skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this, a durable record of every transaction ever performed is in fact an anti-feature for a digital ledger.

Mimblewimble[0] is one interesting solution to this. Unfortunately, the requirement in current implementations (such as Grin) that both wallets be online to complete a transaction, eliminates some valuable types of transaction, such as sending coin to a cold wallet.

I do think for a 'world computer' like Ethereum, being able to ignore a substantial amount of old state is going to be critical for long-term use.

I also think that "blatant lie" is unnecessarily harsh. A blockchain is aspirationally forever, and it is a massively replicated data structure: it's certainly durable, and I would expect it to last a long time relative to, say, a random torrent.

This is my major concern with the direction Ethereum is going, which I could caricature as "scale up massively and keep everything forever": it becomes so expensive to keep copies of all data, that only large institutional players will bother, and not many of them. This makes blockchain integrity a "take my word for it" kind of thing, and the whole system is only as durable as the increasingly-enormous data centers which hold all that information.

[0]: https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mimblewimble.txt
The Tommy Westphall Theory of a Unified TV Universe (2017)
So they are making billions -while- creating an effective incentive against spam on their platform? That must the most obvious case of profits well deserved in the history of modern LTDs, good for Apple and their shareholders!
And I hope that Polyethylene eating organism does not ever evolve or is not synthesized.
You can bootstrap up at least 1.50 https://gitlab.com/stikonas/gentoo-bootstrap/-/tree/master/d... (latest release is 1.52.1 so not too far off)
I see it as a global, decentralized market anyone can participate in without restrictions.

For instance, if I feel my country's currency is heading towards hyperinflation, I can buy up tokenized USD as a hedge. There is no limit to how much I can buy nor do I ever need to visit a bank and comply with an oppressive regime - think Venezuela.
to learn: Audible, Duolingo, Udemy
Imagine, it wasn't the case prior to mid-nineties.

International air travel was possible with paper tickets.

Heck, you could've travel, immigrate, and settle all around Europe without papers prior to a certain mentally challenged emperor deciding to ruin it all.
Didn't know this was a thing. Guess that's what's happening here: https://youtu.be/KoRDlnXPtTk?t=325

Edit: Appears to be the case, TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorodango#In_popular_culture
>My problem today is not that repairability laws impede my progress here (they certainly don’t exist in China either).

They do - they just do it upstream of you. The people you want to swap the parts can't get them, or if they do the parts are expensive, or don't pass the security checks of your device and now there's reduced functionality.

The lack of repairability laws affects you but its up stream of you directly.
Ryanair does not fly to Belarus, even in non-Covid times. This flight was just passing Belarusian airspace on the way to Lithuania.
Sicp with JavaScript
https://source-academy.github.io/sicp/
The global chip shortage is here for some time
Assuming that the newsletter application is a fairly stable release and it's on a package manager or auto updates via docker. The management of that is probably pretty low.
I wasn't calling you most uninformed, your statement is totally correct, I was referring to any persons who might argue that fail2ban is purely useless as security theater. What I said was that fail2ban is useful as an annoyance/log clutter reducer, but not something that's an actual security measure which would be suitable to protect a poorly-configured sshd.
I can buy any amount of an asset that I think is more stable than my local currency.

Say, switching my Venezuelan Bolivar for USD, without restrictions.
Some accrued knowledge still survives, within a community, which is trying to keep it alive. I wish them all the luck.

http://www.johnnylucky.org/power-supplies/psu-recommendation...

https://hardforum.com/forums/power-supplies.93/
Lying all the time has consequences.
First Look at “Frontier” Supercomputer’s Storage Infrastructure
Keep your left hand back (unless you are one of those rare people with your heart on the wrong side).
Users forced miners to activate Segwit in 2017

Honestly, you don't know this. Users != nodes. A single individual could have spun up tons of nodes to vote for Segwit. Given the stakes and how manipulated social media was at the time, I consider this what likely happened. This is also what proof of work solves.

and almost all hashpower is still with Bitcoin.

