skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> From my perspective, I don't care for theoretical advances. I care about results
and if scale provides results, I'm happy.

Like I say you can sort ever larger lists with ever bigger computers and
bubblesort. But you can go a lot further if you use the brain and come up with a
better sorting algorithm.

But I think you would be really surprised to find out how much humans have
achieved by using their brains rather than ever bigger computers. Here's a small
example that happened to be on my mind recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_Revolution

That is an example of the difference between expensive toys like Dall-E and
world-changing scientific work. Though I appreciate that the difference can
sometimes appear somewhat mudddled and a machine that can generate a "hamster
dragon" may seem as an important scientific breakthrough. Depends on what you're
more interested in: hamster dragons, or understanding how the world works. Oh
well.

As to this:

>> It's also interesting coming from someone researching Inductive Logic
Programming that provides no results at all.

That's an obvious -and odious- attempt at trolling me, but unlike yours, my HN
profile is linked to my real-world identity and so I am forced to respond with
politenes and to represent my field with dignity. Therefore, I will point out a
famous achievement of ILP with which you are sadly unfamiliar and that I expect
you to immediately discount on the grounds that you didn't know about it, so it
can't have been all that important. I'm linking to an article in the popular
press that will be more accessible. It doesn't go into depth over the machine
learning approach used but it's ILP; I link to the scholarly article immediately
after:

Robot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself

For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with
virtually no human intellectual input. Scientists designed “Adam” to carry out
the entire scientific process on its own: formulating hypotheses, designing and
running experiments, analyzing data, and deciding which experiments to run
next.

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/robotscientist/

And the scholarly article:

Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot
scientist

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02236
So I was talking about threaded code with Shaw the other day, and he gave me a long explanation about the various tradeoffs being made and the resulting techniques used in MiniVM. As I understand it, MiniVM is basically threaded code, with cached opcodes. Essentially, it uses precomputed gotos:

// classical computed goto
goto *x[y[z]]
// MiniVM precomputed goto
goto *a[z]

This optimization makes MiniVM a tad faster than raw computed gotos, because it's essentially threaded code with some optimizations. He can probably expand on this; if you want to hear the full really interesting explanation yourself, he's pretty active in the Paka Discord[0].

[0]: https://discord.gg/UyvxuC5W5q
Businesses can use Zelle at several banks, including Bank of America, Chase, Citi, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.
life is too short to waste time chasing next colorful toys that you'll not notice after a week.
That is generally true for most if not all NewSQL databases, as far as I know. Spanner, CockroachDB, TiDB, … Maybe even Aurora?

The second argument on secondary indexes’ size still holds water, if it matters for a given application.
I am convinced a good fraction of the off by one errors in C like languages comes from 0 indexing. The ith element is found after traversing i+1 elements and that fact leads to mistakes all the time. With 1 indexing the numbers line up.
People are afraid that if districts go remote it’ll be a repeat of 2020, where there was no consensus of when it was safe to go back to in-person schooling. There is distrust on both sides (the teachers and the school district/parents) and I can’t see them agreeing on a rubric at this point in time. Yet another way Covid is exposing the divisions in our society.
I don't think making all data public is the best solution for preventing companies from selling my data, or withholding it from me.
Seconding the recommendation of imapsync. It works wonderfully for me.
What version of geth were you using? How many CPUs? When one of my geth nodes dies, another spawn without issue.
Ask HN: Can someone suggest a REST API widget?
I am looking for an embeddable widget where my users can test the API endpoints quickly. I want to embed it in the website itself.
I started before CompuServe, Internet, or the internet were nouns.

It wasn't nicer back then, it was lazy and naïve.

3DES was widespread in the payment card industry, but the attitude towards protecting any/all parts of networks corresponding to the 7-layer OSI model was generally lax.

IPv4 public address ranges (mostly registered Class B's and C's) were wasted frivolously for internal corporate networks where they weren't suited or even necessary.

Unless they didn't know what they were doing, bank logins weren't unencrypted. Ever.

I and some lab peeps played with ARP and IP spoofing to steal each other's telnet sessions in the late 90's. It was obvious telnet, rcp, rsh, echo, char, finger, and nfs needed major reworking and/or abandonment.

Later, the Equifax hack broke SSN's as universal American private "UUIDs" (primary keys).

Things still broken as of 2022:

0. Without deploying 802.11x, DHCP by itself is still terrible because anyone spoof being a server and disrupt many communications on a LAN. Properly managed campus ELANs/WLANs should authenticate all WiFi and Ethernet connections equally and disconnect any misbehaviors at the port or AP-association level.

1. PII should be held by a secure, independent, nongovernmental nonprofit where it can be updated in one place and set access policies by the individual. Companies then can request access to it. That way, PII is treated more like medical records (PHI) and payment card info. For the most part, corporate customer data should be anonymized as much as possible by law.

