skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you expound on your opinion about what Google has contributed?

Not that I don't think they have, but I can think of a lot of corporations that have contributed more to civilization and quality of life, yet we are okay regulating them. So I'm not sure that's the best barometer for this discussion.
Gmail is required by law to really delete things the user deletes. There are guarantees around how quickly it will be done.
I am not! Thanks for the insight.
I am salvadoran myself and I do not support the current president but I should say that the law passed by congress says that El Salvador will have it's own bitcoin reserve and an exchange for bitcoin against USD (our current national currency), so there will NOT be a transaction fee involved as you are just moving within a national reserve with a national exchange.
"Why even have friends when I need to have a bunch of them? Makes no sense to me"
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Anecdote... in colorado the snowpack level for 2021 is average-ish. And we just got a boatload of rain, its the wettest spring in a while.
There's plenty of drinking water if states manage their water sustainably. The biggest draw on water in most places is agriculture, not drinking water. There's no reason to pump aquifers dry and then use energy to transport water from elsewhere.
Because it's a global currency not reliant on the US dollar? Not everything is about perfect decentralisation too, third parties can run decentralised infrastructure so it's verifiable by users of the network.
Your username doesnt indicate any sort of bias whatsoever, particularly in the face of a 3rd party being in control of the transactions.
why does she keep getting airtime? nothing she's saying is even remotely surprising.
5G should be added to your list.

Definitely 5G
Sorry, crimes is a too generic term!

Counter-drone fight in Iraq/Syria includes consumer drones dropping what are basically grenades.

Another recent example was a souped up quadcopter that scouted out a mil base in AZ and then outran a few LEO rotary wings recently. But, if it was that modified of a drone, it's possible other aspects of the connection/remote access were hardened as well.
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The point of adopting BTC is generally to get wealthier. Merchants accept BTC to have more customers, more revenue and ultimately more profit. As I have witnessed it, there has been increasing adoption of BTC slowly but surely. In El Salvador however now they have to accept BTC because the government mandates that. Whether that makes sense or not, I don't know, but it is happening in any case.
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Note that there is discussion as to whether the drought narrative is driven by interested parties that wish the natural ecology of CA was different:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-06/editorial-t...
I think that the open plain is what makes the Tempelhof Field what it is. If you want trees, Hasenheide is right next door, or you can go to any of the other forested areas. But for an really open place, there is no such place in the city. I agree that some tree cover at the sides could help against the traffic noise but the openness is what makes this place special.
First of all, you're a service operator, political activity of your customers is not your business.

Secondly, lobbying doesn't exist in countries with no political representation. The only political activity available in such countries are activism (not of the bureaucratic type) and sabotage, all severely punishable.
The original conversation was about how Bitcoin could help the 70% who are unbanked have access to something like a bank account. The proposed mechanism for this is "well, they can go to a bank and register something like a bank account, or else they can be a high-SES self-educated tech person who builds their own bank using computer hardware". I do not think this could help the 70% who are unbanked have access to something like a bank account.

Whether or not it has spinoff economic benefits in terms of tourism or parking capital flight from other countries, you might be right, but that's not what was being discussed, right?
Most of the replies to yours haven’t been aggressive. Ironically it’s your comments that have come across the worst by using terms like “aggressive”, “blame” and “fault” in the first place. Calling other people’s comments aggressive is pretty unfair. One might even say hypocritical.
I specifically ask a question at the start of my comment asking if there’s reasons to vote no. Then I mention does that no vote line up with how they consistently vote on other bills, for instance avoiding pork barrel bills. It appears that all the nay votes are southern republicans. Which I’m a bit surprised by as they are often China hawks.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...
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All consumer banks are 3rd parties, they just share a common protocol, the federal reserve.

In El Salvador you could use any wallet you want, it doesn't have to be Strike, so it's the same thing.

But actually it's not the same thing, because you could even use your own wallet software and still be interoperable.
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I found this to be a good read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Salvadoran_political_cr...
Agree.

Anecdata: am doing interviews with prospective new people right now.

Things I care about in my software engineer hires (for whom this is not their first job):

* that you're able to talk about stuff you've done in the past, involving diving into technical detail at will, and showing some understanding of what was happening one level of abstraction below/above whatever bit you were working on. (I don't actually care what you did. Don't tell me proprietary stuff. I want to know that you understood what you were doing, why you were doing it, what it depended on and what depended on it, and that you are able to communicate this to me.)

