tickets, go through security, etc and then board an automated train to go to an auxiliary terminal where the plane is located.
Before you spread any kind of information's. Please provide some proven facts about all your assumptions otherwise it just malicious gossip and no one will trust in your advises.

Ref: https://blogs.findlaw.com/injured/2009/04/when-does-gossip-c...
> Bitcoin's big invention is that miners are economically incentivized to work in the best interest of the network.

That sure is a powerful invention, but this does not mean decentralized networks cannot exist without it. Most are running fine without any financial incentive.

There are always incentives to aid the network simply by being a user.

If Nano can provide security with a different model, why would that be "dumb"?
The things that work should get more attention from the mainstream psychologists IMO. (It's been nearly fifty years since we have had a cure for phobias. At some point it stops being funny and starts being tragic. Everyone today who has a phobia is suffering needlessly.)

As for the "theory that someone just made up." That sounds weird to me, because my experience has been that theory is treated as no more than a prop to support hypnosis. The emphasis is always on the pragmatic and empirical. If you go read the books like "TRANCE-Formations" they are really upfront that they have no idea why this stuff works.

Whatever NLP is, they collected "a bunch of things that do work" many of which no one ever noticed and wrote down before, eh?
> These rules were imposed and enforced under authority granted to the government through democratic processes.

Not in many countries. Courts have overturned some rules, finding that the government did not have authority to impose those rules. For example, in Poland the ruling party ordered that masks be worn in public spaces and that restaurants have to close, but courts have already found that this law was void because the government did not pass a formal state of emergency (which would have enraged the population and cost them the next election).

Similarly, in the Netherlands their curfew was overturned by courts. It was hastily reinstated through parliamentary vote, but this reinstatement is questionable when this curfew appears designed to prevent the ruling coalition’s position from being challenged before the upcoming election. In France, Macron has clearly resorted to harsh anti-COVID measures because they can help stamp out the Yellow Vests movement that was bothering him pre-COVID. Dishonest strategems like this – even if not the most blatant example of an authoritarian state – leave a bad taste in one’s mouth.
The questions you posed are all answered in the whitepaper you linked.
That's a massive oversimplification. Not only does this ignore the incentive structure of the media to make a story out of things that are not necessarily a story, but it doesn't factor in the general ignorance of the public and how these things like "mutants" and "variants" affect their psyche. An average IQ American, anyway, doesn't have a good grasp of how many people regularly die of things besides old age, so when you tell them every single day that X number of people are dying and that there are these scary sounding "variants", what you are effectively doing is brainwashing them.

Go out and ask random people what they think about the pandemic, and it's common that they think that they are at risk of death even if the data from the CDC demonstrates that they aren't. Heck, there are smart people on HN who can't assess risk particularly well.

When the media is constantly drumming COVID into everyone's heads while glossing over the fact that far fewer people are dying now, at the expense of other news items and at the ignorance of other epidemics killing people, yes, that's fear porn.
I use only a throwaway account. I'd rather stay anonymous, especially when I cannot delete my posts.
Cool, I stand corrected. I tried with a few triangles of my own but they never stayed upright, but maybe I just suck at drawing and they all started too far off-center to remain in the little "valley" of the stability diagram.
"Don't deploy on a Friday" is a signal that you believe your deployment process can catastrophically fail without being easy to roll back. Rather than being afraid of Friday deploys, build a deployment process that you trust enough to use whenever you want to.

It could still fail sometimes, because even the most redundant system can, but being afraid of deployments is a bigger problem for a business than downtime when it goes wrong.
> Do they?

If the participants are doing a good job of explaining where they're coming from, then yes. If they're just talking past each other, or worse, angrily insulting each other, then of course the answer is no. At that point it's no longer really a discussion at all, it's the online equivalent of monkeys throwing filth at each other, and it debases all involved.

> > where both sides end up arguing the same philosophical issues over and over again

> Funny, I would describe HN as the same.

Sure, some hot topics will keep coming up until the end of time. Copyleft vs permissive licences, for instance. I think that's fine though, and the ongoing discussion isn't pure retreading, it will evolve over time as the surrounding circumstances change.

A discussion forum like HackerNews shouldn't aim to be the equivalent of StackOverflow where there's a single authoritative page for each question, and duplicates are rebuked and shut down. That approach makes sense if you're trying to build a question/answer repository, but a discussion forum is something different.

> I don't share the common HN conceit that commenters on HN are better than elsewhere. IMO there's no evidence of that

My opinion is no more well grounded than yours, but I disagree. HN discussions very often have input from experts. Anecdotally I think this happens less often on other forums. HN also has uniquely good moderation.
I personally use Amazon. But I rarely download directly to my Kindle. I download to my PC. Use Calibre with the DeDRM plugin. Then put it on my Kindle. Or read it on my iPad. That way I’m not locked into any one ecosystem. I get to own the books for as long as I can keep the data.