2. There is no global universal standard identity / proximity card / secret keys HSM. Similarly, it should not be held or managed by any country, only issued by their organizations.

3. There is simultaneously too much anonymity for launching cyberattacks while not enough for protecting dissidents. Social media app operators should understand how much anonymity and identity-revealing/-proving is appropriate to ensure people invest-in and maintain a minimum amount of decency and empathy vs. cyberdisinhibitionism.
It feels like a bit of a stretch "so you are calling me to tell me about criminals after you said you would never call me because that's what criminals do?"

If their intelligence is that low at that point the criminals can skip all these hoops and directly ask them for their credit card numbers saying they are from the bank and they need to verify them.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that this was a positive report, of a positive experience. I’ve encountered a couple of these, lately.

I’m so used to the relentless negativity (much of it, unfortunately, justified) that comes from posts that start with “My experience at …”.

I have always been very enthusiastic about tech, and have striven to be positive in my own discussions (which has sometimes been a challenge).

I have often felt as if people consider my attitude a naive anachronism. It’s nice to read enthusiasm from someone at the start of their career. I very much believe in tech, and refuse to treat it as a gladiatorial arena.

I sincerely wish the OP luck.
Way to misrepresent the _purpose_ of the US military.
From her story, she clicked a link that starts with `wrww-roblox.com` and seems nothing happened. She went about her day, slept, and found out that her account was empty when she wakes up.

The person might have been following her around for a while and some of her rare merchandizes had started attracting unwanted attention. She says she had been playing with the person for a while, and she missed the link that was NOT Roblox.
The beauty of your statement is that it will become more and more provable through fine grained DNA analysis. The history of Neolithic Europe has been determined by recent (<10 years) results of multiple waves (almost) repopulating the old hunter gatherer stocks. There may grow a new school of linguists who deeply incorporate these waves with layers of language.

Interestingly the arrival of horses, chariots and advanced metallurgy in China did not leave much of an impression on the gene pool, at least not detected (detectable?) by current data/methods.
If I want to more influencers' bait content I just browse twitter directly
Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings
This is a okay response, although the language ain't great.

Half of Moxie's post were using the evil YC company OpenSea as an argument against decentralization, which seemed strange. It's like arguing against decentralized email because so many use Gmail.

The arguments against Infura etc. especially fell flat, as they are just proxies to the decentalized blockchain, the only value they provide is providing exactly the same decentralized blockchain data as your own node would. It's not as decentralized as running your own node would be, but to call it centralization is still wrong.
But they knew at the time they were peddling it that they didn't yet have that advantage. So selling it on the premise that they did was... Well, fraudulent, in my book.
Then you have fewer steps to complete. I must have misread your OP; I apologize.

Having a working personal Apple ID should help facilitate reaching Apple Support quicker, but you don’t need a working Apple ID to use the support site, or to receive support over the phone or in person at an Apple Store.

Even quicker still may be using the iOS Apple Support app if you have an iOS device handy. Doesn’t even have to be yours, you could borrow a friend’s. In my experience, setting an appointment on the support site is very quick and easy with callbacks under a minute being normal for me.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-support/id1130498044
I feel that demand shifting is something that is talked about least but will automatically happen at a larger scale than we envision when marginal cost of electricity is low. Hopefully that leads to cheaper versions of many expensive items with high embedded energy costs.
> at least for children to be too young to be left without supervision

Maybe school openings should just focus on that age group instead of being all-or-nothing? They could give extra focus to preschool & kindergarten, reallocate teachers from higher grades to decrease student-teacher ratios and help spread the infection risk thinner.
The Dumbest Pixel NFT on the Internet
Citigroup to fire unvaccinated employees this month
One of my bets is on synthesizing more hydrocarbons from water and CO₂, because planes and helicopters will still mostly run on it.
I thought you were going after Aptera and Arcimoto for a second and I was wondering what they had done to deserve to be associated with that debate…
Anec data: i smoked for 4 years. For 3.5 of those i was trying to give up - somehow once i entered the consciously trying hard to give up stage, i went from 10 a day to 20-30 per day.

Patches, gums, sprays (throat one, nasal one), cold turkey, herbal cigs, gamification, the little ball pellet things that were briefly on the market as a better gum alternative in the early 2000s, electric cig (not the modern e-cigs, the early 2000’s terrible ones), having a quit buddy, joining an nhs smoking cessation group…

I was not playing at giving up. I was latching on to anything that I’d heard worked for someone. I was distraught mentally. To top it all off, i couldn’t actually afford smoking as a student, i was accruing debt.

The only 2 things i refused to try were a “stupid” book (easyway by allen carr) - how dumb do you have to be to let a book reprogram your mind, I’m too smart for that. Also i avoided hypnotherapy for the same reason.