* that you're familiar with the languages/tools/environments you said in your CV you are, and are able to communicate this to me

* that you have some general data structures+algorithms awareness, and ability to apply this knowledge to at least trivial problems rather than merely recite the textbook contents on demand
Branson may make a last-ditch effort to beat Bezos into space
I do the same thing. Either EDM concerts or the classic "Summer mix 2021 Deep House" streams going on.
> And I blame our industry for relying so much on a single company (and that isn't a problem unique to fastly, or even our industry).

The problem is that if fastly is the best choice for a company then there's zero incentive for the company to choose another vendor. Everyone acting in their own best interest results in a sub-optimal global outcome.

It's actually one of the major problems with the global, winner-takes-all marketplace that's evolving with the internet.
Yes, that might happen.

But the only way to avoid that is to give each customer its own private hardware, which seems prohibitively expensive (and may not even prevent all failure sources).
California has an ocean. Desalinated. Not brain surgery.
Not the unbanked population that most think of when they hear about the unbanked.

It is meant more for people that are ousted from banking or traditional payments, like pornhub or Trump, or Loomer.
The simplest solution is to just ban all user-visible metrics: # of likes, followers, friends, comments, etc.

At best, these serve as an indicator of quality for the public, but that function can be replaced by curation and validation by social media staff, or even just outright payment directly to the company.

At worst, these metrics are designed for social addiction anyway.

The 'like' button on Facebook was only introduced in 2009 anyway, 3 years after the platform became available to the public.

We probably need regulation to get to that point, but social media companies might very well make money money from this new world anyway. Moving towards greater user direct payment might also lessen reliance on advertising.
This president of El Salvador sent soldiers into the Legislative Assembly to coerce the parliament to vote in his favor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Salvadoran_political_cris...

He is not a friend of democracy, except the performative "chatting with laser-eyed crypto stans on Twitter" kind.
SIM jacking is pretty easy. In Australia if you know someone’s mobile number and date of birth you can port a prepaid mobile. For postpaid accounts all you need is a bill.

The barrier is higher than random automated port scans but the value of being able to get access to financial accounts is high enough to justify the investment.

I use Authenticator apps wherever I can. Where I can’t, I use a completely private number for 2fa (I run a virtual number product that is like Google voice for Australians to do so http://www.benkophone.com)
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El Salvador First Country to Make Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Legal Tender
> the past solid week you could send free BTC transactions, or for a couple of cents

Why was that? Didn't miners charge for that service?
How will the internet work on Mars?
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Others commented about your own domain. It's straightforward to set up, costs maybe $7 a year. You may want to look into it.

Additional bonus: use all kinds of addresses you want (me@shadyservice.domain.com) for easy blocking if an address leaks.
Good luck storing and handling that pile of cash, I'll stay with my crypto hardware wallet.
Yeah, I do that. On my box services point to /etc/letsencrypt/live/...
Explain the 2008 housing collapse mr free market. Millions are waiting
So far "semantic search" has been a scam, and I say that having developed a commercial "semantic search" product that was on the market more than 6 years before what's been announced by Bing.

Most search engines assign documents to a vector space based on a simple algorithm on words (e.g. BM25)

This method was patented in the 1980s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis

which kept people from trying it and realizing that their algorithm wasn't very accurate and didn't scale well to more than 3000 documents or so.

This method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation

is more scalable, works better and was never patented. It learns that articles about "chemistry" tend to use words like "proton" and "cyanide" and lumps the into one topic.

The search engine I worked on worked a lot like LDA but used a neural network instead of a linear transformation. When we stood up our new patent search engine demo we got a call the next day from the USPTO who wanted to buy a license for it. It was that good, but it was that good because patent searchers often enter a whole paragraph of text describing an invention, and similarity matching makes sense there.

Real semantics involve a number of things that are crisp, not approximate, and don't fit the vector model well. In particular, most words can have their meaning reversed by other constructions in the sentence (e.g. "not", "never", "it is not the case that...".)

There are enough semantic attributes in a sentence/query that can at best be determined with 80% accuracy individually that when you put them together it's not immediately plausible that you do much better than bag of words in most cases.

Newer neural vectors are better than the old but there are fundamental problems in their structure (e.g. the document gets bigger but the vector doesn't!) that prove that current approaches won't solve the semantic problems just as Minsky proved single layer perceptrons can't do much.
You would be surprised how many people would choose the former - I would guess a great majority of people would. Once you remove the hard labour of mediaeval farming, food prep, cleaning and artisanship by putting yourself at the top of the pyramid, modern medicine is the only thing that stands out - and lots of people value status over healthcare (especially below the age of 60).

