skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

Channels, aka processes in the corporate world.
They might have wondered it already. And even asked, “why are we doing this? Seems like a bad idea.” But when the response is a list of reasons that may or may not be good, you just go with it. All of this was done with intention.
I have addressed this problem by using a 4x4 USB switcher from Rosewill and an HDMI matrix, such as those used by broadcasting or A/V signage industries. I started with an 8x8 matrix and now have a 16x16. It’s dead simple to give each of the 4 or so computers I have hooked up to them 3 or so monitors, and I can swap any video source to any sink using a web interface. The matrix isn’t cheap (approximately $1200) but after using it for around 4 years, I honestly couldn’t think of using my workstation any other way.
Heck, a 3990X can run Crysis using software rendering.
reading through this, and my tinfoil hat tells me this would make a more effective psyop than a manual. you create something like this, "lose" a copy where enemy decision makers can get a hold of it and bam, now the other guys are eating enormous resources on a slew of red-herring mole hunts.
A previous workplace experimented with Rust for internal services and the feedback was almost uniformly negative. Commonly cited reasons were the long compile times, limited standard library, and generally unstable best practices. One interesting quote was "why are you forcing me to waste a bunch of time doing needless bookkeeping when I create and pass around a string?"

The blog post about "Why strings seem hard in Rust" was not met with excited reactions.
Eventually you will need a public ledger (to support hundreds of thousands of these signatures), and the choice of making it centralized (mutable) or decentralized (very difficult to change). This is how you end up with a public distributed ledger aka blockchain.
bike index has an open API
This is my favourite BS argument by audiophiles when defending some impossible claim or other: you have to listen to it. Not measure it or pay any attention to how the item actually works.

They claim they can hear digital cables, ethernet cables and now storage devices. Its plainly ridiculous but somehow they manage to find each other and reinforce this nonsense en-masse, ruining online forums with garbage and confusing noobs with half understood technical terms like jitter.

Then the next step is always some disparaging remark that you can't hear the difference because your system isn't "high enough resolution".

Audiophiles have become more insufferable as systems improved.
Perhaps the biggest problem that the author does not identify is lack of timestamping. Thus their schema provides strictly weaker guarentees than NFTs as they exist today.

Timestamping would have to rely on a trusted third party (an example being publishing the transaction on twitter which already has an identity mechanism, provides timestamping and does not allow editing) or inventing a blockchain like mechanism to reduce the influence on the third party (twitter COULD disable your account and make those tweets unavailable after all).

Without publicly verifiable timestamping verifying multiple sale is incredibly difficult, as is guarentee of future unique ownership. Apart from this the author is very on point with his criticisms and I believe most do not realise the limitations of what NFTs can achieve by themselves.
Hard to argue with any of your points, their entire concept is absurd.
I bought a fantastic curved Samsung monitor and it supports reading from the port that tells you the current input but not setting it. It also has the worst possible input switcher that cycles until it finds a valid input.

I wish it were easier to hack on monitor firmware. I'd love to improve it.
Having it slide across an otherwise flat surface with indeterminate grit on it usually does the trick.

Aluminium oxide, for example - it comes off as white powder on motorcycle engines - and is pretty hard stuff, the same stuff as sapphire and ruby. That can end up on surfaces via motorcycle gloves if you ride motorbikes, if not from your own bike, then grit thrown up by tyres on a wet day.

I mean, phones don't scratch easily, but they do acquire a tiny scratch or two every few months, and a bad scratch maybe once or twice a year.
The big issue with NVidia GPUs is that NVidia won't allow opensource drivers to set the clock rate on newer graphics cards.

However even on older cards where this is not an issue, community drivers tend to lag behind. It is far for a breeze. So far they are leveraging the Mesa driver infrastructure to implement OpenGL ES 2.0, which is a good beginning. The really hard part is supporting all of the latest technologies at a good performance. It's too early to know if that will be a breeze or not.
> is there a way to prevent me from selling you my wallet without going back to the blockchain?

Besides hardware wallets, most people wouldn't take the risk of buying a wallet since the seller could then send the NFTs to a different address they control, thus leaving you with a worthless wallet you paid above market price for.

> If I steal your wallet, am I also stealing your NFTs?

(once again, besides hardware wallets) stealing a wallet itself is only possible if the owner doesn't have the private key / secret words jotted down somewhere. A much more likely and common attack after finding a private key is to immediately transfer all NFTs to another address for cheap.
>I wonder if there is a place on the internet with the format of HN and a not so dissimilar quality of comments but focused on World events, philosophy, art, science ( excluding politics because it's too prone to flamewars).

