skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's deleted because all connections (and meta data) has been erased.

In a database, if you null all fields but keep the entries and their inter table relationship intact, you still have identifiable data up to a certain point.

Imagine you have data of specific people and you only have one person per country, having a user and country relationship, if you null a single data of a specific user, you'll still be able to find the user just by analysing to which country that user was connected + some external information.

This is the classical problem of deriving personal data from statistical reports and why data anonymisatiom is so complex.
How is this not stealing ... Its like i gave you money/raw materials to do something for me. you skim off it and sell it off it is stealing. May not be a legally valid term, but it is stealing.
>A smart designer of a Decentralized application could see not storing data in a centralized storage, as an advantage because it lets them side step all of these problems.

This doesn't sidestep the core problem of curation, though. It depends on the nature of the application, but just looking at ones that involve displaying user-submitted publicly: if you don't have a frontend with some manner of filtering and moderation, the app will quickly be overwhelmed with a flood of spam and illicit activity (ranging from copyright infringement to child abuse).

Things like IPFS work great for decentralized content storage if you don't need to provide any sort of curation or frontend. But if you do, you'll quickly find yourself running what reduces to a centralized platform. Or if you're providing a federated service of some kind, then your users will be the ones who find themselves in that situation.
100%

The theme of an entire thread is discussing building and selling businesses like it's just something you can choose to do easily in your free time or not ...

Oh, just build that random idea you had and sell it for 10K in a couple of months ...
Thanks, and that's great! Due to experiences like the above I would probably not even think of bringing this up in a regular interview, unless I get the vibe that the interviewer might actually find it interesting for its own sake (which isn't that easy - turns out I have a terrible intuition for which people would appreciate something like that).
There's nothing objectively "beautiful" in Bacon's paintings, it's just some mangled faces who look objectively ugly (one could make a reference to Baudelaire and say that "ugly is beautiful", not sure if the article does that because it is behind a paywall for me) and, more importantly, those faces happened to be painted by a English-speaking white man in the mid- to late-20th century, when the powers that be needed paintings by English-speaking white men in order to better colonize the cultural landscape.
Do you have a residential IP?

It you don't have dmarc enabled that is for sure worth doing too.
People outside IT field generally don't even know how counting thing from picture is very trivial computer vision task. This is common everywhere in the world.
Which is something I consider a big scam pulled on the people entering this workforce. You expect to be using your brain to build great, useful things - but in practice, you're expected to be a people person collaborating on doing mostly crap job under tight deadline pressure. No surprise burnout is a problem in this industry.
Induced demand is often misrepresented. Like any resource, the more of it there is, the cheaper it is to obtain, and the more of it people use. Roads are no different. "Induced demand" is just a biased way to talk about how normal supply and demand works.
20 years of tech startup experiences in one hour
Seems like a low price if it saves labor costs like in the OP. But they can only ask that price because it's such an obscure niche and other people probably didn't even consider that something like that is needed. Good chance they'll soon have competition.

edit: The app has 500k+ downloads and is rated at 3.5/5. People seem to complain about the fact that the templates are so limited. Real opportunity right there I'd guess.
He's repeating the criticisms of his own system as if they are new ideas. A positive I guess if he wasn't already aware of these issues
Ok, so this thread, with all the replies of people unaware of this in teenage years - seems to imply we should teach this stuff in schools early on. As teenagers are in general low on money and the most likely to try to repair something that get them back to gaming, while ignoring warning stickers ...
That's a weird distinction to try to make. Metal does mean the elements, not the spectral lines. The presence of those elements is usually inferred from the spectral lines, but if another method was used we would still say "metal poor/rich".
It's not hard to emulate the early Cray machines. Someone did it in an FPGA.[1] They're not that complicated; they just have large numbers of identical units. But apparently almost all Cray software has been lost.

[1] http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/
> App Store has double the revenue of Play Store despite Play Store serving a much bigger audience (more Android phones) and having the same 15%/30% cut as the App Store. This directly means the Play Store is a lot less used by its users. They buy way less from it relative to App Store.
> You can attribute this to less trust, or more piracy, more likely both.

I don't attribute it to either: it's pure demographics. Apple users are wealthier.

Nobody is asking for the destruction of anything, that's pure hyperbole. Opening up a marketplace in which you are both a participant and controller is not "destruction". It's what's fair for everyone.
Earn $100K plus
Norwegian police ask public to help solve missing person case involving crypto
We used this Django feature as a poor man's Sentry years back.
The title should be "Useful Swift Things". I assumed it would be about useful tips and tricks about using iOS on an iPhone.
I wrote a hack a while back which just extracted comments from various programming languages, and then I ran them through aspell manually.