I finally read that book. I quit smoking (easily) before the half way mark in the book. No will power, nothing. I was just a non smoker now.

I don’t smoke, i don’t think about it ever, it doesn’t bother me to be near smokers, there’s no triggers i have to avoid etc etc im just a plain non smoker.

That book uses the same approach laid out at the start of this article.
Exactly.

I'm sure the foot-soldiers of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot had the exact same purity of thought, the exact same infallible self-belief and the exact same certainty they were on the right side of history.
Indeed, polynomials, for instance, start with a power of zero. At the same time, there is a reason why the natural numbers begin with 1, and, in practical terms, there is a certain convenience in the count (size) being the same as the last index.
You don’t need an Apple ID to use a Mac. However downloading apps from the App Store requires one.

You can also log into the OS with an Apple ID but also not required.
How many students that got sick are experiencing symptoms more severe than the common cold? It seems like the chaos is caused by the attempted solutions to covid and not the actual symptoms?

Edit: 7 day rolling average of COVID cases according to https://www1.nyc.gov/ is 32k cases per day with 38 deaths. So there is a 0.1% mortality rate.
When everything is both nails and screws, a hammer isn't the best tool for everything (unless it has a screwdriver on the end and the hammer part is big enough to be actually useful as a hammer).
You can set it up without an Apple ID.
Nawh, it's all about tk. ;)
What if I just want an offline record of my emails for the day that google decides to delete me from the internet?

I'm confused -- Mbox files can indeed be viewed offline.

(Not to say your point about the ease of automating Takeout is not valid.)
If key financial institutions had more trust in a blockchain than in the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England, and maybe the Central Bank of Japan to hold an account of their assets.
I am (or was?) a huge Moxie Marlinspike fan, and highly recommend this video[0] of his from Defcon several years ago. It was formative in my understanding of privacy and security.

That said, something here really doesn't add up. Being a huge fan, I took note several years ago of MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency, which listed him on the home page as one of the team.[1] Or, see this Wired article about it[2]. The big selling point, as I remember it, of MobileCoin (per the name) was that it was actually feasible for small clients (i.e. phones) to meaningfully take part in the network. But he's since been scrubbed from the site, as far as I can tell.

MobileCoin was added to Signal, much to the chagrin of HN. And Signal is intimately related to Moxie's work. I had thought that if MobileCoin becomes a thing, then the holders of the originally mined coin would become pretty rich, and I assume that would include Moxie.

So I'm a little confused by how this post fits in. I infer from it that he's new to web3 and crypto in general, but it feels like this isn't the case. (Though "web3" is ambiguous, and I suppose he's referring generally to Ethereum and dApps.) But his main point seems to be that the dominant cryptocurrency isn't suitable for involving light clients, which was the main selling point of MobileCoin.

I just wish it were clear his involvement with MobileCoin, since it feels to me like that could be a pretty significant conflict of interest with regard to Ethereum investigated here and could influence his perspective. For all I know, he answered some questions to the MobileCoin folks and they inflated his involvement. But then that wouldn't really explain how or why it was integrated into Signal.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeNbZlxfUM
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171216012822/https://www.mobil...
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/mobilecoin-cryptocurrency/
> If you use any of the popular social media apps (Twitter, TikTok, FB/Instagram, Snapchat), then you can't really claim that you care about your data

That's not true. I don't use any of those, and I understand the huge toll it has on my ability to participate in stuff. Many conversations happen only on Twitter or Facebook, so it's perfectly possible to "care about your data" and still, as a necessary compromise, use those services.
I have an idea! Why not create a _second_ blockchain which verifies the identity of NUU? :)
Not particularly. What verification means there is verifying that a certain Bored Ape is really on the "official" Bored Ape contract. It's verifying the contract address and nothing else. The NFTs themselves can be traded anywhere, there's no lockin for OpenSea there.

It's trivial for Twitter to add another contract address verification source.
Using the below url as a guide the fuel consumption per amount of fuel transported is actually very economical.
Deadweight: 442,470dwt, Lightweight: 67,000t = 375,470t of cargo. Fuel usage 141t per day. With a 15 day trip that would mean using 2,115t of fuel to get 375,470t of crude to its destination.

https://www.wartsila.com/encyclopedia/term/ultra-large-crude...
Twitter created Snowflake many years ago to generate IDs. Unsure whether it’s still in use.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
Great Post. Sort of very courageous too to submit it on HN. I was expecting many comments on moral principle and the usual evil company etc. It is very rare you see people offering the other side, unpopular and contrarian stories.
NFT event ticketing – a realistic look at a big trend
Like, I'm a professional C++ coder for living, but whenever something breaks in Linux I don't even know where to start fixing it. I'd just rather not deal with it.
Isn't it the case that these alternative blockchains are only cheap because practically nobody uses them? There's a recent example from the Polygon blockchain, which was also sold on having gas fees on the order of a penny, until the recent launch of a Polygon blockchain game which drove enough transactions to push the gas fees up to half a dollar.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/01/06/polygon-under-accid...

