skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I’m unsettled by the fact that, as presented, you have to unzip it once before it become a quine for subsequent unzippings. It lets you save 56 characters of base64 data, at the cost of `| gunzip`.

There’s some superfluous echo and subshell in there, incidentally; I like it better written this way:

base64 -d <<<H4sIAAAAAAAAA5Pv5mCIeLzKnIGZgYHh/38GEYbX/+WxiDl1KB5hIIJ1TXfrBNeU3DznNGYG78SS1AKgEchsAEthdGVwAAAA | gunzip > quine.gz
zcat quine.gz | diff - quine.gz
> The current system is [...] safe.

Well, it kills 1000+ people per year in electrical fires in the USA alone. We would never allow electricity in homes like this if it were invented today.

> Such a system would need a box in the basement and lots of seperate wires to outlets.

Yes. But if high voltages can safely be used, and the system is safe in case a cable gets chafed, then the wires become super thin like headphone wires, and overall, the whole system could be produced cheaper than existing systems which use a lot of copper and plastic.

Fire is eliminated too, because a high tech solution measures power losses at every connection, and as soon as enough is unaccounted for to possibly be heating something up to the point of a fire, it switches off.

The main disadvantage is that every appliance or device needs circuitry to measure power flows. This is mitigated by the fact that voltage is variable - low power devices could simply run off 5 to 20 volts at sub-1-amp and not bother with any fancy measurement. Only high power stuff would need the high voltages and all the safety circuitry.
An intro into certificates and secure communication in IoT for normal people
I recently bought a variac for testing some old audio gear, it had a Europlug but contained an adaptor for UK plugs. The only thing was despite having an ordinary metal earth pin the adaptor never actually made contact with the existing plug's earth connector. That could have been dodgy!
I am not sure what the point is here. Your friends have freedom and ability to choose to buy from multiple retailers, Amazon has freedom to choose its selling price, resellers on Amazon have freedom to choose their price, and competitors to Amazon have the freedom to choose their price.

Who is the harmed party?
> Nano had real life spam attacks, then mitigated the spam problem with an innovative 'bucket' method

So option a) - the whitepaper doesn't reflect reality. And the solution was to make transactions more expensive and slower.

> there are chains of blocks.

With the caveat of the blocks being single transactions and the "blockchain" reflecting only single accounts.
Close, but it will actually turn out to be a very small company (possibly in less than a decade).

Hollywood has little awareness of just how much danger the legacy version of their industry is in.

ML generated assets are slowly creeping towards reality and at the same time doing 3D dev is 100-1000x easier than it was just a few years ago. It's now possible to do for free in many cases as well.
I loved Dr Dobbs Journal. Used to buy it every month when I was in college and barely understood any of it.
Or your neighbor's tv has internet access, and relays telemetry for yours.
> Most people don't care, or don't seem to have issues with the ads.

There's a difference between enjoying the current state and accepting the current state. A few years ago, while helping my grandmother find something online, I asked if she would want an adblocker installed. After explaining what it was, and what the effect was, she was over the moon for it.

Ads are noticed by everyone, and are pretty universally despised. The difference is that you and I know that there are options, while less techy relatives assume that nothing can be changed.
I’d bet somewhere deep in the organization SME has a SME SME.
They’re more written than you know. If you put similar effort into improving social skills, you will improve. Start with this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_...
Apps are not necessarily developed by LG, but by specific developers. The BBC for example stopped updating their app for a while, saying the device would not be supported going forward; they must have received a bunch of complaints though, because a couple of months later it was back to normal.
This is such a strange comment to me. Amazon is not even the largest retailer in the US (that’s Walmart). It’s the largest e-commerce retailer, but at 40% share there are plenty of other businesses here. Amazon IPOd in 1997, three years after being founded, when it still only sold books - I’m not aware of any VCs that are in the habit of buying shares in public companies. And finally, it’s really weird to call investment by a business, something that the tax code and public policy explicitly encourages, a “tax avoidance strategy to turn profits into capital”.
The main thing that the author missed (imo) is that the blockchain classifies as a genuine invention because it’s the first time in our history that we have had the technology for a completely trustworthy ledger.

To me, that is the intrinsic value. Not it’s use as a bank-free currency, or it’s ability to run smart contracts (though I think those could permanently change copyright for the better), but because we can have an undeniable and uncorrupted chain of custody.
Was this before FreeBSD 6? If I remember correctly smp wasn’t fully cooked in before that. Every smp system back then I used Linux cause yah know. Linux.
My first foray into Linux was because burning CDs on Windows was a crapshoot - but the same hardware on RedHat with nice -20 would let cdrecord finish successfully each time.
It is not, for most people. If you are autistic, have Asperger's syndrome like Elon Musk, or have other mental issues, then no matter how much you work, you will be always subpar compared to others on this area, but probably are much better on other areas like research.

