skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most public wifi block all the ports necessary for VPN except 80 and 443. Even then DPI will stop most VPN protocol right in its track.

I’ve never had reliable VPN working over public wifi/mobile network, unless I roll my own custom protocol that masquerades as HTTP traffic.
I've had funny experiences with disappearing files on ext4 - reading a file while there are transient SATA errors (on a flaky SATA link) would cause a the file to be removed.

To be fair, I think I've lost more data on btrfs.
Formatter author here - we do have the ability to protect specific sections with a // formatter-ignore comment before the section you want the formatter to leave as-is.
Pillar is trying to build a personal data wallet on top of Ethereum. No idea how much of this has been accomplished already, or whether they have pivoted to something slightly different. Their original vision was somehow similar to your idea.
All these different groups your speaking of are called personas. Apple should have each of their personas identified based off their technical prowess, their life experiences, health, how they connect for user updates and whatever else may differentiate a group of users from one another and needs to be considered and accounted for.

Once you have that you create a user journey map for each of those personas - in this case they need a user journey map for updating. Your test teams then have to take each persona and run through testing with those constraints and capabilities in mind.

They don't have a high-speed network or are using a cellular network? One or more personas should have accounted for that. Color blind? One or more personas should have accounted for that and there's software available that can make your screen as it appears to those who are colorblind.

These personas should be corporate-wide - these are your customers after all. I would be shocked if Apple isn't doing something like this, but then again, after getting a glimpse at how the sausage is made I've come to the conclusion Big Tech isn't any better at creating and testing software (well, not that much better) than anyone else.
That's where external thermal interface comes in. If docking your phone involves attaching external cooler, then power is no longer an issue.
It’s easy to tell from the photos in the article that the iPhone is making up a lot of the images. It’s like a dream, it looks perfect until you start paying attention, and your brain starts filling in the gaps with nonsense. To me, that’s not good enough for a cherished memory.

> And you don't have to lug gear around with you everywhere and spend ages fiddling with settings, tripods and lenses.

I feel like if you’re lugging a lot of gear around it should be to take a photo that is difficult or literally impossible to take with a phone anyway.
Legal Mechanisms of Aukus Explained
>This post explains the naval nuclear propulsion portion of AUKUS, its operation and legal basis, and the controversy surrounding it.
As a network moderator, I actually know the answer to this, so I'm not going to openly speculate. Suffice to say, the rule is there for a reason (voting-by-user messes up the ordering of answers to each individual question), so please don't try a clever workaround just because you think you can.
I value what matrix is providing. Thus I continue to use it despite what could call minor issues that other mainstream messengers aren't experiencing.

I think the question is what is most important. Adoption or those principles. Here the article is about yet another break through the matrix team is accomplishing. Great. And they should not shy away from that, but given what they already accomplished ,in providing a true e2e decentralised messaging system, they should focus more resources they have towards making it work properly. I'm not talking about adding mainstream features such as voice messages. Just getting the core feature reliably working. Notifications issues and the client freezing at startup until reinstalling the app is something more than one users I know , including myself have faced. Such a great project deserve to be perceived as reliable. And unfortunately it doesn't, other than for the geeks we are who understand what's behind the scene and what's continously brewing.

It isn't an attack on the team, just voicing how the lambda users perceive the app, and how it's holding many to get their circles of connection onto it so that the wall gardens can be entirely avoided.
You select a tag, select "Newest" and then manually refresh the page. For instance: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql

On the home page you can manage a list of "Watched Tags". If you add SQL it gives you a bookmark to the page I linked above.
A narrow-minded argument. If something has a net positive for society, the increased energy consumption would be worth it.
Superhuman stuff
It's going to look a lot less like a Ponzi scheme if/when the dollar collapses.
You made money with bitcoin by buying coffee with it?
Most recently, the apparel world has been roiled by revelations that cotton from Xinjiang, in China, is being grown and processed using forced labour. The scandal implicated some of the world’s biggest brands, including H&M, Nike, Adidas and Gap, and prompted sanctions and restrictions in the west on imports made of Xinjiang cotton. Last August, not long after the US banned all imports containing Xinjiang cotton, US customs authorities asked Oritain for a pilot demonstration of its cotton-tracing abilities.

This is one of the reasons China is going particularly ballistic over Xinjiang cotton. In the past supply chain controversies could be "fixed" relatively easy with bogus local inspections, fake documentation, or supplier shell games, but the science here is harder to fool.

