skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that incentives are far too often ignored for understanding why something goes wrong.

Too often some project lead or manager is shocked/annoyed that X has occurred and they fail to realize that they have incentivized X in one way or another.
I guess at an extreme Elastic could do some public/private cryptography with the open source client using a public key to verify headers encrypted per request with a private key kept in their cloud service. It sounds ridiculous for an open source project to do that, but it must be completely controlled by Elastic for them to have made the change they already have. So ultimately they probably do need to move to new clients that Elastic don’t control even if they can do that for now.
If all the US side has are flywheels to counter orientation issues, rather than thrusters, maybe costs are being cut where they should not?
You can't smell or feel a movie, either. But they still work.
The Artemis mission isn't to be the first to get to the moon. The mission is to make a permanent lunar settlement.

China might land some small lander before StarShip arrives - but with reuse and huge capacity StarShip is an excellent cargo vehicle.
This is a way worse of a spyware than I initially thought.

- They have a database of file hashes.

- They can’t validate its contents by design.

- They can’t explain who supplies it in detail.

- The suppliers of these data work with / close to the US gov.

- The match your own files on your own device against this database that contains who knows what.

- When it matches a couple of times, they alert the authorities.

- There is zero fucking visibility for both Apple and you by design and this is a very good thing for Apple.

- I assume the source of this data can update / add new hashes in time and your device will happily comply.

And their only concern is to say that the algorithm is so perfect, they can not see what’s happening and there won’t be false positives (hopefully).

You know what, I trust your ability to do it properly. No need to explain more.

Problem is that the very thing you are building is fucked up by design. And obviously Apple does not address it in any way.

But think about the children…
the picture of the girl lying in the tall grass is beautiful.
Does it touch

[1] https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/new-theory-rewrit...

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...

[3] https://sputniknews.com/science/201711211059279933-chernobyl...

[4] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171117085130.h...

[5] https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/549812

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Because reviewing is difficult, time consuming and, if you want anonimity of the reviewer, needs a third party to select the reviewer and coordinate the operation. I am not sure if most people are aware but peer reviewing is not paid. The journals that charge for access to the papers only do coordination and publishing (which is vanishngly cheap these days). All the work is done by the authors and the reviewers and they get nil from that pile of money.

Peer review worked (mostly) when most researchers had tenure in an university or research institution and volume was low. They were able to manage their time and allocate the necessary to that function. The situation now is that journals spray and pray review requests' emails to anyone who has ever published a paper regardless of their position or even if their work is related. This is a consequence of the volume and the mess that research positions are where the focus is on grants, money and power with science a distant fourth.
Dialing in the precise transformations needed for every copy got so annoying I eventually accepted the botching.
Why would one want to bet against that? Aren't we supposed to want humanity to progress?
Brief Guide to CLOS
No. No. And maybe.

What developers think does not matter if you want your software to be used.

Responsiveness has always been the number one UI complaint.

If your program is sluggish, that's virtually always because it's badly designed. That's your fault, not the compiler's.

Application programmers don't need to know about CPU cache size because they should have designed their programs to perform on low-end hardware.
Goaccess / OpenBSD
Install to use Goaccess on OpenBSD (with configuration snippets for both webserver, httpd and nginx)
Health authorities know those. Street food isn't regulated that way.
You can for personal use and low quantities, but these things are sold in big quantities, it's a huge black market.
Ah that's kinda what I meant but incidentally elided that they had convened on Google's implementation in particular.
The most convenient Lightning Wallet is probably Wallet of Satoshi, which you can find on the Apple or Android app stores. Once you download it, you can fund it with an on-chain transaction. Once you have funds in the wallet, you should be able to pay for invoices at agora.download.
Hi. I am the author of this article :) To sum up, most research as of now points to Agave but botanists who did the DNA barcoding don't want to commit to Agave. For two reasons:
1) It is 89% close to Agave, the Sisalana variety but 11% is open to doubts and research.
2)The Agave expert, who tried to make a beverage out of it and has worked on it for years, says it's can't be agave. He has eaten both the snack, as well as agave, that's why.

To complicate things, I have inspected agave (its length and girth) closely and I find it impossible to believe that it can hold within it such a fat and smooth thing. But I am no scientist.

I went to a village recently, which has agave growing left, right and centre. One woman suggested it could be Eetha Gadda, a palm, and my heart sank because its stump did look very fat. But then other villagers said it wasn't possible. They think it's most likely Agave and their ancestors probably ate in the past, during drought.

