skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big plus to this point. The idea behind web3 seems to be "the web, but everything is an attempt to gauge people for money now".

How is that better? Who asked for more money to be involved everywhere? I just want an open space to hang out with people and share ideas and data, I don't want everything to become a gated community.
I never aspired being the amateur photographer; simply hoped to connect, keep portraits (with permission ofc), delete accordingly, create good image/picture and more. Sometimes happening photos happened to be full of life/fun! Looking back; my photography naturally changed. Hopefully a few people found it. For me it was a process, going towards a dark room of being/keeping creative!

Flickr seemed a place for aspirations; people requesting and connecting.

-instagram is a quick snap, photograph; for me, at times. Seems more personal
Why would you do such a lowly thing?
Last year, someone signed up for PO box-equivalent with my firstnamelastname@gmail.com address. (Not the first time this guy in Montréal forgot that his email has a 0 before the @gmail.com. Or an error from the person entering it in.) I live in the US. I have lived in Canada, but over 10 years ago now.

The only two options to contact Canada Post were phone or … Twitter — which I don't have an account for — no email or web form. And the phone CSR had to get a manager who still couldn't figure out how to deal with the issue since I wasn't a customer myself and just wanted my email removed from the account.
> but I can imagine that this might drive an increase in prices for everyday goods

Prices are already increasing since some months, with the "Ramschpreise" [0], expect even more increases.

[0] https://www.dw.com/de/%C3%B6zdemir-gegen-ramschpreise-f%C3%B...
Non stable political leadership ? Wait, Germany, right ? Do you know Angela ?
>But that doesn't mean the status quo is particularly satisfying. It's good that the fact-checker reversed course in my case, but needless to say, Facebook should revisit its formal, contractual relationship with an organization that routinely misquotes the people it scrutinizes.

The problem is that Facebook is using fact checkers as a crutch to deal with the problem that...

1. They have a monopoly on the attention of gullible old people

2. As a result of this, anyone who wants to exploit said demographic goes through them

The easiest way to actually fix the problem of gullible old people would be to just ban them from the platform so everyone else can enjoy their free speech[0] in peace. Instead, Facebook deliberately targets them. This is not limited to fake news, misinformation, or right-wing political screeds that you might disagree with; they are also one of the biggest platforms for scammers to sell fake products to that same group of people. Facebook, like everything else these days, optimizes for "whales" with high value to the business, and that just so happens to be gullibility.

Fact checking in this sense is like the "drink responsibly" they whisper at the end of a beer ad. It's not for actual safety, it's to have something to throw at critics during a crisis.

[0] "Free speech" in this context refers to a private platform, not the government. Yes, this is a slightly different definition and Facebook isn't bound by the 1st Amendment.
No? Emergent properties are a thing.
> I find it really strange that Mayer gets the blame for Yahoo’s decline.

Not strange at all. That's literally what a CEO gets paid to do: to not be in decline.

Microsoft was in decline when Satya took over too. It is no longer in decline. He knows how to do the job, and he is doing it.
Try macro record / macro playback. While saying this I hate that I’ve never properly learned how to debug a recorded macro, or manage them better, but they largely suit my use cases.
Easier to get cocaine than a prescription for amphetamines.
The Trump fish-feeding story: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/358983-media-shows-w...

It shows how the media will abuse framing even with such a trivial event.
I think this is a really good way to put it into perspective, because the units we use for temperature are very misleading on this front:

Where I live, the outside temperature goes from -40C to +40C at the extremes (though those are rare and the 'normal maxes' are more like -30 to +30). In F that's -40 to +104F.

But in kelvin, which actually measures the amount of energy in the air, that's 233K to 313K. It's not a small difference in the amount of energy, but neither number is anywhere close to zero.

It's a common meme with heat pumps that they "stop working under X temp" because it's too cold, but the actual, immediately practical issue is moisture. Ice is a great insulator, so when the outside part of your heat pump is covered with ice it no longer works well. Presumably the same might be true of ground source heat pumps and frost, though I know less about that. Obviously there are other factors like the efficiency and operating range of the coolant used and such, but you hit this moisture barrier before those.