Everyone knows the game by now. Whoever keeps the ticker keeps the hashpower. We saw this with BCH/BSV and also BCH/BCHA. Because most users don't follow these details. It doesn't mean users won.
Exactly.

Just like Swiss francs and Euros and US dollars are different things and will never be measured against or valued in terms of each other.

Q.E.D.
Since Ive gotten a lot of questions about how its supposed to work:
- Its a flowchart editor meant to be used with keyboard shortcuts (but also has buttons for the normal functions)
- The layout is automatic and not configurable. Its constrained to a 2D table
- Click on the keyboard icon in the top right to see how to do things like add nodes, navigate along the graph, delete edges, etc
- The state is all persisted in the url, no backend yet
People are annoyed because when your project gets big enough (or if you're just unlucky), that doesn't stop them.
We stopped having this issue when we raised comp 50%. Worth a shot.
The insoluble problem is that any system of the kind you describe where the final tokens are ultimately spendable will be swamped by criminal use.

If you make an end run around the existing regulatory system through code, the people who are inhibited from transfering money by the current regulatory regime will all use your new system. And that traffic will be overwhelmingly criminal.

The amount of illicit money needing to move is overwhelmingly larger than the sums that honest people are prevented from transferring by corrupt governments or unjust restrictions. That is going to doom any attempt at creating a parallel money transfer system that works at scale.
NFTs disrupted the digital art marketplace.
Thanks for pointing this out! I think this stems from a program we use to scrape company logos off of their names/links. When you put in the Linkedin link it triggered an error. We have a case handler for that but it isn't always 100% effective. I just replicated it on my own account and it seemed to work. It is possible it is the firefox as well as we have had some issues on there.

If you email me at andrew@kiter.app I can help further!
An engineer should recognize what is worth their time. If setting this up takes more than 5hour a year of time to setup and maintain then it’s not worth it. You’ll be wasting money
> nobody misses -12V

Some of us (masochists) actually like RS-232!
Nope. Not anymore. Maybe it was different a few decades ago. Nowadays I'll get strong 'Gell-Mann Amnesia' vibes from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

The same goes for Ökotest. It's just another form of marketing because potential customer looks for some red-white label to feel safe. So everybody who can afford it, tries to get some red-white label. It's as worthless as "DLG prämiert" on some sausages from ALDI. Sometimes I've thought "Tickt ihr noch richtig?", because I had the devices they recommended, while I've considered them trash. Especially funny when you have a few decades of them as *.pdf

In other words, they manage to make something like a horoscope look like a thoroughly systematic and scientific test, while it isn't, at all.

edit: I'd excempt testing of mechanical/electrical safety of devices/appliances, things like energy efficiency and maybe loudness. Anything else I can think of right now is just subjective for comparable items. That's for Warentest.

For Ökotest I can only think of obvious proof of toxicity as an exemption. Otherwise even more subjective.

edit: Einen hab ich noch! Haus&Garten Test, noch lächerlicher!

:-)
Was the relationship forum built with Elixir?
That's precisely the point. They aren't free to make a pull request. A pull request puts a time demand on the project owner to review and merge the patch.

What they are free to do is fork the project, and do whatever the hell they want to in the fork.
I’m not sure what standard you are appealing to? Who cares if Apple only lets whatever they want on their own store? It’s their store. I hope Microsoft or Amazon would get back in the phone game and allow alternate stores.
Except mailchimp has dumbed it’s interface down so much that maintaining it takes far more time than installing a package like this or paying a small fee for a similar SES backed service like Mail Octopus.
Drums Beat in Perfect Synchrony Because They're Quantumly Entangled
> Why so?