Probably Reddit TBH, but also probably not the main subreddit for any particular topic, so it might take some digging. I hear good things about the quality of /r/askhistorians for instance. Also r/anime_titties/ (seriously.) Occasionally someone will post a thread here about high quality subreddits.
Isn't this line of thought very similar to how the Roman Church guided people in the past? Results were not astonishingly good...
> You’re not really an open-source project, in the conventional meaning of the term, until either

> 1. Your project starts accepting code contributions from the community (if perhaps after a gruelling code-contribution process); or

> 2. Your project’s codebase becomes licensed in a way that allows people to fork it, add their own changes, and then use the result themselves to achieve their own ends (if perhaps only non-commercial ends.)

There is a formal definition of Open Source by the Open Source Initiative:

> https://opensource.org/osd

Only 2 is open source (but the no-commercial condition means this it is not), while only 1 is not open source.
I’m on his side on this and certainly don’t want to attack him lol

However, I’m curious because it’s a much nicer-sounding term than the alternatives, seemingly engineered. Given the difficulties Conservatives have had in expressing distrust of newspapers, news stations, etc, I’m wondering if it came from a Conservative source.
'Teal society' structures (e.g. holacracy) are probably an appropriate addition to the list. Could you share a link to what you men by 'healing the world'? It's an interesting turn of phrase that I hadn't heard before outside my own coinage.
In a class what is it that finally motivates the unmotivated? Fear of failing the exam. You already got this scary motivator with standardized testing. If you're talking about self-study versus a taking a college class to learn something, then I'd agree with you. Also of course, preparing for a general test is easy review material you don't need a skilled teacher to coach you through.
I guess I had already dropped cable well before I resubscribed through HBO Max.
Connecting the iDOTs (2020)
The Ecology Stupid - Securities and Exchange Commission
> This happened maybe 10-15 times

The fact that you tried this many times kind of makes you lose all credibility...

> Deliveroo are so much better it's not even funny.

It's like reading a reply from a bot account. Fool me once, fool me twice... but fool me 10-15 times, and deliveroo it is!
I read a history of England during the Restoration, and the author described why the government favored a tax on salt rather than a tallow. Tallow could be made at home, but a salt on tax brought in revenue and also made the household less productive. I have to wonder if entrenched, hierarchical structures reflexively view increasing household sufficiency as a threat.
Either you didn't read the linked article (you generally should, before commenting) or you fail to grasp the issue at hand.

It's a wholly different situation if colleagues were just informally chatting with one and another but they were circumventing regulations that require talk about customers to be documented.
Yes, of course. C++ is not safe. That's the whole point of the language.
I combine HN for global/tech news and local news for...well, local & neighborhood news, like County and City politics, etc.

Together, it's enough and frankly more time than I have for news anyway.
I'll admit that I haven't read their T&Cs, but how is this allowed? It blows my mind.
"Exploding" is a feature of the battery, not the headphone.

Lithium-ion are the best we have right now, and they "explode" (catch fire I think is more accurate) when damaged.

Do I want better battery chemistries that are more robust? Of course.

Am I going to hold this against Bose or any other battery-powered device manufacturer until we do? No.
I'm 42 and would rather not go back to closed source.
Why feel depressed?
Invest your new fortune in a few more ICOs, wait year or two and when the amount invested drops to your initial sum - sell and feel great again ;)
Stay hungry, stay foolish ;)
Jokes aside, 7m can disappear with the same speed they arrived, so keep that in mind and keep doing what you love and what you can find as a purpose.
Solution Aversion: On the Relation Between Ideology and Motivated Disbelief (2014)
Well, sure, no place ever has 100% people who are satisfied or proud of working there. I don't think there's much to be ashamed of though. I certainly would hold my head high if I worked there.
It looks like a IP geolocaion API. However, it has missing authentication under the readme.
Cheaper
You're kinda arguing for wired headphones in a different part of this thread.

Bit of a stretch to say you're "pro-innovation" in this context.
Less stuff and more sleep.
I wouldn't say that's the _point_
For what it’s worth, I hate the fact mobile phones and web browsers throw away the interoperability of the filesystem.

But we have a real problem with insecure or untrustworthy code, be it npm modules, desktop apps, and whatever else. If we want the desktop to stay healthy as a computing platform, we as an industry need to find ways to solve this. I don’t want safe computing to be the sole domain of locked down phones with no filesystem.

I’ve mentioned two potential solutions - 1) we can ask the user to explicitly decide what access they want programs to have. And 2) software sandboxing of libraries via wasi, bsd’s pledge or deno‘s security model.

It sounds like you don’t like either of these solutions, but I’m all out of ideas here. How do you think we should approach this problem? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
From my point of view, two of the main factors against environmentalist ideas were:

1. Scientific dishonesty among some environmentalist researchers

2. Vocal advocates caught doing exact opposite in their personal lives - hypocrisy
This idea doesn't work at all. For your dota skin to work in world of warcraft, the developers of WoW would have to acknowledge that 0x1fab... corresponds with $ITEM in $GAME and then spend the time actually implementing that item in the game.

