skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting goals ...

> apps such as WhatsApp and Signal and billions of people around the world have the contents of their message protected against strong adversaries. However, while the message contents are encrypted, their metadata still leaks sensitive information

AFAIK Signal already protects metadata and does group chats. What does Rollercoaster add?

(I don't want to turn this into another thread about Signal. I'd hope we can focus on what Rollercoaster does.)
That's true, but questions that are difficult to cheat on are both difficult (time-consuming) to create, and difficult (time-consuming) to grade. Which means less time for other stuff, like actually teaching.
I sympathize. I’d rather live in a closet myself than share a room with someone else. I’m someone who finds that old Hong Kong city monstrosity fascinating and would probably enjoy living in it, in a cyberpunk way. But I wouldn’t design a dorm around my own peculiar proclivities. Nor am I an architect, and I’ll defer to the experts on this.
> his thinking is more nuanced than those shitting on it

To be fair, an architect with 15 years on the UCSB Review Committee resigned over this... so it's not just outsiders and the media who are bagging on the design.

https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-...
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Even exposed portions of the hull can be expected to not reach equilibrium with surface air. There will still be liquid water splashing around and also conduction from the warmer parts of the hull. Maybe the sail surface could get much colder but I doubt that it's subject to impact hazard under these conditions.
The most important thing to understand about the blockchain is that it's a tool to facilitate social consensus.

Once you get that, everything makes sense, from why bitcoin has value to the point of NFTs.

It's worth taking time to think about it until it at least makes sense what's happening, even if you don't choose to participate yourself.
> The problem is that just about everyone here could be a multi-millionaire if they had just taken a few minutes to set up pool mining on their gaming rig back in 2010.

You can say this about anything. Look at the stock market right now relative to 2010. If anyone had known the future, they'd be betting on sports and buying lotto tickets. Way OTM TSLA calls would've made me rich beyond my wildest dreams.

If the only response you have to the detractors is "you're jelly," then you're just falling for your own confirmation bias.

I have been using crypto since 2012.

> But the amount of hate and skepticism on this forum is way, way out of proportion to the reality of the thing.

Crypto has enabled a staggering amount of fraud and criminal activity. Not everything criminal bothers me personally...but financial crimes and exploiting gullible desperate investors really rubs me the wrong way. Oh also, its insanely inefficient to have a global network of redundant computers perform trivial work which could be done by a single web app.
I've started learning rust recently by reading "Programming rust 2nd ed" (great book btw). Rust is a pretty amazing language, I haven't touched low level languages like C or assembly since college, I have 0 professional experience with them. Because of the Rust borrow checker and how the language guides you to writing safe code I think almost anyone with cs knowledge that learns this language is capable of writing safe low level code. It's basically training wheels for those of us that have been using gc'ed languages our entire lives. Also because of the language's ergonomic features I often find myself more productive writing rust than java or c#.

Anyway, glad to see rust gaining more and more adoption and support.
Krugman does not have a nobel prize in the subject. Krugman's nobel prize is in another area in Economics, not monetary policy. His contributions are mainly in trade, which were very important no doubt. But it doesn't make him an expert on monetary policy and inflation. I understand that Economics may look like a single-blob to outsiders, but Economics has a wide range of topics and sometimes they barely intersect.
I think it’s more of a narrative to idealize and pursue perfection in everything in an addictive fashion: the perfect life, the perfect partner, the perfect house, the perfect image and so on.
> you have too many students,

Then the students are not getting what they pay for.
I believe the first major funding by the Rust Foundation was hiring Ferrous to help develop and maintain crates.io:

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-10-18-crates-io-...
Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch
“EN Banda”,Teatro Autor: Pier Heller Teatro Escuela Central, Año 1981
"How was your vacation?"

"oh it was horrible, plane delays, no transport to the hotel, shitty hotel, cockroaches, sewer pouring into the sea, cold water, shitty hotel food, rain 5/6 days, it sucked"

vs.

*Instagram: one perfectly positioned and cropped photo of the beach, shot during the only sunny day of the vacation
The problem started in the 80s when Jack welsh was CEO. He thought it would be fun to invest in all sorts of specialized debt. At the time it made GE‘s balance sheets look great. Then the debt obligations started to show up, that’s when things got bad. But not before Jack Welch retired with one of the biggest golden parachutes of all time.

https://moneyinc.com/largest-golden-parachutes-ever/

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While the content is definitely great, its outer looks are not so much. I am afraid I value whatever scraps of non-computer, human vision I still have left with me a tad more than learning those cool eldritch secrets... although the reader mode definitely helps.
From the article

> Beauty. What is beauty? Beauty is that which gives aesthetic pleasure. Beauty is both subjective and objective—subjective because it is “in the eye of the beholder” but objective in that “pleasure” is something you either experience or you do not. If a building isn’t giving people pleasure to look at, then it is not beautiful, because beautiful things are things that you want to keep looking at because seeing them brings joy.

