skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rebranding of MySQL as blockchain was a brilliant move for sales. Bit torrent is decentralized and it doesn't use "blockchain". "Blockchain" only works for money and nothing else
Q4 is set to be an amazing crypto run because all I see is lots of last minute FUD right now on all media channels, and of course from China. The OG FUD source has blown its final wad and banned all crypto “for real this time.” Let’s hope the USA isn’t as backwards thinking and sees that banning crypto is removing yourself from the new world economy.
You should look more into the real causes of inflation in your country, because they are probably not what you think

Even without knowing what country you are from, I would bet that inflation is because imports and exports imbalances and nothing to do with "printing too much money".

And anyway, if the problem is storing value, why you don't buy gold or dollars, yens or something like that?
100%. Perhaps medicine is not that far ahead either. There's a a number of drugs (esp. the ones that deal with the brain) where we observe the effects but the mechanism of action is not well understood.
> can you provide an example of a 'slippery slope' that did not come to fruition

Letting a muslim, specifically Barack Obama, become president was the first stop on the slippery slope to Sharia Law in the USA. Many of the congress people you mention were in agreement.

Last I checked, some part of the above did not happen.
> European powers that have repeatedly engaged in attempts at complete extermination of those they manage to subjugate.

Did Europeans attempt to exterminate peoples in Asia and Africa?

> I don't see this as a European trait so much as an extension of the religious and political doctrine of the period. The combination of Abrahamic ("personal relationship with god") religion

“personal relationship with God” is solely a trait of Christianity. Anyway Christianity and other Abrahemic faiths are widespread across many civilizations which are peaceful so I doubt this factor.

> divine right of kings

This has been a feature of many civilizations going back at least to the Egyptians but probably much earlier. Nothing particular to Europe or Christianity (or Abrahamic faiths more generally) here either.

> technological war superiority

Here I agree, but I actually think this was probably a relatively minor advantage compared with the disease factor which meant the Europeans were fighting peoples whose civilizations were positively collapsing.

> Other cultures and civilizations have engaged in some brutal oppression too, but for the most part they seem to have understood that other humans were (1) humans (2) potential assets and subsequently engaged in a more complex aspirational relationship with the conquered than most European cultures have tended to do.

I don’t think there’s any truth to this. Many other peoples enslaved, exterminated, sacrificed, and even ate their vanquished. Europeans stand out merely in their efficiency.
You’re only in the green if you sell.
Not true, if money supply does not grow with population or economic growth it will be deflationary aka not stable. If deflation continues then people will hold onto money rather than buy things with it since things become relatively cheaper every day, which leads to economic downturn.
This looks like F# but with a noisier syntax. Perhaps it will be more familiar feeling to JS devs?

Looks like a tidy language though, it's just unclear to me what it offers over more established alternatives.
So the original rule back in 2011 was for the industry to self-govern itself and align on a common standard (just like the aviation industry will align on how smooth a runway should be or what pressure jet fuel should be injected at). Every manufacturer agreed to align on micro-USB, except for ... Apple.

So now unfortunately we have to rely on the nanny state to whip our childish businesses into line. Hopefully after this they can move to a self-governing standard
Exactly! Sad to see this kind of financial illiteracy on HN in the GP
Btw, I recently (as in 2 months ago, before the epic ruling) downloaded one of those apps (bec I was given a $40 incentive to spend $10 in app) and they used PayPal not apple to sell their in app coins. I thought that was interesting, that they got around the apple censors.
Am I the only one who is afraid that part of the reason for not fixing behaviour like this might be a nudging towards "always on" devices?

Reading through the comments it seems on Windows this might be related to WLAN and automatic updates, a rather sensitive area when it comes to security and privacy.

Happy to hear your opinions, I'd really love to be proven 100% wrong about this.
Although I completely agree with your observations - sitting in a weird spot between very large and very small data, there are use cases where ZFS is extremely useful.

I'm regularly working with datasets in the single to two digit TB range. They need to sit on disk because the university doesn't have 10GE.

If I ran a regular raid and would encounter a disk or data error, I would have to re-create the data from tape archive or worse, lose it; and getting a replacement disk would surely take weeks.

So instead, I've been running raidz pools for ~10 years and have never skipped a beat.

I agree that this is not very typical, but it suits my needs perfectly.
I got asked to help on an ML project and right now it seems dull as dishwater. Having a hard time being productive because I can't get interested in it at all. That might change in time, it's still really early, but I'm starting to think I'm glad I didn't chase this particular rabbit hole.

It's about product sale forecasts, by the way.
Background tasks on Mac laptops can create a similar problem, but they are largely software created, and rarely out-of-the-box scenarios. Enterprise security tools like endpoint protection scanners and VPN clients made available for Mac but seemingly built in a different power state mentality have been shown to interrupt sleep mode and drain battery.
I've also heard mixed reports of different generations behaving badly, and I haven't used all of them.
In college my MBP lived in my backpack. You finish a class, close the lid watch the light change and away you go. Nothing will wake it until you open it.

