skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm new to distributed systems and k8s was a long steep learning curve to even get something running. Unfortunately, most of what i've learnt is by running into "how can I do that" followed by intense googling, reading blogs, docs and stackoverflow. Its after i've spent hours getting it to work, that i now can start looking into why and how it works which are usually rabbit holes on their own.

I wish i could start with the concepts of distributed systems, play around in something meant for learning and then map that knowledge to the kubernetes world.

But nothing i could find was even remotely helpful. Most content around this originates in research or academia making it harder to apply and learn on real problems -- the way I'm used to learning.
So move to a country where even Dental isn't tied to your job!
Technically correct however ‘fiat’ usually means both legal tender and government-backed too
Lawsuit for what? I can't find any info.
It's actually not uncommon for police patrols to notify people if they see unsecured property. And that can be hard to do if no one is home and they don't want to alert actual criminals. To enter the property they often need a court order (unless there's an immediate threat), but I've seen efforts by police to drop notes wherever they see unsecured doors or windows that could be targeted for a break-in. Especially if there have been break-ins targeting certain weaknesses (e.g. open windows), police will look for those and alert owners.

The problem with a hack is that it can be done within hours on properties everywhere, so just dropping a note won't be fast enough for most. Where there is an equivalent in real-world (i.e. immediate threat of a break-in), police can and will act to secure that property.

So I don't see the chilling effect, it's something that (at least in Europe) is common part of preventive policing.
Well, Apple actually makes quite a lot of software, doesn't it? Such as its own series of operating systems and applications to run on their hardware? I'm not really sure how you think they aren't relevant to a conversation about OSS.
>The main issue is web apps just aren't discoverable right now.

I dont think that is true.

The biggest problem is there is no single one button solution to add ( install ) a Web App to your Home Screen. Clicking on Add to Home Screen is not the solution. For example, if you read about an HTML Games on the Web. You dont want user to click on the Game right now and Add to Home Screen. You want them to install to their homescreen with a single button.

I am not the usual supporter of PWA Apps because they dont offer the experience a Native Apps offer, even in their best form. ( Things are improving but still not quite there, the last 10% is always going to be very hard ) But that is a small price to pay. The problem is Apple is stopping PWA support at all cost.
It's amazing how Twitter is able to fly under the radar despite the amount of porn on it.
Fiat means "by decree," I don't think it means anything about being backed by a commodity.

Dollars used to be backed by gold and it was still fiat money.

Bitcoin is backed by its own scarcity.
This is misleading. Crypto is used by most ransomwares nowadays and terrorist groups have embraced crypto as a valid source of financing.

That crypto is still a low percentage of overall illicit transactions makes sense, but give it 10 more years and that wont be the case anymore.

https://t.co/TFB02c7FEM
No, they are recorded. The government needs a warrant after convincing a judge that there is probable cause that you have committed a crime before they can pull your bank records. When you use crypto, you're just broadcasting every transaction to the world, so they can just watch.

Using bitcoin to avoid government surveillance is like saving your passport on a billboard to avoid hackers.
Not so, if you download chrome and enable parental controls with the adult content lock, it will block the adult sites.
Read it again. The comment you are mindlessly bashing is talking about men having more confidence in the ability to learn on the fly, not having more ability to learn on the fly.
What I actually had in mind was Rust. Broadly speaking Rust requires all stack-allocated values to be sized at compile time. Also, thanks to borrow-checking, code is encouraged to stay fairly stack-oriented, so at least I personally end up with lots of function-local data structures that get passed by reference down to other logic. So I think "pointless" is overstating it.

However, the bigger question wasn't about the size limit but about being runtime-dynamic. Why can't a function's argument have a dynamic size, and the stack frame just allocates the needed space at call-time? Even if we're not talking about large structures, this would be useful for things like (for example) ad-hoc union types (as opposed to enums, where all variants have to be known at compile time and are packed into a single bit-width regardless of the value). Maybe you could even get rid of some of the code-duplication that happens when generic functions get reified.

I assume there's a good reason, I just don't see what it is.
Don't try to combine ALSA (which is what Pulseaudio uses by default on most distributions) with Jack. You'll have a huge amount of "fun".

Don't try to "make Pulseaudio play MIDI".

Just install Timidity.
Why does a fixed issuance schedule give it value?

Just because something takes a while to produce does not give something value otherwise I’d be making a killing on my Etsy store

Also that fixed schedule will end soon.
That's what police is for. There are enough situations outside of the digital world where it's better to call the police and let them help instead of getting too involved yourself. I believe it's good that not everyone can apply their own judgement in what needs fixing but that police/law enforcement applies certain standards there (although obviously not always correctly).
There arent any crime dangers for individual investors.Not more than with cash that is
This is what is done by any experienced content moderation team, except for trying to rescue the good part.

