skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are losing track of the original claim which was miners could steal $100M from a user. Let's say I create a fork (network B) in which a user's account is set to 0 and mine has the amount that the user once had. In no sense have I stolen $100M from the user if it's on a chain that people don't recognize as being the one that represents the user's money (network A).

The original implication was you don't want to piss miners off otherwise they can unilaterally decide to take your money away. That is false.
If a restaurant is going to online menu thing, they need to offer free WiFi. There are a few places I've gone to that have online menus and there is no data service or WiFi.
PSA: OBS Studio is great for making videos, not just streaming.
The Dead Evangelist in the Choir Robe
Given that we gladly give 6 months paid maternity to those who choose to have children, I'm fairly sure we'd give this chap a break.

I cannot believe the inhumanity in this thread.
USPS mail delivery is about to get permanently slower
Yeah, again, you're injecting your own biases as you create assumptions about my comments, rather than stopping to ask what I mean before you fly off the handle. See how I used "moderated" in quotes in my very first response? That suggests that I'm using the term rather loosely.

All I've said was that that's how illegal content is moderated on the internet - it is removed. Silk Road was removed, AlphaBay was removed, DarkMarket was removed, many others have been removed, and many more will continue to be removed even if Tor makes that a slow process. At no point did I bring up whether or not I thought it was "right" to remove them, or to treat Ulbricht in that manner (again, you're assuming I don't know what happened). I said "moderating" with quotes, for lack of a better word.

If something's illegal - even if you and I think it shouldn't be - then it's typically going to be removed at some point, even if it takes a while because something like Tor makes it difficult. And in that sense, yes, the internet is "moderated" for that content. That's all I've said/argued, and I truly don't understand how that is so difficult for you to grasp.

>It's quite probable that without his arrest, it would have persisted even if on newly acquired hardware. ... Instead, after his arrest the content ended up on new platforms rather than the Silk Road platform.

For implying that I don't know what happened, you seem to be forgetting that other Silk Road staff started Silk Road 2.0 after his arrest, but that was also shut down.

>What are you talking about? You feel attacked because your poorly constructed argument was laid open.

Nope. You allow your biases to creep in to your poor interpretations of other people's comments, and then angrily respond to them as such. My initial response was simple, but your strongly held beliefs have clouded your responses.
In my experience, civil engineering may not have cross-topic applicability like some other engineering disciplines. For example, someone with a PhD in concrete may not be able to jump to hydrology. But am industrial engineer who did a PhD in healthcare optimization could more easily parlay that into other optimization work. A aerospace PhD could work on windmill design, etc.
Have you seen people talking about themselves like that? Because that's how "minion" is frequently used humorously, and I was assuming that OP was channeling that.
It's the subject of the article.
Difficulty of a job is probably viewed differently from person to person also. I've done both programming and commercial fishing and I'd say they take different types of effort. Depending on the fishery, you could have a few months with lots of intense physical work and not much sleep, but the plus side is you get to work out on the ocean in a beautiful environment and you can travel around and not work for the rest of the year. One tech job I had, I was on call 24/7 with hours of commuting each day and it was very stressful and mentally tiring in my experience.
There has got to be something wrong. This os not the norm.
I’d presume that large scale spammers check their work in incognito via a different network. It’s their job.
Wait a minute.

It's for this cases that universal healthcare paid by taxes exists. I wouldn't blame it on your boss or Amazon. It's the USA.

A person should not depend on money or productivity to be cured.

And a company should not be liable to spend $300000 an year on a non productive employee.

Which btw is about 9 years junior developer gross salary equivalent in Italy.
Another HN user posted—and then deleted—this comment:

> I worry that many people in such a situation may not have the right frame of mind to be able to find, read, understand, and absorb what is normally quite dry reading material requiring often ending in something requiring exceptional perseverance.

(I noticed because I was writing a reply.)

I think it’s a good comment! And I think that is why you do it now. It’s just like how every flight begins with the safety briefing. Learn your company’s policies and procedures now, when you don’t need them. And refresh your memory regularly.
It shouldn't be the reality in a society with the amount of wealth ours has.
You are a horrible human being.
That is absolutely ridiculous
Nice tip. I've encountered the same thing. Love to see an email generator using this automated in bitwarden/keepass.
He left Oculus/Facebook a while back, and is now a contractor. Technically he's actually already out the door :)
What are you talking about? For lots of functions, it is perfectly possible to statically determine a maximum stack size (not all functions obviously, that would be the halting problem). An trivial example would be a function that calls no other functions, but you can imagine others: functions with static call trees (i.e. no function pointers), don’t use VLAs or alloca, and that are not recursive (mutually, indirectly, or otherwise) will have a static limit on possible stack usage.

