skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unfortunately they're solving the wrong problem."

Heres the description of Rumble:

"Rumble enables the spread of messages in an epidemic fashion using automatically formed and opportunistic local ad-hoc network. Every message sent or received with are stored on the local database and pushed to every other device it meets. By doing so, messages naturally propagates throughout the network using social links as the underlying infrastructure. Because it doesn't rely on any fixed infrastructure like the Internet, it is naturally resistant against censorship."

"About

Rumble allows the sharing of messages and pictures without relying on the Internet, in a Delay Tolerant Fashion following the Store-Carry and Forward paradigm"

Question: What problem is Rumble solving.

Option #1

Answer: Requirement for fixed infrastructure in order to exchange messages. Censorship resistance is just an incidental benefit.

Option #2

Answer: Censorship. Formation of ad hoc network infrastructure is just implementation detail.

The problem with #2, the parent's interpretation, is that formation of ad hoc infrastructure, i.e., non-reliance on fixed infrastructure, has multiple benefits besides censorship resistance. Its quite possible someone could use Rumble to solve a problem other than censorship.
Interesting. But I don't think anyone qualifies for a subsidy.
>Seems reasonable to understand "no tracking or logging" to mean that in the event of a government demand to produce records, they could honestly reply that no records exist.

No one with the least understanding of the internet could suppose that Protonmail could not be forced to provide the IP address associated with a user's login, which I assume is what happened here.
Why, indeed. Maybe our standards for teachers are too lenient. In any case, it is possible that there is no quality of teaching that will change a student's natural aptitude. It's a disservice to huge swaths of the population to funnel them, ill-prepared, into colleges. Maybe a network of high-quality trade schools would be a better fit for some.
Is it the same thing as fuzzing?
This is exactly my experience, the absolute worst is when it clearly recommends videos that I have already watched, as if it thinks I've forgotten and somehow won't notice since apparently I'm the guy from Momento.
There are career government employees that are apolitical and carrying out orders from political appointees at the top, which are mostly replaced with each incoming administration.

From what I can tell previous administration was trying to sabotage civilized transfer in every possible way… and the fallout is on display, including AF withdrawal.

However, is/was there such setup in AF government? For all I know, everyone just packed and went home/abroad…
Blessings?
“The current US system of governing is shit, it’s just the best we’ve found so far.” - Poorly paraphrased quote by not-me

While I agree with the sentiment, I also acknowledge others disagree and my no means do I wish to argue about it. Friendly conversation, sure. =)
I can't find a source for my original claim, but based on some real world tests[1] it looks like real-world performance is closer to 50-100k writes.

It seems I misremembered the quantitative data, but the overall qualitative point (SSD Endurance is much, much higher than most "prosumers" believe) is accurate.

[1] https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...
Corrupted official get into jail... But her conspirator blamed on Communist party...

Well, I don't pity them the slightest...
Beautiful SaaS Starter Kit
Crypto currency is a blight on the world.
I fail to see why it is their duty, or in their interest, to explain the nuances of Swiss court orders and extent of their powers in their marketing material.

If its something you care about, you should not be making your choices on the basis of marketing splashes and you should certainly not need your email provider to explain Tor to you.
To be fair, despite what the name “Windows” would have you believe, there is much more to an OS than a WM. Emacs can indeed serve as a perfectly good shell for a kernel - see, e.g., http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
Oh, pooling wasn't available when I last researched the topic.

That changes the calculation significantly.
what an evil government, instead of the officials “manning up” and admitting that they aren’t perfect, they sweep their dirty laundry under the bed in fear of being found out. not an example of the machoism they are now trying to push in chinese box offices. hearing about this corruption turns my stomach
That's quite contemptuous of half the U.S. voting population. The 75 million people who voted for Trump in 2016 might beg to differ about who/what put Trump in office. Are you equally sure no misinformation was spread to elect Biden in 2020?
I won't be executed in the US for doing the wrong kind of yoga.

Also, as an aside, I wonder if 1930s HN would have guidelines against "nationalistic flamewars" vs. nazi Germany.
> And, what I find worse, they force the seller to provide the update, not the manufacturer. If the seller is not able to do that (which will be the case most of the time), they can be relieved of their duty

I'm not familiar with the Android world these days, is it still common for mobile carriers to be a bottleneck for updates? If so, it sounds like this could at least be a solution for that.
Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking
Agreed that the most liveable cities really exist already, and they are all older, walkable, and predate cars. These new ecotechnic utopian proposals fetishize efficiency and convenience. They also completely fail to capture what makes a city great.