That’s essentially editorial work, and the “good” part is subjective.

Mods also spend 90% of their time dealing with bad content, which means they end up be far more sophisticated at smelling false arguments or traps that would snare normal users.

Eventually, attackers start targeting the mod team, and the rule set - since the experience/content delta between mods and users keeps growing, attackers are able to exploit it for PR.
huh. i don't get anything about my ~23 year old vehicle that was bought outright. guess they figure there's no plausible junk mail i could be sent about it?
>But the input to the visual system is still an image on your retina, which obeys the same laws as camera optics.

The thing that makes the difference is that the resolution of the retina drops as you move off the center. Which I suppose is what is being simulated here. Or at least it could be efficiently simulated that way - like foveated rendering, only the fovea is kept at the center and the rest of the image is kept with the pixels smashed closer together instead of interpolated.
Thank you. I wish OP could have linked what Android app he was using
I'm also not sure what "one thing I am going to take action on" means when the current book I'm reading is a history of Australian-East Timorese foreign relations. In general it sounds like a tactic for reading self-help or spirituality books and not much else?
What do you have against fiat printing?
> No, with FAAG in Bay Area you can easily have 2x-3x the median national rate for developers.

That's not what I wrote. I said they pay as well as others in the area. Yes, not everyone pays exactly like Google or Amazon, but other tech jobs in the Bay Area are also far above national median for developers. FAANG pays well but they still pay in relation to the area, they don't just give away $300k paychecks to people anywhere in the world.

And the rest also just confirms what I mean, 80k in Germany are a great salary. Many people won't gain much moving to the Bay Area to get $250k (if they can). The standard of living won't be that much higher than with 80k in Berlin.
or Aeon, which is Monero's cousin that's meant for something like this
> The separation of church and state is precisely because we DO want state laws to enforce morals.

i look forward to your support for making the tithe mandatory.
Firefox as a browser is rapidly becoming irrelevant, and it's not "indispensable to web freedom" when they tear down privacy by implementing the Chrome team's privacy disaster APIs in full such as AudioContext and others that are used almost exclusively by fingerprinting scripts running on DoubleClick's distribution network.

Mozilla is complicit in this behavior, and they cave time and time and time again.
There have been several PoCs of microarchitectural attacks, such as Rowhammer or Meltdown/ Spectre/ MDS, implemented in webassembly.
Ask HN: Looking to learn about virtual goods from game developers
Hello, we are a group of engineers who are interested in learning about the ways in which game developers get the right virtual goods for their games, and how they integrate those. We are doing this to see if there are interesting problems that can be solved! We would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Here are some of the questions we were looking to get some ideas about:

1. If you are a developer who sells virtual goods through your game, would you be able to share what type of virtual goods do you sell / plan to sell in your game?

2. How do you price these goods? What kind of price range do you use?

3. How are you getting / planning to get virtual goods assets to be sold through your game? Do you source materials externally or do you have in-house designers?

4. Are you interested in having access to virtual goods assets that are easy to be programmatically integrated into your game and sold to your players?

5. Please share top pain points you have (or anticipate having) when looking to monetize your game using virtual goods?

We really appreciate the time you'd spend on answering these. It will really help us out. In case it makes it faster/easier, we also created a survey form and linked that to this post.

Thanks!
US carriers have thankfully abandoned at least one bad plan for RCS: CCMI
Do you have a link to the other channel? Thanks
Bitcoin has become more successful as an investment or store-of-value than as an "anonymous" payment option. Even within the cryptos, there are already better options than Bitcoin if someone is worried about transaction monitoring.
Is it just me, or did Arjit Pai seem to be actively avoiding the Robocall issue?
Energy. Also Math.
Looks amazing. I wonder why it is so big though. The lasers and computers do not seem to be that large.
As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin. Billions in global capital controls and taxes are evaded every day with Bitcoin. The fraction of black market participants who are revealed on the basis of "chain analysis" is still a rounding error.

It all depends what your threat model is. Bitcoin can be traced by sophisticated nation state actors at the cost of tens of millions per intercepted target. If I was Osama bin Laden or El Chapo or a guy who personally pissed off Putin, I probably wouldn't rely on it. But if I was a local drug kingpin in Baltimore, or a corrupt mid-level CCP official, or a Cypriot corporate money launderer, then Bitcoin deanonymization is probably a small risk in the scheme of things. Certainly orders of magnitude less risk than using the traditional banking system.
Oh no I actually thought it was a really good idea to give people a chance to work hard and get a better life.

I still dont completely write it off as a bad idea.