This gives me vibes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author talks a lot about "quality" and how it's impossible to define exactly what it is. It's either there, or it's not, and we know when it is intrinsically, but efforts to define the "magic formula" fail to capture what quality entails.
If you are able to find a positive solution, you have solved your problem already.

If you're looking for special problem solving techniques, then this implies that for your particular case you are not capable of "enumerating positives" for this problem.
"foo(x:, y:) is a syntax sugar of foo(x: x, y: y)"

This syntax sugar is a nightmare to me. Very confusing and for what? To save 2 keystrokes?
well cobol hasn't gone anywhere so I don't expect Java to go anywhere. Although I dislike Java I think lots and lots of legacy apps are made in Java and isn't going anywhere. And many university still teaches Java which mean it is just as strong. And andriod etc relies on Java which means it will last for centuries.
The blockchain is the database. It stores objects and, like postgres, can store code for manipulating the objects. Each NFT would have a particular storage location which you can query, either directly via a block explorer like etherscan.io or via javascript using any one of a number of apis like ethers.js
A documentary about the attempt to kill Escobar that he was involved in has just come out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTCjg40WCw
It is much better to buy a domain and do robinhood@bluetidepro.com
I do not take offense on behalf of somebody else. Instead I find that the comment we are talking about goes against the guidelines of HN, and can't in good faith find a well meaning interpretation.

Guidelines are here to maintain a level-headed discourse, and I grew to expect a high level of empathy as well as thoughtful discussion here. One of the basic things needed for that is not devaluing other people's experiences, but instead sharing your own. Especially in such a highly subjective topic as love and falling in love. But also in general, I think that we would all benefit from accepting that others have different experiences, listen to them when they are shared with us, and share our own experiences expecting the same level of respect.
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Then why are they not working in places with high vaccination rates? Take Israel for example.

Oh, it would have been much worse if they weren’t vaccinated?

I guess we’ll just have to take the experts word for it...
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Speaking as an author (so some bias), but you certainly make an interesting point about the cost of adoption. Its a high barrier to entry (requires a rewrite) for migration, but in our experience it actually is worth it.

So yeah, not for every problem (no framework is), but the problems that it solved it solved quite adeptly, and it was worth the cost (both initial and ongoing) of migration. It particularly proved its worth in the case where pipelines have grown in scale and complexity over time and thus gotten out of control. Particularly when there are thousands of lines of transforms -- that's when the ongoing maintenance burden gets so high that its completely worth the cost of migration. "Weeks going by and something seems off" we found often described the day to day of teams that manage codebases like that -- requiring them to spend tons of time working on the software engineering aspects of testing/visibility rather than developing new features to help the business.

Re: new data scientists, you'd be surprised at how adept they are at picking things up. There are a million frameworks/paradigms to learn when you join a company, so this isn't really an additional burden. And, once they learned that "one simple trick" (that parameter names map to the producing function), it ends up being pretty easy to use.
> If you want to help, make more of your web sites work well on low-spec smartphones.

Oh my, this. If a web app entry form is a little laggy on that brand new iPhone, then it's going to take like half a minute to render on a five year old discount smartphone. Most developers have snazzy machines and many rarely stop and think about how it's going to run on the lowest end devices likely to use the software.
That's true, I"ve certainly ran into this before. The other option that didn't occur to me at the time, is open source. You'd have someone to review your PRs and potentially set the direction..
“Cheating,” also known as modifying user facing software to better satisfy the user needs. Perhaps sealing the user is net-positive for games (I personally don’t think so), but any OS with such a capability will get abused (e.g., look at iOS).
Just a clarification for gmail: gmail removes the . characters but not what's after. You need the + trick for that purpose.
$ ruby -v
ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-11-08T09:35:22Z master 7cc4e147fc) [x86_64-darwin21]
$ ruby --yjit -v
ruby 3.1.0dev (2021-11-08T09:35:22Z master 7cc4e147fc) +YJIT [x86_64-darwin21]
$ ruby --yjit -e 'p RubyVM::YJIT.enabled?'
true
$ ruby -e 'p RubyVM::YJIT.enabled?'
false
Strategic withdrawl is a good antidote to online "cancelers", "dogpilers" (not to be confused with "dogpillers") and similar folks.

You find people online whose M.O. is that they have to have the last word and they will drive you insane if you feel you have to have the last word.
Remember when someone made a stupid Nazi analogy when the situations are completely different??

It’s incredibly hard to take anything you said after that seriously. Heck, you just made the exact same logical leap that anti-vaxxers are using to oppose vaccine mandates in Canada. That’s not good…either for dialogue or humanity.
> Zuck makes your pentouse smaller you are going to be pissed.

