skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working in cybersecurity requires trust. Lying on your CV isn't a great way of demonstrating that.
Then there is no need to argue anymore, my friend.
> I’m not sure why you think you have a right to dictate private policy on a private platform.

Well, because it is illegally anti-competitive, and the courts already ruled against microsoft, regarding web browsers.

So thats why. It is because of anti-trust law.
This is how it is supposed to work. 50 different states, with 50 different policies. The states with the successful policies are copied by those who had failed policies, such as putting covid patients in nursing homes for the elderly instead of an empty hospital ship provided by the federal government. The whole country can benefit. I only wonder why the states with failed polices are reluctant to follow a successful example.
Well clearly he limited his weight gain.
You are still avoiding the question, while misinterpreting my point. I'm not saying that the two situations are 100% identical in what happened. I am, however, saying, that the two situations are 100% identical in intent.

So, again - yes or no - is it appropriate to disrupt a third party flight, in order to make a political arrest of a passenger on that flight? We've been dodging this question for the better part of a day, but nobody seems to be willing to stand up and say "Yes, it damn well is." Instead, everyone seems to be splitting hairs about the definition of 'disrupt'. I don't care about your definition of disrupt. [1] Is it, or is it not the sort of thing that we do?

Is the intent behind this the kind of intent that you're going to sanction? Or the kind of intent that you're going to condemn?

> (because the plane would not have landed if Snowden had been on board)

Unsubstantiated speculation, and completely irrelevant. You have no idea what the pilot would have done if he were.

> Moreover, the European countries would have known in advance that their actions would not force the plane down or create the possibility of an arrest

Also unsubstantiated speculation, and completely irrelevant. You have no idea what the people who made that call were thinking. Your interpretation also fails to account for why four countries did just that. For shits and giggles? Because they were expecting that stunt to fail? Because someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and decided to play airspace roulette?

[1] Further up in the thread, people keep saying that the plane was closer to Vilnius than Minsk, as if that is at all relevant. Were it closer to Minsk than Vilnius at the time of the call, would that have made this entire affair kosher for you? You seem to be incredibly concerned about the form, as opposed to the intent.
That was Feburary 2019 in Australia. Wuhan’s flu season would have been November 2019. Different severity, the flu season in the northern hemisphere 2019 was not especially severe.

Further, the researchers were surely in the 18-49 age bracket. CDC’s estimates for the 2017-18 flu season in that age bracket were 58.8 per 100,000. That is 0.0588% per person per year.

And that’s the whole flu season. To have odds of being hospitalized in november you’d cut that in four at least.

And then the odds of three people in the same lab all needing hospitalization also needing hospital treatment? Even less likely.

Not impossible, but it’s not so simple as suggesting there was a bad flu season. There wasn’t in china then, and flu hospitalization is damned rare in non elderly.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

(It is possible that the “hospital care” in the article doesn’t match “hospitalization” as cdc defines it, but any kind of hospital care for a young person from the flu is still rare)
I think the idea of 'work' is not in a technical sense but in a business and social sense: does it see success at a large scale? As things get larger, they get harder to judge, so asking that about Linux and all airplanes and open source ISAs is kind of irrelevantly difficult, whereas it's pretty easy to talk about Matrix 'not working': I don't use it, my school doesn't use it, etc. It hasn't seen widespread adoption and success. To restate the OP with this definition, decentralized applications that do 'work' (see widespread success) are all 'owned' by some unknowably large corporation (Google for email, GitHub for Git, etc) in a way that emulates centralized applications (the restriction of traditional decentralized freedoms talked about in the article). Out of this, the post makes the point that if we see decentralized systems as 'good', then we have to face this as a failure of the 'free market' and try to think of or move to something better.
Here are my calculations: a salary of 45k euros in France means you take home 2618€ a month (according to https://www.salaire-brut-en-net.fr/). A month is ~4.33 weeks, a week is 35 hours. 2618 / (35 * 4.33) gives me ~17.40, so I made a mistake with my initial calculation. Still, it's way less than your 25 euros per hour. Maybe you underestimate the difference between "brut" and "net" and then taxes, which are both pretty high in France.

500€ at 17.40€ an hour is 28.7 hours, 22.9 if we're taking your 400€ (I'll believe you on that, I don't know much about AWS pricing). I think that may be reasonable to take care of it. There's also a big problem: you can't directly transform hours of your life into money. If the author is not paid by the hour because he's a cadre, he had to work 218 days in the year, and that's it, working more hours won't make him directly earn more (more info here https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F19261?...). Finding freelance work to expand those 10 to 30 hours (to be very large) isn't going to be easy too. As an aside, if we take 218 days for our calculations, that comes up to ~20€ an hour if they work 8 hours days, and ~23€ an hour if they work 7 hours days.