I mentioned it to my son but he was sceptical.
No, that would be too obvious.
Why would foveated rendering require raytracing? Most existing foveated rendering tech uses a traditional rasterizer and renders the periphery at a lower resolution.
I have only seen Dart code in Flutter code bases, and my comment here might be the result of incomplete knowledge. However, from what I can see, Dart seems to resemble the Java way of doing things a lot. Specifically, the over-use of is-a inheritance.

Just scrolling through the list of examples in the Flutter samples directory illustrates this point.

https://github.com/flutter/samples

Use of inheritance seems to be the canonical way of doing things in Flutter and it seems to permeate the code base, both in the use of core Flutter APIs as well as associated library ecosystem. I find them rather hard to read and reason about. It's easy to be a bit confused on encountering a function in an object that inherited the function from a superclass 3 levels up in the hierarchy.

To be clear, I completely recognize that it's unfair of me to attribute to Dart (the language) issues/patterns I see with a library/framework ecosystem (Flutter). But this is mitigated by the fact that Flutter is by far what the lion's share of Dart code is written for today. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
US Government app on my personal device that's meant to move data?

No thanks.

Here are the permissions for the Android App (including location, storage access, and starting on boot)

-Photos/Media/Files
--read the contents of your USB storage
--modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

-Wi-Fi connection information
--view Wi-Fi connections

-Phone
--read phone status and identity
--Device ID & call information
--read phone status and identity

-Location
--precise location (GPS and network-based)
--approximate location (network-based)

-Storage
--read the contents of your USB storage
--modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

-Other
--run at startup
--full network access
--prevent device from sleeping
--view network connections
Would a government need a warrant to pull records from an exchange to connect it to a real identity?

The usual way bitcoin payments are traceable are due to crypto-fiat exchanges requiring that information (AML & KYC regulations).

Wouldn't that make it effectively equivalent?
I found the source code: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic

It's just an extension for gnome-shell 3.38. So not a fork, but it might still delay them in upgrading to GNOME40.
Nose, cut, spite, face.

There's no guarantee that's going to be the outcome, and even if it was, it's not one that I'm interested in paying the cost of admission to.
Fiat money means exactly a government-issued currency not backed by a commodity such as gold.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp
This has happened with Epic.
I remember doing that on some 386 w/4MB RAM.
TL;DR: you have many unread books, here's 4 more to add to the unread pile. Don't read all your books, accept that you'll fail and redefine success.
First click reminded me of Summer Wars[1] (Japanese: サマーウォーズ) immediately! The music video[2] nicely retains the opening effect.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Wars

[2]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZuj-uTvdYc
As a counterpoint, I find our corporate X1 yogas the worst laptop I’ve ever had, going back nearly 20 years. A device that makes me close the display just to reset the touchpad driver every time I want to work on it, and this has been reported by others for at least 2 years... if you don’t wanna support it, don’t sell it with that component.

The T480s I had before that was indeed a fine device, if only I could have kept it...
> Linux on the other hand just doesn't have an alternative equal in features.

The absolute disrespect towards microkernels. Shameful.
(For context, I'm a Jewish Israeli)

I'll be honest - I'm also opposed to "ethnostates" in general, and would much prefer the world moved beyond looking at each other based on ethnicity.

But given the fact that Israel was kind of explicitly created because the world hasn't moved past looking at ethnicity, I'm not sure what my solution is. I'm an Israeli
Jew - I know that if Israel wouldn't exist, my life would be far more dangerous. And that's not a hypothetical - a huge chunk of my family were murdered for no other reason than being Jewish. The only guarantee I have that this won't happen again is that there is a strong Jewish state.

Do I like that the world is like this? No! Not at all. But that's the way the world is. And considering that most other groups do have effectively their own countries, I don't see a reason that Jews shouldn't also have their own country.

(This is all talking about the concept of an "ethnostate" in specific, not getting into the question of whether Israel being founded in the location it is was wrong in the first place - the arguments above would work just as well if Israel had been founded anywhere else.)
By the time these papers are distilled to an NPR report, its simplified to an extent that nuance is lost. There are many papers on this, which will answer your question.

The transmission cascades and cascade sizes for false info are studied. Misinformation for example is repeated, like a nuclear feedback loop, or more like gossip being repeated between people till it becomes a “fact”.

Science related info propagates through the network only a few times, as if people who read it understand it and move on.
Could you not just send a random floc on every request?
You mentioned Epstein specifically so that's what I'm responding too.

What does it mean to be "questionable"? controversial? wrong? That the earth is round is questionable (to some smaller subset of people) - that doesn't change the fact that the RMS was misrepresented (without scare-quotes) - the truth of his actual comments wrt Minsky do 100% exonerate him - that a subset of people don't agree is irrelevant.
Every tech company I've worked at used Linux for servers as well, however that doesn't mean I'm ignorant of the huge number of (predominantly large enterprise) corporations relying on the Windows Server stack. Also I would argue there are significantly more servers, embedded devices and especially networking infrastructure running *BSD than you give it credit for, not to mention every consumer device manufactured by Apple.