Since that would take an inordinate amount of effort for *absolutely no benefit for WoW or Dota*, this would only ever feasibly be used *between games made by the same company*, which at that point they would just use a centralised database for obvious reasons.

The Movable-Game-Assets thing has been done before on a huge scale by the biggest gaming company in the world, with nintendo's Amiibos. Look at how they turned out! Barely any games on the switch actually support the full set of amiibos, and those that do don't give much. Amiibos already implement the exact thing you're talking about without any blockchain at all.
You can argue the same about a signed print of a digital illustration, photograph, etc. See here:

https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gi...
yes, i'd say there is both societal taboo (especially outright culling them rather than just throwing stones at them to chase them away) and legal restrictions:
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/world/asia/fed-by-indians...

I would say that at least in north east india, monkeys didn't seem to be a huge problem. There are langurs everywhere, but they mostly stick to trees or the jungle, or sometimes the outskirts of towns. I think it's probably because they have plenty of places to eat there relative to the more urbanized parts of the country.
What language did the workplace decide to use instead?
The difference with NFT is that it's used for art, and art comes from a specific artist, and usually in the world of art what gives value to the art is the artist. So, if I have a thing signed from the artist, it's as good as it can get. If they want to double spend or do other things, then they will lose credibility as artists and will no longer be able to sell what they sold so there's no incentive in cheating, hence no need for a central authority or blockchain. All you need is them publishing their public ledger of what was sold to whom, no blockchain necessary.
For the same reason, Castlevania in PAL devices has slower music. It was really off-putting in the beginning but I got used to it...
> Dota 2

Don't do that, highly addictive.
I think OPs point is NFT style guarantees exist without NFT technology.

Recently I learned folks appraise ‘64 mustangs based on VIN and markings - so they know how close to the “first off the lot” that mustang was. They don’t need a blockchain to do that.

I think there is a valid point to this take - humans don’t need irrefutable cryptographic proof that something has a story attached to it; they just need enough compelling evidence the story attached to an object is true. And the kinds of stories folks value tend to be human stories (this is the crown worn by so and so, this is the finger bone of saint so and so, etc.) which NFTs can’t capture.
Actually it's well established that psychopaths are well aware of their psychopathy and the easiest way to diagnose is to ask someone whether they think they are psychopathic (of course then you follow up to test that thesis..).
You were reading between the lines, and the initial announcement was writing between them. But like I said, it is not feasible to maintain a LTS Perl 5 next to a fork of the interpreter. The actual proposal was only even to maintain Perl 5 for a few years before sunsetting it. CPAN would not have been compatible with Perl 7, it would require a separate ecosystem of code and installed libraries. The ideas sound nice but I don't think a lot of people would have been happy with how the details would have worked out. Most of the problems you're talking about are more a deficiency of perception and tooling, and these can be addressed without such drastic measures.
Your implication that specific bad coders are responsible for bugs is dangerous. Anyone can write a bug, and thinking that you're too good to do it is cocky.
Yeah, I just wish the clickbait requirement for something like "unbreakable phone screens" wasn't required to get attention. This is still basic science... it doesn't have an application yet. Pretending it does is more of a hinderance than support.
There's nothing deficient about transmission lines or lumped element models for answering the riddle. Distributed element models of transmission lines [1] clearly show a straight line path directly from the battery to the bulb without going through the whole wire.

Electroboom's criticism is that even if you're not misdirected by the setup, there's still a missing assumption required to arrive at the same answer as Veritasium.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_model_Heaviside.sv...
I was blacklisted on Uber a few years ago when I reported a security vulnerability to them.

They said no such vulnerability existed. I sent them video. They said I must have been doctoring the video because they couldn't reproduce it. They then banned me.

This was in 2015.

They were then sued because the vulnerability apparently identified someone's affair[0].

I sent my email exchange with Uber to the attorney who sued Uber, letting them know that they were aware of the bug two years prior. You know, because no good deed goes unpunished.

I get by just fine on Lyft these days.

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0: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38948281
Is it worth the current violations? My personal opinion is no, but the price movements also don't make any sense to me.

But I also feel I might value it more than you? As it depends on where you're coming from. There are parts of the world (like where I live) where there is no meaningful sense of legal protections or rule of law. Things hang together because people are in general, not that foolish or malicious.

The added complexities, risk, instabilities can be more worth paying given for example, heavy inflation (for such people participation is not speculative as price stability is more important than rise) or friction in global financial transactions.
My understanding is that most of the modern research has generally advised against the idea that Toba caused a population bottleneck. I'm not sure there's any archaeological evidence of any hominid settlements that were abandoned as a result of the eruption--and there are several sites that demonstrate continuity through the eruption. Furthermore, better constraints on the date of the Toba eruption appear to put it after the onset of the glacial period.