I do agree that database replication seems like a big issue, and if that's the case maybe switching to RDS could be a good idea.

Anyway, I think the article is relatively good at demonstrating the two extremes, Mailchimp vs everything by hand. Everyone is free to take of that what they find interesting, even if it's "I'd rather pay for Mailchimp".

> I think the ROI of writing the article and making everyone debate this on the internet was pretty high, but the title feels like clickbait. This is a straight trade for saving a little money vs. a semi-significant personal time investment.

I do think that it should be "How I" instead of "How to", but on the other hand "save up x/year" already informs you that the author is trading their time for money. I don't think it's clickbait just because it wouldn't apply to your or other peoples situations. Especially if 500€ is a little money for you, you're not really the target of the article.
Protocols like e-mail, Mastodon and Matrix where the server-to-server protocol is decentralized/peer-to-peer but clients interact with the network through designated servers are generally considered "federated" (which can be either considered as distinct from or a subset of "decentralized")

So the author seems to take "decentralized" here to mean "fully decentralized and peer-to-peer", which is indeed an unconventionally strong definition. But later on, they mention IRC, which is centralized by any definition... Actually, the author doesn't seem to be working from a strong definition at all and they seem to have given this very shallow thought and research.
What's being stolen in theft of electricity? The electrons or the holes?
It's absolutely not a troll comment.

I stand by the science and I would love any evidence of something like natural zoonotic spillover.
If tech were an industry that required no regulation at all, then it would really be the only such industry. The fact that regulation is necessary should be entirely unsurprising.

All major countries have discovered that extensive regulatory regimes are necessary to keep the free market in check. It isn't at all unusual that, as the article states, tech would require similar regulations to promote fairness, openness, and competition.
Defi is only about 2-3 years old. It's indeed fair to say that bitcoin has completely failed in getting any adoption beyond speculation.

>Nobody is using crypto as an alternative to fiat.

Ethereum is the best way to save in dollars outside of the developed world. High single digit or double digit yields (powered by speculators borrowing to speculate) vs ~0% in the banking system. Also much safer. Not compared to an American bank, but to Russian/Lebanese/Brazilian etc.
Couldn't they just advertise multiple positions with different ranges? I don't really see the issue with them having to do that if it is just a matter of tweaking how many years of experience they list as required on each one along with the salary band for that level of experience.

I'd also be ok with a minimum rather than a band, which means that they wouldn't be scaring away a best of the best type candidate by setting the ceiling too low.
I think Bittorrent could be made usable for 1:1 transfers. The building blocks are there. But you'd have to streamline the process and build a client optimized for that case instead of the more common usage. The main missing piece would be a standardized encryption format. That doesn't really need protocol changes, just a storage-level convention how the data is encrypted before turning it into a torrent.
How about the electrolytic capacitor of a camera flash circuit?

Knowing that they could deliver a nasty shock, I discharged one once by shorting the terminals with a screw driver.

The sound of the spark, and the scorch mark left on the PCB and screw driver left me fearful of them.

Or was that caused by the knowledge that I had a friend who said he put one of those capacitors in a highlighter, thereby making a makeshift, single-use, "shelf-unstable" taser?
I've tried. I've failed to find those tribes in America. They don't exist.
I think you miss my point.

Whether or not its possible for one party to dominate the network is one of the potential properties of a "distributed" system that people cannot agree on if its required in the definition.

For example, napster, TOR and IRC are arguably "distributed" systems where there is a central party that controls the network.
This is what people mean usually when they make this argument:

Blizzard can ban WoW accounts and take away your hard-earned in-game assets, and that makes people unhappy. Therefore, because capitalism, a competitor to Blizzard's WoW can arise whose killer feature is "we technologically commit to not being able to take away your assets because those assets are distributed through a decentralized blockchain."

Of course, it's pretty far-fetched. The "banned account had lots of assets" problem happens to a tiny minority of people compared to how many enjoy WoW because Wizards and Goblins or whatever, so to compete with WoW on the basis of "we can't take away your assets and they can" is not going to appeal to anyone. You have to also be better than WoW in other aspects that would make people want to migrate.

