skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve wondered that too. If you wrote your own client you could lie about the hashes, so there must be something else to it. I have a farmer going and maybe every 10 minutes the hard disk spins up for what sounds like very little I/O so it’s definitely not checking the entire 100GB plot file.
Like Biden’s proposed executive actions on “Ghost Guns” they sound scary, but it’s not as if anyone is using them, especially as there is no market demand in the US given the ease of getting a regular gun.

Disclaimer: please don’t infer anything about my comment regarding the broader gun control debate
I think there are a very few projects out there with actual working products that provide real economic value.

VeChain [0] for example, has been quietly establishing itself as a viable solution for supply chain transparency [1]. Walmart uses VeChain through its Food Traceability Platform [2].

[0] - https://www.vechain.org/

[1] - https://seekingalpha.com/article/4415383-vechain-is-blockcha...

[2] - https://traceability.walmartmobile.cn/walmart/p/100074210400...
Hmm, yes, but not really.

Yes, because it's a centralized meta-control plane of/for BGP. But no, because after all IP address space is already centrally managed anyway: IANA -> RIRs (-> LIRs), but not really, because each AS decides what to do with RPKI data.

So it's much better than parsing RIPE plain text query reults, and it's the correct fix for hijackings.

"Real-world censorship resistance" is not in the threat model for the current Internet at the RPKI/BGP/RIR level, but it's very much in scope for high-level protocols like DNS, TLS, HTTP (as privacy concerns).

See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4593 and https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7132 Regular ("in-band") DoS or tampering attacks on RPKI databases and CAs (certificate authorities) are of course taken into consideration - even by nation states. Though these particular RFCs don't offer a particularly systematic and ironclad solution. (The problem is punted to users: "just use (stale data and) caches, decide for yourself what to do if the central DB is unavailable".) Likely there's some other RFCs that offer better answers with - hopefully - more operational detail.

Building a truly global efficient/high-bandwidth/low-cost "infinitely" censorship resistant Internet is (very) hard. Currently traffic passes through various networks, those "autonomous systems" have the capability to direct (and filter, eg. null route) traffic. Source routing in theory might help with working-around bad AS-es, but even detecting such AS-es seems hard theoretically. And on top of all that there's the economic aspect. (How would the network/users/operators incentivize each other to work around bad ASes?)
China’s Dystopian “New IP” Plan for a New Internet
Yeah, no... there is no "one answer" unless you want to say "don't be a negligent parent and let your kids near running power equipment"

Why are you acting like this is a binary choice instead of a case where multiple mitigations can try and help make a bad situation slightly less worse?

There are multiple stories of children dying on treadmills without ever leaving the top surface of them. Mike Tyson's daughter died after getting caught in a rope hanging near the machine.

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At the end of the day with you on it or not, if your kids are near the running machine, it's already a dangerous situation and the most important mitigation called "parental supervision" has failed. No other mitigation will change that.

I wonder how long until I get the requisite "have you seen how easily kids escape supervision!" I sure have, and that's why having a system only an adult can activate goes a long way.

I'm a fully grown man with one and I'm certain if I were to put just a single foot on it at full tilt I'd violently injure myself. I can't even imagine what it'd do to a child. A guard wouldn't change that
So have you measured the time that you save in any of these situations by using a cryptocurrency? It seems that you make a series of questionable claims and we just have to believe that what you say is true.
http://archive.is/zU30g
I got rich with Bitcoin, the value in my life has been quite tangible. I live in big house, drive a nice car, I don't have to work unless I want to. This is how I would pretty much define value.

Q1. by accepting and preferring BTC as a payment for my services, I was able to retain better value/purchasing power from my labour long-term. By changing my fiat currency to BTC I was able to also increase my purchasing power. Clear value to me. I don't know if this has some externalities and don't care really. My transactions are legal and counterparties have been as happy as people in typical business transactions are.

Q2. It doesn't have to exist, it happens to exist and you can choose not to use it.

Q3. "Smart contract" is a marketing term and "smart contracts" are not replacing traditional courts in any sensible way. The whole claim is just nonsense (there is much bullshit in crypto).
Yeah this has always been my point. Why would you use a 3d plastic printer to make a gun when it's as easy to get a CNC machine and make actual guns.
> Most of this person’s weight loss seems to have been from eating fewer calories, not walking.

This is likely true for everyone losing weight. Exercise gets you fit(-ter than you were before), though, and there are a lot more health benefits from being fit than thin. I'm pretty sure being thin just helps you with your sugar.
What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning (2019)
Q1. I don't live in Europe. Wire transfers from my US bank can only be sent domestically, cost me $20, and require me to fill out a form and then stay up until 2AM so that a person can call me on the phone during business hours in the US and I can confirm that I did in fact fill out that form. Wire transfers from my Japanese bank are more reasonable but cost 10000x as much money to send and (under ideal conditions - during business hours long before closing on a weekday) take longer to settle than modern cryptocurrencies.

