skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not useful to most people

You are missing the point. It decentralizes a centralized system that IS useful to most people.

Furthermore, 31% of the world population is unbanked. Maybe “most” people don’t need crypto but a lot of people could use it, should it improve over time.

> We have direct transfers, and nobody has ever stopped one of mine.

Your “direct transfers” take days to settle. And again, a centralized solution. I can’t understand how someone on HN doesn’t see how decentralizing digital finance is not a big deal.

People on HN will understand the need for about decentralized computing, sing songs about it, and self-host what they can - but as soon as it comes to finance it’s “we don’t need that” and “the big players do it for us with their proprietary, KYC solutions.”

Do you really not see the need for being able to send someone money electronically without being at the mercy of a big bank?

> Demonstrably untrue - BTC is still king, and the market follows it slavishly. The users have demonstrated they don't care either, by continuing to support BTC over others. It's speculation and brand recognition, not tech, that people are interested in.

Again, you haven’t done any research. Darknet markets and ransomware alike prefer XMR over BTC and have for some time.

> Which they never will be [educated] en-mass

Good thing we have developers working on simplifying the technology and making it idiot-proof?

> a system with irreversible transactions a poor choice for widespread use.

There is a system like this that already has “widespread use” - cash. If you hand someone cash you can’t take it back either. The immutability of the blockchain is a good thing.

Businesses are legally required to provide refunds if you pay with cash. It would be no different with crypto.

> Smart contracts are a joke, and have unsolvable problems when it comes to interfacing with anything that happens outside of a blockchain

Demonstrably incorrect. DAI is an algorithmic stablecoin worth $1 (+/- $0.01) on the Ethereum network with a market cap of over $4.1 billion. It controls its price by understanding the price of Ethereum, which necessarily happens “outside of the blockchain.”

It is a trustless way to convert ETH to a USD equivalent, requiring no reserves and no auditing. I don’t know how anyone here can’t look at DAI on ETH and see the power of and potential of cryptocurrency - a decentralized, bank-less, trust-less, reserve-less algorithmic currency exchange that anyone can use pseudonymously. It’s incredible.
Russia and Belarus make money from the planes flying over their airspace. They won't be collecting that money so there is at least one consequence.
So today we are making excuses for authoritarians kidnapping opposition members, huh.
Seems Ryanair has not learned much though. PFO-->TLL RYR7BJ is traversing Batka's personal airspace as I write this comment.
Google mail is used by so many because it has resources to make it free.
I was kind of with you up until here. Radios at least are modular in most cars so you can just swap them out. I wouldn't be too surprised if everything else was designed this way at most car manufacturers but with a proprietary module system. Many seem to pick one or two design languages and at that point the buttons need to be designed one or two times.
I someone wants to test MVS-TK4- or VM370 here some resources:

UpToDate MVS distribution: http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/

UpToDate vm370 distribution: http://vm370.org/VM/V1R1.1

390 Emulator: https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion

Best 3270-Terminal for windows: http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/download.html

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What issue do you have with the use of RecursiveFactorization.jl in DifferentialEquations.jl? I can't think of a maturity issue so I'm curious what you have found, or whether this comment isn't grounded in specifics.
Nothing material is going happen as Germany needs that gas pipe. It's obvious from the news that this hijack was done together with Russia.
Wow - Dr. Longping sounds like incredible individual. Does anyone have any recomendations for good articles/books about him?
No dictator is forever.
It's also possible to disagree with both actions, which handily destroys the "But you did it first" attempted defence.
As others have pointed out, Slashdot is a classic site. It has been around for decades at this point and it used to fulfil the role that Hacker News does for me today: it was where I would go to see news about tech.

It makes me sad to see that it has gone down hill so much since I last visited. Hacking the back button like that makes me not want to visit again.
Your Mac user numbers are off by a factor of 10X.

The vast majority of those 5 billion internet users are exclusively accessing the internet through smartphones (cheap android ones), and do not even own a desktop PC/laptop. Android and iOS account for most internet traffic. Android alone is 40% of all internet users. [1]

If the 0.01% number I threw out is correct, then that's not 100,000 Mac users. That would mean there's over a billion people with Macbooks, which is off by a factor of 10. Apple only sells 20 million of them a year. 0.01% would mean more like 5-10,000.

There's not enough demand for MacBook repair for Rossman-types to make a living setting up repair shops anywhere outside of NYC/SF.

And again, this would have no affect on the upgrade cycle. Most people do not throw away their computers because they are broken, they throw them away because they are old tech.

I too am nostalgic for the days of building PC towers for my family, however, when I think about it, all of those towers I built ended up in a landfill.

They were all super easy to repair and upgrade, and yet, nobody did.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
What is the probability of this account being owned by Russian government?

