skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are PoS blockchains a potential risk if nations want to adopt?
I believe that since PoS is money based, meaning the most staked tokens are in the main validator set, then potentially big corporations/nations could slowly infiltrate a blockchain at a slow rate and then take the blockchain down at once. There should be a more secure version that PoS that can enhance the trustless issue of nodes.
It has already escalated a lot in terms of "cyberwar" or whatever people call it nowadays. Ukrainian infrastructure is under heavy attack from Russia and Russia is under heavy attack from volunteers from literally ever single country in the world, so heavy that Russia is now cutting off the rest of the internet because they can't handle the attacks.
Learning from Weakly-Labeled Videos via Sub-Concepts
HN is a message board for tech nerds. It’s not a community, much less an organization with political clout or influence.

Stopping Putin, whatever that may mean or require, is currently beyond the power of the US, Europe, and allies.

You can help people get out of Ukraine and pay for places for refugees to live. At this point I think it’s more effective to focus on people who need help we can give them rather than on wishful thinking like stopping Putin. Programming skill is not a superpower.
It’s an arms race of bad faith complaints leading to watered down responses, and mediocre responses leading to faux-outraged complaints, all involving a peanut gallery of online haters.

I agree with avoiding publicity (in this sense e.g by replying to online complaints or attacks, other than to redirect to a private channel), though I don’t like it.
Either works for me! I don't have a current need, so I wanted to understand your offerings for when I a future need develops.
Interview from same year with pilot who took the Tic Tac video:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-...
Flash was used for a massive variety of use-cases: Digital signage, touch screen kiosks, eLearning experiences, games, web animation, etc. No one is just gonna go out and build a new Flash along with its ecosystem. I used web animation as one obvious example, but the reality is that there is an extreme lacking of cohesion when you look at just about any part of developing for the web. The ecosystem is currently such a slippery foundation that creation of an authoring tool with the scope of Flash is basically impossible to achieve.
Thing is that I just can't read PDFs.
Are you sure it wasn't swamp gas?
This is hypocrisy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy

This isn't, "We did this bad and so we can't condemn you now." This is, "We did this over decades, constantly, everywhere, and it was consistently sanctioned and approved." The media smiled and the US people "supported their troops."

You call this a "mistake in the past?" First, the US is still illegally there, taking Iraq's oil, a war crime, as it jumps up and down in moral outrage about this. Second, more importantly, they're not calling a mistake.

The next step for us is to listen to why Russia is concerned with NATO expanding into the Ukraine.

Russia just offered peace under one main circumstance, that the Ukraine declare itself neutral so that there is a buffer zone. Seems reasonable, especially considering that the US already has military bases in 50 countries -- maybe it can skip this one country. Maybe it's up to the Ukraine now.
Wow the philosophy guide is super narrowminded.
I don't think it's awkward silence...there's just very little so far that meets HN's guidelines for on-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It was on the frontpage the other day when Elon Musk gave UKR access to Starlink.
That's a very limited view of religion. Think of religions as frameworks for interpreting the world. You don't need dogma to be an effective framework. Plus, not all religions are dogmatic, in fact most aren't. The Abrahamic faiths are the exceptions, not the rule.
Since Google doesn't really own much infrastructure outside of the US, I don't think Google can do much, and maybe doesn't even have that much insight on what is going through the pipes elsewhere.

There is a lot more things happening that just phishing attacks though, from both sides. While Russia is attacking Ukrainian IT-infrastructure, Russian IT-infrastructure is getting hit by every other country at the moment.
Putin invaded Ukraine & took Crimea in 2014 while Obama was President. He invaded again recently with Biden President. As far as I know, he didn't invade anybody while Trump was President.

I wouldn't exactly give Trump credit for that, but I think we need to be honest about the timeline here..
And we got __really__ lucky in the US about 2015. This could've gone much worse.
I like it, except that the Enter symbol confuses me. I associate it with a windowing button or on/off switch. I probably would use ⏎ (U+23CE) instead.
Just a note. Arches is a good 4 hour drive from Salt Lake City.

(Not to try and discourage your visit. I'm from Utah and I've often thought of trying to arrange some sort of Python/Data desert or ski outing.)
From the HN guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

It's not unusual for top breaking stories to get flagged off the HN front page, simply because they're top stories that are broadly covered in the mainstream media.

Now, niche responses to ongoing current events (like the InfoSec, supply chain, or technical aspects of the Ukraine invasion) are another matter, and I've seen several of them on the HN front page recently.
Samsung Confirms Galaxy Source Code Was Stolen by Hackers
Statistics converges to calculus at its core. Source: am statistician
The silence isn't due to a lack of submissions or upvotes [1], but the articles usually get flagged off the front page relatively quickly.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
,, Tech interviews suck. Engineers grind LeetCode for months just so they can write the optimal quicksort solution in 15 minutes, but on the job you just import it from some library like you're supposed to.’’

