skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I would suggest not using slurs and claim that people who think otherwise are schizophrenic then.

I'm not sure what you expect from me. I similarly can't prove that almost every piece of hardware and software isn't backdoored, but it would be silly to think that it all is especially if you have experience designing hardware or software products.

At least the people who do talk to me about being afraid of the ME often are overly paranoid and don't have a good understanding of hardware / software. These people often think ARM's TrustZone is an equivalent to ME.

>It would not be much of a backdoor if they said otherwise.

Intel is kind of in an impossible situation then. They can't prove there is no backdoor because it wouldn't be much of a backdoor if they showed you. You have to trust Intel that they are developing a secure product. It is Intel's best interest to develop a secure product.

>I am curious about that. Got a link?

I can't link to something that doesn't exist, but there have been a few people / teams who have attempted reversing it which you can find by googling.

>No reason for civilians not to be as paranoid.

Sure people can be paranoid, but it can get in the way of them living their life.

>Why not let the government have a master-key of every door then?

This seems like a logistical nightmare, but something similar already exists for emergency purposes such as for fire fighters.

>Got any technical suggestion regarding its implementation?

People who sign warrants have a hardware device which holds their private key. If this device gets lost or stolen the key can be invalidated. The private key wouldn't leak because you can't access the key itself. The hardware device could potentially also have a rate limit like 100 machines per day to limit abuse.
> + access to a quantum computer

Yeah... i think i already agree with the person disagreeing with you just based on this description. "world class abacus" is not an accurate description of what a quantum computer is.
I sleep when I'm sleepy.
I'm amazed at the end of 2021, I still get to see these responses about blockchain on hacker news.

Somehow Reddit looks smarter when it comes to blockchain topics.
Where a cat is a table extended with a .meow()
Rainbow Planes
Your postings are awesome.
I also prefer 10.6, growing up with DOS 3.0 and then a list of OSes and apps too large to fit in the margin.
Importance of Onboarding to Retain New Employees
Chromium doesn’t contain any copyleft code AFAIK, which is how Edge and Google Chrome (not exactly Chromium) exist.
Still in love with Tiddlywiki!
I guess I just felt that there was quite a large number of dinosaur species for civilization to arise in, not to mention they were on land, so it might be weird to say sharks didn't develop civilization over a long period of time given the differences compared.

But I suppose you didn't understand what I meant.
Exactly right but why is the issue here that the city is losing out on money?

The issue should be that people in our society are so desperate for income that they're literally digging through our trash for our scraps, no?
I'm amazed that the whole thing has somehow kept going despite the same lack of legitimate use cases that it's had from the start.
This is really odd comment. Like, yes, if you leave it outside in the rain that probably isn't the best for it, but it is a bed thous usually stay indoors. I don't get what your imaginary scenario is where the structure of the box is randomly compromised by the moisture.

The flammability is even more strange. Again yeah, maybe don't put your baby box right in from the of the fireplace, but you probably wouldn't leave your baby there unsupervised anyway. Also babies usually aren't smokers so you don't have to worry about them dozing off with a cigarette and burning down the house.
I used BeOS as a daily driver for a few years back in the day. It was a great OS, wonderfully smooth and powerful. But I was forced off of it because of the lack of applications. Applications make or break an OS. Microsoft had to learn this lesson several times already (windows phone, windows rt).
That poor researcher.
The problem is, it doesn’t look anything like the system UI either. Just because it is using a native toolkit doesn’t mean it automatically looks good or integrates well.
If your baby is due in 4 weeks it’s likely it’ll be quite a few months until a crib is needed. The first months will pass in a tired blur of the baby sleeping only on you or your partner, followed waking up the second you try to put them on anything else. Once they use a crib though just buy one — you won’t have time to build and it’s important to make it safe.
> Regarding HiDPI and XWayland, there is work-in-progress PR[1] that so far is being ignored by the Wayland developers.