It's sad, because in the US, there are actually a lot of good templates for new cities, designed for growth on the outset, that strike a balance between dense and verdant. The oldest part of places like Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, smaller college towns, streetcar suburbs, ... It's so weird that when new suburbs are built, why they are not just straight up copying those 19th century templates.
You can find them in the linked specification/design document, but I don’t really believe in putting cryptographic primitives front and center on user facing documentation.

First, the average user doesn’t actually care that much. Picking algorithms is my job, not theirs. They want to get their task done, so what I need to tell them is what the tool does and what are the security properties, not how it works.

Second, the choice of primitives is a relatively small part of cryptographic design. How you compose them and how it addresses a real use case matters much more. I usually get suspicious when I read “uses AES-256” in marketing copy because, like, it doesn’t tell me _how_ it’s used, and doesn’t seem to think it’s important.
Strange that the CCP didn't realize that this stunt would only Streisand Effect his book.

And of course utterly evil they'd try to manipulate him by using his ex-wife they'd disappeared.

If the CCP wanted to give themselves the worst look possible, they succeeded.
42, is it a coincidence that this is also the answer to the universe?
where "corrupted" in this case could mean "taking bribes for personal gain", "losing favor with the party", or both.
> Tiktok fosters a home for a vast number of entertaining and informative content creators that give them an edge

Vine did this too which is a big part of why it's so surprising to me: Vine didn't just have the tech but they had the community. You can still find Vine compilations on YouTube with millions of views that capture the vibrant set of content creators that Vine once had.

Honestly the only real difference between Vine and TikTok in my mind is that Vine was more focused on comedy while TikTok is more focused on music. Otherwise the two services were pretty much identical.
That's actually a brilliant arbitrage plan in the short term. If the trademark-infringing knockoffs on Amazon come from a country where the trademark cannot be enforced and the original manufacturer cannot compete, the original manufacturer could slow the collapse of their business by reselling knockoffs.
>Neel Kashkari

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Many cryptocurrencies were created with none of those ideas in mind.

Bitcoin is an energy hog, but not every cryptocurrency has to be Bitcoin. Ethereum doesn't use as much energy.

Criminal organizations use regular banks too. In fact, many financial organizations are undistinguishable from criminal organizations.
Github is the largest site of its kind in the world and still runs on Rails. Stripe is one of the largest fin-tech companies in the world and still runs on Rails. Shopify is one of the largest e-commerce players in the world and runs on Rails. And so on.

Scaling isn't the issue people make it out to be and yes it's still a good choice.
Two historically trick ones!
> Nick was a legend in the College of Computing even as an undergrad.

Why?
I use Signal and Gmail. (And Whatsapp.)
Thus usenet was reinvented
This seems like a plausible claim, it all lines up with my preconceived expectations for how the CCP operates, but who knows? There are plausible commercial and political incentives for him to make these claims up (to promote his book, or to hurt a government he dislikes.) I hope NPR was able to corroborate these claims (Desmond Shum might have provided them with a recording of the calls?), because there is nothing in this article anybody else would be able to corroborate.
with all that data, they can map public areas and find the best to settle in, that media is influencing public opinion, they can prune messages they disagree with even more so than youtube has ever done.
In the US, you can prosecute and vote out bad behavior. There are also term limits, investigation boards, and laws whose spirit are to protect the people.

Yes, bad actors can thrive in any climate. But the US is set up with an immune defense against totalitarian authority and exploits.
Ah ok. That makes lots of sense.
They had a great case against Paul Bilzerian - he was convicted and the government got a $60+ million judgment against him. It seems he is just exceptionally good at hiding his money during the bankruptcy processes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bilzerian
Absolutely I do.
As posted elsewhere in another comment, https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/

Not recommended

If you are attempting to leak state secrets (as was the case of Edward Snowden) or going up against a powerful state adversary, email may not be the most secure medium for communications. The Internet is generally not anonymous, and if you are breaking Swiss law, a law-abiding company such as ProtonMail can be legally compelled to log your IP address. A powerful state adversary will also be better positioned to launch one of the attacks described above against you, which may negate the privacy protection provided by ProtonMail. While we can offer more protection and security, we cannot guarantee your safety against a powerful adversary.
Ah yes. They are no true Scotsman.
Women are known to chase institutional accolades more than men when given the opportunity. It is in line with a general preference for more security.

Will it work today? Probably. There are few women in the trades. If you can get a cheap degree, it is likely better than no degree.
If "affordable housing" means "under market price", in practice AH means that it goes to the connected at that price. If they can, they resell at market later, if they can't, well, they just got subsidized housing.

Remember, housing prices in high-priced areas are driven by location, location, location, location, location (yes, two more locations than ordinary housing), so "it's small" doesn't translate to "the market price is low." (It's just less expensive than big.)