I plan to do a behind-the-scenes vlog for the article to explain what all I have tried and what all you may take further. For starters, a reader from the US says something similar from Agave is eaten in Mexico. A reader from Iraq says this may belong to a palm tree but the stump isn't as fat.

I hope you and botanists will tell me more.

Good luck.
That's an interesting site I wasn't aware of.
A look at a prototype of Apple’s cancelled AirPower mat
Yeah, that article definitely reads like a thinly-veiled scare piece.
I guess they have to call them "employees" in California now. Do they do this before or after becoming Facebook moderators?
CAPTCHAs are discriminating. They fail at what their name suggests they do occasionally. Which means they dehumanize humans. There are humans without eyesight, you know? And some of these have bad hearing. The web has decided that it is OK to classify these people are computers. And nobody cares because the solution is so convenient. Well, thats how society works.
Some past threads:

Why I Wrote PGP (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10581971 - Nov 2015 (47 comments)

Why I Wrote PGP (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823668 - Nov 2013 (109 comments)
Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration
Something weird is definitely going on. I'd normally chalk it up to a powermad hubris that seems to be common among technocrats, but this is the latest example of a corporation voluntarily providing politically motivated non-profits the ability to control their platforms. This has been going on for a while on financial networks - in the pursuit of the elusive, but totally real, neonazi resurgence. Paypal recently announced such a "partnership". Microsoft has allowed some UK based group to censor their search results for a long time now. That was originally sold under the banner of "bbbut the children!", but the only reason I know about it is because they started blacklisting sites that archived video related to the war in Syria.
Do you feel that way when you walk into a Subway?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/22/subway-sandw...
You do not, in fact, need to hand over copyright to Nature, NEJM, etc.

They do their best to make it look like you do, but you can go all the way through the approval process without committing. At the end, all they need is license from you to publish.

Never sign over copyright to a journal. It is never necessary, it is never sensible, it is never wise.
LakeFS Turns 1 and Raises 15M in a Week: (Enable Git for Large-Scale Data Lakes)
Hello HN!

We're Oz and Einat, co-founders of lakeFS (https://lakefs.io/), an open-source project that allows the creation of performant git-like repositories over an object store (i.e. S3).

Prior to starting lakeFS we were VP of R&D and CTO at SimilarWeb, a (now-public) Israeli web analytics company whose business model is based on the collection and analysis of the internet's activity.
That equals A LOT of data. Our S3 data lake held nearly 10 Petabytes of data. [As a reminder, 1PB = 1 Million GBs]. At this scale, the workflows and technologies used by other data teams start to break down.

Want to use a Data Warehouse like Snowflake to store and analyze the data? The bill from that could bankrupt the company.

Want to duplicate one of your datasets temporarily to test a schema or feature change? When over a million S3 copy operations are involved, there's a significant non-zero chance some of those operations will fail.

Your ability to perform analysis and innovate starts to slow considerably, which is fatal for an analytics org.

Being able to do these operations without thought is something many analytics folk are able to take for granted… for now. But the trend is that data volumes will only keep growing (along with the expectations of what companies can do with their data).

An elegant solution, we realized, to the obstacles above would be to introduce git-enabled workflows like those used in application development.
Recovering from a pernicious error in a million S3 files shouldn't require a full day or even week of work to fix… instead let's make it an instantaneous revert operation to a previous commit.

The challenge to implement this type of functionality is a technical one, one we took it upon ourselves to solve. It's been 1 year since the first public commit on lakeFS and we've now raised a $15M Series A to continue building and improving our vision.

We've evolved a ton in the past year, completely refactoring the data model to remove dependency on Postgres. Fittingly, we now use rocksDB on the object store to persist the metadata lakeFS manages (with the added benefit of simplifying the installation process). Check out the roadmap to follow our progress on building out native integrations with other important technologies in the open data stack such as Spark, Hive Metastore, and Delta Lake.

We encourage you to check out our Github repo: (https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS) and documentation pages: (https://docs.lakefs.io/).

We're proud of how far we've come, but know there's lots more work to do. Please do let us know your thoughts!
> And that is, unsurprisingly (and quite banally), used by many detractors to dismiss it all

There is a stronger argument against crypto: the main use case (outside speculation) seems to be illegal activities. If what you are doing is legal, why not use government currency? If what you are doing is illegal, crypto is great. A currency outside the control of the government (police) is almost by definition made for illegal activities.

In some countries, illegal activities are morally correct, though. Crypto helps here.

But crypto has enabled entirely new types of crimes that did not exist before: ransomware.