Just curious, what are the Wayland developers expected to do? This seems like an Xwayland and compositor implementation issue.
Great points, I agree but would like to add:
4. Common language
DNA completely decays after at most 1k years
Nobody in history has mugged someone to raise funds for a six pack and a pack of smokes
Are you French?
You don't put the lid on, mate.
Did you fill out the TPS reports?
Is there empirical data on which one is more likely to be read first? I feel like more people would read the top one first than the bottom one, but I don't know.
There are efforts for people not to be at an unhealthy over weight, to not need social assistance and to not go to the hospital in the first case.

Would you argue that a better comparison would be people choosing to have other efforts being done rather than recieving a blood transfusion? Even if non existent or very expensive?
Only if the setup needs to be zero-trust. Systems of correspondent banks etc. worked very well even in times where worldwide communication took weeks, and even today there are e.g. traditional Islamic money-transmission networks that operate extremely efficiently because they rely on trust.
Data warehouse is the new back end
> This can't (easily) be overridden

Isn't it a simple drop-down in openwrt?
Blockchain in the sense of proof-of-work mining? A Merkle tree might make sense, signed updates might make sense, but I don't see that mining adds value in that use case.
Boing and Airbus express concerns over 5G interference
This "perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo" is a rock.

It's in the perfectly preserved shape of a dinosaur embryo, but chemically, it's a rock. Generally speaking, that's what fossils are.

I bet Young Earth Creationists will be quoting this article for decades now. Thanks, Guardian, for the clickbait-y headline. Cheeses.
I think Electron is quite amazing. It does not deserve this bad reputation that it for some reason has on HN.
Are “inflation expectations” different than measured inflation?
Half the "well-recognisable" imagery seems to be of things that are long gone from the world. How many kids these days have ever seen a typewriter, a rotary-dial phone, or a point-and-shoot camera? The "save icon" has long overtaken the actual floppy disk. Many folks are even too young to know that the folder icon is modelled on physical file folders.
David Chaum's Digicoin enabled this back in the mid 90s. He has the (expired) patents to prove it.
I used to use Chrome for Google stuff, but recently I found the Multi-Account Containers Firefox extension. Works really well for splitting up a work profile, accounts tied to your real identity, and casual web browsing.
The comments here show, again, that this is maybe the most charged topic in hackernews.

Why is this topic so charged? Is it because the environmental damage (but then PoS should change it)? or because there's money involved (but then ENS+IPFS are poor, so should be good)? Or is it just because it's complex and takes a lot of effort to understand?
You don't need a blockchain for digital signatures.
99% of times, the top comment for anything related to crypto on HN will have a comment like this. Some people just don't get it.

Unfortunately, HN became /r/buttcoin long ago, and it looks like it's not the place to have a nuanced and rational conversation about blockchain or anything crypto. There is such a wide array of rich conversation about very interesting topics happening elsewhere (monetary policy being my favorite topic after reading The Bitcoin Standard) that is just routing around HN into subreddits/discords/twitter.
I love the way the hills are drawn. Very different from the now common hillshade + isolines, but very clear nonetheless
I wonder why no one added this feature to Chromium...
Does anyone know if we understand enough about natural, generally intelligent brains to dismiss the idea that they are using quantum phenomenon for computation? Is it unlikely for any reason?
Kids would be able to pickup CLI if that were the only way to start their favorite game. Kids also share knowledge even when your attention is away. We had a drive to learn MK combos and used that to win fights, but as adults, barely anyone in a random-100 group knows how to :q Vim.

Give your kid a phone with zero interesting activities in it compared to other toys, and he/she would “pick” nothing out of it.
> we have no practical carbon capture technology better than planting big-ass trees

This is not true. There are many projects underway (example - [1]) utilizing various technologies, and while it's true none has yet to reach economy of scale there is still time to do so. We only need a few good and scaleable solutions.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57588248 "Climate change: Large-scale CO2 removal facility set for Scotland"
I grew up in an actual coconut orchard in Southern India.

