skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just kind of think that encryption is one of those things that's best done by people who really know a lot about it. Like, I think it's okay to program if you don't know everything about data structures and algorithms, but I do not think it's okay to represent like your app is cryptographic secure when you're not extremely experienced and well versed in the field. Even if you're not rolling your own crypto but using someone else's. The extent to while I'm comfortable using someone else's crypto is LetsEncrypt with an integration for the K8s nginx ingress controller. But I will not personally warrant/represent that my at-rest or E2EE solution is sound. I would be uncomfortable with that.
Probably its use in elfshaker[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29277779
The point I made wasn't about what Amazon should or shouldn't do. It was about the irrelevance of the economic modelling concept of "rational self-interest" (which describes behaviour, rather than prescribing it) to that question.

If you think humans or companies should work solely on the basis of self-interest then you're in good company (especially if you're from the US, though it's far from a uniquely American view). I'm not going to dissuade you by arguing with you on HN, but I do disagree. I hope at some point you and the many, many people with similar views learn to look at the world a bit differently.
I’m a concerned about telemetry. As someone pointed out, this is not open source; how am I supposed to tell IT this is safe to install?
I have an original Topre Realforce and an HHKB. They’re both reliable, no-nonsense keyboards.
What on earth? Bell Labs wasn't publicly funded. Talk about turning things around. Bells Labs is the best example of the universal rule that just about every good piece of science for the last 70 years was produced by the private sector.

Every time I see something along the lines of "<so and so> tech wouldn't exist without government funding because...." I do some research and it turns out that the article was based on one person working for the government who contributed about 1/100'th of the important work, meanwhile the other 99% of the work being done by the private sector doesn't get mentioned. Sometimes the government also takes credit because they funded 50 million out of a 5 billion dollar budget, or something equally ridiculous.

As for Bell Labs, I remember watching a documentary about Shockley and co inventing the transistor. The military decided they needed that technology and managed to get their hands on some samples from Bell Labs. They set up a team to try to work out what Bell Labs was doing. Even having all of the Bell Lab's work in front of them, and knowing what to do, they couldn't keep up. They interviewed the military scientists much later for the documentary and they were all very depressed by the whole situation because for every one month of work the military group did catching up, Bell Labs had pulled 3 months further ahead.

The government can't even keep up with the private sector when they are copying them, let alone actually initiating that kind of research. It isn't a coincidence that almost all the best research in the world is done at privately run American universities. At best, good research can get done at public universities when they receive industry funding.
If you steal the key then you own it.

That's what "owning it" means; you have the key.
You could make this exact same argument to justify racism in hiring cleaners as well, so probably not one you want to make.
they didn't though. zstd has been around even before the main dev joined fb, i distinctly remember it being under the persons personal github name.
What a pile. Blind spot detection system malfunction a lot to the point of being useless. Front collision detection is just annoying. I have driven for 40 years and have never rear-ended anyone or run over a pedestrian. These 'safety' 'features' are only useful to terrible drivers. Decent drivers are just annoyed by the car fighting you. I guess they need to have some way to keep adding features so the price points never drop. You are being sold things based on the deliberate cultivation of irrational fears in your own mind (as usual).
that is _not_ how you judge a _scripting_ language

it is trivial* to add C code to Perl, even when using XS, I guess it is as easy to do the same for Python

if you do heavy computations in pure Perl5 or pure Python you're doing it wrong by definition

*assuming you can write C
My reaction to the greenish tinge of the flame was "I wonder what part of the engine is melting away?"
Don't compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to what you were before.
I understand these thoughts and feelings 100%. All I can do is leave you with some fighting thoughts (in the sense of fighting for a meaningful life):

* Compare and despair.

* What good do these thoughts and emotions do you? Yes of course perhaps you need these feelings to be driven to achieve what you want. But if you dwell on them for too long then you'll just waste more years not doing the things that you really feel to be meaningful, and then you'll be in an even deeper hole.

* Furthermore I'm skeptical that these "compare and despair" thoughts really will succeed in driving most people to "go out there and make it happen". I personally have found it much more invigorating and inspiring to acknowledge/praise/bless my fellow people. "Wow! They created that. Good for them. What can I learn from them?" Yes I know this reeks of "growth mindset" lingo but it works. At minimum it's a thought/emotion pattern that makes me not miserable day-to-day.

Also it's very interesting that you're a technical writer! I have been one myself for 9 years. At first I had major inferiority complex to engineers. I wonder if it's a common problem that is maybe specific to our field? Happy to chat about our industry 1 on 1 if you think that will help. Find my contact on my website (link in bio).

