skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That wouldn't obviate the need for DRM

Yes and no. In order for the scheme to work, yes, you'd always need something that encourages people to play by the rules, but it would look very, very different from many of the DRM systems of today, whose focus is on shoring up the ill-fitting concepts of ownership and possession. For example, in today's DRM, it's typical to have mechanisms for granting a license to allow playing the media N times, or being able to play the media from startDate thru endDate. Most (all?) of that would go away.

Ideally the new system would not have any noticeable friction for end-users, but as a practical matter, things can still work if we at least get to the point where the friction is significantly lower than just stealing it (much like today - if it's easy enough to just consume the media legitimately, for many people piracy just isn't worth the effort).

> And we sort of have this use-based system now, but with unlimited uses per month of active subscription.

It's definitely a partial step in that direction, yes, and I'm encouraged by the fact that I don't buy DVDs or music anymore because it shows consumers are being weaned off the concept of digital media ownership (and I hope the NFT fad dies out, because it runs counter to this).

A couple of big hurdles that remain are (a) content distributors are still way too bent on gatekeeping and content control - for this to really work they are going to have to dial that back quite a bit, and (b) too little of the compensation is making it back to the content creators and/or the compensation is still often one or a few transactions (Bruce Springsteen recently sold the rights to all his music for half a billion dollars) instead of an ongoing compensation for as long as people are using it.
Optimizing Postgres queries at scale
If you read further, it says that although Sv is small, there are always places where the other effects are smaller, and so it dominates. No matter how small Sv is, as long as it's not zero, this will always be true.
Well there are many countries that have yet to roll out e-SIM, China being one with no definite timetable. Which means there will still be iPhone with Sim Slot in the foreseeable future.

I assume they want to go "portless", which means they will have to wait for Full e-SIM support first? ( They could well be a wrong assumption )
> It's different from people who prefer WFH because they don't care if the other guys also work remote or not.

But lots of remote-evangelists will say things like "If anybody is joining a meeting remotely, everybody needs to call in from their own separate computers". I might able to come in to the office but it still affects my experience.
OT: Brer Rabbit, but Briar Patch.
This is useful information, thank you for sharing this theorem! I am still skeptical about the soundness of the verifier's challenge generating mechanism. Assuming P!=NP and the challenge is drawn uniformly from the full space, I am still not convinced that the prover does not have access to a backdoor which makes the challenge "easier" on average than the challenger realizes.

Even if challenge instances are superpolynomial in the worst case, empirically, we know from SAT solving competitions that a very small fraction of randomly sampled k-SAT instances are truly hard and most are in P. It is nontrivial to design a challenge whose average case is superpolynomial, and there are many open questions in the field of average-case complexity [1].

I would be very skeptical that the challenge generator is not somehow poisoned. Even if the prover did not collude with the protocol designer to poison it directly, if she can infer any information about the internal state of the verifier from the instances he proposes, she may be able to solve future challenges much more easily than would be possible by random chance.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0606037.pdf
There is no way to prove one way or the other unless the technology exists to touch someone’s plane of consciousness.

If we are all p-zombies there is no way to know.

There is no known scientific reasoning wherein we could not just be p-zombies, but our entire experience seems to have free will (which by any interesting definition is supernatural).
Brings back memories of the Plextor automatic duplicator robot we had in company back in the nineties. Great times
We really need an iPhone alternative, android is not that alternative.
Depends on the cpu specific, and a lot of non-x86 designs made it explicit that memory is not byte addressable without special steps.

This makes those architectures incompatible with latest C and C++ though, because they require simultaneous, concurrent, atomic access to bytes at a time
To be fair, both want to force themselves on the other. Compromise is really important when considering how people work. The all-or-nothing attitude is unproductive and doesn't help either acheive their goals.
That would truly be the best outcome possible -- that LastPass sent out "Someone just used your master password" emails incorrectly i.e. those were false positives.
You can use pretty much any Turing complete language to achieve this constraint, as long as its inputs and execution are deterministic. The language itself doesn't have to be purely functional.
Take a bit of time to grieve if you need to... but not long. Then do as the parent says.
The closest publicly available info is an HBR article about Apple’s organizational structure:

https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio...
I honestly think you've misunderstood. Your kid's brain is going to develop. The stuff you're talking about is just to get her some practice. Which is good! But she'll be able to pick up these skills at any later point once her brain is ready. Her brain isn't going to wait for you.
You get it. And this IS how it works now. You can have 10+ eSIM profiles on your iPhone with one of them active at a time. Just active the eSIM based on the country you are in. No more tracking plastic bits.
> When morality fails to evolve as fast as culture or technology

I'm not sure you've understood the position of most moral realists. Why we should (say) support LGBTQ rights in 2021 is not that morality itself has evolved, which implies that it may have been morally permissible not to support such rights in 1921. It's that when society failed to respect such rights it was making a moral error.

