skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing strange there.

There is already a lot of mandates like that.

If you look at your house, almost every single piece of cable, pipe or joint, and so on is standardized so that you can connect stuff from different manufacturers and it will fit and not blow up on you. Then the correct ways to connect stuff together are standardized. Then the people who do these things are going through standardized certification.

You don't need to buy different wall sockets to connect up different appliances because the sockets are standardized and your country decided to mandate that all appliances must follow specific rules and choose only from available standardized options when connecting to AC.

See, it is so ubiquitous that you don't think about it.

You don't need to think about it because somebody at some point stepped in and said that it is not ok to have every manufacturer to have their own standard and homeowners to bear the cost of navigating those multiple standards.
In other news, operational security is just as important as technological security measures. This means not leaving your device unattended, and if you do, implementing tamper detection of some variety. This can be as simple as a battery operated motion activated video recorder hidden and aimed at your equipment. You can pick one up for $25 on amazon.
What if you want to build a phone handset that you don't want to support forever? It has to be online but there is no realistic way the original hardware will support continuous upgrades, even my Samsung S8, which is hardly ancient, is already slow (for reasons unknown) and will not survive very long.
Oh, I see what you’re saying now. Not that the real Chiba was ever an electronics Mecca, but that it was in the book and reality never matched up.

I guess in another timeline Chiba could have become Shenzhen. That would have been cool.
Google gets trashed on because it was so bold about "do no evil" for so long, and because it keeps wrongly shutting down people's accounts. Oh, and because of its handling of internal sexual harassment and ethics complaints.

Uber took advantage of drivers, misleading them about income and viability of making a good living. They also aggressively ignored local regulations to be able to unfairly compete with local services. As bad as that is, it's still many steps above knowingly facilitating human trafficing.

Apple, for its many flaws, seems only to be semi-evil by probably knowingly allowing really bad labor practices at its Chinese factories. They either were knowingly failing to properly oversee, or they were intentionally ignoring. But it seems they have made an effort to improve in this regard.
You are right, unfortunately.

Often the best policy is simple and straight forward but the mechanism of action is something that people don't understand or refuse to believe.
But if this means that more fruit and vegetables will spoil, it may not be so good. What kind of containers are used for fruit in Spain? For example grapes are sold in plastic containers where I live. They are kind of sensitive for pressure.
Really looking forward to the follow-up article on this.

>There’s a lot more to say, which I’ll be writing up in some future articles to introduce everyone to Guix and breaking out of GNU-land for a gaming machine. (Note: please don’t discuss non-free software on any official Guix channels, like their mailing lists or IRC channel. They are friendly and will just politely remind you, but best to discuss somewhere like #nonguix on IRC.)
Nope. If the papers are out, better call Saul.
There was plenty of talkie talk before that.
Saul will tell you, once you've been served, No talking after that.
Where is this imagined place of yours where people don't die?
Going Big and Fast on Renewables Would Save Trillions in Energy Costs
Inkplate, which uses recycled kindle screens, is way cheaper than buying new panels. Ebay has a good selection of scavenged panels as well.
As soon as you shift a big part of society, like kids going to school, much of the rest of society needs to shift to stay in sync. Congrats. You’ve just reimplemented a time shift but more chaotically.

I used to be in camp DST year round. Now I don’t really care because I mostly get up when I want which varies from day to day.
Just an FYI for anyone who might be thinking of getting into the game.

It took me about 6 weeks playing along with the wiki to “git gud” enough to have a mostly stable fort. I used tilesets for eye candy and eventually moved to some of the memory hacking tools like dwarf therapist for a better management UI.

YMMV but if you are thinking “gosh it’s too complicated for me” just be patient with it and don’t be afraid to read the vast amount of documentation around the game.

DF is an extremely rewarding mindf*ck. It’s probably the only game now that I can get so immersed that I blow past my bedtime and spend the next day, fatigued, thinking of what to try in game next.
Seems like most USB-C cables and chargers on the market are fake. And as per "the market for lemons" the fake $2 chargers that can't output full power without smoking or have zero isolation from power line or refuse to use X/Y safety rated capacitors will push the good more expensive chargers off the market. The "Real World" is a lot more like "DiodeGoneWild"'s autopsies of power supplies than most people think. Its odd, really, just how much more often USB-C hardware catches fire than Lightning hardware.

Submarine patents and the like can't appear on products you invented for yourself. Admittedly kinda far fetched in the case of USB-C. Then again look at historical madness like USB to RS232 adapter knock off chips and drivers written to brick knock off hardware.

Nobody wants the wild west experience of USB-C where nothing is reliable or trustworthy. The user experience is just likely to be better with lightning.
Mere fact that Apple Contact address book can leak your contact name that was extracted by Signal and ran checks against Signal for “in-Signal-network” flag or not

It’s not just about the avatar but your name too. now being tied to your phone number.
you're using the wrong numbers here.

