skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to sell and buy votes is a good thing, it allows people to compromise. Now it doesn't work because a vote is a rare resource which cannot be priced, but when there are frequent votes on individual issues, you can think of a monetary price for it, or support one law in exchange for someone else supporting a law you care about. Today when politician promises to raise some taxes and reduce others, it is also a method of buying votes, but indirect and prone to fraud.

In Rome there was a clear hierarchy of patrons that was much more influential than what we have in today's society. Secret ballot broke it, and the result was a disaster.

Take a look at https://voteflux.org which explains the idea better than i do. To pass a law you need a large majority to support it, and the rest to accept it enough to not go to constitutional court. And if you are able to bribe such a large number of people continously, it means that they get more profit from the law than from repealing it, so your law is good for society.
I think the analogy here is weak. A blockchain-based naming system is different, though. It's governed by consensus. The majority of users must agree on who owns a particular name or at least that's how it should work.

Don't know of any other way to create a decentralized name system without doing something similar (regardless if it's top level or secondary level names)
Ask HN: Startup, how to get companies to take you seriously?
So I'm starting a startup. Its just me and my brother in our apartment really. I have a good idea of what to do and am currently building a prototype/MVP.

I'm running into in issue, as I need to integrate with some enterprise-y type APIs for parts of my product and I can't seem to get ahold of sales/anyone. My emails/contacts go unanswered.

I am sending from my personal email so I wonder if that's the issue. I'm pretty early so haven't set up a landing page etc. I was thinking to grab a domain with any name / set up a simple webpage to just appear as 'a company' ?

Anyone been through this, any tips?
I think the reason is that the Chinese government doesn't care as much about the danger to humanity as they do about saving face and maintaining their power.

They may even know definitively where it came from, whether it was a lab with lax safety practices or from reckless agriculture. And they can fix either or both of those things, quietly, while still pushing the narrative internally that the virus didn't come from China at all.
Qt (C++ + QML, python + QML or even C++ + QtWidgets) is well suited for desktop application development. You can easily stay with the open source licence of Qt. The Qt website is not really clear about this and they will push you to go for a commercial licence.

Electron (+ any web front-end UI framework, like React) will also do the job.

You can also check for Java Swing or Java Jetpack Compose.
Where available, libdispatch uses the kernel primitives that support priority inheritance. However, there is nothing that can help you if you are blocked on a task that macOS cannot discern where it might wake up from (this is why waiting on a semaphore is usually not advised).
Edtech Startup, DataTrained Appoints Mr. Janardan Tiwari as the Global CEO
my favorite OS .. fond memories of resurrecting a sparc64, a sparc, a hppa, an i386 next to the amd64s, and feeling right at home with all of them at once.

...Portability exercises for students based on the "Fighting the lemmings" paper by Husemann. (have you ever truly considered endianness and alignment until you've ran i386-developed code on sparc64? :D)

...sadly my work demands a different OS usage from me :'(
I don't think there is one. Determining the source requires cooperation from the Chinese government, and there is no way that cooperation can be forced if they don't want to give it. And even if there was, there's no guarantee that enough evidence or information remains after a year and a half for us to prove anything.
Hey - co-creator here.

Bit of background:

Every website now greats you with a plethora of pop-ups; Cookie permission, GDPR consent, newsletters, notifications. We’re all becoming unwilling experts at quickly clicking the right clicks (and crossing our fingers we didn’t give away anything too important).

I thought it would be fun to try and make a game out of it.

Puzzles are inspired by (or outright stolen) from real dark patterns that companies are using right now.

I worked with puzzle writer Alex Bellos to help create the pop-up-puzzles. Three of the challenges are featured today in his Guardian column. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/17/can-you-solv...

Thanks darkpatterns.org, reddit.com/r/darkpatterns, webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/ and of course HN for all the inspiration!

Also a shout out to plausible.io which I used for web analytics since we couldn’t really have a cookie consent banner on our own site.
IMO hearing the difficult stuff (without jumping sky or ignoring it) is harder than saying it. But it depends. Most times, any prelude might help to prepare the receiver.

My take on this in team setting: (community of trust.. but rarely happens)
http://svilendobrev.com/rabota/doverie.html
> Yes, in fact, if a store's computers go down they don't just let customers walk out the door with products and hope they get paid eventually?

It's one thing with a supermarket and anonymous masses of customers, but an oil pipeline where each customer is supposed to have meters running on their side as well (as double verification to protect against technical issues)? If you can't trust your known (!) customers enough to not rip you off, something is very much off.

