skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One I personally know of - https://cryptoslate.com/another-big-cardano-ada-deal-is-in-t...

There is many other cases for blockchain / crypto technologies far beyond the world of ransomware, extortion, blackmail, money laundering.

> The country will implement a national, blockchain-based student and teacher ID and attainment recording system to digitally verify grades, remotely monitor school performance and boost education and employment nationwide.

> IOHK’s Atala PRISM identity solution will enable authorities to create tamper-proof records of educational performance across 3,500 schools, 5 million students, and 750,000 teachers to pinpoint the locations and causes of educational under-achievement and allocate educational resources effectively.

You've got Walmarts chinese subsidy investing in vechain for logistics:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/walmart-china-subsidiary-team...

These are just two off the top of my head, let alone all the partnerships in the works that we haven't heard about yet.

There's big money getting into crypto whilst simultaniously lots of news and opinions regarding the fact it's used for nefarious acts.
A lifetime of experience has shown us that code review and testing are never sufficient to eliminate bugs. What we need to do is abandon the concept of smart contracts that immutably and permanently move people's money with zero recourse - running exposed to the internet without a firewall.
From personal experience, health and safety officers prefer workers to walk around facilities. Accidents while rare can result in hospitalisation (broken bones) when using skates, scooters and bicycles.

I was once in a datacenter that had a golf cart to get from one end to another (yes - it was that long).
Ask HN: How did you find and choose angel investors for your startup?
I don't live in the valley (or the USA) and while I have a very strong network for cybersecurity startups, I don't have the same connections for the areas I'm launching a startup in - namely, devops and cloud infrastructure.
“I don’t like the name” is in no way a concrete accusation.
> The thing is, month names already have an implicit numerical mapping: ask anyone, even most programmers, what number to assign to the month of January, and you're likely to get 1.

Couldn't you make a similar argument then that when representing English text, 'A' should be 1? That's the number most people would give when asked to assign numbers to the alphabet. Not many people are going to say 65 which is 'A' in ASCII and Unicode.

Programs are not people.

I generally prefer, and believe it leads to less bugs, to represent things in programs in the ways that best fit the operations that the program will do doing on them, translating between that representation and external representations upon input and output.
Yes.

> How exactly do you think someone, say, in Russia, types their Gmail address in a form?

They switch their keyboard to Latin, from Cyrillic. They probably prefer mail.ru though, because of such stupid limitations.

Nice try though.
Do you consider YouTube a news source?
Author here:

Whirlog is a minimal versioned log structured relational DB implemented in Common Lisp.

It's a design I've been playing around with in several languages to solve my issues with traditional databases, complexity and poor integration being two of them.

I've also grown fond of versioning, being able to track changes through time; which is uncommon and tricky to implement well on the application side.

I've written two non-trivial webapps on top of similar designs that have been running without a hitch for over a year now.

I'm more than happy to answer any questions posted in this thread!
Last I heard, Dai was backed over-collateralized crypto, like ETH. Even Coinbase says so:

> Unlike centralized stablecoins, DAI isn't backed by US dollars in a bank account. Instead, it’s backed by collateral on the Maker platform.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/cr...
I agree the author can choose whatever model of discussion he wants. But I don't think the commenters he referred to are "trolls". Those commenters are people who hold their (maybe stupid) opinions and try very hard to convince others. Even though they seem to create inflammatory wars, maybe that's not their intention. Some of them can be civil and they truly believe what they say. They are just stubborn and unwelcomed by the host. But I think "troll" means something else. Surely most authors don't like this kind of commenters.

What is different is the nature of the blog, which is focused on medicine. This seems to make the alternative views on the issues kind of harmful to the society. And the author has more reason to ban them. But honestly, I don't believe any doctor in the U.S. comes to the comments section to get prescription advices.
The reign of the introverts is definitely not here nor will it ever be.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that most people in this industry think they're introverts, when actually they're just a victim of extremely poor working environments, i.e. open plan offices.

No other industry I can think of has such a disparity between what an employee needs for the best productivity versus what they're given by their employer, i.e. solitude to concentrate.

The longer I've spent away from an open plan office, the more sociable I've become, especially over the last 15 months.

Similarly as you rise 'up the ladder', you have to communicate more, you cannot be an introvert.
Sure but it's a small community that hung out in person a lot. Tokens, pass phrases or one-time-pads could have been physically swapped.

There's really just a difference in thinking, "private by default for email" vs "public by default." Or "untrusted network" vs "trusted network." However you want to think about it.
that was a typo, it's 250k.
In a very real way, those contracts are less smart than existing legal contracts.

In the same way a "smart speaker" allows for interactive and sensitivity to its environment compared to a "dumb speaker", a "legal contract" allows for arguing and bugfixing and sensitivity to its environment compared to an block chain "contract".

