skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"or any other company's services" is a bit to wide, the obvious biggest counter example to this would be utilities, everyone is somewhat entitled to access to their power company's services. But going outside utilities, what if I live on an island that is serviced by a single ferry company, shouldn't I be entitled to paying service?

And on the meaning of monopoly, I believe it is fair to describe the "network affect" as a monopoly. The historical example of the US rail comes to mind, the market had several rail companies at the time, but each had monopoly over certain routes, if you wanted to go from place A to place B you maybe only had one choice. The fact that other rail lines existed to places you didn't want to go doesn't mean that it wasn't a monopoly. The same way, those tech companies may have monopoly over the route from person A to person B.
Well, well, well. Let's recap some popular HN opinions that have surfaced lately:

What Problem Blockchains Solve

mrjin: centralized organizations are there for reasons, and block chain resolved none of them

The Web3 Fraud

endisneigh: In fact in the history of the internet I cannot find a single example of any technology working better in a decentralized fashion compared to centralized for the end user

The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger

Stephen Diehl: Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime.
"believes" is just legalese for "we won't show any proof and won't accept any appeal".
For jellyfin, that is. For emby, I doubt they’ll manage to even copy the technique
Why did this person set up a new tinder account?

"That is something that never happened to me before"

How if you're a first time user? Sounds like they already had a tinder account at some point. This is clickbait at best...
> Isn't a new Indian law about to come into effect related to credit cards? I wonder if this is that law's fault rather than Heroku's fault.

I wonder if that was brought up in the article. /s
Based on reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611139 the other day, my impression is for a small website operator the email template used some potentially threatening language in the line "I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code."

There is some discussion that for large websites or gov entities this kind of language may be necessary to communicate your sincerity with the request, but lone operators doing their best probably dont have any sort of legal to ensure they follow the letter of the law. From my perspective maybe its best to approach a small website with a more casual tone that you just want your data gone and "make it serious" if the request is ignored or the response is noncompliant.
^ I second this, and is what I've used at 2 previous companies.
> they must spin off subsidiaries

Eh? Subsidiaries aren't usually what people mean when they speak of breaking up companies. Subsidiaries are aligned with the parent company in terms of incentives, so it doesn't really change the landscape at all, besides worsening the user experience if you require the subsidiary to maintain its own isolated silo of users and data.
You want the government to be that involved in pair-selection in the population??? I am disturbed. Eugenics aside: you know that a direct result of this is that border services, local police, etc will have access to a database of dick pics, don't you?
This is where I get very confused about NFTs. What is this, actually?

The article says:

> This particular NFT offered bidders the ownership of a unique, detailed replica of the SMS, which was sent on the Vodafone network on 3rd December 1992.

...

> The message in question was sent by Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old British engineer who used his computer to send “Merry Christmas” to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone.

So is this just a string of characters spelling "Merry Christmas?" It cannot be the _actual_ SMS message -- unless it includes the phone that received it, right? So what IS this??
On the plus side, once you get a good websocket steady state going, the efficiency and latency benefits are nice compared to HTTP1 polling.

Maybe not that big of an advantage anymore with HTTP2 popping off.
> I do not consider acceptable to be threatened about California law that does not apply to me.

I think that's a bit much. Someone asking how they would submit a request if they needed to, and specifically saying in the message "I am not submitting a request, just wondering how" isn't exactly threatening you. It's sort of like someone going door to door ina neighborhood asking people what they think of the new water conservation law that requires sprinklers to be run after a certain time of day (which my city has, and recently went into effect). If I'm not in compliance, or don't even know if I'm in compliance, could that person have possibly seen my out of compliance and that's why they're asking? Maybe. If I knew about the law and was actually in compliance, I would know it's not a problem. One thing is not in question though, which is that if I'm subject to the law it's my responsibility to know about it and be in compliance, legally. Someone asking me about it is only a problem if I'm failing to do that in some way.

If they ask me about a law for some other county or state? I could look that up and determine I'm not subject to it. There's plenty of information on it.

> Is threatening people online not counted because it is online?

Your entire comment and all points therein relies on the assertion that the email is threatening. You haven't shown this. Some people might read that email as threatening, but I'll note, the only people that would do so are those that don't actually know whether they are subject to those laws and have ignored what's been going on and were blindsided by the question.

This whole thing is blown up because people are upset at being called out on their disregard to the current state of the internet and the laws being passed to regulate it. That's not to say the study was carried out without problem (it wasn't), but there actual harm to people of the type described in this thread was of their own negligence. Whether you think these laws are good or not, it is your responsibility to know whether you are affected, or have some assurance from others whether you are or not (even if it's just a hosting platform telling you what it thinks your responsibilities are). You can ignore this responsibility if you like. People do that all the time about laws that affect them. I'm sure everyone does it to some extent. Just don't act like you're a blameless victim when asked about them.
I regret that we have grown to call things like this myths. Seems many are then dismissed as false, without retaining any sense of usefulness they may or may not have.

