skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think that CT log data replication would be more secure and efficient if the CT logs were stored by a zero trust distributed application like a blockchain, instead of Merkle signatures in a database owned by one party (that's now discontinuing free indexing, at least)?

From "Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log" (LetsEncrypt 2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19920002 :

> Trillian is a centralized Merkle tree: it doesn't support native replication [...] According to the trillian README, trillian depends upon MySQL/MariaDB and thus internal/private replication is as good as the SQL replication model (which doesn't have a distributed consensus algorithm like e.g. paxos).

And what about indexing and search queries at volume, again without replication?

From "A future for SQL on the web"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28158491 :

> https://thegraph.com/docs/indexing

>> Indexers are node operators in The Graph Network that stake Graph Tokens (GRT) in order to provide indexing and query processing services. Indexers earn query fees and indexing rewards for their services. They also earn from a Rebate Pool that is shared with all network contributors proportional to their work, following the Cobbs-Douglas Rebate Function.

>> GRT that is staked in the protocol is subject to a thawing period and can be slashed if Indexers are malicious and serve incorrect data to applications or if they index incorrectly. Indexers can also be delegated stake from Delegators, to contribute to the network.

>> Indexers select subgraphs to index based on the subgraph’s curation signal, where Curators stake GRT in order to indicate which subgraphs are high-quality and should be prioritized. Consumers (eg. applications) can also set parameters for which Indexers process queries for their subgraphs and set preferences for query fee pricing.
Jesus Christ, why so much hand-wringing? MLM salesmen exist, religious prostheletizers exist, weird people exist. We manage to stay friendly regardless, even towards those people who often open their conversation with something dishonest to hide their true intent. Society isn't going to be altered by some wave of asking-for-favors fad. It's all perfectly fine.
Why Not C? (2003)
Not sure official Mozilla PPA is going to ship debs.
While you're right about European investors being risk averse, it's not generally true that American VCs won't talk to European founders. I'm an early employee at an early stage company (1,5 years old), incorporated in The Netherlands and we have raised a $2M pre-seed round and recently a $10M seed round both led by American VCs.
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tbh the distinction feels kind of artificial given how many student loans are "paid off" entirely via income-driven repayment plans.
If by 'unchecked' you mean unmoderated, that's likely for the simple reason that we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. You can help with that by flagging such comments or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com in egregious cases.

People breaking the rules doesn't make it ok for you or anyone else to break them, though. I replied to your comment because I happened to see it—it's not as if I recognized your username or have any idea what your views are!
Austen from Bloom (Lambda School) had some interesting thoughts on this as well.

https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1506072723302207494
love Piku! <3
Yes. There are many complaints about credit scores, often justified, but it’s also true that they remain effective at predicting good behavior in aggregate, and also they’re easy to use.

The side arguing that we shouldn’t use credit scores this way usually don’t bother arguing for a viable alternative, because it doesn’t align with their own needs or ideology. They don’t have to worry about people repaying an income sharing agreement or loan, so the fact that not using credit scores makes managing those things harder means nothing to them.
Not OP, but I think rendering scenarios where light doesn't follow straight lines would be problematic for current rendering engines. Also, some hypothetical portal or other dimension scenarios.
> And this is just untrue. Nobody even remembers Amazon retroactively deleting sold copies of 1984 from their customers' internet-connected Kindles.

I do. And the answer to "Am I the only one who..." is always "no".

Hell, it's even on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Removal_of_Ninet...
Poll: Is the USA in a state of war with Russia?
Open source social media app for both web and mobile
Moved to Michigan while keeping my remote Job. Was able to afford a house after a couple years of cheaper rent and living with a roommate. Most of my peers still are stuck paying high rent and aren’t any closer to buying a house. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, the roads are bad, and the public transportation is almost non existent. I’m also farther away from friends and family, but the improved lifestyle was worth it for me. Plus the fishing is great, and the Great Lakes are truly a gem of the U.S.
Sebastian Bach loves model trains, there is even a documentary about it on Netflix, called Friends of the Road.
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> Yet Haskell proved me very wrong on that, so much that it was almost like re-learning programming. The reward is immense, but you have to really want to learn it.

I've given it 3 attempts and each time I get closer to understanding how to use Haskell IRL, instead of toy things. Turning it into reality with all the different... styles or paradigms?.

Looking forward to my 4th attempt, I think I'll get it next time! Just need the spurt of motivation.
I would prefer it to be posted on a blog, but can't support ThreadReader. It seems like ThreadReader is violating copyright, unless they were licensed/authorized by the author or Twitter.
I'm thinking less of the territory of Russia proper and more their sphere of influence in central Asia. I agree that that power vacuum would likely be filled by China.
Small clarification, but in the US, the “protected class” is a characteristic not subset of the population.

