skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICANN corruption is wel-known at this point after the .org fiasco. A lot of DNS industry folks are now giving decentralized DNS alternatives more attention. I wonder if we’re reaching a tipping point — it’s not unimaginable to me that in 10 years ICANN’s influence over DNS is significantly reduced as decentralized alternatives take over
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Virgil 3D renderer provides some desktop GL emulation, so it is still somewhat usable. But a serious application expecting desktop GL would see glitches.

My recommendation is to use Wayland, and to play serious games on macOS (although such games are not available on Linux AArch64 anyway...)
It's literally on the first thing that pops up when you search for "limitations excel".

A consultant should know his tools, that's what you pay him for.
There's a difference between a stowaway and taking the ship.

One's infringement, the other is piracy (or theft in the more general case).
Not sure I follow your logic. Targeted ads are profitable because consumers continue to use services that track and then target them.

If consumers didn't use these services because of such behavior, it would no longer be profitable to do so.

It's not the job of the market to protect your privacy, that's your job. Don't use a search engine that tracks you if you're worried about being tracked. It really is that simple.

As for guarantees about not being tracked, that's agreed upon in the ToS – so if the ToS says "we can track you however you want" (e.g. Googles) then don't use it. If it says "we won't track you" (DDG's) then do.
This is all fascinating, but apparently the original virus hasn't been yet purified?

https://www.samueleckert.net/isolat-truth-fund/
I don't think so. I was on the Calculus track in high school so we derived it in...Pre-Calculus.

Prior to that the quadratic formula was something that seemed to be handed down from on high. We used it in Algebra II and maybe even before that, but I had no idea where it came from.

It was a mind-opening experience when we derived it in class one day. Our teacher didn't ruin the surprise. She just said, let's complete the square on a general quadratic equation. And there it was. The quadratic formula!
Paid services have the real name and credit card. It's too risky to assume they won't turn evil in the future.

I barely trust my ISP.
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Shameless plug, but I've been working on a project [0] that does exactly this. Currently it just has a few filters I've created for myself and only supports web search (and a few !bang like re-directs), but I'm working on implementing user accounts that will be able to create their own filters.

[0] https://hadal.io
Anything cryptocurrency related is very hot in the fintech investing space right now. Companies don’t necessarily think that crypto is going to supplant traditional currencies, but they do salivate over the unbelievably high fees that cryptocurrency business can charge their customers.

If you’re a stock brokerage, $0 trades are the cost of doing business these days. Meanwhile, companies like Coinbase are more than 60X more profitable than traditional exchanges simply because the industry hasn’t become a race to the bottom (yet). Bitcoin remains popular despite the fact that it costs $10 or more per transaction. There are huge opportunities for companies to come in and create ways to transact in Bitcoin-denominated transactions without touching the blockchain or L2 networks.

They’ll gladly collect exchange fees in both directions, because exchange fees are profitable whereas moving money around is not. As much as we hear about cryptocurrency upending the traditional banking system, having an environment where users have to deal with all of the complexities of managing, holding, exchanging, and transacting with crypto is a dream come true for financial companies who thrive on extracting a couple percent here and there at every friction point in the system.
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Love fucking 6-9 year olds. Where can I get these small HONEY HOLES SLITS. Asking for a FRIEND!
Consider the standards of a gay man and consider the standards of a straight woman. You might find they differ. Also, I tend to find that gay men are more attractive than straight men.
It certainly is if you use any kind of reward or "points" card .
Multiplication of real and complex numbers is typically defined by starting from repeated addition, extending this notion to rationals, and then extending that notion to reals by taking limits.

How exactly are you going to present multiplication of real numbers axiomatically without essentially including an axiom that bootstraps everything from repeated addition?

I suppose you can try defining the reals as "the unique complete ordered field" or the complex numbers as "the unique algebraically closed field of characteristic zero with cardinality c," but I don't think either of those are pedagogically useful to someone who is still learning what multiplication is.
Does it matter? If it's proxied through a single API "user", Microsoft can't track individual DDG users, right?
We have to resort to legal solutions because the sad truth is that you can't at all trust entire demographics to alter or even reflect on their ethical stance.

I mean, there are enough people on this very board whose response to Black diversity initiatives in particular, is that they're too low IQ on average and therefore will be disruptive to team productivity and cohesion, despite people like Naseem Taleb going after IQ measurements.
Can I use flutter without Material Design? It’s one of the things that throws me off about it, all the examples look like Android apps.
I couldn’t reply earlier (“posting too fast”).

These are all solid points modulo the optics of memory holing commits.
Better, it's reduced.
I gotta say I have a love-hate thing with Turbotax. I hate the company and its influence peddling, lobbying, and near monopoly status, but Turbotax itself is a very well designed product with a great intuitive experience that has done a great job filing taxes.