I would say 99% and you’re just perpetuating the same propaganda.
Obviously nobody onboard paid the fee to avoid hostile airspace.
Quoting the NYT obituary:

Mr. Yuan’s research arguably had effects at least as broad, since rice is the main grain for half the world’s population and wheat for a third.
You think Mastodon isn't monitored? What could possibly make you think that?
Criticism is allowed unless you have ambitions to work in government. Critique of the government has become actually quite common in the Russian stand up comedy scene. There are some exceptions, like you cannot show any public disrespect to the Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov (you can google how people apologise to him).

Edit (forgot to mention): also, participating in anti-government protests often results in people losing their jobs or being expelled from the universities

Edit 2: also, there is an ongoing crisis with the independent media: the Russian government is trying to suffocate the independent news outlets by classifying them as foreign agents (which has pretty bad practical outcomes for the news outlet)
Optimizing 100 hours per year to 20 hours isn't much either..

It's 3 days, for that to break even development costs have to very low.

Of course, selling it as a generic app for counting things is a great way to do this.
Very much NOT the same ending. Had this theoretical situation happened, and had fighter jets been scrambled, they would have escorted the plane out of their airspace. They would NOT have forced it to land and arrested any passengers.
There are companies that would insure you if you needed it, but I'm guessing this may not apply to a state-sanctioned kidnapping.
Ah IBM Stretch - first (only?) computer fixed by giving it an oil change .....

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/reports/p...
He did, actually. I finally found the quote again.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/21/live-blog-apple-ceo-tim-cook-...

> “We would also have to come up with an alternate way of collecting our commission,” Cook says. “We would then have to figure out how to track what’s going on and invoice it and then chase the developers down. It seems like a process that doesn’t need to exist.”
> Meanwhile the actual real people on the WHO team said they investigated and didn't find anything more than seasonal flu.

The thing is people doesn't trust WHO.

I think people have somewhat good reasons not to trust WHO blindly now.

I can't say however if this is a good or a bad thing.
> I'm only pointing out these two incidents aren't quite in the same category.

they are the same in motives and principles - in both cases a state pressure was applied to extract an undesirable to the regime citizen from a plane. Focusing on technicalities of the act doesn't resolve the issue with the nature of the act - the corrupt state acting as a bully to coerce its rightful citizen into submittance, with all available means. It shouldn't be a revelation that a scoundrel-of-a-state is ready to escalate the means to fighter jets sooner than later.
Preliminary Alder Lake geekbench results
4MB Jam – You have a month to make a game that fits into 4 Megabytes
Windows Phone failed, but its design stood the test of time
>There's not enough demand for MacBook repair for Rossman-types to make a living setting up repair shops anywhere outside of NYC/SF and MAYBE Seattle.

That's an odd thing to say considering the I've seen half a dozen of those kinds of repair shops in the small city near my home town (I never went out of my way to find them.)

The grocery store near where I live now has one inside it. If someone's backlight/screen/camera suddenly stopped working and they could either pay $100 to fix it or $1000 they're probably going to pick the cheaper option. There absolutely is demand for it. Even if there wasn't taking away people's options for no good reason is kind of terrible anyway.
Thanks for sharing.

What brings you to team bhp?
An anti-hydrogen star - or even an entire star system - surrounded by normal dust would show annihilation events in the spectrum. So it would be very distinctive and unusual.
Russia is becoming increasingly irrelevant and powerless. The economy is tiny for it's size and Europe has been reducing its dependence on Russian natural gas.

That also makes me worried, because they're a nuclear nation and when someone is cornered or has nothing left to lose they can become seriously dangerous.
With moral grandstanding? Yes. Especially when OP made it clear they were not going to actually obtain and run the software. After all, they could've added a non-Steam patch being OSS.
And some parts are can't even be swapped from one genuine device to another - home buttons used to be like that. But in newer iPhones that applies for other components too. IIRC some of them can be reprogrammed somehow but it is additional difficulty not nornally seen in other brands.
>Either this question would have to phrased in a precise mathematical form, or its hopelessly in the realm of metaphysics, where you can't get anywhere beyond speculation.

Assuming reality is a simulation (again, as I explicitly assumed in posing this topic) is at best firmly in the realm of the metaphysical.

Whether or not we live in such a simulation as Bostrum (and others) fantasize is not falsifiable and, as such, not science.

It's all speculation. In fact, I explicitly said so. I'm not looking for science here, as none of it is science in the first place. We can have logic without science or even reality, can't we?

It just struck me that the ambiguities surrounding wave function collapse (the Measurement Problem[0]) could be an artifact of speculative execution on the part of a computing core(s) running such a simulation.

Consider it a speculative dive into a metaphysical concept. I'm not looking for answers.