I was responding to this negative part of the introduction. Actually all of the mentioned frameworks are disallowed at Google (where leet code style interviews were introduced), because they are not fit for serving billions of people in the latency budget in the search/ads stack.

If you would rephrase it that for most companies leet code style interviews don’t make sense (and probably are your customers), I would agree, but the few where it makes sense are really important companies.
I mean technically. And yes the US (and EU) needs a copyright reform :)
I believe that, too. However, for something like a zip file, I KNOW that the PK in the header stands for Phil Katz.
>Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket.

I have less money than if you sent me some right now. You not sending me money is clearly not theft.
Did anyone in the west actually think that? I thought it was just I'll/we'll get rich outsourcing this to the east, and who cares about the impact long term or to others.
I hate to say this but it is not very intuitive, I was click on dragging for a while. Circular motions while dragging with a trackpad is not a natural motion.
Take heart: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/357...
Song of Sand by Suzanne Vega

If sand waves were sound waves
What song would be in the air now
What stinging tune
Could split this endless noon
And make the sky swell with rain

If war were a game that a man or a child
Could think of winning
What kind of rule
Can overthrow a fool
And leave the land with no stain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzNyao--tuY
> You very much know that many people think that “when you get in a higher tax bracket” that all of your income gets taxed more.

Because it does. Stop being deceitful by pushing the free variable over to one extreme of all the extra tax being allocated to the margin. Literally any other allocation results in the conclusion that some additional tax is taken from the baseline income.

This is the natural way to look at it. When I get taxed throughout the year, I don't see my first $X get taxed at Y% and then the next %X' get taxed at %Y'; I see the whole lot get taxed at Z%, Y<Z<Y'. And at the end of the year, I don't see that I have paid Y% or Y'% of my income, I see that I have paid Z% of my income. Marginal tax rate is propaganda with no basis in reality. Average tax rate is the only meaningful number.

Marginal tax rate provides a convenient way to define a piecewise progressive tax curve which is continuous by construction, which is a nice property, but it is just a convenience. The function is still increasing everywhere above the negative tax cutoff. Every dollar earned does result in more taxes being paid on the whole income.
I am a statistician and this guy gets it. Stats converges to calc at its core. The real issue is stats education is bad.
Unfortunately, we don't yet know how long the protection will last. From the paper's Discussion section (top of page 10):

"Overall, these data raise the possibility that the fourth dose does not boost immunity but simply restores it to peak levels. It is yet to be observed whether the waning of this fourth dose will be at a similar rate as that observed after the third dose and whether it will differ between the two mRNA vaccine groups."
>It does not even begin to engage with the idea that knowledge and education can have value in and of itself enriching people's lives, building a shared culture, improving social mobility, decreasing inequality etc

There is a difference between an education, which is what you are describing here and anybody can get for free online, and a college degree which is a part of an outdated industry being propped up by government grants and student loans. The administrative waste in higher education is absurd, and anybody in the industry should be embarrassed by it.

The entire education industry needs to be stripped for parts and rebuilt from the ground up in a way that doesn't bury young adults in debt, or bleed the middle class taxpayers dry.
I interpreted the assertion there as being that you're bribing them for better service, and an argument that this is "corrupt" because there is a belief that the service should be provided at a single price that is known to everyone, with equal quality to anyone who is willing to pay it, as opposed to favoring customers who pay extra.

That said, it's up for debate whether this is a valid expectation either in the context of public services provided by the government, engagements with private parties, or both.
Solar power is also non-renewable since the sun will run out in 5 billion years.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27604089
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov's on Telegram and Russia
Too bad. It doesn’t really matter what you or I think about the technology, the people in charge of deciding chose DAB+, for whatever reason you do or do not believe. I’m fine with it, you’re not, it’s irrelevant to anyone but you.
There are fewer registered D/Rs, but there is a massive swell in 'independents' who, without fail, when they show up to vote, vote single-ticket (or close to it) all the way down the ballot.

Being a registered party member provides very few advantages, and a lot of disadvantages (mostly in the form of unsolicited correspondence). There's also social caché to be gained in some circles from claiming to be an enlightened independent that has transcended the petty two-party duality, who just happens to consistently vote like a dyed-in-the-wool partisan.

My wife is one such person. She has very little respect for the Democratic party, and views most of it as an actively harmful waste of oxygen, but she will be damned if she gives team red a seat.