I'm not talking about the ability, I'm talking about the will to spill your soldiers blood for such a purpose. A boots-on-the-ground invasion is off the table because western countries would consider that price far, far too high for such a goal. I mean, muster a large scale invasion, for what? A couple dead journalists? Looking at other potential interventions, even literal mass concentration camps would probably be tolerated without escalating to an invasion. No, the western political will in this case is definitely limited to sanctions only. They might perhaps assist one side in a local conflict (i.e. the locals provide "boots on the grounds" and any blood to be spilled, while outsiders provide money and arms), this has happened in quite some places, but in Belarus there isn't an ongoing violent conflict between two sides, there's just the state applying small scale police action against individuals, there aren't any "rebel organizations" that would be capable of receiving such support.

> Belarus triggering a defence treaty with Russia?

We'd expect Russia to come in with force to prevent a pro-western government forming, treaty or not - e.g. if it seemed that Lukashenka would agree to cede power to a pro-western opposition, I wouldn't be surprised at an intervention from Russia even if Lukashenka would object. Once again, such scenarios were discussed and considered credible last year, but weren't "tested" as it turned out differently.

> Russia will not come when faced with credible force.

Perhaps, but there isn't a credible will to apply force, so any threats of such force would be treated by Russia as obvious bluffs.

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

Of course, but a popular revolt isn't happening in Belarus, the opposition chose (and are still choosing) not to revolt and limit their activities to nonviolent protest - if you'd call that defeatist, I might agree, but that was the initial position and they seem to have succeeded in spreading that doctrine, and it would take time to reverse it. And the lack of practical reaction of people to the state abuse of power and the failure of various attempts at general strikes indicates that the conditions aren't even close to a revolt.
My biggest reason is that I don’t have to finish. When I get bored with it, I move on.

I used to put pressure on myself to “finish” and would often miss and feel guilty. Not just computer projects, but electronics, learning musical instruments, etc.

Then I realized I was making my hobbies work and doing it badly. Real work (where I have to finish) got in the way of my hobbies. Hobbies are supposed to be fun, relaxing, and rewarding. What was I doing?

I gave up the pressure and it was liberating. I pick up the guitar for a couple months, then get lost in trying to make analog circuits. I tinker in the garden then teach myself enough CAD to do a small woodworking project. I started sewing masks and tote bags then set it aside. I fish a bunch in the spring and fall. Then, I’ll revisit them later when the muse hits and don’t feel like I wasted money.

Now my only goals are to have some fun, relax, and learn something new.

I really only program for fun in languages I don’t know or platforms I haven’t played with. I learn by picking up a project that scratches an itch.

Sometimes those feed back into my work (eg Go, Kotlin), but most don’t (various LISPs, low level C).

My issues are exacerbated by my ADHD, but I would recommend the approach to anyone with a steady job they enjoy. That and not using TV/movies as a hobby. There’s just so much cool stuff to explore.
What's it take to be unflappable?
What does it take to be cool, calm, and collected, no matter what life throws at you? I'm curious what techniques and mindset you've found most effective.
Yeah, you have such a great legacy when defending democracy all over the world even in cases where you were absolutely dominant military power that this one would be walk in a park - Russia would just stand down, peacefully looking NATO invading its ally on its doorstep. Fortunately no-one in NATO has such illusions.
Also returns.
Sources on that claim?
OP did not say that it would affect the quality of the Apple app store. The specific quote was: "Apple has vested interest to keep apps made available to be clean and not going to compromise iPhone".

Allowing third-party app stores effectively means providing a vector to bypass the official app-review process, which is the cornerstone on which the permissioning system rests. If you allow third-party app stores, then any sufficiently-popular app can create their own "app store" and demand that you give it full permissions, which they will turn around and use to scrape data. It will become a race to the bottom, permissioning systems cannot stand if the app-review process does not exist, and the app-review cannot exist if third-party stores exist as a mechanism to let anyone publish anything.

Facebook has already gotten their hands slapped for exploiting sideloading to mine user data, and if they could spread it to the general user-base then they will do so immediately.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...

