skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a zero sum game though. Every dollar spent on some far away possibility somewhere in space is a dollar less spent on issues that exist here and now and need crazy amounts of money to solve.
They show up on Amazon.com too, for me.
I remember in the 80s, devices would all come with the complete schematics right there in the box. I remember poring over them after buying something, I thought it was fascinating. Like my TV, computer etc. Everything.

This should really be brought back, even though component-level fixing is not nearly as easy as it was back then.
>you are free to use your own service

Do you have any sources on how restrictive valve are or have been with that, or is that just speculation? Can developers default to their own payment systems and bypass valve's, or is theirs required to take a secondary, less-accessible option (when it's even allowed)?

From the same thread, the mtx cut taken was a dealbreaker for redfall studios, so it certainly sounds like they didnt get the option for their own mtx transaction service: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1ogbo7/will_mo...

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I did not, no. Thanks.
Most of the article is about why your idea is insufficient.
Really? I'm down-voted for trying to help uncover where it doesn't work?
"Hey! I have the code wrapped in k8s! it is now serving an endpoint - let's start giving it a small amount of traffic!"
The Curiosity neutron source is indeed a conventional pulsed sealed-tube neutron source, not a Penning trap.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5253560_The_Dynamic...
So you want a keeper to just stand in the middle and never save anything while everyone shoots to the side?
what happens when everyone on the chain discards old transactions?
> -12v, -5v

What prevents one from just wiring mobo.5v to port.gnd and mobo.gnd to port.-5v? That would effectively create a -5v potential between port.gnd and port.-5v
hello, I am planning to write articles about this topic in Clojure. Anything specific in webapp/scripting that might of interest to you?
Bitcoin is a stagnant ecosystem. It’s not useful for everyday monetary transactions, and the developer community is too conservative to introduce features that would allow scaling up meaningfully (lightning is insufficiently decentralized)
Why not? It's your property. Though it's your responsibility to not endanger other people with your actions.
>> So how can it reflect badly on their case?

> Because these privacy violations are happening despite their locked down App Store.

That’s an obviously false comparison. You are comparing against a perfect world, not against the real world.

A valid comparison is against what privacy violations would be happening without the App Store.

As a simple example, we know for certain that Facebook would be a doing a lot more tracking without the App Store, because they have told us in public that they would.

Therefore the App Store is in fact protecting users against large categories of privacy concerns, and this easily corrected hole doesn’t change that.
Parachuting Beavers Video [1950s]
IMF says $50B is needed to end Covid pandemic in 2022
The repair cost isn't dominated by the cost of parts, but operation cost such as labour and rent.

If your concern are the $100+ for repair, then it will be the same regardless Apple provide the parts or not. Not to mention knowing Apple, they will definitely sell you an iPhone battery for $20+. Earning the same Gross Margin as their product.
Too resistive. Copper, silver, and gold are used because they have very low resistance. Having high resistance in the traces makes anything more complex than a few low speed components not practical.
Even weirder to pooh-pooh government funded concept studies when SpaceX is literally the poster company for governments chucking money at private enterprises to come up with innovative new solutions to variants of space problems with already existent solutions (after a decade and three orders of magnitude more funding)

Not only is the requirement highly unlike LEO satellites, but members of both consortiums have satellite tech of their own (which is arguably both more mature and more relevant to the requirements than Starlink)

Just as well nobody decided it wasn't worth NASA wasting money evaluating the PayPal guy's ideas when off the shelf space tech existed, though...
They recently rewrote Bitcoin history due to government action.

This never happened. You are spreading lies.
The examples all look pixelated/blurry...
Unblocked link:

https://archive.is/wzAqF
South Korea became democratic after a revolution against the US-installed government. But even then, it's an incredibly weak democracy - every single South Korean prime minister resigned in disgrace, without any exception, after some kind of illegal action or corruption (!!!).
This has some really questionable assumptions.
Like the part about permanence.

"An important property of a blockchain that users really value is permanence. A digital asset stored on a server will stop existing in 10 years when the company goes bankrupt or loses interest in maintaining that ecosystem. An NFT on Ethereum, on the other hand, is forever."

This is wrong 2 times.

First, there is no general requirement of permanent storage. Its not important at all. It solely depend on the use case. Thats why it is very much inefficient to use a DLT with that property to move value (btc/eth etc.). I dont care how my coins was moved 10 years ago. The only storage that is relevant for me, now, for value transfer is the current undisputed state (aka the balances). Sure the Tx history has use cases and people who need them should store them but making that a technical requirement is only going to degrade performance and drive up Tx cost.

