skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this an app instead of a just a web page with some javascript? It looks like the answer is that the app runs continuously in the background and periodically/randomly runs bandwidth tests and phones home with the results.

I like the goals of this initiative, but also would appreciate a way to participate that doesn't involve a full blown mobile app and all the security/privacy issues that come with.
I always felt like the hardest position to uphold is "Anti-Kink-Shaming", A) it's embarrassing, B) there's some... questionable kinks out there, C) the amount of adhoms you'll get in response is absurd

NSFW is the catch all phrase paving the way for censorship
Why is everyone trying to find technical solutions for societal problems?
Progressive values focus on class? If only. Neoliberalism has successfully neutered the left by promoting individualism at the expense of collectivism. Progressive values now focus on identity.
Meanwhile my sister that I convinced to use Signal is getting the fake Amazon scam messages and I don't know how to stop it. She has "Sealed sender: Allow from anyone" disabled but received it again anyway after she blocked the first one. Is it honestly not even possible to receive messages only from contacts?
It's hardly a "crack down" in Apple's case. They've been at it for at least 10 years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=621165
A tweet with no explanation, just random accusations. Not sure why this is even being shared.
This study shows long-COVID-19 is real.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

What evidence do you have these are caused by vitamin-D deficiency? What are the incidence rates and how is it the cause?
"It was a performant browser with extremely broken standards support."

Microsoft licensed the source code to NCSA Mosaic in order to prodcuce Internet Explorer. What were the "standards" at the time Mosaic was released.

What never seems to get mentioned in these threads about Chrome and Mozilla is that Google hired a couple of Mozilla Firefox developers to kickstart Chrome.

Perhaps I am wrong but I sometimes think there would be no Chrome without that help from former Mozilla employees.
No obviously Bitcoin is bad mkey. Because unregulated money is basically the same as illegal money. Or so.

The answers in here are horribly sad really.
> I only really got involved from 2012 onward, so I have no first hand knowledge about that period, except maybe a few weeks

I'm in roughly the same boat. I too dipped in and out starting in 2000, and had been reading contemporary discussions on and off from around 2009.

I want to draw your attention to some things I know due to publicly available records, things I think shed light on what really happened.

The first thing is that Rakudo began technically shifting to a multiple backend architecture in mid 2009:

* Following Jesse Vincent's summer 2009 discussion with Patrick Michaud about Perl 6 running on JVM and .NET, NQP was rewritten in the fall of 2009 to support multiple backends.[0]

* jnthn edited his website to say his first interest in working on Perl 6 going forward was "Transforming Rakudo from a single backend compiler to one capable of targeting multiple backends".[1]

> I just know second-hand that something broke the trust between the Perl 6 and Parrot developers around the first Rakudo Star release. And that strengthened the notion that another backend for Perl 6 was needed.

As explained above, Patrick had already focused his and jnthn's efforts on a multiple backend Rakudo in mid 2009, a year before Rakudo Star.

And, as chromatic has said, and the record shows, commits to Parrot "fell off a cliff" in early 2011, about 6 months after Rakudo Star, and a year before the dates of the first commit timestamps in MoarVM's git history, in Q1 2012.

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPh5Li3k4g#t=2m

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20091218092004/http://jnthn.net/p...
This seems like better advice. For fiction, or even some non-fiction texts like philosophical treatises, I find I can amble through an audiobook by putting it on while I fall asleep, and then back-tracking a little each night.

The advice in the article pertains specifically to non-fiction, didactic literature, and hints that most books of this nature really are full of fluff. For those there's a few take-aways that you could have gotten from a concise article, instead of getting stuck in someone's ramblings.
Canon EOS R3: What do we know, and what can it tell us about a future 'EOS-R1'?
Because there are some technical solutions to some societal problems. Are there technical solutions to the ones we are discussing? Possibly, possibly not, you don't know until you look.
I got a visit when I was young (planned, agreed to in advance) from an officer from my countries national intelligence service. I was a reference for someone going to work for the equivalent of the NSA.

He spent a lot of time looking at my mum's (questionable) books and making notes.

I've thought about that a lot over the last 20 years. How much insight you can gain from someones bookshelf.

I'm now addicted to it, where ever I go. Feels rude and invasive though, so I try not to be too obvious
In this article, “arguably” is used in its new journalistic purpose as a synonym of “not.”
Test your internet speed by seeing how fast you can download government malware and upload your personal data. It's so innovative!
Completely wrong, emission intensity is what matters, particularly when developing policy that includes a manufacturing exporter like China, the idea of giving them any further advantage over cleaner more efficient economies is insanity.

It's the same as emissions per capita. That's actually worse than meaningless it's actively detrimental because rewarding that metric creates all sorts of perverse incentives around increasing population growth and restricting quality of life.