That you don't, is a sign of you being a 1%er like most people here. (And even here, I am sure many people would choose having thousands of people doing their bidding to the creature comforts of modern automation or medicine.)
I don't know how this one made it, but if there's an Analog Dialogue article on the front page of HN weekly for the next five years it will still barely scratch the surface of all the treasure that's buried in that archive.
I was an avid Opera user around 2004. True MDI interface, mouse gestures...come to think of it, that was the peak of my web browsing.

Sure, my current browser supports the latest web standards that enable great things and sure, my internet speed is a lot higher. But just from a "browsing the web" perspective, Opera was the high point.
Feels like this was written in 2016
I didn't say it was worse than just password, I said it was a bad second factor, which it is.

SMS 2FA was vaguely reasonable before TOTP applications and smartphones capable of running them were widely available. That's no longer the case.
Who we hire next in the early-stage company?
Why do you think it is that Discord has taken off more than Element in terms of ubiquity, given that Element theoretically had a head-start?

Or, what can advocates of Matrix (and open protocols more generally) do to try to replicate that success and catch-up?
yes, more shitty developers than ever, with all the become-a-coder-quick classes and programs even some of the FAANGs organize.
I personally remember being rather annoyed when our uni project in 2012 had to be built with Flash and AS3 as it was well known that flash would get the axe in a few years.

We had the option to use JS as well but it wasn't in the curriculum and 4 out my 5 person team didn't want to do any of the extra work.

Even if Flash was used, it was mostly video players and some online games (like Newgrounds). I think YouTube came out with their HTML5 player in 2012 so Flash was definitely moving into a more niche status and I don't consider it essential after Flash based sites went out of fashion (which was closer to 2008-2009. HTML5, ECMA5 and CSS3 (or just HTML, JS and CSS as it's known today) largely made flash redundant before 2012.
I've seen this said literally hundreds of times and can only imagine that these comments are hyperbole now.

I've given Factorio dozens of shots now, and have played for hours and hours with people who are great at the game, but it just isn't for me. I get bored in the monotony of the early game, and I'm too stupid to keep things going in the mid game.
Since the amplifier has both voltage and current input noise sources, there is an optimum source impedance that provides a minimum noise figure, and it’s not an impedance match. This is called a minimum noise match, along with associated noise contours where noise is traded off with impedance match.

Also, the noise from an antenna is dependent on it’s efficiency and what it’s pointing at. Even if it’s input impedance is 50 Ohms, it can generate far less noise than the equivalent resistor.
You don’t actually become extremely wealthy by creating wealth, you become wealthy by extracting wealth from other people’s work.

Either by inheriting it or some business arrangement where you keep value created by other people. Bill Gates for example didn’t code Windows 7 himself. JK Rawlings didn’t print millions of Harry Potter books or even produce the movies etc. Sorts superstars don’t build stadiums or collect ticket sales etc.

This is most obvious with investments dividends. As such thinking of capital gains as the fruit of their effort is really kind of a silly idea.
356 is a really nice read. inspirational indeed.
Very true.

I think it's a shame most banks (at least here in the UK) implemented 2 factor auth with sms only just to comply with "strong" auth regulations.

Authy on your phone or multiple u2f tokens are definitely better than SMS.

I wish computer manufacturers started including tokens with computers, so that at least people would start using them.
Not only that, but handling cash is expensive
To give some technical background: yes, using Lightning (as they seem to do) for affordable BTC payments is challenging for most. As far as I am aware that is why they rely on custodial solutions [1]. People hold their money with someone from their village they trust, which is not ideal but neither is being unbanked. Down the road I could easily see this trust being spread over multiple people using multisig wallets.

The amazing thing about all this is that everyone can become a BTC "bank". You need a bit of capital but orders of magnitude less than a normal bank would require, maybe 2k$ to get started of which you might spend 400$ on hardware and fees to open some channels. The trustless nature of lightning lets you and your users then join the global payment network without asking for permission from anyone and you can engage in commerce internationally.

I think, while we are still early, that this is an awesome experiment. It will highlight the UX problems so we can fix them. Hopefully at some point all this will make sense to the average westerner too, so we can finally have a money not controlled by anyone (states, incumbent banks) again. But that might take a long time.

[1] https://github.com/GaloyMoney/galoy#status-of-the-project
"Might as well use PayPal." for me that applies to 99% of crypto currency projects!
Alternatively, my company tends to rely on “testing in production” to avoid having different environments. If we need to try something new, we use feature gates/flags to only give select users access to experimental code paths. It’s worked well for us, but it does take some getting used to
I'm a voracious consumer of podcasts and the audio edition of the Economist. Alas, it leaves me no time for fiction.
Can we lay those huge tubes underwater to disperse it drip irrigation style? It's not like it's a lot of salt once diffused, especially with those glaciers melting.

