skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the same time, I'm pretty familiar with the case of patent troll (OK, maybe not a full patent troll in the complete sense in that they did have a selling product at one time, but a troll in the sense that the patent was complete bullshit) where SAP lost a $400 million dollar patent lawsuit (surprise surprise, in Eastern Texas jurisdiction), appealed it all the way to the SCOTUS who declined to hear it, settled with Versata, the patent troll, and then the original patent was declared invalid [1]. Must be nice to have collected major coin on a patent that's not even valid.

Point is that at this level there is tons of corporate IP bullshit going around, it's basically a required part of playing the game.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sap-se-versata-patent-idU...
So the lesson is, they can all be corrupted. I'm a borg user btw, it's been working fine for several years now so I have no plans on switching.

I use it over NFS.
Early 2021, I was overstressed from (among other causes) being micromanaged.

When a project manager asked me on my private WhatsApp if me being at home meant I couldn't attend this very important number, I looked into a separate phone for work.

I got a separate SIM for 2,50 euro per month and put it into my previous smart-phone (I don't need performance for WhatsApp and the like).
This was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Being able to physically shut down your work phone gave me heaps of peace.
Or the work simply doesn't get done because there isn't a significant demand for the service/product at the market rate. There are a ton of things that people would like to have done for/provided to them but even upper middle class people may not be willing to pay what they would cost.
I thought it wasn’t advisable to use Ed25519 for signing arbitrary files? It’s at least not advisable to sign large files due to the multi-pass nature of signature generation, per RFC 8032 (sec 8.7). Where do you draw the line on “large”?

I’d assume they’re using Ed25519ph (pre-hash) with a context (the -n file namespace), but I can’t find the source for ssh-keygen with a quick search to confirm. But then again, it’s also not advisable to share keys between Ed25519 and Ed25519ph, which the author would be doing...
Right. Those people will have to get the vaccine or eventually stop participating in society.
>So SAP as a "big cooperate" software

I still remember a few years ago half of HN have never heard of SAP.
Every world leading company won it's position though unfair advantage. Those are normally breaking laws, fraud, stealing technology or slave labour.

None of them are there on merit.
What you're looking for exists today and is called a stable-coin (for example, USDC).
So do you think OSHA has any legal authority regarding occupational safety and health? Is their existing regulatory authority unconstitutional across the board?
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MIM - Magic Internet Money, a stablecoin that just leans into the meme because the space is big enough to just ignore crypto/blockchain skeptics (and maxis) as you dont need buyin from them anymore to attract billions of dollars for validation. It competes with DAI, same system just natively crosschain (via AnySwap bridging function added to the erc20 class) and potentially maintains better collateral choices. Right now they use yield bearing collateral like liquidity pool shares which earn enough to reduce loan to value ratios and even pay interest on their own. In comparison, DAI was released in a world without onchain distributed asset backed securities and its users eventually picked completely centralized assets like USDC for collateral. This limits that communities’ risk tolerance for raising debt limits.

That part of your question about stablecoins doesn’t have much to do with a Proof of Stake though-a consensus model.
Can’t find it now because google seems to have down ranked it. There have been cases of medication having very long term side effects which were not caught during trials. I’m thinking specifically of something that caused birth defects.

I don’t think it is wise to claim so much authority as you have when it is literally impossible to have FULL confidence. Are you going to take responsibility for the 1 in 1 million who reads your comments and goes on to suffer an adverse reaction?
The only thing public masking has acheived is increased stress and making people look utterly stupid.

If masking did anything at all than generating “madk breath” is should have been easy to show the nunbers.

But there is zero difference.
NONE.

Two years into this mess.
Still zero proof that it has saved a single life but it has generated olenty of distress and sent millions of tonnes of plastic intonthe ocean.
450 years to break down a displosable mask made in indian and chinese sweatshops.

The charade is over dude.
No one cares about your pseudoscientific mask hysterics anymore.