I don't like talking about "social skills" because it looks like having friends is an academic matter or something. It is not, it is about letting yourself go around people you trust not about writing down what to say or do.

Most people in the US don't have friends by the way. When you are used to places like Spain, Italy or Africa it shocks you how isolated and individualistic they are living alone without public places so they don't really need to interact with anyone. They take their cars and drive from home to work.

They have an average of 0.5 friends per person or something like that so if you want to learn having more friends you could change your environment for something that forces you to interact with lots of people for a while.
I think that's basically just a notification. Where it gets creepy is when parents install 24/7 surveillance cameras in their childrens bedrooms.

I can kinda understand it when it's about being able to quickly check if your baby is okay, but I doubt every parent has the decency to disable it eventually to give their child some privacy.

There's no way there aren't lots of children growing up with zero privacy right now.
I wonder how many mathematicians and physicists were harmed by the submitted title ;)

(I would like to increase the count by e^0 btw)
Did That Chatbot Just Make a Rude Joke?
The book/audiobook “How to win friends and influence people” while it has a title I don’t like is actually a guide for solving your exact issue and is especially useful for people that tend to gravitate to tech.

I’m self taught and spent many years agoraphobic as a teen so it was really helpful to get the basics and understand the mechanics.

A few startups in and just putting myself in social situations it started to feel a lot more natural and understandable.

I think a lot of social things really clicked around 4 years ago went I went into management and got to see both sides of lots of things and just really dig in with people and have them open up about the challenges they’re facing.

Also just getting to late twenties and now mid thirties and having always been open about the social things I don’t understand in the movement I can feel normal in most social situations.

With that said though, while happily married for 6 years, I still only hang out with friends a handfull of times a year and most of my social life the last 10 has been whatever social things the startup made possible from taco tuesdays to lunch time chat and off sites and slack and video games and coffee runs at the office.

Tldr:
- some things can be understood but not directly related to
- some things take time (years) to internalize but will come with time and practice
- other things are just part of who you are and just embrace it and be open about it. You’d be surprised how many other people relate to different facets of social quirkiness even if they appear normal on the surface.
It’s both just basically a pattern matching, really
> it helps if you have two locks

Thieves generally carry either an angle-grinder or a bolt-cutter, but not both. Angle-grinders work on D-locks, but not on chains. Bolt-cutters work on chains, but not D-locks. If you use one of each, the chances are the thief will steal someone else's bike instead.
Interesting, would children see it as out of date I wonder? As a child I read old books and it was only as an adult I realised they were out of date in style at the time I read them.
See what happens when you're so smart you get multiple things named after you?

This is not the e you know and love from school:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_constant

This one is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)

Worth coming up with some better way to talk about this.
It's an accounting term, I think I first heard about it in a white-collar crime book. https://www.brumellgroup.com/news/the-fraud-triangle-theory/
HN and coding is keeping me sane since March 2020.

Thank you OP and everyone on HN.
Why would you not have sympathy? Nobody was hurt by this. Consumers still paid the same prices. Now more of the money goes to the shopkeepers (and presumably reliance, which absolutely doesn’t need it).
How long does it take for the world population to double?
Also π and the three most important operations: addition, multiplication, exponentiation.
I find formatting is usually a nonissue with BibTeX files as entries tend to already be automatically generated from some authoritative source (e.g., CrossRef).

What I do end up using a lot however is nschloe's betterbib [1].

[1] https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib
I just turn off the device wifi on the router if my child is not paying attention.
Burning cds got me interested in Linux. I found it very unreliable in windows and “cdrecord” or whatever it was called worked flawlessly.
Start top down: ask what has the most business value and take care of that first. You will not be able to do everything an experienced sysadmin will do, so you need to prioritize to the extreme. Only deal with important stuff.

The most technical aspect: don't lose or destroy the data! Downtime is fine, losing data is catastrophic.

Grow a thick skin or move on. You will be the target of complaints. A lot.
Completely trustworthy, because it has to be patched multiple times to fix security bugs. /s

There is no such thing. The ledger number does not come with any other warranty than amount of PC time used to compute it. It does not guarantee value, it does bot guarantee your transaction has fully proceeded, only that a specific amount of other number has been transferred.
The "Troll" dolls with the under-the-skirt giggle button was somewhat memorable.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/business/hasbro-removes-troll...
Still available from Amazon.

While there is a reference to the Polish language problem, most of the negative reviews are about the low quality, lack of volume control, and general failures.
> With more and more SMP applications appearing, the day will come (perhaps in another year or so) when games, applications and the whole load of software out there will support SMP.

