skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As per usual, it depends very much on what you consider a blockchain. Is Certificate Transparency a blockchain? It's a Merkle tree, without any tokens involved.

What would something like AlterNIC have looked like if it was backed by a blockchain? Would it have had easier acceptance, or more reliability?
This post a highlights a huge pitfall many in tech fall into and best avoided if you want to progress in your career. Drop the elitism and ego and start thinking about how other people go about managing their digital content and create things that others find useful, not just you.
Are you seriously going to make an argument on the relative investment each browser engine gets based on how many commits they have?
I think it's to clean out the major cities so they can be snapped up for cheap later on by the people funding those DAs. Look at how Trump made all his money. He bought cheap New York real estate in the 70s during a similar crime wave before it got cleaned back up.
PewDiePie recently brought this issue to mainstream in a video of his, since he's been waiting 2 years to go there.
Banks definitely should be tech companies, and understand and embrace the important of tech for their business. But you're absolutely right; the banks where I worked definitely tried to be technologically progressive (sometimes even a bit too much in my opinion[0]), but it was undeniable that much of the company was slow and bureaucratic, and despite all the "empowering developers", we often got stupid decisions handed down to deal with. Often they were aware of the stupidity, but changing something was still a very slow process.

At one bank, I was in a team that straddled the line between the international and domestic sections of the bank, which used to be more independent from each other, but we had to deal with both. Getting a simple firewall opened up between two systems on either side took 6 months.

[0] One bank that arguably took the tech company most seriously, wanted to be a bit too much on the cutting edge in my opinion. They were very active in the Angular community, which was absolutely great, but they also wanted to do CICD, which just didn't fit with all the security checks necessary at a bank. Parts were moving very fast, and parts were moving very slowly.

At that same bank, we also had a very clear mandate that we could say no to business. At some point, after we felt we put too much in production in rapid succession with insufficient testing, we had to block a next thing that a business guy really wanted to see in production. Really pissed him off, and he threw a tantrum I hadn't seen before or since at any workplace, but we insisted and our manager backed us up, so that was definitely good.
> the service owner is no longer in control of what happens to their content after the bits physically leave their premises

If course they are, in a legal sense. Copyright had no sense of bits, data or access. It just cares about licenses.

I'm also not sure that it is a great idea to try to ignore this law. Otherwise they just double down on DRM to ensure that they are the true owners of any devices those bits cross.
User Research
What do you guys think of a startup that helps creators earn from their fans. The fans have the option of giving to their favourite creators because of positive impact on their lives.
What would you think about mandatory tennis then?
Film Industry => in about half the time, Sony Entertainment, by far the most aggressive company when it comes to copyrights.
The same can be said about any technology any of us have hesitation working on: advertising, addiction-style IAP gaming, advertising masquerading as a blue social site for human connection, publishing censorship ("content moderation"), military weapons and adjacent AI targeting, etc...

If you don't think doing your job every day is making the world better, please remember that what the parent comment says is true: it's never been a better time to make the switch!

Your work matters, and we can all work to make the world better, or worse, a little bit every day.
You should write a blogpost at this point.

You can write more about these problems and it would have higher visibility.
I would say that you must not think about programming itself. Programming what?- should be your approach.

He should be interested in something, and then should face some problem in it, and then be able to solve it with programming. Or use programming to make things better.

I don't think that you can make a 9 yo interested in outputting a bunch of text into console.

You can get started with Scratch, and see how things go.

Or you can introduce him to Minecraft where he can get started with Java to do stuff in the game.

You can also buy Osmo and check how that goes. Someone I know teaches her 3 yo using Osmo.

My personal choice would be to buy a Raspberry Pi kit with some sensors or an Arduino kit, and download and use Open Source prewritten code with those. Then tweak the code to do things. Then eventually write his own code to do stuff.

Another way would be to introduce him to text-based games like the ones in early-years of computing. There's a book around called- Land of Lisp, where Lisp is taught with Text-Based Games.

I would ask you to remember three things-

1. There would be a trial and error component to it. You will have to be willing to try different things to see what sticks.

2. Code with your son. I mean, give him a place, a desk, maybe, to sit beside you and code together.

3. A boring thing becomes interesting when there is chance to outsmart one's peers. An interesting thing will become more interesting this way. So, after initiation, try and enroll your son in a group activity involving programming.

I hope this helps.

There was a Google doodle some years back where "programming" was introduced. You should check this out and give your son this [0].

[0]: https://g.co/kgs/NbCoHY
I've said it before and I'll say it again: DRM only hurts your legitimate customers. Anyone who had any interest in pirating your content will find a way around DRM -- whether that's a technical solution or whether it's just downloading a copy from someone else who has the technical knowhow to bypass DRM.