Barring a catastrophic change in party alignment, nobody is going to convince her who to vote for - but they do need to convince her to show up.
What happened to Python in February 2022?
How international law applies to attacks on nuclear and associated facilities
Was there an explanation? Considering the low traffic I'm sure they could keep it running off of donations from nostalgic readers.
Computers made it insanely useful where before it was an interesting view of systematic math.
https://github.com/stedolan/jq can manipulate arrays of objects and format as CSV
Of course you can do it with http://brackit.io.

What exactly is the "transformation" you envision?
You perhaps dont see the export potential for these mini reactors?

The UK gave the world the industrial revolution, and the pollution, so this will be its answer to help clean up the planet.

There is enough surveillance on the planet now to track and predict virtually everyone's next move when coupled with US tech firms, so what would remote villages in the Amazon think if they can get online and connected with the rest of the world, or parts of Africa getting reliable electricity?

Electric cars's are still in the infancy, but battery tech is always improving and if the planet is to decarbonise then nuclear is the way to go.

We havent even started mining Helium13 from the moon (massive amount on the moon little on Earth), but that has virtually no radioactive waste.

Who wouldnt want decent electricity at Everest Base camp's?

The US Embassy in London is supposed to have its own mini nuclear reactor which uses the Thames for cooling and generates enough to power local residence in the event of a power outage. Its probably like what you find on a nuclear powered submarine, which is what I would imagine these Rolls Royce mini reactors will be like or could be like.
Have pharmaceutical companies created a web of disinformation to boost profits?
The author didn't respond on here... assuming he saw this I guess he wasn't interested.
Yes. Although it wasn’t really needed. Many in the US thought Hussein was responsible for 9/11.

If a democratic country wants to go to war it needs a reason that’s beloved by a large number of people.
If Russia’s relationship with the free market world tanks they’re probably just going to nationalize the important companies.

Also if Russia fails as a state, what would happen to the outer provinces?
Russias economy is about the size of Spain tho that doesn’t account for the shadow economy run by the oligarchs but even that is probably negligible compared to the scale of national economies.

Russia is piss poor and it’s probably the best example of how much the wealth of a nation is dependent on its government and its civic institutions.

Russia isn’t just rich in a single resource and it has a highly educated and culturally rich society.

It has all the ingredients to be the most prosperous nation on the planet and yet nearly ever since it’s inception as a state (and I mean every iteration of it) it has had its head so high up its ass that it’s a world power nearly solely due to its remarkable ability to fail upwards.
For what it’s worth, the curriculum in this guide is modeled after the math major maps of many universities, including the one I attended (Penn). I would be curious to know what part of an undergraduate math curriculum will lead people very far astray…
just read this essay -- very impressive that the author wrote a PhD thesis in Russian language, and lived in Moscow. However, the essay does not support the initial paragraphs, it seems. This is a thin overview of a forty year development of digital media economy. While Moscow copy-shops in the early 2000s may draw rebuke now, I saw late 1990s Hong Kong and WOW was there a LOT of Pirated Everything. Probably I would guess, more than Moscow. Fast forward to 2022, and there is every bit of this, and more, with layers of economy involved like a soil analysis of the Amazon River basin.

Are US interests threatened by stopped-payment subscriptions to Office 365? Does anyone want to pay their Oracle monthlies? As noted in the article, a lot of Western big-name enterprise software was cancelled recently whether it is pirated or not.

Drastic circumstance are a trigger, but the world of software is not done evolving and plenty of the accusations here are not new. I wanted this essay to be more specific, and to get into more examples, but instead it glosses over large topics to come to a hasty conclusion.
1) doesn't work without an account 2) I dont give google my payment details 3) the platform does not deserve any % of my donations, it's used used because it's a monopoly 4) not every creator I watch deserves the same cut, smaller high quality creators need more -> off site donations e.g. Patreon is way better in many ways.
They stopped all flight to Wuhan by 10th of November [1] ( even if the notice said 15 ). That was when they knew it was serious enough. Chatter of unknown "Lung Diseases" was already spreading by end of October on WeChat.

[1] https://www.hongkongpost.hk/en/about_us/whats_new/notices/in...
> It was an army of trolls

Colloquially known as '/pol/'.
Regarding whether the anti- view exists, two points. The first is almost every sighting story comes with how their commanding officers and authorities silenced them. The second is I would suggest that if I were a scientist who implied something originated from an extraterrestrial advanced civilization, I would be actively isolated and discredited, which to me implies a very strong anti-ET bias. As an experiment, let's see if this comment comes back to bite me.

We know from other disciplines that extraordinary claims do not require extraordinary evidence at all, so I'd speculate it's probably inappropriate to mock the lived experience of people who identify as alien abductees.

