skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It could just as easily be "This isn't decentralized! Let me fix that!"

First I would like to be convinced that centralization is actually a problem.

Most things in our daily lives are centralized: Power Generation and Distribution, Water Distribution, the Logistics which put food in our stores, Infrastructure setup and maintenance, to name just a few.

Yes, even our financial systems work fine. I get my paycheck on my account, I can pay effortless with my credit card, security, maintenance, services, customer service is taken care of.

Yes, there are shitty centralized systems, and there are opressive authorities that abuse centralization. The solution to that however, is not "get rid of centralized systems".
Is studying in Germany really free?
Looking at the site index, it seems this article was written in 2013.
> After two or three years, neither would the owner.

It might surprise you, but back before games where always online everyone had to keep track of license keys. Still have a box with all of them. Only those that required feedback from activation servers are now useless because the companies killed the servers.
What? I get all my games on Windows DRM free from the likes of Gog and Itch.io. If there is a game I want to play that has DRM I get a nice clean pirate copy.
> Support engineers use a number of customer support tools to get their job done including Okta’s instances of Jira, Slack, Splunk, RingCentral, and support tickets through Salesforce.

I like how it just glosses over access to all the other tools which often contain a treasure trove of data. Just Slack can give an attacker worst case credentials pasted into channels and best case loads of information for more targeted social engineering attacks. LAPSUS$ even stated they had access to over 8K channels.
AAA definition for other lay-readers confused by the jargon:

games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry)
I owe a lot to Babashka. Now I can use Clojure for real-job scripting instead of just playing for fun with it.

For a one-liner scripting I still use Bash but for a larger script I now use Clojure.
In fact, that is exactly what Nintendo is doing and what the fine article is about. Bricking a device is an effective way of prying it from the customers' hands.
If you have to do so much of your own research to finally find a useful use case for crypto or grasp the genius concept behind NFT. If no one can understand why it is so revolutionary. Is it maybe that there is nothing to be found behind the artificial complexity? Something so revolutionary should be easy to understand. The concept of Internet was easy to understand (fast communication, availability of information,...) the complexity lay in understanding the scale and the pace at which the problem would be technically solved.
You're telling me!

On top of that I was doing the various agile meetings too, it was a lot.

Normally I do 3-5 pomodoros a day; one early in the morning, one to three during the day, then one late at night after the wife has gone to bed. I don't really take days off, so that ends up working out to a pretty decent clip, all things considered.
Looks like some of your kickstarter backers have been waiting seven years for their bikes. Are your production issues ironed out yet?
Or maybe some dynamic / demand based pricing. When bots start competing againt each other, price shoots up.
There actually an Ethernet level protocol which performs a similar function: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1ag (delay is measured using a sibling standard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y.1731)
Unfortunately it's normally filtered out by telcos so you are unlikely to be able to use it to probe your telcos Ethernet. That's what they use to probe hops between actual routers though.
>The reason why games on Switch can "just work" is that the OS provides the DRM. >Otherwise, we would see rootkits, spyware, or always-online requirements like the DRM hell that we see with Windows games.

None of this would be an issue if the companies just released the server-side tools and let people host and moderate their own instances of games. This is basically how the Fediverse works and it's great. People who want to be nasty go into their little corner and everyone else in another.

Only problem is this would mean customers actually get to own the stuff they buy. Companies would rather you be the product.
I do the exact same thing with their soundtracks. I've listened to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack a lot but still haven't got around to watching the movie. It's going to be a very strange experience.
Reading part of the transcript made me realize how a huge percentage of your average entertainment video is just... nonsensical filling material. I mean.... like... you know... totally... like....... OK so... word.
> nice clean pirate copy

While I abhor DRM, I also am averse to the potential malware lurking in there. There may be password and credit card sniffers.

I only play non-DRM and open-source games.
I'd be interested in trying one of these more modern languages, but everytime I see a basic example it looks clunky, as rather than write a new language for hardware, it's 'bolted on' to a language for SW and sometimes this looks inelegant. Maybe it's just my bias,but often looking at baisc examples they look overly complex to my SystemVerilog addled brain.

Also, how are multiple clock domains handled, complex types, fixed point arithmetic, are those better/safer?

If you have any examples I'd be eager to see them.
You're not wrong, this was how fuses were originally implemented in their earliest forms in the early days of integrated circuits.

A common technique was using diodes. Zener diodes are normally used to suppress overvoltage, but they're only useful for transients, and easily destroyed by a sustained, constant overvoltage due to excessive power dissipation. This is a serious problem in surge protector designs. "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Since they fail as a short circuit, early chip designers exploited this property as a one-time programmable fuse for factory calibration.