However it's your legitimate customers, the ones who actually paid for your product, who suffer.
Props for the pricing model.

I recommend enabling accomplishments.app/username listing the accomplishments publicly for those that enable that. Vanity is a powerful pull.
That's pronounced pa-NEE-kos though. The stress is on the wrong syllable. But, good catch :)
Thoughts about my free iPhone app – WhatsApp (2009)
Ohh, that's nice. One of downsides of coconut is very little developer tooling.
We (Americans) don’t solve big problems, just like we don’t deliver justice for big crimes. The rot is deep.
I wonder if it were possible to create a language with the power of Haskell, but with a better, more mathematical-like syntax?
Yes, I still know people who blame the Republicans who ran the state in the 70s for the homeless problem. That was 50 years ago, but it still makes a good narrative.
Yes, mentioned almost at the end:

> The separate guilty pleas entered by the hackers demonstrate that after Sullivan assisted in covering up the nature of the hack of Uber, the hackers were able to commit an additional intrusion at another corporate entity—Lynda.com—and attempt to ransom that data as well.
Yeah, it's the system that the "fruit company" (it really is a powerful multinational corporation, you make it sound harmless) lays its foundations upon that privates me of my freedom.
I see two ways to interpret this

(1) make sure everyone has enough and they won't steal

(2) promote a culture that stealing is unacceptable regardless of your situation

I don't personally believe (1) is sufficient nor will it solve the problem. Most people stealing are not "that" poor. They are not starving etc...

Instead they (we) have a culture that it's acceptable to steal. Even many well to do middle and upper middle class westerners feel like it's a right of passage to steal a few things, to shoplift once in a while, etc...

The places I've lived where theft is low didn't have much absolute poverty but they also had a culture of stealing is wrong almost regardless of your situation.

I have no clue how to promote that culture. it seems an impossible task. I'm confident though that the majority of the issue is culture , not poverty
Download an app, or configure an entire cloud service over the weekend to record some notes. I wonder whats easier, hmmmm.
And how much ground you need to cover to have equivalent of an average nuclear power plant? And yes, one needs storage, and viable storage technology is not even on the horizon.

It is so sad and so bad for our planet that for instance Germany decided to spend billions of billions on renewable energy plants while spending the same amount on nuclear power plant would made Germany zero emission economy.
Also, the link is directly to the indictment release from the relevant justice department; it’s not even a news, aggregator or “gossip” site.

This is the most egregious “why is this on HN” I’ve seen.
There are too much such projects
Permissions (regulatory) is also easier. Not sure how it is in India but I know that investors here opted for solar/wind/water a few times because it would take too long and is too unsure if it would succeed. Mind you, that was closer to Fukushima and Germany was shouting loud against nuclear.
If you torrent the content directly, it plays on all hardware and can be used offline or easily shared to friends via USB/AirDrop/etc. You also get a wide choice of players.

Everything good on the streaming sites is quickly available via torrent, and VPNs are like $5. Don't continue paying the media cartels for abuse.
The largest group of nesting fish ever found lives beneath Antarctic ice
There are so many games that are still fun, even for people who don't define fun as grinding away at a Battle Pass (which some people do indeed enjoy)

In the single player narrative space you have any Sony first party exclusive, along with games like RDR2 / Prey / Outer Wilds / Witcher 3 / Yakuza 0 / Disco Elysium / MGS: V.

For less narrative heavy single player games you have any Nintendo first party exclusive, along with games like Factorio / Hades / Rimworld / Carrion / Hollow Knight / Ori 1 and 2 / Stardew Valley.

And these are just the games I personally enjoy off the top of my head since 2016. I'm sure there's many I'm forgetting, along with many which aren't for me but might be for others.

The top level of games like CoD, Battlefield, Apex, and pretty much any Ubisoft game are MTX riddled Skinner boxes alright, but there are so many great single player MTX free games out there right now.
The concept of using a bunch of smaller ships against bigger ones is an old one ( the Jeune École, the Soviet "quantity has a quality of its own" ).
It has some merits, and was used to limited success in some cases, but especially for power projection, which is the main mission of the US Navy, you can't beat big ships.

Automation changes things to an extent, but it's way too early to talk about fully autonomous ships; any automation is just progressively automating various duties in order to have less crew members. And that's a process ongoing since the Cold War ( notably Soviet ships and especially submarines were far more automated than US equivalents, with much less crew for a similar vessel).
> no directive to not pursue property crime. police have not pursued property crime for decades

If there's no directive, why is property crime not pursued?
Hey, not trying to make you or anyone else feel guilty. In fact I specifically chose my words to not do so. I just think developer talent is wasted on stuff that is ultimately useless at best, and making life harder for legal users at worst.
If you keep paying them for the discs they will keep paying the engineers to implement this stuff.
You can also use i3wm as tiling window manager. It replaces KDE‘s default window manager. I had good experiences with that.