Now with enterprise scanning tools running for "security" they check in daily or hourly to look for new threat signatures or what have you, no matter the power state, no matter the network state, no matter if its in a bag. Likely because the bulk of the tool was just ported from a world where you turn it off or the computer isn't off.
Or, you know, just don't use the optional browser extension?
Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades
The ONLY time I've actually lost data, was with BTRFS, and only using it as a basic single-volume filesystem, no RAID, snapshots, or anything complex.

BTRFS does not seem to recover well from media errors. I've had plenty of those, and always been able to recover at least partial data (minus the bad media) with other FS's.
Commodities API: JSON API for current and historical Commodities prices
Having access to commodities rates through a simple API has so many use-cases - from financial data to e-commerce stores to pretty much any company.

Let us know if you've any suggestions on how to improve the API.

Why we did this?

Consume commodities price data using IMF or World Bank files is such a big pain, so we decide to want to build a better solution using a very simple JSON API.
async/await is not about multithreading at all though...
>Crypto as a tech to serve something different is totally fine of course.

Like what, NFTs for farts? Near as I can tell, the other main use cases for crypto - smart contracts, supply chain provenance tracking, and securities settlement processing really haven't panned out. Others have pointed out why it's not working as a currency. Literally all we have left is a vehicle for speculation.
If powerups are randomly placed, it's possible for a "better" player to lose to a "worse" player simply by luck of the draw. How is that accounted for in determining the best AI?
> The CCP does not like having competitors for power or even something they don't have control over.

The CCP is a bunch of unambitious individuals. Everything that causes troubles to the CCP means troubles for Xi and the possibility that his "president for life" title might be revoked, creating room for somebody else to ascend.

From a game theory standpoint it is better to be at the helm of a slightly less relevant organization than being a subordinate of an organization plowing ahead at full steam unrivaled.

This is even more true in politics and NGOs where the monetary compensation is very limited and it's all about the status.
The lack of a thumbnail is hardly the most glaring flaw in gtkfilechooserwidget.c in Gtk3. Since 2013 (before this it was fine) the file chooser File->Open dialog no longer allows you to type in it or paste file paths into without first hitting a series of hot keys. It will literally throw an error if you paste a file path into the file chooser. This means every application that uses Gtk3 is broken on linux.

I've talked to the devs responsible for this over on their GNOME IRC channel and they say everyone should port their applications to Gtk4 and Gtk3 is frozen and will never be fixed. I've attempted to fix it myself in source, compile, and manually swap in the new gtk3 libs but so far I can only get the filename entry text box to appear by default on the first "File->Open" operation but none after the first.

It is one of the major reasons I run older versions of software. Newer software is broken unless it is bleeding edge and then nothing actually uses it.
Ahh finally found one! Btw that was published after it hit the front page here.
I've trained my memory over the last ~5 years. I became fascinated with oral cultures. How could they transmit enough knowledge to survive and basically confer PhD level knowledge of survival without books? How could they remember it all? How does your experience of the world change when every place you find yourself is (mentally) chock full of (your most prized) memories?

I also wanted to get more out of reading. I used to read a book, maybe take notes and hopefully take some new action. Next year it's gone, maybe I recall 3 ideas. How could I get more out of reading?

So I memorized books. Convert a book into 100-250 bullet points, memorize them in a memory palace. If I don't practice recalling my palaces, at least once every 6 months or so, I'll forget it. However, this isn't a negative. When recalling you can ask yourself questions about the knowledge. How is the relevant to my life right now? How can I apply this? How does the world look using this knowledge as a lens? How does this compare or contrast to other things I've memorized?

At first this was an enormous effort. But with all training it gets faster. We've all spent thousands of hours learning to read. Now reading is unconscious, you see a word and instantly you know the concept behind. My first book took about 4 hours and reviewing it took an hour. Now reviewing a book (250 items) takes under 15 mins, and I can do it while making dinner or driving. People can memorize a deck of cards (52 facts in order) in two minutes. Eventually, I believe it's clearly possible to be able to memorize at the speed of speech (250 words per min).

At the moment, I develop software. I decided to memorize the packages of the python standard library. Why? Is it going to help? It provides a link to attach concepts to. When I find a better solution than something in the standard library, I attach that memory to the standard library. Like when I think of argparse, I automaticaly think of clicklib and fire. Before coding I review the software development palace. I can hold it all in mind... because those packages have become one chunk in my mind.

With all this training, my ability to visualize has just gone through the roof. At the end of the day, I can mentally re-watch my whole day and catch interesting, things that I missed in the moment. It feels like watching a vivid (albeit dreamy) movie.