If you’ve formally verified that function X uses at most Y pages of stack, and the remaining stack is smaller than that, you could return an OUT_OF_STACK error instead of calling it. Most libraries/functions wouldn’t need this, but there are C libraries which place an extraordinary importance on reliability, and it seems like it would be a useful feature for them.

There might be other reasons why these functions shouldn’t be in the standard (or are impossible on some platforms), but ”the information is worthless” is not one of them. Of course this information can be useful.
I understand your perspective, but... for how long? 1 month? 6 months? 3 years? 10 years? At what point does basic empathy turn into someone sponging off of generosity?
This happened to me @ Charter. I'd been the primary caretaker for both of my elderly grandparents. My grandpa died in 2017 and my grandma passed in 2020. When she passed I was basically told perform or quit with my boss yelling at me the whole time that I wasn't making my commitments.
Perhaps that beacon would be more efficient, but I think you may be waiting a long time for it.

In the meantime, I do suggest trying hnreplies as sloppycee suggested. Unless you comment here a lot, it's not that many emails - and it has the advantage that you don't have to keep watching or reloading HN to see if you got any replies to a comment.

Considering how fast stories drop off the home page, hnreplies gives me a chance to reply to a comment while people may still be looking at the thread.

So give it a try - you can always unsubscribe if it's not for you.
Unless your speech goes against the current corona dogma, of course.
This is exactly what Europe does. In a sane world, every country would just adopt the same QR-code standard.
Neso Academy
I found a YouTube channel that I thought was really worthy of promotion. I am not affiliated with them in any way.

It's an education channel covering Computer Science, Electronics, "Electrical" and Instrumentation.

I'm following the series on Signals and Systems at the moment, but there are other series I am interested in.

The videos feel like sitting in on a series of lectures. In the series I'm following at least, the lecturer goes through the material slowly and methodically.

I hope you guys find it as educational and enjoyable as I am finding it so far.
Inflex
> Well, that seems reasonable, so we should use the most effective and efficient methods to .. [do what people are strongly opposed to doing]

Not sure why this is so hard to understand, but people don't support these types of taxes and if you try to force them on people, you will be thrown out of power and all of your policies reversed by the blowblack, including the subsidies. In fact you will find even extra taxes piled onto "clean" power by the blowback.

You can't just unleash a personal inner-dictator and try to force people to do something they have no desire to do. In a democracy, that is quite difficult.

There is a reason why, despite 20 years of trying, the green movement has not been able to get this legislation passed. There is no reason to believe that merely with the passage of time, highly unpopular policies will become popular. What has gotten passed is subsidies for green energy. Subsidies are popular. And in a low IR environment, it's great opportunity to heavily invest in nuclear, hydro, and R&D for cheaper, cleaner energy sources that increase, rather than decrease, people's standard of living. The future is one of cheap, abundant power and increasing energy usage per capita, as has been the historical trend. Moreover historically power has always been subsidized, not taxed (on net). There is no future in an agenda of taxing or rationing energy.
Very much this. You always want to be asking HR for an accommodation that is protected by law. Then HR enters into the mode of protecting the company by ensuring they don't get in trouble for violating the law.

You go in and say "Hey my wife is dying and my performance is probably going to be impacted, can something be done?", HR may opt to 'protect' the company by starting to build a case for terminating a low performing employee.
Isn't everyone? Why haven't we abolished nuclear weapons like we have with Biological and Chemical? We were teetering right on the edge for years in the middle 20th century, and the new China/US cold war will put us right there again.
Most of the time on maternity leave is typically unpaid. If I understand correctly, this guy refused to take leave on reduced pay.
I argued with someone who socialized with people in seminars. Those are not monks. Priests are not monks either. There is also difference between monk and brother, nun and sister.

What you are saying is that cloistered somehow don't count. Maybe you was in freest order there is, but the rest of them count too.

You also argue absurdly aggressive and arrogant way for a monk.

You are not the only ex-monk out there and in fact, ex-monks or those who gave that up during formation do talk about these rules.
What is the blind app?
I find it amusing that Agile and Scrum have been around for literally decades now, and we still have substantial disagreement in the industry over what exactly they are. IMO, it hints strongly at the lack of substance.
This comment is libelous, emotionally-manipulative flamebait, and does not belong on HN.

These security issues, and the surrounding discussion, are due to citizenship, loyalty to one's country, cultural differences, and the presence of family in a country that is a hostile foreign power, and have nothing to do with ethnicity (and nor were the GP's implying that), despite your claims to the contrary.

