skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waking up and realizing you were dreaming is not the same as waking up and then dreaming
It's pretty useful for scammers, extortionists, drug sellers, money launderers and all other kind of people that want to bypass or break laws. But that's about it.
This doesn't sound like a good deal for the average business with zero experiencing managing their mail.
One spam block and you're done, you'll spend at least a week dealing with that.
At some point I will want to buy an electric truck. The biggest appeal with Tesla is that I don’t need to deal with dealership.
I've always taken issue with the positioning of "batterygate" - IMO, they extracted the maximum the battery had to offer along all points of the battery's lifecycle curve. They are consumables after all, and their performance degrades over time. They should be user-serviceable though.
It was a default judgment.
it is regretable that the bitcoin network and related networks are so dependent on modern computer infrastructure which is controlled by a handfull of institutions. But perhaps it does not need to be this way
I presume he is talking about phones stolen from consumers that have been parted out.
It would be interesting to see it fully redubbed with the actor’s own unaccented voice.
Most transactions and legitimacy come from exchanges, not individual clients. I think they will have more clout than the client writers.
Still don't see it. The patient's gaze is puzzlingly higher up her arm.
Given the recent revelations that MailChimp is fact checking (reading) your email content and deciding whether they should not send it (i.e. the contemporary corporate censorship cause)... there may be more than cost for self hosting business applications

https://techstartups.com/2020/10/30/forget-big-tech-censorsh...
Too resistive, or at least, higher than what they were aiming for.

You can compensate by making traces wider to get a lower resistance from the same resistivity, or by running circuits slower (digital circuit speed is often limited by the RC time constant where C is parasitic capacitance of an input somewhere — a higher-resistance trace takes longer to charge up the input gate capacitance). How hard it is to adjust for the higher resistivity will depend on the circuit, of course.
I think a big part of its future will be using it to implement Kubernetes operators. See https://www.ansible.com/integrations/containers/operators

It seems like a good fit in that role, as the other main option is writing your operator in Go, which is even more imperative, and usually ends up seeming a little too low level and like overkill for the tasks an operator actually has to do at runtime. Either one can be a good option, but many people will go with ansible, and I see it carving out quite an important little niche with operators.
Silkroad, money laundering, tax evasion, exit scams, pump&dumps, crypto pyramids, ransomware – all this improves someone's day / process / life. Why don't you want to see the opportunities?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection#Classification

"The word infection can denote any presence of a particular pathogen at all (no matter how little) but also is often used in a sense implying a clinically apparent infection (in other words, a case of infectious disease).This fact occasionally creates some ambiguity or prompts some usage discussion; to get around this it is common for health professionals to speak of colonization (rather than infection) when they mean that some of the pathogens are present but that no clinically apparent infection (no disease) is present. "
Why is he using earnings for the entire economy and then conflating that with salary wages for working people? Could it be that that spike in earnings is mostly in non-wage compensation that has disproportionately gone to the very richest https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/12/01/american-bil...

Also note that using earnings vs salary/hourly wages and focusing on the 14 years since 2007 obscures the inconvenient truth that since the 1970s hourl wages have been stagnant, at best, for most people https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
A website that plays a different sound effect based on the key you press
it's also interesting to witness a bit glass thing acting like a capacitor

The very first capacitors were glass jars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar
Your comparison lags. There are food regulations yet there are a lot of stores where I can buy food.

I trust the government to impose regulation on food manufacturers but I trust vendors with their selection of manufacturers. Why should the store landscape on iOS be any different where I put my trust in the store?

This would actually mirror my food shopping as well. I trust my vendor, why would this not translate to store operators on the OS? Aside from the fact that Google and Apple have done a piss poor job with this... I'm fairly certain I would trust Epic, Valve or MS (or even EA and Ubi).
The question is does Apple's bargaining power come from monopoly power? That's exactly what makes it anti-competitive.
The core critique Marxists make have of liberal politics is that liberalism is not democratic enough. Specifically, Marxists argue for democracy in the workplace whereas liberals are comfortable centralizing power over the means of production to a select few capitalists.

Marxists are for organizing society to serve the needs of the working class which reproduces society.

Marxists are progressive as they don’t deny the progress of history, which moves in one direction and cannot be turned back. Marxists understand capitalism as a necessary stage in the development of society but one that can only be temporary.
It applies to anything said by the judge in open court. It is intended to elicit a response from the parties. Judges don’t make comments on their thoughts out loud for the benefit of participants.
The world is much worse if we don't let people correct their mistakes.
Maybe I'm wrong but I see this perspective so often on HN. And I can't help but feel that this is because so many people on HN are already privileged - living in the first world, making software salaries, and generally have a world of opportunities available to them, especially when it comes to their money.