Anyways, like anything the deep end of this mind training is totally amazing and unlike the initial "lifehack" quick wins.
File picking is a very important thing, I am sorry if is hard to implement but some pathetic workaround or some simplicity excuse is not working with many users.
>I've never been able to figure out if this Windows actually doing something useful in "modern standby" like Windows Update, or whether it's a bug.

I asked a very similar question a few months ago. The sleep/standby modes were behaving as other people have reported, however, the fact that the battery was draining rapidly in shutdown mode, on a new Dell with a 3 month-old battery with very few cycles, was a cause for concern. Nevertheless, I tried using the CsEnabled trick, which didn't work. Eventually, after troubleshooting BIOS features, applying the latest updates and using powercfg options -- batteryreport, sleepstudy etc.

I found a solution, which is a compromise at best. The battery drain was 20% within a few hours. But now with S3 sleep state -- it drains around 8-10% in full shutdown mode over a period of 8-10 hours. A similar drain in Standby is over a period of 15-18 hours.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/h0r56s/getting_back_s...
Considering the cultural revolution in China, the Siberian extermination camps of Soviet Russia, and the utterly bizarre treatment Imperial Britain had for petty criminals at the turn of the century, and the US Southern states fighting and dying for the right to enslave… I think that authoritarian governments would rather see tens if not hundreds of millions die before they ever lose their grip on power.

When things go poorly there is always an internal scapegoat, and knowing that no matter how low your situation is it’s (a) not your fault and (b) there is someone who has it worse is a great way to keep social cohesion through troublesome times. And if all else fails, one can find an external party and invade them as both a distraction and a way to deliver spoils to your loyalists.

I’d bet that things will get worse for ethnic and religious minorities in China during a downturn in the economy and if the economy continues to slowly slide for a decade then the neighbors of China like the Philippines will see more of their territory taken away.
So authoritarian action is okay if it’s against bad things?

We are in for a scary future, enabled by the attitudes in this thread.
> just with the annoying "lose 5% of your battery overnight" problem from sleeping in S1.

Just 5% would be manageable -- I probably wouldn't even notice it. It's more on the order or 20-30% for me, so if I happen to not use my laptop over the weekend, I'll come back to a completely dead laptop.

A couple times, I've opened the laptop to have it scream at me to plug it in ASAP.

It's frustrating when you put a completely charged laptop to bed and can't get going without having to hunt for a power cord.
> of these bugs could be caught via static analysis which Apple obviously uses as part of its approval process.

What? Are you suggesting that OS security bugs are in fact non-issues because static analysis can detect programs that exploit these bugs?

No, it doesn't work that way. You can always encode program logic in a way that will defeat static analysis. All you have to do is write a little interpreter with PEEK, POKE, and JUMP opcodes, then encode your actual exploit logic using the little instruction set you've just created. You can make this sort of indirection as elaborate as you want, and there's no way for static analysis to see through it all. When this kind of technique is used for DRM, it takes months of expert human analysis to figure out what's going on. No way some scanner is going to do that, especially if (unlike in the DRM cracking case) there's no clear indication that there's something to discover and decode in the first place.
Ahh finally found one! Btw that was published after it hit the front page here, turns out that HN has more PR power than the EFF.
Scikit-learn 1.0 has arrived
What the actual fuck. That's insane.
It's not expected in general, it's the kind of thing I expect from Gnome, and specifically, on Gnome's bug tracker.
I’ve heard it to, it’s mostly about seeing the delivery receipt. I think that’s why apple refuses to implement RCS.
> Top row shows a Perlin noise texture

Side-tangent story:

I am continually impressed that an algorithm invented in the early 80s is still the go-to way of creating noise all over the place, from Pixar productions to Skia Shaders to Unity3D and beyond. I had the pleasure to meet the inventor Ken a couple years ago at SIGGRAPH in LA, where after 30 years he still shows up just to see what's new and hang out with us "normal" people. I was at a table with him chatting away for over an hour, having no clue who he was, even though his badge clearly said Ken Perlin. I didn't make the connection until my friend said "hey - you know that's the guy who made Perlin noise, right?", remembering that I had a several months prior proclaimed my joy at having discovered Perlin Noise and using it extensively in my project. I'm generally not impressed by celebrities of any sort, but in this case, I had to stop him mid-conversation to thank him many times over (including offering him a big hug) since I've had the pleasure of using various incantations of Perlin Noise over the years. Truly an awesome and humble guy.
Energy is fungible.