BTW cash does not have a recorded Tx history who thought "p2p cash" should?
Its only because of the way BTC works (chain of all Tx) that this "believe" became common. Its technically not needed at all. There is absolutely no reason to recreate the whole chain to come to the current state. You either use the current state or you cant participate. If you would find an error in the chain whatcha gonna do about? Nothing. The current majority accepted state is all that matters. The "validation" is placebo it does nothing. And by running the exact same software as anyone else your validation would simply do the same error if there would be one.

Second, the "forever" is a blatant lie. There is no way to know. Its will exist for however long at least someone is willing to store it. Exactly the same is true if storing is optional. But without the downside of crippling the performance and impose cost on the people running the DLT.
The cost for storage should be paid by the user of the storage.
If I can impose cost on all participants of a decentral system for all eternity with a one time payment then the system is deeply flawed. The possibility for abuse can be limited by simply making it expensive at any given time. But this obviously reduces the usefulness of the whole system especially for value transfer. The idea of an internet of value is to make value move like data, dirt cheap and decentral so no one takes a cut.
No, it isn't always laziness.

Sometimes it's politics (I had a colleague leave a job because the new director of development mandated they rewrite their flagship enterprise apps in React Native because he got a song and dance from a React Native trainer/consultant and wouldn't listen to the people who knew what they were talking about).

Sometimes it's different priorities (a meetup buddy of mine some years ago had to write apps in PhoneGap because "We're in the oil bidness, not the app badness").

It isn't always "the best allocation of limited resources", either. Apart from having to do extra work to make the UX close to native (which isn't trivial), using a "cross platform" solution means you've just included a giant third party dependency that you don't control or maintain. Call it FUD if you want to, but in the forty-odd years I've done programming/development that's never been a good bet. If resources are really limited, the best bet is to have a decent design and very clear (reasonable) expectations and pay someone good to execute them.
I think batteries are easily replaceable in most military equipment.

The irony is that a lot of military equipment is designed to destroy and be destroyed, yet is probably designed with serviceability in mind more than consumer electronics.
Let’s say my app has two containers: container A serves a static page for my SPA, and container B is a back-end that exposes an API for A.

So which set of containers would be a pod here? And which would be the nodes? And what would be the cluster?

(For the sake of the example, let’s assume that both A and B scale independently.)
> This “be relaxed and chill to make a good film” idea is delusional

I studied film. I directed films and I was on more films sets than I wish I would have been. While this is certainly uncommon (especially in low budget productions), it is definitly not delusional. Quite the opposite, as I already argued.
It isn't useless by any stretch, it is non-Commericial, it is playful, experimental. I understand the sentiment and the terminology, not challenging it, but being silly and playful should be just as valid as making a your next open source side hustle.

Once things start getting _serious_ for some definition, a whole other cloud rolls in. There is now a right way to do things, but how do we know this is the right way. How do the boundaries get pushed? Much of the time, best practices is a signaling phrase to have an in group and an out group.

Things like esolangs give one cover to be playful. For example if you try metaprogramming in Python, you will be called out as unpythonic. If you create classes in Python with public member variables, you will be ridiculed.
School is being paid for, even in the US, I think? Just keep your head down, do your homework, don't do drugs, don't get in trouble, and your odds for escaping poverty are probably quite good.
An interactive presentation on Kernel Density Estimation
Neem oil mixed with warm water and sprayed on the plants works pretty well.

Ladybirds (you can buy larvae which you can release in about 10 days) also works for aphids, they gobble them up.
I feel honest money should be rather more hoarding resistent...
Wind giant Vestas says it can now fully recycle wind turbine blades
Systems architect?! I want a load balancer. What’s your top 5 excluding HAProxy?
It's just a few lines of text complain about Windows, and some windows UI screenshots copied onto a max desktop. Not worth 2 minutes of video.

The original "Microsoft iPod" video from 2006 is much better
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
Yeah this is still the case AFAIK - very annoying. I believe their recommended workaround was to have 2 separate merchant accounts with different fee structures and group your products accordingly.
A couple of points, the first is criticising lack of real-world use-cases for nascent technology is like criticising the web in the mid 90's. It's like expecting the cart to lead the horse.

Having said that, there's plenty of projects big and small that have merit. Granted, a lot of published "case studies" are just marketing fluff to attract search traffic, that shouldn't be an indictment of the technology itself which shows a lot of potential, especially where complex transactions need to be brokered between parties with competing interests.

DHL & Accenture have investigated and prototyped uses in supply chain logistics for pharmaceuticals -

- https://supplychaindigital.com/technology-4/dhl-and-accentur...

- https://www.dhl.com/au-en/home/insights-and-innovation/insig...

- [PDF warning
DHL case study] dhl.com/content/dam/dhl/global/core/documents/pdf/glo-core-blockchain-trend-report.pdf

Banks are serious about blockchain for reconciliation -

- https://australianfintech.com.au/cba-westpac-back-r3-blockch...