I’ve heard DeDRM also works well with Adobe’s protected epubs. But I don’t have direct experience.

If Amazon ever makes it impossible to strip the DRM, then I’ll probably switch to buying physical books and getting files from LibGen. Or just using the library more.
Wait until they learn that every human every second generates 50,000 harmful genetic mutations!

Think of all the vaccines we're going to need!
Do you have any arguments against the article itself?
For some cryptocurrencies, a 51% attack would only be able to halt the network (prevent new transactions) but wouldn't be able to cause a double spend or other safety failures.
Yes. Check https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/samples/vi...

But Sciter do not have codecs embedded. Instead

a. it [re-]uses streaming services of underlying OS;

b. has interface for the hosting application to supply its own video streams.

This way some applications use WebRTC as video sources, some use ffmpeg library to provide video streams.
Video playback architecture is app dependent usually. Sciter provides to them "video rendering site".

That's idea of Sciter - to reuse underlying OS services as much as possible.

For example Sciter has spellchecking but only if OS provides spellchecking API (and usually they do).
While MD5 hashes are insecure for hashing passwords or other sensitive data, they're still fine for verifying the integrity of data if you are simply verifying a file has not been corrupted.

If MD5 was being used to verify a piece of software you actually want, it's not secure as it's not collision resistant.

But since we can be quite sure no one has made a file that shares an MD5 hash with this new strain of malware, MD5 is sufficient as a checksum in this use case.

You're correct to point out that newer hashes are still preferable though, simply to get out of the habit of using MD5 if nothing else. I assume you got downvoted because MD5's weaknesses aren't relevant in this specific instance. But still they could just have easily used SHA256.
So you are saying that we sacrificed long-term consequences for short-term gains? When did that ever happen? /s
PoE is effectively a gambling addicting simulator.

I quit shortly after I bought my first tabs on sale. I'd stalled on mid-tier mapping playing solo self-found and decided I needed to grind currency to continue if I wanted any hope of better rolls. I've never paid into any gachas, so it really caught me off guard when I realized what I had done and how impulsive and out of character it was.

The base game is very comfortable and alluring. I rolled several toons and got to where I could sprint to 80 in a week, then get to high 80s mapping until I hit the natural limits of playing SSF.

I haven't picked it up since, and thinking about how deeply I got into it before has been an excellent deterrent from relapse.
Apple could use DDG as leverage though. If Google stops paying those 9bn, Apple has no reasonable alternative search engine it could resort back to. By quietly continuing development on DuckDuckGo for ~500mn/year, it could be some deterrence towards Google's monopoly that aligns with Apple's own interests.
How is that a leak ? The URL is only sent to ddg server, encrypted using TLS so no eavesdropper can read it. It also stays in your browser history and let you use the back button.
Thank you. I it is really disappointing. I mean if this is happening on this site what we can expect from others.
I see downvotes for even stating facts.

Dang! Can we stop bullying by downvoting for facts and leave just upvotes?
I am really getting sick of it. Some topics became untouchable. You say something about free software and you get downvoted. Ok somebody doesn't like those ideas ok. But shutting up those who do is not the way. Or it shouldn't be the way isn't it?

I like to read opinions I do not like. At least I can consider that point of view. Make them gray ok, make them down ok, but let me read them at least! I'll go down to see the smartest people, it's fine, but can we stop deleting messages because of bullying?

I literally have to copy thread before reading, because I know some good points could be deleted. Or so hard to read because they are almost invisible.
Can’t beat the kinds of feedback that reinforce meaning in relation to needs, outcomes, purpose etc. When “done” is someone’s need met.
Totally agree. Just musing on my desire to fully understand this paper, but with the knowledge that all the steps to get there probably won't do much for me outside their own satisfaction. Which, admittedly, might be fun.
For a service that is free, in what context is it a better thing that it's users have more money? Just sounds like you think rich people are better...

Btw, I'm sure you'll be pretty surprised finding out how much current iphone 5 owners make a year..
I just liked what is in Little, it's enough like C that it is trivial for me to jump into it (tcl always took a half a day, I really dislike the tcl syntax), it's got enough of the shortcuts from perl that it is pretty terse, and credit where credit is due, syntax aside, tcl has a bunch of useful stuff, check out Little's switch(), that's tcl's switch.
> the solutions we’re uncompromisingly implementing are the wrong ones because they focus on attaining equality of outcomes

This argument, whenever it shows up, is usually a thinly veiled attack on affirmative action, which is aimed increasing the equality of opportunity - university education being far more an opportunity than an outcome.

The thrust of current civil rights efforts: ending disproportionate police violence against POC, bolstering public education in poor neighborhoods, healthcare as a right, these are all about the equality of opportunity.
Because why not, what's the threat here? The purpose of the hash is so an investigator can easily check if a given package file is this malware. Note that (a) it is of course trivial for the malware author to change something in the package to change the hash, so a different hash is not a guarantee the package is clean and (b) the collision problems of MD5 aren't really a problem here, as why would someone else have an incentive to make their file falsely look like this malware.