There are ways around that (I installed an air source heat pump this year and it runs in reverse (ie. as an air conditioner) periodically to defrost the outside part. I've used it successfully to heat my home down to about -20 outside before it no longer spends any real time in heating mode. It wasn't cheap though, and is almost certainly not cost-effective even over a very long time period. That's not my priority though.
It’s explicitly entrapment because you can pay the tax without incriminating yourself - as you would with any other business income. The fact criminals are now committing two crimes at once doesn’t make it entrapment :)
As far as I can tell, these prices are not being caused by some jump in demand but rather a combination of several supply problems.
Digging the Well
Some photos are on Google Cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&r...
But at least you can check the blockchain for all the content the author has created.
Yes, it sucks. I interviewed at a company that started the process with 600 word personality test. I left after the interview and didn't follow up. I didn't want to work at a place with such a process.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.handelsblatt.com%2...
Facebook, Twitter or any walled garden. I can't build any app I want on top of those without risking it being limited, restricted or shut down... If they even provide an API at all.
That's Cray's problem. They're getting money from this customer, and they should be the ones ponying up the money from that contract to cover the development of the feature.
Alternate possibility: a skydiver had engine trouble during a non-skydiving flight and used his skydiving skills with the skydiving kit he had with him to escape the plane. Not to say I would be surprised if a YouTuber did a stunt for views, but there are other explanations. Even for the fakey stuff at the end. He is a YouTuber, after all. Playing stuff up is habit for them.
Can you give a specific definition of federated in this context? To me, federated means that autonomous entities can talk to each other if they agree on a protocol. E.g. making a phone call between different carriers, or, uhh, the internet.
I watched the video and I'm no expert, but I'll be amazed if this guy didn't crash his plane for views (and maybe insurance fraud). This situation feels like the perfect disaster... almost like a low-budget Man vs Wild. I hope I'm wrong.
They don't even need to read HN, I'm wondering if they even use the thing at all! Same goes for pretty much all of their software...
Haskell provides two functions for integer division, div and quot, and two functions for modulus, mod and rem. quot rounds towards 0, and div rounds towards negative infinity. rem is quot's modulus, and mod is div's modulus.

mod is Python's %, rem is C's %.
Yeah, parent commenter has no experience in any aviation matters. I've been in a "crash" (off runway excursion, no injuries, no damage save a slightly bent landing gear door flap.)

The "investigation" consisted of the airport director speaking with the PIC and passenger (me.) His sole question to me was "were you operating the aircraft?"

There are a lot of stories of pretty terrible decisions made by GA pilots and little/nothing happening from the FAA. And then do stupid shit like going after Bob Hoover's license because he was too old for their tastes.
I think Vetenskap och Folkbildning (authors of the linked text) have a website with some longer articles and more details. If I remember correctly there were a few public services (police? hospital?) that paid a lot of money to the author of the book for private courses.

I think that the book is a typical case of "You have a complex problem and my snake oil provides an easy solution"
I am looking for a robust academic rebuttal of this paper, but I fail to find any.
Does anybody have any pointers to literature that directly addresses the paper's assertions?

It looks that the academia isn't interested in crypto space at all, and if any, it is a contrarian view.
For the last twenty years Cocoa has been the UI framework for macOS with a transition to SwiftUI starting a couple of years ago.

Apple has definitely been more consistent on this front.
People can reasonably disagree on what the law means. Just because comp planning is done one way or another doesn't mean it is legal. It also doesn't mean that what you think are "bona fide" factors are actually valid.

https://www.costanzo-law.com/google-hit-with-lawsuit-over-cl...
Martha Lunken lost her pilots license at 78 years old for flying under a bridge. She had 14,000 hours, worked for the FAA as a safety manager and ran a flying school for 28 years. This guy is toast.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2021/04/18/lunken-airp...
Robert W. Malone
Sounds like a plan... until you realize why your label printer keeps restarting.
Google cache link works https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
The reason you see this is that the entire “web3” landscape is controlled by VCs. Also the underlying infra this stuff is running on isn’t very decentralized at all and with proof of stake it likely never will be.

If you want true decentralization you’re going to need a combination of Bitcoin/Lightning Network/side chains to recreate a lot of what has been built out on other more centralized platforms. But VCs don’t want to fund this because there’s way less potential upside for them.
> I don't think compromising on Nix(OS)'s core to be more familiar is a sustainable approach

That's why I say this would be a downstream distro, because then

> and the unreliability of the produced frankenbuilds [can] scare newcomers away

to NixOS proper, which can remain pure, principled, and a little difficult. :)

The idea is a workstation/desktop-centric downstream where people can

* use NixOS modules to configure the base system (which is super convenient)
* learn the Nix language ‘by immersion’ and tooling without *immediately* having to choose between packaging and giving up any proprietary/oddball software they might already be using that isn't already in Nixpkgs
* try Nix in its most attractive form (fully declarative OOTB and in control of a full operating system, unlike Nix on macOS or foreign Linux distros)
* start out with all of the commonsense community goodies (flakes, flake-utils-plus, Home-Manager, NUR, and extra binary caches enabled when relevant) pre-enabled and configured in the simplest possible way
* comes with a reset button (like a slightly gentler NIXOS_LUSTRATE) that users can easily use to remove any impurely installed software

While many users have had success diving into NixOS head-first, many others have reported that they found it easier and more productive to first learn the Nix language and Nix tools on macOS. Those users report that they have an easier time because it allows them to learn more gradually or in smaller chunks according to the availability of their free time, with the macOS base system and impure tooling built on top of it providing an escape hatch for when they get stuck or frustrated, or want to quickly try something that's not packaged in Nixpkgs.