The coconuts that fall are usually mature and mostly dried out and don't nearly weigh as much as a fresh coconut. You'd still get injured not not likely to kill you.

I was also less worried about a coconut falling on my head because they would get harvested (by climbing the tree and felling them) before they turned mature enough to fall on their own.

Someone said they fall in a bunch. They might, but it's very rare. I've never seen coconuts falling in bunches unless they're being fell.

I would be more worried about the coconut leaf falling on my head. Those things are damn heavy and do tend to fall randomly and frequently, albeit with a large enough noise that you can run away to save your head. They made excellent fuel for cooking though.
> If we collectively prohibited all countries worldwide from producing weapons like tanks, rocket launchers, etc...

> There would be no need for any country to own or acquire similar defences.

If one country decides NOT to get rid of all its weapons how do you enforce your "prohibition"? Even classes of weapons that everyone agrees should be banned are retained because they are useful in extremis, eg, land mines.
Can you do wired >1GBit/s with low power consumption?
Is that true if it was frozen for the entire time?
Hey, I have a few serious questions, as I have really been trying to understand the benefits of using blockchain over "classic" stuff. They may sound like I'm questioning things, and that's because I am but with the goal to further my understanding.

> Lag of up to 24 hours is ok

So you could use any eventually consistent DB? Or a pub-sub type queue that you process at your leisure?

> and the relatively small number of parties is quite trustworthy.

I'm assuming this parties need to apply/be invited? How is that different than needing an API key?

> Basically they just use the bc for consensus

Consensus of what exactly? AFAIU the consensus is about the state of the data on the blockchain, with sanity checking against itself, not about if many parties agree if "this number should be blocked"

> and mirror it to a rdbms for read queries.

I was always under the impression that it's quite fast to read the data off the blockchain if you are a node. Am I misunderstanding something or is what they are doing just overkill?
The submitted link doesn't work for me, but I found these links which do:

- Report: https://www.recordedfuture.com/chinas-narrative-war-democrac...

- Summary: https://therecord.media/report-beijing-unleashed-a-massive-p...
I don't get what your comment is trying to say. If someone doesn't want to take the box they take the cash. If they take the box and immediately throw it into trash that is on them. Everyone still gets equal start.
Or even digital goods because you still need to know for any digital good which chain or chains has legitimate versions and really which those are versus any copies that are also on the chain(s).
This is very very cool. I had coincidentally just spent my evening trying to figure out how to get Wayland and Sommelier working in a slightly odd environment (Crouton, on Chrome OS), and this article showed up on HN just in time for me to appreciate it :)
Forget the whole world and focus on your world
There are and have been quite a few efforts[0] that 'transpile' c# to js and they worked pretty well (I used bridge.net on a large project and it was nice, but the tooling sucked), but without full support (aka a smooth vsc experience like TS which is simply quite bad for c#, the regular version, already, let alone derivatives) it died. Guess people who worked on it dumped it and moves to TS for client/Server. Seems a waste but whatever; nothing to do about it.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16434389/javascript-and-...
> For example, find all users who have have been active at least 10 days.

Well, then you only need to compare the difference of the timestamp (or date) values with an interval of 10 days. e.g. end_time - start_time >= interval '10 days'
Using it at my current company and it’s great. Especially the little things like the ship it reaction! Super hilarious when I saw it for the first time. Thanks for that.

Some constructive feedback: could not get my webcam (canon eos utility) working. But tbh nothing big because we never use Webcams.
I don't think any of that was conveyed by the phrase "Dinosaurs weren't a species" :)
It would be great is the giant company that makes Safari could find a solution so any webdev could run Safari (and the betas too) on their machine to be able to test in it.
It's not awful, but I feel it's still pretty meh. I say this as a person raised in Edinburgh in the sixties and seventies. How bad? Well.. in their backend meta pages they link to the DSL (Dictionary of the scots language/dictionars o' Scots Leid [0]) which says this:

Written Scots
In the written mode, Scots spelling remains variable. Attempts to make it more consistent, notably the Scots Style Sheet produced by the Makars’ Club in 1947 or the Recommendations for Writers in Scots published by the Scots Language Society in 1985, have had at best only limited success, competing with other systems that have been developed to represent more closely localized varieties of spoken Scots.