So, “sex” is a protected class, and the protection applies to everyone. There have been cases protecting males from discrimination on the basis of sex (for example - where a state had a higher minimum drinking age for men than women).
When HSBC bought the Midland Bank, the UK government required HSBC to legally relocate here. The current cabinet are craven, but I expect they’d still require this, a deal breaker for Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Bank
The implication the person was giving is that people who have debt problems are likely people who struggle with decision making, with lots more downstream effects than just credit.

So in an unusual way, credit could almost be an approximation of EQ.
It's NIMS - FEMA lingo, which predates ITIL. Which was developed in USFS wildland firefighting, which predates FEMA. It's incident management all the way down.
That was such a lovely title, one of my earliest gaming memories. Same with Pepper's Adventures in Time.
Building Cross-Platform UIs in Java
I suppose some users thought it was too unsubstantive, given the inflammatory topic.
Back in 2015, when this type of thing was still novel, I participated in an ISA program that required a $3,000 deposit. It was refundable if you failed a (demonstrably) good-faith effort to applying for jobs, or rolled into the payment once you landed one.

This was a substantial amount of money for me at that time, but I probably wouldn't have applied for the program had it not been for the ISA. I was unwilling to take on new debt, and I didn't have enough money for an upfront payment. The deposit seemed like a reasonable expenditure to save toward precisely because the ISA showed that the program itself had skin-in-the-game.
I use Corretto primarily to avoid Oracle.
2004 is by far my favorite. Seems really clean and intuitive.
Absolutely. A couple that we're closely looking at:

Better documentation/data/insight into exactly what was built when, install rates, fuel consumption, and vehicle utilization during construction. Having our robots take a timestamped picture of every bolt that's installed is a significant win for construction companies in case any warranty issues come up after install. Currently there's not much visibility into exactly what was built where/when, so concrete data here will help significantly with scheduling/planning. We can actually generate a live updating map of the solar farm as it's being built.

Nighttime operation. Currently, all tasks on the site are performed during the day, so any amount of work we can shift to night time reduces site congestion. This actually can speed up the overall installation, as right now there's limited space between rows of panels, and multiple teams/vehicles trying to navigate through them simultaneously. We think of nighttime operation as analogous to parallelization as tasks that workers were waiting on can be performed asynchronously.
I'm ever conflicted with the opposing forces of climate change and meeting the energy needs of our growing and innovative civilization.

Evolution has produced a bountiful assortment of living, breathing solutions that fit into every nook and cranny of our biological state space. Millions of years of adaptation have produced sometimes incredibly niche systems that beautifully capture all of the energy available to them. The biochemical pathways nature discovers are fascinating and complex and of an altogether different nature than what our human innovation capital can find or produce.

So it's incredibly depressing that we're losing all of this amazing biodiversity. A moss or fungus might have more information in its genes - biochemical pathways, metabolic flux, finely tuned balance, encodings of adaptations beyond our understanding, etc. etc. - than the sum total of all human thought thus far. And that's not even considering the non-molecular, ecosystem and even biogeochemical impact these losses can have.

But if we stop building and consuming and making, the plates come crashing down. Our sun burns out. The universe will never know of us.

It's all so complicated. I'm glad we can appreciate these little wonders, though.

Thank you for posting this article. Chemistry is beautiful.
Then present it as a fun fact rather than as a correction?

And I'm not trying to be mean but I think the way you phrased your last line is accidentally anti-educational. Your last line treats 1 million ops and 4 million ops as nearly equivalent, when the truth is that 1 million ops is far from "every day" while 4 million ops can easily be called "every day".

And if you dislike the word "argument" pretend I said "point"? I think you're reading connotations into that word that I didn't intend.
> I'd like to know how that differs from just plain income?

Because it indirectly measures responsibility to a certain extent, though of course there are exceptions. And there’s not really another, better way to quickly check if someone is generally responsible.

And you can definitely find lower income people with good scores and higher income people with bad ones.
This isn’t about “single” employee dependency though, companies are seeing significant attrition due to these policies. There’s no way to know this is safe and it’s probably hard to estimate costs.

Even in an ideal configuration where your employees are basically redundant raid drives (and yes you need to pay a lot for this redundancy which I doubt most employers do), you generally don’t want to lost too many at once, and even if you survive you still have high costs associated with replacement (training, hiring, fit, etc)

It might still be the best long term decision in some cases, but man, you better be making this decision based on more than a hunch.
> "But if you cannot wait, head over to r/selfhosted"

The irony of this blog post is telling me to visit a non-self hosted cloud service to get started self-hosting.
Sure, that aligns with the authors, but what do you do when your winner heavily criticizes your sponsor and portrays them in a bad light?

