skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If you know, you know. It was one of the coolest website gardens on the early web. It was a personal handcrafted wiki, art project, and community focused on psychedelics, anarchism, mysticism, futurism, ecology, and rave culture.
The term you're looking for is reproducible builds and it's unfortunately not trivial and a somewhat rare state of affairs. It's definitely crucial in the long run.
Yes, I felt the same, but I was able to “escape”

Mentally, VR has helped us a lot during the pandemic. Yes, it’s far from perfect and it’s not entirely the same as being physically there; but it is just awesome being able to hang out with family and friends in VR and have a sense of space. We workout together; or play racquetball, bowling, darts, ping pong, board games, or fish to name a few activities. These are people who are hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Some aren’t even in the same continent. Way better than a phone call or FaceTime / Zoom. Without it, my anxiety would seemingly get out of hand at times. I don’t live alone, but I also get somewhat isolated without it.

Outside of the pandemic, I can see parents using this as a convenient way to “hangout” and catch up with friends.

It’s too bad Facebook destroyed their reputation, or a lot more people would be trying it out and enjoying it at their $299 price point, especially the past two years. While PCVR is an option, it’s too expensive for normal people (starting around $2400 for everything) and setup is not easy for the non-technical.
Apple should let RCS die, involving carriers was a shit idea.
Remember everyone moved from IRC to Silc in my bubble. I wonder if those people are still there.
Every time I share with someone that I'm depressed and think of suicide they're like "just get therapy bro", but I'm depressed not just from the isolation that came with the pandemic (I'm high risk due to an underlying health issue) but also because I'm unemployed, and instead of feeling fun discovering things I can do with code, all I feel is heat because I'm unemployed.

Someday, when we mature enough as a society, maybe we'll touch on the subject on high rates of male suicide during the absolutely normal periods of time, and how it's all driven by the pressure to sustain yourself and succeed in playing the game of capitalism.
Why is this making the news? It's just a "click on OK if you really want to use this cartridge"

Not really "bypassing" any "DRM" here, are we?
It's _possible_, especially in Taipei, but you'll want to take some classes before you go. I have non-Taiwanese friends who never learned Chinese, but they all regret it.

I find language learning fun though so it's definitely a feature, not a bug, for me personally.
Twitter account blocked without any (visible) reason
Sorry if already old news, but I just got my twitter blocked permanently and that makes me feel weird. This seemed to make sense when it happened to others as I thought Trump had it coming, but blocking my account doesn't make sense at all.

I have at most 5 re-tweets ever and possibly 2 comments. Last activity was more than a year ago.

I just looked at their rules and I couldn't have broke any of the Safety ones neither the ones from Privacy.

The only rules I see as subjective enough to possibly explain a blocking of my account would be the ones from Authenticity. But then again, I didn't create content on the platform, I only re-shared it. Does that mean that all the users that re-shared with similar patterns got banned (from what I remember, the users I re-tweeted had a high number of followers)?

I guess punishing at random, on a permanent timeline and without any previous notice is an easy way to change views. I do see now the sense behind the whole movement against cancellation policy.
Brothers, and never looked back after 15 years.
Same in France. Then a couple of months later, masks were mandatory outdoors even in low-density areas. I feel that treating people like children overall hurts public trust.
yeah and they have decent Linux support too.
If we think about it in good faith, there are some cases where hash is used for PROTECTION. Like in a password storing of hash(salt+password). So while technically correct, in the day to day language we do use hash as an encryption alternative sometimes.
To my understanding SARS hit Taiwan REALLY hard, so they've been extra extra careful about COVID ever since it was discovered.
> "In the model where this data is public, I can query the wallet of people to check for HN nft and provide special discount or perks."

How will you provide your "perks" if either you or your members have been kicked off the platform where those perks made sense in the first place?

With this use-case you're describing - all you have is a list of wallets that were at some point relevant to you in some way. This is the equivalent of maintaining a mailing list. Why does any of this require a distributed ledger? What problem does this solve exactly?

> "Subscriber owns the membership and can prove to the service provider. Service provider has access to the membership and can check the validity."

How is this any different than signing up with an email-address as a username?
rootkit.com

I wonder what was in the forums.
It is possible, allergic reactions like anaphylaxis will set in between 10 and 15 minutes. These can be life-threatening if not treated immediately. The rate of anaphylaxis is 7 per million shots given.

That's why after receiving the vaccine you are supposed to wait 15 minutes so a medical professional can observe you for symptoms.

Not sure what happened in this case, but if it did happen it's likely someone botched the anaphylaxis response.
Yes, my productive editor becomes useless with that kind of file content.
Greater good of what?