Instead, simplifications and the limits of their explanation would be a much greater framing for some things.
Most anime releases are 10-bit h265/HEVC in Matroska container with ASS subtitles (which are a huge mess anyway and should stop being used), which isn’t supported anywhere at all.
Ok, what in the world is a blood pudding
It doesn't matter if you receive a license and not ownership of a physical good or copyright, it still comes down to contract law. If the company you are buying the license from revokes it, and doesn't uphold their side of the contract you can sue them for breach of contract. A contract term that says they can revoke the license at any time for no reason, without refund is unconscionable and unenforceable. Basically they need to show a judge that you acted maliciously or otherwise violated the contract, or they need to provide a refund.
You can store your data encrypted. I use Cryptomator on top of Dropbox for keeping my personal files in the cloud and synced between systems. It works on any online storage that presents itself as a drive to your OS. You lose all of value-added functionality of the cloud storage application, though, like the web interface and the ability to share.
Interesting to see that the raspi foundation is in the business of PSU certification. It kind of weirdly feels like the next gen Apple...
it would be a mistake to think leaders are any different than ordinary humans.
I am wary of granting any additional power to a government on any level, state or federal.

Although your assertion that state lines do not change the nature of core fields like mathematics is correct, they do present a change wherein the funds to pay for education sold as a public good are sourced. And my contention is that the federal government is not granted the power to provide funds for public education.

States are left that power, so to the extent that states want to provide/force education to be a public good, they can do so. It is preferable as people could relocate to another state which does not raise tax revenue to publicize education if they so chose to. States, after all, are not prohibited from direct taxiation.

The entire point of the revolution was to shed rule-by-decree systems by imposing the separation of powers through a system of checks and balances. I do not believe that Madison would be of the favor of a federal subsidiary on public education, even in the modern era.

Of course the Constitutional system creates unequal outcomes. Of course it creates unequal opportunities. But those are problems for citizens to solve amongst themselves locally, up to the state level. The federal government is not to squabble in such affairs.

It's not like education didn't exist in the 1700s. The founders were well aware of it and explicitly left it out. The same is true of a federalized Healthcare system.

I genuinely believe that, given no public funding of education at any level whatsoever, we would still see localities mobilize to provide it, as the benefit would likely outweigh the cost. An educated society is preferred, after all. I also believe the solution would be more efficient in resource usage and allocation.
This is a really interesting point. We deliberately built Element to help prove the spec and define its direction (including ensuring it has decent privacy properties), to avoid all the failure modes where folks build a protocol without a real app or product in mind and end up with something which tried to be all things to all people and useful to none.

While I’d have loved us to have infite manpower getting all the security features in from day 1, we had to bootstrap and we prioritised usable apps over optimising for a perfect spec. And judging by some of the rest of the thread, we didn’t so well even then; it would have been even worse otherwise.
InspiringAF now use your freedom to do even more...
Plenty of people will argue that the US is not a great example of a functioning democracy where government is held accountable by the citizenry at large.

So your example is valid but maybe not for the point you're trying to make?
Match Group (owner of tinder) basically has a monopoly in combination with their other apps. Even Facebook tried to challenge them and failed.
Yes - the point of that line was to be ridiculous. Age has nothing to do with it. Anyone at any age can have good ideas and bad ideas. There are some really incredibly _older_ and highly experienced engineers out there. But there are others that think that experience means they are never wrong. Age has nothing to do with this - what is important is your past experience, your understanding of the problem and then context of the problem, and how you work with your team.

And again, my point isn't that you never need backups. My point is that it is entirely plausible that at that point in time backups from S3 weren't a priority.
Suffered some minor strokes. Right left brain stuff was interesting. Lost ability to hand write. But could draw fine. Right side of body became very weak and numb.
Some mental stuff was fine. Others were not. Last I looked up it seemed to match left and right brain theory. Creative vs math side, etc.
Currently OpenWrt uses Kernel 5.10 or 5.4.

When WRT54G was available kernel was 2.2 or 2.4
Absolutely right, until you have multiple instances of backends you need to deal with and synchronize, which is a pain in the behind. The OPs main issue seems to be with that problem, which is the tough component of using something stateful like websockets anyways. The impedance mismatch of ‘something happened in the database’ to ‘send event over websocket’ is painful in a multi backend instance environment.