So your question about "how can an alternative app store affect the Apple app store" is a red herring, and not at all what OP said - what OP said was "allowing third-party app stores will degrade the experience of iOS users" and that is absolutely true, Facebook has already tried to do this before and this will allow them to take another turn at the ring.
We need to fix this problem (pun intended)
Ask HN: Any tool to create diagram for data lineage and ETL rules?
Our BAs typically use Excel sheets to show how a field from a source system has to translate to destination. Is there a tool out there that would allow me to create a diagram to show all the rules associated with fields (ex. take the sum of field A and B and divide by C from source and that'll be field D in destination) AND be able to show data lineage at a high level so that I can see all the systems involved in my ETL? It'd be great if it's fluid sort of like Prezi presentations where you can look at the high level and drill down and see all the rules without clicking through pages and separate sheets and losing context. Thank you.
> 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?

For the most part, yes.

It's all about delivering as much information as possible to aid the receiver with the spam detection process. The goal is to reduce false positives/negatives. The beauty of this is of course that if you are in fact sending spam, this will work against you.
Mailchimp does this very well, they actually have people working for them with 'email deliverability expert' as their job title.

The problem is that rolling a simple email sending solution is trivial to set up, but hard to get right. It takes surprisingly significant engineering resources to build a solution that complies with all the relevant RFCs, scales nicely and follows new developments. Resources that are probably much better spend elsewhere.

My job is helping customers optimise their email infrastructure [0], I have analysed hundreds of domains, and my observation is that the vast majority of home-grown email solutions lack even the basic provisions for deliverability.

My advice: don't roll your own email solution, unless you can afford full-time engineers to do so. There certainly is a tipping point (as always) where building your own solution is more cost effective as a SaaS solution, but that is certainly not at 500€/Year.

[0] Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Mailhardener
Belarus was within its bounds. They did not shoot aircraft, they released aircraft and all EU citizens shortly afterwards, they have legal reasons to do so (which was likely fabricated, but one can't prove that). It's a bad accident, but it's not a war.
Belarus airspace - Belarus rules. If EU civilian aircrafts doesn't like it they are free not to enter that airspace.
The only missing part is the ability to easily spend this tokenized EURO, but that - I'm hoping - will come later.

I think recent history of crypto has shown this is not possible without KYC/AML/CTF and all the regulatory bells and whistles. Seriously capital flows tied to real economic activity cannot exist without identity, governments won’t allow it.
Occam's razor suggests the best strategy - if available - is to suppress natural reproduction, if you were in possession of a superior genetic strain, in order to stay ahead of the market. Suppressing natural reproduction is the same general principle as suppressing others using your idea/strategy/copyright.

I'm sincerely curious why this seems so far fetched to you. If I were the CEO of a company having the option to nudge my researchers into this, I probably would, seen from a ethics-detached point of view.

By the way, I'm not anti-GMO; in fact I think it's the only way to sustain the whole of humanity until we've passed the next great filter. Still I don't buy into that line of thought.
This is without listing salary and we're all hiring globally for remote teams.

While we're all using different job specs since the jobs we're hiring for are slightly different than pre-pandemic our hiring processes and advertising are the same as pre-pandemic
I've done it and it worked. Without the €40/month.
He actually tried calling the city to ask what he should do with abandoned laptops. He was transferred multiple times, told to call multiple numbers, and tried leaving voicemail messages to find an answer. He got nowhere, and the closest he got was "That's a good question".

The law explicitly states purchased laptops, which he did not. Now we can say "But that's not the purpose of the law, just the letter!" But the purpose of the law is to make selling stolen laptops non-profitable to thieves - and abandoning them does not turn a profit. Meaning Louis runs afoul of neither letter nor spirit of the law.