How many open source projects or tech companies can you cite using an SCM suite other than Git, except for Google which you already mentioned?

The huge disparity in usage makes it pretty clear Git is the only widely relevant SCM suite today. GitHub and GitLab are arguably the most active and central hubs of open source communities, and they're based on Git. Bitbucket discontinued Mercurial support a while ago. How many popular / impactful public code hosting repositories are primarily using SCMs other than Git? I'd be surprised if you can name a single one other than Google's now discontinued Google Code service.
Math isn’t a commodity, and it’s not backed by energy as you can’t trade Bitcoins in to get energy back.
I mean to be fair, the opinion expressed in the tweet in question was pretty dumb.
Sorry dude that wrote this article, but it is a bunch of words saying nothing. No conclusion, just a bunch of bad comparisons and analogies. This sentence distils the article entirely:

> an app can’t run in the background, watch what you do, and steal your bank details, because the move to a sandboxed model means applications can’t run in the background and watch what you do.

It can't because it can't. Got it.

To talk about the topic in the title though, content moderation is a dead end, not because of the need to do it, but because people will not tolerate it. Nobody has a monopoly on information sharing on the internet, no amount of justification will get people to sit and allow it. All moderation is good for is keeping your community on focus, trying to prevent any ideas, even bad ideas, from bring shared is a bad idea in itself. It is a dead end not because it is an unsolveable problem, there's a deeper root here. It is a dead end because the people you're trying to moderate don't see a problem that needs a solution in the first place, and they're going to avoid your attempt at controlling their voices and the flow of information. And they should.
I'm not sure I agree. git has a particularly lucid underlying data model which is the reason why it has endured so long (despite its objectively awful ux), and still sets the bar for cryptographically secure SCMs.
Telling people "just use flatpak and you are safe" is plain wrong and dangerous.

Containers are _not_ safe, that's why Amazon created firecracker, and Google created gVisor.

Containers are a _convenience_, not a security measure. All security precautions apply to container apps as any other apps.
> soon

In the year 2140. And the end strengthens the point you're disputing.
Intercept e-mail and userbase would flee.
Colleges are predatory, putting kids deep into debt that they may never be able to repay and can't even remove with bankruptcy. And said debt has exploded in recent decades with no corresponding improvement in outcomes.

Whereas Lambda aligns their interests with the student. If their students don't get a job, Lambda doesn't get paid. Why is a better model being attacked like this?
Say what you will about the crypto & blockchain scene, but I can't fucking wait for us to move over to it more & start adopting more tamper-resistant decentralization standards... One can hope
I think your argument was in bad faith as well, so not much difference there. The "something else" is algorithms, which are cheaper than people.
If people really want to know how DynamoDB works, this is a good tech talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ
What do you call a walled garden which you can't escape from because it keeps expanding to wherever you go?
Minor nit, but you are comparing amount transferred vs number of transactions. Yes, there is a difference of several orders of magnitude, in favor of usd.
Does anyone even realize that you can open offshore dollar bank accounts for shell companies and use credit cards with someones shell company name on it? That costs a few thousand dollars to do according to google.

Whoever thinks Bitcoin and crypto are the single biggest enabler for money loundering is obviously just falling for banking propaganda.

Bitcoin also enabled millions of people who are locked out of the banking system for whatever reason to transfer money in a safe and cost efficient way.
It was a figure of speech. I was talking about a business, or other type of endeavor (note quotes around “survive.” Gives a clue).

I ran an open-source initiative for ten years, barely making headway.

Then I set up a Facebook group for it.

Within a few months, its reach had exploded worldwide, it became the de facto world standard, and a huge new team had taken it over.

It was not all Facebook, but the Facebook presence was a big part of it. It’s the most active hub for that effort by far.

Also, due to the nature of that particular effort, I guarantee that there are people (probably many) that are alive today, because of Facebook.

It’s entirely possible to hop in a sailboat, and get to Hawai’i, but most people would prefer flying there.

It can be said that Hawai’i requires air travel to “survive” (but I suspect that there are a number of native Hawai’ian folks that feel as if this ease of access has been anything but a blessing).
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Well, Microsoft can offer on-premises Discord as a replacement of on-premises Teams.
> Cocaine is a highly inelastic good. Bitcoin is highly elastic. It's trivial to ban goods with elastic demand.

What do people use Bitcoin for? Buying drugs online! If the demand for drugs is inelastic, then presumably the demand for a way to buy them online is somewhat inelastic too?
You are correct. Eventually moderation becomes opaque to not give information to bad actors (trolls/botters/harassers).

At that point it becomes about attack surface areas and patterns.