skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rarely jump back and forth when listening to audio.. so I went digging. In Apple's docs:
• To skip forward, double-press the force sensor on the stem of an AirPod.
• To skip back, triple-press the force sensor.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207010

So the only issue left is volume. Hey Siri.. how do we change the volume without talking to you?
Don't worry, bitcoin will solve these problems... With a third layer!
2013 article - worth noting. Presumably submitted due to the recent incident with a Ryanair plane.
> It's clear that any change to the equilibrium would have winners and losers.

Thank god our object isn't to design rules that would pick the winners and losers we want, but to design rules that prevent Apple from using their platform leverage in an anti-competitive way. It's fine if Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram lose, and "extremely popular multi-billion dollar" applications win. Being extremely popular and successful while using few Apple resources should give you some degree of control over your own application.
> Some things take a long time to fail, but will undoubtedly fail. There are numerous examples of failed fiat currencies in modern times and ancient times. Just because dollars, euros and yen survive now, doesn't mean it will survive forever.

I take it that goes for gold too, then?

> The rules for money should be transparent, mathematical, algorithmic.

1) Sez who?

2) But OK, if we stipulate that: How are ordinary fiat currencies any less so than blockchain just-as-fiat ones?
Oh, there's plenty of overlap between those, and I'm sure lots is applicable to other large organizations.

But I also learned things like:

- How do I most effectively advocate for headcount within Amazon's yearly budget process?

- Who is the right person to go to in AWS Networking when we think we have a possible performance problem in the network stack?

- What is AWS AppSec really looking for when a design is going through a security review? (and what are they not looking for)

These have a little applicability, but mostly they're the inside knowledge that just comes from time and experience inside the organization. You learn the shibboleths that open doors or get people to listen to you on the first try. Sorta useful, but mostly not very interesting to me personally.
Blockchains subject to laws of logic and physics, confirmed.
Please let me know what websites you're thinking of! What I like with this one is the historical view and the attempt at devising new ways with simple tech.
I think, it will probably take another decade.

I think, BC could go to 5 million before it stablizes.
Do quote everything, while you're at it.

> The first production of automobiles was by Karl Benz in 1888 in Germany and, under license from Benz, in France by Emile Roger. There were numerous others, including tricycle builders Rudolf Egg, Edward Butler, and Léon Bollée. Bollée, using a 650 cc (40 cu in) engine of his own design, enabled his driver, Jamin, to average 45 kilometres per hour (28 mph) in the 1897 Paris-Tourville rally. By 1900, mass production of automobiles had begun in France and the United States.

So, 11 years after production started, gas-powered cars were not only rather common, but there were rallies involving them.

11 years from introduction, no one has come up with a use-case for blockchain: https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-... and https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle...
So when you buy a vehicle, you should be allowed to run any custom OSS on the hardware?
Great! Thank you for the invitation! :)

> The big advances all seem to come from big corporate labs

That's an interesting claim, and I'd encourage you to find some statistics to verify this hypothesis, because in my experience, that doesn't ring true.

From my subjective perspective, it seems that academic and industrial research labs innovate at roughly the same rate per-capita. I was a PhD student when Microsoft was dominant, hiring the best faculty from all top-4 CS schools (CMU, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford), and they certainly produced a lot of papers, and did seem to dominate conferences, but the actual innovation in computing came from Apple and startups, which did not have "research labs". Microsoft, including its giant industrial research lab, certainly was not the driver of innovation in computing!

And here are some numbers to back that up: Microsoft's R&D budget in 2011 was 10x the budget of the entire NSF -- for all sciences. Yet, Microsoft was clearly not producing more than 10x the scientific output of all NSF-funded academic science.

So it would help to have some statistics for the claim that industrial research innovates more than academic research. They certainly pay more, and often hire more people, but per-capita they don't seem any more productive or healthier than academics.
>Did he get on their soil though? Usually, you stay in the international zone when between flights

for example, when US agents capture people outside US and load them on a plane to bring in to US they actually formally arrest and charge them only when the plane enters US airspace.
Induced demand is an argument frequently used against bigger roads but the reality is that the increase in road size takes many years before the road is at its maxed out capacity again so it definitely helps.
This is the "Kill the chicken to scare the monkey" effect.

It might be concurrent with the Streisand effect, but it is usually fairly painful for the target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_chicken_to_scare_the_...
There's a tool called fakespot which would analyze the reviews and give the product a grade. It has the right idea but I think these professional sellers have circumvented them...

Just like you, I also updated my review when I downgraded my star review. My first attempt was rejected by Amazon and I made my update more brief in order to pass their review process.