But the general idea is, "if part of your offering is 'virtual assets' you can use this technology to commit yourself to never being able to take those assets away". Hence ICOs.
Counterthesis: decentralised applications are losing popularity because XMPP was so awful that it poisoned the view of decentralisation. Pre-XMPP everything was decentralised and federated. Post-XMPP decentralisation became synonymous with less-good clones of centralised systems, and both new systems and existing decentralised systems started moving towards centralisation. Decentralisation will come back again when the best systems are decentralised.
Thanks, but I'm trying to automate the process for mass production.
I tried a little earlier to bring up the site and DNS said SERVFAIL. Sigh. Oh well, that site pointed me the in the right direction regarding power supply choices.
By “vote who wins”, you mean when the weaker players will team up against the stronger player to have a better chance of winning? Or something more like being accepted into a good guild gets you onto good raid teams which gets you better gear which gets you into good guilds, etc.?

I wish I knew more about game theory because there are probably good names for all these things. I think the first is tall poppy syndrome and the second is relative age effect?
The common point of origin for all of these is bats, right?

That's what was being researched in Wuhan from what I've read in the media.
Well, any political system is a contrived popularity contest, so no surprises there.
And then there is obstacle clearance.

Over any terrain with appreciable elevation differences, topographic features can easily rule out otherwise eligible airfields because you'll have to cross granite on the glide down.

/Acey

I left that off before but it begged mentioning since it's a question that asks for a real answer/confirmation if starting from jet cruise altitudes. If you are starting at FL410, you could easily head down a box canyon accidentally when the Alps, Pyrenees, Rockies, etc. are nearby.
A fitting international reaction would be to deny Belarus the use of any airspace outside of Belarus.
That’d be because Bitcoin awareness is c. 100% amongst altcoin investors. When an altcoin underperforms Bitcoin, its investors have traditionally realized the opportunity cost of holding it — particularly seeing as Bitcoin is the longest standing, most stable and widely recognized, original cryptocurrency with the simplest and safest technical implementation.
I agree with your sentiment. The style you chose to express it makes it hard to read. It seems unnecessarily defensive, sort of like someone poking me in the chest to make a point about something that I don’t feel emotional about.
SARS-COV-1 also used ACE2 receptors. In fact your article specifically discusses that, and suggests there was potential to use SARS-COV-1 vaccine development to create SARS-COV-2 vaccines.

The ACE2 receptor affinity is not novel.
Each of those perspectives is in fact taken by many people. From the government's perspective, if something is used for illegal purposes, that's a severe defect and the thing isn't working. From Greenpeace's perspective, cars do not work.

None of that is relevant to the people who use drug marketplaces or cars, but those are different people.
Sure, I'll grant you that there's reason for doubting that the lab workers' tests were authentic. But I guess by that same logic, just trying to be accurate and fair here, there'd also be a reason for doubt -- and also for genuine credibility -- in all three of these scenarios.

1. The testing showing no Covid-19 antibodies was fraudulent and faked.

2. That testing was not faked. The workers did not have Covid-19 antibodies; their illness was caused by some other illness.

3. The report of the lab workers' illness is faked. (It came from a conservative newspaper, from unnamed officials citing an unnamed international partner -- where somewhere along that chain, someone had the proper motivation.)

I'm not arguing for any one of these things. We just honestly do not know.
I largely nodded along with the post, I think it raised a lot of valid issues about the state of non-profit software

Yet, I think one big reason why non-profit solutions are so unpopular is not primarily about marking, but about the terrible, truly terrible UX that most non-profit projects have.

As far is I can tell this has (mostly) nothing to do with constrained resources and just with the extremely technical perspectives of the maintainers.

Element is a laggy Discord clone. Signal is years behind other messengers in terms of features and general UI quality, Thunderbird is stock in the early 2000s, same as VLC, and I don't know a lot of serious artists that are using GIMP.

So, even though this is surely not the only reason why open source projects are not widely used, I think it's a huge contributing factor.

There are shining example s though, like Blender, Godot or Mastodon, that are truly open source and have a great set of features paired with nice UX and I don't think they're doing too badly :)
AirDrop leaks users numbers and emails says researchers
I read things with a grain of salt, by the way. It's getting tiresome to disclaim every comment.

Anyway assuming it's at least not a lie, "sought hospital care" would mean it's not just a trivial cold. Again, I'll be waiting for more details, I just think Occam's razor is converging here, and there are more hurdles to dance around with the other explanations.
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I value my time and money way more than that.
That was my worry. The resistance might be too high and get too heated. The nail avoids that issue.