End result was a minor update to git to fix a couple of typoes:

https://blog.steve.fi/i_m_a_bit_of_a_git__hacker__.html

Even in my own work I know my comments, and inline strings, often contain typos. It would be nice to have a dedicated tool for catching new additions in pull-requests, etc.
you know? why downvote. don't ask stupid questions.
I have moved email provider multiple times without any of that pain. It is easy. I just point my domain name at new MX servers.
Genuine question: can crypto economics provide incentives for a more decentralised Tor?

I'm talking about being paid crypto for hosting a tor node, and charged crypto for using a tor node. Using privacy technologies like ring signatures of course.
There is no way countries will allow these sort of cute workarounds to local regulations in finance.
terrible example. You can just make a square from pearls and multiply. If you need to do a lot of it make a box with numbers on the side, tilt it then count and add the remaining row. The weight is probably not irregular enough to justify the tool. There are better examples on the website.

Pricing is just silly. I'm sure it is worth that much to some 0.001% of the potential market.
thank you, very kind and useful

part of the self-therapy of this post was for me to exorcize this framework of 'weak' and 'strong'
Nice! Have you considered adding flocking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids) with lots of them flying around? For a "useless stuff" project, I coded this for bats (all the same model) flying around. It's really fun to play with the flocking parameters to make them behave like bees, fish, birds etc. and it's not much more code than a regular particle system.
Ask HN How to display/manage a bibliography on the web?
I have a bibliography in .bib format used in some of LaTeX projects. Now I want to add this to the web. A simple html export will produce a page listing all the entries. But I would want this list to be with filters for search. For example, with a particular keyword or an author or by year range.

What tools are available for doing this?
The article is garbage: some junior content writer was given a task to expand the "gates met epstein" and "gates had an affair 20 years ago" into 10 paragraphs of text.
I disagree. If bitcoin or ethereum gets completely killed today, I'm confident you'll still be able to download the chain in four decades (assuming civilisation still exists) out of pure history and data hoarding.
> This seems rather a simple task, however, the app is expensive

It's easy to do it in an unreliable way. 1000$ a year doesn't seem very expensive if your business depends on it and you're saving a lot of time like in the OP.

> and limited with the templates for things it can count

It seems very specialized towards certain businesses, if you have a specific use case that isn't covered I'm guessing you can probably contact them and see if they can add it?
Are there any alternatives? Or how one should approach making an app from scratch?
List of Retronyms
who is responsible now?
I inspected the DOM while selecting and I didn't find the hidden text element. Perhaps it was there and I didn't know how to find it.

Is this a more likely approach than just drawing the selection highlight and emulating the whole thing in canvas?
> put yourself in their shoes: how would you gain insight into gauging their suitability for "cog" work based on completely unrelated hobbies?

This is the core disagreement though: to 'ajxs, me, and many other commenters here, these aren't unrelated hobbies. Software engineering can't be neatly demarked along the lines of programming languages or frameworks. These are just the tip of an iceberg (and most of them are just flavors of the same thing, solving the same underlying problems).

You don't just write a OS kernel and become experienced in kernel development. These kinds of projects, done on the side, with no deadline pressure forcing you to do a half-assed, minimum-effort job, allow you to gain more generalized, holistic understanding, that's very much transferable into just about any kind of programming job you could do.

> your answers have to relate to the job you're interviewing for in some shape or form, hopefully in a good way

That's a very good point. Myself, when talking about my seemingly unrelated side projects, I consider it my responsibility to show how they connect to their domain and skills they look for.
Here's the problem: a lot of people in the 1st world thinks things are getting worse, when in reality the world is improving for the less well off. Think extreme poverty, child mortality, health care, etc. Some details here:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-wh...

This is down to globalization and capatalism, which does sometimes feel like a race to the bottom but actually seems like it's working.
wow, thank you

I have a newsletter if you want to get posts like this in the inbox <wink> <wink>
https://victorrotariu.com/
Plane could have returned to Russia (and probably would if Snowden was aboard)

Not defending it, especially the alleged search once it landed, but it was very different to a hoax bomb threat on a commercial plane
Hi, there! I'm one of the project managers at CountThings, I'll try to respond to comments here but I guess you can AMA.
> when the powers that be needed paintings by English-speaking white men in order to better colonize the cultural landscape.

And here we are. The powers that be need foot soldiers like you in order to better colonize the cultural landscape with white ethno-masochism.
Other stars may as well be made of exotic particles that look like hydrogen to us.
You are totally right. We usually work with businesses that have a counting need and we create a new template for their use case.
Show HN: Learning Solidity, in Public
That's more of a philosophical decision. Even if you don't want old blocks, someone else might want.