Marriage and birth rates are plummeting even in collective societies in Asia
> Re-using simple words can be confusing, and understanding that you do not not understand a word can actually be a feature, especially in technical writing.

I would add something that is counterintuitive but unsurprising to people who have children: learning long/complicated words is actually not a problem at all. Kids love learning and saying long words with interesting sounds in them. Sometimes it’s even easier to learn long/complicated words because they are easier to distinguish from shorter words.

Ask any 4 year old whether they would rather say “Tyrannosaurus Rex” or “dino”.
AFAIK, John Deere tractors were already fairly automated, including some form of driverless navigation. Could someone in the field compare the automation level in the market currently versus what is unveiled in the article?
Yeah, usually "reading code" doesn't mean reading a file from beginning to end, just reading (and, more importantly, understanding) the parts that you need to understand in order to fix a bug or implement a new feature. And "readability" also includes being able to easily find the places you need to "read" and then change.
Why does it need to be "owned" at all?

How about Mastodon/Fediverse options?

Same convenience of platform features - finding friends, social gaming, comments, likes, etc. - nobody trying to monetize your eyeballs or actively surveil you.
Those “insane regulations” are not at play though, if you read OP. They hand out COVID tests and send home the kids who are positive.
Salami tactic is on the nose
They're used to have the desktop monopoly, and losing them makes them to literally lose sleep over the matter.

It's not a matter of security, it's a matter of monopoly. Since forever.
> As for Signal it’s at least open source, but there’s no way to check that the client I’m using, or my friend is using, actually matches that source code.

This is… not true? Signal builds are reproducible. You can verify that the apk in the app store corresponds to a specific point in git history, and if you don't trust Google you can sideload that.

> Even if there was it’s irrelevant. Centralized infrastructure can claim to provide privacy but can never provide control: they can openly alter the deal at any time and I’d be forced to continue using it, if I couldn’t get my friends to switch to something else.

If you're using Signal because of the E2E properties, and Signal unilaterally changes its behaviour, you are absolutely not forced to continue using it. If you do wish to continue communicating with people who are using Signal, you're still able to reappraise what you feel comfortable saying now you know that the behaviour has changed.

The claim that "Signal encryption doesn’t actually work" just seems inaccurate. We can verify that Signal has the properties it claims it has. "Signal encryption could stop working" would be true - the client could absolutely just choose to start sending everything in plaintext, but we're not relying on a centralised group to make that claim! Anyone can look at the commits to Signal and flag that the claimed properties no longer apply.
I think tech companies as a general rule have proven unreliable at understanding, much less implementing, "security" in software or hardware. It's fair to say the landscape is changing but human frailty has not. If I have been reminded of any idiom most often while scrolling through security bulletins, it's "when there is a will, there is a way." We may not have the same class of problem we had before, but I'll still likely be scrolling through security bulletins a decade from now.

Also consider: the fundamental parts of a computer are still analog. Hardware bypasses, 3d-printed micro-circuitry, modified components or distributables, who knows? In my estimation, the cat and mouse game will continue for quite some time.
True, the overhead of TLS is relatively much lower than it was. It turned out we all really need the greater security. So we got hardware AES acceleration for example.

But this example misses the more general point that protocols always evolve more slowly than platforms.

It's not really a good example. Platforms aren't in competition with layer 3 network protocols. The examples Moxie gave were layer 7 application protocols.
I just assumed they were talking about regular sysload
I used regular pen and paper to record the dreams (or other interesting stuff) as I drifted to sleep.

a) find a comfortable environment that helps you sleep in a sitting position. For me it was sitting in a train late at night (I used to commute a lot at night for a while)

b) start writing. I usually just copied stuff from something, like a newspaper or book or whatever was available

c) let the sleep take over but do not stop writing. At some point you will find words or sentences between the text that you're copying

d) practice, and you'll write longer and longer sentences
That is a POV thing. Where I am it is even considered weird that the US sees food a responsibility of educational services.
Flutter hasn’t stopped gaining on React yet.

They move some stuff around like null safety and it’s a bit of a pain but it’s fairly easily to update. It’s still a developing framework and language (Dart).

The difference for us, and the reason we chose it over React, is that Dart/Flutter look a lot more like C/C++. React seems fine if you are using/know JS, which we do not.

It sounds superficial but it’s been great and we’re quite happy with it.
I think you are correct and am confused why you're being voted down without explanation.
> what extent these hybrid solutions retain the advantages of blockchain and to what extent they give them up

Security guarantees don't change, zk-proof will guarantee that your transaction was processed as is (without modifications). The resiliency of a rollup would depend on how it's off-chain "backend" is implemented - if it has good load-balancing, if it is multi-cloud etc.