So it's a rare case of a sleazy state-sanctioned (via refusal to simplify the tax code) monopoly with a decent product. Usually such monopolies have complete shit products because they don't need to care.
They got caught with the fingers in the cookie jar and quickly backtracked:

"Brave Software's co-founder and CEO, Brendan Eich, said on Twitter that he didn't believe there was anything wrong with injecting affiliate codes into web addresses. However, it seems the backlash worked, as Brave's developers are introducing a toggle for the suggestions, and the functionality will be disabled by default starting with the next stable release."

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caugh...
You got me curious and I found a product listing with a rather amazing explanation of what they're doing for radiation-proofing.

Radiation Performance

> RTG4 FPGAs are immune to radiation-induced changes in configuration, due to the robustness of the flash cells used to connect and configure logic resources and routing tracks. No background scrubbing or reconfiguration of the FPGA is needed in order to mitigate changes in configuration due to radiation effects. Data errors, due to radiation, are mitigated by hardwired SEU resistant flip-flops in the logic cells and in the mathblocks. Single Error Correct Double Error Detect (SECDED) protection is optional for the embedded SRAM (LSRAM and uSRAM) and the DDR memory controllers. This means that if a one-bit error is detected, it will be corrected. Errors of more than one bit are detected only and not corrected. SECDED error signals are brought to the FPGA fabric to allow the user to monitor the status of these protected internal memories.

https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/rad-tolerant-fpg...
You won't but I think some HN people have to push around a lot data and the fastest way to do that is to get as much of it in memory as possible. Others love their electron apps and docker suites and VMs.
If it's embarrassingly racist, you discontinue it quietly, maybe release a statement if asked about it. This is textbook woke-washing.
> I do understand the sentiment that in general multiplication is not repeated addition. But multiplication with a scalar is.

"Scalar" is too broad; irrational numbers are scalars, but multiplication by an irrational number is not repeated addition.
That also my reaction when reading the title.

More than a privacy focus search engine I want a equally good search engine as Google. Google has some defects but it's by far better than the competition.
> it kept prompting me to enable crypto wallets and other things I don't care about.

I'm sure this will be fixed or can be disabled. I'm confident in Brave's passion toward its mission.

> Brave's obsession with crypto will be the death of them.

I have the opposite thought here. I believe that Brave's pioneering position in crypto will hedge the company front and center as we transition to newer, better internet protocols.
Maybe, but it still requires more efforts.
Does that produce VR sickness? Transmission time + going all the way to some motors seems like it would be pretty hard to fit in even 60fps, haha.

I wonder if any consumer VR FPV drones would consider transmitting a 360 video signal (or just one that includes more FOV than can be displayed on the headset) to allow some head movements to be handled in software.
Shorting stocks doesn't cause businesses to tank.

What determines the success of a company like GameStop is whether people go to their stores and spend enough money to cover business expenses. It has nothing to do with the price of the stock.
So there are lots of papers and work that has been done for MPC over ECDSA, EdDSA and Schnorr (that covers the majority of the crypto-currencies). MPC unfortunately sounds unfair to me at the moment because it's not widely available for retail in a production-grade state afaik.

The only blockchain-native mechanism that's getting more popular but unfortunately not supported everywhere yet is multi-sig. I consider multi-sig equivalent in term of security to MPC in practice. Bitcoin and many blockchains supports multi-sig addresses (ethereum does this through smart contracts but is still very much a native feature).
I like that the SVGs are available under the Apache license. Because of that, I may actually get some use out of these.

Does anyone know if Apple's SF Symbols are available under a similar license? I looked at Apple's web site, and it only mentions not using them in trademarks.
At what point do we stop calling a company a small profit-taking endeavor and start calling them a government in everything but name? When they have a monopoly over national communication infrastructure? When they control a small city complete with infrastructure just to service a Florida theme park? How about when they overthrow foreign governments to grow bananas easier?
Ron Rivest explains himself that once in a while he gets an email from someone saying basically "I broke RSA": not everyday but it's a semi-regular occurrence. And he always nicely answers by asking the person claiming to have broken it to solve a challenge (and it's not even a crazy high number of RSA bit keys he gives).

Theory is nice but if you can find the solution to something, just do it and then brag once it's done : )
"Precise enough clocks" includes handling GR and other non-destructive effects along the whole light path I assume. :)
You've obviously never been an unattractive man on Tinder. It's not just "hard", it's mentally excruciating. You can easily swipe through thousands of women and not find one that's willing to even have a conversation with you. I'm honestly surprised that dating app related suicides aren't more common.