Case in point: dossier locking in the product we both worked on. Hi Jeroen! Always nice to find an old colleague on here :)
I don't think this is a different (and thus not "worse") case--it seems like a specific instance of the same case we've been discussing. Ultimately it comes down to this:

error.Error((*CustomErrorType)(nil))

You're putting a nil `*CustomErrorType` into an `error` interface.

This definitely causes some people confusion and results in bugs, but the question under discussion is whether the original claim ("an interface can be simultaneously nil and not nil") is true. Of course, it's not true as this example illustrates--the interface is not nil but the underlying data (of type `*CustomErrorType`) is nil.
Now that I think about it, in my dialect "beer" does sound differently from "één" and "been". "been" sounds close to its Standaardnederlands pronunciation, while the "ee" in "één" en "been" becomes a diphtong (or at least I think that's the correct term; I'm not a linguist). That might to some underlying fundamental difference between those words, maybe?
The central airport doesn't make sense because there are no airlines that will use it as hub (other than LOT, which can't even overload Okęcie), especially now that Hub&Spoke is reduced in prominence. To just get reasonable amount of people from Poland they'd have to close pretty much all other airports in Poland, which would cripple local travel (some trips I take would go back to >9h, or I'd have to fly to Berlin and take a Taxi).

Berlin is a corner case of national capital that is in aviation terms in the boonies. Frankfurt Auf Mein and Munich are big hubs because that's where Lufthansa has logistical bases. The 2000km distance doesn't do anything, that's a short hop for airliners. That means that Berlin will do profitable important routes direct... which happen to be mostly to airline hubs, with few exceptions.

So there's no reason for people from neighbouring countries to use it, it require artificially breaking other airports in Poland to have even a sliver of reason (easily debunked by anyone with idea of state of polish airports). It's whole existence happened because one man had an unresearched biased idea and the party jumps at his whim.
Would love to know if anyone monitors their home or office RF spectrum for unexpected guests, or just for fun.

I’ve played around with hackRF and it seems like that type of scanning is something you might do in highly sensitive environments.
I was thinking they'd land at something in range of 20Mhz (10% of a full sweep). for guard. That said, the actual sweep is in .1Mhz or less steps isn't it so you should be able to get away with a small guard I think? What is the actual receiver bandwidth?
Most applications written using HTTP, in my experience, do not have deep dependencies on the longevity of the HTTP2 connection. In my experience, TCP connections for HTTP2 are typically terminated at your load balancer or similar. So reconnections here happen completely unseen by either the client application in the field or the servers where the business logic is.

For us -- and I think this is common -- the persistent WebSocket connection allowed a set of assumptions around the shared state of the client and server that would have to be re-negotiated when reconnecting. The fact that this renegotiation was non-trivial was a major driver in selecting WebSockets in the first place. With HTTP, regardless of HTTP2 or QUIC, your application protocol very much is set up to re-negotiate things on a per-request basis. And so the issues I list don't tend to affect HTTP-based applications.
I'm not sure I completely understand. They say that the only thing that was affected was the tournament because its events needed to be processed synchronously, but I remember the entire site being unavailable for people. Was that unrelated?

On a side note, huge props to Lichess, the fact that they can compete with chess.com which has so many resources behind it is very impressive. Everyone who plays chess should consider becoming a patron.
Surely if they were "diplomats" we shouldn't need Apple to send them a mail to know their phones are compromised (by such an obvious trojan, even)?
Usually devices will randomize their MAC when scanning, and pick a MAC associated with the SSID: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/225839/android-1...
Thanks for the tip! I've been longtime XPS user so I'm happy as long as it supports Linux well enough. And sounds like that's the case. Relieved.
And a much better temperature story
Mormon billionaire leaves faith, rebukes LGBTQ rights stance
Yes, yes they do. I listed three examples of what a government granted monopoly looks like. Copyright, trademark and patents don’t exist naturally, and they’re unenforceable without the Rule of Law.

> What are you referring to?

Most recently (that I can think of): the suit the Feds filed against Facebook that was tossed out of court.
> federation issues

> gazillion TCP connections

We’ve been running a Synapse server with quite a bit of federated rooms, even larger ones like you mention. Never noticed a single issue like this that I recall.

I wonder if the reason is that we’re doing whitelisting, instead of federation with everyone by default. The whitelisting is quite liberal; I’ll add a server as soon as I’m in a conversation thread with someone from that server, or just want to see their avatar. Sometimes when I’m waiting for something else I’ll just scroll through a room and add a handful of servers. Essentially this is my proxy for only federation with “legit” servers and avoid being DDoSed.

> there should be a server wide option to make it "easier but less secure"

Disagree. Sure, UX can be improved, but compromising here defeats the purpose of why we’re doing this in the first place.