It will end up on the same embarrasing science shelf as.
-Bottle milk is better than breast milk.
-Fat is bad for you.
- Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
And other utterly idiotic and dangerous preachings that stem from shitty test that poses as science in respectable magazines.
Madking in the general public really should be called “scienctism”.

Now lets get to the real problem.
Solving the obesity pandemic and help the 2 billion marginalized people whose already miserable livelihoods were destroyed because of western hysteria.

Oh and clean up the fucking ocean after us.
I lived in Beijing from 2007 to 2016. Commuters has mostly moved over to electric bikes, heck that trend was starting in 2002. Anyways, peddle bikes were most students who needed the, for on campus transportation. But if you spend any time on the commuter bike lanes around the city, it’s 80% electric.

This is a huge change from my first trip in 1999, when you had huge rivers of bike traffic, and gas powered non-car vehicles required special circumstances (a lot of the gas powered rickshaw drivers were ex military or handicapped). Because most Beijingers were never allowed to move to gas, they embraced electric pretty quickly.
Yeah my ideal world would be to be able to play RDR 2 with 60fps on 1440p plus have a decent coding experience (aka UNIX).

So maybe dual boot a decently thin Windows laptop?
>Have you tried apple cider vinegar? That seems to work for me.

No comment on effectiveness, but for anyone who is going to do this, make sure to dilute the vinegar with some water.
Yes, that's what I got. Fast food everywhere, snacks constantly available, cookies and cakes in break rooms, vending machines, junk food, snack bars in offices, coffee milkshakes, kiosks in airports... everywhere you look in the USA there are people trying to sell you stuff to spike your blood sugar between meals. As opposed to Europe, there are entire aisles in the grocery stores here that are stocked solely with non-meal foods. This extends even to drugstores! CVS and Walgreens have a seasonal candy aisle!

I eat very low carb (I target <10g per day, with 20-30g as a hard limit) and it's sort of freaky how prevalent it is, because despite a million food options in some circumstances, precisely 0 of them are without carbs. I've been in airports when I haven't eaten for 18-24h with multiple places vending food and there has been approximately nothing available that would fit my diet.
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Some banks allow you to "turn off" overdraft protection. Of course it's enabled by default.

Who on their right mind would rather me charged $30-40 instead of having your card be declined?

Not me, so I try to turn off any such things when I create a bank account
Why don’t you have a filling meal at 4.30 or 4.45 ?
Kinda how we keep taking shoes off 20 years after the shoe bomber?

The reason many of us are so 100% anti-vax-mandate (note: I didn't say anti-vax) is because of this very reason. If the vax pass is not completely defeated than it will be with us for decades. It must go. Immediately.
I accidentally did intermittent fasting as a teenager for years. I just didn't have breakfast, had lunch and dinner and oddly enough it matched the requirements to be considered IF.

One day I got interested in IF, looked up the rules and found out I was already on it.

I can't say whether it did anything but it definitely made it hard to consume enough calories, so despite training a lot and despite eating a lot at lunch and dinner, I've always been skinny.

I assume IF could be a good choice for someone who's overweight and barely training or not training at all.

I was training bodyweight and gymnastic at the time, making significant progress in terms of strength - despite that, I saw very little muscle building. I suppose being that lean lowered my testosterone production resulting in little gains.

I had the brilliant idea of even trying going vegetarian, vegan for a while, shifting to a source of proteins which is not as complete and not as well absorbed as proteins coming from animal sources.

After 20 years of reading on the subject and looking at what studies are saying nowadays, if I could go back through my teenage years I would eat close to paleo, 6 times per day and lift weights.
From this comment and below (and 99% vs 1% claim; I've heard very different numbers on addiction and debilitating mental illness), would you, or other people in the industry support my, "Housing First, OR ELSE" approach? Give homeless people SRO style housing with private rooms, purpose-built. No support, no wrap-around services - just housing and maybe food. They can stay there forever, or move out if they get it together. If the problem is really lack of dignity/etc., "99%" should accept it and get it together, right?
On the flip side, if you get housing, or refuse housing, and still commit violent/property crimes (/especially/ against your SRO mates, to ensure the housing quality is not compromised) - it's speedily prosecuted and you go to jail with 3-strike-style escalating penalties.