And I didn't bring up total emissions by country, I was replying to someone else who did. Apparently you weren't so concerned about it when it was wrongly claimed that China was the 2nd largest polluter.
"the cherished underbelly of the web"

So your answer is in your question.

Most people don't really want to deal with the 'cherished underbelly'.

Also, there's 'adult' and then there's stuff that goes way beyond that, that even freedom types would not want to be randomly confronted with, even if they reasoned for it's right to exist.

iOS is a Shopping Mall "No Porn Stores Here Please".

If this were a question of governmental or bans in the web, that would be a different kind of question entirely.
I'm not talking about the vaccine aspect of the trial, just the placebo arm where they did the antibody tests. I hadn't seen their 90 day update, so thanks for that.

Your original statement that there were few documented reinfections. They found 30 of them here under controlled study conditions, and prior infection provided less than 50% protection against B.1.351.

To my knowledge, there hasn't been a controlled study like this in Brazil. The in vitro results you cited suggest that while the immune escape of P.1 is not as great as B.1.351, it still is very substantial, and reinfection will occur in a substantial number of patients.
It can be pretty anonymous too. You can use fiat to buy mining hardware and then it's pretty hard to connect an identity to a wallet if you're careful.

Don't you eventually need fiat? Yes, so you have someone sell NFTs to those untraceable wallets and now you have a legit income stream as an artist. Pay the tax in the place you want your money to end up and you really only need like one person in your destination country to clean as much as you'd like.
A techie who's building one of India’s largest crypto exchanges
Amazon is launching Kindle Vella, mobile first serialized fiction
You aren’t an elderly person who isn’t technical.

I watch the scam baiters on YouTube and on occasion you hear a victim crying while the perps laugh.

Truly bad people to be executing scams against some of the most vulnerable.
Cocaine never had any crash for me. I'd suggest doing an acetone wash every time even if it's straight off the brick.
IPFS mostly functions with people choosing specific files to keep available.
Whenever someone talks about Bitcoin you know that they’re full of shit, because they could be talking about more modern cryptocurrencies but instead decided to talk about a legacy one.
Where would you say a DEX is located - and to whom do they report?
I'm working on it alright! Although technically it's not tied to your job, just not very affordable unless it's on a company plan. I figure this is the common definition of "tied to job", because I can't imagine a system that provides exclusive access to dental insurance to employers only.
Firmly oppose
HN constantly attacks Tesla and Elon so you shouldn't be surprised. In fact, I've associated negative attacks from HN as an indicator that the company/person being attacked is probably doing something good.
Even if he has no coins personally, that's a very narrow claim. Far more likely is that he has an interest in the company which happens to have pre-minted and owns most of the coins.
Ukraine economy is not strong and not recovering. One of indirect measures of economy health is energy production and consumption. Both metrics are declining in Ukraine for many years, especially after 2014 coup.

All the industry was destroyed, especially after the coup of 2014. Agriculture remains, but EU sets a tiny quote for Ukrainian exports. So maybe Ukraine could produce and sell more agricultural products, but they can't sell them because EU quotes are exhausted usually within the first month of the year.

Also, agriculture isn't so simple. It requires huge amounts of hydrocarbons for fueling agricultural equipment (tractors, harvesters, etc consume huge amounts of diesel for example). You also need fertilizers and other chemicals. Ukraine has to import all that.

Also, Ukraine is hostile to Russia so we don't want to import anything from them and law explicitly forbids many ukrainian imports. But EU also has its own industry and its own agriculture and they do not need one more competitor on its market. For example, after 2014 sanctions, when Russia stopped importing many articles of food from EU, many agricultural companies of EU started to experience difficulties. E.g. meat producers in Czech Republic. EU needs to give work to its own citizens, why would they open the market for cheap competing products from Ukraine? So that more EU producers go bankrupt? Not going to happen.
Google and Facebook are surveillance capitalists but they don’t spam me...
Yes, a niche of a niche, but it exists.

What about Keybase, though? This thread reminded me of its existence and I just renewed it on my iPhone...
What are the features of the problem that make you think deanonymization is computationally impractical for non-nation states?
If given a the authority to do one thing in the corporate world without consequence I sure would shut down Facebook. All the engineers would find amazing roles at all the other large tech companies. And the world would be a much better place. This is a hill I will die on.

You have a point regarding the Apple devices I’ve got. They were purchased over time with cash that I saved. So homepods bought on sale, iPhones that we use for years (basically until they fall apart) and my MacBooks all last for years and years so we prefer quality and pay the Apple Premium.

That you or anyone might work at Facebook is not a personal attack. You’re not Zuckerberg. You’ve a job and bills and financial goals: so be it. It’s government that could shut them down or investors that could sour to their business model or parents that could shield their kids from interacting with it and Instagram 24/7.