Another one of mine:

- E2EE seems complex to implement and very few of the clients implement it fully and properly.

This is the one point I think needs to be resolved before Matrix can be ready for wider adoption. It’s kind of pointless without E2EE, or if Element is the only client that can work for all rooms and messages.
DA Chesa seems to think that shopkeepers are victim-less.
I love articles like this. But I have NO facility or background to evaluate them. Given their premise is "everything you've been told is wrong", how do I know that this one is right? :-/

I just finished Blindsight, which is a SciFi novel but written by PhD Biologist and highly respected in Neurological circles... which pretty much commits to every.single.one. of these 'myths'.

Note, this is not an issue of "it's a young empirical discipline with a lot of uncertainty" (though that is the case as well:). For things which we should be able to discern some basic patterns and models, there seems to be tremendous amount of disagreement in seemingly-authoritative and knowledgeable sources; which just allows so much Woo-Hoo of the world to arise (and I'm not just thinking of Deepak Chopra:).
> brought in between $10 million and $20 million, a fraction of the $243 million

I mean I guess 7.5% is technically “a fraction”, but I’m used to this phrasing meaning “a really tiny fraction”
I use WebSockets for robots to communicate real-time state with a web UI. They’re the only option and they’re fine.

I get that this article is more focused on a narrow perspective of the technology. But of course you can make silly use of any technology.
Some do, some don't. I know two anti-vaxxers and one of them takes medication for mental illness and the other doesn't trust any doctors for any reason but does all kinds of homeopathy and other psuedoscientific shit.
> Most neurons have multiple jobs, not a single psychological purpose. For example, neurons in a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex are regularly involved in memory, emotion, decision-making, pain, moral judgments, imagination, attention, and empathy.

One possible answer here is that these things (e.g., memory, emotion, decision-making, and pain) actually have more in common than we perceive. It's possible that mental states that seem very different to us (from "inside" our brains) are in fact quite similar (from "outside" the brain), or vice versa. The lesson may really just be that our own introspection is an unreliable guide to the actual structure of the mind.
I will have an investigative reporter I work with reach out to Porsche for comment on the whistleblower’s claims and let them know a Taycan pack will be provided to an industry tear down expert for public stress testing. I’ll also have them contact the NHTSA to see if there’s an open investigation in the matter (separate from their investigation earlier in the year on the vehicle’s sudden power loss events). I appreciate you keeping me honest, and I’ll come back to HN with additional documentation when I have it. I’m either wrong or Porsche will need to make their EV owners whole.

Seems pretty straightforward to clear up if there’s any truth to the matter, and no one should be purposely or inadvertently spreading misinformation, including myself.
> Is there any reason to believe these same folks would willingly take this?

Yes, from the very beginning those who weren't comfortable with taking the vaccine have had hope for alternative medications from the pharmaceutical industry. See: hydrochloroquine, ivermectin, et. al.

It all needs to be put in the context of the vaccine being the fastest approved vaccine ever; vaccines having issues in the past; CNN, Joe Biden, etc. spreading FUD about the "warp speed" nature of the vaccine as late as October of last year (prior to the election); and, most of all, the propensity for humans to prefer to take inaction that won't necessarily cause them harm.

e.g., if you don't get a vaccine, you may get COVID, you might not, it may be minor, it may be severe. But it's one of those "whatever will be, will be" sort of things. Whereas if one is wary of the vaccine, and they willingly get it, they perceive they may be playing a direct, active role in bringing harm to themselves.

But once you know you have COVID, you have it, therefore there's no other option than to take action.
Tell me, are transactions guaranteed to have replicated before they commit?

If not, you have a major consistency issue during failover. Maybe your workload can accept dropping a window of transactions, maybe not.
I have to admit I wasn't aware tiktok was that popular. But then again, tiktok is a video app where most users skip videos often. What counts as "one traffic"? Why is Microsoft in #4 of top traffic (who is visiting Microsoft.com and why?).
It's cute and definitely a great way to "draw S-curved arrow between boxes", but, under the assumption of being built to be used within a real project with dozens or hundreds of overlapping connections, this, like many other node systems, fails to be usable unless you push the complexity somewhere else.
Indeed, but the experiment wasn’t about requesting information, it was about requesting their policy around handling user data.

Seems reasonable to me - for example you’re a prospective user and want to know how they handle requests, just in case you want to do it in the future after being a user.
Radio altimeters have bandwidth as high as 170MHz, and a lot of work goes into ensuring other devices in 4.2-4.4 band do not interfere with them.

The fact that certain radio systems can utilize low bandwidth does not mean every system is like them.