And even in that case: the government could have told the pipeline owners "we'll pay off any differences after settling, now go and get that pipeline up and running again".
The "never use null" policy doesn't work across your third party dependencies, unless those dependencies coincidentally use the same policy as you.
I tried that and it seemed broken for me, for some reason clicking agree in the text above marked it as passed :confused:
I can second this recommendation. Fascinating book.
Should encryption be curbed to combat child abuse?
Indeed, not a working product. Working lab-only 'hardware'. The "methods section" in the Nature paper is fascinating:

"The anode-solid electrolyte-cathode for half-battery or anode-solid electrolyte-anode for symmetric battery were pressed together in a homemade pressurized cell at 467 MPa and kept at 50–250 MPa during testing." "All batteries were assembled in an argon atmosphere glovebox and the galvanostatic battery cycling test was performed on an ArbinBT2000 workstation."
Open source retro ISA video card
And ASML, biggest supplier of photolithography systems, which is probably involved with most computer chips you'll find.
Loved the mini puzzle games.
Unfortunately question 27 is basically impossible on mobile devices, I spent way too long on that.
So if a companies finances get leaked you’d nationalize them?
Nice resource. I’ve been into gardening a few years but dove deep during COVID. I joke it’s not cheaper than a grocery store, but is cheaper than therapy. I’m trying to improve that by doing more from seed, using vertical techniques.

One thing I think is helping this year is liquid kelp fertilizer.
Its hard to translate, but Rumis poetry is very profound in the original Persian.

Bark's content is, as the article describes, an unforgivable affront to Rumi, but also sounds quite poor to me (as a native English speaker), kind of like those stereotypical Instagram quotes.

Persian poetry is hard to accurately render in English.

Here's a Twitter account devoted to doing that (as well as exposing fake Rumi quotes in the wild): https://twitter.com/PersianPoetics
Because it was his only camera.
Traffic BEAST all you need to get started all in one place
I doubt drones could be a solution for flood monitoring presently, flood events could last days, endurance could be an issue. Floods could affected regions of several hundred square kilometres, I think it might be impractical to cover that much area by drones.
Statistics of it is irrelevant.

If I know a player is bad at certain types of situations I will be trying to force the player into those positions.

And chess engines are vulnerable because they don't learn and can be repeatedly exploited if you can find a way.
it's also sounding kind of like the simplification an IT clueless manager might make after too much coffee and not enough sleep.

it whats likely happened was that the hardened industrial control network was pretty much fine meaning that engineers inside of the pumping facilities could manually direct/redirect flow with all the required safeguards still in place, but that they had no plan for where to direct the flow as all information about who needed/ordered what sat in the unhardened corporate network.

This is kind of similar to what happens to warehouses and "just in time" factory lines when the order printer/queue ceases up, or is no longer fed data from the back end system, and while one might expect that the operators of critical infrastructure have a plan for minimal services when/if the unhardened corporate network fails but that plan(even if it existed) likely sat on the same unsecured and now encrypted network.
Sure. I get your point but it's not like we buy stuff in a vacuum either.
If you're a male and feeling tired all the time, go check your testosterone level. I spent most of 2020 feeling exhausted before midday and unable to do anything. I checked it at the end of the year and it was on the low end. Since then I started working on it, drinking a lot more water and taking vitamin D (where I live the sun rarely visits) and I'm feeling a lot better.
border-radius is simply the name of the css property that achieves rounded corners. I agree that it isn't more 'correct' to have rounded corners on a text box than square ones.
How do exchanges set prices for crypto? Isn't it set at the price of the last sale?
Nine miles away is "down the street" now?
This story seems a little bit puffed up.

There has been exciting recent progress in the decipherment of another early writing system, Linear Elamite.[0] In fact, French archæologist/philologist François Desset announced last year that he has deciphered all known Linear Elamite inscriptions.[1] (Someone posted this to HN at the time, but it got no traction.[2])

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Elamite

[1]: https://www.archaeoreporter.com/en/2020/11/27/deciphering-li...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345680
I’m curious how Palestinian people live. I’d like to see the condition of their dwellings, infrastructure and resources eg water, roads, rail, ports, public spaces. I just want to get a feel for the place, like I can almost everywhere else. How can I do that?
Yeah I'm confused here. I think the "clicking" in previous posts refers to using the mouse to position the cursor within a group of spaces/tabs. I don't use a mouse in my text editor so it took me a while to grasp.
> Did the author think that the ransomeware literally locked valves?

In the early times of the pipeline shutdown this was exactly what was feared. Malware attacking, damaging, destroying or abusing industrial embedded devices to persist in to survive cleanups is nothing new. Stuxnet was just the tip of the iceberg.
An interesting article. Obviously early days for Rust, but C++ is commonly used for increased performance in the industry.
My ads have slowly been progressing from medicine to planning your own funeral before you die, in order to save the hassle from your near and dear.