When the "market price" exceeds the cash price, the folks who get to buy are the ones who have some way to pay outside the system.
They take a day or more to start or stop. When running they're still not exactly nimble (which is why we have peaking plants) but their response time is an hour or two, not a day. Even old plants ramp at 1%+ of maximum power per minute giving one hour as a very achievable 40%-to-100% ramp up. Newer designs are 5-10x as fast.

Not arguing against renewables here but this 1+ day response time figure gets quoted a lot. (eg. my father-in-law uses it and I've always thought it was sketchy, your post just pushed me over the edge to go look it up. ;)

Source: Graph on page 10 of https://usea.org/sites/default/files/092014_Increasing%20the...
I am having trouble coming up with a single high paying, no degree required job that is majority female. Please let me know if I am missing some.
I think I get your point.

On a documenting perspective, having the well named function contain five lines of simple operations will look better than the terse 1-in-5 line.

To me the catch is that the reader/reviewer will need to trust the function actually does what it is named after. Otherwise they'll need to go look at the 5 lines anyway, and it might be more costly to go navigate to the function and come back than reading the same content inline.

With that 5-in-1 terser (that's such an horrible compression ratio BTW) line, there is no need for blind trust. It might need more effort to understand, but you also don't have the burden to associate the name of the function with what it actually does (even aptly named functions will still have some gap with what they do or don't). I'd hold my head while decrypting that 5-for-1 bundle while cursing the world, but I'd also see that as a very pragmatic and reasonable choice if it relies only on standard libraries and don't abuse undefined or deprecated behaviors.

BTW I'd still go with a separate function containing the longer code if it helps for tests for instance. As everything and as you point out, real-world cases are always more complex and nuanced.
I always wondered how it got away with using copyrighted music... that was the wow factor for me.
> Chia now has somewhere on the order of 300,000 - 400,000 full nodes operating on the network (already making it more decentralized than Bitcoin) and is approaching 36EiB of space.

Are Bitcoin miners as ready to jump ship to the next thing, if it falls out of favor? I don't think so. Chia is not as popular (it is currently #230 on Coinmarketcap).

I also don't think that the power savings of Chia outweigh the space considerations.
I do. I helped build one of these sites. We actually had a "tube" domain before youtube :)
I'd love a high latency app as well, but there is undeniable magic in instant communication. My best writing is often when I'm "hot" on a topic and can quickly go back and forth with others on the idea. Steam could quickly run out for that type of thing without instant communication.
With MagSafe I was replacing the adapter yearly. With USB-C, I bought third party USB-C cables that are braided and have (gasp) strain-relief, and they hold up great.
How to Spy on Military Bases from Space
Anyone can call their stuff "space grade", but it is only marketing copy if it isn't flight qualified. I don't track new stuff because my interest is in hardware developed in the 80s and 90s, but for that time frame there are long lists of qualified parts and published testing methodologies. I know that for military grade stuff of that time you had a combination of distinguishing characteristics that set one part number apart from the commercial grade offering: top bin draw and complete performance characterization. At some point that was relaxed to where it is now just mostly about binning and traceability.
At that level, I'd use a geometric definition. I would postulate the existence of a set R of numbers which represent the distance along a line based on a given unit. From there, you "show" that natural and rational numbers belong to R. You show that some numbers are irrational (easy to prove that sqrt(2) is).

There are some postulate there but I think it provides the right intuition and it's not a obviously circular definition.
If I were to spend $100M on producing HBO's Chernobyl, except focused on Tiananmen (assume top talent, compelling story, and good marketing), what sort of blowback could I expect?

Would my life be in danger? Would other businesses cut me off?

Will this become increasingly difficult to pull off in the US/West?

We know Disney and other entertainment companies don't want to touch it. Will that attitude stay the same now that China is beginning to cut off Western movie stars, movies, market access, etc.?
As long as the details, possibly names or government roles, in the book doesn't get out the government can just call it speculation. If the book remains unpublished, that's probably mission accomplished for them. Remember the reason the NYT got banned from China: an expose on the corporate empire essentially owned by Xi Jinping's family and other top cadres in the CCP. That's the kind of info they are really afraid of, because it could threaten the party's domestic "legitimacy", or mandate to rule.

The CCP does not care one bit what the international community thinks (look at Xinjiang & Hong Kong). So far it has not resulted in any meaningful economic consequences for the CCP...so why worry?
I don't know, CCP is full of these types of skunks... Won't be surprised if both or many more crimes.
I'm really interested to see how far consumer electronics will actually be proved useful in space. There's this perception that designing for space is ultra-difficult and requires n-tuple redundancy and specially fabricated radiation-hardened processors etc. but I wonder how much of that is just because when you're spending a billion dollars on a mission you REALLY don't want to lose it to some random bit flip and so you drop $100mil on goldplating the absolute heck out of everything.
> Jira doesn't have much advantage over any other bug tracker

Ohhh found the non power Jira user! Gitea is good enough for your org. Without knowing your requirements this is pretty much a blanket statement. Gitea is nowhere near good enough for a large engineering org.