But coming from a third world country, the promise of a decentralized, permissionless market seems extremely promising. Particularly if it doesn't restrict me because of my location or capital or identity.

If the internet broke geographical barriers, this tech can break barriers of capital and identity and credentialsm.

While I won't talk about the idealized vision of blockchains, smart contracts can automate away a large number of fairly complex interactions. There is already a pretty thriving decentralized financial market that anyone can access from any part of the world with any amount of capital - no KYC or questions asked.

A very basic usage: using Curve.fi to swap between tokenized USD (USDC) and tokenized EURO (EURS) with minimal slippage and fees, all permissionless, all freely accessible. If I was an American and wanted to have Euro to spend on my vacation, would this not be a better way to go about it instead of going to the bank, dealing with someone, and paying their exorbitant fees?

The only missing part is the ability to easily spend this tokenized EURO, but that - I'm hoping - will come later. The core tech - smart contracts, blockchains - work.

A more advanced use case: deploy tokenized USD into a vault that lends it out according to a set strategy, earning the lender interest passively. The individual who created the strategy, in term, earns a fee based on their returns generated. Again, this individual can be from anywhere and doesn't have to have a fancy office and degrees to get investment "clients". Nor does the lender have to deal with anyone to lend out their money.

If this tech allows Raj from India to build a "hedge fund", and for Joe from America to invest with as little as $1, and the two never have to know each other, and can interact entirely with a smart contract available 24x7, what's there not to be excited about?

In the serious crypto world, there is a maxim: Code is Law.

I would reckon that alone should make HN bullish on crypto. When was the last time you worked at a tech company where Code was truly the Law?

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Some links if anyone wants to explore this further:

1. Uniswap.org - anyone can set up trading between any two tokenized assets. Want to trade between the price of gold and Venezuelan Bolivar? Sure, go ahead and use the price oracles from Chainlink to create these two tokens, set up a trading pair, and allow anyone to speculate on these two assets. Or you can just be a market maker (something only big funds can do in TradFi) and earn fees on the trades.

2. Curve.fi - swap between tokenized stable coins, such as EURO > USD, without ever having to visit the bank or paying their fees or doing their KYC.

3. AAVE.com - Lend or borrow between tokenized assets
Seems like mrustc is up to 1.39:

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

Does the bootstrapping require every single step up to the current rustc or can it skip some steps?
I know that one of the very hard problems with automating email is not landing in the spam folder.

I always had the impression that using services like Mailchimp make that much less likely than doing it DIY on top of a more commodity transport like SES. I.e. they stay on top of and evolve with best practices over time so you don't have to.

Is that in any way accurate?
If america has Zimbabwean inflation maybe.
The US specifically bans most cooperation with China.
...then you might actually be able to use and manage multiple windows in MacOS, and have real fullscreen windows that don't have to use the confusing hack of being implemented as new virtual desktops. Just sayin'...
Lol! Sorry. I would if I could!
Each!
Nope I mean theft from the official factory. Given the working conditions, I wouldn't be surprised if the workers were smuggling out parts or were doing a whole "night run" for the secondary market (at higher prices than what Apple pays) in addition to the normal run.
It’s funny, my favorite useless projects have also mostly been compilers and game engines!

+1 to this mindset. I would go even further and suggest that useless projects tend to be morally superior to useful ones. A lot (not all) of the useful software out there ends up being used to make the world worse, but useless software can only ever inspire joy (in yourself and, hopefully, in others).
Protasevich, as far as I heard, openly called for actions which would be considered criminal in any western state (of course you don't hear about that from your "free press)". For this purpose he was possibly in contact with the western "secret services".
I wonder how the west would act in a similar situation. Remember, Smowden WAS NOT in any kind of contact with Russia, and did not call neither to unlawful actions neither to violence against politicians. Still the plane of Morales was forced to land, and if Snowden waas there, he would get a treatment probably worse than that of Bradley Manning.

But above all, I don't understand why you think you have any right whatsoever to tell others which governments are good or bad for them.

And to all those who tell "we must react", ask yourself if you are prepared to die for "democracy in Belorussia". Because this is where it might end if you don't uderstand that the only place you do have the right to choose the government for is your "land of the free". So called , that is.
I just recently made a nice little 3.3V, 5V, and 12V power supply for my electronics bench using the power supply from an old server.

Saved me from buying one and kept the power supply from ending up getting throwed out.