Guide: https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Manage...
It's not about piracy, it's so they can segment the market and charge different amounts in rich and poor countries based on region-locked media.

Otherwise first sale doctrine would allow people to sell mountains of imported cheap discs from poor countries in the USA legally.

It's to protect the margins in places where $5 isn't much money. Vastly more units are sold in places where $5 is a lot.
How I built a custom app for Confluence and won the Atlassian Hackathon
I’m currently reading “Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots” [0] and it’s an anthropological exploration of these topics. I don’t know if I recommend it to all yet, but if you often think about the philosophy of labor, it might tickle your brain in the right way.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0525561757/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch...
If you want to record achievements, download the app... which part of that is bloated?
I guess you could apply some of the same solutions used in refrigerated shipping containers for power redundancy.
You are describing the rise of the East India Company!
The goal is to train your “conscious system” so that it catches the “automatic system” in its addiction. You are in a way training to recover control every time autopilot goes somewhere you don’t want it to. Cf mindfulness.

You must do it always not just when you want to stop.
streaming services build a profile of me based on what I watch and share with with other companies. No thanks
You may want to look into Wolfram Mathematica. It has the syntax f[x,y] and a super extensive standard library, being otherwise very LISPy.
If Mukesh Abmani ties up with Elon Musk for Tesla's India expansion, it will be done faster than it was done in China. But may be wishful thinking.
I've tried that approach in the past. The reason I didn't promote it in the guide is because data attributes, in my experience, were more verbose than what we needed.

They were useful in cases where we needed to pass in additional information (e.g. data-qa="onClick"). But what we found was

- whether class or attribute, it was the same dependency on markup
- selecting with [data-qa] was the same specificity as .qa
- selecting with [data-qa] was just a little more verbose than the teams liked

But, this isn't me arguing against data attributes. I'm just stating that my experience went in the direction where we didn't see any huge benefit.

They're guidelines so, by all means, take what works, throw away the rest. This was a small guideline about how to name stuff, not build entire apps. So if that's the thing that doesn't work for your workstream, my feelings aren't hurt. Thanks for reading it, though, and sharing your thoughts.
so .. tamper-evident but not tamper-proof?
The age of cinema is over. The time of the torrents has come.
Understanding the characteristics of Covid-19 misinformation communities
Seems like you've misunderstood the grandparent comment. It's not 'sinful fun' - it's not fun at all. That's the point. We've traded fun and memorable activities for doom scrolling.
By its very nature, an analytics product must process personal data.

Personal data is "any information relating to an identifiable individual" (see GDPR art 4(1).

Your IP address, browser and OS (via user agent), the website you visited, the pages you visited, time of visit, the site you came from (via referrer) are all personal data.

If Plausible have put a US owned cloud provider in-front of their Hetzner infrastructure, even if for a legitimate purpose (CDN, DDoS prevention) then that is likely an unlawful transfer of personal data to the USA.
There is a few libraries that can do some work around localization and formatting, though IIRC most commonly if you need something translated, you just turn it into a format argument as well. So instead of say "hello {name}", you write "{greeting} {name}" (though this doesn't cover all languages anyway).

edit: There is also the issue that on some platforms (Linux) locale has some soundness issues (not a fault of rust) and yet on others it can be hard to use locales properly (Windows can introduce some hard locale weirdness)
I bought a flashable drive specifically for this reason. I both love having physical releases and the convenience of a Plex server when I just want to throw something on.
The big one is it makes it more attractive to your friends. There is no way to turn off Messenger if you have an fb account, so your friends will tend to message you there, and the more friends they have easily accessible in one place, the more likely they are to a) sign up, and b) stay accessible there, which perpetuates the cycle.

You have to delete the accounts so your friends can't reach you on the surveillance/censorship platforms! Otherwise they will use them and continue to use them.
I wonder how American it is. It's illegal to beg in Denmark. It's illegal to sleep rough in Germany. The police will absolutely bother you if they catch you at either.
I think the poster was joking about the effectiveness of the current IT security community (or ineffectiveness).

"The Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) was created in order to facilitate greater sharing of information".

More info here: https://www.cisa.gov/tlp
> How about you target your disapproval at the Bay Area devs whos'

Whataboutism...
Considering the size of bluray rips, let alone UHD ones, TPB downloads are usually a significant step down in terms of quality vs directly ripping a disk.
A solution for what? There aren't any eye catching colors or notifications on browser social media unless you manually visit, bookmark sites in the first place :P

I guess it gets into an addiction thing- I'm definitely prone to this/is a little more serious. I have edited hosts files to block sites and used procrastination plugins, for instance.
> This is not some NSO-level spyware that can be used to spy and target people.