It doesn't necessarily mean the story is correct - it is science fiction after all - but how will get sponsors with this conflict of interest?
It's interesting that one group of compounds is named using the Latin, in this case for "window" (fenestrane), but "ladderane" makes use of an ordinary English word (by way of Old English and Germanic).

I guess I would have expected a Latin-derived name like "escalane" instead.
Just like Sergie Brin and Larry Page couldn't quit their jobs and become millionaires because search engines already existed, or Mark Zuckerberg couldn't quit his job and become a millionaire because social networks already existed :-)
> One company doing a bad job does not mean it's impossible or even uncommon to do a good job.

We all know it is very uncommon to do a great job. Everyone has been breached sooner or later. Any anyone who has worked in engineering or security in tech companies knows how often security concerns are underprioritized far behind more visible but less important work.

Hedging is a good answer. Relying on a single point of failure that, if it ever fails open, will expose everything at once? Not a smart idea.
"A few thousand dollars" is an absolute shitload of money to most people who aren't riding the computer programming bubble, and especially young people. It may as well be $50,000 for how hard it would be for them to come up with without taking out a loan, the same way I'm not any more likely to be able to jump 20 feet in the air than I am to be able to jump to the moon.

I haven't had to count pennies at the gas pump rather than just filling it up all the way every time, or keep a running tally of what's going into my grocery cart, in many years, but I remember what it was like. $1,000 was a fuckton of money at the time. An unexpected bill for a couple hundred dollars might ruin my whole month, and maybe the next one too.
Here is a simple 64 bit shift register: https://replit.com/@RowanGoemans/AlarmedNutritiousVisitors#m...

Runnable using replit. To make it as simple as possible I didn't use Clash and used types available in prelude Haskell (Bool instead of bit, 64 bit integer as register state etc. Every single element in the list represent a value coming out of the register on the rising edge of a clock cycle. You can easily extend it if you want latches, enables etc. But that doesn't really change the core point of the code.
Yep. Don't know if this will become an issue or not, but it is unfortunate in retrospect.
Selling an NFT of his “epic clapback” tweet lol… yikes
Economics has a lot to say about how bad an idea sharecropping is. (This is apart from the obvious racism/slavery aspect of sharecropping in the southern US).

When you take a percent of income, you necessarily demotivate the worker. It comes down to this: Once the bare necessities are paid for should I work an extra hour, or should I go home and spend some more time with the family? If the income for the extra hour is decreased, it necessarily decreases the worker's interest in working the extra hour. Or maybe they still work two extra hours, but not three.

To make this work out you either need to make the payback a simple loan (the traditional solution) or you need to put an achievable cap on payments. Either way the optimal societal goal is that if the worker works a bit harder they should earn 100% of the profit from the extra work.

Historically this worked out as the disaster that was sharecropping. The tenant earned 50% and provided labor, and the landowner (who also provided capital equipment) earned 50%. The natural outcome was that laborers rationally did not work as hard as they could have, and the landowner failed to properly invest in equipment since extra income from productivity gains was halved.

Percent of income may make investors salivate, but it's a self-defeating idea.
Travel photos are underrated (2019)
I tried with Docker before and it is not a breeze as you think it is. I tried to use Docker for Calibre-Web and it is a pain to make it work. Because Calibre-Web required to access their database in the filesystem outside of Docker. Docker provided minimal (more of lacking) information of how to expose the filesystem for Calibre-Web to use their database. Calibre-Web cannot create their own database, it relies on Calibre, standalone app, to generate the library that it need to have access to. It took me ages to finally to find a way to expose the filesystem and only provide permission to access that particular library.
> There are no left-wing dominated cities in the US.

That they are not as left-wing as you does not mean they are not left-wing. Whatever they are, these cities are certainly not dominated by right-wing politics.

> There are liberal dominated cities, and liberals tend to support the same things as "conservatives" (big scare quotes), with the difference being target (sometimes)

What is a "liberal" in this context?

> Painting Black Lives Matter on one street when no one asked for it while still supporting policies BLM is against does not make one leftist.

One can be a hypocrite and a leftist at the same time.

> Meanwhile, the self-identifying conservative editor of the local paper supports a lot of policies that would be seen as leftist: BLM, trans rights, marriage equality. Liberals were firmly against these things until popular sentiment started to shift.

What makes this individual a conservative?
> adverse selection problems

I gotta admit feeling some schadenfreude that people trying to revive indentured servitude end up being out-grifted by their own customers
The Emperor's New Blockchain
New infections being down 20% over last week is not particularly useful. If 15 out of 100 % (10-20%) infections were BA.2 2 weeks ago, and if it is 40 out of 80 today(half after 20% down). It shows that BA.2 is more than doubling every 2 weeks. Slower than Omicron, but we have a new wave incoming.
Or there are licensing issues - in some cases there might be non-transferable licenses for bits of things in the ROM that are held by NXP but which are problematic to show to someone not employed by NXP.