All I was mentioning is that I don’t make the high six figures (after bonuses and RSUs) to have substantial disposable income to pay for a stock that is likely to come in at 500 or more per share.
You're reinforcing my point. YOUR house didn't burn because you took a great deal of preventative measures and were extra-vigilant. The majority of people's houses did not survive, because they simply never realized (or just discounted) the enormous danger their property, and the entire city, was in, based on its location and proximity to the surrounding forest. In other cities, homes don't have large quantities of pine needles piling up.

I really don't see how you can claim the town was NOT extraordinarily prone to fire, given what happened. PG&E has poorly-maintained powerlines all over the state and they often start small fires, but those don't result in the destruction of an entire town, except when the town and its surrounding area is a tinderbox.
a black hole
I find it surprising that they sell their ISAs (it seems to be true based on a quick look at this https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135134/lambda-school-st...).
Doesn't this look bad to prospective students? It implies that they don't think that they'll pay off. Is there a good faith explanation for this?
Right, it’s more like being backed by a derivative of energy; based on local power prices, seasonal variation and political climate. It’s a strange concept. Redefines “backed”. Backed means ‘security of value’ and this in bitcoin comes from mathematics of cryptography and energy in proof of work.
Yes, but only with the domain not the full path. Does anyone really care that the domain is leaked? There are very few secret domains...
What about Wickr. (Assuming you and your friends are not seeking privacy from US government.) I think they have paying customers so unlikely to push ads or sell crypto.
Prefer all my accounts to be in one place but it’s worth looking into for the fractional share purchasing alone. I wonder if I could transfer those shares if I wanted to.
Buy a number on Twilio and forward it to your cell. It’s $1/month for the number and if you don’t get many calls it’ll be pennies a month to get calls.

Plus, you can setup a greeting and have an AI speak to your callers. Basically vanishes all robocalls.
Because technology is something they feel they can have an impact on.
Grab to go public in a SPAC merger valuing company at nearly $40B
Are you sure about that? DynamoDB is paxos based, so that seems unnecessary.

Given data is always replicated to at least 2 of 3 storage nodes before ACK’ing, you can always just read from 2 different replicas and be sure you have the latest data.
I don't get it. OPs comment seems completely unrelated to the article
Fair - it's hard to get accurate info on the sum value of the transactions. Even if every transaction was a full bitcoin, it's still only $17B per day. Or still just six tenths of one percent of what JPM processes daily.
>They can present their own APIs that provide some freedom outside of the App Store, without ceding all of their control.

That is what I have been saying for quite some time. If Apple separate their Game Store and held some of those API, they have effectively kept 80% of their App Store revenue intact even if they allowed side loading.

Then at the expense of 20% of their App Store revenue, they can think what is the best possible balance to the problem here.
Beta features are usually opt-in. I'd be amazed if it was opt-in when fully released.
We use algos to block spam. We can do the same for robo dialers.
The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband
> 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.

Unfortunately, transaction records like financial records are currently afforded a very low level of legal protection in the U.S., so the "warrant" and "probable cause" parts don't describe current practice. (That would be the case for a telephone wiretap, or a search of your home, but not for access to your financial records.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

One thing that I don't think the press ever managed to chase down -- following the Snowden revelations -- is the rumor that there was also a "bulk financial records program" which would have involved intelligence agencies and/or law enforcement getting access to search all bank transactions, without any individualized suspicion. (Recall that one thing Snowden revealed is that there was a bulk telephone records program, in which telephone metadata was turned over to the government in bulk, without individualized suspicion, which the government justified in part due to the third-party doctrine.)

In the government's view, the third-party doctrine means that it's never a fourth amendment violation if the government compels access to most kinds of transaction data in the possession of some kind of service provider or intermediary. (Some of those kinds of data may have higher levels of statutory protection but the government's position, as I understand it, has been that it's not an infringement of your fourth amendment rights even if those protections are circumvented or ignored.)
Wondering how many car dashboards have place for a phone _plus_ this Spotify device.
I agree. Though these are examples of progressive 'class politics'. That doesn't exist in the west like it once did. Thanks to neoliberalism and its promotion of individualism, progressives now focus on identity. Worthy yes, but an ineffective replacement in terms of promoting unity amongst those with legitimate grievances.
If I was a local drug kingpin I could reduce risk with cash. At some point I’d need to sell my Bitcoin and that’d appear in my bank.
What is a discoverable API?
If that were the only difference, then FOVO would be equivalent to a 2D image warp. But the authors claim they're doing something different, and their examples demonstrate that they're actually moving objects relative to each other in 3D space. Despite the name, the system seems to have nothing to do with foveated rendering.
If you're in Australia, I've submitted a case to ACCC. If you're an Australian reading this - do the same, you'll get your refund.
yea, yea, orange coin bad, we get it... meanwhile 63.5k ATH, but keep poo pooing
Excuse me but Melville's asides are anything but boring!
> Instead of sending someone a bank transfer, you can send us a bank transfer, send the coins to someone via Signal, then have them turn it back into real money via bank transfer. Also, be quick, since the coins are volatile and might lose value if you don't turn them back into real money quickly enough.

