skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of any law requiring consent in cases such as this, only conventions enforced by IRBs and journal submission requirements.

I also don't view unannounced penetration testing of an open source project as immoral, provided it doesn't consume an inordinate amount of resources or actually result in any breakage (ie it's absolutely essential that such attempts not result in defects making it into production).

When the Matrix servers were (repeatedly) breached and the details published, I viewed it as a Good Thing. Similarly, I view non-consensual and unannounced penetration testing of the Linux kernel as a Good Thing given how widely deployed it is. Frankly I don't care about the sensibilities of you or anyone else - at the end of the day I want my devices to be secure and at this point they are all running Linux.
Wails v1 (which this project uses) uses Webview for rendering it's frontend. You can read more about how Wails works here:
https://wails.app/about/concepts/

Also because I'm pretty sure you're going to be the only one to see this post, do you have any feedback on the app?
Nothing to do with ideology, just the simple fact that once the US Capitol was breached the protestors were committing a criminal act and could be treated as such. Now whether or not that criminal act warranted a firearm discharge is up to debate, but when a large group of people currently breaking the law (and chanting about hanging representatives) are a room or two away from said representatives it's not out of the question that multiple warnings would be acted on.

Watching the video it was clear that the plain clothes officer had his glock out for some time. It was even seen/called out by the rioters. He issued multiple verbal warnings to the rioters, which were ignored by Ashli Babbitt.

>Your argument that these deaths wouldn't have occurred if they hadn't shown up is also ridiculous as hell.

Ashli Babbitt would most likely be alive today if she wasn't in the Capitol on January 6th. That's not only technically correct, it's just correct. ;)
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I have just started a company that will build tailor made software for other companies. So far we have just had one gig where we built an app for a fixed price.
Would you recommend us keep working against a fixed price per project, or should we charge per hour? What are the pros and cons with both?
>Fortunately, much of the generation and storage needed to hit a zero-carbon target is already in development. Developers have requested access to the transmission grid for 660 gigawatts of new wind and solar generating capacity and 200 gigawatts of storage. That represents more than half of what could be required.

This is amazing.
True, but presumably he only left a job at, at most, one of those companies to work on the game.
They, and the people who support them, do. Moreover, not all of their users are involved in ethically questionable activity. Many of them are scrupulously following due process to thwart people doing really bad things.
The IP address for that FTP (and now HTTP) server changed so infrequently over the years, on the order of decades, that in the past IANA/ICANN published advance notice to the public before changing it. (A non-DNS way of changing an IP address.) It is probably hardcoded into lots of DNS software as this address is where root.hints is served. This is how ICANN DNS is boostrapped. From a single IP address. There are a few IP addresses I have memorised, 198.41.0.4, 192.5.6.30 and this one. Yes, I still use FTP to fetch the root.zone.

In the days of ye olde internet it used to be called "ftp.internic.net". Today, I believe it is still "internicftp.vip.icann.org".

To make curl work

curl -k https://192.0.32.9

or

curl https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone

I use curl in examples on HN because so many paople love it but TBH it is not a program I use myself. I use custom programs I wrote for doing HTTP requests. Finer controls than curl.
Mostly everything.
This is a modem. (modulator/demodulator)

Once upon a time transferring digital data over analog channels brought us fax machines and dial-up internet.
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I mean we would probably pay and get paid in any currency that was stable enough in the world market and accepted by the people we want to buy from.
Blacklisting doesn’t change fungibility. It just means some exchanges are refusing to do business with people who believe in privacy.

A government can scream and shout but they cannot block a bitcoin transaction.
Bitcoin's only value is the fact it's the most popular and well-known cryptocurrency. It came first and a lot of people are aware of it. Technologically it's already been surpassed by everything that came after. Monero in particular is essentially bitcoin with all the problems fixed.

I wish it'd just lose it's value already so that liquidity will flow into all the much better coins out there. Not likely to happen though...
Silicon Valley high risk bets are bets made on market and solution.

In this case, all elements are well known: Market, distribution, effort, etc. It's a well established market with a lot of different players (indies to huge studios).

In this case, you will have to outperform the big studios. Basically you will have to compose a basketballteam and compete in the NBA. Good luck!

Any experienced game developer can see that this is the Dunning Kruger effect in action. Nothing new perse, but the new thing is that ycombinator is going along in this delusion.
Friendly advice : never ever subscribe to Windows Insider dev builds. I’m stuck on it since I needed to work with WSL2 perversions.

