skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, just surprise... so much tracking & surveillance happening in tech it makes your head spin.
I would image that satisfaction I'd get from having people actually use my code would greatly outweigh the inconvenience of being pestered about new features.
An audio tape was subsequently released which appeared to be a recording of the flight crew requesting to land in Austria on the grounds they "could not get a correct indication" of their remaining fuel levels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incide...
If you contort any harder you might need to join the circus. Indeed your last sentence makes clear why you think this is no big deal (while the incident in TFA presumably is).

Yes, the fuel was a problem since they were were barred from going their intended route! They chose to land in Vienna??
Can someone explain this to me? It sounds like they want to claim that it cures COVID, and the FDA is invoking an obscure rule that basically says they need to prove it first.

There's also a bunch of numbers on the page, as if there were good footnotes, but no footnotes? Am I missing something?

> And, without severe disease, is there truly a need for a vaccine?

I don't have a severe risk of death in a car accident, is there truly a need for seatbelts? They restrict my breathing and are uncomfortable.
You are correct re BTC, but not it has well exceeded that re USD. Why BTC has some special place in terms of the utility of smart contract blockchain is questionable.
Aren’t Apples policies enforced via app sandboxing though? Why would that be any different for third party apps?
This is a really myopic view on uses of crypto and the BitTorrent protocol. There's so much more going on than criminal applications.

BitTorrent is used in a lot of settings for data distribution and for software distribution. Saying it's just for pirating reveals the author's laziness. Several of these use-cases are listed in the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

As for crypto, I recommend people read about Bitcoin being used for the purposes of sending remittances to start.
Do you believe any large store front acts in good faith? You are inviting less privacy into the room at the expense of money for other people. It’s a bit crazy that we think Apple would somehow be able to limit cross app tracking after being forced to allow side loading and independent app stores. Hey let’s make this one bad actor allow in the rest! It’s not fair that they get to make the rules for the rest of us, we also want to act in bad faith!
I think the point the author is making is that none of these systems are a distributed panacea free from corporate overlords. All of them are either dying/obscure (irc, matrix, rss) or have been infested with powerful actors who have become de-facto centralized nodes (email, WWW, RSS, git). I'm not sure how that relates with the authors stated thesis of profit motives being misaligned. I guess they're arguing that for a system to be succesful it needs corporate investment, people make money out of controlling a centralized node, you cant make money out of the anarchism of a true decentralized system, hence decentralized systems will either fail or be subverted by centralized actors (maybe im reading in my own beliefs?).

Which may be true, but i didn't find the evidence presented particularly compelling, and the structure of the argument was confusing.
> (ps sorry for the over use of first person - just wanted to share my perspective)

Why do you feel bad about/dislike first person (in this context)?
The US has an unimaginable amount of soft and hard power. There's plenty of softer retaliation before carpet-bombing, which you can use (or the threat thereof) to make countries toe the line.
I wish more people, whether or not they believe they're healthy/strong or not, got annual bloodwork and general health checks done. You can't run a complex machine like a human body and never, ever do any analysis to ensure it's running within acceptable levels.

Imagine how much less psychological pain this guy could've been through if he had regular bloodwork enough to let him know that his vitD is getting low and to supplement before he even realized he was "failing".
No matter what your validating gives you in the end you can only accept the current final state of the running network or not use it at all.

I'm a bit of a blockchain noob, but isn't this the opposite of how blockchain works?

What I mean is, yes, you can design it the way you're saying, but doesn't that open you up to double-spend attacks and enforced centralization? You need a central ledger at that point, since your "final state" has to come from somewhere.

I'm confused but intrigued.

EDIT: Ah, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27259783 points out the problems with this approach much more eloquently than I did.
laser cut a frisket and spray glue through the holes.
a close friend of mine who settled in the UK after he only survived the war by fluke being Polish Danzig born but with a step uncle a unfortunate gauleiter (he was on the run one way or another consequently) still to this day hurriedly produces his German Police certificate of good conduct and freedom from trouble with the law, despite being here because he spied for us he cannot be persuaded that any of the 3rd reich or subsequently 4 powers or West German authorities hold any less power over his individual freedoms and liberties and right of abode and living, not one smallest bit less in all that time. And I believe my friend is perfectly correct to think that this is the case.
Regarding your first reason, I think having more users can increase the security of the data, even if you're conservative about the minimum number of users you need.

For the second, if you don't care about data permanence, it's relatively easy to put the data on a second layer. Just host the data there and put merkle roots on the blockchain for consensus. If you want to verify state transitions on chain you can do that too, e.g. with zksnarks.
And how did you verify its integrity? And what is the upgrade path?
We are all still humans after all :D
> I know this sounds mean but software developers are really embarrassingly bad at security, because security is inconvenient by design and developers strive for convenience.