And what the hell are you going to do about it?

How is this any different to the arguments against centralisation that they could ban you/remove your belongings at any time?

This is just centralisation again!

> a dev with a similar game could say that some other NFT from some other competitor game will unlock equivalent items in my game

Firstly, gamers absolutely do not want to constantly have to jump ship between clients -- that is a horrific inconvenience and you completely underestimate the network effect.

Secondly, why would any developer ever implement NFTs if the benefit of them is that another developer could pluck your customers?
But that makes the NFT less valuable. If the content at the url changes without the hash you still have a useful NFT. With the hash, your NFT is burned when it changes.

As a buyer I would want that one less. In the fraud case adding the hash damages only me.
Oh wow. I just had an epiphany. This is why companies are still treating VR as a serious product that might have a large market, even as AR seems much better-suited to a mass consumer market and surely not that much farther off than good VR (perhaps closer, even). VR headsets with just a few sensors would make excellent isolation & monitoring tools for things like this.

Now I get why Facebook (Meta, whatever) decided to get into it. I'd not been able to piece it together until just now. Of course there's a spyware angle front & center. It all fits now. Their main market's probably intended to be business, but education makes sense, too.
Are people buying art or speculative tokens? This is horse betting with extra steps. Absolutely fantastic for them that they're getting paid for their work, but considering this as sutainable or something that can be achieved by any artist outside of the NFT betting bubble is naive.
b) is untrue. It's pretty clear when fake accusations are BS and you don't have to be "labeled" to call them out.

It does require you to engage with people directly.
And the kicker is, the record of your "wash trades" is now stored on an immutable blockchain, a stark contrast to actual paper trails.
I don't know about Gmail (I have a different service), but they don't seem to. This trick has seemed to work for pretty much all breaches I've seen. Like the recent Peloton one, I started to get spam to `blah+peloton@` and then changed it, and haven't gotten any single spam since the change. They must not put that much effort into the way they check or send the emails. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At a previous job they sent everyone in the IT department to cause map training to improve root causes analysis. Mainly to get away from blame assigning.
Not so much. They take time but to me it is a reasonable amount of time.
Thanks, just subscribed to it, looking forward to watching your adventures
Yeah, that also works of course!
As someone who lived in the US for 8 years... How much is a cup?
Designing Data Gateway for Cassandra in Open Source
Looks like this is a very rudimentary miss in the processes. I wonder, wouldn't these guys be audited before they are allowed to operate? And if so, would the auditors be liable for anything for not catching such a trivial thing in the process?
Wow that's insane, and sad for GE.
I actually agree about the fun new substrate part. It‘s a shame that was basically ruined by the huge value pop.

If ethereum was 0.001 as valuable and thus could be x1000 more resource efficient and x1000 more affordable to build on, it would be neat. At this point the only thing that seems worth building are things to further pump value, and POW is a monster that we will not be able to get back into it‘s cage.
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yeast was hone in slovenia too...

People were afraid they won't be able to buy bread, so they bought flour and yeast... then bought bread, and eventually threw away the yeast.
The search feature is nice, but I was sad when it took me to the normal recipe page. What I would really love to have is a very concise and succinct view of the recipe itself. Hopefully the next step is smart parsing of the recipe!
You can call `RubyVM::YJIT.enabled?` to check.
So you're completely okay with saying anything that has dubious truth value as long as it supports whatever cause you happen to promote.

Great. Good to know where the zeitgeist is.
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>Take some courses on food and chemical safety at an accredited university.

How is this relevant to the discussion?
I know it's just a saying, but I feel the need to de-mistify this.

Lawsuits don't cost millions. Court fees are absolutely never that high, and lawyers, while some may be expensive, are generally affordable for ~middle class (or even lower class if someone wants to do pro-bono work for you)

The whole "lawsuits cost millions" thing is a myth perpetuated by big corporations and further relied by normal folk who hear it from somewher else, which probably heard it from somewhere else, and so on.

When you read in the news "X company wasted $XX million in legal fees", what it actually means is "they stretched out the case with a team of very expensive corporate lawyers whoses price ranges are in the millions".
The article mis-characterizes the politics of many of the founders. They are against the intolerant ("woke") style of much of the recent Left, but that does not make them "conservative."
Yeah, surprised too, but they don't seem to.
Check out pyenv, you can run whatever versions of python you want to without messing with the system or other virtualenvs.
"it’s all weird British ingredients and units (how do I convert grams of British flour into cups of American flour without a scale?)"

dear God please let this be satire, and make it satire if it isn't
> But when you get caught in curating the environment that leads to a "win", it would probably hit strongly the other way.