In my view it would solve homelessness in a few years, housing people between SROs (99%?) and jails (1%?). That is if entire billion-dollars-combined homeless budgets could be redirected to SRO construction.
You are racist. Shut up.
Isn't this just an argument from ignorance? We probably have written records from the last pandemic. If you really think that the parent post is incorrect, why not furnish evidence?
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Yeah I see your point. I think what I and others are saying is that given the US’s 70+ year track record at serving their own interests at the detriment of foreign people, there is no reason for them to completely change their goals with no reason. The US defense apparatus doesn’t exist to be a moral good or improve the lives of foreigners, it exists to serve the interests of wealthy Americans. The professed moral goals are propaganda and will always be false - they’ve had these justifications for every action they’ve taken from supporting death squads to installing dictators to topple democracies
Same here. Although never before (read, in my lifetime and geographic location), has it been possible for people to get so heavily sick or die from breathing in the exhaled air of another human.

I agree that the vaccine requirements are unprecedented. I just don't think they're the only thing that's unprecedented at this time. I can't imagine being a business owner and having people die because of the air in my building. Even if it's "not my fault" I'd still probably feel horrible. As a side note, my great uncle, we believe, caught covid at a restaurant, along with his wife and his brother-in-law. He died and she was really sick in the hospital.
Alot of sentiment today thinks proof of work is a waste of energy, but I assert that it can solve a lot more problems beyond its use for "Nakamoto Consensus".

I don't think anything else can solve decentralized rate limiting more effectively than proof of work.

I wrote a short blog post about the use of Proof of work beyond crypto mining [0]

[0] https://as1ndu.xyz/2019/11/proof-of-work-on-layer-two/
Yes, this is definitely my personal experience shining through: my primary experience is with inland terminals which predominantly handle barges. In the Rhine-delta (the Rotterdam/Antwerp hinterland) this is much more common than rail terminals, although trimodal (barge/rail/truck) are on the rise. Most hinterlands however don't have fine mazed rivers and canals suitable for water transport like The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium have, so in other areas of the world (notably the US) rail-based inland terminals are a lot more common.

But inland terminals are an entirely different beast from sea terminals due to the scaling I mentioned. Area scales quadratically, but quay side or rail length scales linearly. This means larger sea terminals have lots of trouble managing an efficient flow of containers onto and from the ships. Inland terminals, both barge and rail, are often not constrained by this in and out flow, but have more natural constraints like the total amount of containerizable goods transported in the geographic area they serve.

The biggest difference is probably what parts of the transport inland terminals are responsible for. In The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany I've noticed that often inland terminals act as hinterland operators, also taking responsibility for the barge or train leg, and usually also last mile trucking to the customer. Sea side terminals tend to not do this nearly as much.

So TL;DR: yes, rail is the dominant form basically everywhere except the area where I happen to live and work. But no, both rail and barge inland terminals are very similar in many respects, but are quite different from sea side terminal operations.

EDIT: Actually, just to clarify, I have a lot more experience with inland terminals than sea side terminals. But because the typical container terminal problems (berthing, stacking, equipment assignment etc.) are so much less of an issue with the smaller scale of inland terminals, they only get a very short mention in my document. There really is no berthing problem if you handle 2 barges a week, there is no equipment assignment problem if you have a single crane and a single reachstacker, and there is no real stacking problem if you can ask a trucker to walk around and spot their assigned box between the ~300 boxes you currently have. Typically the biggest issue for inland terminal operations is the transport planning from and to the sea side terminals, and that is similar for both barge and rail terminals.
Well put.

