skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Limitlessly Scalable Transaction System
"We present Accept, a simple, asynchronous transaction system that achieves perfect horizontal scaling. Usual blockchain-based transaction systems come with a fundamental throughput limitation as they require that all (potentially unrelated) transactions must be totally ordered. Such solutions thus require serious compromises or are outright unsuitable for large-scale applications, such as global retail payments.

Accept provides efficient horizontal scaling without any limitation. To that end, Accept satisfies a relaxed form of consensus and does not establish an ordering of unrelated transactions. Furthermore, Accept achieves instant finality and does not depend on a source of randomness"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.05236.pdf
DomTerm has nice remote-terminal solution: https://domterm.org/Remoting-over-ssh.html . Compared to mosh is supports a much more complete xterm-like terminal, full scrollback, runs on Windows (using WSL), does not require superuser/admin access (runs on top of plain ssh), has an integrated tmux-style multiplier, and is actively developed. Like mosh it has predictive echo, and detach/attach. It also has an optional local-input-edit mode (used by default if the remote terminal is in icanon mode). An easily-installable AppImage is available (https://github.com/PerBothner/DomTerm/releases). Feedback welcome.
Most of the time when there's a court case over these things, the disputed facts do not include which email was sent at what time and what it said. If the other party does choose to dispute those facts, it's true that you would have a hard time proving that you were in the right without some sort of witness like what you're describing; but usually they don't. (It's neither necessary nor sufficient that both parties trust the witness at the time; what matters is whether the court believes the witness if a dispute arises.)
I'm on a Mac, and I'm not getting any issues. Perhaps its machine or OS version dependent? Or browser dependent?
This feels like the fall of Saigon.
because NFTs are bad for the fish / environment
Ask HN: How to handle Embargo countries and people from accessing my service
How are online Services complying to restrict usage from Embargo countries and personnel?

I can imagine restricting countries like North Korea using Cloudflare or AWS, but is there an API or a tool to provide a list of Embargo Countries and people? Or is this something that SaaS doesn't come under and there is no need to do that?

Thank you
you can get progress (without any other commands installed) like this:

After you start dd, open another terminal and enter either:

`sudo kill -USR1 $(pgrep ^dd$)`

Or, if you're on BSD or OS X:

`sudo kill -INFO $(pgrep ^dd$)`

https://askubuntu.com/a/215521

but etcher seems to be way faster than dd for me
But still. Whilst acknowledging that revenue is not holdings, I did some looking and saw that, if looking at Tether's claimed deposits, they would be within the top 20 largest companies in the world, eclipsing Alphabet, AT&T, even Samsung and Saudi Aramco.

Which is laughable.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Verizon Communications and Pfizer COMBINED hold $400B in reserves.

Tether can barely say who they bank with.
I similarly use Tresorit (https://tresorit.com/) and share photo albums but these are general cloud storage as opposed to being optimized for viewing photos in a browser.
Same. I genuinely have no idea how something as big as twitter could botch this so bad. Is buying one of every majorly used device and handing them to a bunch of testers really not worth the effort?
> it takes only 1 tiny adjustment/exploit to scan other private stuff on your devices

This has always been true, there's no "Once this system is in place" qualifier necessary. This is the reality of running someone else's proprietary code at the root level on your device.
>That doesn’t make it okay. Being taken into custody is something I’d consider an overreaction and frightening for a person to endure.

Fully agreed. And not just that, the law enforcement officers seized his personal devices (phone + laptop) for 4 weeks and went through them.

Note: I am not sure if both phone+laptop were taken away for 4 weeks, but the article states that both were seized at one point, and explicitly mentions that the laptop was held for 4 weeks before being returned.
> Is there an easier way to set something up to contact 911 via command line in a pinch?

One could, say, connect the emergency phone that most elevators used to have, that worked, or wire the alarm to something, or... lots of options that work for "normal people" too.
I went through multiple resources on the net until it clicked for me. I guess each book / video / blog post gives you the bits you are ready for, and when enough of these bits accumulate you understand it. Looking back, neural networks are not that difficult to grasp, but there are many important details that one should understand.

What I learned is that it is very important to test intermediate results thoroughly. Nets will gladly learn from garbage if that is what you (unknowingly) feed them, and they might even produce some results - not at acceptable level though.

I didn't continue working in this field, but I'm happy I learned it (and used it in a project too) and would recommend that to any developer. ML really moves the frontier of what we can achieve in software much further.
I had to burn 1500 usd cards a few years ago for a project. Bought a 10 port USB splitter and 10 USB-uSD card converters. Wrote a simple script that mounted, dd'd, verified, and umounted whatever was in there. This thing is bound to be much faster, but really - the cost is in the labor.