To put it another way, is there a culture or level of technology at which it would have been permissible to ostracize and punish gay men and women? To enslave as the spoils of war? To protect molesting priests over the children they victimized?

That's not to say that religion isn't a damper on moral progress, though I don't think it's fair to say that there is "no greater damper". Abolitionism often had a religious component, for example, while barriers to racial progress in the 20th century were maintained irrespective of religion. Or in terms that I've been thinking about recently, famous TERFs are often nonreligious.
The UK is a non-example because that makes the argument circular.

So I'll forget you mentioned it.

Norway isn't successful?

Norway is an outlier case, for obvious reasons.

You could have also picked Albania, ex-Yugoslavia, Belarus, Ukraine in your list of proud EU dissenters but that wouldn't support your argument too well if you had, now would it?

Of course there are such examples

Just not "plenty" of them.

Dear God, aren't debates on HN about basic world facts outright silly.
Yeah IDK.

I know in college, a lot of my profs referred to C as a 'mid level' language (or by others as a 'systems' language), C# 1.2 and Java were 'high level'. They really only considered ASM as a low level, but that was almost 20 years ago.
Not a chance but it would be fun to watch. He needs China so much more than China needs him. Just wait until China starts taking his satellites down because theyre in the way. He wont say anything then either.
IMEI identifies the device, SIM identifies the subscriber. IMEI is used to block stolen phones, but it's also how phones are locked into specific carriers (which used to be a much bigger part of the business model, "$0 phones" and all).
I prefer office-based work but it's not the top thing on my list of priorities. I've found that a really high number of companies that otherwise have what I'm looking for are remote, so I've had to compromise.
I said "Does it really matter how much MORE harm it causes?"
Context matters. The question was "does it matter if its 5% more or 10% more? (or any other number more)"
The answer is: No, it does not matter, because its more and we want less.

You dont do something because it "only" 5% worse and stop if its 10% worse.
You dont need to know how much worse it is. If its worse its worse. If it cause preventable collateral damage then its not okay to do it anyway.
Thank you, love it that you said maximize time for kids. It puts everything in perspective. Only reason I started to compare myself with others is because we got priced out of housing marketing when we could have bought our dream home just 12 months ago.

Otherwise, while I didn't care so much about my job, I was mostly happy.
I'm positive it works. My problem was that figuring out why something went wrong was too time consuming, or difficult. I'm sure I could figure it out, but the problem again is time.
You know, this is why people keep saying climate change is a religion. A solution can't be just effective, it also has to be _right_. You can't even play with geoengineering because it's sacrilege. We have to abase ourselves and pay the sacrificial price in order to be clean and worthy again.

Every practical solution is rejected out of hand. Carbon capture? Nah. Nuclear power? Dirty. Simply doing the math and trying to be efficient in what we cut? Racist. Suggesting it might not be all bad? Straight out sacrilege.
Virtual sims are incredibly convenient for traveling. The first time I used one in Thailand it was magical: no need to buy and pop a physical SIM into your phone, and no need to take care and not lose your original SIM.
I wonder how high the chance is of the master password itself having been reused, and of one of _those_ password sets getting compromised. Although I'd expect most people using a password manager would not be likely to reuse a master password.

On the other hand, my paranoia is now kicking in and I am on my way to change my (non-LastPass) master password, just in case past-me was very stupid a few years ago and then forgot about it...
Yep. Professors are not only able to get an answer, but able to define the problem. It varies by region and domain for when that is meant to be true, so you need to understand the system a bit better.

Ex: US CS PhDs from the Top 30 are generally like this and a quick CV scan and conv can help verify they achieved that. Conversely, many EU CS PhD stage programs are shorter and for more prepackaged concepts, so the same level of experience does happen.. but later.

Ex: US bio fields often are 'one big paper' for a PhD, so you can be assured of grit and uncertainty tolerance. But for the same reason, you don't know independence until the post doc.
I was not aware they used such methods, I assumed they would use a glycol type solution to achieve better heat transfer and enable the transfer of heated media within a closed loop system of piping or well jackets. I find it shocking that they have been employing the tactics You described above, especially under the guise of a renewable alternative energy that is good for the environment.
The surface area for trust is expanded significantly.