Example: groovy integration with Jira allows an enterprise to build their own custom workflows. Like integrating with your Vcs to enforce funded work (requiring an open Jira issue in git commits). Features like this, until recently, left them in a league of their own. GitHub Actions has leveled that playing field. Gitlab and gitea can fight it out with bugzilla, but you won’t find them in most engineering orgs.

Another example: building out complex dev roadmaps ahead of time with constraints and relationships. Bridging the gap between dev, product, and project management
Washington, DC, sort of.
Something needn't have 1:1 feature parity to replace something else. I recently replaced my car with a motorcycle.
There's the famous quote by Bjarne Stroustrup, "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses". I think that holds true for a lot of things.
my biggest problem with this idea is that many people are already hesitant to write/post online. limiting the number of posts they are allowed to make might make their post anxiety even worse.

i do like the sentiment behind it though
You are right, although doesn't look like jails was included.
Has anyone used this in a multithreaded implementation, and how is/was the experience?
not to mention permaculture which sounds dorky until you look into how amazing it really is
Won't these new services require rather significant increases in taxes? Not to mention government takeover of industry to impose price fixing and rationing raises some red flags for me.
If you love hummingbirds, I suggest https://www.hummingbirdspot.com (no connection).
> Not trying to dig on your usage of issue tracking

> but you won’t find them in any worthwile engineering org.

sure.
TikTok had a much better creator reimbursement platform and partnerships built in from the start, and benefited a lot from the early work Twitch and YouTube did setting the tone here, as well as the growth of "influencer culture" leading to further brand and advertising involvement in the space.
Or from firms like Bestbuy they won't have the hassle of manufacturers or the cheating/fraud with Amazon.
Right now 5 year US government debt pays less than 1%, with shorter maturities paying less than that. Inflation is always a touchy subject, but I think we can agree that 1%/yr or greater inflation is hardly unimaginable over the next 5 years.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
The Other Sara Morrisons are ruining my inbox: Email is an awful online ID
More like this please
I sure am glad that I wrote a well considered nuanced response and tried to come up with helpful analogies for our debate, only to get trolled back in response.

Sadly it's not a surprising experience for me anymore dealing with people that argue against progress.
A common construction is this:

First define natural numbers as sysops did (or you can use peanos axioms).

Then add the negative numbers (I actuallly don't remember how this is done, ig it's usually hand waved as trivial). The negative and natural numbers together make up the integers.

The rationals are introduced as a pair of numbers (a, b) where a is an integer and b is a positive integer. (a, b) is considered the same rational as (c, d) if a * d = b * c.

The reals are finally introduced as sets of rationals with a certain property, namely that if p is in S, then all smaller rationals must also be in S. Edit: there are a few more properties, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_cut
Really helpful way to start understanding the symbols. Clearly written.
I wish someone could make a YouTube 2011 clone. Maybe call it YouTube classic — of course this would be a trademark infringement, so it would have to be named something else. But seriously, if I can get YouTube 2011 back with its human curated categories and recommended videos sidebar that is based on the video that is currently being watched, then I would be so happy!
I understand very well that the peano axioms for example are logical and not circular.

My point was that I think your explanation relies on the experience on what a number is, having used those equations before with the terms actually representing real numbers (such as 3 + 2 = 5 instead of a + x = b and sin(180) = 0 instead of sin(x) = 0).

So as a definition of what a number is it's circular as you presume experience with numbers and what they mean.
Actually it did happen, and was reversed this year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/biden-revokes-and-replaces-t...
Clear evidence the government needs to act.
It should be kept in mind that the vast majority of the income tax revenue that sustains the US government comes from the "mass affluent", people who make a lot of money (a few hundred thousand $ per year) but do get it from employment.

This is the center of gravity of the tax system, the people who are in aggregate both well off enough and numerous enough to act as cash cows. Plus being employed limits tax shelters.

So keeping the upper middle class taxpayers compliant should be the top priority of a competent IRS, irrespective of fairness. I don't know how focused on that they really are, but I would give them the benefit of the doubt without definitive evidence.
Forcing big tech to act like big dumb pipes is a fantastic idea that deserves to catch on. For accounts I care about though I just wish it was more discreet with QR codes blended into pics and plausible deniability baked in i.e. used legible 1337speak w0rd5.

It's a surprisingly fluid copy+paste process even with a mobile cursor inside a buggy p2p collaborative text editor [1]. I encourage others to real world test the mobile flow over a completely insecure connection.

[1] http://97.107.136.211:8000