My biggest cost savings was in buying the cards on pallets, rather than having to shuck them from packaging individually. The time to stick all the cards in the slots, and pull them out afterwards, dominated all costs associated with duplication. If I had to do it again, and IF I could have frozen the image in time, I'd have just paid a duplication company to burn them. The cost for that was smaller than the cost of the cards.
Whenever I want an IoT type device, I would rather home brew it. Technically my stuff would be more of a local network of things since I rarely expose stuff over the internet, especially due to lack of static IP.
I hope for this as well. The best time to build up freedom-focused big-tech alternatives is before things become dire, not after.

Having had time to cool off, my response to this is to continue using Apple devices and supporting their privacy-focused way of CSAM scanning rather than the worse alternatives.

BUT, I'm going to start buying and supporting alternatives in parallel, and eventually start contributing to them.

If my biggest concern is government overreach, yet I think that we're "not there yet", then its incumbent upon me to be a small part in helping to make sure the alternatives are ready once we do "get there".
No, there's no regulation or law requiring this sort of action. Everyone is speculating it is Apple's response to a foreseen future where there are laws requiring such technology to preserve some amount of privacy, but it absolutely is not a current requirement in the US.

They could have implemented true E2EE but they chose not to in deference to law enforcement and they could have fought the battle there. The amount of speculation being done on Apple's behalf here is baffling.

I think Jason's take is pretty measured and it's pretty clear that he's uncomfortable with this, especially given his long history with reporting on Apple but he is also pushing this false dichotomy.
You may read "law enforcement" and think "police", but it refers to all kinds of government actions intended to ensure that the law is being followed, e.g. requiring building permits or food safety inspections or whatever.

But yes, if someone is under surveillance, reducing paperwork will probably make that more efficient, too. It's just not the exclusive focus of this reform.
The lowercase g is so bad. The lower loop seems to sit a bit higher than other lowercase letters bottom out and the serifs are odd...
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Preventing a web page from changing requires continuous significant effort. Changing a paper contract requires significant effort, unless you just, you know, lose it, or drop it in the gutter, or something.
There sure are a lot of introductions to deep learning.
I've often wondered if it would be not just possible, but user-friendly, to write in a way that guarantees machine translation is 100% accurate.

Specifically, imagine you write a few sentences in English. Then when you hit "publish", it would look for the potentially amibiguous parts of your sentences, and then give you "nearby synonyms" for you to select which one you meant. It wouldn't change the text in your source language, but it would remove the ambiguity so all the output translations would be correct, no guessing.

It would do things like ask which noun "it" referred to since some languages have male/female versions, ask for clarification of verb tenses as necessary, etc.

After all, the hardest part of machine translation is inferring meaning. If that part could be guaranteed to work accurately, it seems like machine translation could become a ton more useful.
And all it took was one rogue nation torpedoing oil-rigs with autonomous drones?
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They don't care about developers. Touch bar ESC key, thinnes instead of performance etc.
A lot of people don't seem to get the point of MathML. Well, suppose you have a blog, and you want to use math. If it's going to be consumed on the web, a javascript library probably works OK. But if people subscribe over RSS/atom? Or over email? As far as I can tell, nothing works. Your best bet is to try to figure out how to write your math using unicode, or (the horror) to render everything to bitmaped images.

Hopefully MathML will help with that. The most important thing is that MathML is limited enough in power that gmail et al. can support it without worrying about security / privacy. (Unlike, say, .svg images now.)
People are already trying to get me to hook up https://litestream.io/ to it
This article only contains mostly information on adding more limits to avoid DoS—nothing there would harden WebSQL against SQLite vulnerabilities except for SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DEFENSIVE, which was only added in response to the zero-day bugs that were found in Chrome after implementing SQLite.
> So they're name dropping Google in the title for clickbait when the core issue is that the website didn't properly protect its data.

The core issue is the government raided someones house for doing nothing wrong.
You are spot on. We initially started by literally 'cobbling together USB hubs and multi-port readers from Amazon' but we couldn't hit the performance we wanted so we ended up designing our own hardware.

EtcherPro uses the standard open source Etcher app so hobbyists can use USB hubs to build their own drive duplicator on a budget.

- EP lead designer
Compare to someone like George Washington. He grew up in the british empire, in their territory. That's the fact, yet it sounds wrong to call him british.
Figma: securing internal web apps
The operator watching TV shows on their phone instead of doing their job was kind of a big part of it as well.
The taxicab medallion system exists only in a handful of US cities.
How does mosh do this? Would TCP with faster retransmit timers be similar?