Here in Puerto Rico we made our governor quit over exposed chat logs from a Telegram group. Encryption wouldn’t have saved it: someone took screenshots and leaked them to press.
Modernism’s Forgotten Mystic
Rising costs for housing, food and education is a huge problem in the US
Probably the opposite... the same reason SMS is not included -- because they have full access to it.
Big difference here is that there aren't multibillion dollar organizations with billions of followers firmly and strongly convinced of the existence of fairies to the point where they want to write laws based on fairy culture and teachings. If I lived in such a culture, I'd probably describe myself as an afairist.

I would not call myself an atheist if it weren't for the fact that theism is thoroughly and deeply ingrained in american culture.

In china, most people are atheists, but they don't really identify as such. It's simply the default. Were I in that circumstance, I certainly would feel exactly the same way.
Hey as long a the music keeps playing ya gotta keep dancing, right?
Two factors that don't equalise the market

- there are still human players in the pool

- using a bot is against the rules so sites use bot detection, ID verification etc. to prevent it (some obviously do a better job than others)
Yes, that actually highlights the absurdity of the government's stances to encryption.

They can still do an actual investigation on the person and try to dump from the physical devices they find (whether it requires a court order first, or not).

Of course, this is expensive, and often it is not possible to know who to go to, or whether they can access that person, or they don't have enough information yet to determine if a crime has been committed. But that's the point. In the US, for example, the constitution was constructed specifically to be an alternative to how England and its colonies were governed.

Governments have had a small window of time where electronic communications had a combination of: existing, not being private, and being understood by law enforcement. That window is closing and is just a reversion to the mean.

Of course they are going to say "everyone using this convenient poorly implemented system without privacy helps us greatly in investigations", but thats not the point. They have to do an actual investigation now and target the devices itself physically, and even after all that only sometimes that will yield anything, depends on the OS version and app used, and app version.
> Why is it that AppImages, snaps, flatpaks, Nix and every distro package manager is replaced by docker?

Where are you seeing distros using docker for containerization? If anything, I'd say Flatpak is the one you're most likely to find installed in a 2021 workstation linux.

Docker's killing features are the same as they always were: usability and ecosystem. 'docker run thingamajig' is simple and DockerHub is very likely to have thingamajig in its repos.

Of the ones you listed, I'd say flatpak is the only one that compares favorably to Docker on both aspects ('flatpak install thingamajig'). And since flatpak is more designed for desktop applications, it's actually the one gaining ground. Docker or other containerd-based solutions should remain the preferred choice for servers, since they're designed for that.

Nix is vastly less user friendly. Snaps, last I checked, still don't have an open-source repository implementation, meaning that Canonical has absolute control over them. I don't know much about AppImage, but AFAICT it's just a file format and not a full package manager.
Ask HN: Do you know of a use for NFTs that doesn't involve images?
I really want to give the tech a chance but I'm aware that my mocking has closed my mind to it

Does anyone have any examples of NFTs or indeed any of the web3 acronyms being used in a cool or useful way that doesn't involve expensive Gravatars?

Is it just a pyramid scheme or can something cool be done here? As opposed to just spinning up a CRUD app and storing in MySQL instead of blockchains would be a bonus too, but I do accept the tech is still super new

Once the transaction fees stop being so nutty I'd love to get into it but I'm a learn-by-deconstruction type and I can't find anything interesting to see how it works
I'm a bit confused here. There are a few Sony cameras (the RX series) that have a 960fps capabiilty, with exposure times of under 1/1000th of a second. That's around 8 times the 125 fps limit set by ITAR, yet those cameras are sold pretty much everywhere around the world. What am I missing/not understanding here?
That's amazing! I know that lots of local and regional governments are trending towards using OSM as their source of truth for data about their area, but hadn't heard that particular story. Love it!
I don't think that's obvious, e.g. an Apple or Facebook could take OSM and fork it privately and invest all their efforts into that, without releasing upstream for competitive advantage.
Your first link describes the Malian documents that were written in Arabic and a language developed in the 15th century.

I think GP meant that written languages weren’t developed at times similar to other ancient civilizations (ie, Sumerian was 4K years ago).

Your second link describes an Ethiopian written language that came about in the 10th-14th century.

So I think the point is that written languages developed (or at least there’s not evidence of) much later in civilizations like where Great Zimbabwe was created.

This is different than other parts of the world. And if the Great Zimbabwe had been made in Siam or Persia or Japan or England, the cultures there had written languages at that time.

So I think the conflict is in the interpretation of time periods. I think GP’s point is valid as when I think of ancient civilizations having languages (or even the civilization that built this cool structure) I don’t think they had written languages.

Although there are many great civilizations that didn’t have written languages (eg, Inca had their knot system) and built lasting structures. So I don’t think the presence of written language is some sort of agenda.
I like this metaphor, but it breaks down in one aspect: the notion that it’s akin to eating junk vs healthy.