I wouldn't say Amazon is turning a blind eye to it - but actually helping the cause in order to get turnover of products. If it hurt their bottom line (just like bad publicity like this would) they'd stop it.
They probably used fake documents if they're from KGB.
In reality? Did he eat his own dick in the end?
>> "for many if not most new PC laptops"

Curious how we are going to determine most here but Lenovo and Dell make their service manuals easily available with the service tag/serial. HP has service manuals available with some Google fu (eg. http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06148960.pdf). There are a lot of manufacturers who could do better but saying "my parents 500$ HP laptop had no repair manual available so it's not so bad that a 2000$ Apple machine does not have one either" just sounds weird to me. If I have to disassemble an Apple laptop I have to check iFixit, I also need to own weird screwdrivers and if I had the repair schematics (they do exist) I may be violating a copyright or at least a ToU.

But this is all fine, it could be worse.
There's nothing effective that's going to be done about this.

Regimes like that change only when forced by violence or credible threats of violence in their territory - actual power, not "soft power", it will change only because of large quantities of people in Belarus/Minsk actually make the change happen (as opposed to just asking for change). Looking around, who might make such a change?

1. Western countries definitely won't do that in Belarus, a boots-on-the-ground invasion like that seems totally implausible and would risk escalation into a military conflict with Russia, it's just not going to happen;

2. The Belarus opposition decided to explicitly avoid trying anything and limit their activities to nonviolent protests - last year there were some moments where perhaps they had a chance to overthrow the regime if they tried, 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;

3. Russia has no need to do that, they seem to be satisfied with the current direction and whatever deals they made;

4. Internally, the regime seems stable. Last year perhaps there were some questions on whether all structures of power would support Lukashenka, but that seems to be over for now - but IMHO this is the only thing that can change the country's direction, if the regime stays unified, Lukashenka will get away with all of this (and, most likely, escalate it) for a decade or more easily, the existing regime is stuck and can't change (since as soon as they loosen the grip, they'll end up like Gaddafi), but if a "court coup" happens, they might change the direction.

So all that's on the table is complaining loudly and sanctions that aren't going to be effective in the short term. I mean, the only way how sanctions can work is if they make the economic situation dire enough so that Belarus people actually do revolt, until that, the regime will make sure that the siloviki get their share of the dwindling funds and it won't change their behavior as that behavior is now required for their self-preservation.
That MIG-29 on their tail will help them obey.
The Actor Model is a unique-up-to-isomorphism model of the

theory Actors. Lambda expression and Turing Machine differ in

that each is defined as a particular kind of machine.

Actors can perform computations that cannot be implemented

by a nondeterministic Turing Machine. Also, an Actor

application can be hundreds of times faster than any lambda

calculus implementation.

A programming language implementation is also a particular

kind of machine. For example Smalltalk-71 was a byte code

interpreter machine not based on Actors.

See the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
Yes, intentionally:

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/iran-shot-down-plane-ful...
Nice app! It's really useful, I'll never manually skip an ad again!
Porn is covered under an exception. A tweet saying you merely want to assassinate the president is fine, what's illegal is inciting others to commit crimes.
If this scaling blog post is accurate, a global payment network at 1m transactions/second, decentralised, is massively valuable.

Imagine if the only way to send a message to someone was through fb messenger or WhatsApp, and then someone invented email. The UX might not be great, but the benefits are huge.

Additionally if the eth virtual computer can scale with very low gas costs, there’s a lot of accountancy and banking functions that can replaced with eth code. Potentially some legal functions as well.
> Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks, the spent transactions before it can be discarded to save disk space.

Everyone should have this quote ready when there's an inevitable "but there's no tampering of the log, and all transactions are kept forever and can be verified!"
So many reputations and projects in blockchain rest on this flawed idea that users need to run nodes. Users do nothing to extend the chain! If a group of miners wants to change the protocol, it takes another group of miners to counter it. And there always will be another group, because miners compete. From the bitcoin whitepaper: "He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules". And let's get serious: users will hear about such a protocol war on news outlets, not by watching their node. Then they can choose which fork to buy, sell, and use.
The BBC has a report on a preprint study on vaccine effectiveness against the 'Indian' variant. Vaccine effectiveness is low after one dose, but improves after the second dose.

Covid: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs effective against Indian variant - study:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57214596
The part I found hard to believe is the idea that “not many places” would work to keep a good employee that was looking for work elsewhere. I don’t doubt that places exist that would immediately fire someone in this situation, I just find it hard to believe that is the majority of places.
> This seems to push a history state as I click around the app. Please don’t do this; if you want to store (selection) state in the history that’s fine but use replace semantics instead.