He was only off by a decade or so :-)
One of the things I really like about the tau manifesto (the proposal to use tau == 2 * pi instead of pi in many situations) was their explanation of how tau made this equation all the more interesting (IMHO) by making it "almost like a tautology":

https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-euler_s_identity
Please this is Hacker News not Erdogan daily. You are free to share the preposterous and outlandish propaganda used by Erdogan to justify his authoritarian reforms but don’t expect people to actually believe it.

It’s even pointed in the BBC article you are citing despite it being overly sympathetic in my opinion:

> To many Turkey-watchers, it smacks of outlandish conspiracy theories. But polls show a majority of Turks firmly believe that the CIA was involved in the failed coup.
Let’s just pretend that a democratic people decides to mandate that all governmental spending must be on a viewable blockchain, including the purchases of politicians.

To me, it feels like that might solve corruption almost overnight.
That's an entirely different issue, but yes, automatic updates are an attack vector. But that's another step that would need to be performed by an attacker, rather than already having the images available without designing custom firmware.
Is there any good reason for Reliance not to skip more of the chain? If Reliance is set up to deliver in a day after a mom-and-pop store orders through their app, it is not much of a leap for Reliance to expand to deliver straight to consumers.

The big online retailers like Amazon are probably going to greatly diminish mom-and-pop stores anyway, so I'd expect Reliance to be aiming at being another Amazon rather than being the company that owned distribution to mom-and-pop stores as those died off.
This sounds like a trap.
Reduction in obviated product or service = ruin of seller of obviated product or service.
>Can you be trusted? Ask yourself.

Talk about a con man's answer. I get multiple calls a week by people claiming to be my credit card provider, the tax arm of my country's civil service, or the president of the company I work for. Of course some people can't be trusted. Relying on universal trust is a recipe for universal corruption, and your answer to someone pointing that out is to try and turn the problem with trust on them specifically?

At least come up with some better lies, this is just insulting everyone's intelligence.
Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG)
Even people who understand the words of a song frequently miss the meaning of the song, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
I prefer the Champernowne constant.
The magical belief that p2p is always superior to server-client for this kind of application has to be refuted. I live in Kingston Ontario, a medium-sized city between Montreal and Toronto. There are essentially two high-speed ISPs: Bell, using fiber, and Cogeco, using cable. Latency between peers on the same network is usable, but packets from one network to the other, even a few blocks apart, are routed via, for example, Toronto to Chicago to New York to Montreal and finally back to Kingston. It's not the distance travelled that was problematical; it's the latency introduced at each intermediate node. By setting up a server at AWS in Montreal, the latency for peers on both networks became usable.

Also, p2p requires O(n^2) links whereas client-server has O(n) links, so if the number of peers increases, the total travel time difference will be more significant.
I’m confused by your pushback. Can you walk me through it?
They don't just use sales to oppose the Muslim Brotherhood! They are bombing innocent Yemenis who have ZERO connection to Iran. They backed Salafis, like Al-Qaeda for decades (forgotten about those guys?) They use them to jail journalists for reporting on corruption, women rights activists for driving. People just trying to make their countries a bit better.

You say "if the alternative is between...", and then proceed to just accept the false choice that it's either tyranny or anarchy, using that reasoning to give a pass to the scum making a buck from some of the most disgusting regimes on the planet. Western countries took generations of incremental improvements to arrive here, all while tyrants always used that argument to try stay on top.

You're uncritically buying the line that Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood are the worst (which could be argued) but the other less so, because they are on "our side". If you prioritise human rights, that lives on both sides are equally valuable (and I suspect from this thread that you don't) then such a distinction is meaningless.

It's a fear-driven siege mentality and terribly short sighted to think that in the region that brought us Gadhafi, Saddam, Daesh and the Mujahaddin, somehow KSA, Egypt or the UAE will magically always align with however your interests evolve.

Thanks to NSO they ARE a step closer to North Korea and destabilising the region in the long term with repression and misery. But you're only interested in short term outcomes for Israel/Western countries, kicking the can down the road when the consequences of such sales will have unknown impacts for decades.

After seeing how it's played out, it's just exhausting to see this kind of mentality after all these years, lost lives and lessons apparently unlearned. Along with greed, this mentality is why the mercenary surveillance industry exists. For the sake of everyones kids both need to end.
Now extend this to the most labor intensive sector of the economy - agriculture. Farm laws that were created to increase competition were rolled back. Every sector of economy in India is rent-seeking controlled by a small politically powerful block whether it is 'farmers' in Punjab, restaurants in your locality or rickshaw unions. Having said that competition and awareness is much better today than 10 years back.
Precisely this. If the management is willing to put an unexperienced person at the steering wheel of the company's IT infrastructure, it is a clear red flag. This is not to depreciate OP's talents. Instead, it sounds like the management has no idea what they are doing. Start looking for another place.
is spending money on free universal healthcare bad for people living in a country?
I explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29340489

Basically I think they're great, they're relatively common here (UK) but I think not in North America, I'm curious if there's an actual standard behind them, think there should be, and that everyone should use them.