At the end of the day I can hunt around and curate the perfect library of movies and shows, but I can also find plenty of good content on streaming platforms. It’s not like I’m eating empty calories at the end of the day.
One-third programmers use marijuana while working, touting creative benefits
Ask HN: What display(s) are you using these days?
In the market for a new external display to use with a MacBook Pro and custom built machine running ubuntu desktop. What are you using these days, and are you happy with it? Primary use cases are coding and graphics work.
Much of the high cost of fission power is due to the radioactive waste. The cost of fuel per kWh of nuclear is very low.

>The cost of raw uranium contributes about $0.0015/kWh to the cost of nuclear electricity, while in breeder reactors the uranium cost falls to $0.000015/kWh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_p...

When you’re talking about thermal power generation - the process is the same in any power plant, so you could use your same argument with gas, coal, or geothermal - all steam and turbines. It’s not fair to use this to just make the comparison to nuclear power alone.
> I find it super interesting that people want to get other people in trouble over (often) things that don't negatively affect them

I find it super interesting that people don't see a gradient here.

On one extreme, you have something like crossing the street against the light when nobody is at the intersection. On the other, you have all sorts of horrific things done to other people.

I'm pretty sure that the bulk of people in wealthy societies would intervene against "rule breakers" well before the horrific extreme. But where they start having qualms is interesting, and where you get all sorts of negative group behaviors, and that point will start to drift in response to how members of the group behave.
Heh. Somewhat different migration scenario, but I actually published an extensive post just yesterday on a long migration from a legacy AngularJS app to Next+React+TS:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/12/codebase-conversio...
My friends and I use a lot of Garmin fitness trackers and bike computers for endurance sports training. Those devices use maps derived from OSM. So when I contribute data to OSM for free I (eventually) see a direct benefit with better navigation on my devices.
The hypocrisy is astounding. I don’t disagree with the numbers above, but at the same time you are absolutely right - yet downvoted and grayed out. Reminds me of Twitter and Reddit.
> So you deny the existence of offenses against morality or evil?

I deny that any human has ever come out of the womb having committed any such offenses, and I deny that infants (and even children) are morally culpable for offenses committed by fully fledged persons with moral agency. You should be ashamed of yourself for even contemplating such a horrible notion.

Also, since you list pedophilia in your trinity of offenses against morality, I will also point out that the biggest coverups of child sexual abuse in history was conducted by the Catholic church. The cases that have come to light recently are probably just the tip of the iceberg. Taking men at the peak of their sexuality, telling them that having sex is a sin, and then putting them in charge of a congregation is like putting someone in charge of a kitchen and telling them that eating is sin.

And finally, as long as you've gone and pulled my trigger, I will also point out that there is a lot of daylight between pedophilia (which is a psychiatric disorder, not a moral offense) and actual child abuse (which is a moral offense because there is a victim). Getting sexually aroused is not a sin. Neither is gratifying that arousal by self-pleasuring, or by any sexual activity between mutually consenting adults irrespective of their gender and marital status. You want a "fact of sin"? Here you go: one of the biggest sins humans commit is telling people they are sinful simply because they experience a normal human emotion. That is so sick and twisted that the word "sin" doesn't even do it justice. If you believe in original sin and you want to see evil, look in the mirror.
The TIGER data was (is?) terrible in terms of exact coordinates, but the graph of the streets is usually accurate.

Back in 2007 or so, I spent hundreds of hours aligning TIGER data to the satellite imagery in OSM, usually in cities I never had been before. If I remember correctly, I did most of Fresno. :-)

I’m totally fine with my edits being used commercially too.
It isn't brand new, no.
What do you mean by “cheated you into renting”? That sounds like you’re suggesting you’re being forced to spend money against your will without your knowledge or consent?

I also don’t understand your suggestion for fixing copyright law. What constitutes a ‘creator’ in the case of a company that makes something? (Same question for a band, or any group of multiple people.) How would you handle accidental death? What about a company acquisition? How do you define ‘untransferable’? Are you saying it should be okay for a company creator to hold the copyright forever as long as the company is in business, but individual people can’t give or sell copyrights? That would be a boon for Disney and very bad for individual artists. It doesn’t seem like your suggestion is prepared to deal with the realities and complexities of business and life…
It’s not a failing of the tooling. It’s a failing of designers and product to understand what a web page is and what an application is.

If youve only designed/“Ideated” for iOS or Android, you have no business designing for web. Entirely different platform with different capabilities.

Embrace reality and build simple effective products. Literally no one gives a shit about the arrows on your carousel or the border radius animation on a button. I just want to scroll and click and open new tabs.