This not just an issue for cotton. As the article notes, fake fish can be spotted with genetic analysis, and that's a global problem with very local consequences. The Boston Globe did a big report on this a few years back, concluding many local restaurants and markets in Eastern Massachusetts were flat-out lying about the fish they were selling:

Ken’s Steak House in Framingham again served Pacific cod instead of a more expensive Atlantic species. Slices of fish sold as white tuna at Sea To You Sushi in Brookline were again actually escolar, an oily species nicknamed the “ex-lax’’ fish by some in the industry because it can cause digestion problems. H Mart, an Asian supermarket chain found to have sold mislabeled red snapper last year, this time was selling inexpensive freshwater Nile perch as pricier ocean grouper at its Burlington store.

https://www3.bostonglobe.com/business/specials/fish/?arc404=...
My main complaint with Top Shot is that the moments exist only on the proprietary site. They also can't be traded anywhere but that site. This removes any value the nft aspect brings to the table as it's now single-point-of-failure.

There was talk about expanding off the one site, but I haven't seen any progress there.
Link required a captcha, Fuck that
Show HN: Hit.movie – Self publishing platform for movie producers
I think it is all copacetic now.
Permissive insider trading laws and public participation in German capital markets may not necessarily be correlated. There can be other reasons why Germans choose not to participate.

But, I do agree that (at least) an attempt to make insider trades more transparent does help inspires confidence.
And so what? Disease kills people. What exactly are we to do about it. Your ancestors being more susceptible to some disease doesn't make you special.
How can you possibly imagine adoption of Bitcoin would end the US army? The US army existed for hundreds of years on the gold standard. World wars were fought on the gold standard.

Exactly, step my step, please explain how adoption of bitcoin would reduce military energy consumption.
These terms for economic theory are, for all intents and purposes, completely useless.

Has there ever been a communist country that lasted 5 minutes without a form of capital?

Was the American economy ever a "free market"?

While I agree that China isn't communist in the term's strictest sense, it ultimately doesn't matter. Systems that can't adapt eventually collapse, which is why no one word can really describe economic systems or their nations. I've been told on HN that what I'm saying is a "no true scotsman" fallacy, yet when people insist that America has "free market capitalism" or that China is communist because CCP has "communist" in the name, they're essentially making an only-true scotsman fallacy.

Personal freedoms aside, it all comes down to is how involved a government is with its private sector how much value it extracts (overtly or covertly). Everything else is fluff. Nobody really cares about personal freedom or "owning the means of production". It's all about the level of centralized control (the input) and where the energy of that system goes (the output). To say that anything is "communist" or "capitalist" is a dismissal of the inevitable nuance.
I'm curious as to what value would that provide most end users of the content? If you're a photographer perhaps you have software for processing the raw file and you want to see what you can do with a raw file; however I still feel that for most end users this would be useless. I would be one of the few I think that may play around with this.
Well just because one thing in a space isn't great, it doesn't mean that they all are. There are plenty of alternatives to BTC for example that are much "greener". Granted, crypto is a relatively new technology and some of that stuff needs to be figured out. And whether or not its fake, is in the eye of the beholder. It has value, because we pretend it has value, but that's true for many things. Maybe not be so judgemental of other people's worldviews.
Seems to me that directly selling methanol might be the way to go at first. It's an important industrial chemical in its own right.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find racism and white supremacy reflected in Silicon Valley software.
Don’t forget a regulation that says Profit <= some percentage of Medical Expenses. In effect you have a normal demand curve but company’s can’t raise prices past some limit. Assuming profit maximization occurs below that limit it has no effect. However, insurance is unusually inelastic in part because much of it is subsidized.

So while thinking in terms of total administrative costs seems reasonable there are two different numbers here, administrative costs for the insurance companies and administrative costs for the healthcare industry and that matters.

So again, assuming it’s the regulation not market forces limiting profits increasing Ma directly increases profits. Up to some limit rather than P < (Mm + Ma) * X% it’s P = (Mm + Ma) * X%. Thus creating incentives to increase Ma.
holy-lambda: custom AWS Lambda runtime for Clojure
To mirror society's usage of the word, "nigger"(and variants) can only be used in a dataset when the ML researchers developing the model are Black.

Perhaps tech companies with mixed race ML groups can have a clean room set up which only Black people can access in order to do their work with this dangerous and powerful word.
They would be affordable if they had jobs.
Happy to launch Hit.Movie first here on Hacker News.

Movie streaming is complicated because of the high quality encoding demands, need for content security (DRM, HDCP), geo restrictions, low latency streaming requirements, multi-platform support, etc. Hit.Movie handles all these so that movie producers can get their new movie streaming worldwide in as less as 7 days.

We went a step further. We integrated payments that ensure movie producers get paid transparently and in near-realtime. To top it all, we handle taxation (on ticket sales) in most countries.