You missed "pay us 50p for the privilege of doing something that's 100% free otherwise"
That's funny, I don't know anyone who uses that feature.
Not "we", a fairly small number of completely anti social people who are happy to destroy a resource for others if they can make money.
You pretty much need to go through a Know your customer(KYC) process to really trade in crypto. At least here in western Europe i had to upload a Id doc, I don't mind it because saving money costs me money, buying satoshis earns me money.

Given cryptos nature of being a public ledger and there more then
enough compute power available everything can probably be traced and backtracked in real-time.
If the author is around, the one thing I would ask for is a release so that it can be reasonably added to package repositories.
Would't that make internet browsers like Safari and Chrome 18+ as well? Or any content provider (Spotify, Netflix, iMessage, etc.) in general? If not, it seems like a double standard.
You can't trade money to get time back but you probably sell your time pretty often.
What a weird assumption.
An enigmatic Javanese manuscript in the British Library
OH Yes. I think you perfectly describe it something no others have done. ( At least I have yet to seen any )
A common way to use `pass` is to store things like `organization/domain/username` so for example it might be `goldmansachs/github.com/alphacoder` which is telling us that you do some work for Goldman Sachs who store stuff on Github and your username is alphacoder.
How is this better than just using subprocess? Faster? More elegant?

The doc says: sh is a full-fledged subprocess replacement

It would be nice if that page had some sort of comparison. I guess the examples shown are sufficient if you're a regular user of subprocess?
The author posted some more details on this post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803218
There's an opposite example, search for Boris Nemtsov Plaza.
Hey, I remember when calls used to cost money!

But then again I'm in the UK where the robocall problem is much smaller for some reason.
I mean are we just going to ask people to mask up and social distance and not work on a vaccine?
Technology is the first mover in human affairs.
Don't use btrfs. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else. It's not battle-proven or well-maintained, so from a long-term stability standpoint why would you ever want to use it in the first place?

kidding not kidding, this was linus's non-sequitur when people complained about deliberate kernel breakage (relicensing of kernel symbols) to prevent interoperability, which I think is apropos in this situation of deliberate breakage. "You shouldn't be using this in the first place, it's not a good product, just migrate your data to use ZFS, ez, next question plz". Pretty straightforward solution, you must agree ;)
Every small community I'm on on Discord (meaning the majority of the servers I regularly interact with) sets every channel to `NSFW`, and some mark the server itself. They do this because everyone involved is known to be 18+ (Usually higher than that) and they want to be able to have the same discussions they'd have in person.

These communities are not about porn, are not about anything "distasteful", but the flag is set there so that if a topic comes up we can discuss it without risking a ban.

In other words these communities are meant to be a Third Place[0], or an extension of a physical Third Place, particularly recently thanks to COVID.

The content here is literally no different than the content that could show up in a long-running group chat in the Messages app on iOS. I expect a ban for that to be coming in short order as well.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
The atomic swap works both ways.

Also with the lightning network you can mix and change different crypto currencies, and it can be really hard to trace the provenance of the coins. Not something an exchange can do automatically.

> the exchange maintains a known list of wallets used by those conversion websites

Remember that new wallet can be created for each transactions. So even if they'd try to do that, it wouldn't work.
> because the user base is tiny compared to iOS.

One Tenth. Or 100M+ User with lots of room to grow.

I wouldn't use tiny to describe it, even in comparative sense.
They are several well-known public datasets. What makes you think this is a problem?
Even back then it would never have occurred to me that you could run 95 on a 386.
Second shot syndrome is apparently worse in the young (20's / 30's) due to the stronger immune response. I wasn't assuming that everyone who gets the syndrome would be asymp. but just that many would.
If Apple was consistent with this I wouldn't mind as much. To be consistent they'd have to ban twitter, reddit, safari, chrome, firefox, Apple's music service, all the other music services, the Podcast app, other podcast apps, iBooks, Amazon reader, and basically every app that lets you access NSFW content.

As it is, banning just some means Apple is (a) choosing the winners and (b) being hypocritical
They are trying to get a good survey of all the networks you visit, with multiple samples for each.

However it asks for a bandwidth allocation, which I gave it infinite. It also asks to run in the background, which I denied.

So it only runs when I ask, which seems completely reasonable.