And last I will say that I know sometimes people just need to vent and need support so I feel a bit rude giving unsolicited advice to strangers. But this is a forum and I only share my thoughts in the spirit of hoping that something clicks for someone and helps them breakthrough.
Yeah I think you are right, more and more people are becoming very sensitive to this, and I am, too, personally. But as I wrote in a parent comment, I'd rather get it right later than wrong now. It's a big thing to misrepresent.
I think this only works if there's a scarcity of patients but it's rarely true that patients are rare. This will probably suffer from the real estate agent problem: in theory, real estate agents are incentivized to get you the best price because they get a cut for their efforts, but in practice it's more lucrative for them to flip more houses than put in the extra effort into your case. Likewise, I suspect doctors will find it easier & cheaper to not care about you and just move onto taking in other healthy patients.
Tell them you will not be returning it and if they do take away your access you will pursuing legal action.

Do you think you could ever convince them by saying hey I saw this domain was available but came back 2 days later and it's not available, can you still get it for me? The answer is unequivocally no.

Know your right and defend them against overreach of private entities.
Guys, don't click the link. It's actually not about transformers, but in fact some machine learning BS (which, given the peak hype year of 2019 for ML, is not surprising).
"But a professional will put their client above money assuming no other perverse incentives."

After dealing with some surgeons I am not so sure about this anymore. They seem to feel very entitled to have big houses and nice cars.
few days ago, i tried to purchase a domain on godaddy, I didn't buy it as I had to get approval from my manager so I left it in the cart and that time I was using my cellphone. Then after 3 days, I came back to godaddy through my PC and saw that the domain is now premium and they want amount close $3000 . I was kind of shocked. but then on my phone I noticed that item is still in my cart with the 20 dollar pricing, and I purchased, few days later godaddy came back and refund me the 20 dollar and took away the domain. One thing I learned is that never use a registrar search engine as they check domain with high search or interest and they immediately buy it before you.
I have offered no opinion on lobbying itself in this thread.

The entire content of what I want to convey here is contained in the comment you're replying to.
The top singular contributors to mining power are, for most coins, mining pools comprised of thousands of individuals and corporations. So, its very difficult the say; we can point to pools, but that's where the investigation stops.

The pools themselves are collectives, and as such really don't hold much logical power in swaying the network. If one pool goes rogue, miners are generally pretty savvy, and would react (this has happened in the past).
Nothing you have said has been based in reality. You haven't given any sources for what you said or reasons for your predictions. It's obvious this is just a motivated rant from your frustrations with tesla's stock price, silicon valley and who knows what else.
You make very good points that I have not seen "shared mobility" advocates address. The idea that people will give up owning cars... well, it presumes a whole lot of other lifestyle changes have happened beforehand.

Cars must be very valuable. In a blog explaining why hydrogen will never be a transport fuel,[1] the author mentioned in passing that cars average well under 4% utilization, and the average fill frequency is once per month.

To have something so expensive and little used, the option of being able to use it on demand must be highly valuable. And as you say it's secure storage and portage.

1. In a month, a steel-walled 200 bar hydrogen tank with 10 mm (0.4 inch) thick walls will lose over 80% of its hydrogen through its walls.
> Vortex86 implements i586, which should surely be IP-unencumbered by now?

Even if you go from the launch date and not the last errata, the i586 architecture is only 28 years old. In today's world of copyright, that's practically an infant.

To be clear of most patents, you generally need at least thirty years, and copyrights are generally more than twice that number.

You will probably require a license from Intel. (Though whether or not they care enough to enforce things is another matter entirely).
A nice inverse example is Versailles, which has quite limited protection and couldn’t really be defended from military attack.

Yet it was an effective military tool: visiting potentates would see an overwhelmingly expensive palace that sent the message “we are so rich and so powerful that we don’t even need to defend our central palace, so don’t even try to attack us”
JACK DORSEY IS A TERRORIST!
There are people 10x smarter than you who feel like schlubs, and people 10x dumber
than you who feel like rock stars. I fail to see your point.
One book that helped me in this respect is "Mastery" by Robert Greene.

Go through this Twitter account and if anything resonates with you, I definitely recommend reading the book.

https://twitter.com/masteryquotes

Envy is a capricious emotion.
It wasnt all bad. AS is VERY slow.
Getting a work permit or visa that allows work is hard in most countries that might be more attractive than Brazil.

There’s no shortage of web developers unless you’re a senior developer with specialized skills, degree, and good work history.

Language and cultural issues will complicate getting f/t or p/t jobs.