We're already assuming far more electricity, so I'm not too concerned about the energy required to pump the brine many miles out, just worried about capital and repair costs.
The Friday Facts were fantastic. I don't know of any other non-open-source project (but counterexamples are of course welcome) that encourages the developers to put that much technical information about what they're up to out on the website. I especially loved the ones about belt optimizations, multi-threading, and the networking model, since those are all interesting problems that any game developer is likely to think about but not necessarily get around to really solving the way that Factorio did. The FFF's inspired me to, on a total lark, send over my resume, which turned out to be good timing.

I think my "holy crap I'm working on factorio, pinch me" was equivalent to some people's "holy crap I'm working for Microsoft." I still remember the odd smell of the office when I first walked in ("sorry it smells like acid in here", I was told, and was later disappointed to learn that when Europeans say "smells like acid" they just mean it smells bad; there was no open use of entheogens while I was there).

I'm glad fff-200 made the cut for this guy's list, as that's the one where I announced the new 'programmable noise' terrain generator. More deets in https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-207, https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-258, and https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-282, among others.
> so there will NOT be a transaction fee involved as you are just moving within a national reserve with a national exchange.

For buying and selling Bitcoin, possibly. Transactions with Bitcoin will still have the usual transaction fees, as you still need to pay the miners verifying/realizing them.
She has since written some extremely questionable things about race and identity, and been credibly accused of grooming her law students to be sexually harassed both by her own husband and by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
I don't think that Fastly is pinning blame on the customer. That seems to be the BBC trying to bait us into reading the article.

I am sad to report that their clickbait worked on me.
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I enjoy the appearance of this website and it's UI.

Only a few friends of mine in real life ever listen to compilations of music - usually studio mixes by DJs. I'm an outlier, in that sometimes I will listen to these exclusively. Glad to see an entire website providing this type of experience.

Not sure if this is a bug in the website, my browser, or my internet connection - after ~15 - ~20 minutes of listening, the audio will cut out. First time it wouldn't come back, second the pause lasted ~5 seconds.

Glad to see the vaporwave classic Nobody Here towards the finale of compilation No. 1.
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Desalination might be more appropriately located in the Gulf of California. There is extreme tidal variation (about 4 meters!) in the upper part of the Gulf, which means that released brine will be mixed with seawater more rapidly than in most coastal areas.
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Unfortunately "it's CURRENT_YEAR" and "downtime means you're poorly designed" are very poor, circular arguments.

The only thing you said back which I can trace back to an objective problem is that you don't want to stay late.
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I don't think there's a statement in there about enjoying the game, just the shared skillset and mindset. :)
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>Who the hell has time to figure out all this stuff?

In the early days of the internet, many things were a complete pain in the ass to do. But then services and apps were built and things became easier, same is happening in this space.

Before, even purchasing Bitcoin was extremely difficult to do, and involved a lot of research + steps - now it's trivial. Before, securing your wallet was extremely difficult, now it's easier but not ideal to those that are less tech saavy.
I have been recently integrating Anki into my book reading. If you are willing to share your Anki cards on books there has been a relatively new subreddit that might interest you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ankibookclub/
Sure, I just installed it and its saying some impenetrable stuff about a swap address that is not controlled by my wallet and deposits will be converted to Lightning channels.

It's prohibitively complex.
The rules are made by the party, and the party can change those rules. It has before and it will again.

In this case however I think it's much more likely that if Khan is the choice, room will be found for Khan to win a byelection somewhere. Labour has plenty of London MPs still, they've struggled mostly with the North, progressive policies sell very well among socially aware people inside the M25 but aren't popular among people for whom the whole point was that the Unions ought to run the country.

In lots of Labour seats in London it really wouldn't matter who you run. That's why Vauxhall's MP used to be Kate Hoey. Nice part of London, very gay friendly, many of the people there have never eaten meat, much less gone fox hunting and of course they opposed Brexit - and yet of course Kate was pro-hunting, pro-guns, anti-gay and fiercely favoured Brexit. Why did they elect her? Because it said "Labour" next to her name and they don't do research.
It’s not that simple. Water rights in California are complex, often dating back to the Gold Rush era.

It’s based on ‘first come first serve’ - the first owner to take a certain amount of water from a waterway can continue to do so.

Directly modifying those rights would take a long time and be challenged in the courts.

Also, the Central Valley is full of poor farmers who have already been badly affected by recent drought (just drive down there to look at the billboards), so restricting agricultural usage would be another nail in the coffin for their livelihoods.