As part of your expected obligations of the network, you're asked to seed those blocks.
I recommend the Wayback Machine add-on. Let's you quickly archive pages and automatically serves an archived page for non-working sites.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/wayback-machi...
Ford, Not Tesla, Is Making the Electric Truck That Will Change the EV Industry
CudaText: Open-source text editor, inspired by Sublime
How is this relevant considering that according to FlightRadar the closest airport was the destination airport, where they were supposed to land anyway?
What would have happened if his plane had tried to cross into Spain regardless? Do you think 'force' might have been involved? Is not denying overflight ultimately backed by force?
Why Did It Take a Global Pandemic to Trigger the WFH Revolution?
Much of HN is also middle of the curve and don't care/know about finance. Finance, financial engineering and P2P is a different beast compared to deploying bloated Docker containers running React frontends. It's a shame because there are a lot of smart people here that could help working on sustainable economics for fun and profit.
The pictures show them as different sizes.
> For those that have run out of free articles.

Clear your browser cookies for the site.
I think this is maybe the only good/beneficial use case for DeepFakes
They are as independent as Mozilla is from Google. So they're not the same entity; but in practice they take orders from Eth foundation because they're funded by the Eth foundation.
$100 inkjet and $1000 worth of ink? Or?

We would need to know a price indication (which I guess is impossible at this stage) to know which of the printer and ink make up the largest part of the cost.

Silver sounds expensive...
because corporate america are the masters and we are the slaves.
Wow. Talk about missing the forest for the trees.

If an interviewee has a pet operating system they've developed they can probably figure out your CRUD app.
Who are you to define what is "objectively" beautiful?
> Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism?

Had a good laugh at the end that Vox is actually claiming that this is journalism.
It really depends how much time they are losing while manually counting. For most, the price is not high, the employees doing the counting can now focus on other more valuable tasks.
We also have pack of 24hour licenses that they can activate when it's inventory time, for example.
Miners want ROI. Running your own block creation infrastructure offers no benefit and only drawbacks and more services to keep online.
This is a B2B app.

I can imagine $100 a month for having an instant count so simply being a bargain for many.
How does it work for trading apps like Coinbase, Robinhood, Degiro, Binance etc?
Of course, but $100 per year to do the same is an even better deal.

I can only assume that their support for custom requests is absolutely incredible, because it should be pretty trivial for any potential competitor to put up a similar concept for a tenth of the price and still be making a profit.

But that's always the case with enterprise software I suppose. The improvement from 98% to 100% "quality" (whatever that means) is well worth a drastic price hike for most businesses.
> The decentralised web does still work, but I feel it’s important to acknowledge that this isn’t how most people use the web.

This is what many people, author included, get wrong.

'Success' needs another defenition with decentralization, (and OpenSource, but that's not what this article is about) than with proprietary apps.

The absolute amount of users of Bitcoin, matrix, email, IPFS, mastodon and so on, is growing. In a staggering rate. The relative amounts are poor, but that really does not make it a failure.

But even if numbers dwindle, they hardly matter for making it a success. IRC is a massive success, because it allowed thousands of people to communicate for decades. And it paved the way for how we all work today. It's not an accident that Slack i see often called 'IRC done right', or so.

Decentralized apps are free by their nature, hard to monetize, the author made this central to her piece. But that means you need another defenition of success!

Bitcoin is a success the moment one single unbanked person can use it to store wealth or pay a friend.
XMPP is a success the moment just two people can use it to communicate.
Email is a success as long as one person runs it's own server that can deliver mail.
Matrix is a success the moment one surpressed idea can be spread to one other person.
And so on.
Our app is mostly targeted to businesses. Besides counting, we also have a ton of other features (e.g. forms, reports, integrations, etc).
I really like the author's transparency, seems like an awesome person.
For Python, there's Bounter, "Efficient Counter that uses a limited (bounded) amount of memory regardless of data size."

https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter

Apart from HyperLogLog, Bounter implements a bunch of other nifty (fast) approximate counting algorithms like CountMinSketch.
Eth2 staking does this.
Oh, I see. For what it's worth, here is someone else performing the trick and it doesn't look like that's what's happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXIVQ-asqU
> Even a 5-year-old knows

How lucky that we're all grown up adults and the government is not our mommy!
Couldn't they use a machine like a coin counter?
the article said it saved about three months of labour. if best alternative is someone counting in old labour intensive way with annual salary of around $50k then that's an O($10k) profit.
Maybe even able to set your mouse speed above snail pace without resorting to terminal commands followed by a log out/in cycle to apply !
Natural pearl sizing varies widely and they aren't perfect spheres either.
Eth2 has the concept of slashing. If you see a validatoe acting maliciously, you can publish a proof and slash them. You receive a portion of the penalty.