It's possible that a specific rollup can try to censor your transaction (similar to Visa or Mastercard).

I can see a future where if a specific rollup cannot accept your transaction, your wallet would retry successfully with another rollup or try a censorship-resistant channel to push your transaction through.

Transaction fees being negligible simplify the UX for user, they may not even know there was any problem unless they look.

This is a good post (somewhat technical) on rollups in Ethereum ecosystem and the areas for improvements:
https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/12/06/endgame.html

I don't know much about Bitcoin L2 networks, but it makes sense that lots of infra/business logic around that would be implemented by centralized companies (Square, Stripe?). No smart contracts support is a limiting factor.
Id like to add that the author in the article does `using namespace std;` in his C++, entirely defeating the point of writing readable code. Whats eof()? Is it an istream function? Your own? C library?
Thanks, but I didn't explain it well: I don't want to generally build search, I have a static site using mdBook and I want to use the mdBook indexes from Python to generate search results for that site.
If they can make an autonomous tractor, I guess they can follow the state of the art for authentication.
Using IRC isn't nearly as complicated as you make it out to be. Kids in the 90s/2000s would frequently have it open in internet cafes along with Star Craft or whatever else they were playing. The move to Discord says more about features (which I won't deny are nice) and marketing than it does about usability. And most of the world's teenage population isn't on Discord.
The part about Elon Musk could just mean that he is not as T-shaped as he thinks he is.
Why the heck is this comment graying out? This is literally modern society and progress!
By creating commitments on state, Ethereum offers the possibility of ultra-light clients, where only the state root needs to be downloaded instead of all block headers, that Bitcoin doesn't.
I tried it, and came to the same conclusion as you. Fortunately, the package doesn't require you to do it all the time, you can pick a few at-risk functions and only disallow template queries there.
The dictionary that dict.cc uses knows that versioning is a word, and has translations of it into other languages. I don't know what dictionary it is, nor if it contains definitions too.
Proposal: JSON Arrow Syntax in SQLite
But the thing is that airliners have the right (and expectation) to repair their own planes, with Boeing and Airbus running a very extensive repair/service arm of their businesses. Upkeep of certain parts of the plane (engines, computers, cabin interior features) are actually also the responsibility of the sub-vendor who makes it. There also exists an extensive ecosystem of after-market repair shops and a vested interest by regulators to keep all ships airworthy to put a check on Boeing deciding to make access to a critical software update contingent on any kind of pressure sales tactic via user agreements.
> case numbers are reported without putting them in relation to the total number of tests done.

One other quirk of our society that has become clear is that what you hear in the media is absolutely correlated to which media you consume. In my experience, which is 99% reading news sites online, the testing is absolutely reported. Even emphasized, and made clear that the positivity % is a more telling metric than the number of cases. And that hospital utilization is the true metric we're trying to keep down.

FWIW, 22.3% was the 2019 -> 2020 stat, and 39.1% was the 2020->2021 stat. I'm really not sure what you mean by saying that stats from two separate years add up to 70%. Especially when those number do not.
> How do you feel about Matrix and some of the other new-age FOSS chat systems?

Like with Mastodon. I really like the idea but I do not know where to start. Which server should I use for my account. With IRC I just opened my client connected to any server and saw what was there, without any account. Then I got to know people and got ssh account on some server.
Am I the only one who feel continually let down by the script writing in Netflix Originals? Not all of them, but many of them seem to have a budget that allows for “decent” special effects and scenery, but when it comes to actual writing, which in my mind is what carries or collapses a series to begin with, it sometimes feels like they just grabbed interns or whoever was available for the lowest cost.

The latest example of a promising series torpedoed by shoddy writing is in my opinion “The Defeated”. I mean, it’s about killing nazis in post war Berlin, how do you mess this up? And yet the characters are boring, cliché and the story is predictable to the point that it feels like a chore to watch.

Maybe I’m not the majority in this opinion but I really feel like Netflix could probably make better series if they spent less on production and more on writing, but now that I’m saying it out loud I guess I am the minority after all. Most people probably prefer a well produced series with a bad script over a well produced, pretentious indie movie or bottle episode.
I only partially agree with you there---as a PI, I also have an option to reward these sort of activities. I understand that it is not a good idea to employ someone for the wrong role, so any 'non-core work' activities need to be at least discussed with respect to potential ramifications.