Everybody curates their environment, people just do so unconsciously and without realizing it. An American movie star might dominate the room in Los Angeles...but they'd find a hard time even speaking to people in Iran, and if they are recognized people would be hostile towards them.
Presumably it makes you invisible to any magnetic anomaly detection via the air or satellites as well.
And the most obvious response to billionaires who think their money buys them the right to run public institutions is "go fuck yourself".

The University of California system is owned by, and created for the benefit of, the people of California. Decisions about how it should be run and what the dorms should look like should be made by democratic institutions and accountable to the public through regular elections.

Billionaires are blessed with a huge number of leisure time activities and ways to feed their own outsized egos, meaning lots of choice. Particularly for those individuals with the type of money that would allow them to donate entire large buildings.

Perhaps he could engage in those activities, and limit his interaction with public institutions to paying his fair share of taxes, and casting the single vote to which he is entitled.
Using new quantum computing architectures to create time crystals
Right, I don't see the "anime" part. This just looks like one of the thousands of nameless photo editing software filters.
It would not happen - uniqueness would be enforced by the file name and its set of tags. Only one match could exist.
You're anonymous online. You have the ability to create a throwaway and refute the actual arguments in the article all you want with literally 0 repercussion. Honestly seems more like you're chasing your own version of woke points.
Fashion houses burning clothes to maintain image and Dabeers creating a diamond cartel are not good. Im not saying that artifical scarcity doesnt exist, im saying that its bad and we shouldnt build economies around it.

For digital art vs physical art, there is a clear difference between "there will only ever be one mona lisa" and "I am not going to press cntrl-c cntrl-v on this image license"
Nothing. Literally nothing.

I've just enjoyed watching my Solana go up so that I have a way to make money off of this silliness. Just need to time the exit before the fad goes away.
The thing I like about corporate law is that, unlike how organized crime usually works with the lowest members of the hierarchy getting charged and dealing the consequences of their actions that their bosses forced them to take, it's the shareholders taking responsibility (corporate fines) for the lowest members' actions. Corporate law forces shareholders to optimize their system and corporate hierarchy to disincentivize doing illegal things. As opposed to organized crime, which does the opposite; the mob bosses organize their system and hierarchy to incentivize doing illegal things because this gets the mob bosses money. Man, I could rant for hours about how much I viscerally despise the unintelligent internet commentators that talk down on corporate law. Without corporate law (the only thing holding shareholders responsible for the actions of their employees), all we get is unaccountability and organized crime!
If the original paper document must be kept it is filed in a small “house is on fire,” yet “burn proof” to-go folder.

Otherwise everything is digitized and shredded. iOS has a great scanner built into Notes, which can be exported / airdropped as a pdf.

Digital assets can be kept in a managed shared cloud folder like Dropbox or 1pw if containing secrets / identity matters.
I need to hire a solidity developer to help me NOW $$$
I am willing to pay to have the immediate help of a seasoned solidity developer who is famliar with dividend contracts using the UniSwap V2 interface. I am a Java, C# programmer who is intermediate, but some of my functionality is not working properly on the testnet.
I am willing to pay an immediate amount with Paypal, Venmo, whatever you accept as a payment method after showing me an example of your work.
Unfortunately it looks like it's a dead project, but https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-epc builds out an RPC framework for emacs. This would theoretically allow you to use any language you want. The repo shows node.js, python, and ruby integration.
IMHO it's better not doing volumetric measurement and doing everything by weight, having your mixing container on a scale the whole time and "resetting the weight" when adding new ingredients.
Not Mars. "like Mars". The conversation is really about austere environments.

Given current trends, Earth is likely to be full of austere living conditions in the future. Do you want to learn how to survive now or have to scramble to figure it out when it happens?
How far? I spent a semester at Rutgers and many students need to take busses many miles to get to class. It feels like like a campus community than just about any other school I’ve been on as a result.
Ignoring your extreme snark and least charitable interpretation of what I've written, I'm not saying any of these things are insurmountable or even necessarily hard to learn, but they are _things to know_. I don't think you should completely dismiss all of the frontend "domain" knowledge with a wave of your hand.

As a full-stack developer who started off more frontend and leans more backend these days, JS is one of the languages I know best, for better or for worse, and knowing it has paid off for every job I've had so far. Understanding about the prototype chain has been useful for monkey-patching abandoned 3rd party library plugins that I've had to use in a pinch because there was no alternative aside from writing and maintaining my own. Knowing about variable hoisting has gotten me out of a jam when working with legacy code. Also, saying "the flaws of JS don't matter since they're going away" isn't really true since there's still a lot of old, crappy JS out there in the wild that you may be forced to interact with and browsers still have to support; things like there existing null _and_ undefined in JS aren't going away, so you need to know about them and have a plan for dealing with them. As it turns out, knowing one of the most used languages and all of its baggage is useful.