17/330 = 5.2%
60/1400 = 4.2%

the grandparent poster was mistaken (the 90 million represented the amount of people the empty housing could house, not the amount of empty homes itself) so I found real number and included the link.
Well, except there is no evidence at all that humans were ever anything other than omnivores and large segments of humanity were know to be hunter gatherer societies from the archaeological record. A few societies have become ovo-lacto vegetarians and some modern humans have effectively become vegan.
indeed, and the state is mixed up everywhere. Where does public and private end?
>It's like software code churn. A bunch of git commits must indicate we're really getting some serious work done!

Is this seriously a thing? ie. people refactoring stuff for the sake of refactoring? Maybe the company I work at hasn't progressed to that stage yet, but the type of "change for the sake of change" that you're talking about I mostly see with designs/layouts.
Most of the things you list for "high risk" are just things that you train for. After all, most low wage jobs reasonably expect to have to train folks.

Yes, you have to handhold sometimes. This is expected. If they aren't picking up on things in a reasonable time, places in the US will start disciplinary actions. The vast majority of people can do the stuff, though. Honestly, though, a lot of low wage jobs have some supervision built into the system, if anything to try to monitor theft or to keep folks from messing up.

Few people are so clumsy that they actually have issues. In the same vein, pretty much everyone is clumsy from time to time and very occasionally, someone will break something expensive. This is all rare. (I've worked many low wage jobs, and been in the middle management).

I don't know what sorts of jobs you think are low wage, but the vast majority simply don't have "productive enough". Some folks are slower than others, but realistically, there is only so much production you are going to do behind a cash register. Even things as arbitrary as how fast you help people isn't completely under your control.

I think people, just for being human and without having to prove worth, deserve a living wage and I think that should be more - at all times - than one would get from a safety net. If you work, you get x. If you think people are being overpaid at that rare, I would argue that's only because others that you deem "worth it" are underpaid.
Sorry, it was your argument that the small pile of money was a large pile of money. Which it isn’t. And ‘lighting on fire’? Do you also step on the barricades when people waste their own money on homeopathic ‘medicine’?
Even if you accept that most prisoners have committed crimes that actually ought to be crimes, "trivially" is pretty callous. Ever been in a group that started to do something you didn't like?
This is why Polygon/Matic, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), and other scaling solutions are popping up.

Many are literally forking popular DApps like Pancake Swap and just shifting the underlying chain to one of the better scaled solutions.

Because you can "peg" an asset from ethereum to an equivalent on BSC and then swap back, I don't think the "many-smartchains, one-main-chain" approach of Polkadot or Cardano will ever be sustainable long term. Simply no point.
The judge did say Apple has a right to collect a commission , but did't rule if 30 % was fair.

"First, and most significant, as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

Indeed, while the Court finds no basis for the specific rate chosen by Apple (i.e., the 30% rate) based on the record, the Court still concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for use of its intellectual property. As established in the prior sections, Apple is entitled to license its intellectual property for a fee, and to further guard against the uncompensated use of its intellectual property. The requirement of usage of IAP accomplishes this goal in the easiest and most direct manner, whereas Epic Games’ only proposed alternative would severely undermine it. Indeed, to the extent Epic Games suggests that Apple receive nothing from in-app purchases made on its platforms, such a remedy is inconsistent with prevailing intellectual property law."
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It’s also not just race but beautiful people, especially with symmetric facial features are subconscious biases that presumably plays a role. I don’t know if there are studies around this, I’d bet there would be a huge bias.

Photos are completely unnecessary and mostly nuisance IMO.
Do you really believe that Facebook is turning a blind eye to human trafficking? If so, I will send you .1 ETH if you can keep a fake human trafficking ad online for at least 24 hours.
No. The best way to cut emissions is to make CO2 expensive. It's even better than banning coal.
Especially the 16 inc Macbooks can go over that consumption.
But however the main point is in charging, you need a lot more watts to charge faster, as the batteries are getting bigger and if you want to improve existing charging speeds.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/apple-mac...

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/15/magsafe-coming-to-macbo...
Thanks a lot for these pointers!
You're right that the specific computation of PoW is supposed to be useless for game theory reasons [0], but the computation requirement itself still delays updating the network (while block size constrains how many transactions can happen between each block update). It takes time for those updates to get published back across the network.

If you drop the computation requirement and move enforcement to validators and slashing you can easily 10x-100x this without off chain layer 2 hacks. I was originally skeptical of this because it gives up the computational security guarantees of PoW in favor of game theory guarantees, but I was ultimately persuaded after reading more about it.