We need your feedback. Please be gentle :)

I'll be here for an hour or so. AMA.
Great idea. I do this in a notebook. Left page: a list of items to recall, right page: a quick sketch of the palace. Rooms are simple squares. If I can't go back to the palace, then I paste in some printed photos.
> A computer is a device.

Correct. A computer is a device. Snow Leopard and Mavericks--your two examples-- are, however, not computers.
All the way back to the early days of the cable industry in the 1800s, it was easier and safer to lay a cable along the coast of undeveloped countries than to try and run a landline on poles across rugged terrain. Both coasts of Central and South America had telegraph cables running down them, with spurs for inland connections. Same with Africa.
Here's a map on my cable history website showing the network in 1902:
https://atlantic-cable.com/Maps/1901-Berne-Map-BPL-Leventhal...
The only ones you can trust are the ones that have actively fought court orders. That is a reasonable show of certainty that they do what they say otherwise there are real legal consequences.
> an unintended second order effect from trying to remove offensive content from the corpus.

How odd that "offensive" and "minority" turned out to overlap so much. How could that have possibly happened?
I haven't used Windows on a laptop since 2014, and I'm... feeling validated about that decision right now
I understand why people make NFTs (to cash in on the craze), but I still don't understand why anyone buys them (outside of money laundering).
Doesn't that depend on the mobile user and device?

Personally, a site like that doesn't impact me. I'm on a Note 8 and it's usable to a point where I will just do that with no worries.

Everything comes at a cost too. Mobile styling may avoid a zoom op or two, but also usually comes with more navigation elements, or leaner overall content presentation.
Cool. We take it for granted, but the intercontinental data (and voice) connectivity cables are an impressive achievement for humanity -- technical, and for global community. And globe.gl has me "seeing" for the first time a particular cable for which I have a much smaller personal story.

One of those submarine cables being severed accounts for one of only two software/hardware downtimes for a B2B startup's launch MVP, which had been deployed in critical production overseas.

Our station appliances at the facility needed to talk with servers (at the network-closest AWS AZ) multiple times a minute, for cryptographic security reasons. The appliances had a boot-time check for network connectivity (which saw extreme latency and packet loss as network unavailable). For reasons, the facility powered off all equipment at night.

One day, the facility said the appliances wouldn't "turn on", I quickly found they were having network problems, but facility insisted their LAN and Internet connectivity was fine. I was able to carefully SSH in (with terminal responsiveness like a bad dialup to an overloaded timesharing system), and relaxed the timeout on the check that was in a retry loop, and the stations came to life (albeit network requests during operations much slower than normal). The facility manager advised later that day that it turns out a submarine cable had been severed.
I frequently see the following thermodynamic argument made when the topic of obesity comes up:

If you want to lose weight, calories out must be > calories in.

This is obviously true.

No one is going to break thermodynamic laws. But it fails to appreciate the gigantic black box that is our metabolism. I have often felt that there may be compensatory changes made to the metabolic activity (of some people) in response to changes in exercise, changes in diet, etc. You might "swallow" 2000 calories, but that doesn't mean your body will necessarily extract all 2000 calories under all circumstances.

Although this study is far from perfect, I think it lends support to the notion that counting calories consumed and expended is often overly simplistic.
I've never worked with the C/make pipeline. Can anyone explain why this commit is getting so many votes?
It doesn't even meet the basic definition of a ponzi scheme. This is pure FUD. You might not like it, but that doesn't make it something it is not. There are plenty of other things that I would consider a waste of electricity but I am not going to make doing them punishable by hard labor.
This story has no byline or dateline.

Please don't do this.
Proof of stake leads to "rich gets richer" situation [1]. Proof of work is much more fair, it appears.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.14713.pdf

This particular paper shows that every proof-of-stake variant is fallible into the "rich get richer". That means these PoS schemes do look like shitcoins, not the other way around.

Given that and given that I do not like Biticoin in any of its capacities (PoW is not even the most wrong thing with btc), I would like to advise everyone to hate all cryptocurrencies equally strong.
I feel exactly the same way when thinking about the 90s. Telemetry and multimedia... two words that back then had exactly the same vibe to me. Both sounded as ambitious as ambiguous, raised millions and made zero business sense despite sounding glamorous and all-encompassing.

The writing was on the wall when the big newspapers gave stock tips for consumers on the hottest newest telemetry startups.

We all know how it went.
No, it won't. It's a negative-sum system that redistributes wealth from new entrants to old entrants and miners. It's a pyramid.

And what exact path do you see a 'dollar collapse'?
What about using a VPN inside a VM? (or even a separate computer) Presumably all of your browser fingerprints would be different, yes?
Bank reserve balances up 24,000% since 2008
>My position in the government wasn't even an elected one and I still believe the oath I took is fundamentally incompatible with holding stock.