This is a common statement from security people, and in my view, one of the reasons that security frequently fails.

To make an analogy, it's like a failing startup blaming the market for not adapting to their product. They're trying to solve this in a way the market doesn't want. Likewise, Security teams keep trying to ham-fistedly force everyone to do things in a way that's easy for them, and hard for everyone else.

Ops realized this a while ago, which is why we have so many tools for easily managing infrastructure abstractions. Where are the security abstraction tools? You want accounts to have the least privileges possible, so where are my tools to manage that? From what I've seen, those tools are few and far between.

I maintain that the way security is currently done is actively harmful. It incentivizes not talking to security, because if you do they're going to drop in, make a ton of demands (none of which they will actually help you accomplish), and your PM is going to be pissed the project is now late. Most of the meetings I've been in where security should have been there have involved someone saying "don't do that, because security will get involved".

Frankly, it happens because there is no alternative to using in house security. I can petition my higher ups to let me use AWS or GCP if I'm not happy with how the infrastructure is being managed; who do I petition to use if Security is holding us back?

For what it's worth, compliance departments often have the same issue. They know there's no one else you can use, so they have little incentive to make themselves easy to deal with.
Air-gapping is a nice side effect, but the real point of using transformers is that they trivially transform voltage. Altering voltage by resistance is enormously wasteful, and can only lower it. Altering voltage by quickly turning it on and off (PWM) only works with certain inert types of load, like electric motors; it works for LEDs only because the inertia of the eye. But this is close enough to AC anyway.

Also, the energy of an electromagnetic wave grows as the 4th power of its frequently, IIRC. This is why old power supplies which directly used the 60Hz frequency from the socket were so bulky, while modern power supplies, which convert the mains electricity to high-frequency AC, can use physically small and lightweight transformers.
Why LDP is still strong even though it sucks (but I don't say there are any other good party) is due to single-seat constituency system that aims two-party system learned from USA. Thanks USA!

The system is now proven completely failed, but who can change the law is who benefited from the law.

> In Japan, a party with over 10% of the vote is surveilled as a criminal organization

You may refer 調査対象団体 but I can't find the 10% criteria. JCP is the only national party listed on the list for historical reason. I never heard that JCP member had prosecuted by posting mails. Other organizations are really worth to be surveilled. I don't think this is why democracy in Japan is not good.
Absurdly more of a threat than the US military is its economic means, backed of course by the said army. Also the underground capabilities. You don't get to anger someone who has all sorts of ways to cripple you, personally or at a national level.
Here is a question. Can you have an input whose prompt depends on the results of prior input calls?

If you can’t, then this only solves a rather limited subset of I/O, where the program is essentially a pure function whose input is the set of answers to a fixed set of prompts. It’s sufficient for some use cases, but most real programs need more interactivity than that.

If you can depend on prior inputs, on the other hand, then input() is not pure. Simply evaluating it has the side effect of displaying some text to the user.

(Arguably this would be true even if the prompt couldn’t depend on prior input, as long as it was the act of evaluating input() that caused the prompt to appear. An alternative would be to treat input() as a sort of macro, where the interpreter statically analyzes the program to determine every prompt for every input() call that could possibly be made, asks the user up front for responses to all of those, then, when input() is actually evaluated, just looks up the already-entered response. That would make input() pure. And maybe you could argue that even if input() does display a prompt only at the time it’s evaluated, it’s sort of morally equivalent to what I previously mentioned, just saving time by not asking unnecessary questions. But that goes out the window if questions can depend on prior answers.)
> What is the S in USSR then?

False advertising. By the same logic, East Germany was more democratic than West Germany because it had "Democratic" in the name.
Could an isolating transformer be an alternative to connecting generators through a transfer switch?
Okay, don’t use iOS. It’s very easy to just not engage with Apple entirely. Why do you even care? Money? Illusion of choice? The status quo should remain and you should find a different product to use with less restrictive rules.
Because tech has alot of nerdy men online, who arent the demographic known for attracting women. Its absolutely relevant, the discussion is mostly suppressed. It will impact society in a big way though
Is it possible those old caps used something else? He said the electrolyte was hygroscopic.
Also the author laments that bittorrent is not used for 1:1 transfers. Bittorrent's strength is in distributing bandwidth for popular files. Direct file transfers between people who know each other isn't really its target. So i feel that's a pretty unfair criticism.