I think there's a place for both, digital gold like BTC with very low throughput and slow transactions for holding value and rarely moving currency, and ETH (and tokens backed by ETH's protocol) for everything else. With maybe some special situations for something like Zcash.

[0]: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/97030/beginners-...
Yes, those studies exist for farmed salmon. But here, we are talking about milk, not salmon.
I agree with you that a lot of software needs open ended development, but I don't believe most of it does. I like the philosophy used in the development of the Gemini protocol: software should have a clearly defined scope, it should break not bend and it should eventually be done. I think the vast majority of software doesn't actually need continuous updates.

Look at the downsides, web browsers in particular are the biggest example of the downsides to this approach. They've become megalithic blobs of unmaintainable bloat. If they'd just stuck to delivering documents and let "web app" developers develop standalone clients we wouldn't be in the situation we are in with the web.

Some software can never be done, but most of it should be done.
Cases are overrated. Sure, they may protect from some scratches, but they don't protect agains fall as much as people think, and I think they induce falls by making large phones even more difficult to hold.
I bought a IPhone 12 pro max six months ago, never used a case, still looks like new.
What about in app payments in XBox or PS4? It will not surprise you to know they also take 30%.

I can't help but notice that Fortnite is also available in the PS4 store as well.

This is simply Epic doing their own money grab against the the platform they can most afford to alienate:

>The documents show that from March 2018 to July 2020, the
>breakdown of Fortnite revenue by platform was as follows:

>PS4: 46.8%
>Xbox One: 27.5%
>Android, Switch, PC: 18.7%
>iOS: 7%

This is a flyer for Epic to try to take a bigger percentage from their ecosystem partners and devalue them. Commoditize your complement. And they simply started with the one they could afford to alienate.
letting a somewhat private company fail may end up making the central authorities look good. They can then start the "look what capitalism did to you, we're in charge of your life now." propaganda machine.
The case of the curious commit message
I was more referring to the "criminals" part
Yeah sure, just let me punch in a database conenction string to one of my databases with both username and password.

I understand this is probably an honest and useful service but man does that spike some red flags for me, and I worry about anyone who actually uses the demo on that page with anything but a newly spun up test db.
Banned in every country, except the U.S. and New Zealand.
Why would you name a programming language "vomit"?
Of course patents are preferable to trade secrets in the vast majority of cases. That's why I said trade secrets have many of the same the same problems, not that they are equivalent.

The problem is that when patents are no longer an option trade secrets (or public funding) become essentially the only viable option to pay for the majority of drug research.

If a drug is unique and desirable, forcing doctors, suppliers and patients into contracts that don't allow reverse engineering is the most likely outcome. In extreme cases drug companies could require patients to only be treated in a doctor's office.

In the case of drugs that can't be kept secret, given the time and effort necessary to develop, much of the economic incentive for that research evaporates.

>Patents are thus only viable for those things which would not be expected to remain secret.

That's not how the math works outs. You can easily construct a counter example where a drug has a greater than 50% chance of remaining secret during the length of the patent, yet taking the patent has a greater expected value.
The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
You make a good argument. To me it still feels like you can "effectively" censor something by flooding its channel with crap. Maybe there is a technical way to filter away the the "noise", but it's unlikely that the audience will bother. If you DNS-block a site is that still not censorship, because you can still reach the site by IP (if you can find it out)?

I'm genuinely asking here, I think this is an interesting case and I'm not able to make my mind up.
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Brag as much as you can in your resume. Never be humble.
Ideal? Huh. You’d think CAT would just do that sort of thing on their own for equipment with price tags in the millions. That Diesel engines are required to produce the electricity underscores that battery energy density is not comparable to petroleum products.

Are you aware of someone with a machine shop having fixed a battery made of exotic
minerals? I’m not.
> Not to mention life expectancy went from under 40 to above 70 in the last century, so we have way more elderly people around.

Yes but we also have vastly superior medical knowledge and technology and resources to draw on...but despite that it has still killed 675,400 people in the US alone.
edit: I am not the original GP who said it's plain wrong - perhaps I should lead with that

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I really appreciate your analysis. Perhaps my comment was unclear, but it was in reference to the GP asking

> Why do you think this is plain wrong?

Since from my understanding the injunction should still be in effect (as mentioned by another commenter). Of course with the added disclaimer that I am not a corporate lawyer.

> I seriously recommend not relying on blog analysis of a court case and instead reading the court documents, and if you are unable to do so (understandable!) to avoid participating in the conversation in the manner of correcting someone.