When your reference text says the language isn't yet well captured in a single print, you better believe the wiki page is a hot mess.

[0] https://dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/what-is-scots/
“Zero fucks given” in other languages
But Microservices?
Point taken.

You could enforce the prohibition through trade sanctions.

But if that country was already starving/hungry that would only exacerbate the situation.

And yes some kind of strategic reserve of defence weapons would be required by all countries.
Why are you asking? Could you elaborate?
I did a soul buy back after a lot of hard work and I'm my own man now so no hah hah
Direct calls between languages is always going to have some friction because languages have their own data types and cultures, it's unavoidable, but I think many of those systems make it work as well as can be reasonably expected.

Meanwhile you have the option of specifying a language neutral protocol for invoking public interfaces across languages, or reuse a wire protocol. Not many people seem to make this tradeoff though, it would usually be a bigger pain than to live with the limitations of cross language direct calls.
Monetary policy "debate" is deeply attractive to uninformed cranks. May it stay so routed.
Wikipedia seems to cite: Isenberg. The Destruction of the Bison. pp. 136–7, 151–2.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#19th_century_bis...
> A full restart of the devices helps, but usually only for 15-30 mins.

This rings a bell. Do you have an Orbi mesh by any chance? I used to experience this with specific cheap IoT devices that were constantly hopping to different Orbi satellites.

There is an option somewhere in the UI to bind a device to one specific access point, and you can tag a device as IoT or smart speakers which (based on feeling) seems to change the steering heuristics to something that stops this from happening.
Plus, the human body radiates off a lot of thermal energy, warm gases rise, so purely by thermal convection enough mixing occurs.
You can also use `git grep` if you're using git, and I'm sure analogues exist for the other VCSs.
You're off by at least an order of magnitude there; we have DNA samples from well further back than that, such as from Neanderthals and from mammoths.

But no, it doesn't last long enough to get DNA samples from dinosaurs. I don't know the area well enough to give a good figure, but 1 million years seems to be an upper bound from what I can find quickly.
I’ve been visiting a bunch of cities in the past year and it’s not just SF that’s like this.

I don’t know if income inequality is necessarily the cause but I do know it has drastically gotten worse in the past 15 years and US income inequality is now going to be the worst it has ever been in 120 years.
Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters, advances in derp learning (SIGBOVIK 2021)
McDonald's faces a chip shortage in Japan
True. It is sad that even when science is concerned, actual news sites are fake news generators today.
Raspberry pies ask you for the country
It's not only about web stuff. Microsoft themselves iterated on their standard UI: WPF, then WinRT which is different from win32 UI. It's a mess.

Though it's a mess in Linux as well: Gtk, Qt and some lesser known frameworks.

Not sure about macOS.
So you would like them to not be representable?
When has the CCP done anything abrupt and bloody against another country?
Einstein is considered a founder (1 of 3) of QM because he was the first to described light as quanta, and won the Nobel prize for it. It's ok to be skeptical, even of your own hypotheses/theories.
I was researching maps for a certian area that belonged to the kingdom of Bavaria, which is included in OP's link. That map is also almost completely available and accessable from germany's offical geoservices via WMS, which is nice. And the accuracy of these maps is astounding. (Whereas the 18. century map is mostly inaccurate in details) They are military maps, so it makes sense.

However I dug deeper into the history of these (bavarian) maps and suprisingly found that there are a lot more maps that built the basis of the military maps. And boy, they are uncannily accurate. And of course scattered among archives, survey offices and libraries.