There is currently no way to roll back from dev builds since it would mean to downgrade (which Windows can’t do). Even disabling reception of new builds is not working since they are either such far away from beta that you can’t switch before your build expired (and you don’t want your build to expire since it break Windows Update some weeks later) or those builds are « branches » that will never meet compatibility with any beta/stable build.

tl:dr; Being on Windows Insider dev channel is irreversible.
Only thing I would improve on this page is to remove all remote dependencies, youtube, font, cdn files ...
sw.js consonantly sending some data. Personally I do not trust Google they have way to more data, and even if all scripts are stripped questions is does Chrome collecting data as well?
I think you are misunderstanding. Just go to the webpage, select download, and from the windows tab download the "standard version" and you're good to go.

I don't even see what you mean by it being "a c++ available for linux". You got the same choices for all systems. Just download the editor/engine and start programming. No need to compile anything, except your own scripts/logic if you choose to use a compiled language.
> You seem to be discussing a different Biden than the one we have.

No, I’m discussing the actual one we have, and the actual concrete positions he has taken, starting in the campaign, and reiterated yesterday by his press secretary.

You, on the other hand, are relying on a heavily-spun media conflict narrative that does not accurately portray the positions he has taken (claiming he supports “only decriminalization” when he supports all of general federal decriminalization of marijuana and federal legalization of medical marijuana and federal law giving states the freedom to choose legalization and rescheduling marijuana to schedule II federally and automatically expunging federal criminal records associated with marijuana.)
Can't speak for OP but here in Africa I've worked on a two unrelated projects where poor internet connectivity meant it made sense to have a local SQL Express running on a users device, which a service would then try to regularly synchronize with the central server. Makes sense when you are capturing documentation and can make all the decisions in disconnected operation.
Pure programming skill, however you imagine that being measured, is a very small part of building and designing a successful game and game world.

Do you honestly believe that anyone more skilled at PHP than Mark Zuckerberg had been as a Harvard freshman is on the cusp of building the next Facebook-killer?
For 3 to 4 transactions per second.
As far as I can tell, we got lucky this time and the approved vaccines are close enough to "without risk" that you can round it off to "no risk" unless you are extremely risk-averse (if you drive 100km without thinking about your risk of dying in a car crash, you are not risk averse and probably shouldn't spend time worrying about risks from the vaccine).

Still requires that vaccines are available though, which is not a given worldwide yet.
Is it really accurate to call it an alpha when there are paying customers?
The connection to Couchsurfing was obvious at the time. But taking that seriously as a venture investment was not. That is the hindsight fallacy part. Calling that "mythology" is inaccurate, as that email thread plainly shows.
While I disagree with you in this specific instance (because I think it'd be hard for them to be so specific this early on), I think you've made a very good point about building trust in the face of handling things.
> They need to act to get the ban rescinded, they can't just ignore this issue away.

I doubt that - in the other thread, someone noted that the last non-hostile kernel contribution from @umn.edu was in 2014. I don't think they are champing at the bit to get legit kernel contributions merged - or at least haven't in the past 7 years. At this point, it is purely a reputation/PR problem with little urgency - the ban is not blocking anyone's work at the university (except for the suspended research project)
There's nothing wrong with buying assets off the store. But the game has to have some original mechanics, and a proposition value that makes it worth investing in. That value can't be "everything that has been done before, but all in one game". The idea has to be original or unique, and that's what's missing here in this MMO!
Yes. What you think of as a "specific Bitcoin" doesn't actually exist; what exists is an "unspent transaction output", which can be used as an input for a new transaction if certain conditions are met. So what really happens in your example scenario is:

1. Alice knows the private keys corresponding to one or more unspent outputs of transactions, with a total value of 1 BTC;

2. Bob knows the private keys corresponding to one or more unspent outputs of transactions, with a total value of 1 BTC;

3. Both create new transactions, specifying one or more of their formerly unspent outputs as inputs to the new transaction, and Charlie's address (which is a hash of a public key) as one of the outputs of the new transaction, that output having the value of 1 BTC;