Rather, I'm interested in thoughtful discussion of what implications such a scenario might have.

If you must have a precise mathematical formulation (although why that might be is unclear), how about this one[1]?

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

[1] https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6384...
and the standard way of doing config is great.
That only works if you read the comment to be meaning that people in Texas - Texas, mind - consider 'conservative states' as being 'evil places of hate'.

I think that the 'cultural reasons' they're referring to are probably more likely to be stereotypes around those areas being home to backwards inbred hill people who marry each other's cousins at gunpoint, have two teeth remaining, use outhouses, etc, etc.

Every group needs some other group to look down on, I guess.
"in both cases a state pressure was applied to extract an undesirable to the regime citizen from a plane"

As I explained - in case of Snowden they would only have prevented him from getting to South America. They wouldn't have extracted him from the plane. If Snowden was on board, he'd simply be flown back to Russia - back to square one.

An analogy in this case would be Belarus merely prohibiting the RyanAir flight from entering their airspace.
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That sounds extremely interesting, would be nice to have more details on this!
Course not, that would annoy Belarus, which might lead to Ryanair losing profit
It looks like a great research direction, if it can be scaled up, I guess all neural processors will be updated in the future.

The video in the article was great as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPZQJfQGoI0
> Drug/Darknet markets, for one. Ransomware for another. These are stress-tests for any currency and prove that crypto can work to exchange value in a real market setting.

Those aren't real market environments by a long shot and far from stress tests. These markets have transactions that are low-volume but high-value. Me, what I'm looking for is something along the lines of "How many grocery transactions globally can crypto do per second?", i.e., high-volume, low-value. Now _that's_ a stress test.

Quick Google survey tells me that BTC can do 10 transactions per second _tops_. That's far from a workable state of affairs. It's not even "promising tech".
I did some math and my idea was:

If the max amount of Bitcoin is 21mio and we assume that a huge chunk of the economy will be payable with these Bitcoin. Then on Bitcoin has to be worth (at least) 1/21mio of that economy chunk.
Noice – Ad-free/open source indefinite background noises
If I'm reading that page right, the update is 2 kB but it does not contain a full set of microcode, only some sort of patch e.g. only for the instructions that need fixes.
It's curious to see that they chose ResNet50 as an architecture. Although there was EfficientNet mentioned in the References.

No word on frameworks, although they used GradCAMs for Keras/TF. So, I am guessing Keras.

They are using voting. And achieving 98% accuracy in 10 votes. Is the model overfit?

This might be novel in archaelogy, but this is a very very easy task to perform for a DL practitioner. But they took their time to read a lot about ML interpretablity, tSNE, transferable features, etc and they cited them. Wanted to be rigorous.
I've been using a bookmarklet in Mobile Safari. Looking for its origin just now, it looks like archive.org uses a Wikipedia page as a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine...
> run commands on the worker host directly

I‘d think that Concourse is not the best fit for this requirement.
I like that idea, this is the perfect *nonviolent* answer to this.

The EU's response is so important here, they have already proved time and time again they are a dog which is all bark and no bite.

I'm sure China and Turkey are watching eagerly.

It doesn't have to be a military response, but no response or the typical waving the finger in the air, can not be afforded here.
Here is a new statement published 45 minutes ago: https://twitter.com/RyanairPress/status/1396767221058359299
Voice control totally sucks in most cars right now, including Teslas. I'd imagine the reason why its dangerous is because people get frustrated with it and have to start poking around at controls/touch screens to correct whatever commands it misinterpreted.

But I can't imagine any reason why, in the future, a good natural voice interface (Siri level or better) would require any more "mental effort" than having a conversation with someone in your passenger seat.

(The studies you link are referring to the distractions of in-car entertainment systems in general, not specifically the voice interface. The problem is really that drivers are taking their eyes off the road for extended periods to operate the touch screen, which wouldn't be necessary if the voice interface was capable enough)
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/world/asia/yuan-longping-...

Here's a speech he gave a few years ago: https://youtu.be/0ts9RqOKaBM
The amount of time it takes to make anything is not relevant to the question of whether something can be stolen or not. Parent poster is being pedantic, probably for the sake of making an old point about IP piracy, but let's keep things grounded.

This sort of scenario is a clear breach of contract, regardless of laws surrounding IP. Apple seems substantially unable or unwilling to retaliate for breach of contract against their own Chinese manufacturing partners. This is a substantial loss of control that sooner or later will come home to roost - because if this can happen to the richest company on the planet, it likely happens to anybody who manufactures anything in China. Simply put, China is the Far West when it comes to civil disputes; "we" ignore this state of things because the margins are still good enough to go there anyway. It's like running a supermarket in a bad part of town: as long as the profit it makes is higher than losses from vandalism and theft, it will stay open. At some point this might stop being the case.
Well done, I like it. Stopped at the strings part though, because it introduces "let" and I still write and prefer ecmascript 5.1. Not for MSIE, but because the spec is much less to print and can much more easily fit in my brain. It's quite nicely done for those who want the modern JS, though.