Q2. Why should Apple stock exist when we already have dollars? Why should Brazilian Real exist when we already have dollars? I wouldn't trade USD for BTC for EUR. I would probably trade USD for EUR directly. As a consumer, the best place I can do this is FTX, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, because they provide end-users with the extremely competitive forex rates of a Hong Kong bank's OTC desk. The second-best place is probably IBKR which provides extremely competitive rates because it's literally a forex broker but takes days to wire money in and out. The third-best place is probably Shinsei Bank, which is one of the two most popular banks for foreigners in Japan and provides suspiciously good forex rates compared to all other consumer banks in the world.

Q3. "Smart contracts" are not really a replacement for the legal system. They are, at least for now, mostly a way to build non-custodial versions of traditional financial products. Again, this is sort of like saying "Why do we have oil futures and SPY puts when you can just buy oil or sell SPY?"

Re: Conclusions: Ok, but did you try to use the internet to let your US customers pay you dollars which you would then give to your US creators who create pornography for your customers? How many providers accepted this proposal? What fees do they charge?
It seems like one of those things that are simply to hard to keep secret. Implementation would require way to many people to keep it secret. I’m also not sure if it make finacial sense to implement, given the large number of more easily metrics available.
Is "users will become advocates" a real thing that meaningfully drives market share at this point? Sure there's anecdotes floating around of this happening, but I've never been able to tell whether it actually has an impact or if it was just power users justifying why they should be considered disproportionately important.
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Looks like two more votes for option 4 over option 7 would have made a Condorcet cycle at the top, and they'd have had to break out the fun beatpath stuff.
Yes I'm a fan of his! Coincidentally, Stuff Made Here actually commented on this YouTube video. But I have been enjoying and learning from his channel.
> If I do my job; I can take some time off.

What does it mean to "do your job"?

At every place I've worked there was an infinite amount of job to be done. If I were to take 4 months off I would do less of it than if I've taken 1 month.

So that just shifts the conversation from "how much vacation you have" to "what amount of work is considered enough". Which doesn't seem all that different to me, or at least it would not have been at any place I've worked at.
Are doughnuts different in America to other parts of the world? I couldn't imagine ever eating 12 Aussie-style doughnuts in 1 sitting, unless it was some sort of eating competition. It'd be like eating 3 hamburgers or 6 hot dogs.
Some links on the most promising effort so far, gccrs

https://opensrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_g...

https://www.embecosm.com/2021/01/12/gcc-rust-how-it-can-be-a...

https://rust-gcc.github.io/

This is an entirely new frontend written in C++, that shares no code with rustc (the official rust compiler). It might be merged some day in GCC proper.

But honestly, I'm more excited for rustc_codegen_gcc:

https://github.com/antoyo/rustc_codegen_gcc

It adds gcc as an alternative backend of the official Rust compiler. That way it is much more feasible to stay up to date as the language evolves.

Anyway the former two don't actually work right now. The one that does work today is mrustc, or at least it works for bootstrapping rustc; it doesn't have a borrow checker though (and instead assumes the program is correct). Also, mrustc isn't based on gcc.

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

(There's a fourth project, https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust, but it seems abandoned)
>Yes, the data sold includes detailed product information linked to your identity.

Not necessarily. I’ve only seen a few huge merchants sending level 3 data:

https://paymentdepot.com/blog/level-3-data-processing/

Staples.com and airlines are the only ones where I can see the items bought on my credit card statement. Although it’s possible that some banks are not reporting that information on the statement, but I couldn’t find any more data on the subject, other than the fact that smaller businesses are not sending this information.
Thanks for the comment here. I couldn't agree more, it takes quiet the effort to stick on message and thesis. Fortunately for us we have been on it for the past 5 years now. During this time there has been a ton of learning and recalibrating. Still a long way to go, but so far so good :)

As per your question, in our case the titles are the same but the role can differ. ie. for a particular project a Principal can take the lead and then invite other Principals into the engagement in more of a supporting role.
Ultimately these are just generalizations. Your company can be focused on both and regularly fail to execute either.

What the execs know is that all they need to do is generate profits. There are many tricks you can use to do that, even if you have shitty product that customers don't like. This is where established behemoths sometimes end up, to the point that people hate their brand, but use it anyway. At that point the customer is just poultry, and the company's focus becomes keeping foxes out of the hen house.
Gooseeee
Have Special Teams & Product Teams.