It isn't, until it is: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/adobe-spyware-reveals-...
> really focuses

I disagree. ML and DL have become core parts of Meta and Google, both. And both of them do it very openly.

Meta and Google regularly contribute to open research in AI and all their tools are open source.
That will destroy the river ecosystem, while providing little to nothing for power, since rivers are often shaded.

That's a terrible idea, unless I am missing something.

Why not cover the vast amount of uninhabitable land in solar panels, rather then what small amount of precious resource land that exists.
Humans have mass, corporations do not.

There is a fundamental difference in the concept of an entity that exists as a whole, and a legal construct that is purely an economic allocation abstraction.

Nations aren't real either.
Also Fugaku (The world's #1 supercomputer from 2020 till present) uses HBM2 for its CPU <-> Memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer)
Code injection is currently the #1 language-related security vulnerability [1][2] in memory-safe languages, which is why languages should be very careful when adding string interpolation as it may well be their most security-sensitive feature: "Templated string injection attack prevention will be of primary concern. The result of template processing can to be used in sensitive applications, such as database queries. Validation of templates and expression values prior to use can prevent catastrophic outcomes." [3].

[1]: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/

[2]: https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/sans-top-20-security-vul...

[3]: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8273943
DRM is very hard to get right, it's some sort of challenge. It's no wonder it attracts very bright minds and they probably are happy working on it.
A week has 7*24 = 168 hours.

40/168 ~= 1/4

Hours awake 7*16 = 112

40/112 ~= 1/3
Good observation - my first though when reading this was "wow, didn't know this happens in the US, until now I only heard about things like this from third world countries". I mean, sure, crime happens everywhere, but you have to be pretty desperate to do things like this (relatively high risk of injury or getting caught, relatively low chance of finding something really valuable). Then I realized that unfortunately, despite being one of the richest countries in the world, many US citizens have standards of living comparable to a third world country...
The "exceptions" part is pretty significant there. Copying that you do for your own personal use (e.g. format shifting) is especially likely to fall under the "Fair Use"/"Fair Dealing" provisions of copyright law. This was the basis of the Sony vs. Betamax case, which involved home videotaping for format shifting purposes.
Vastly more user-friendly than .onion names, I'd say :P
Please wear one-use gloves when rummaging around in trash? Please? For me?
The New 'Air Yacht' Is a Catamaran That Floats to the Skies
> you get the natural numbers, the integers, ... but even before the natural numbers come the prime numbers. Primes are the most fundamental set of numbers in mathematics, from which you can generate the natural numbers.

I don't really see how you can define prime numbers before the natural numbers.
Ahhh yep, I’ve actually got some plans for some other sites I could support!

If you’re referring more to the possibility of you owning the site itself that’s possible too
In Denver, we experienced a huge increase in bike theft because a massive crime ring was exporting them to Mexico and then reselling them for thousands. Sometimes crime isn’t desperation or opportunistic (though Denver still has plenty of opportunistic thefts), it can be organized too!
I just want to emphasize your exception. Old tradespeople are the best! I have had nothing but good experiences with them. Young hotheads are everywhere in the trades and they can be so bad you have to call the police on them. Old guys who have survived for many years tend to be extremely knowledgeable and efficient in their work.
"Humans" don't do this in Zurich or Tokyo but do it in Haiti and downtown LA. Could it be that context matters?
I don’t know, probably an unpopular opinion, but I feel like working on a technology that wastes peoples time through un-skippable ads is akin to a small murder. You’re taking tiny chunks of many peoples lives. On a popular film, it almost certainly adds up to more than a lifetime.

It’s the cigarettes of modern technology.
There are many people who would say the same thing about america and americans. Looking at the history of my country (germany) i think there are a lot of peoples who would have a similar sentiment. Yet there are brave people in russia fighting for democracy and human rights, reporters risking their live to uncover corruption and millions of people that just want to live and prosper just like anywhere in the world.

I hope one day russia can make the same turn towards democracy and peace my country did without the bloodshed. I don't think comments like yours facilitate that.
> Cyberlink’s PowerDVD because Cyberlink is one of the very few officially
authorized software vendors for encrypted UHD disc playback

The only way to win in this game is not to play it.
Rivers are shaded? What kind of rivers are you thinking of? Are you talking about a flowing river, several hundred feet in width having shade in the middle of it?
Here's a historical one. 1976.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASL_(programming_language)
Why is wind not getting the same love as solar? Wind has a more proven track record than solar. Entire modern industrialized European countries have run on pure wind energy for several days at a time. If we could store and share that energy across borders we probably have the answer to most of our energy problems.

In the 2010s the efficiency of solar cells have been so exaggerated that some scientific journals felt it was necessary to enforce rigorous checklists and guidelines on that topic:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nphoton.2015.233