They should call them "strict contracts" or "inflexible contracts" or "software-enforced contracts". The smarts have been taken out on purpose.
Yes, this is exactly what I intended to say. I should have said that they also need to treat other employees well too but I fell asleep shortly thereafter.

I'm not comfortable working for any company who treats any of their employees like garbage.
The flip side of that is any smart contract that stood the test of time should be rock solid. For example, there are huge incentives to go ahead and hack a big contract like maker, compound, uniswap or aave, so you can bet that there's highly qualified people out there trying to hack them as we speak, yet after all this time, they are still working as intended.

I have a lot more trust in that kind of product than in a product where contracts are subject to interpretations by humans which may or may not be reliable. It's one of the reasons why people incorporate their companies in Delaware, there are well known case law, so you know in advance what to expect from the justice system. Predictability is an important part of a contract, I trust a well inspected and battle tested smart contract much more than a human enforced contract. That said, not everything is suited to smart contracts, but many financial applications are.
>relying on Google Forms is simply laziness.

Oh, of course it is!

Much better than email, telephone, or possibly IRC, as you can use Zapier or IFTT to semi-automate the preformatted requests.

Classic MVP; probably whipped up on a coffee break. Nice one, IPFS
Don’t even need the exact number just the aspect ratio.
Indeed, TUI and GUI are not mutually exclusive to begin with.
District court dismisses FTC antitrust suit against Facebook [pdf]
>> I don't think it's possible to fully automate this in a scalable manner without a radical re-work of rack design.

I think the same thing when people talking about sending a 'plumbing robot' to your house.
WANGO – World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations
A friend of mine already invented a similar filter with the Informed Individual app. It's a filter based app where you can make purchases with filters that align with your own philosophy. So let's say you've got Celiac disease, and you just put on that filter to avoid foods that could hurt you. But it goes further. Say you're an avid environmentalist, and you could employ the filter of your organization for foods to avoid for political or environmental reasons.
These topics are orthogonal to the technology. It's perfectly possible to create tokens using smart contracts on the ethereum blockchain that have keys that can reverse transactions. I deployed a simple one to a testnet a while back as a proof of concept for a bank (any time an enforcement action was taken, a reason had to be provided, and it was broadcast as an event).

And just because you're using a smart contract, doesn't mean that the legal system of the jurisdiction you're in no longer has an opinion or the ability to make judgements against you.

So, I agree, some of these things are features not bugs to normal humans, but to most cryptocurrency enthusiasts they are anathema. Ultimately we'll need systems that are a bit more friendly to error. It's early days though, and the technology is flexible enough to incorporate nearly any kind of system you want.
Sounds like a statistical fluke to me (or some kind of market cap manipulation scheme). This token was not that liquid and not that widespread at all. I never heard of this token until today and I spend several hours a day on crypto.
Americans are weirdly obsessed with the idea of rich expats not paying US taxes.
Also using yandex quite a bit. Especially around heavily censored topics like covid-19.
I have to admit I laughed… I read your message then went go to check the name. “Right Wing Watch”. If anything your message contains more vitriol than their name does, are you sure you’re not projecting?
No it doesn’t.

Reviewing other people’s PR is a collaborative task, fixing bugs "reported by others" is a collaborative work, updating docs and release notes for "other" stakeholder's consumption is collaborative work.

Unless you're building a house deep in the woods for you by you, you're collaborating with other people on different levels.

Let's be honest, introversion is a gradient scale, maybe we've shifted a bit more towards cutting out the office Watercooler talks but everything we do as a species is still highly collaborative.
Too bad you can't just pull a Matrix and upload all those lessons on a quick floppy disk as opposed to 18 years of school (that might be diluted content through political powers).
Self-censorship is censorship. If you know stating some position (I support candidate X) is going to result in being harassed, death threats or other injury and you choose to not engage in speech, that is still being censored.
The type of person who only speaks, never listens/reads.
Two that come to mind immediately: Jewish blood libel, and conspiracy theories about Christians that led to Roman persecution.
That seems to be the latter not the former.
The largest stablecoin by Market cap, Tether, has been discussed on here, quite a few times.
I guess it might technically legally be fraud but OTOH I wouldn't call it "wrong" because if you maintained CA domicile you'd keep paying CA income tax on your income.

And with TX not having income tax, it's almost like your CA income tax pays into the benefit pool...
> Some of the most successful introverts — Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet

But, who says they are?

I don't think Gates, Bezos or Zuck fit the "introvert" profile. Of course they are technical, but not necessarily introverted.
They do tell you (broadly at a minimum) what the strike was for. RWW claims that two strikes were levied for videos in April, but give no details on what these strikes were for (details that they do know). It would provide more context on whether this is justified.