Special Teams don't get ownership of anything, can't veto anything. They're there to answer any and all questions from the product team and to set the stage for how the product team may solve a challenge (i.e. present a menu of relevant approaches with expert commentary on the applicability to the problem, but implementation is the product team's job).

This limbo position helps tamp down on the prestige of a Special Team relative to Product while still attempting to harness expert value.
Thanks! Actually had a similar comment on my video:

> Yes! I didn't realize this other robot existed until I was partially through the project and was doing more research. I loved their form factor so I used it for Jon Bot Jovi. IIRC, they struggled to beat TTFATF (they got 60-70%?) because their note detection software struggled to decipher long blocks of notes tightly together
Same thing that makes 3D printers in general a sensation: you don’t need to be very well trained to make something that looks interesting.

They’re the Visual Basic (or possibly the Excel) of machine tools, for good and ill.
I recently bought a home with an agent. The agent was able to negotiate the home price down by close to 9% (the original price was out of my budget). I had no idea that the seller was willing to go that low - but the agent guessed it, and explained his logic to me.

While looking at other properties, the agent was very helpful in guesstimating how expensive and how long various problems with the homes we saw would be to fix.

The homes we saw were distributed over several neighborhoods. The agent was helpful in explaining that in certain neighborhoods, almost everyone engages in certain not-quite-legal but socially harmless things, while in another, very demographically-uniform neighborhood, your neighbors may report you for it.

TL;DR - a good agent brings up to date domain expertise which you are unlikely to have, and which a general-purpose algorithm might not be able to provide without generating outrage.
Uh oh! 3d printed weapons are from satan himself! Only marginally better than china
Id reckon you can boil the model down to a very small one to extract some keywords and thatll be pretty good already. Just having the ability to hear if someone is talking would take very little battery, to consequently turn on the top-10000 word model would still be barely noticeable on these powerhouses of phones we got, I think. Haven't tested it, though.
A search for their bash script on github gives more than 400K results... The scale of this breach is staggering.

https://github.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcodecov.io%2Fbash&...
Netcup is where I do all of my video transcoding. I ran tests on a huge swath of providers, and Netcup was by far the best bang for the buck.

That said, they’re not really on-demand (it’s a monthly bill), and the UI is probably the worst of all the ones I tried.

Still, very happy with them for dedicated, long running servers that you rarely touch.
The potential applications of cryptocurrencies are far-ranging. Sadly, however, the current actual applications seems to be mostly just get-rich-quick schemes and highly speculative investing that's stimulated by the extreme volatility.

If the crazy stuff settles down, it might maybe someday become an actual currency that people can use to exchange legit goods and services safely. Currency should be boring.

I wonder a lot if the crazy aspects of crypto currency are by design or if I utterly misunderstand even the fundamental nature of currency. For one thing, why have the computational simulacrum of mining? Why does crypto currency NEED to use outrageous amounts of power solving puzzles to "mine" bitcoins? Is this manufactured scarcity really needed to bootstrap it as a currency? The white papers I've seen don't seem to address that kind of stuff, but are perfectly happy to obfuscate the "why" aspects.
> The storytelling (something Civilization never really bothered with) was also something special.

The quotes in the SMAC tech tree were some marvellous pieces of original work as well.

Civilization, keeping with its theme, had to use quotes from history.
You can not make a gun barrel with a CNC mill. You can however make one on any old lathe.
Does it have a C-API?
Luck/intelligence != value

There are plenty of people who have been ruined by bitcoin as well. The fact that you were either lucky enough to ride the right waves, or smart enough to see the bad ones, does not equate to any value at all.
The ignorance in this thread is mind-blowing. You most certainly can manufacture a reliable, semi-automatic, 9mm compact rifle where the only part that is not 3d-printed is the barrel and the springs. And even the barrel can be home-rifled using readily available tools from any hardware store, using 3d-printed jigs.

Now, the links you post look more like traditional Luty-style designs, albeit with some parts 3d-printed; still, regardless of whether this specific Spanish guy or the attacks in Germany used 3d-printed guns, 3d printed guns exist and you will see them show up in the news more often over the next few years. Brace yourself for the backlash, instead of closing your eyes, putting your fingers in your ears and singing "lalala you're all stupid, you can't print guns".
It actually has been running Jira on premise with zero unannounced downtime for ten years. So...yes, I think that's not the problem to simply continue doing what we did for the last decade.

CI and GitLab infrastructure are the same story: run on premise on our own hardware for a decade, with only very minor downtime. It has also evolved from simple isolated Jenkins instances with manually configured build jobs to a shared build/CI cluster using containerization and a lot of automation for build job management.