"Win-win", as my annoying ex-boss would say.
> to avoid charging in the App Store altogether.

Not if the AppStore is to offer competitive processing fees.
I recommend against this. Most supplies have a bleed circuit, but if it doesn't or it doesn't work (at all or not fast enough), then shorting primary-side capacitors can make a really nice bang and also damage your "shortening implement". That bang can startle you and make you hit something. Been there done both. Not a great idea IMHO.

Check for voltage - If not present / marginal, Then shorten, Else discharge through resistor and GoTo Check. A "capacitor discharge tool" automates this cycle.
Yeah, I neglected to account for device pixel ratio in the examples, so they will probably look blurry; I'll need to go back and fix those.
There are a ton of newer blockchains using "progressive decentralization" or "minimum viable decentralization".
But with fiat there is no trust between the people, the trust is provided by the banks, they act as the arbitrators because humans cannot trust each other. When we used to barter we stopped because it was sometimes unfair (convert bread to chickens?) so we invented money (gold) which is natural occurring and rare so we trust it more. Later on we invented banks which are a third party we use them as arbitrators because we don't trust each other. Now we invented blockchains (distributed ledgers) so we can see all the changes being made on the ledger because we don't trust each other.
I didn't want to make things too complicated, so I focused on the adoption by nation states in my original post. The use of the Julian calendar in todays Serbian Orthodox Church you mentioned is a special of a broader movement. Some other Orthodox Churches use it as well. In a sense, the only territory that AFAIK uses the Julian calendar today is the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos[1], which is an autonomous self-governed territory inside Greece.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_Republic_of_Mount_Ath...
This line of reasoning is how to tell the difference between a manager and an engineer :)
No, This Man Invented the Internet (2000)
Safari for macOS has push notifications, arguably the most important component of PWAs.
It's not exactly the same but it's almost the same - multiple countries synchronously closing their airspace so plane can't just go around single one thus basically forcing plane down as it could run out of fuel is quite similar to faking bomb alert in order to force plane down. Only lame excuse is different.
Probably non-existent since the thickness of insulation layer isn't controlled.

Surprisingly, silicone rubber has a dielectric constant between 2 and 4 [1], which is pretty close to FR-4's 4.4. So maybe it isn't impossible?

[1]https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/polymers/polymers-09-00533...
Plane was registered in Poland.
Key point here is "very hard to move to Android". Seeing as this is not at all easy (and I have gotten to work via this method at some point), it presents a barrier to changing platforms. Likewise ,not allowing access to calendar on a mobile browser is pretty blatant.
I am confused, are you saying that the only way to manage your subscriptions in iOS is via the music app and not the App Store?
The server you run node/MySQL/nginx on isn't free.
I really enjoyed this post, thank you so much for writing it. It made me think of a lot of "personal app" ideas I've had over the years, almost all of them orbiting around the idea of sharing something with my family friends in a more simple and straightforward way than off the shelf apps.
> But coming from a third world country, the promise of a decentralized, permissionless market seems extremely promising. Particularly if it doesn't restrict me because of my location or capital or identity.

Your entire argument is about the promise of blockchain and not the actual current applications people are using. Your argument is theoretical when OP is asking for practical use cases. You mention many hypotheticals but not a single "I use blockchain for X" or "my mother uses blockchain for X" which is what actually matters.

> While I won't talk about the idealized vision of blockchains

As far as I'm concerned that's all you talked about, and you don't even realize it.
Definitely not a read for hypohondriacs :)
very useful, I was looking up for something like this. How to make it run kubernetes (k3s) cluster, especially the `sysctls` part.
Which ideas do you think will not go away?
Ask HN: Is My Novel “Racist?”
I have written a 170,000-word campus/racetrack novel, entitled CALVIN’S GHOST, that is set in Princeton, NJ and Portland, OR between 1969 and 1992. The story concerns a young professor forced to revisit a childhood trauma. Racial themes are important in the novel, although perhaps secondary to the underlying family drama. The story concludes shortly following the LA riots in April 1992.

Recently, a junior editor at a well-regarded publisher replied to a query from my agent. He wrote, “While I appreciated the author's willingness to discuss race directly, I thought the descriptions of Black people in the first 50 pages--as violent, threatening, exotic, sexualized--contradicted the admirable aims."

Obviously, this is a terrible time to be publishing a novel, but senior editors at major publishers gave my manuscript respectful responses even while declining to move forward with it. None of them mentioned concerns voiced by this younger editor.