If RWW is posting content that otherwise would be barred from YouTube (e.g. hate speech, etc) -- effectively rehosting -- it makes sense that it would get strikes. e.g. If you started a "LiveLeak Watch" and reposted gruesome videos under the notion that it's a critique, that would get a ban too.
Quite a good analogy by The Coral Project[0] on similar problems faced by other organizations with comment sections on their sites https://guides.coralproject.net/the-empty-box/

Edit: Adding this other source for some more deep details https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01119

[0]: https://coralproject.net/
Is a decline in the number of people who are receiveing unemployment benefits the same thing as an increase in the number returning to work? I don't actually think it is without more data to rule out other cases.
TL;DR "We were surprised by the demand for free cash."
Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook
This.

Contingent workforces are cheap (minimum wage essentially).

It's also cheaper to use connecters that mate on insertion than to use connectors that humans are accustomed to.
tezos has formally verifiable smart contracts for exactly this reason
Any coin with the word "Safe" in it, probably isn't safe.
it will be interesting to see how health care evolves in the US, to say the least.
> All have QWERTY-like (in some cases AZERTY etc. but still similar) layout as a BASE.

But not the Latin charset as the single one that can be entered. Let's pick a random one on your list, Russia for example. Funny thing appears, it's clear that you haven't visited Russia for example, hint: Cyrillic on keyboards. Shall we continue? ASCII is not the world's default and never should be.

And incorrect? No, maybe I should've just said narrow-minded instead of American.
link to court ruling PDF

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.224...
I mean, it wouldn’t be the first time someone has tried to solve America’s political problems with tech.
The matching engine on the exchange is also automated. The settlement system is electronic. Etc. etc.
>What I find weird in our current status quo is how "sex work" and having an OnlyFans account is considered empowering, but a game about fictional characters like DOA is considered sexist and misogynist.

The difference is consent. A person is free to objectify themselves and doing so can be empowering. A person should be extremely cautious about creating fiction to objectify a group of people to which the author does not belong as this can be exploitative and have societal repercussions.

I know next to nothing about the developers for the DOA franchise, but I am guessing there would be less controversy if the studio had a larger female presence.
Maybe browsers should accept the text/markdown mimetype natively, instead of AMP. Covers 80% of the usecases, with a drastic reduction in complexity and pageload times.
That's different, that's because you trust the insurance. If you had insurance you trusted for the new cool crypto project, you might feel differently.
Data Mining Meebits NFTs Using Python and OpenSea API
I thought that was conventional wisdom.
This BS is as corrupt as the SBIR system. Real money is in china.
The 'Fuck You' Pattern
Apparently GTAV runs quite well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_69huFZSLA

You may also want to check out PlayOnLinux which eases the creation of sandboxed installations for different Windows software (not just games), in which each one could use its own Wine version, libraries, modules etc.

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/
Anyone know what the violations were? I feel like this is an instrumental part of the story that is lacking...
My filter would probably be something like "reorder comments by personalized pagerank of their authors, computed over comment likes, with me as the root".
That's no guarantee. Someone might have a zero-day stashed away somewhere.
Black Votes Matter.
Except I don't think microinverters are a good solution to almost any problem except that one that Enphase was involved in creating, the module level rapid shutdown requirements in NEC 2017 - which rather radically increase the number of connections in array, and those increased connections counts do cause problems.

Enphase has been promoting the IQ8s since 2017, and it's a constant refrain in various solar places of "Yeah, I'm going to hold off putting solar up until the IQ8s are out," which is consistently "Oh, about 6 months away." Same as it's been for the past three years.

When a company is consistently deceptive like this, at the literal expense of preventing cheaper solar systems (it's about $0.25/W difference in materials plus whatever the additional labor is), I will ask direct questions of their representatives.

I'm interested in boosting solar. Not Enphase's corporate profits.
You're right. I was thinking about the technological frontier. In terms of improving the average or the floor, rather than the ceiling, we've got our work cut out.
How could you be so deluded to believe that a desire to have good friends is based on your politics ? This is why people think conservatives are stupid, just because you use the word thesis doesn't mean that there's any value in what you're saying
Pauls provides some incredibly valuable insights into running real time deep learning inference at scale. Always appreciate the content!
What is failure specifically? USDT (despite it's shadiness) trades at 1USDT:1$ on pretty much all exchanges and you can short it if you truly believe it'll flop anytime soon.
How to launch on Reddit to get 1,500 Sign-ups and 300k Page-views
> Having run out of cash, an EU fund meant to boost promising tech companies will hand out certificates instead.