Sublime text handles this in the best way I've seen. The undo-stack stores selection changes, but Ctrl-Z ignores them and undoes directly back to the last actual edit. There is a separate keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-U) that does "Undo Selection". So it's out of the way unless you need it, at which point it's super useful (e.g. if you spent some time making a complex multi-selection that accidentally mess it up)
Oh, no, it's terrible.

But government can't secure the Internet like they could physical space, so operating on the Internet is like operating in SF.
> The problem is users would always choose short-term gain

So then, at the end of the day, this is not about you getting what you want.

Instead, it is that you want to force other people, to agree with your decisions, and take away their choice to buy from other app stores, if the courts rule that Apple's behavior is illegally anti-competitive.

> But this is why Apple has to.

You can stay with Apple if you want. Problem solved. Other people, would get to choose what they want, and it is not on you to force them to agree with you, if Apple's behavior is ruled illegally anti-competitive, and they have to let other app stores exist.

> would significantly harm the iPhone experience.

Don't install the epic app store, if you don't like it then. Problem solved. You just want to take that decision away from other people, even though the courts could absolutely rule that the behavior that Apple is engaging in is illegally anti-competitive.
>but WireGuard is much much simpler than OpenVPN (which was comically hard to get right).

I love WireGuard, and it's definitely beautifully designed to be security fail safe with no moving parts as far as that goes. If you manage to get a link to work, it should be dependable. But as you say "simpler" isn't saying much when the comparison is a pile of crud like OpenVPN. And (as I've just spent the last 24 hours battling befuddling errors in trying to get certain WG setups to work on OPNsense) that simplicity also means that a lot more leans on the rest of the ecosystem around WG. It makes the explicit and very correct design choice to be more like the classic Unix model, doing one thing very very well and then leaving the rest to other bits rather than the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink OpenVPN.

But in turn I'm very excited about people building nice stuff on top of it and smoothing out integrations with other parts of the puzzle. Tying it into more scalable credential management, more automation/GUIs over handling other fiddly bits for common use cases (like firewall and NAT), more easy onboarding (like the QR codes here), etc is all stuff that'll be cool to see moved along. I think WG could be part of the foundation for giving more people the ability to work with VPNs (even if they don't know what that term is), and in turn could be an important piece of the puzzle in bring some more decentralization back particularly for smart home/IoT stuff. If it was trivial and standard for more people to run off their home networks from anywhere, that'd help eliminate one major motivation for cloud tie-in.
From how I understand this approach, these are effectful functions that have the size effect of printing on a prompt when first ran.

While it is true that they yield the same result back to the program on each invocation, so would OCaml invocation `Printf.printf "Hello, World!"`, it namely always returns `()`, but it is quite an effectful function, of course.
I have never seen a split bobbin in an ATX supply — they are bad for efficiency.
> Then they can choose which fork to buy or sell.

Funny how this is now the only activity for this: buy and sell forks in a vacuum.

Because in actual real world scenarios users definitely don't chose that. Just go into a shop and watch people not chosing anything, but, you know, just paying.
You should look at it as a public service of authenticity.

Notary services / time stamping. But also noncustodian assets. Although still not usable for daily life, I think the more we move into digital, the more we will want and need better licensing/ownership of digital content. For example when blizzard bans your wow account, which is worth many hours and dollars.

Big tech has too much control over these things, and the road to get a response se or to go to court is way too long and expensive for the average joe
Here is one of many comments I have written https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641940

But again, to those reading this thread, HN is not a place where you will find a lot of people who patiently defend crypto and blockchain. It garners a lot of downvotes.
The over the top marketing on the landing page is so hilarious to me.
> curate a language and IDE for you to make your stuff with as well

That's an odd way to put it. Approximately 0.001% of developers would complain if instead they were allowed to use the language and IDE they prefer.
1. I'm fortunate to live in a country with a stable enough banking system that I haven't ...yet. Others are not so lucky.

2. whether you "lost money" is also the wrong question to ask. eg. if there was a massive bank failure and the government decided to bail them out by printing massive amounts of cash, you'd technically gotten your money back but you still "lost" money.

3. this feels like a derail/moving the goalposts and eventually devolving to arguments about monetary policy, intrinsic value, and whether the state should have a monopoly on currencies.
1. My startup is doing pretty well now

2. If somehow it didn't, we'd go back to being poorish. Or I'd get a regular job or be a contractor. Either way, we'd live.
I agree that unhosted wallets are how crypto was meant to be used, and the only way it makes sense—you don't need a decentralized BFT protocol with proof-of-work if all transactions involve a limited set of centralized exchanges, and proof-of-stake is meaningless if only exchanges hold coins. However, it's wrong to say that this offers any protection against the IRS. Legally speaking the tax obligations are exactly the same for hosted and unhosted wallets, and in practical terms merely keeping your coins in unhosted wallets is not an effective means of hiding income from the tax man.
That's why you should stick to Bitcoin, not Ethereum. While I find the problems and musings of the Ethereum crew fascinating, I have started to wonder if it is the crypto equivalent to a planning economy: they'll just add patch after patch to fix thing that are not fixable, making the system more and more complicated.