A reputation/karma system for bug reports could be an interesting way to deal with this problem.

I wonder if it’s ever been tried.
> cravings are real, abstinence doesn’t work, and there are always new foods and new temptations

If IF worked for you that's great, but you shouldn't imply every other diet doesn't work. In my case all I did was track calories of everything I ate (Lose It app, highly recommended) while maintaining a normal eating schedule. Down 105lbs so far. For me I feel like if I just ate whatever I wanted in specific timeframes it'd still be too easy to eat 3000-4000 calories.
Our auditor had to show that because he was being audited on his approach and representing his company to the AIAG auditor.

It was a good experience for me. I went through some seriously easy audits and then one when the book was thrown at us, so to speak.
Might you have a link?
Unfortunately I wasn't really that interested in math when I was a student, I just remembered the ranting of my math teacher. I think you can still get quite a few on Ebay but I fear that not much has been digitized. I can recommend a few Soviet works however that are more introductory level and that I have worked with myself.

A good example of a introductory book with good didactic is Probability Theory (first steps) by Wentzel. https://archive.org/details/ProbabilityTheoryfirstSteps/mode...

Also Physics of Everyone, though maybe a bit more difficult:
https://archive.org/details/LandauKitaigorodskyPhysicsForEve...

Link to all the Mir titles:
https://archive.org/details/mir-titles

There are books for basically every level and age there.
Woah, that's insane. I would put down :tenbux: to help Doomscroll's creator fight this on their gofundme or whatever. Because what the actual hell?!
The borrow checker gets to actively tell you that your family tree has some inbreeding!
>Mandate->lives saved; no mandate->more death. I thought you all claimed to be pro life?

mandate -> no choice. I thought you all claimed to be pro-choice?

See? It's almost as if someone's political beliefs has more nuance than a two word slogan.
It’s more common now bc sap buys huge cloud contracts.
Benedict Evans. I cant think of anyone better.
There are two stories here. H1B immigration and illegal immigration.

Aren't illegal immigrants doing jobs that natural born citizens don't want to do? Farming, low pay contract work, etc.?

Businesses can't hire illegal immigrants on the books. They can't be waiters, retail workers, or other types of labor that the lower class depends on. So how does this impact America's poor and middle class? Absence of these workers should push prices higher.

H1B immigration is capped, and it has never led to a decrease in the salaries of skilled workers. Software engineers have never made so much.

More people working and living in the US will create more productivity and consumer demand, increasing the strength of our economy.

Why all of the vilification?
Now do payday loans… it’s sickening.

When US leadership speaks about systemic racism, and they don’t talk about payday loans and overdraft fees I can’t take them seriously. It’s insulting
Bullshit.

Did wages in developed countries drop because too many qualified workers stayed home? I don't think so.

Any significant tech employer can employ an arbitrary number of workers right where the workers are, immediately and without wait or relocation. Why would they or host countries limit their options in any way? Those employers couldn't care less about where employees work from.
Earlier on Twitter, there was an account called SoDamnTrue that would just tweet pop-wisdom. It's a SoDamnTrue tweet for economists.
> I really don't quite understand this fuss about the mandate.

> Americans have tens of thousands of laws

OK, let me try to break this down to make the court ruling more understandable. The mandate is not a law. It's a regulation issued by OSHA, which is not a lawmaking body, but a regulatory body, charged with limiting workplace injury.

If it was a law, then you wouldn't have this ruling. Laws are passed by Congress.

In the U.S., regulations issued by various bureaucracies can't just be arbitrary. They have to be within the mandate of said bureaucracy, and they have to follow certain procedures. Otherwise they can be ruled as unconstitutional.

That is what the court ruled on. Not whether covid is important, or whether vaccines are good, or even whether vaccine mandates for covid are good. It ruled on whether OSHA is able to create a nationwide vaccine mandate using its ETS (emergency temporary standard) powers.