I have not completely for or against crypto. I am responding to your comment that people are dismissing because it seems like speculation only. I don't think that is true and that there are better reasons for dismissal?
You never have access to actual risks. You can only have well made or poor risk assessments. And one risk assessment is perceived only relative to another.
Oh, I’d forgotten that they made a new phone with the same model number in 2017.

Even Nokia’s website seems confused about it because it claims the 2017 3310 is a 2G (“GSM: 900/1800 MHz“) device. That can’t be true of even a low-end 2017 device. It wouldn’t even work on many modern networks without at least having 3G!
Should I click every tile that has a little bit of traffic light in it? Even with just the lamp housing that often means nearly all tiles. Somehow it doesn't seem to matter; it just works. Or not, and then I have no idea why.

Captcha bonus level: try solving one of these from a public VPN.
>A situation that has the exact same effects on society...?

Of all your (mis)leading questions, this one sticks out the most as being of particularly bad faith.
Semiconductors pose an unwelcome roadblock for carmakers
And there are many stories like this. When CAPTCHA started to be widespread, a lot of my blind friends (including me) suddenly were blocked from using parts of the Internet. We had to find sighted help to solve just a captcha, while everything else basically worked to be done independently. You can not imagine how much sorrow and self-pity CAPTCHAs have generated. I hope the person(s) who willingly allowed this trend to happen will be hit by karma with full force.
They do have somewhat accessible alternative modes. Give them a try (these are even more dystopic — try having it read out some numbers for you to type).
"By default agora serves files for free. To charge for downloads, agora must be connected to an LND instance."
https://github.com/agora-org/agora/

"As of this writing, lnd is still in beta and it is considered #reckless to put any life altering amounts of BTC into the network."

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/saf...
Moosend email Software comprehensive review
Not sure why this was downvoted, it is just data and some other perspectives that might help...
Moosend review; the ups and downs of the Software
Not so insane if your goal is serious force projection in two or more disconnected theaters simultaneously. The US Navy does a lot more than sink enemy ships. Given that the US is in North American and is on friendly terms with Canada and Mexico, the vast majority of our force projection is facilitated by the Navy.

It's not about relative size, it's about desired capabilities. And if China ever makes a move on Taiwan, I think a lot of people will appreciate the "insanity" of those capabilities, just as they've appreciated our policing the world's oceans for the last 70 years.
Have you tested it by using real BTC?

I just read from lnd's documentation (here : https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/saf...) that "As of this writing , lnd is still in beta and it is considered #reckless to put any life altering amounts of BTC into the network.

Are you sure that agora is really safe?
For a year's income the person involved could show them, get the money, and book it to a different part of the city where they'll be impossible to find again.
That would be my number 7 for the list. To a Dutchman it all seems so incredibly depressing that everything depicted is built for cars. Even the residential areas seem to prioritize driving over everything else. The humans aren't just gone from the pictures, they're not even welcome without a car. For someone who is used to just getting on a bicycle and go anywhere — safely and often faster than by car! — in the city I live in, this is just so depressing.
Well, one of the points is that even if things work properly/as expected 99.8% of the time, when you add layer after layer of "works ok most of the time", you end up with a very unreliable system. And given that all computing revolves around manipulating numbers, the fact that there's so much wiggle room (even if there are often good reasons for most of the differences we are seeing here, which are fundamentally semantical differences anyway), should at least make you slightly uncomfortable when thinking about building complex systems. And that's without entering the realm of what happens with overflows, underflows, NaNs and everything else. The bases are solid, but we can still see quite a lot of holes.
> Compilers should perform more and more sophisticated code transformations

Maybe but they don't, and my users asked for more performance yesterday (and the year before, and the year before that too, and likely the decade before that too).

The problem with performance is that some people believe that it's a target that can be reached ; but the only acceptable target in most cases is "everything is instantaneous" - otherwise "power users" in your domain will complain and give you a bad reputation.

But because people seemingly don't care or are in a position of power, I'm at a friend's home who asked me desperately to "look at why their computer doesn't work well, it's full of viruses" ; computer from 2012 takes 2min30 to go from "power button" to MS Word, there's literally nothing else installed than office and chrome and definitely no viruses, just windows services hogging all the resources because some people at Redmond likely believes in magic optimizing compilers.
The Federal Reserve is a pretty centralized banking system.

To your point, however, the US has had prosperous period of its history with free (I.e. no central/federal control) banking. See Rothbard's "The Mystery of Banking."
Also, when we want to self-host our own Agora instance. Should we run our own LND instance, or can we just connect it to any pre-existing LND instance? Do you have any recommendation, which LND instance that is "good" and "trusted"?
Sorry, I should have clarified that I am a paid subscriber to Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tracey, Bari Weiss. The others are free subscriptions.