Please don't turn random discussions into a race conflict.
Mostly agreed, but regarding _easily_ having the engineering to do anything nuclear I doubt it. That was in the past. Nothing much new (nuclear) got built recently. And not by Siemens anyways, they maybe do some substation and turbine stuff, but that's it. The other thing is... all the stuff getting built in Sibiria, pointing east, and south east. Into China, partially existing already. Proposals to expand that into India. And to bridge the gaps to the other already existing stuff pointing west, into Europe. Given a few years and much investment into infrastructure one could imagine them simply switching the lever to whereever it makes more sense for them.
A bit unrelated, but another fun one, "We can't send mail more than 500 miles": https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
It’s an offshoot if the culture of YC, the mods and Paul Graham. This place collects reactionaries, racists, sexists… above all else it’s people who worship billionaires. It’s a disgusting pit of the tech industry and the site owners encorage this behavior by moderating away anyone who has even an ounce of humanity. No doubt you’ll get scolded if you keep pointing out how obviously horrible this “community” is.
2Africa Will Be Longest Subsea Cable System in the World
>Xi Jinping has weaved a “Chinese Dream.” He has promised Chinese a better life. Growing paychecks aside, the Chinese are not living it. Urban China is a society of miserable egoists who feel manipulated by forces beyond their own control.

Lots of opinions here without anything backing them up.
93% of Chinese citizens approve of their central government. It's been steadily growing year over year. Westerners love having opinions on how other countries are doing contrary to the facts.

https://www.chinausfocus.com/society-culture/why-chinese-peo...
They’re still there, we just haven’t finished redesigning that page for the new version. For now, you can go here: https://www.rescuetime.com/anapi/setup/overview
> far-right commenters condemned it as censorship

Interesting. So now you can't complain about censorship without being labelled "far-right".

> Reset’s analysis of comments removed by Facebook found that many were actually written by people trying to rebut Querdenken arguments, and did not include misinformation.

I guess "Reset, a U.K.-based nonprofit" is far-right now...
We ended the war in Afghanistan so now we need new reasons to fund the military.
Yeah that will be the standard answer... However I don't have much issues with IPs, what I have problems with is browser. A disposable computer on a public Wi-Fi still gives out your computer model and potentially allows identification for your unique machine.

I'm aware that server admins are able to get WHOIS on my IP and run triangulation by latency, which I can decline by doing that throwaway-laptop-cash-paid-gloved-hand-Tor-over-free-wifi-Guy-Fawkes pretention, if need be. But my priority is to get a "clean" browser that are indistinguishable from anything.

Sucks it ain't easy in 2021.
How many times in your life have you needed to register for school? How often do you need to apply for a visa? How often do you do these things compared to how frequently you enter a public building like a restaurant or supermarket?

(And which visas are you applying for, by the way? I've crossed borders hundreds of times and have never once been asked for proof of vaccination?)

If you think existing vaccine mandates are remotely comparable to what's being newly rolled out, you're insane.
Okay, but Intel promised to return more freshwater than it used. So it can't simply take freshwater, purify it, and return it at a surplus.
The analogy of a house is entirely incorrect - a house is a one time transaction. Giving an employee space and support during this time likely leads to loyalty and better production in the long run. It also prevents articles like this, which is probably worth the $300k, as even ONE talented engineer turned off from joining Amazon due to this article will cost them that much and more.
Sorta works that way in Canada too. At a DUI checkpoint where they pull over everyone without reasonable cause, the stop is supposed to be strictly to check for DUI. They’re not supposed to go poking around for more things unless it’s incidental to the stop (if they see a dead body, they can investigate that, but not supposed to decide to check your immigration/license/insurance status as a part of the stop).
Wasabi egress is free, but they "reserve the right to limit or suspend your service"[0] if it doesn't fit the usage patterns they've designed for.

[0]: https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy
It varies wildly by manager.

When I was at Amazon, one of my coworkers had a serious mental and physical crisis. Our manager went out of his way to support them, granting them unlimited leave, accepting them back on a part time / temporary basis whenever they felt up for it, etc. To make this work, though, I'm pretty sure the manager and probably his manager went around the system and basically didn't report the absences, because corporate policy almost certainly would've been to fire them. It effectively cost that manager an invaluable headcount spot, and it went on for over a year.

I generally hated working for Amazon, but I loved that particular manager and would happily work for him again anytime.
That's true! But what if you want to actually share the video? Uploading to Youtube or Twitch is painful.

I use Loom. E.g. when I wanted to show my team all of our Mercury perks, it was about 60 seconds start to finish to get a shareable url: https://www.loom.com/share/4e39a76fee3e40abad7c8af9ecd682e6

Was surprised how easy it is.
I tried your product when it first came out in 2008. During that period of time I thought my problem was I just got too distracted. I'd spend so much time reading random articles on the internet i'd end up working more hours. It was an endless cycle, and I got depressed, and hated life. Inability to focus wasn't my problem, and no amount of an app to help me "focus" was going to work. The underlying issue was I was burnt out at my job. I kept avoiding work because I was done with that work. When I left that company, my focus, motivation, and wellness Started to improve. It wasn't instant, it took some time, but it improved. I ended up doing really well at the next company.

almost a decade later I found myself in a similar situation again, I just could not motivate myself to focus on work. Again changing jobs helped me improve.