So running full nodes will have a monetary benefit. Running two will only give you more benefit if they have improved network reachability and latency.
Moving gmail to my own fastmail was really easy.
Does anti-hydrogen have the same spectral signature as regular hydrogen?
There's a lot of truth in this comment. Being able to gauge the interest of the people you're presenting to, and adjusting accordingly, is obviously going to benefit you in any situation too. It's a good idea to focus on keeping things relevant. In my defense, in this case the instructions were very open ended. They wanted projects I was particularly proud of, and left the scope very wide.

Regarding gauging my suitability for "cog" work: Without wanting to sound arrogant, I don't think it's really that remarkable a feat to memorise the semantics of modern enterprise tools (maybe only a great feat of patience). I can't imagine why anyone would want to hear about all the ORMs I've used, or what Java/Python/Node/<insert tech here> libraries I've used over the years. That stuff is already in my resume. I think it's probably a better wager to risk boring the person looking to hear all about which new Java features you've used, rather than to risk boring the interviewer looking for genuinely interesting passion projects.
> they place 0 value on the effort it takes you to make the money needed to buy that ring.

Very well said. I grew up in a middle-middle class family in India, and my Mom would not have let my Dad buy her any jewellery with his hard earned money.
louis rossman, the man from the article, does do component level board repair. A lot of right to repair is about being able to obtain these parts to enable this type of repair, without having to go through dodgy channels
> Because of all of the speculation cryptocurrencies have generally become too volatile for that.

So, the great amazing disruptive technology that is going to completely change the world... broke as soon as a tiny fraction of the world start paying any attention to it.

> Then there's the applications for areas like logistics, supply chain, that are all under development.

Literally none of those applications require blockchain, and blockchain solves literally none of the problems in those domains.

> That doesn't mean it isn't useful.

You'd think that the great amazing disruptive technology that is going to completely change the world would actually show some useful applications by now.
Talking about getting it wrong, it's "definition".
I thought fedora used akmod instead of
dkms?
What is DTL? Did you mean DLT (distributed ledger technology)?
1k a month wouldn't seem ridiculous unless individual companies currently have several devices

All these comments make me wonder if these people have ever worked with B2B pricing
It's a content website with affiliate income, nothing outstanding. It worked really well, but that was just luck. I didn't expect that, and I couldn't do it twice.

Before that, I worked programming contracts, and 3-4 months of those per year would also suffice.

Given our profession, many of us could also work less and live on half their income.
Crazy Crypto Idea: Human Coin
Here is a crazy idea I just got, Human Coin could be a new crypto that you "Mine" by making babies(joke of course).

All humans on earth will get 1000 coins, to get your coins you have to provide a DNA sample, which is also your wallet address.

Any thoughts? :P
Thanks! And that's really cool, added to the TODO list!
Current bottom line:

- 1st response to CoVID occurrence was certainly in Wuhan.

- The closest wild strain of CoVID happens in bats living thousand kilometres from Wuhan

- Wuhan had two institutes which, on record, did gain of function experiments on bat coronaviruses

- Beijing purposefully destroyed DNA evidence, and obliterated the team who first sequenced the CoVID genome

- Chinese authorities were scrambling, and suppressing reporting as early as November, seemingly with a very good idea what they are up to.
> Yes, the blockchain data structure ensures that if you verify the older transactions, the newer transactions on top of it are verified.

That is not enough.

Blockchain is proposed for various things like, for example, land registries. They have to be kept around indefinitely long. In many countries financial institutions are required by law to keep financial transactions around for 4 years. Ans so on.

But yeah, sure, go ahead and remove all historical data "because new transaction is mathematically valid".
I think that the observation that big players just walk into a federated service and then tend to dominate it is pertinent, however that doesn't mean the service has failed in my opinion. Outside of gmail, there are countless alternatives suitable for all people that just want an address to those that bring their own domain. As long as alternatives exist, nothing is lost.

However, a larger omission is the fact that the new wave of federated services based on ActivityPub, Mastodon, Pixelfed[1], et all are missing from the article. I think that these disparate applications addressing different use cases, but which can talk to each other are the future of a federated web. Yes, there are larger entities that already carved a big chunk of the userbase, yes there are incompatibilities, but they're just starting and I'm optimistic.

[1] I'm talking from the perspective of someone that's building something in this space.
Lol, nice link. Why do you think number of messages is n^3? Each message only needs to be sent once to each network participant, that's n messages. Additional messages will be needed to tell their connections which messages they've received, but this can be a single metadata message talking about many primary messages. So if you send 1000 messages through a network of 3000 people, that's not 3000^3*1000 messages, it's 1000*3000 + a*3000 where a is how many metadata messages are sent per message (which likely would be more related to the rate at which messages are sent, rather than any kind of constant).
If this was a deliberate decision on their end, it's just a plain bad one IMO.
I'd like to know what sort of "tips and tricks" you expected to be hosted inside of a Github repository.