I'm tired of this, "just keep trying and you'll land a woman" narrative. It's the same logic that capitalists use to tell poor people, "just keep working hard and you'll succeed". It expects people to keep facing failure after failure and never let's us admit that for some men dating is just not worth the pain involved. And then when they see the writing on the wall and give up, that's just used as more evidence that "men don't try hard enough" and aren't willing to face failure.
I started building my own open source US tax engine, but then found https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138446) and decided to throw my efforts with them instead. Check it out!
In all candidness: can someone tell me what the point of these studies is?
I'm not sure I understand how monopolies acquiring their competitors early on in order to be able to maintain their monopoly price works in practice. Wouldn't the eager gaze of startup founders looking to strike their first big score turn like the Eye of Sauron on any such industry? And all the monopoly profits that the monopolist stands to extract would in the medium run hit an equilibrium of zero when balanced against the extractions of the people it's forced to acquire?
Probably makes more sense to link to the actual bill rather than the Slashdot discussion:

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-132
How do you know that the publication wasn't pulled because they genuinely thought it didn't meet their quality standards? When this happens at Microsoft research, the author makes a few revisions and moves on rather than accuse Microsoft of racism.
A popup-video player? Really?
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This is exactly it. It's basically fractional reserve banking all over again, except that instead of dollars, we use shares.

It may be in the national interest to impose "reserve requirements" on brokerages in order to prevent too much perversion of market prices.
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What is the point of the legal system if everyone is just going to apply extra-legal, -arbitrary- punishments on top of it?

Firstly, this ignores the fact that most crime occurs due to socioeconomic reasons. So you're kicking someone in the head after they're already down and have served a punishment doled out by a judge.

Secondly, obviously the -type- of crime should make things more difficult or impossible in certain cases. But arbitrarily punishing people for having any conviction at all is the opposite of what a healthy society should be doing. This thoroughly ensures that recidivism rates will remain high, because what's the point in trying to cooperate with a society that brands you as a criminal no matter what punishment you serve or what you do throughout the rest of your life?

We need to focus on rehabilitation, not continuing to punish people for the rest of their lives.

"That might not be fair, but that's how it is."

Sorry to be blunt, but hopefully this punitive attitude will die out as older people die out. This is one American attitude that I absolutely despise.
The idea that people only make changes, even little ones entirely out of self service is extraordinarily cynical and a very negative and sad view of the world.

You keep saying that. It's subjective, and it's not an argument. George Bernard Shaw said, The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Say I tell my friend and they decide to do the same thing, now it's 1000 pieces of litter. They tell 2 of their friends, now it's 2000 pieces of litter. Then I decide to make it 2 pieces of litter, and I tell my friend and they pass it on. Now it's 4000 pieces. They start telling their friend

Well that's imaginative but it seems highly unlikely. After all, if everyone is so highly primed to change in this way, and all it takes is one person to spark the fire... chances are enormously likely it would have happened already, and it would have happened without you needing to spark it.

This idea that you're at the center of a movement to change the world is just more subconscious ego feeding. If you want to be at the center of a movement that changes the world... it's going to take a lot of hard work.

what change do you think you're making by stomping on the idea that multiple little changes can lead to positive effects

Humans enjoy conversation, and some of them enjoy trying to figure out truth from fiction. No more, no less.

personally I choose to be optimistic because why waste my life

Whatever floats your boat. We "cynics" are enjoying the ride as much as anyone. We just think we're doing it in a clear-eyed way.
I think you're right, we just have a responsibility to kick those people off our platform.
I'm no longer frugal.
That's very brave, isn't it ?
Network effects are well studied. If you cant deduce an action based on that and where btc is, than you can just sit it out. A very high number of the most successful people in the world are not and recognize the directionality. You can call that a gamble if you want.
What the parent probably meant:

B12 is synthesized by bacteria, algae and yeasts, not directly by the animals we eat. There's a theory that due to the conditions that most animals are farmed in nowadays - the environment and standardized and monotonous feed - they would be B12-deficient themselves if not for supplementation.

So most of the B12 you find in factory-farmed animals might be from supplements in animal feed. Just like how farmed salmon and eggs have a nice color because of supplementation. Check this out: https://nutrition.basf.com/global/en/animal-nutrition/use-ar...
Yep. That's why "loyalty cards" exist. Since they're not allowed to associate your purchases (or really any data) with your CC number to build a profile they give you a separate ID number that you key-in/scan when you buy things.

"Oh but you don't have to use your loyalty card."