There's no reason that Nix itself couldn't be used to create the same kind of stable, impurely accessible, compatible (with traditional tools), kind of base system. I think it'll happen some time in the next few years. There's much wider interest in NixOS than their used to be, and with that has come increased interest in making it even more accessible to new users.
Certainly the cannabis analogues which are not similar to natural cannabinoids are big trouble.

That is, if marijuana harms you the harm is pretty subtle and takes a long time to unfold. Maybe it makes you silly, maybe it stunts your psycho-emotional development, from first principles I'm inclined to think it might cause diabesity but you can't blame cannabis for the diabesity epidemic because most of the diabese aren't users.

Cannabis analogues like Spice and K2 really can kill you right away.

After the CBD bubble popped people realized they could convert CBD to valuable cannabinoids such as Delta-8 and Delta-10 THC. I'm no advocate of those substances but they don't seem to be deadly like the structurally unrelated analogues.
Build something! All this talking makes me suspect this just to increase the hype around and price of various crypto currencies.
As a gateway to YC, Eternal September is a feature not a bug...HN is designed for people who are continuously curious about new things.

Unlike a Usenet group, there's not a topic silo. The cure for seeing 'the same old thing weariness' is submitting something that isn't the same old thing.
Emacs user here. I’ve conceded that vim is a better editor than emacs. I wish I’d learned vim, then later moved to emacs.

Edit: but emacs is a better IDE than vim.
Diabesity: An Overview of a Rising Epidemic
Why would he have a wrist GoPro and a full skydiving rig on a non-skydiving flight?
As per LinuxBender's comment [1], ExoneraTor [2] tells us it hasn't been a TOR relay in 2009 either.

I think Szabo is the most likely Satoshi candidate. He seems to have disappeared from public view since March, despite being a prolific Twitter [2]. I hope he is doing well, chilling on a beach in a Caribbean island.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729498

[2]: https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html?ip=68.164.57....

[3]: https://twitter.com/nickszabo4
What is wrong is demanding to the “machines” the ability to recognize your number plate, track it around the city and even send you a fine automatically.
I was thinking about this, not sure if entirely the same.

For example the YT dislikes going away. What if you got people to install a chrome extension where it tracked urls with upvotes/downvotes (game system). The database is shared between installed apps no central db... would it work?

I could be far off with the intent of the application but another example is mesh networking where it is nice to not have a central pipe but is it going to be as good, particularly the case of cross continent.
- Crashing an airplane

- Recklessly endangering other people in the area (this was not far from established hiking trails)

- Getting investigated by FAA

All for barely 200k views on YouTube. Wow.
Even if it is staged/fake... he only got 200k views out of it, so it wouldn't have even been worth the cost of the plane
Happy 12th Birthday, Krebsonsecurity.com
> (e.g. pilots of skydiving planes need to wear one, even though they plan to land with the plane)

This is not true. I've watched numerous youtube videos of pilots flying skydivers and I've never seen them wearing a parachute. Flight Chops, for example. The pilot in question in the videos was chief instructor for a flight safety training company.
I think you misinterpreted the meaning of my comments. $339k is a bargain for Berkshire (or whoever pays it) considering who they're protecting. That's all.
My experience is that the ratio of crypto skeptics here on hn more or less mirrors that of any non-crypto focused tech community (ex: coworkers, SIGs, etc)
The author could use a unique private key for each blockchain NFT if they wanted to avoid that.
While Snopes could take on the mantle of hyperliteralism, this would be a pretty paralyzing extension of scope. Would they need to fact-check articles that referenced a PD's "homicide divisions", clarifying that their charter is to investigate homicide instead of perpetrate it? Would they be able to countenance references to a supermarket without clarifying that Safeway has not invented a type of market that can fly and has X-ray vision?

There are undoubtedly people whose language skills are poor enough to think that "voter fraud organization" here means "organization to commit voter fraud" instead of "organization to combat voter fraud". I'm not a fan of Snopes at all, but I don't think it's unreasonable that they exclude the tiny segment of the population in need of remedial literacy classes from their target audience.
K&R "The C Programming Language" (1978), p.37:

> The binary arithmetic operators are +, -, *, /, and the modulus operator %.

https://archive.org/details/TheCProgrammingLanguageFirstEdit...

At least, that was the C reference I used in college.
The German plan was to invest and heavily subsidize the construction of renewables, wind and solar, since that was declared the cheapest way to generate power. Are you saying the actually plan by the CDU was all along to build a dependency on Russian gas, and only use renewables when the weather allowed it?