You don't always need to take over the world to be succesful. Its fine to have a niche and just do that really well.
Mica peridotites, the same rocks as occur in some of the diamond pipes of South Africa, can be found in kimberlite dikes in upstate New York. If you take the trail up Cascadilla Gorge on the south side of the Cornell campus in Ithaca, you can see one of these, intruded into the Devonian sedimentary rocks. No diamonds have ever been found in these dikes, but maybe you could be first! Be sure to get permission before breaking out your rock hammer.

https://www.academia.edu/19688604/Kimberlitic_Rocks_of_Centr...
Contrary to some posts here, I think this approach shows promise though it would clearly benefit from further refinement.

The criticisms here seem to break down into three groups:

1. "I don't mind reading subtitles and that will always be better."

2. "Any real film purist will prefer watching the original."

3. "The implementation is kind of uncanny at some points."

My thoughts:

#1: Sure, I actually agree but I also know that there are a lot of people out there that, for whatever reason, find reading subtitles breaks their immersion. Even though that's not me, dismissing that audience's experience isn't very inclusive.

#2: Yep, As a film maker I totally get that but us purists and aficionados aren't that big of a market. So yeah, Criterion should never use any tech like this for definitive remaster releases as it doesn't preserve artistic fidelity. But just because they should keep this away from Citizen Kane doesn't mean there aren't suitable classes of content. In the era of high-fidelity streaming media, additional versions don't necessarily take distribution availability from the original (which should always be available).

#3: Though I'm not an AI engineer I've done some work with AI engineers on artistic content and my guess is the current gaps we see might be sufficiently surmountable with refinement. It may never be fully automatic but redubbing is human intensive anyway so an interactive UI that allows an ADR-experienced editor to tune problematic output may help a lot.

I think the team should keep going. Once it's good enough, there is a lot of content that might reach new audiences through this tech.
Those big-ass black capacitors (470 uF each) are on the AC side. They are the bit that converts 230AC to 320DC, and they might keep their charge for some time.
What is Apple doing that’s anti-competitive? How have consumers been harmed?
It was such a different philosophy back then even just 10 years ago. The RAM modules were easy to access and work with. The battery could be accessed with your finger and a latch, because it was assumed users would need a new battery in a few years. The HD was also accessible from this same door, because it was assumed users would be upgrading to an SSD in a few years. Users were given all the IO Apple thought they would possibly need.

Then Tim Cook came to power and let Jony Ive have free reign of the glue and the solder iron, and Macbooks became disposable.
Huh, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t there when I read the article. I recall seeing only the “Home” link (and I did a Ctrl+F on the HTML and didn’t see any links that went outside the blog sub domain except for on a user comment at the bottom of the page).

But glad to know there is in fact a link now!
Many projects in that repo are one-eng 20% projects.
So far it sounds like the biggest (life) lessons are "they taught me not to waste time (and money) on addictive games."

I actually like "educational" games (or gamified tutorials) like Rocksmith (guitar) and Duolingo (languages) because they drill you on skills that you can use outside the game.

Action games (and musical instruments) seem to be good for manual dexterity and eye-hand coordination; I recall reading that surgeons who are FPS players (or concert violinists) tend to make fewer physical mistakes.

I still want to try playing through an RPG in a (human) language that I do not know, with dictionary in hand to translate as I go along, in order to see how much it would help me to learn the language, or at least some useful phrases like "the citadel of evil necromancers has unleashed its undead army."
good discussion, though i still think tab suspension is best.
Why does a book reader app need yearly updates? I bought my ereader years ago still opens epubs fine without updates. If the epub worked when I bought it why does it need to keep updating? Why does an ebook only work on the certified™ app?
Making an example out of this could well be cheaper than confronting Moscow in the long run. I’m not advocating it. Just saying this wasn’t a risk-free entourage. Levelling a few military air bases while communicating to Russia exactly what’s being done will piss everyone off, but it’s unlikely to escalate. It is also unlikely to spiral.
monadic IO isn't pure in the same sense that even a pure Haskell function isn't pure (cuz it's usually executing on a register machine), but from a language semantics thing, it _is_ a pure thing!

The whole premise is that you end up with some main function which is a description of side effects, but you still have referential transparency and the like at a language level (so I/O doesn't need special treatment).

(there's a whole thing about "monad = IO" in laypeople discussion of Haskell which I think muddies this. There are loads of monads not about doing side effects, like list. But instead people think there's a link between monads and side effects, because we say "IO monad" instead of just "in IO" or something)

EDIT: it's v true that like.... side effects are side effects are side effects, so you can take that shortcut when talking about stuff. But if you want to get into the details about whether some expression is pure or not, you're brushing up against important semantics!
Is there even a single decentralized app that is mainstream?

BitTorrent is great but I wouldn’t exactly call it mainstream. I do wish more sites used it for downloads though.