4. Charlie creates a new transaction, with David's address as one of the outputs, having the value of 1 BTC. Note that, at this point, Charlie can chose which of the unspent outputs will be used as the input for the new transaction. It can be the output from Alice's transaction, it can be the output from Bob's transaction, it can be the output from some other transaction, or it can even be a combination of them: the transaction could have both Alice's and Bob's outputs as inputs, and have two outputs, one going to David, the other going to a new address (which can be a "change address" on the same wallet, or an address belonging to someone else).
Bitcoin is an amazing invention. For me personally it is the best store of value ever, I just need to remember my private key and travel the world and cash out in every country. The fees are totally acceptable, you can use lower fees and wait a bit longer for the transaction to get into a block. Bitcoin is definitely not a scam!
Even if parallel construction wouldn't exist, in Germany, for example, illegally obtained evidence is still valid in court.
The end result would largely depend on the quality of generated HTML and CSS, no? That's what the OP is most likely asking about.
But then the issue is that the settlement layer becomes an arbitrary implementation detail. The second layer is the thing that really matters. The settlement can happen in dollars or some stock in a portfolio of assets like what Libra wanted to do.

Is Bitcoin the best thing to use as an settlement layer?
Doesn't YouTube Music suggest music based on Youtube Video watching habits?

I think I read something about that which turned me off instantly.
So, next paper would be like "On the Effectiveness of Using Email Domain Names for Kernel Submission Bans"
Greg explicitly stated "Because of this, all submissions from this group must be reverted from the kernel tree and will need to be re-reviewed again to determine if they actually are a valid fix....I will be working with some other kernel developers to determine if any of these reverts were actually valid changes, were actually valid, and if so, will resubmit them properly later. For now, it's better to be safe."
Agred. It is an important distinction.
So you will never spend it. What gives currencies relative stability is central banks.

It will never become a global reserve currency for the same reason gold is no longer a basis for money. It is better to inflate your way out of problems (print money to bail out key institutions) than to deflate your way out of them (great depression). Better is defined as causing less harm to individuals.
He said "corrupt its root filesystem beyond repair", not "detect checksum errors"

Btw raid5/6 is still broken on btrfs which makes it a hard sell for any system with more than 2 disks.
cf. raidz on ZFS
You could try running buble on the esbuild output, IIRC it used to be faster than babel.
Most people won’t understand any of what you’re describing there, except for “the end” and that you’re describing a four-step process.
There are many use cases where the ‘use’ part is extraneous or misleading.
Further to the point about pivoting, it’s interesting to note that both Flickr and Slack came out of attempts to make MMOs.
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Not generally. There is a quota service for all modern gcp APIs that handles per region, per user, and per project quotas that internally you just need the right permissions to update for a customer request, no PR required.
> > The infinite open world MMO

yea, the last time a game claimed this, they flopped super hard - and it wasn't even an inexperienced developer! See "No Man's Sky" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Sky#Controversy

they've fixed a lot of flaws now apparently, but i would be very skeptical of somebody claiming to deliver a skyhigh goal.
That works both ways though: I'm not allowed to install anything I want on my phone, which is anti-consumer.
if I didn't keep writing new solutions to solved problems, how would I get promoted?
You're allowed to host malware if you want. If you tell people not to run it then how can it be your fault? That's not tampering with evidence.
Inexperienced game devs that want to make a huge MMO is very common in the game industry.

But the keyword here is "want".
Fungibility means coins are indistinguishable from each other. Bitcoin does not have this property: the origin of each coin can be traced all the way back to its minting.

Governments cannot block transactions but they can stop people from accepting the coins. Money that can't be spent is worthless.
When you cannot rob from the poor via inflation then it becomes harder to oppress them.

The Great Depression was caused by the government making gold illegal, effectively confiscating the nations wealth and replacing it with massive fiat inflation. It was a period of monetary inflation that caused and economic contraction.

One if the ways inflation is used to indoctrinate people against their best interests is demonizing “deflation” by conflating it with the contraction in the Great Depression.

A grandma on fixed income shouldn’t have her prices go up %30 because politicians wanted to spend trillions to pay off bribes, as we have seen in the past year, where our monetary base was increased by $7T (or more) with only a fraction going to benefit Americans.

There is nothing yet discovered that can replace proof of work. There are a lot if people selling scams who think proof if work is a weakness, but they are always centralized (ethereum, dash) or PoW masquerading as something else, or simply not a cryptocurrency (ripple).
read up on yield curve control.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2020/august/what-y...

Basically: central bank has infinite money and buys all the debt at 0%, and outbids everyone else.

Simple.
This really is just your moral judgement not a fact. You think Bitcoin is wasteful. Others think it’s useful. And the debate has raged for a decade.