That seems like a terrible plan and quite expensive. Why was that the plan?
Productivity Frontier
Insurance.
So… What are the proper channels?
Awesome. My .emacs very slowly accumulates little bits that I like every time I find pages like this. About once a year I find something new that I like and I add it. At this point, my .emacs is about 80 lines (not counting comments) accumulated over the years since the 1990s. The only packages it depends on are programming language modes that aren't distributed with emacs itself.

My vimrc is similar - just around 50 lines accumulated over the same time period since the 90s.
Yeah, in the middle of the video I was expecting to see a hand to hand combat with a man in a bear costume.
FYI Gaming is it's own Org from the top now :)

I really respect the decisions lately within Gaming but there have been some really disappointing changes in other spaces like Windows.
Moderation and filtering can happen on the user application layer with the underlying data still being open and accessible. Right now the gate keepers are Big Tech deciding who and when someone or something can access the data.
Not the OP, but you can attach and join tables from multiple sqlite databases in the same process.
Well, if you want to distrust Apple software you probably shouldn't be trusting their hardware, either.

That being said, I actually think this is a reasonable way to do secure boot. The default OS the device ships with can be validated, but there's still a proper owner override so you can boot into Linux or whatever. They even use the SEP to validate that the owner override has been tripped by the owner. The first user account you make gets handed a key generated by the SEP that can be used to sign kernels, so only that account can actually use the owner override. This is a good way to stop evil-maid attacks in their tracks while still not locking the user out of their property.

My only real complaint is that Apple's gone to great lengths to ensure the iOS side of their business is completely unaffected by owner overrides:

- If you boot into an owner-signed OS volume, macOS disables it's iOS support

- iPad-fused M1s won't generate or respect owner keys

This is silly. If individual iOS applications are sensitive to owner overrides, then they already have devicecheck APIs to get a cryptographic attestation that they haven't been tampered with. The SEP could flag those attestations as coming from an owner-signed kernel and picky banking apps[0] could check for that.

[0] And Pokemon GO, because it's easier to blacklist jailbroken users than to enforce a rate limit on GPS jumps
I think you are right and I think China is leading the way here.
All about that capex vs opex!
The most likely explanation I've read is that Szabo was involved on the Bitcoin project, at the behest of US Intelligence (perhaps team lead, working within a defined set of goals - it's speculation for now). Bitcoin is a very effective means of destabilizing currencies and extracting wealth out of non-friendly areas, so for the US Intelligence community it is a boon.

Szabo later went on to improve on the concept with Monero, without the involvement of US Intelligence (obviously, since Monero is very unfriendly for the US Govt). Again, speculation. The only person capable of creating both, is likely Szabo. Monero being a big middle finger to "the team" behind Bitcoin, who still control the keys.
Thanks for the examples.

The monetary case seems like the natural first step. The name service case seems more interesting. It isn’t a financial instrument, so it demonstrates DAP utility for non-financial application.

You referenced a few standards that the DAPs adhere to, which lines up with assumptions I’ve had about the data schema management. In a generalized sense, it seems that community members, or a governing body, will propose changes, and if the community accepts them, the changes will be implemented into the network.

It seems to me the name service case has parallels to identity management through protocols such as SAML and LDAP.

But I’m still trying to wrap my head around examples I’ve heard such as building DAP social media apps that allow users to move their data to another DAP social app. Thinking of the social media sites we have today, they all consider their profile structures and models proprietary, as market differentiators that set each one apart from their competitors, and make up the “secret sauce” that gives social value to their users.

How would a DAP be able to maintain similar differentiators? Or is the expectation that only certain things such as basic profile information be stored on the blockchain, able to move to other DAPs, while other proprietary functionality is managed elsewhere?
Sound's like Julia fit's a lot of this criteria. Unfortunately it is slow in it's JIT compilation. Hopefully it can continue in a positive direction.
Parson says he believes prosecutor will bring charges in Post-Dispatch case
According to Reason's headline, the CDC looked at one study and it convinced them that masks were effective in schools. Even Reason disputes what their headline implies, admitting it's misleading. Also, how did Reason know that that one study is what convinced he CDC? Isn't that totally made up?/Fabricated?/Fake news?/In need of fact-checking?
> starting 1st of Jan the prices will increase even further due to an increased CO2 tax and the Green Party has announced to further push this tax up

> At the same time, 3 of 6 nuclear power plants will be shut down on 31st December 2021 - in 2 days. As the Green Party does want to accelerate the transition to e-mobility, projections show that we have a demand for several new natural gas power plants in Germany.

Wait, so they are raising "green" taxes to... shut down and decommision carbon neutral nuclear power and instead build natural gas plants that will pump out tons of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Did I read that corectly?