> Companies who are left without any money will get a "seal of excellence," meant to tell private investors that the EU likes the company.
TLDR cash has already handed out to some buddies. The rest gets a medal.
API with NestJS #38. Setting up recurring payments via subscriptions with Stripe
"continually open to revision and re-examination"

Absolutely, but your main point is moot. When you're wrong, sometimes you're just wrong. Science is not supposed to accommodate bad ideas, and the arbiters of science are people. Usually, very smart and discerning people.

When you delete stupid things that don't make sense, it's called tidying up, not censoring. People just have a hard time accepting that their ideas objectively suck, and that really shouldn't be surprising.
Shouldn't you have written a post on your blog about the article, instead of posting here? And did you mark that post as "polite", so that my "polite" filter will grab it? It's a good thing I trust your tagging implicitly.
Federal Judge Dismisses Government Antitrust Lawsuits Against Facebook
How many major bugs in software and especially cryptosystems went undisclosed for decades?

The core issue is the inherent asymmetry where 1 person finding 1 bug can destabilize giant systems. Even if these systems where hundreds of years old that doesn’t actually mean much.
"Please don't fulminate."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I understand and share the frustration, but generic indignant rants like this don't improve HN threads, especially when they're off topic and get repeated a ton, as this one is and does.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
hypothesis:

Publicly traded corporations are incompatible custodians of platforms that offer reasonable freedom of expression unless bound to do so by law.

– debate!

(edit: That's a a pretty clumsy and cumbersome sentence but I've gotten my point across I hope.)
You don't need a zoned date. You can invert the question and ask if a zoned datetime falls within a plain date.

Temporal is very well designed thanks to building on years of prior art. Give it a try and you'll realize that it leads you to ask those questions the right way.
The whole software vs hardware and developer vs runtime efficiency discussion is way more nuanced. No, the layers as they are currently are at least partially hindering productivity, because they all have bugs, rather painful limitations and are constantly changing under your feet. There is so much complexity, you don't have a chance to understand it (and the implications of it) completely from the click in a client's web browser all the way to the instructions executed on the server. This is not convenient and nobody (not even Google, Facebook and others) can handle the complexity, which manifests itself in bugs, weird behaviour, surprising security holes, other rare defects and more every day.

You don't want to manage memory manually unless you absolutely have to. Almost certainly, it is going to be way more demanding, you will make mistakes and the performance will not really be much better if you do whole system benchmarks for like 95% of applications. It is like using mining equipment and explosives to hang a picture on your concrete wall, it is just totally over the top. I am also not denying, there are use cases for something, where most of the responsibility is on you e.g. embedded or infrastructure software. Most people just aren't aware that they need the skill and understanding to reliably and most importantly responsibly wield it. In both cases, there is considerable room for better, more robust tools, and better methods/ practices and a great reduction in developer hubris.

Some have used better hardware for saving on development effort to some degree. There are applications that really need the extra performance to help users do their work in a more convenient way - not just developers. Some of the performance is lost due to systemic inefficiencies such as the web browser and most related technologies. E.g SVG rendering in web browsers is a mine field of bugs and bad performance, so you do the rendering yourself using canvas and JavaScript, which visually is the same thing but there is a lot more work for the developer and e.g. printing/ export into PDF (where you cannot just recalculate) is where you still kind of want the vector graphics capability in some form. Virtualization has enabled slicing of the cores to serve more customers with low cost and readily available compute. We also have way more users and different security expectations now than we used to in the past, so a single machine has to handle and check more stuff or we can use a single machine for stuff that would need a data centre or wouldn't be possible/ feasible before.
Google is also getting rid of all privacy and doing research into robots and AI that will patrol the human race in the near future. They are the backbone for a future where humans are constantly watched.
> The smarts have been taken out on purpose.

Yes. Where dumb contracts make sense, they make many financial services much cheaper. But investing your life savings somewhere will probably forever demand counselling by a human being.
A tiny barrier of entry increases the quality of participators by a huge amount.

Show me a thing that has not been defiled by opening it wide to the horror that is the average intelligence. Twitter and Facebook is a dumpster fire, ultimately destroying political discourse and locking almost half of the population in a dangerous alternate reality. They now turned violent and will continue to do so.

Masses of hodlers are now destabilizing markets with their GME raids and crypto.

Etc...
If your smart contract can only process tiny amounts of money, then it's no useful.
This sounds like a fallacy of the inverse. Those contracts not being hacked yet is no proof that they are resistant to hacks.
I dont think politico articles are a good fit for the HN crowd.
The game theory comes into play, if you found a bug that could empty maker's vaults for example, you better do it right now, otherwise, someone else will before you and you wasted all your time/energy.
I feel like Spotify is going to be like that when I get older
Glad you understand why there's no need to restrict everyone to US-ASCII.