I understand Bitcoin (in principle), it is not that hard to understand. I don't understand most of Ethereum.
I will read it without bias. Thank you.
I mean you also need to buy a monitor and peripherals for a PC. Since they’re not built in you could find a 1080p monitor on Facebook marketplace locally for almost nothing. If you’re just doing iOS development the Mac mini should be fine.
Aside from DDoS, no not really. Not if every single accepted packet needs to be signed.
Well, MacOS gives that unfettered access, and I still find it better than Windows or Linux. :) Even after years of neglect by Apple
I’ve purchased a lot of products where printed advertisements for schemes like this were included in the box. I haven’t noticed the solicitations in my email - maybe I don’t read those emails because they look like spam?
Yes, the blockchain data structure ensures that if you verify the older transactions, the newer transactions on top of it are verified. If the old version was valid, the newer block built on top of it is too.
Erlang processes are an extension of the Actor abstraction

that happens to support mailboxes, one-way messaging, and

ability to update processes. Erlang programmers can be

inefficient because Erlang itself does not directly

support the Actor abstraction.
I believe that you are already allowed to do whatever you want on your property but if you want to drive it on public roads you need to comply with some minimal safety standards imposed by the state.
What is your plan to prevent things similar to this of happening in the future?
Start investigating about Russian high-state officials. Plenty of them have EU or US citizenship. Sometimes their relatives, but it's all from stolen money. Arrest their goods, put their money on hold, until they present proofs of their money being earned by a lawful means (those proofs will be fake, because their money are from bribes, extortions, thefts).

I'm sure that Belarus is in the same boat.

Sherlock Holmes's house in London is owned by Nazarbayev's daughter. It's so ironic.
That wasn't my point. I was responding to the notion that a mechanic is qualified to tell the engineer his job. ;-)
Of course I do. I never said the bomb threat wasn't planned as a false flag, or that the timing wasnt done in a specific manner to ensure the flight was redirected to Minsk.

Only that I have doubts that the pilots did NOT follow the proper protocols or were somehow involved in a conspiracy here. Commercial aviation is one of the few jobs where theres little tolerance for deviation of established protocols and checklists, especially in declared emergencies. And a lot of the routing decisions arent necessarily made by them.

I understand some may find that offensive.. But it doesn't change my view on the matter. Nonetheless, i dont really see what is so controversial about stating it. It doesn't really excuse anything here....
Internet connected microcontrollers weren't very common in 2005.
Like I said earlier, one thing that bugs me about Louis Rossmann is that he never examines possible ulterior motives for Apple's decision making other than that they are evil.

For example, a MacBook. Perhaps it's because China clones everything and would happily clone a MacBook board and sell that to unsuspecting people, so Apple doesn't want to share info on where they got parts or the schematics. You might disagree, and I do wish Apple would share this info, but Louis could at least examine this possible argument.
Are there any other significant untraceable cryptos other than Monero and Zcash(using privacy fetures)?
The first part of point #2 is interesting because it's a blessing or a curse depending on which side of the hegemony you're on. Hypothetically speaking, if the Soviet Union were the current dominant superpower, or if China were the dominant superpower 15 years from now, and the US were under sanctions, wouldn't point 2 be a blessing? Being able to circumvent the wishes of the superpower du jour, for better or worse, does give an inherent value to the network regardless of whether the energy used is green or not.
The excuse is hardship? Are you saying that Apple's app store profit margin is low, or comparing $2.1 billion to 2 weeks?
I advice you familiarize yourself with the state capture in Hungary by Orban and his Fidez party. The ruling party has eridacated free press and is close on ending judicial independence. They remain in power mainly because they funnel EU money to their voters. Poland is on it’s way in copying this system.
Even granting that, it's still not user nodes that matter. We've seen from history (BCH/BSV/BCHA) that applications and exchanges decide which fork gets the ticker.
I see where our difference in opinion lies now. I don't put graphics cards into the same category as gold jewellery. There are entire industries of independent contractors who rely on GPUs to remain competitive, such as VFX and motion graphics artists. If GPUs suddenly cost $10,000 each, it means only a small percentage of the population can afford to break into those industries. That is, people who were once free to enter those industries no longer are. Isn't that an infringement on freedom?
You can remove it ‘for the user’ using ADB. This basically disables it unless you factory restore the phone. I believe you have to use ‘pm list packages’ and grep for anything with Facebook or Katana.
Or 42 trillion. Sky is the limit.