I think Snapchat is wasteful. It clearly has no beneficial use to society. But you think it is beneficial somehow.

Enumerating every use of electricity like this, and convening some panel to judge and decide if they should be allowed or not will never get us anywhere good. Meanwhile you and I if we are both reasonable can agree that both services should pay the full cost of their energy use.

Edit: I see by the downvotes that people disagree. So how is it a settled fact that Bitcoin is more wasteful than e.g. Snapchat? Yes I know Bitcoin burns electricity to secure its network. But clearly people find that useful and value that enough to actually spend the money to do that. What should be the rules for deciding what should and shouldn’t be allowed?
Yes, absolutely. I'm not sure why I have been downvoted for this, as I haven't exactly said anything revelatory.

However I just want to give an obligatory caution that this is a very contrived answer. In the real world it can be difficult, there are typically many inputs and outputs to a transaction (and we are rarely able to associate names with addresses). There exists an entire field devoted to this called blockchain analysis or chainanalysis.

You can see for yourself. Choose any address on the BTC blockchain. See the transactions it has been involved in. You can inspect inputs and outputs. Here is an example: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1CUTyyxgbKvtCdoYmceQJ...
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One of the many dll injection methods possible in Windows, if I recall correctly.

Although I do usually just end up hijacking a dll already used by the program when I want to sneak my own code within a process that I don't have the source for, for the sake of future usability. (When patching the executable on-disk isn't desirable, and you don't want to go insane running an injector each time you start the process.)
>Yes, you are quite right. My point was past performance is not always a good indicator of future human potential.

I agree. People can shift into an entirely different field and get fairly good at it quicker than many would imagine. Once you've proven successful in one intellectual pursuit the biggest factor in becoming proficient in another is passion, because passion leads to putting in the work. In this particular case I just think they may not realize the scope of the work their game idea is going to involve due to their lack of experience. I wish them well and if its looking good by the time it hits beta I'll probably be trying it out.
(N=1) I've had ZFS on an opensolaris system and it got corrupted, and since the ZFS engineers think they are gods who don't make mistakes there was no fsck that would even attempt to repair it. It was a perfectly repairable corruption which I fixed myself with a bit googling and dd to copy some bytes from one location on the disk to another (ZFS apparently keeps multiple copies of some the important data structures that describe the pool, one at the beginning of the block device and one towards the end, kindof as a backup I guess). For btrfs you at least have a decent working fsck, if shit hits the fan. ZFS is like, fuck you we won't even try.
> Lots of batshit has raised tons of money...like Theranos...or Star Citizen...or WeWork.

and all of them have not yet delivered much, or are frauds. If i were the VC, i'd be skeptical of founders with reality distortion fields. There are more fraudsters than there are Steve Jobs out there.
It may not be de jure fungible but for most practical purposes it is. As in, when you go to exchange it for money or something else, most people don't care about which coin you give them. In my mind this makes it de facto fungible.
>beneficiary of such structured notes is the note-maker.

the same is true of most textbooks as well; most people write textbooks for themselves (and then publish them in order to not nothing to show for a year of work).
i saw that somewhere and it's changed the way i approach reading textbooks (no longer do i take it for granted that one presentation is /the/ presentation).
Razer launches $50m fund for environmental startups
Snapchat data center uses as much energy as needed to extract value from Snapchat-the-product. Same goes for employee's time invested in support, development and research. If Snapchat makes money, it attracts investing resources into it until marginal cost equals marginal revenue.

Same for Bitcoin or literally any other human activity. Miners are not going to consume more energy than mined bitcoins are worth.
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That’s not a pyramid scheme, that’s a referral system.
I think, it's simply not high importance for the commercial backers of the project. It's not a hobby those people get payed for it.

Raid5/6 seems to me more popular in home use.
> I would pay and get paid using monero

If you agreed to work for a company for X monero a month, and the value of monero (relative to USD or your local currency) dropped by 90% a few months later, would you continue to work at the originally agreed upon rate?

And on the opposite end, if a coffee shop sold lattes for Y monero, would you be okay with continuing to pay Y if monero shot up by 1000%?
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You’re shilling for Norton Anti-virus? Really?

How about at least referencing benchmarks that compare and contrast various anti-virus software, and tell you which ones had the highest percentage of positive hits while also having the lowest ratio of false positives?

For example, try out https://www.av-comparatives.org/