The 50 pages of CALVIN’S GHOST the young editor read derive from racial interactions and dynamics in the early and mid-1970s, when I was a teenager. My relationships with real people inform the scenes in these early pages. The language is realistic. They map closely to the world in which I grew up and in that sense are "true," even when specific events in the story have been embellished or invented.

The charge of racism is especially serious, particularly when one believes that our current moment of racial reckoning requires that we face our past directly, even when it makes us uncomfortable or does not comport with our sense of the world as it ought to be.

For those interested in checking out the pages of CALVIN'S GHOST that inspired this response from the young editor, you can read them using the link below. Thanks for any thoughts and feedback.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/816be1re6z8qyc7/Peter_Hammond_Schwartz.Calvins_Ghost.1-5.pdf?dl=0
Given you can't run most games on current-gen consoles offline I'm not sure that's the point you think it is.
It recognizes how things are already. The 5 V and 3.3 V step-down converters in the PSU are pretty much only for Molex/SATA-connected peripherals, and those don't use 3.3 V anyway (99.5 % of them), since it's not guaranteed to be there. So the 3.3 V rail is pretty much pointless. 5 V not quite as much, but even in an enthusiast-level PC there will be probably just a handful of things actually connected to that - most likely SSD/HDD and maybe something like a fan controller.

No heavy loads are connected to the 5 V / 3.3 V rails. Those are all supplied through the 12 V rail.
It's not weird because it didn't happen.
Is Ireland a Low Tax Haven?
“Neural Network Lip Sync For Translations” feels like a more honest tagline than “Neural Network Enabled Filmmaking”. I get that you’re probably aiming for filmmakers, and they can definitely make good use of this tech, but I’ve gotta imagine the “whales” in this market are companies with hundreds of hours of corporate training videos that need to be localized.

But no matter the audience, cutting to the chase about what the product does is super important.
You can take any obscenely inefficient technology and apply it to anything and say "look, it's useful", but that doesn't make it a good idea or viable or really even not pointless.

I heard it best put as: blockchain provides trustlessness at very high operational cost -- do we have a business case where trustlessness is a competitive advantage? If not, just use a database or equivalent

So like yes, you can implement insurance and messaging and contracts with blockchain. Is there a need to do that? Does it make sense? Would that business work? (Zero percent of such businesses have worked)

The sending money part is certainly a legitimate use. Unfortunately it's being totally broken by speculation on all the coins (not to mention high gas).
What do you want them to do? Do you think people anywhere are willing to go to ( potentially nuclear ) war over Belarus? And even if there's a war, ans the "good guys" win, how does that guarantee that things will be better than before, and won't devolve into chaos and civil war, like they did in Iraq or Lybia?
> How is the PoS model not "a list of transactions, and a protocol for deciding which transactions are allowed to be added to that list?"

It is. You seem to be the only one who thought the author said it isn't. He never did. He just said it's not a good one, because it's based on circular logic.

> I understand that the protocol itself is the source of controversy, but I don't understand why the author views PoS as circular but not PoW.

Because of the last step, "Who gets to decide which transactions are / which chain is valid?". In PoS that is "he who has the most coin". This will obviously lead to situations where Coiner A claims that Chain A -- where Coiner A has the most coin -- is the valid and correct one, while Coiner B claims that Chain B -- where Coiner B has the most coin -- is the valid and correct one, and Coiner C in turn claims that Chain C -- guess who has the most coin on that one? -- is... And so on and on.

Within the logic of each claim, that claim is of course the only possible and obviously correct one... But to you and me, if we are neither Coiner A, B, or C -- how do we choose which claim to accept? They all boil down to, in effect, "I'm right and I can prove it -- look, here's my proof, which is that I say I'm right." ("I have a chain which shows me having the most coin", which is the same thing.) That's the circular reasoning.

With PoW, in contrast, that proof is based on "I did more 'work' than anyone else", which is mathematically provable and (at least not as directly) self-referential in terms of "I have the most money because I say I have the most money, which proves that I have the most money."

(PoW is of course just about equally idiotic, only in another way: Proof that you have wasted precious resources and contributed to destroying the environment shows, not that you've created any value, but that you've destroyed it.)
While the idea is amazing, I can't help but think about the environment. Until I'm not good enough at electronics and prototyping I think it's cheaper and safer for the environment if I experiment with a breadboard
Not in our experience, we've only used SES to send emails and haven't had any reports of Customers not receiving emails or any of our emails having ended up in their spam folder, although we've never sent any marketing or promotional emails so our flagged rates should be really low.
And then, it is not even your own solution, but AWS SES.

I have been running mail servers for 20+ years, sending volumes that would have made me multiple times bancrupt if I was doing it via Mailchimp or SES.