Technically true but it's not "get a discount if you use your loyalty card" it's now "pay really inflated prices if you don't."
I should have specified ad monetization or product placement, brand promotion and things in that vein. I’m not against commercializing of the internet but I am against the ad revenue model that heavily distorts the content and presentation. I don’t know what the winning model looks like, lots have been suggested like micropayments, subscriptions, donations, and others more far fetched but none of that can take root until we remove the toxic ad industry.
It’s actually positive. Open source community has limited resources, so DJI proving this thing can be made to work well removes any uncertainty someone would have when starting their own project without that knowledge. It also affects the way people look at the feature - previously many would just automatically dismiss it as a useless gimmick, but DJI implementing it and people liking their implementation gives the idea credibility.
Another great example of Robinhood getting blamed for things it can’t control.

Being the retail face of a complex industry apparently results in you getting blamed for the complexity.
Here is a little background on one of those fringe theories that turned out to be true. Not pre-9/11, but pre-Snowden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
> They require you to identify yourself of course.

That's unnecessary; all they need is to know that you have the right to collect the parcel. This can be done with a QR code generated by the sender, potentially alongside proof of address.

> I let my library account expire [...]

Proof of address, again, to show that you're a local resident and thereby entitled to the service. Why does a library need to know who you are?

> When I was a student, I participated in surveys [...]

That's a valid use of identity, yes. However, it's unnecessary for the survey company themselves to receive your identity; a trusted intermediary could hash your id number together with a salt provided by the survey company.

> the disadvantages of doing it

If you carry it the whole time, persons in authority (or not in authority) will get used to being able to demand or request it, which has a corrosive effect on privacy and civil liberty.
I've never heard of Rick and Morty, but take my advice, don't try to shop your screenplay to VCs. They took a dim view of my "Adult Stewie" concept last year (think "Young Sheldon" backwards). Try Hollywood.

Anyway, I think a fun cartoon would be the Flintstones with ceph, for example their screen could be a smaller ceph whose chromataphores are pixels.

[edit]

Old drawing, back of a napkin (apologies to MIT AI Memo 554):

https://github.com/koalahedron/ideas-for-models/blob/main/RE...
There is a very big list. It's even filterable by continents. I have always found the charities I want to donate on there.
You will meet plenty of passive aggressive people in your life. You have to learn to deal with them (which admittedly isn't always easy). This article feels like a vent by the author over dealing with this person. It probably encourages the person to make more passive aggressive remarks when they see their tweets got the rise out of him they wanted.

The only reason I am annoyed at this article is it seems to be trying to make some sort of commentary on social media. This isn't a social media problem (although SM might exacerbate it), it's a people problem. I wish you luck in figuring out how to better deal with this sort of thing, I have struggled with it too.
That's irrelevant if you're looking for a way to store excess energy.
What exactly does everyone have against Turbotax? I use it every year and I love it. Sure I could save a hundred bucks and spend hours filling out IRS worksheets, but I don't want to. They have excellent UX, and serve as a reliable secure cloud repository for all of my financial information. What's the big deal?
Or the IRS could file our taxes for us for free.
Cryptocurrency isn’t going away, but it’s dishonest to pretend that it’s not without major problems such as the energy consumption issues. The popular narrative has also become almost indistinguishable from a pump scheme, where we’re all supposed to buy and home (never sell) until we’re all rich.

If cryptocurrency becomes commonplace, it likely won’t look anything like our current crypto infrastructure. The problem is that this isn’t what all of the current holders want to hear, because they only want people to buy into whatever crypto they personally hold. This makes it difficult to have honest conversations because so many of the participants are biased toward convincing others to buy into their investment while ignoring anything else.
Ask HN: Book recommendations about Alonzo Church and his calculus
I'm interested in learning more about Alonzo Church—both biographically and regarding the lambda calculus.

I'm wondering if there are any good books about his life, and as I'm sure there are many good references exploring the lambda calculus and Church numerals, a few highlights exploring those topics as well.

Thanks!
Brave multiple times has promoted PR with headlines like this, claiming they're the first for something.

They reek of gimmick and that tactic is gross, unauthentic.
The choice of the word “meaningfully” was deliberate . Of course you can do that. But I don’t think it is meaningful. The energy use isn’t a result of the transaction.
For the photography crowd, self flying just needs to be good enough, because you are controlling it most of the time anyways to get the shot you want.

what's really important is image quality, when the mavic 2 came out it really blew me a way with the one inch sensor. It was incredible to see that kind of image produced by such a compact body.
Do you think the BAT idea will turn out to be a better system in the end ? in a socially good way, people who want to contribute to society will have better data/incentives and users will have a less crowded time online.
Sure, but as soon a we accept we need a browser it becomes a pretty weird argument to say it has to be kept minimal and can't have convenience features.