Use case for trading distributed power generation with power ledger smart contracts -

https://www.powerledger.io/clients/tata-power-ddl-india

You'll find most of these projects are in prototype phase or early adoption, and as I said there's loads of disinformation, but if you filter through the crud and look for serious projects with demonstrated applications or investments you should be able to see the potential.

Again if you recall the mid 90's, companies like Amazon were just an online book shop, or Google was just an idea in a statistician's thesis. Far more ideas bombed that were successful; there was a time when the internet hadn't decided what to do about advertising and settled on Google's model. There was a bubble that popped and lots of investors were left in the lurch. But eventually the ideas that worked survived and these companies are the largest in the world today and spawned entire new industries.

In light of this, my view is that it's a stretch to say "scam after scam, that's all blockchain is." at this point, although there are plenty of scams surrounding it, definitely don't write it off entirely just yet.
AS 3.0 was the closest we got to an ECMAScript 4 implementation.
If a decentralized technology has to rely on centralized custodians for scaling, then it is not decentralized

(It might still be useful, but you can’t call it decentralized or censorship-resistant or whatever)
> So we have to trust that the ECB and FED...

"Fed", not "FED". It isn't an acronym.

> But then again, so did the CDC two years ago.

Oh. Sigh... Yeah, that weird capitalisation seems to be more popular among alt-right nutjobs.
Seagate’s new Mach.2 is the world’s fastest conventional hard drive
You know? I don't get your obsession with same/next-day delivery. Besides that, my first shopping on Aliexpress involved some microcontroller boards which I've ordered between 3 and 4AM in my local german time, after long searching. Clicked on some fast delivery option for a dozen EURos more, because it didn't matter, compared to what they would have cost elsewhere. Went to bed, next day passed with no thought about delivery, because I expected it to be about 3 days at best, probably a week. Then the next noon the postman rang my bell. That was unexepected. Shenzen->Hamburg in about 30hrs. And no, wasn't local fulfilment. Got all the stamps from customs, and whatnot else.
I'd say that is fast enough, even EXCELLENT!
Many reasons!
These Canadian fintech moments have surprised me over the years
There is an interesting blog post by the author on the development and his experiences and lessons, on LÖVE, coding style, reuse of code, etc: https://www.a327ex.com/posts/lessons_second_game/
I used to be a skeptic of blockchain, but then I actually investigated what is going on in the industry. Yes there is a lot of fud, poor ideas, etc, but there are also lots of interesting cool ideas that just will not go away. Reminds me of the dotcom boom, actually.
> Instead, a more likely scenario is that it is to prevent people who have no idea what they are doing from opening a machine, doing more damage, and then having a more expensive repair.

Oh no! So Apple is trying to save people money through all this? We've been so blind to their goodwill...

I like how you change the discussion topic so easily. We went from discussing whether Apple is the worst R2R offender to discussing the quality of their products and now the discussion is about my assessment of precisely what percentage of what Apple does is out of spite instead of other lame excuses to prevent people repairing their products.

The entire discussion is about bad patterns of behavior that have emerged over the years from a particular company called Apple. The history of Apple's behavior is long and people are not going to waste time rehashing it all over again here, especially not when you're already aware of past events and yet only begrudgingly acknowledge their existence as isolated events when others force you to. That makes having a genuine conversation about the topic pretty infeasible.
The notion of 'decentraliztion' as presented by the blockchain community is basically extremist/absolutist, and it's ruining their own projects.

Our entire civilization and everything in it depends on networks of trust. Without it, we'd fall down instantly.

To require a system of 'absolute decentralization' when 'partial decentralization' would work just as well, doesn't make sense.

We technical people have an odd way of falling into these kind of traps - we're trapped in theory, unable to map to the real world pragmatically.

DNS on the internet works on the basis of 'partial decentralization' and it works very well. There wouldn't be that much point in making it 'fully decentralized'. We could push it maybe a few inches more that way, but there's zero requirement to go 'fully decentralized' for it.

You get vastly diminishing marginal returns to effort when you start to go absolutist.

Much like Rust, which has some very nice outcomes but trades absolutely everything for those outcomes, some small tradeoffs in decentralization for Blockchain would yield probably some big benefits.
GDPR didn't really work out that way, everybody still tries to collect and sell as much data as possible, only with more clicks. But that's besides the point.

To be honest I also don't see the point of the EU blocks, as you say. I assumed it was mostly just lazyness and unwillingness to deal with the issue at all.
Interesting.