I've read the explanation on the website, the github readme, the faq, but it's never mentioned how it copes with packet loss.
PWA is a Google term, but the whole web app thing is older than even the native app store on iPhone.
In what way is it different from prosecutorial discretion practiced in the West?
I appreciate your opinion. But even as an American I understand 2, 10, and 100 meters just fine. And that is really my point.
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It's more art than code, maybe start drawing a city skyline.
Have different basic types of roof (triangle, trapezoid, none), windows (round, square, subdivided) and a variable number of flours. Play around with it in html canvas.
Ah, makes much more sense, fully agreed then. The number of drivers was definitely on the low end, which resulted in waiting forever for a ride + increased fare prices.
> assuming that all slippery slope arguments are fallacious.

They literally stated when it is and isn't a fallacy with differentiating conditions...
Adidas ends Reebok era with $2.5B sale to Authentic Brands
>What war? The U.S. is invulnerable to invasion.

The Titanic is unsinkable!

>The only conflicts that the U.S. would possibly need such a massive global military for would be foreign wars to maintain its world dominance (e.g. containing China, proxy wars, etc.), which I contend are pointless and destructive.

Pointless and destructive won't stop them.

>I disagree with your implicit premise that the U.S. has to be the global hegemon

It doesn't have to be but someone will take it's place and they'll do so with all the same fossil fuel powered war machine because that's the best way to maintain power.

>Who is “top dog” and how their military is going to fuel their tanks doesn’t matter when the entire world is facing environmental catastrophe.

You're letting perfect be the enemy of good. There is nothing that the US (or anyone) can do to stop the manufacture and usage of the most advanced weapons of war available which have a massive carbon footprint.

The sooner you come to the conclusion that _somebody_ is going to do it the sooner you can ask the real question of who would you rather it be.
Kitten videos.

That's about it.
This is a good endorsement!

It's kind of crazy how hard it was for him to get out of there though; I would have expected his flatmate to take care of it straight away.
CSAM also doesn't prevent children from being exploited. It's an archive of past abuse. The police should focus and finding creators of such abhorrent material and put them in prison.
How long ago were you born to not realize this is already the case for almost everything you already use?
Y tho? Your advice reads like a recipe for a bad time.

Mitigation is required, if you actually do have something to hide.

Freedom however is endangered, if you personally mitigate this or not. I think for most people the best course of action would be to speak out against this, boycott the companies or get politically active, educate others about the threat to all of us.

And evading hostile tech's reach is really not a practical every day thing. I mean look at the shitshow of browser fingerprinting. Behaving vastly different than most will leave a trace of its own, even if it's just the absence of common information.

The best personal protection is being part of a healthy, democracy valuing collective not okay with this surveillance.

And if you are about to explode the next big story, I would probably advice migrating somewhere hostile to the country you are about to piss off. It's not like they turn on your fridge because you bought LSD for you and your boyfriend; I mean generally buying drugs happens in public Telegram groups these days... Politicians love spending money on surveillance tech, but not law enforcement people. Nothing is gonna happen, if you don't mess with powerful people's egos.

The real damage of these trends is the self censorship and permanent premptive self-surveillance you automatically do in the face of it. Like treating every device as hostile! You are killing off the mental freedom more and more, creativity, possibilities. No one is going all to prison, but no one isn't in prison a little bit.
How would removing Windows accomplish this? Throwing your own stuff away after paying for it doesn’t make sense, they already have your money.
I don't have a list, but "processing" language is very good at art and math(s) stuff

https://processing.org/

it has some cool demos/ examples

https://processing.org/examples/

and it's opensource
The funny thing is, they were doing just fine for years with just their own money. Now that they have sooo much more money, they suddenly can't afford separate developers for different platforms... they should be able to hire 10x more people now.
Yeah, personally I feel that this bill is a bit too broad in some ways, too narrow in others.

Too broad because I'm fine with walled gardens so long as there's a way to opt out of them. If Apple wants to force apps distributed through their store to behave a certain way to ensure a consistent user experience, that's fine with me. If Apple wants to force _me_ as the device owner to remain within that walled garden though just because I bought their hardware I'm very much against that.

Too narrow because I think the principle that _users_ should control their own devices is sufficiently generalizable that it should apply to more than just "App Store[s] for which users in the United States exceed 50,000,000" on "general purpose computing device[s]".

Overall though, I think I'd much rather have this bill pass as written than not have it pass at all.
Driving maps/planning is wildly better, not just a little better.

I can remember in the early 90s going to AAA to get paper maps for upcoming trips, buying a Rand McNally almanac for the car, etc.

First getting mapquest and then later in-car GPS and later Waze has been super convenient.
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Im by now convinced that xi jinping, in the back of his mind, hates the communist party and its apparatus, and wants to destroy it by going back to a north-korea style totalitarianism, against which the citizens will rebel en mass.
I'd like to think 0.0.0 is when the idea is still in your head.
You have to nuke them from orbit to make sure. Fuck paedophiles. What fucking asstards.
<3 SDF, glad to hear it's still running. Was one of my first shell accounts, like 20 years ago.
iDevices = spy devices
Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech
I know Esperanto isn't the greatest language in the world. It has its problems like other languages. But I feel like this is a good use case for it. I've heard of Esperanto being a good intermediate language to translate things into due to it being much more regular of a language. There have even been investigations in using it in Machine learning.