So the short summary of what "all the fuss" is about is whether this regulation was lawful.

Note that OSHA has a long history of abusing the ETS, and of the 10 times in its history that OSHA issued an ETS, it has been struck down or withdrawn prior to being struck down 9 times.

This is because the ETS powers are extraordinary and so are placed under very strict scrutiny by courts. Again, the courts are not ruling whether vaccine mandates are good, they are ruling whether the ETS power is being abused. This is why many (if not the vast majority) of legal experts have said that you can't use OSHA to make a nationwide vaccine mandate, and that this standard would inevitably be struck down.

This is a very similar situation to when the Biden administration tried to use the CDC emergency powers to freeze evictions. Again, the debate is not whether evictions are bad, or whether it was a good idea to freeze them, but whether the CDC emergency powers allowed freezing evictions. That, too, was struck down.

Hope that helps.
68 million people getting the vaccine rules out the likelihood of even a 1 in a million adverse event not being detected. In fact, that would be accomplished at the P<.001 level with just 7 million people.
For what it's worth, it has a good track record, but yes you're totally right that restic is not exactly commercial-grade software with proper guarantees.

In one of the early talks at a local hackerspace, the author did also demo decrypting the data manually if something got somehow broken. The tool is just a layer on top of relatively straightforward cryptography. From what I remember (I looked at this in 2018 so forgive any errors), you'd have to write a script that iterates over the index where it says which blocks are in which files (since it's deduplicated) and decrypt it with some standard AES library. Perhaps as a security consultant this seems easier to me than it does to others, though, but it's not as if you're without hope if the tool did break, or as if you couldn't just download a previous version from the GitHub releases page.
There is no pandemic.

There is only low single digit thousands of 'deaths' that did not have co-morbidities such as being shot in the head, hit by a car or having terminal cancer "with covid". Not my words - this is straight out of CDC.

Also, we now know "Dr." Fauci funded gain-of-function research at Wuhan, again his own agency's admission.

The only thing we need to do to end this pandemic is arrest and fully prosecute the following people:

* London Breed
* Gavin Newsom
* Dr. Fauci
* Barbara Ferrer
* Rachel Walensky

(many more but that's a start)
> You don’t have to abstain from anything.

I mean, you _do_ abstain from eating. But I always found it easier to abstain from something entirely rather than to do it in moderation.
$86,001 for a world first - he should have minted an NFT instead
Banks "voluntarily" stopped doing it once regulators got serious about forbidding it and then the regulations never actually happened, so while it's not currently a thing anyone does it probably will be again some time in the future.
It’s all spelled out in the court ruling. OSHA derives it’s power from the commerce clause which gives Congress authority over interstate commerce activities.

It’s a very clearly written decision.
JIT, and how a Postgres update led to 70% failure on a critical national service
IBM and their shitty software sold to DOD. The stopped improving and having decent training RHAPSODY a hundred years ago.
Which of those got Google to where they are? Apple?
My Apple Watch already does this. It’s here already.
I think one problem with using ssh key instead of gpg/pgp key for signing data is key to people mapping, for lack of a better word.

I can't speak about others, but for myself I use a single gpg key across all my machines, but I use one ssh key for each of my machine. When I replace a machine with a new one, I don't move/transfer that key to the new machine, I just generate a new key on the new machine and revoke my old key everywhere. To me a ssh key does not map to me, it maps to me and a machine combination. If I use an ssh key to sign something then after a few years I replaced that machine, that key is no longer used anywhere, and the verification can start to become tricky (I'll certainly remove it from my github, which invalidates the key distribution way proposed by the article).

I also always use name@machine to name/annotate my ssh keys, but github's name.keys strip that info (for good reasons).

So this is probably good for short lived signing needs, but for something that needs to be verified long into the future (git commits/tags), I don't think this is a good idea?