However, I find it somehow weird that we only ever measure success along one axis. Moreover, these students often serve as facilitators, making it easier for others to finish projects. Navigating this precarious space is not an easy task for me, I admit that.
There is also a discussion thread:

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/152354d5c474067e
I don't see any difference in those compared to ICQ of 1996. I have a 6-digit ICQ number btw.
MediaTek is a Taiwanese company, no problem with that.
The world is not in decline. We do not live on a "spaceship earth" because of the potential for astroid/moon mining and space based solar panels. Technological progress continues to outstrip our environmental damage done in it's persuit, and ultimately only technological solutions will get us out of the current issues with climate change. That, and a healthy amount of climate adaptation.

Apocalyptic rhtoric is both wrong and a mind virus that cripples meaningful policy discussions.

I have my problems with Steven Pinker but this is one issue where he is so correct on it's not even funny.
Because Dart has a useful standard library, you’re still getting a much more manageable dependency tree than any JS framework could provide.
Yes! and so is anything based on blockchain
I don't think shipping a binary CUPS filter you're just supposed to trust counts as good Linux support. Never buying a printer without a fully working PPD without blob dependencies.
The issue with two networks is that many IoT things work by interacting with other things/users. A Philips Hue bridge or a Chromecast need to be accessible from the network you're on. And they rely on things like multicast and UPnP to function, which are hard if not impossible to do cross-vlan ( i looked into putting my Chromecasts on a different vlan and the setup was quite heavy).
Thank you!

NB: BGH1 is literally just a body with sensor and couple of sockets and that's it.
Take over home directories?!
An encrypted password is worse than a hashed one, since you only need it to be one way
Did I mention crypto once? I'm talking about stuff like mastodon and scuttlebutt...
Is there a reason consumer printers haven't been disrupted by some bored billionaire? Obviously some brands are better than others, but none stand out as a name everyone knows as a disrupting force (ala Uber, OnePlus, Tesla, etc; ignoring whether they are or not).
Definitely have to disagree.

"Clean" code is often an excuse for lazy, short names which need a comment to explain them. Consider this completely fabricated example:

// calculates the area of a rectangle with sides a and b, u being true for metric, false for imperial

int rarea(int a, int b, bool u);

versus

int rectangle_area(int side_a, int side_b, bool metric);

which more or less doesnt even need a comment anymore.

"Clean code" people want short names, massive comments that can be collapsed, so that from really far away, it looks neat. Its a terrible beginner mistake I see time and time again, and it shouldnt be defended.

If you write a math formula, how is writing "side_a" or "phi" worse than "a" and "p"?
"RMS" is Richard Matthew Stallman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
No link, no idea what you are talking about. More detail might let some with experience find some answers.
https://astalavista.box.sk/
> Doing all this does NOT solve the underlying problems that make people reach for suicide.

But it gives you time to teach teens coping skills, ingrain healthy habits, and get them through some of the tough teenage years, so you can then back down on meds when they are in a better place, with a better toolkit, to create adults who want to live.

I agree the meds are not the best answer in all cases. And there is nothing wrong with discussing their negative aspects. But that doesn't mean they don't serve a purpose in some cases.

Especially cases where it truly is a chemical imbalance causing the depression. Which may be more cases than you realize.
> Apple used to sell a box, their "Time Capsule", which was a home server. But Apple discontinued that

Because no one is interesting in running their own server.

> Apple became so cloud-oriented that their thermostat has to contact an external server to get the outside temperature

Apple doesn't make a thermostat but they, along with many others, are moving to Matter. An interoperable, secure, private, open standard i.e. the very opposite of being cloud orientated.
I would have thought it is a dying market. Sample size of one but I probably print 10 pages a year now.
Somewhat uneven? It’s been known that certain models of planes only exist because airlines demanded Boeing to make them.

It’s a pretty even fight, and because of the existence of Airbus, the airlines actually have a slight advantage. Look at what happened when Southwest casually mentioned they might be thinking about adding A320s into their fleet. Sent Boeing scrambling.
Saudi Arabia turns to Gulf states to replenish depleted air defences
> and I don't smell bad

You think you don't smell bad.
"Most of the fingerprinting protection is enabled by the user.js."

Right, it seems to me that in many ways it'd make sense if we had the option of restricting the JavaScript engine per se.

As users, if we could determine what functions JavaScript could actually perform then many of the security risks could be avoided. For example, if say we could change or randomize data in response to certain website queries which then resulted in them receiving garbage in ways they could not detect then users would be in much more control. Exactly how JavaScript would respond could be set in the browser's settings and changed as necessary.

I've long wondered why privacy browsers don't go to the heart of the problem and use modified JS engines. I'd love to know what those who're involved with browser development think about such a tactic and why it hasn't previously developed any traction.