Sometimes it also happens that company finds out they broke a license and there's no way to fix it silently...
You don’t have that 1M to collect dividends on and if you had to borrow it, it would be more than the interest of a capital backed mortgage and that income would be taxable on the top tax bracket on top of your salary whilst your non-taxable rent comes out of after tax income.

Property is also the only asset class in which I’ll leverage debt to purchase in order to enter the housing market at a fixed price at my current affordability. I’d only recommend purchasing a home where the mortgage payments + holding expenses is =~ rent (which means lower cost properties), which will improve over time when mortgage gets paid down and rent goes up.

You do have access to that capital from paid down mortgage or increased valuation by redrawing it if you need to. So reducing the mortgage would be my highest priority which I’d do with an offset account, so the funds are readily available when needed which otherwise is reducing the interest amount.
Do you realise it’s still mostly Oracle code you’re running?
The "ping" solution is an interesting one that I haven't seen proposed before.

At what rate would you do these pings? I don't know how upgrading/downgrading works at GitHub but if they do any sort of refund/credit when you downgrade, it seems like there's some interesting implications for abusing the system (e.g. upgrading/downgrading between pings for "free" service if the time between them is too long) versus performance (e.g. how do you update all users per ping in a timely manner if the time between them is too short?).

Would love to read up more on this approach; seems interesting!
Perhaps those people who suffer rejecting-unpleasantness should do their own therapy where they go around rejecting people's requests!
Oil-refining giant Koch Industries invests nearly $1B in battery companies
OK, I've changed the title. Submitted title was "Render: Redis that just works".
I had a poor friend who couldn't afford new tires. She would buy used tires, with little life left, and replace them more frequently. It was more expensive in the long run, and less safe. If she had access to credit she could have bought new tires on credit.

It is also just a proxy for income, which is harder to quickly/cheaply verify than a credit score.
I don’t need a reason why to self host, I need nice, clear, up-to-date tutorials on how to self host various services.

Self hosting should be easy enough for everyday people. Perhaps preconfigured servers that treat services just like apps. Once I have a server setup, I should be able to install (and uninstall) services in a single click. The OS can handle permissions and containers.
>All of the black holes we know for sure exist (those produced by supernovae) are predicted to dissolve so slowly that it would take thousands of years or perhaps even millions of years of observation to produce any data on Hawking radiation.

Isn't there also an issue that the background temperature of space is still too high compared to the temperature of Hawking Radiation and thus blackholes are still growing, even in 'empty space', because the temperature is greater than what they would lose from Hawking radiation? And this temperature difference will continue for the foreseeable future, even on galactic time scales.
Good for you, but how is this related to TFA?
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Ask HN: How is it beneficial for Russia to only accept payments in rubles
I cannot wrap my head around on why Russia is going to only accept payments in rubles for gas deliveries. I remember from the 80s that everyone in eastern Europe was keen on hard currency. How is the situation different now?
U.S. will hit Chinese firms if they violate export controls on Russia
Yes, completely valid to treat it as the same when it's something you want to have access to without any third party denying/removing that access.

That you have no attachments to movies, music or tv shows is just you. Others may want to continue enjoying the media long after it has been removed from online services.
> They don't need to convince their already huge and already convinced core users

I actually disagree with this on a much broader level: I think that every company should continue to convince their core users.

1. Their core users are always considering alternatives

2. The people using their competitor’s products will see how well you treat your core users and may look at their current company and see the lack of it. It’s like when a company chases new customers by giving discount after discount but never once offering a discount to great long-term customers. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the people who’ve carried your company.
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But people who have debt problems also tend to have lower income, and it can't all be blamed on "poor decision making". My credit rating was abysmal shortly after college when I was in a low paid job and juggling payments around based on what bills could afford to pay and shifting debt to credit cards. And that low credit rating meant that the cost of credit was high, making it that much worse.

But now that I have a good income, it's easy to pay bills on time, or even early, even if a payroll snafu that's not even my fault means my paycheck is late, I have plenty of cash in the bank to pay bills.
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The public pole will be gamed, I’d drop it unless you want to deal with a Sad Puppies style situation.

I’d say go for two awards at most, let the sponsor choose one and have the other be a jury award. If you can’t persuade some good authors and critics to be on your jury you won’t persuade them to submit stories either.
Love that Bill Withers soundtrack!

I also work in the "robots for PV" space, it's just the place to be. Good luck!
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