So the theory that it caused a severe bottleneck is something that I'd consider 'discredited' rather than 'disputed' or even 'controversial.'
Yes you are the baddies. And how 4 of your presidents have received the Nobel peace price makes me really question the integrity of such a prize. Drone strikes one day Nobel peace prize the other. You should automatically be disqualified the moment you call up a drone strike. There are literally hundreds of other contenders that are not responsible for killing children and innocent civilians that should get that prize instead.
I have worked with several "spies" at this point from China that appear to be using this a straight up playbook.
The rest of the world, like Ethiopians and Ukrainians have been doing, would just buy from more... Understanding actors like Turkey instead.
> attempting to present his answers as more substantial than the underlying investigation could support (instead of doing a substantive sociological investigation);

This was the main issue I noticed when I read it. It read like a newbie academic making the classic fallacy of assuming the conclusion, then citing only sources that support that conclusion, while ignoring 1) that those sources are not definitive or conclusive, and 2) the body of research and evidence that may disprove it.

It's much easier to disprove an assertion than prove one true. In fact all of science is based around rigorously disproving hypotheses, simply because Process of Elimination is the most robust and reliable way of surfacing new truths while minimizing false positives.

Back to Damore's paper, if you're going to write a critique of something so controversial in society, you can't just cherry-pick sources that agree with you. A better approach would have been, as you observe, to raise questions about some issues and challenge society to a discussion, but without trying to prime or anchor it with pre-conceived conclusions.
Strange choice of demonstration, then. The C++ example is thread-safe, so you don't demand any further synchronozation from the caller. The Rust example, by contrast, DOES demand additional (superfluous) sychronization by the caller.

The article makes it seem like Rust type system is just throwing up blockers for no reason.

If your API is satisfactory with an &mut reference, then you don't need an atomic inside.
Could hydrogen airships return as fast, cheap, green cargo transports?
Git allows you to use a custom diff tool for a specific file format. The problem is that these centralized source hosting/review tools only let you do about half of what Git can do.
Show HN: Push-to-Talk for PulseAudio Ported to Rust
The laws aren't enforced by machines, merely augmented or providing more options for the global disenfranchised (such as access to scientific material or easier access to global markets).
I definitely miss the vibe of the old SCC. I keep up with all the new posts, but when I feel like killing some time I'll go back through the archive. It has a sort of homey vibe that was lost with the transition to Substack. Of course I'm glad that Scott is receiving the metric tons of money his writing has always deserved, but there's definitely reason for nostalgia.
"The basic problems didn't appear until individual rap groups exhausted the virtues of consciousness-raising and decided they wanted to do something more specific. At this point they usually foundered because most groups were unwilling to change their structure when they changed their tasks."

That happened to Occupy Wall Street, and to Black Lives Matter. Both failed to focus on specific, achievable goals. And so, they never got beyond the consciousness raising stage.
If Occupy Wall Street had focused on "Tax the 1%" and "Break up monopoly landlords", and Black Lives Matter had focused on "Every killing by a cop gets investigated by the FBI" and "Fire the bottom 10% of cops", they might have achieved those goals.
This is basically a plea for applications / social networks to somewhat become citizens of the internet, to participate in the rest of society.

> We invite software developers to do their part, by (creating links, public-ish apis to resolve even hidden links)

Love it. Love it love it love it. You're either a part of civil society, participating in public activities, something visible & discussable & around. You are part of the internetworking of humankind. Online, in a connected way. Or you're just using the internet to extend your intranet. To build your own private little silo, a small fort, a-participator, contributing nothing, taking.

I love the ideas here. I do want to see a reciprocal dawning awareness though, a hope/expectation/recognition that social systems & so called online medias be accessible broadly, not just via narrow applicationized windows. Ubiquotous linking is a mouthful, a complex notion, but I want this battle not just to be one that good moral techies try to raise up & make other techies do, but something that society itself engages in, a recognition that that which is done in secret in closed systems does not contribute, and a belief that society deserves to be able to comment, review, discuss, share, link, cite, exchange the ideas and things they see as they navigate connected information systems. Connected information systems ought be a part of the broader internetwork we have. To fall away from that, to become your own little island: it withdraws your value, what you are from society, is anti-social, anti-societal. Great site, but it leaves me wondering how we scope up the dilemna & situation here, how we make the conflict of withheld & walled-gardened (corporate intra-netted), versus public & in the world.
This. Blockchains can't guarantee provenance, or that art isn't stolen, etc. Just that the agreed upon story has remained consistent, whether or not it was true.