I suggest you look into freelancing remotely for companies in countries that pay relatively well for your skills (US companies generally pay more). Then it doesn’t matter where you live and your don’t need a work permit.*

*Technically you do usually need a work permit to legally do any kind of work for pay, in every country, but enforcement focuses on people working illegally and taking jobs from locals. Some countries offer visas that allow this kind of work. Freelancing on a laptop for a company in a different country isn’t likely to get you into trouble. That’s the whole digital nomad model.
The population of the United States was around 331 million per the 2020 census, so $1T is a little over $3000 per resident. The GDP of the United States was approximately 21 trillion in 2020 (a pandemic year) per World Bank, so a $1T loan is about 5% of gross annual income. It's not that hard for an individual or business with good credit history to get such a loan.

Comparing things on the scale of the national budget of the country with the world's largest economy to things on individual scale is kind of like comparing a person's height to the radius of the moon. It's going to confuse more than it elucidates.

Edit: To be clear, my comparison is bad too. Comparison to individuals is just not the type of tool that makes sense for looking at national level things, because by cherry picking the comparison you can convince it to say anything you want.
If it's a feature required by the government to be road legal, it's likely not run and/or pass emissions testing if it's not working. And it's a point of failure written by people who are bad at software.

Alternatively, computer control of real world systems (e.g. acceleration and braking) can lead to actual accidents, totaling the vehicle. There was that lady who claims her Tesla's software caused a crash, and, without commenting on if that is true, it's plausible.
tbDEX, a Liquidity Protocol
>3. Agree. There are a lot of databases that should exist, but the economic incentives of individual participants in a system means nobody wants to pay for it. Blockchains might present a way to make an end to end distributed database with no single owner, but where commercial interest still exists. (E.g. not open source)
Anyone here familiar with the newly launched Ethereum Name Service (ENS)? All the registrations are handled on the blockchain. Would this error be possible on ENS?
I am using home grown feature flags, so in a way I know what they are. Where I sometimes feel like I’m doing something wrong is when they are mentioned as some silver bullet for complex deployment scenarios or real safety for testing in prod.

In my mind they only really work for a subset of features that are relatively clean: show this tab in the app y/n, mount this react component y/n. But the most complex and dangerous features really aren‘t like that. They involve sweeping changes that introduce incompatibility with previous behaviours, schema changes etc.
I don‘t see how you can flag that stuff without littering conditionals and making the code unpredictable in the process.

There are many impressive looking feature flagging platforms, but as far as I can tell, they all stop at handing you a boolean. Feels like serving booleans to users is the easy part?
Thanks, that's very informative. Yes I am wondering about the rank and file actors/programmers, if there are only agents for the stars then it's not much of a system.

In situations like this do you have insight into the actual billing rate?

In my previous contracting work I always knew how much they were making on top of my work, but if I were a consulting company I'd probably take some pains to prevent the subcontractors knowing such stuff, just because of the risk of them cutting me out.

Whereas, in the classic agent model, more pay for you is more pay for them.
Longtime topre user. They ruined me on all other keyboards. The best there is.
5 days, 17 thousand people, 40M dollars raised
Low tech/practicality cars on my personal “want” list:

* Caterham 7 super sprint

* TVR Griffith (or Chimaera)

* Ariel Nomad
The problem is that one cannot even have a discussion on so many subject matters today without having ad hominem attacks hurled on them. Everything has been politicized to the point that there are even advocacy groups saying that Math is racist and white supremacist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29273494
I think you're underestimating your talents. A technical writer with a development background, when applied correctly, is a powerful force.

You have the ability convey complicated concepts in a concise manner. You can do so much with that. Is there something in your tech world that you're interested in, that's hard to grasp, that you could start your own blog/YouTube/ebook/course with? Perhaps you'll become the goto expert on it.

I often wonder how the oracles in our industry get to where they are, and everyone starts and persists - often for years - before being recognised as such. Small consistent progress over a long period of time is what makes an overnight success.
In general their article's use of "Fermion" clashes with my understanding. I've understood fermions[1] to be a type of sub-atomic particle, like an electron. The article routines refers to them as if they are atoms themselves, including your quoted test.

I presume the MIT literature knows more than i do here, but i'm unsure what i am missing. Anyone have an idea?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion
I'll be brutally honest because I used to be in your situation.

Each and every person you admire has poured thousands of hours into some project. For some that's a degree. For some it's a game they wrote, for others it's company that they've started...

Have you done that? Spent thousands of hours on a single thing? Focused on a project long enough to actually see results? I'm guessing not, because if you would have then this would have been a Show HN post.

Ask yourself why you are content with doing anything besides the one thing that you should do: Commit to some project and don't give up until it is done?
Jeez, dude, don't be so hard on yourself!

Comparing yourself to other people is a losing game - no matter how awesome you are you'll always find people that are "better" than you at whatever, as they would to, unless you're Michael Jordan.

Find things you like to do that make you happy and do those things. That works for me. I'm a college drop-out/software developer with skeletons in my closet just like you.
Cable has been "adverts with a bit of content" for a long time !
You should definitely check Matrix out: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/getting-involved
> Is there some difference between streaming companies and classic movie studios that makes this the case?