I even managed to find a map with the exact locations of buildings that are still standing today. Manually georefercing them showed that they are often only a few centimeters off.

And to get back to this comment: I had a hard time finding a general map from the same area. And when i found it the office that held the records. They also didn't hold one map, but several maps that were made over the years. However they wwere extremly expensive and I was even bombarded with several limitations. E.g. if I'd publish it in a journal I MUST notify the office with details.

Parent comment is right, that they should be in the public domain, however some administrative bodies still believe that they should be guarded as state secrets, probably because these maps were the basis of tax registers and most of the land units on these maps are still the same 150 years later. Even though the same office publishes WMS data of todays situation for free on their website.
There’s a lot of economists and finance people working in the field.
"are we using all that computation effectively to make as much difference as our forebears did[...]?"

With Bitcoin we are literally using this power to prove to each other we burned some megajoules which we could otherwise use to power some physical stuff.

The difference made so far: it is easier to pay for drugs in order to evade stupid anti-drug laws.
I worked on a team (of nine) which tupled a lot.

Using Linux, I, and one other, was therefore not able to participate in a lot of work. Coworkers would pair with others because of familiarity, and because between macos and linux, there was more friction.

This caused a severe schisma in an already disfunctional team.

Management then disallowed tuple, because it was making things worse. But the practice continued. I quit. Not because of Tuple, but the entire distinction, of which Tuple was an ingredient.

The choice to not support an important part of the developer community is understandable from technical perspective. But socially, in times of isolation, home offices etc, it is doing harm out there.
What are the uses cases of blockchain that have been deployed outside of financial schemes, where the blockchain solves a problem in a unique way that could not have been addressed with non-blockchain?

Sure there were probably blockchain projects that got traction and use blockchain, but the only reason it’s blockchain was that it’s easier to get funding for that.

Genuinely curious.
Rotational symmetry a straightforward consequence of the wave equation.
It's amazing that I can transfer wealth across borders with zero bank involvement using this technology and I still have to see people like you claim the sky isn't blue. Like that's nice and all but you sound like sour grapes.
> Well, you just moved the goalposts from "what prompts a visit"

Fair point. I've just heard so many people make that argument (that your kids will be taken away by the government) that I filled in the blanks.

You're absolutely correct in terms of "getting a visit", and your links back that up.
Could be envy of people who saw other people get rich.
hmmm wikipedia, arctic vaults, and flying cars in space? :)
Really? Imagine trying to sell a piece of art. People need to authenticate it, then you need to transport it while having some escrow solution for the transaction. With an NFT you can do the transfer instantly (depending on the blockchain) and with no trusted third party.
Replacements for those LG displays are coming: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/16/apple-displays-24-and-2...

Probably timed to the Apple silicon Mac Pros.
Right, that's called regulatory arbitrage. It's not a [edit](unique) use case, it's basically crime, give or take. You're just skipping the AML and KYC checks that you'd ordinarily be required to take. Believe it or not sending money takes a few milliseconds in a classical system, except for, you know, regulatory and compliance checks that coiners pretend aren't actually needed.

The use cases are: regulatory arbitrage, crime and grift. That's it and that's all folks. Nothing more. Everything else is better solved by classical means.

The golden rule of blockchain is: if you think blockchain solves any given problem better than a classical solution you either don't know enough about the problem, or you don't know enough about the blockchain.

> Like that's nice and all but you sound like sour grapes.

[edit] As always, it's important to remind crypto folks that outside of the cult, ad hominem attacks are not suitable replacements for fact.
What people "take it as", and what facts are, are sometimes 2 very different things.

The baby box is a blessing for many families, and it's also much more than the box (which btw. is not a cheap piece of cardboard but comes complete with an insulated mattress and bedding made of high quality materials): there are clothes, diapers, hygienic goods, etc.

And last but not least, it's also a strong symbolic gesture: Society saying: "Don't worry, we got your back. You're not alone, we are all in this together, and we help each other."