It would be easier for someone to pick up, and translate to from their native language compared to other languages, even in cases where your native language had not cognates with Esperanto. Then since its grammar is regular it could be translated into another language with less effort. A benefit of using Esperanto as opposed to inventing a new language is that it does have some traction. There are websites and apps that teach it. It's on google translate, mozilla common voice etc. It is not completely unfamiliar, and it is not tied to any one nation. This simultaneously avoids the social issues that would inevitably arise if English were used, while also building off of an already established (and over 100 year old language). It also has support from countries who have had difficult relation ships with the U.S.A for example Radio China has a 1 hour broadcast in Esperanto, Cuba has a broadcast, and other countries as well!

I've been learning Esperanto for a couple months and it has been fun. While the community is small it is definitely enthusiastic. It's #35 on wikipedia with over 300k articles, has both a normal, and meme(memeo) subreddit, and a large Telegram group (over 1k members).

1. https://www.proquest.com/openview/dfaf840b0267d1bb8a38d9d719...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Language_Translati...
3. http://esperanto.cri.cn/2521/more/2622/more2622.htm
4. https://esperanto.net/en/esperanto-broadcasts/
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
6. https://www.reddit.com/r/Esperanto/
If they can make Jack Ma disappear for months over some casual comments - I think executives at these conglomerates understand the message pretty clearly.
Where's the human in the loop?? I have no problem with the computer pointing out possible bad guys, but that's only *possible* suspect!

Same problem as considering a field drug test to mean anything more than you need to do a real test.
How does this compare with https://github.com/linkedin/greykite?
Ah, I misread your comment. I also wasn't making any broader point, just thought it was amusing how closely very recent news matched your hypothetical.
This feels useful when I just want to explore a codebase, but maybe not need to do any extensive development. Instead of take down the repo and load it in an IDE, it can just be there to explore...

I wonder with cloud setups if I'd ever be able to provision the environment how I want it setup? I want vim with syntastic and other bindings setup along with all my dot files.... I wonder how well that would work? Or will we all be forced into a kind of vanilla IDE setup and discourage any custom setups?
What is a bit tiring is that we already have quite a good solution for a lot of it (for the jobs most people on HN have): internet. The fact that a lot of people (even here) want to travel to offices is frustrating. Stay home, work from home, walk or cycle to get groceries (I cry when I see people taking the car to get an egg, yes 1 egg, from a shop 1km away, what is that?). The only thing in the way is your own resistance, but that is very high... For reasons I myself never understood. Understand and accept that the new communication is digital and no longer in person and that it is healthier, in every single way (meaning for you and the world), to walk or cycle everywhere.
I was unaware, I always use bs4 with lxml for parsing xml just because I like the interface. For what I'm doing, the bottleneck is the remote system/network, so it doesn't really matter. But now I'm curious about which parts are slower and why. Maybe I'll run some experiments later.
5,000 page long EULAs make it possible.
We should probably keep some CO2 sources like unburnt fuel for the next 1500 years in case we need it to stave off next ice age.

It would be funny if we managed to stop global warming with something radical like raising Earth albedo while burning coal and such as usual only to have nothing to burn to make CO2 to keep the Earth warm as it tries to go into next ice age in a thousand years or two.
The US was meant to be nation building. Everyone knew that would take a generation or 3. Thats why the US couldnt and didn't leave after 2 weeks.
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const in C++ is very different than const in JavaScript though. I guess you are well aware of that but I feel like being pedantic.

This is allowed in JavaScript:

const foo = {bar: 1};
foo.bar = 2;
> illumos, NT, QNX, Fuchsia

Who told you these are reinventing the wheel of Linux?

AFAIK, NT was a consumer desktop OS turned into server and meant to serve the foundation for both consumer and server OS.

QNX was a auto operating system, for which Linux does not work.

Fuschisa is meant to be a unibersal mobile OS.

These are not the same thing as Linux.

I did not meant to label theses as reinventing wheel. If I left you with such impression that was my fault in communication.
Sure, sounds like surveillance to me. It’s pretty unavoidable if you have an HTTP server that collects logs (all of them), but I could choose not to participate here if it bothered me. What does a community forum’s privacy policy have to do with me not wanting to recommend desktop software that has surveillance silently in the background? Is it just supposed to be a “gotcha” that disqualifies me from having a nuanced opinion on the subject?
For the vast bulk of people, you may as well suggest they move to a different planet.

The even worse problem with this line of thought is the econ-101 conclusion - that they must be OK with things if they don't demonstrate otherwise by voting with their feet. (Not ascribing that assertion to the parent.)