The Israeli Iron Dome project did it differently. From the references in the Wikipedia article I found this gem:

"As scientists we dream to sit in our offices without limitations of time and budget and to develop perfect products. But the reality is different, and these constraints forced us to think hard. There are parts in the system forty times cheaper than the parts we buy normally. I can give you even a scoop—it contains the world's only missile components from Toys R Us... One day I brought to work my sons toy car. We Passed it among us, and we saw that there were actually components suitable for us. More than that I can not tell.".
If you're doing something creative then deadlines can be useful to stop yourself from constantly tweaking. Actually finishing stuff helps with morale and also allows you to review and hone processes, rather than getting lost in the weeds. I dabble in music production and the amount of 16 bar loops I had before actually deciding to restict myself (with the help of a friend adjudicating) was mind-boggling. Once I'd started to finish stuff it became easier overall to not get stuck in a rabbit hole.
Inherently no; consensus requires redundant computation.
Cool. When you commuted did you take the Ammertalbahn and S-Bahn, or did you drive? There was no high school in Herrenberg after the war, so my dad took the train to Tübingen every day and had to cross between the French and American zones of occupation.
Lightning channel factories will reduce the on-chain transaction requirements very significantly by batching many channels open/closes into a single transaction.
So what? Why does the price have to remain the same despite technological advancements that are totally capable of reducing it to almost zero? It's as if we suddenly discovered a way to produce unlimited amounts of food, for free, anywhere in the world, but food manufacturers would start raising a stink about how important it is that people would still starve.
> Western countries definitely won't do that in Belarus, a boots-on-the-ground invasion like that seems totally implausible

Why so?

NATO completely towers over Belorus army. It has only a single airbase — Minsk, and all its air defence for this city only.

More importantly, it's military is critically short of skilled manpower, just like is Russian army (having more vehicles than pilots for them.)

Belarus triggering a defence treaty with Russia? Pffff, he can trigger it upon his own head, as did Armenia.

Russia will not come when faced with credible force.

> but now the regime has succeeded in repressing the opposition (partly through acts like in this article), they can't rally masses as much anymore, so no chances in the short term;

Any government in the world can be overthrown by a popular revolt. Any.

If you think about things seriously, and reject useless sentimentalism, using power starts make sense.

A very obvious benefit of doing so, is that it is the quickest, and easiest way to discredit defeatist voices.
Technically the Serbian Orthodox Church still hasn't adopted the Gregorian calendar, so their religious holidays continue to gradually fall further out of sync with the rest of the world. Eventually they'll have Christmas in July.
> Listen to the Sully recordings when he ditched in an emergency. NJ was closer but he was still in contact and it would have taken too long.

He was _talking_ to NY TRACON. That doesn't mean he was somehow required to land in NY, not NJ. His first request to ATC was whether he could land at Teterboro (in NJ). They got on the phone and got permission for him, in order to avoid having to switch frequencies.

> So if they get called for an emergency and are forced to make a landing, there are protocols in place to swiftly determine the when, where etc of setting down.

Indeed there are, and literally none of them have to do with which ATC center the pilot happens to be communicating with at that point.

> Unless you are going to make the accusation that the pilots are political agents/operatives...

The pilots were looking at a MiG-29 out their window. They did not have a choice in the matter.
At what point do we look at the internet as public roads? With the recent ransomwares, the line appears to be shifting.
"When questioned by Epic Games lawyers, Cook declined to answer a question about whether Apple's iPhone competes with Google's Android in the operating system market."

Let us rephrase the question. Does iOS compete with Android in the operating system market.

"Customers don't buy operating systems. They buy devices," Cook said."

True. Operating systems can be had for free. Customers generally do not buy them (as a separate item), but they do choose them, when they are allowed to do so.

What if customers had the option to buy Apple devices without Apple's choice of operating system pre-installed. Apple would never let customers have that choice. A million excuses.

"Tech" companies, as well as Microsoft and Apple, remove choice. Users pay nothing for the OS. Someone else pays (OEMs in the case of Microsoft). The OS is pre-installed. Choice is removed. No different than a "default setting" (e.g., "default search engine" for which Google paid $1B to Apple in 2014). The friction to change a pre-installed OS or default setting is too great for most customers. The companies know this and exploit it.

Cook suggests that if the customer wants another OS, one that allows a wider variety of apps to be installed, then she can buy a different device. How is that for interoperability.

The OS, when controlled by an intermediary such as Apple, is a means of control over users (as well as developers). Any argument that theroretically the most safe, secure and private OS by design is one that the user cannot fully control is unconvincing. If a customer wants privacy against Apple or its business partners, for example, iOS is not designed to offer that.
I agree 100%. All my programs are "Toy Programs" and they are very fun to build and use.
That's because on HN we know that 99% of the blockchain hype is about people discovering asymmetric cryptography and pretending that the blockchain is the only way to use it.

The only real difference that blockchain solutions bring is decentralisation. I have to yet hear one single argument about why decentralisation is good. So far I have only heard the typical libertarianesque arguments about states, banks and inflation. As as I'm concerned, decentralisation is unnecessary and so are blockchain.
Committed a serious crime? Sure. Will there be actual consequences for that individual? Unlikely.
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