This is interesting, can you expand on why you feel this was at odds with public interest?
I have no doubts that Deno or Node can run those fine, but their evented interfaces make everything harder than it needs to be, especially since those tasks often require reading and writing to stdin/stdout/files.

It's not a problem for larger projects, but very clunky in a script.
Technology may not solve problems at the people layer but it can certainly be a forcing factor for reform. You don't think, for example, airplane tech has had an impact on immigration law?
I am with you. But the idea of "pro" is to market towards semi pros or amateur photographers, and this crowd has gear and tools to produce better quality.

The smartphones cameras in general are good enough for general public and not so many of this audience will see the differences, especially when the most of the UX is to apply filters and post on Instagram, Facebook or other social channels which compress the heck out of the photos anyway.
The serverless revolution is alive and well
Interesting. I'm an ExpressVPN subscriber (maybe I won't be much longer) and haven't had any problem using it on public Wi-Fi networks.
And Jake Shimabukuro.
> you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations

I've always seen this argument but it's never made sense to me.

For starters I absolutely don't trust my ISP. I know they are collecting, storing, likely selling my data and that they are 100% going to comply with any government requests from my government (I don't even trust that they would only respond to legal requests).

Years ago I used to use AirVPN. They claimed:

> AirVPN started as a project of a very small group of activists, hacktivists, hackers in 2010, with the invaluable (and totally free) help of two fantastic lawyers and a financing from a company interested in the project and operated by the very same people.

Maybe they're lying but at least there's some chance they actually care about privacy.

But even if they don't care about privacy at all and are lying, at the very least they are based in Italy and have their servers spread throughout Europe. Additionally you can pay via crypto (which gives you more anonymous payment options than your ISP). Simply being in another country then the one I live in makes it much harder for my government to arbitrarily request my data.

Yes if I want to do highly illegal activity that is going to get my government interested in me I absolutely don't think that would be enough. But if I want privacy from routine surveillance this seems like a fantastically better option that 100% giving up.
It's a negative sum wealth redistribution scheme the takes money from new entrants and gives it to miners and to old entrants. The miner portion is what makes it negative-sum.

It doesn't meet the traditional definition, no, which is why I referred to it as a "distributed Ponzi scheme" - it's closer to an MLM in classical parlance.

[edit] Here's the SEC definition:

> A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often promise to invest your money and generate high returns with little or no risk. But in many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters do not invest the money. Instead, they use it to pay those who invested earlier and may keep some for themselves.

> With little or no legitimate earnings, Ponzi schemes require a constant flow of new money to survive. When it becomes hard to recruit new investors, or when large numbers of existing investors cash out, these schemes tend to collapse.

And here are the red flags that the SEC warns folks to watch for:

> High returns with little or no risk.

> Unregistered investments.

> Unlicensed sellers.

> Secretive, complex strategies.

[edit2] So with that in mind, it meets many (but not all) of the classic definition elements.

1. All returns are generated by bringing new money into the system. The only way someone can make money on Bitcoin is if a new person invests. That money is then distributed to the earlier participant, net of miner fees.

2. There is no actual business underlying.

3. The constant flow of new money is required to keep the price from collapsing because miners extract something like $50M in welfare from the system per day.

4. The entire space is unregistered investments hawked by unlicensed sellers.
People were actually annoyed when they replaced the normal search with the new recursive one, so I doubt it.
Everything you mentioned goes back to my point that it's an anonymity service, not a privacy service. Tor exit nodes don't know who sent traffic, but they do see all the traffic that passes through them.

HTTPS can mitigate some of that, just like it can for VPNs, but the site you're going to is still very much visible.

Don't get me wrong, Tor is a very useful service if anonymity is your goal, but it requires a solid understanding of what can go wrong, which torproject provides a decent list for: https://support.torproject.org/faq/staying-anonymous/
It might read unrelated yet, term limits is the only concrete way to limit the damage of a corrupt lawmaker.
This being a perfectly cromulent candidate to be entered into Merriam-Webster gives me great hope for tnettenba.
How? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.

Since drivers licenses are linked to individuals, and cannot be traded, the traffic cop that's checking your license will need to compare it to your government issued ID. Then they look it up to see that its valid and linked to you as a person.

How is doing this as an NFT (or other blockchain thing) any better than having a government database they look up?

This is a big problem I have with most blockchain tech: yes, it can be built on a blockchain, but it doesn't need it and alternatives tend to be simpler and cheaper.

I'm overall pro cryptocurrency and blockchain, but if we want people to still take it seriously in twenty years time, we need the use cases to actually make sense. I don't see how NFT's make sense here, unless I'm missing something.