You were downvoted (or, rather, I downvoted you) for your knee jerk "MD5 BAD!" comment without thinking through what the problems would be, and worse, you took an aggressive tone from the beginning ("I can't wait to hear the apologists") that just makes you sound like a jerk.
I agree and don't like anon accounts. That being said, I will un-anonymously say I agree with that particular comment. "indefensible" and "Unprincipled" are very accurate adjectives for describing most of the media's coverage of COVID.
It doesn't prove your age. It proves that you declared yourself to be of age.
I beg to differ. If you read the wording was designed to affect only two companies, not an industry neither a concept. This is illegal or legally null in most democracies, hence bizarre.
Yeah we should burn the universities down
I believe the .pkg installer usually asks for a password and runs privileged, while moving the app only uses root privilege to move the bundle, but never executes any external code it’s privileges?

I’m not sure how relevant the difference is considering most valuable data is owned by the user, but also because MacOS has evolved the security model well beyond the UnIX standard.
I never stated otherwise. The (well known) logical fallacy is in arbitrarily picking one behavior instead of another and labeling it "human nature" and claiming it's inevitable.
I knew a website that used MD5 to generate unique colors for usernames. There's a finite amount of colors in rgb colorspace and it doesn't really matter if you get a collision because it's just username colors. So there's definitely still a realistic place for md5 in this world.
GeckOS: A Unix-like 6502 operating system – VCFMW 2019
It's [actually not] funny the same people that oppose this are the same ones that think they have the right to:

1. Consequence-less broadcasting of any speech (i.e., sympathizing with nazis and lying to vulnerable people about life-threatening illness).

2. Unfettered access to life-ending technology (guns)

3. Unwavering support for unborn lives.

Smh
They do forward abuse notices to whoever rents the infrastructure. Perhaps some kind of investigation happens if these are not acted upon.
Not really. Company stocks indeed do have an intrinsic value: companies pay dividends. Now they can go bankrupt, sure, but that's an independent issue. Indeed the very fact that they can go bankrupt (in which case your stock will probably be worth 0) shows that they have an intrinsic value.

So, as opposed to BTC, you don't have to buy it in order to sell it to someone else at a higher price. You can hold it and still make a real profit. (As opposed to the price increase, which you'll only realize if/when you do sell.) And since this is the case, it will mostly anchor the price in the long term to the profit (dividend) making capabilities of the stock.

So no, it's not always a bubble. You could argue that 'fiat' money is a ponzi/bubble but that also has intrinsic value (as the issuing central bank/government will stand up for it, e.g. force every merchant to accept it, you can pay taxes in it, etc.). But if you say that gold is a similar ponzi/bubble, then your probably right. While gold also does have intrinsic value (for its usage as a base material e.g. in electronics), its price is, as far as I can understand a lot higher than what that use would guarantee. (We use relatively little compared to how much we keep in safes.)
If you use a market to reduce cost of healthcare, it'll reduce cost for easy to treat conditions by extracting maximum profit from more difficult or rare conditions.

Healthcare being a fundamental right, this fails by not ensuring people with rare conditions get it.
Ask HN: What is your favourite YouTube channel?
You're the one who needs some writing advice.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33514.The_Elements_of_St...
Students wouldn't get to choose their school under your so called "choice" suggestion, their parents would, or it would be assigned based on how wealthy the parents are or their location or where their parents could afford transportation or which school is willing to take them or lottery results or whatever.

As long as kids get arrested if they don't attend the prison analogy applies.
> bots spewing pre-written screeds on Nano

Please provide some cases of such attacks
(though: Common Voice is great, and you should contribute to them, too!)
I mean, the FED is debasing the currency, that's just a fact, it doesn't matter who is shouting about it, you don't need to be poor in 3rd world country.

I guess it comes down to: if you understand the markets well and can invest in them to generate a good return, more power to you. That's not the case for everyone, so if you want to hold on to your money for whatever reason, you should be able to protect yourself against endless money printing.
We had an intern from Ohio (in Israel, I went to school in Soviet Union and Ukraine, so have no experience of US school system) who explained to me a concept of "zero-tolerance policy to bullying" as it was applied in his school: while only one person harasses/beats another it's OK; the moment the second one starts to fight back, the policy kicks in and in worst case the second will get suspended, in best case both get suspended.

I guess reasonable amount of mutual violence between peers will raise the price of bullying others for fun and profit.
I’m fairly skeptical about crypto over time, but I’m also open to the possibility that over quite a long window it may be a great way to make money.

This article simply claims that Bitcoin is a good way for small investors to lose money without giving any explanation.
That sounds like an enterprise feature with "call us" pricing to me. :-)