Sometimes I wonder if The Algorithm know something that we don't.
While we're being technical, there is no M1 MacBook; there is a M1 MacBook Pro and an M1 MacBook Air, as we as an M1 Mac Mini.
and also NHS isn’t in the European Union so you dont have to worry about them (just some other agencies that don’t occupy my mindshare)
> The Hack Club Slack

Imagine making a job board work over ssh and then using slack to communicate.

Especially when things like this exist and are much more in the spirit: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat
Was there any Starcraft tournament where the AI was limited to 200 apm and disabled maphack?
I just turned my brain off and apparently my subconscious was good enough to pick correct.

That, or I was just lucky.
I highly recommend Michael Peppiatt's Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma for anyone interested in Bacon. A lot of a first-hand information on the man, the times.
At least in the U.S. vehicular homicide (that doesn't involve drugs or alcohol) is usually no more than a ticket. Maybe they'll suspend your license for a couple of months. Prison? Pretty much never.
Would lead to better price discovery for the 5th amendment’s equivalent exchange requirements
Worcestershire sauce.
That was disappointing; the fact that Linear B is descended from Linear A and has inherited many of its signs with more or less variation is not exactly news.
Wow, you're clearly smarter/wiser than the author and people who upvoted this story.

Thanks for letting us know!
That's how HTML works.
Remote: The Post-Covid Workplace
While you're there, can you also ban the exchange of crypto for fiat in the USA? This will have a huge positive effect on carbon emissions, chip shortages, and actually reducing ransomware.
Omg this is from "For Business" section of the page:

"Use Can't Unsee to measure attention to detail

Our data suggests that high scores in the Can't Unsee game are correlated with high attention to detail.

You can use Can't Unsee to screen designers, developers, QAs, product managers and other people who job with technology.

This is how it works: after joining our program you'll get a custom link. Share this link with your candidates, and you'll see their results in a dashboard (custom integrations available)."

What kind of writing style is that, this is spying on people. If you're assesing someone, they should be aware of the fact.
True, but as of now they adhere to basically the same data protection laws and many breaches occurred while stile a member state.
> "Our own American scientists said this process would likely result in biomarkers that were not found in the circulating virus"

There is debate about that. Interesting article here:

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

(It also suggests that one of the loudest early detractors of the "escaped from lab" theory, the main author of the Feb 19, 2020 Lancet letter, had an undeclared conflict of interest because he is president of an organisation which funded Coronavirus research at WIV)
Legendary game :)
That I agree with and is actually my point - you NEED to trust your platform. There's just no other way. There's no sensible way for you to keep using Googles platform if you use Googles OS.
Who is to blame Uber or inferior lawmakers?
But a credit card still keeps track of how much you spend - it doesn't rely on you honestly reporting how much you spent over the month...
Any details on why 50 instead of 1?

Even if it was to segregate liability for individual pieces of IP, it still seems excessive

Many jurisdictions offer a single entity with segregated limited liability. Specifically “Segregated Portfolio Companies” or Series LLCs offering the same concept in other jurisdictions.

Would seem out of character for the Netherlands not to have this in their catalogue of entities, since they were the first to do the modern share company.
I'm getting more and more frustrated by my own country's willingness to facilitate this. It just doesn't make any sense. From what I can tell it's all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as "trickle-down-economy".

There's a growing resistance to the Netherlands as a "Doorsluisland", and our current administration's political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change - so hopefully things will change.

Here's a nice (Dutch) article on it. The big take-away with other tax "havens" is that the money doesn't reside / stay in the Netherlands, it's just passed through it. Like Uber did.

https://www.groene.nl/artikel/doorsluisland
The amount of design-self-righteousness in this "test" is over the top. These decisions are not set in stone and should rightfully be subject to change. If we train designers to adhere to this "right" way we be stuck with an 2020 aesthetic. Also Dark Patterns.
> Why are people insisting this came from a guy eating a bat-burger and bat-fries meal with absolutely no evidence?

The answer is right in the article, at the very end: the virus was found in 6% of samples taken from the market, with most of the virus-positive samples found in areas that had wildlife in it.

That's not "no evidence" at all. I would rate it as slightly -- but only slightly -- more compelling than the circumstantial evidence pointing to a lab leak.
The other significant difference only becomes apparent in a couple of years: the non-stick pan won't last. The coating starts to flake off.

So if you're really in a situation where you could buy only one of the pans, you should buy the one without non-stick coating. It'll last a lifetime.
I had tried to make a simple chat server but without much success. Let me see if I can manage to come up with something now.
Posing a question instead of a title that summarizes the content.

„X happened - see what happens next“ is a classical click bait example, which are often about trying to create a mystery that’s only resolved when clicking the thing. If the title was descriptive one could decide one is not interested.
Gardening is a great relaxing hobby!

I've done it on and off for the last several years.