The OP paper describing the implied necessary physics of unrelated reports makes me think it might be time for a university to create an spacefaring humanities program as an extension of gifted programs, which includes physics and math, engineering, biology, anthropology, theology, philosophy and ethics, or even to include it in the core curriculum of public schools. It's not like they would learn to believe anything dumber than what has already been taught in schools over the last century, and at least a spacefaring humanities curriculum would equip generations with tools for what seems now like an inevitability.
the surprises are because you trusted magic LVM to take care of it. learn dm-cache and configure it how you want.
I assume most people use FDE nowadays. Unless you're using a really well modified LUKS setup the encryption keys stay in RAM while the PC is hibernating/sleeping. So I think it's reasonable to assume most people shut their laptop down overnight.
Take-Two Faces Lawsuit over “Deceptive and Unlawful” Loot Boxes in NBA 2K
What's even scarier to me is the obvious issue of the human blindspot: We struggle with the unknown. We desperately want to paint it with what's in our past.

Everybody wants to predict what it is, everybody wants to guess. Which is the same as forcing a "known" property onto the events. But it also forces a "self" onto the events, i.e. a convergent subjective lens.

Very few can say, "I don't know" and then leave it at that to a sufficient degree, while also continuing to look into it.

Most want to project their subjective past onto the situation, which is even worse in situations that are truly novel.

We instantly think about things like other species, and stratify the situation in dimensions that are important to us for egoic human reasons.

This also applies to compartmentalization, which interestingly gets a pass when we self-criticize the human race, even though it has done quite a bit of damage to our intelligence capabilities.

We look at the way compartments have dealt with UAPs and humans, and still ask why humans should fear UAPs, rather than asking why specific compartments should insist on hiding things. Compartments represent humans but they are not humans.

As it turns out, a lot of relevant compartments will quash UAP interest by covert charter and in fact fear disintegration if they are associated with UAPs or the unknown in general. On top of that, compartments that seize new information have a new bargaining chip and a reason to lock out third parties which may force open the issue. We should expect such compartments to restrict and hoard information, or peddle disinformation.

The fear-based perspective was the case with Rendlesham for example. But even after the information got out, the officer behind the publishing of the information is on record concluding that we might as well not look into it further...because he believes we can't do anything about whatever we find out anyway.

And we are talking about someone who is also saying he doesn't even know exactly what it is he's talking about.

"It wasn't invented here" has taken on a new meaning under the circumstances.
> HN has been awkwardly silent on the ongoing conflict

I hate to be the “you’re holding it wrong” guy, but...

Like most major, general-interest news, it doesn't make the front page or, if it does, it doesn't stay very long.

But if you check /newcomments, it's been a continuously active discussion. And an absolute majority of current stories on /new relate to the conflict in one way or another.

HN isn't “awkwardly silent” on the ongoing conflict.
Been looking for something like this for years, however I can’t imagine any of the places I’ve worked being okay with uploading an IPA. A paid on-site license/plan would serv you (and potential enterprise customers) well…
Don’t think I could ever be a hacker because phishing folks doesn’t sound exciting at all
There’s not nearly enough information here to offer advice - or to tell if the ban was justified. Why was the previous account closed?

Generally I’d expect this to be an uphill battle and the best advice is probably to move on to a new platform or put your skills to work on someone else’s product.
I was going to include this in my original comment and then deleted it, but you just described Netscape before Internet Explorer. You may enjoy the history of the img tag: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-origin-of-the-img-tag/
Scroll acceleration feeling unnatural in Android was the top reason I’ve never considered switching from iOS. Granted I don’t know if/how much it’s improved, but it was such a jarring experience I’ve never bothered to find out.
According to Ukrainian TV US cybercommand in Europe is actively engaged in fighting Russian cyberattacks on Ukraine.
> The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatricians has both said very clearly that there is no evidence linking masks with developmental delays or language deficits.

In what way is this not simply a naked appeal to authority? Have the CDC or AAP conducted long-running randomized trials to determine what the effects of mass masking might be? From what you have linked, this seems like nothing more than that well-worn rhetorical jibe where they just proclaim "there is no evidence" of some thing they're not actually looking for in the first place.

> Instead, they made the issue so incredibly complicated and polarized that almost a million people died.

Is it your impression that more consistent messaging or public compliance would have prevented all of those deaths?
Looks to be a mistake in the readme. The example in the docs doesn't have value being passed in.

> echo '{"name": "Tom"}' | dasel -p json '.name'

https://daseldocs.tomwright.me/usage/delete
I'm not the creator of this (https://github.com/graememcc is), but using the "Save" button persists it across tabs for me (click the "Load Game" button on the homepage to load the state).

It seems to store game state in LocalStorage as JSON under the `micropolisJSGame` key.