And so I'm legitimately asking, if you think he's in the wrong: what is he to do, when he can't properly fill out LEADS online without a purchase price? He tried calling the city, he tried calling would-be customers to collect their things. The former couldn't tell him, and the latter told him it wasn't worth their time.
Imagine if after TCP/IP was invented, people hoarded IP addresses and they became worth millions of dollars, but no one used the internet. If you pointed this out, they got mad at you for being a luddite or a noiper.

That's the situation we're in with crypto.
If only apples existed and suddenly potatoes were invented, then plant-based carbohydrates just became less scarce.

If only British pounds existed and suddenly the Australian dollar was invented, you could suddenly do business in another currency.
I think one of the things is that Trump is gone. He was using anti-China rhetoric even for valid questions and enabling media to brand everything pointing to China as racist. For example, I still don't know why is it OK to refer to secondary variants with the origin country, such as UK, South Africa, India, Brazil variants, but not to refer to the original as China-Variants or simply Chinese-Flu or Wuhan-Flu. Remember Spanish-Flu is perfectly acceptable even though it did not even originate in Spain - go figure).

To be clear, I have no problem using country-origin variant names, as long as we use the same standard for Covid-19. This is very similar to GOP trying to whitewash the Jan-6th thing, that now we're talking about UK, South Africa, India, Brazil variants, but the original is just COVID-19, no mention of China. This may seem unimportant now as everyone knows it came from China, but in 20-30 years will we remember, No!!

Even recently, when the ex-CDC Director Redfield talked about China lab-origin, CNN went to great lengths to question it and make a note that no evidence was presented. Even Fauci was quoted saying it's just an opinion: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic...
> Polyethylene looks identical to a very long chain fatty acid. It’s only not biodegradable yet because the organism capable of doing so has not yet evolved, just like lignin in the Carboniferous.

That’s...possibly inaccurate.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es504038a
> And you end up writing stuff like main = do { putStrLn "Hello, World!" ; return () } which to me looks like C. There must be a more functional approach.

It looks imperative because that's what Haskell's do-notation was designed to. But it's merely syntactic sugar for the functional equivalent

main = putStrLn "Hello, World!" >> return ()

which btw is equivalent to simply

main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"
Well, the dominant market player supports the approach you want. iOS controls about 15% of the global market, why should the force of law be used to extinguish an alternate user experience that some users want?

Like, literally, you're trying to use the force of law to blot out an alternate user experience that you don't like, so that you can make a point about "user freedom". It's a pretty awful thing you're trying to do.
My buddy buys broken Iphones/screens and sells them to China where all the underlying parts are stripped and used for repairing Iphones. This is legitamite not shady at all.

Ships hundreds at a time. A lof of the parts used for repair in China are coming from US/EU broken phones.
One that I’ve used a few times is “you can’t polish a turd… but you can roll it in glitter”
It sounds like people would love open source devices they can build/customize.

This reminds my of the MySpace wall vs Facebook wall problem.

There should be a market for both in hardware.
Then the exchanges will become the point of control (even more so than they are now).
> those shops illegally obtain the parts (whether counterfeit or stolen, since Apple won't intentionally sell them to anyone) and resources (schematics, software, etc) to be able to do so.
This situation is both good and bad. Stolen parts are good

I really doubt that many of those genuine repair parts for iphones and macbooks are stolen, in the sense that somebody loaded up a pallet and took it from its manufacturer without paying. Apple doesn't manufacture most of these things, particularly the ICs and screens, and relies on a whole ecosystem of vendors and subcontractors.

If a third party is paying a reasonably agreed upon market price to a factory to buy extra factory run of stock (example: DRAM ICs, or touchscreens), that's not theft.

You would think that those factories would engage Chinese law enforcement if a significant percentage of their output was literally being stolen without payment, since that sort of thing affects their bottom line and is clearly a crime in their mainland china location.

For people interested in this general topic (parent poster here mentioned living in Shenzhen), go read through all the historical content of Bunnie Huang's blog...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang_(hacker)
Why does this post have two comments but over 700 upvotes?