During COVID I grew 100kg/220lbs of tomatoes.
Taran Van Hemert (LTT video editor)https://medicalmantra.co.in/
<a href="https://medicalmantra.co.in/">Medical Mantra </a>
Thanks! Glad you like it. I'm the original author of Riot (https://riot.js.org/) so that's the style of frontend development I'm most comfortable with. We're using our own flavour of the library, which has the original super-mimimalistic feel on it.
I live in Europe and I would like to decide myself whether my healthcare data is stored somewhere in the in the long term or not.
there's no neat middle ground like buprenorphine but meth & some other stimulants can be prescribed in the US, so that's better than nothing - at least helps w/ problems of contamination, dose ambiguity, health risks associated w/ smoking/injecting etc
Which you might not be able to afford if you're at job like that :/
Why this isn't stamped out ruthlessly?
Because of this we don't have good competition. How can you compete with a company that don't pay taxes?
Unless you are backed by bottomless VC, you cannot.
Maybe that's the thing - these big investors and big corporations have money to make sure politicians won't do anything about it.
Of course, I'm a typical German troll farm run by the mossad. You clearly have incorporated the word I was hinting at.

Why not own it?
Findall/collect/each are not replacement for for loop. They only replace special case of for loop where you are not interested in the value of index.

In general, applications that just process collections of items and running some logic on them can most of the time get away without using for loops, as is probably your case.
https://medicalmantra.co.in/
> This isn't a pissing contest, it's simply the social standard here which sometimes accidentally leaks out to people who do not appreciate it, or wrongly interpret it as rudeness.

Well, as in any other country: there exists rude people in The Netherlands as well ;)

So, the next time when someone says "Oh boy, I talked to this Dutch... he was rude!", what are the chances of that Dutch being a) straightforward, b) rude, or c) both?. I find c) happens most of the time.
Hi, what's the infra behind this? What do you use to store events or only the count of them to generate the numbers?

Other question I have is, you seem to have returning visitors feature and as far as I understood, you store info in localStorage to be able to do that. I guess you're generating a uniq identifier to be able to that and store in the localStorage. Although it's not a cookie, semantically isn't kinda same thing? If you were to store those in cookies you would have needed to show cookie banner, but since it's in localStorage you don't have to?
Disclaimer: Related to projects regarding medical bills and insurance prediction.

I can assure you the data is safe due to being a total mess. Antiquated systems, archived data in different formats, cross institutions joined data based on intuition. Might get something but everything is so disjoint you would need a magician not a hacker for something sizeable.

EU countries at least some western ones I have worked with are OK but their implementation mirrors each country's bureaucracy.
I love the syntax. Very simple and tidy. Reminds me a lot of Rebol/Red/Boron.
#25:
Answer 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive, so both are false.
That makes answer 3 the correct one.
Beside the bipartisan powers-that-be in the US government, the media landscape is obsequious and willing participant too; see 'peace propaganda and the promised land (2004)' [0]. For instance, it didn't make it to the Paper of Record's newsworthiness that the NSA shares, per the Snowden revelations, US citizen's data with Israel [1][2]; to their credit, though, they lightly lament at occasionally getting used as an accessory to the war machine, outside the traditional route [3].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-2tEmqM1_E

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/report-nsa-sharing-u-s-citizens-data... It is hard to miss how the Israeli newspaper Haaretz is a lot more no-nonsense in tone and coverage than, say, the NYT.

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/world/middleeast/israel-g...
No https://medicalmantra.co.in/
This reminds me of my own attempts to read Acorn Atom programs from cassette tapes. I wrote a program to process wave files. Took me quite long to find a reliable method for recognizing the zero's and one's. But even that was not perfect and required some manual editing. For more details, see: http://www.iwriteiam.nl/D0301.html#20
Hey - co-creator here. There's a great explanation for this in the Guardian column that features some of the questions. This is my favourite question because it's really hard, but once you get the explanation it's very satisfying!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/17/did-you-solv...
NetBSD always seemed like a fun little project

I saw a while back that they had it running on Sega's Dreamcast of all things. Linux has a "dreamcast_defconfig" kernel option but as far as I know, no working bootloader anymore

Of course with 16 meg of memory and no local storage it's more of a toy for that but still
You seem to be implying surveillance. I think the actual answer is "because if the library were downloadable, the algorithm used for military physical security would be quickly reverse-engineered."
> With a zoonotic source China is still at fault.

Is it really though? Is that then not a "shit happens" case? No one seems to be particularly angry at how SARS started, or Ebola in Africa etc. It just seems understood that often humans and animals mingle closely together, and then yes, bad things happen, but it's just part of doing business.

Anyway China is implying already that this is what's going on, so I can't see what they would have to lose by confirming it.