I haven’t sat down and researched this, but an argument could be made that inherently a centralized app, who is trusted, available and resilient, will always be superior. Any thoughts?
I’m not familiar with this, but how does a hub draw “too much power”? Wouldn’t it be limited by whatever the max output of the USB port is and not be able to draw more than that?
the arms dealer who was the model for Nicholas Cage in The Lord of War was finally arrested in Thailand on behalf of the USA.

for some reason non Americans always seem to think that SE Asian people won't help the Feds. But as anyone American who has visited the region could tell them, SE Asia is about the last place you should try hiding from the Feds.

edit : Vietnam and the region is very friendly to Americans and even Brits who avoid alcohol (apologies I'm British born with family in both countries and actually casual drinking alcohol is probably the number one error made by British business people when travelling) but the logic behind cooperation with the USA is simply keeping the USA off their regional collective backs. Just consider how much drug trade is at risk if you upset American interests in SE Asia...

edit the 2nd : actually trying to hide anywhere where life itself is cheap is fundamentally the worst error possible to make if you are hiding from existential danger of really motivated people.
Ok, thats fine. But you don't need to force everyone else to make the same decisions.

If other people want to have unlocked iPhones, due to Apple's behavior being illegally anti-competitive, then thats OK.
Conversely, it could lead to much greater biodiversity as we control the process.
Send a letter to their whois address. Maybe it'll get forwarded to someone other than the people ignoring your email.

You could also ask your bank for contact information on the charge.
How could a Venezuelan become part of the tech and financial industry?
By the time, I am 20. I got obsessed with the idea to become some kind of business person like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos since two years ago (or at least die trying it). I suspect, if I sort my decisions I could become a CEO or CTO of one or many startups (successful or not), maybe try to reach an executive position in a special one and/or practice some Angel investing.

Of course, those visions are particularly excessive, and mostly because of my geographical situation: I am from Venezuela.

This last semester, I managed to get my first contract as a software developer after 6 years of trying it. I'm still working with the startup (it's a Spanish ERP SaaS for Chinese manufacturers in Spain). However, because I am just an remote contractor, I don't have much accountability in the project. Just they keep working with me because my work seems to surpass farther their expectancy in comparison with what I charge. My commission as a contractor is between $600 and $1200 ($800 in average), which I know it's hurting the value of fellow developers. But heck, it was the first opportunity where someone has ever had the interest to interview me. I didn't want to lose the opportunity to make five times what a bachelor in computer science here could ever make in a Venezuelan company.

However, I really don't expect to keep on this plateau. But I don't know what the next step should look like...

It's obvious that escaping this country (that I really don't hope anything from) might be a requirement to actually start pursuing some kind of financial freedom alike as the free determination to build things which are useful. But with no degree, getting a visa would become difficult.

What would you think of someone like me, trying to achieve what I meant? What would be your action if you were in my position?
Focus groups? Who is unaware of what they are buying at this point? We have had no choice but one store and if we demanded two stores we would be on Android. Why in the hell do you think they’d go out to do market research on a key marketing plan they already devised? Privacy is their next marketing angle and third party app stores don’t go hand in hand with that desire.
It's not running any of the network. It's running on its own, and it's well beyond the point required for security. It reads the PoW chain, and reaches its own consensus on block hashes.

What remains is to alter the clients of the PoW chain, so that it reads the PoS chain. Then instead of choosing the blocks with the most accumulated work, it chooses the blocks chosen by the PoS chain.

That's not a big change for the PoW clients, it doesn't add load to the PoS network at all, and it's all that's needed to eliminate mining.
yeah the trust issue is the big downside to any add on.
The Privkey field I posted is the 'private key' credential needed to manage any funds sent to the account.
Why not one pod with two containers?
No. This is not dystopian. That is over-dramatic. We’re not talking about the loss of meaningful society. And iOS and Apple are not the whole of society. This is capitalism, plain and simple. Market position creates behavior, the market attempts to route around.
> Android already has the majority of the market.

Not in the US market where iPhones have the great majority and where this trial is taking place.

There are also definitely iOS exclusives.
Audio systems are usually powered off for most of the time. If it's on a couple hours a week, that 10 degrees increase might "boil off" that moisture while not making a dent in the capacitor lifetime.
The author's definition of what makes a "decentralized application" is too strong and I don't agree that email isn't an example of a decentralized application. She argues that it's not because it's really hard to run your own mail server.

To me, "decentralized" doesn't mean every user has to run their own node. It means it's an open network, anyone can join, and there's no centralized control / censorship. You can buy a domain and use Proton, Fastmail, or any other provider to have your own email. If you become unhappy with them, it's easy to move. We have open specs that allow every service to interoperate, so you don't need to know or care what provider your recipient is using.
The Art of Cartography – State and Regional Portraits
I understand, thank you!