I have no inside knowledge and am fully speculating, including some random tidbits I've read here and there.

Think about how Netflix changed when moving from DVD to streaming. They used to optimize for recommending you movies you would rate highly. Now it's all about what keeps people viewing the longest.

2 middle of the road acceptable movies that you rate a 6/10 is more viewing time than 1 higher quality production that you'd rate a 9/10 -- I doubt the costs are they cut and dry but I think that's the idea. More content that is passable wins out against less content that is of higher quality.
I think it's because they're primarily sold to enterprises, so if you're buying one in a personal capacity you're paying enterprise rates.
I always took average == mean, and median to be another measure, but I could just be mistaken on that.
Open Source Alternative to Notion
You may have mistaken Brotli (whose file format has no magic number and prevents an easy identification) with Zstandard (whose file format does have defined magic numbers 28 B5 2F FD or [50-5F] 2A 4D 18).
I think we should continue to research blockchain and crypto, it is an interesting topic. But when the crypto scam industry is worth many billions then basically every online discussion will be full of people who try to manipulate others to buy into crypto so that their crypto assets would increase in value. So until the scam part dies down it will be impossible to have a fruitful online discussion about it, it will just be a lot of scammers and a lot of defensive people who try to avoid getting scammed.
I love my 2017 Ford Focus RS! It has a touch screen but besides for that there's no lane assist, automatic breaking, or any other driver assists. I also love that it is a manual, however some people may not like that. Also they only made it from 2016 - 2018 and used ones are expensive. But check it out if you want a modern, fast, manual car with minimal digital none sense.
> I would expect the original NFTs to lose most if not all of their value.

Since crypto trading operates on the principle of offloading to a bigger fool, this does not seem like a sufficient disincentive. The original seller and the next N people to pass that hot potato around made money.
Amazon, google, Facebook, telcos

The only realistic way to do anything in America is to make something cost money. How about a law saying that the statutory minimum fine for any data leak is $1 per person, for each individual piece of data that is does not have legally mandated collection?
Is this frontrunning?
If you have control of it you _might_ actually be the one that nabbed it, and somebody else complained they couldn't manage it.

If this is the case, under no circumstance tell your registrar you're okay with losing it and dig your heels HARD.

Either way you should get a cert for it with the longest expiration you can ASAP while you control it ;)
IMO buckling spring feels better.
Here is a thing that happens: many countries have more or less comprehensive regular vehicle inspections. If your car is showing a warning light or reports an error on the standardized interface, that can cause you to fail the inspection. What a warning light is shown for is at the discretion of the manufacturer though.

One example is Anti-lock braking (ABS), which they made mandatory in 2004. If you bought a car without it in 2003 and have it inspected in 2013, no problem. If you bought a car with ABS in 2004 and the controller for it breaks in 2008, you will fail the inspection - even though your braking is no worse than the 2003 car (ABS was wisely designed to fail safe..).
I really like the idea; congrats on the launch!

I noticed the In App Purchase names are "Massive", "Generous", "Enormous"; I think these are donations (based on your comment in this submission), but I wouldn't know that without visiting the HN thread. If they're donations, I'd change the In App Purchase names to something like "Donation: Massive", etc.
> The author is right in that there is no such thing as a container, but only as much as containing is a thing you do, imo. What users think of containers are still just processes though, and I don't think that's an entirely useless abstraction to be cognizant of.

Fantastic distillation. Thank you!
- tensions will rise between EU, the US (along with the UK and Australia), and China leading to more supply chain issues.

- crypto crash of 2022. Ethereum will switch to PoS, leading to a global wide sale of GPUs and miners are no longer a thing.

- maybe the stock market will crash similarly to 2022.
Getting into tech and getting a great-paying job is achievable and realistic for anyone from any background, right now. It's completely unregulated, there's no gatekeeping outside of factual knowledge, and people are actively encouraging diverse applicants with non-traditional educational backgrounds. Even if the experience for these people is not always as good as it could be, the community is trying.

Getting into finance is not even remotely like this. It's a brutal old-boys' club.

That's why they recommend the former. You'd have to be insane to recommend that most people try to break into finance.
There are some knock-off Topres that are less expensive. For example, Royal Kludge had some boards that showed up on Drop a while back. I haven't used them, though, and they don't seem to have really caught on.

I had a CM Novatouch for a while, which was Topre-based. It wasn't my cup of tea (I'm partial to dampened ALPs switches from old Apple Extended Keyboards), and I eventually sold it, but it was a solid keyboard.
"136000 times hotter" sounds a lot more impressive than "2.72546 degrees hotter"...