Not really sure where I'm going with this, but I think your shift to a more wholistic view of a person with work being just one part is good.
April 15th, 1989
Does not make it the same is farming community tho.
This (combined with the free egress) would be an utterly killer app for sites that just want to publish a few simple static files.
The phase of the moon really can affect performance. A friend of mine worked on wireless links in Scotland and was struggling with loss at certain times of day, but not exactly the same time every day. When they graphed loss against time, the pattern was really periodic over many days. The periodicity turned out to be 12 hours 25 minutes, which they eventually realized is exactly the time between low tides. The problem was at low tide the reflected path off the water interfered with the line-of-sight path causing signal fading, whereas at high tide it interfered much less. In particular, see figure 2 of their paper for the correlation between tide height and SNR: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/papers/EDI-INF-RR-136... As tide height really does depend on the phase of the moon, presumably their loss did too, if they measured for long enough.
Do you have a smart speaker? If not then you're not in the category of people who have a smart speaker but would not have a teleoperated maid robot.
I find the map to be inaccurate for Verizons network where I live. There are places with known dead areas that they say has coverage. I don't mean recent dead zones... I mean they have been around for over a decade.

I wonder how accurate they really are.
... From the top. That is, the exact angle from which stealth doesn't matter.
This really hit home for me when my sibling and I realized our aging mom was unfit to be able to drive. 4 accidents in a year meant unreasonable insurance premiums and replacement not to mention she was injured.

Going car-free really hit her independence and for 2 years, she was aching to buy a car and get more mobile. It hurt me to see her like that but I couldn't let her get behind a wheel again despite her constant complaints.

Nowadays she's mostly adjusted using Lyft/Uber to go to the doctor or visit family but walking to see friends and go shopping (walk score for her place is very decent).

The impact to her self-esteem hasn't quite recovered yet. Society in general even for an older individual places a LOT of worth on us being "drivers" - popular media reinforces it (just listen and you'll get tons of car references in pop music and movies).

I wish she could move to somewhere like France where this isn't the case, but that ship sailed quite a few years ago.
The city I lived in before this had bodegas that had a decent selection, pretty much all the basics, and were not expensive. It was nice to be able to walk a couple blocks if you just needed a few ingredients. I and many others got a lot of the basics - beans, tortillas, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, spices - from there.
It is a problem because you'll get thrown out by your hosting and other service providers if you don't moderate your content; so if you want to keep running your service, not moderating is simply not a practical option. That is why Parler is mentioned, they are a demonstration that it's not practical to keep operating without accepting a duty to moderate (as Parler did eventually) even if you try really, really hard.

And while there are a lot of conspiracies, all of which will be on your site if you don't moderate, most of them will be tolerated by others but it's the ultra right-wing conspiracies / nazis / holocaust deniers that will cause your service threats of disconnection; so you'll either start moderating or get your service killed in order to protect them.

I understand you don't want anyone - whether the government, powerful private companies, or biased moderators - to become the arbiters of permitted opinions; however, you don't really get to choose (and neither do I); currently there are de facto arbiters in this world.
The second sentence says that it was sold, so "used to have" makes sense?
I’m not a physician and I don’t know you, so take this for what it’s worth, but: It could be depression, but it could also be something that looks like depression. E.g. ADHD.

Several times in my life I’ve had bouts of what has looked like depression, but it was probably ADHD all along.

A psychiatrist might be able to help you to sort it out. (None of the GPs I’ve met had a clue about ADHD. Even my father is a GP and he didn’t have a clue either.)
There's a way to dump DWARF debug information that you might then be able to parse and use to do just this.
As I commented above:

I built a Python library for finding strings obfuscated this way. Was critical when moderating our telegram channel before an ICO.
https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables
E.g. "𝓗℮𝐥1೦" would match "Hello"
Did you read the emails, though? They certainly don't sound like simply asking about "where they are on the mDL standard". They are asking for NDAs to be signed - why is that necessary if this is just about the progress of implementing an ISO standard?

And there's this from CA:

> The agreement I've been provided goes beyond a POC and appears to create more of a long term relationship.
It's a forum for people at tech companies to anonymously talk to other people at their companies in a private forum, or with people at other companies publicly to all members. They validate employment using your email address. As could be expected many of the topics devolve into toxic messes, but there is some useful discussion.
We tried that with "real ID" policies. It just made people commit to their shittiness openly. Not to mention they always have repudiation. Even if we go with full fledged cryptography the opsec will fail at scale.
Ah, I was not aware of that...thanks for clarifying!
This is how BC does it. You get a QR code which you can either present on your phone or as a print out.