Suggestion: it asks for a GitHub login twice, but only requires it once. Perhaps it could remember having signed in already?
There is some heavy editorializig by the BBC here.
As a cheese lover, the cheese was fine. That person just posted a photo that also included their fingertips.
> As I explained - in case of Snowden they would only have prevented him from getting to South America.

on what basis and by what standard? What would happen to him if he landed in South America? Would he be able to land in South America?
Just because “good” crypto isn’t the most successful today doesn’t mean it’s not successful.

XMR for example already gets plenty of use on Darknet markets.

Widespread adoption takes time. In the meantime you have volatility and people trying to cash in on volatility. It’s not a big deal, just ignore it, what matters is the tech - which, as XMR has proven, is what matters when push comes to shove.
Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k
Constructive feedback for the article is welcome. Thanks!
Anecdote: although I have spamassassin set up to add a header to my email, my filter for moving likely spam into the appropriate folder is currently commented out, because I get so little spam. I get a very small amount at my public GitHub address, and a little more at one address that is in the source code of a FLO (free/libre/open) app I maintain, but it totals maybe one or two emails a month.

Public organizational emails in orgs I've been a part of (e.g. admin@example.com, community@example.com) get a little more spam, largely sales pitches from what appears to be actual humans at shady SEO companies. Maybe 2 a week.

I get way more "legitimate" corporate spam than actual unprompted/cold spam. The most egregious example in recent memory was when I made an online purchase at Bed, Bath, & Beyond, and made sure the "sign me up for the email list" checkbox was not selected. They sent me no fewer than four emails asking if I would like to sign up for their email list, including one titled, "Thanks for signing up for our email list!" (inside: "Just take this one last step to confirm your subscription <signup link>").

In conclusion, I perceive unwanted email to be largely a self-inflicted problem at present. For example, someone I know likes to complain about the quantity of email she receives, but also refuses to unsubscribe, because sometimes she sees something interesting in one of the many promotional lists she's on. I also don't understand people who say they're not bothered by advertising, but to each her own.
I wonder why they don't integrate the transformer in the circuit board, that would be even more elegant.

Does the transformer PCB have more layers or heavier copper than the rest of the board?
You're absolutely right. We have it quite good, all things considered. It's not like I'd have chosen another career if someone told me how the real world works up front - but it would've saved me a few years of pain due to mismatched expectations.
I disagree. This code:

main = do
putStrLn "Hello, what's your name?"
name <- getLine
putStrLn $ "Hello " ++ name

is not pure in any meaningful sense. At least not any more pure than the similar code in any other language.
Sadly, I'm currently working with EDIFACT... It is alive and kicking in Europe.
No, much smaller. I would agree that the EU's foreign policy is a disaster because of traditionally corrupted elites. The fact that the russian elites are even more corrupted is not an excuse.
Even wiki only list Advantages over conventional counterparts, what are the trade offs and drawbacks?

These days everyone is busy telling me all the benefits of something without telling me the price / cost / cons. I need facts so I could make up my mind. Not a marketing pieces.
So?

The extension is still being developed[1] but they haven't uploaded newer versions for Firefox recently. Check the Github Issues ([2],[3])

[1] https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextens...

[2] https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextens...

[3] https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextens...
Show HN: Graphqurl v1.0: cURL for GraphQL with autocomplete and subscriptions
So, what do you think the international community should have done in 2014? Or are you advocating for non-intervention in what was unfolding at that point?
The point with Android Auto (and CarPlay) is that it keeps working with future devices. Your current phone might stop getting updates, but your new one will work with your car too.

The interface is actually running on your phone, but using your car's display as an external display and touch input device.
They sent a fighter jet. I don't think the pilot had much of a choice.
Thanks!
Weird, it shouldn't ask for GitHub login twice. When was the second time that it asked? Was that maybe on the flashcards app?
Nothing is forever.
Bitdefender find flaw in Darskide Malware, hackers fixed if and attack Colonial
> Even if that means legitimate mail gets marked as spam

I think that’s “especially as”. Other mail providers are competition, after all.
> My understanding is that managing heat is >still< the ultimate factor limiting performance

It seems fitting that I'm hearing the fans spin up to full blast on my ThinkPad X1 Extreme laptop supercomputer as I compile some code in an Ubuntu VM while starting up a CPU-hungry Point Of Sale system in a Windows VM, and reading your comment on the Windows host OS.

It is nice that I can step away from the computer and just listen for the fans to quiet down again to tell when everything is ready to go.