The discussion going on in the Museum of Plugs & Sockets thread about people's favourite socket 'I wish everyone used X' could be resolved as 'fit your preferred Euromodule socket'! (BS1363 are available at least, 2U modules.)
I generally agree, but they put that crap on TVs that cost well into the thousands. Surely it’s only enthusiasts buying those?
https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/personal-...

> Data ceases to be personal when it is made anonymous, and an individual is no longer identifiable. But for data to be truly anonymized, the anonymization must be irreversible.

Examples of PII:

A cookie ID.
Internet Protocol (IP) address
Location data (for example, the location data from a mobile phone).
The advertising identifier of your phone.

A tvid is personally identifiable.
Multiple blockchains including Bitcoin and Ethereum had to be forked to avoid perpetuating the state caused by exploited bugs or for other reasons. This implies that the state before the fork is untrustworthy, doesn't it?
Show HN: DareDonut, a website where you can dare each others
Hi, my friend and I created DareDonut, a website where people can create and vote on fun and safe dares for others and then view and own NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) of these dares moments. If you like to have fun, pls sign up!:) DareDonut is for those who want to live a little bit more exciting in a safe way!
Sizzy is a similar product that I've been using for a year or two. It's pretty good:

https://sizzy.co/

Monthly licence fee: £5.36/month
Annual: £39.07/yr
Lifetime: £152.43
Go Where No Drone Has Gone Before
Does anyone know of anything equivalent for samsung? I have a QE65Q75T model which I feel gets more ads as the weeks go by, and I didn't know this type of things were possible
Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? (2012)
I think it could just be your bias, because the rest of 99.9% of the world would say it's the opposite.
Well not entirely and there are a lot of factors. One quick thing id mention is this should apply to residential dwellings only. I’ve heard stories (rumors?) of places like golf courses being locked into low property taxes too which isn’t great.

But you don’t want to kick someone out of a house they bought because property taxes went up. That property taxes have increased so much that this is even possible is concerning. They shouldn’t go up that much.

The housing issues in California come down to regulation making it expensive and difficult to build, and just way too many people wanting to move somewhere with some of the best weather and natural features and jobs in the world. That California is inherently expensive shouldn’t be controversial or surprising.
Ask HN: What does people use for AuthN/AuthZ in production these days
Hi HackerNews!

I'm currently exploring the option creating an authentication service which is separated from the main backend. So I wanted to ask what auth tools/libraries/services you guys are satisfied with these days? Could be third-party, or just a library on your favorite language!
I have those in my house. They are modular (see https://www.tem-si.com/design-switches/).
“Here’s the link to my calendly. If you don’t see anything that works in the next week or so, just send me over a few times that would work for you & I can reshuffle things to make one of them work.”
:D

Mathematician. Thought about a new (at least to me) transcendental number ...
The UI for the demo is atrocious, but that's probably because the text-to-image generation was glued to their existing AI painting tool.

I'd love for just the algorithm generation tool to be available for download. The web UI is clunky and just doesn't seem to work right.
"These items are sold by a third-party seller on our marketplace website"

That's really the essence of the story here. Walmart, Amazon, and others sell almost anything via their 3rd party seller functionality. With little oversight on product safety, counterfeits, issues like this one, etc. And not really enough visual cues and explanation to the buyer about what a 3rd party marketplace is. People seem to understand, for example, that their eBay purchase is something of a crapshoot. They don't always get that idea on Amazon and WalMart.
> Instead, try approaching people who are speaking in groups of two.

I would advise to check body language first. If the duo are facing each other head-on, don't interject. If they're turned slightly outwards, like they're observing the crowd whilst talking, go for it.

I've had a couple of intense conversations broken up like this by someone standing there awkwardly, but then you also don't want to make them feel bad by telling your conversation partner "I'll finish the story later <turn> Hi!", etc.
Your article:

"More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Turkey pending trial over links to Mr Gulen. Another 150,000 people have been sacked or suspended from jobs in the public and private sectors since the coup attempt on 15 July 2016."

So it is a "coup" organized by 200.000 people? Or the destruction of all political opposition supported by some nice storytelling?

It is always a good strategy for candidate dictators to point out the evil foreigners... It guarantees the simple-minded people support.
Yeah I miss them. When we visited home last, my girlfriend (German) was amazed that we have a switch on them to turn each plug off and on rather than having to completely yank it out of the wall like with the Euro ones.