Also I am a paid subscriber of Viva Frei/Robert Barnes Locals page as well as Steven Crowder's Mug Club.

All the substacks are around $6.50 each per month and the Locals page is also $6.50 per month (all Canadian dollars). The mug club is an annual subscription which if I remember right was around $100 CAD.

I think it all adds up to around $500 annual which I am okay with. I watch several hours worth of content from Viva Frei/Robert Barnes & Crowder each week and all the substacks I pay for are independent journalists from mixed political viewpoints which I definitely love supporting.

I do wish Substack would offer bundled subscriptions for cheaper as that can add up pretty quick. But I don't pay for any corporate media nor do I pay for Netflix/YouTube/Spotify/Apple Music etc. So I think I get more than my money's worth.
This is very naive but more importantly, there are more than enough engineers out there that there's no need to risk creating a hostile workplace by employing bullies anywhere in your organisation.

Why are you so intent in employing them?
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What's in the new Windows 10 Cumulative Update
In this case the change of acronym to stress the abuse vs pornography part is completely backward.
What did Venezuela change about their money in the 1970s? Follow the money.
You are right. All the good movements in tech happened ~20 years ago. Free Software/Open Source, Wikipedia, etc, all date back to early days.

Now it's all about that SaaS money.I don't mind the money part, but sadly, tech has become a gold mine for predators who smell the money and are out for blood.
> forever to launch

I cold started the app just now. It takes less than half a second to get me into the book after showing me the cover art of the book. It’s about the same as any other app on my phone. Certainly doesn’t take “forever”, although I concede my phone is about a year old. It could be different if you’re using the app on a much older device.

Seems harsh to call it a “pathetic joke” or “frankly garbage”. I was just reading a book on my phone so I checked the “laughably few display options”. I see the ability to customise font (8 fonts, serif, sans-serif, dyslexic friendly), font size, page colour, the option to update page colour according to system theme, line spacing, alignment, orientation lock, continuous or page scrolling and 8 other options.

It’s better to say that your specific need to change the font colour isn’t catered to. But there’s no need to talk in such harsh terms. Get a hold of yourself.
You are being very unkind.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't see how modern women can be 'trapped' in bad marriages. Women almost always marry up, wealthy women included. Married women i know have a huge divorce settlement and weekly payments to look forward to should a marriage not work out, bonus payments if children. Sometimes while the divorce is being finalized her new boyfriend can move in while you're made homeless, all she has to do is make an allegation of abuse.
> I find it unacceptable to leave some people behind

My interest is on what you see as actions related to that. We're a community mostly on the building the web side, bearing at least some responsibility of what "being online" means today.

Your describing them as left behind makes me think you see the current web as the way forward, but I don't know if it's a fair assumption on your position.

Arguably I see their lack of using online tools up to this point as a failure of those tools to provide enough value for the hassle, and the issues would be less to bring this people along than to come up with ways to bridge their world and ours.

We often talk of digital litteracy as if it was an unavoidable skill, but I kind think it's like positing that Amazonia tribes have to learn english. It could be better for them, but we could also have adaptation layers that make it work for them even if they stay in their culture and lifestyle.
That's exactly what the sanction is for: to make ordinal people suffer so they will rise. It took me sometime to understand it, now it is very logical. It creates instability and hopefully the government will collapse as a result.
Why not go the BattleNet route and just allow any name collision but appending something unique to every instance of the name? In BattleNet's case it was a number, but with dependencies it might make more sense to add random words to avoid confusion. So there could be a "foo#cat" and a "foo#dog", and those names can remain unchanged forever. Or maybe go for alphanumeric IDs, though I think those would be much harder to tell apart.
Having to physically meet people to exchange long hex strings was never going to scale.
Yes.

Email has a "from" address that the SMTP protocol (the thing that often carries emails) that is separate from the IP address of the sending server, the exact same way "CALLER-ID" is a separate field from the billing address (called ANI, or Automatic Network Identification) in telephone networks.

Requiring that ANI match CALLER-ID would break many voicemail systems and call-forwarding systems. They can be fixed, but it will be expensive to do so.

Similarly, requiring the email "from" address agree with the SMTP server's responsibilities breaks mailing lists and email-forwarding, and again, this can be fixed, but it is proving expensive to do so.
Professionally ambitious men should remain single if they can't find a highly supportive spouse.

The point in the GP comment is with how many women refuse to marry below their income/professional status and socioeconomic level.