If base load were to drop due to crypto miners being turned off, the energy with highest marginal cost would be turned off, which means fossil fuels, not renewables.
Pretty sure he's talking about a "'slippery slope' that did not come to fruition" in the context of technology. Not politics. Let's stay on topic here.
Well, I’m not sure why we use “utility”—that seems like a profound question. But that’s the criterion we’ve used to choose our concepts practically forever, so why make the exception for this one concept?
It had some charring on the 3rd pin a few years ago, but since all the connectors are actually visible, I simply cleaned it with a rough piece of cloth, and it’s back to normal.

All USB plugs have their connectors on the inside, making it impossible to clean them.
> Resistant to centralized censorship (as you pointed out)

I'd wager that most people don't care about this much, though it is real. Still, this can be achieved with signature-based authentication that doesn't require the tremendous waste of BTC. Just... tell the service your public key and sign a message when you sign up. Your key pair doesn't need to be associated with some distributed system for that to work. This has been around for decades and not exactly caught on.

> It allows you to use the same passphrase for all services without compromising security since your passphrase never needs to leave your own machine; it is never sent over the wire. You just send signatures to different services.

This is true for all signature-based authentication, which does not necessitate a blockchain.

> The cost associated with purchasing tokens needed to initialize an account on the blockchain would serve as a spam prevention mechanism; an alternative to SIM cards which most centralized services rely on today to limit the creation of spam accounts.

This sounds like an anti-feature to me. Especially since it'd be foolish for a service to only support authentication via a blockchain. Imagine telling my grandmother that she needed to buy some btc in order to sign up for the service that hosted my wedding photos.
Hibernation should not be too slow now with SSDs clocking upwards of 3000MB/s
We are currently transitioning from the part where they laugh at you, to the part where they fight you.
1. USB-C is 7 years old already.
2. Apple will go directly to wireless charging instead.
3. This is so dumb.
Taxes for food-related policies are unfortunately regressive. The people who can least afford it are hardest hit. Furthermore that might discourage purchase of healthy food.
You think they use a Google tracking device instead?
Unfortunately, spamming accounts can be protected in places like Texas under a new law.
You can use it to accelerate language learning. So you'll put in the words you want to learn (and have explanations or pronunciation hints attached to it) and you'll use this as a base for reviewing and learning words.

I'm told you can reach a speed of +200 words/week with this approach.
Facebook doesnt sell data they sell access to demographics generated based on data.
OK sorry I got it wrong. You can still use triple backtick to insert code snippet with an extra space.
There are no explosives in a phone though. Lithium batteries might burn when short circuited... however, this requires physically damaging the battery, or shorting the circuitry. This requires some seriously silly hardware vulnerabilities (lithium cell protection is typically implemented in dedicated silicon), not simply a software vulnerability. And if you could successfully perform an exploit like this, you would probably drop the phone before it hurt you.

https://youtu.be/osfgkFyq7lA?t=246
You can't use Google Drive without providing identifying information (a phone number or a payment card) to Google.
You are questioning what I'm saying by telling me something incredibly vague. I'm afraid I just don't know what to do with your question.
If Apple allowed a jailbreaking application make it to the App Store, then I do not trust their processes to not fail again.
I traded mine for ~50% of my house.
Ok, House of Leaves looks really interesting, I think I might have to make some time for that.
World's most expensive linked-list.
How A Patent Troll Ended Up Behind Bars
> A stable currency would have an inflation rate of 0%

Sure, and if the government had centralized control of all prices, it could mandate that. Since it doesn't (even those that assert that power don't have it in practice), what it seeks to do, as far as stability, is try to acheive low short-term price volatility, and as it turns out, experience shows that low-to-moderate inflation helps with that.
Personally I'd rather keep secure boot and just disable the kernel lockdown feature. You still gain a significant amount of security while maintaining functionality that way.
I am just saying that “no enforcement is happening” is not true.

It is true that if the fine is smaller than the revenue (Facebook’s case, probably) then it’s just an entry in the ledger for these companies.
haha indeed, poor them :)
Sometimes parallel, rather than async, processing will help there, and it's pretty easy in dotnet with .AsParallel()
Agree as well. Not necessarily on the pros/cons list, but there's definitely a few gotchas here I didn't know about.
You’re claiming that they maliciously lie and refuse to payout because, based on OP, they screwed up on release notes and didn’t get it solved within the 90 day crunch period between WWDC and release.

It took so little evidence for you to decide it’s hopeless and declare as fact your prediction. Maybe you felt this way before this post? Otherwise I’m just not sure how to respond.
Technically half true, they share the processing load of guessing the next valid block, and then share the profit when the one piece of hardware finally guessed it.
Sure in theory. In reality not all energy is fungible because not all power generating systems in the world are connected. If I stand up a geo-thermal farm to run my crypto mining operation that power would not have been available to the grid anyway because the economic incentive to build the power station was crypto, not selling it to the grid.
It lost me when an OpenSea executive tried to manipulate the prices. I'm just happy that he got caught.