And it's not that we have an abundance of administrative people. A team of three (sometimes being temporarily buffed up with a few more if large infrastructural tasks are planned) for about 200 developers in total.

I have a different suspicion: a lot of companies out there have simply forgotten that they are perfectly able to run such services for themselves. Having people telling them all the time that they wouldn't ever be able to do that anyway (with a lot of them having their personal agenda, for example being employed by a cloud service provider) doesn't make things better in that regard.
There are some test applications and fringe uses cases, some of which are mentioned in this thread, but I've come to the conclusion that crypto is so early that's is more of a movement than anything else. It's a movement to 1. cut out the middlemen and make the same financial ecosystem globally accessible to everyone and 2. make the financial ecosystem programmable from the ground up without the need for clunky add-ons.

We're far away from both because, like you said, countries, governments are regulations are not going away anytime soon. But I do think it's inevitable that things will change and "global programmable finance" becomes the standard. I think it will follow something like Planck's principle [0] - it's not going to happen because people are going to be convinced by crypto, but because the next generation will adopt crypto as more of a default.

At least for me, that's the reason I'm involved in crypto. I can't think of a tangible benefit I get from transacting in crypto, but I would much rather live in a world where countries, governments, and banks are less powerful and more transparent than they are now.

I think in 100-200 years we may look back and ask ourselves how we could ever live with inefficient and corrupt governments, financial, and legal systems that are based on geographical locality instead of them being internet-based. We probably won't be using the current incarnation of crypto, but I doubt the current institutions will survive, and crypto is a step towards that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
I'd go with some fiber reinforced stuff for extra interesting fragmentation.
There is no advantage to farm on SSDs so if anything old HDD might find a new use.
It all depends on the company culture. I’ve been mostly lucky during my career, and always had reasonable WLB, even in startups.

My last stint, in fintech, is insanely brutal, no WLB at all: 80h a week, emails and IMs in the evenings and early mornings, with expectations of handling them promptly. Every Saturday/Sunday busy doing some deployment or infrastructure surgery. I’m out soon!
Appreciate you looking through the code and offering that suggestion. I'll take a closer look ;)

Also was not aware of the Ace of Spades robots. Just watched the video and it's epic!
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As somebody who saw family wealth slashed 100x due to crazy inflation just 20 years ago, 2x fluctuations are nothing. This is the perspective worth recognizing. Bitcoin is actually very stable by comparison. Edit: fat fingers typing.
It doesn't rely on the courts for enforcement, it relies on the underlying crypto-network. The contract is built in to the original sale.
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Thanks, I failed to find how to download them, besides the note that a login is expected, I could not find the artifacts among GitHub workflows.

However, the point is actually how it is a big hurdle to overcome having to compile crates with npm like dependency trees all from scratch, vs other compiled languages integrated into the distribution package repositories.
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2821...
If your gun doesn't lock (simple blowback for example), then you can skip the breech locking mechanism.

Agreed that I don't think you can meaningfully rifle a barrel in under 2 minutes though.
Scoop has a --global flag, too.
I do terabytes of data across 10 Netcup servers for less $ per month than really, really underpowered AWS VPSs. Also, 0 failures / maintenance in over a year.
Currently much of the value is not seen until it's too late.

ie: If Bitcoin had existed in the 1930's many Jews could have fled Nazi Germany with their life savings.

As for other platforms like Ethereum it's more about trusted middleman disintermediation. You put you money in a bank to receive 0.5% APR while they lend it out 3-10%. Why the spread? DeFi cuts out the fat and replaces it with protocols to pass more on to both sides of the transaction.

The ultimate disintermediation is governance. With strong cryptography and smart contracts new forms of governance are possible such as liquid democracy.

Similar to representative democracy of today except if you don't like how your representative is voting on an issue you can veto and cast your own vote. You can also choose which representative to delegate to rather than be being forced a rep by majority.

This all sounds like platitude, but what these all share in common is enabling individual freedom and in a world that is continually eroding individual freedoms, crypto begins to look increasingly more valuable.
> and once you land the customer you'll have the budget to go back and fix it

There’s always one more sale in the pipeline and you can end up with 15 year old products that are entirely the result of feature chasing.

I think it is absolutely necessary for development to develop a better understanding of customers and their requirements. Is it possible for us to predict some of the features from customers 1..2.. or maybe 5 years down the line in a way that the architecture and design can easily accommodate? I think it is somewhat possible and there are many examples of flexible products that do just that.
Chia uses hard disk space, not computational power so it shouldn’t affect graphic card prices.
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Article has nothing to do with the US. I am not even sure why anyone is bringing up the US at all.