I appreciate your candor - while I may exhibit elements of imposter syndrome, I believe I didn't add noise to the SNR of this post since it was my intention to expand on the aformentioned GP's question.
> but rather that it’s unconventional for governments to directly stipulate a technology

aren't you forgetting that governments hand out and enforce patents/monopolies/IP?

also it's hard for small groups to compete with giants when those giants have plundered the commons and more and more scientific and technological research is locked up behind their corporate firewalls.

at this point ignoring that plundering is wilful, not due to ignorance. [1]

[1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...
That sounds like "sticking it to them" to me. The alternative is that Apple lets them back on, stops paying for an expensive lawsuit, and gets extra revenue from fortnite.
By hypersonic weapons, do you mean missiles? Are they even useful? To follow the curvature of the earth, they have fly higher than a subsonic cruise missile, making them fairly easy to spot. Not sure how hard they are to shoot down.
I applaud any effort to rethink keyboards from first principles.

After years of shoulder, neck and back pain I discovered that the root cause was the standard keyboard design. It causes rounded shoulders. Perhaps my shoulders are just too wide. This pinched all sorts of muscles, tendons and nerves. Doctors and physical therapists just failed to identify the issue. Weight lifting didn't help all that much, even with a strong back I had to scrunch and round the shoulders to type.

I finally picked up a second keyboard, and used one for each hand. It was surprisingly easy to convert to. Just added some larger rubber nub things on home row.

It's been life changing. Years of pain was gone in days. No special design necessary.

Each keyboard is arranged at an outward angle, distanced so my shoulders are in a natural position.

I can't recommend this enough.

On Mac it required a system preference tweak (Karibiner app) so each keyboard can share shortcut keys.
Hello HN!

This website doesn't host any record/magnet, but it fetches a dump (csv file) from IPFS and then it builds a database locally on browser with 'flexsearch' so you can do text searches and find what you need.

By default, for the showcase, it's wired to a copy of a dump from TNT village (dead italian forum) by its CID, but you can add your own dump to IPFS and then share the dump by attaching the resulting CID as a parameter to the link like: giga.cat?list=Qm.....XyZ

It is nothing serious, it's not perfect, it was my first time using js with dozens of async/await.

I was bored a month ago so I decided to learn more about IPFS and I was surprised that this awesome project is also being implemented with javascript, so you can use it even without installation. I tested if was feasible to share a whole csv file of (title, magnet, ...) and how many records were acceptable because of loading time increase. Well it takes 7s to fetch, parse and populate from a 15MB csv file with ~100k lines. Not that usable, it's just an upper limit. I think it could work well for small communities.
Would be awesome if a Pleroma front-end was written in this way. Just host one app that is ultra-performant.
> Physical size limits current, not voltage, and you can increase voltage.

Exactly, you need to increase both for better charging speeds. 240W is not a lot for charging if the battery sizes keep growing. To add, increasing only voltage is not good for battery and gets challenging.
> You don't fix batteries, you replace them

Yes. That’s my point.
My guess would be that this is not feasible. It's probably tens of thousands of ads changes every second. Googling it, there are
720,000 hours of video uploaded every day to YouTube.. this is youtube but my guess is that the scale is similar...
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?
I understand that the one-cent fee will raise money for state-run recycling and cleanup efforts, I'd like to see something bigger that would help shift the incentives towards using recyclable products.

Here[1] is a polystyrene case of 200 for $28.99 retail, this would make that cost $30.99. The eco-friendly version is $57.99: [2], and that doesn't even have the compartments that the foam does; if you want those it's closer to $90. I'm sure the costs to the manufacturers themselves are lower than that.

To a restaurant, it's a 2-dollar fee on a 30-dollar case that doesn't make the 60-dollar alternative a smart financial decision. Alternatively, it's a 1-cent fee on a 14-cent product, compared to a 29-cent product.

I like when a restaurant gives me my food in an eco-friendly container, now I know that it cost them about 15 cents of my purchase to do so.

[1] https://www.webstaurantstore.com/dart-90htpf3r-9-x-9-x-3-whi...
[2] https://www.webstaurantstore.com/ecochoice-9-x-9-x-3-biodegr...
I tried it lately and the meat seemed unfresh and unseasoned but I've never had a complaint about the bread. I don't really get it.
Yeah - ETH2 is a high risk long bet on the future of ETH, that risk is why the rewards for doing it are pretty high right now. I haven't personally staked anything because of that risk.

My point was billions of dollars of wealth are already being staked so there are a lot of people that have already bought in. This doesn't mean it is guaranteed to succeed, but it does mean there are pretty strong incentives in place for it.

I suppose the other argument would be an ETH2 failure would likely devalue ETH too, so I'm not sure how much holding ETH is a hedge against failure.
I don't think most people were outraged at FB for _researching_ how Instagram affects teens. What people were outraged about was that upon finding that Instagram appears to have deleterious effects on teen girls, FB a) didn't share these findings with the public or consumers of Instagram, and b) doesn't appear to have done anything to correct or mitigate the negative effect their product appears to have on these people.