They don't seem to really be solving the scalability issues, but rather just kicking them down the road, at which point yet another blockchain will pop up to "solve" the issue.
Batteries need to shape up, though. Huge battery installations should become cheap and ubiquitous; so far they are neither.

A number of interesting chemistries exist that would suit well the needs of stationary batteries, which can be heavy and bulky, but need to be cheap and safe. As usual, more time and money are needed :)
Su Bingtian: This Asian Man Ran the Fastest 60m in Human History [video]
The question is why I need to spent my time going to apple support for resetting a simple account. This is 2022. Authenticator apps, sms, magic links. Why I need to call them, or even ask for an appointment. They just blocked my account for no reason. If this seems reasonable to any of you... I feel I stole my own computer!
> For clarity, you are now arguing a tangential point.

I don’t think I am; all these fall under GP’s first sentence; I took “goes down” in the next sentence as one example, WLOG.

> Are crypto maximalists arguing that social networks are only about the database itself and access to it?

I can’t speak for crypto maximalists (I’m probably as skeptical of this stuff as you are), but I think the best argument is that the existence of a viable off-ramp forces the centralized player to be a good actor. Similar to how many open source projects are very centralized, but the possibility of a fork (like mariadb) is enough of an incentive that it’s rare for a project to screw up so badly that a fork can gain steam.
Tesla announces Full Self-Driving package price increase to $12,000
Definitely. I actually installed `bat` a few years ago and then forgot about it immediately. `diff-so-fancy` was pretty nice, but then I started using Emacs and then Magit ruled 'em all... `htop` is still great to have though.
> (...) is that centralization is a feature, not a bug.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't centralization in blockchain-related applications a critical problem which defeats the whole purpose of said tech?

I mean, if a Blockchain is controlled by a single entity, doesn't that entity have all it needs to rewrite it however they wish?

And also, is there any difference between storing a record in a centrally-managed Blockchain or a record in plain old relational database managed by a third party?
I could find a single sentence from the noob that I could agree with. Redis is superior to memcached. Not due to being faster or scalable, I've just had less operational problems with it than memcached. It's on my list of supersoftwares that are first choices to solve a problem in it's domain (nginx, uwsgi, postgresql, redis).
This sounds an awful lot like what I've been able to do with digital theatre sound systems for a long time, so I don't think it's novel.
Excel on the web has different scripting features and functionality than the desktop version, called Office Scripts, and Power Automate integrations. It also has something called Action Recorder, which seems like a native built-in AutoHotKey type deal.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/overview...
Is Wordle always solvable in 4 guesses?
Given there are only 2315 possible answers, my intuition tells me the game Wordle should be solvable after a specific sequence of 3 guesses. (based on the information provided by each incorrect guess)

Can anyone do the maths?
OPs profile pic is amongus
Want to go bananas? Cargo shipping is as mouch as oil shipping and the most shipped goods are bananas…

https://www.eurosender.com/blog/en/most-shipped-items/
Holy Moly ---"A lot of NFTs do use Google Drive or Imgur or whatever."---is this true.
The problem with log4j is that they didn't introduce a breaking change, allowing vulnerable functionality the maintainers already considered problematic to stick around.
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks: Anatomy of a Persecution (Melzer and Maurizi)
IIRC, they did see it coming. There was a risk assessment that pointed out that having backup generators protected by a flood wall of the height it was was a bad idea if there was a tsunami wave taller than the flood wall. Sadly, it was considered not particularly likely, and a new wall would have been expensive, so nothing happened.

I think when you consider the risk of nuclear plants, it's worth taking into account the culture of the host nation. Japan, with its culture of institutional and individual corruption, is always a bit risky with dangerous industries, as demonstrated by its history of lethal industrial accidents.

I think Germany would be a little bit better, but it's hard to say for sure.
Null hypothesis testing was invented less than 100 years ago by Fisher, who completely arbitrarily picked 0.05 [0]. That value was not arrived at through wisdom of experience, and certainly not after hundreds of years of practice.

Though it has now indeed become conventional to test with p=0.05, there is nothing wrong with reporting an effect that fails the null hypothesis test. At least that is the position of the American Statistical Association [1].

[0] https://www.cantorsparadise.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-p-val...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017929/
If Chinese-style totalitarianism is the means necessary for an elimination strategy, I'd much rather take my chances with the disease.

I do not understand why people think it is reasonable to expect that humanity can completely control diseases. That has never been the case. Disease is a fact of life. We get better and better at managing our responses, as we learn more, but we can only reduce, never eliminate the risk.