In a power supply, you'd also have to worry about shorting and shocking other ICs with steel wool, but not with a big capacitor.
He's throwing almost a million dollars into something he kinda-sorta knows something about

"I've always had a lot of interest in and a passion for finance and economics from my days at Mizzou," Culkin said. "Even before that, my dad was big, really bullish on gold. Early on, I was always exposed to his philosophies on what made gold an intractable investment looking at it from a macro perspective. There's a lot of overlap between gold and Bitcoin. I really spent all of my time in the offseason the past year just hearing about this growing space in crypto. It just seemed like it was getting bigger and bigger.

"Through education and learning and having a level of conviction over the course of time, I just felt like I wanted to be compensated from my services in football in Bitcoin."
> What GitHub does though, is rather more sinister. They tweak the actual development workflow away from email with features like pull requests, and and they lock project data in with features like their issue system.

1) when my project gets PRs, how do I hear about this most of the time? Yep, email

2) Nothing is forcing anyone to use github as their canonical repo. For my project, our canonical repo is self-hosted, and we use hooks to mirror to github. This lets people familiar with github use their tools and workflow, but avoids us being particularly tied into the github way.
> The valuable diamonds are the diamonds that can be cut to produce a flawless gem.

Though note that those aren't rare either. A diamond has no resale value; jewelers already have all the diamonds they're allowed to sell.
The solution C++ has - as Andrei says - is not the same thing as static if because it introduces a scope
> This place is turning into Reddit.

I’m trying as hard as I can.
Surely though, it isn't a given rents will stay high in places where they're currently high? No one's trying to make money on rent in, say, Detroit.
Random reboots, program crashes, kernel panics/BSODs, boot loops, and wavering displays are some of the things I've seen, aside from the system just not powering up.
The communist party has conspired to cover up worse, genocides perpetuated by their dictatorship for example. The people who claim it's an outlandish suggestion they might have covered up a lab leak are uninformed or CCP apologists.

It would not be in the least surprising if this was a lab leak, and it is no more "harmful" to speculate that it was than to speculate that it was a wild virus.
>>Non-sequitur.

Your entire argument is premised on this baseless starting assumption, that Ethereum is somehow not a genuine crypto and instead a 'cult of personality'. It's an absurd foundation for your position.

>>I do think it's obvious that many ideals of cryptocurrency can not be reconciled with Ethereum. There clearly is a lot ill-placed trust into key personalities such as Vitalik Buterin.

A good response to this:

https://twitter.com/AdrianoFeria/status/1393743016741965824

>>No. Vitalik is an influential contributor, but he has no authority over it. His influence is merited because his contributions have added immense value to $ETH. It's that simple.

>>TLDR: Influence != Authority
I see you fixed it! This is so much sharper! I am now quite excited!
Nice blog post. I kind of wished the author dug more into why he worried so much about weakness, though.

I'm also reminded of something my mother told me once, "I think people have a hard time approaching me because it seems like I never have any problems." This is also one of my weaknesses: being so good at concealing one's weakness that it makes it harder to connect with people. The kicker is there isn't much feedback given to you about this other than a low-level, pervasive loneliness.
Yes. Capacitors before around ~1990 used organic solvents and were, generally speaking, very reliable. Capacitors since then switched to water-based electrolytes, which are 1) much more aggressive which 2) leads to circuit board damage if they leak and 3) if done improperly has very bad longevity. Capacitor plague is basically all of these downsides combined in one sweet package: capacitors that fail quickly, and do so while leaking acid all over your circuit boards, acid which is strong enough to eat through solder resist, copper, fiberglass and even goes into IC packages, damaging them invisibly.

Old-timey capacitors with organic electrolytes are still available for applications that need reliability more than the best ESR or highest density, but they're kinda rare and expensive.
If you stand by it how about posting it from your main account at least instead of a throwaway?
The feature exists but the overall quality and variety just aren't the same. For whatever reason, people get comfortable with the familiar and even a cosmetic change creates a barrier.

I have no doubt signal will catch up though.
Wilhelm II would be my guess. He would fit the bill. Though, as you said, many others would too.
It’s relevant to the original post. Do you think it’s appropriate?
Sort of. Very different without getting into the weeds.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-020-0184-0
If you write out to a centralized service like Twitter than you may as well just use a centralized database, it's much more efficient than a blockchain. A core property of a decentralized blockchain is that every person using the chain has equal opportunity to participate in the security of the chain, there are no "blessed users" and you should be able to use it without trusting any other user on it.
Blacksmithing – Forging a ball peen hammer
> I only wonder why the states with failed polices are reluctant to follow a successful example.

Because admitting that their policies failed is hard for politicians. So they bloviate about how the policy was actually successful, and try to make it hard to get apples-to-apples data, and otherwise try to hide the fact that they blew it.