Quote Troubleshooting Analog Circuits by Robert A. Pease.

> As mentioned earlier, a diode tends to fail by becoming a short circuit when overpowered, and zeners cannot absorb as much power as you would expect from short pulses. How dreadful; but, can IC designers serendipitously take advantage of this situation? Yes!

> The Vos of an op amp usually depends on the ratio of its first-stage load resistors. IC designers can connect several zeners across various small fractions of the load resistor. When they measure the Vos, they can decide which zener to short out - or zap - with a 5-ms, 0.3- to 1.8-A pulse. The zener quickly turns into a low-impedance (= 1 Ω short), so that part of the resistive network shorts out, and the Vos is improved.

> In its LM108, National Semiconductor first used zener zapping, although Precision Monolithics (Santa Clara, CA) wrote about zener zapping first and used it extensively later on. Although zener zapping is a useful technique, you have to be sure that nobody discharges a large electrostatic charge into any of the pins that are connected to the zener zaps. If you like to zap zeners for fun and profit, you probably know that they really do make a cute lightning flash in the dark when you zap them. Otherwise, be careful not to hit zeners hard, if you don’t want them to zap and short out.

> These zener zaps are also becoming popular in digital ICs under the name of “vertical fuses” or, more correctly, “anti-fuses.” If an IC designer uses platinum silicide instead of aluminum metallization for internal connections, the diode resists zapping.

Nowadays they are implemented as a write-only EEPROM or Flash memory (and can even be overwritten in some designs using a special programmer), but the name "fuse" is still used for historical reasons, and to reflect their software-irreversible nature.

Also, fun fact: since fuses are EEPROMs, they're vulnerable to potential data corruption just like any other EEPROMs. If a fuse bit ever "gets loose", it can brick many chips since their boot configurations are no longer correct. It's especially problematic for space applications. This is also used for chip cracking - you can remove the "program read-protection" bit in some microcontrollers by exposing the fuse portion of the decapped silicon die under UV light. BTW, if you ever see a computer that reports an "Intel Core i6" processor model, it's likely a corrupted fuse bit (yes, this was a real incident).
That was my reaction.

Why not something declarative, like Prolog (bonus: sounds like it could be the advanced version of Verilog) or HCL (Hashicorp Configuration Language, as used for Terraform)?

I've been thinking of writing a tool to use the latter for EDA, so you could build libraries of composable reusable blocks, take application note type examples directly rather than re-draw, etc. and (what motivated me initially) store it all in git. FPGAs seem at least as good a fit.
Google dependency. Like to self-host. Can scale cheaper(?).
It seems after almost bankrupting, they did some changes - they cut a lot of costs and focused more on retail and end-costumers, and that got them back up.

https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2021/07/28/Soylent...

Note though, all I get here is from their own PR machine.
I believe Unity's management is correct here. To venture into new territory is crucial.

The revenue from mobile apps is quickly drying up now that we are getting stronger anti-gambling laws. Because let's be honest, mobile games make money by hooking rich gambling addicts. That's why the industry calls them "Chinese Whales" and the "99.9%-ers" who are allowed to play for free so that the actual customers have enemies to crush with their pay-to-win items.

That said, I have a very low expectation of Unity-the-company to pull this off successfully.
There's some "lots-of-money-involved-therefore-valuable" fallacy going on here. The thinking goes:

* NFTs are explained, they sound kind of pointless

* but there is so much money involved!

* so much money involved brings lots of smart folks

* there are lots of smart folks working in NFTs space, they cannot all be wrong

* hence, there must be a there there, and we're are not smart enough to understand it

intense post-truth world vibes here
From the site, "We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs." And now they are getting close to XML with all the addons etc. Keep it simple.
> > Looking at many of the NFTs on popular marketplaces being sold for tens, hundreds, or millions of dollars, that URL often just points to some VPS running Apache somewhere.

> This is a lie.

Whenever somebody writes this, I immediately stop reading.

A lie is a statement of fact which is incorrect and the one stating it knew that it's incorrect. Claiming that a statement is a lie is an extraordinary claim that needs strong evidence, i.e., that the statement is indeed incorrect and that the author of it was aware of that at the time of writing. Neither is such evidence provided nor is it even attempted.
That's not what "affordable" means, sorry.
David Bradbury, grow a backbone. You were breached and you did not notify your customers.
Microled, if it pans out, should technically be able to hit that.
In my opinion, it mainly stands for low-risk productions where you recycle a proven core game mechanic with amazing and new graphics. For example, the Assassin's Creed series where each game looks unique and great, but they all play very similar.
> Google is an spyware company, which invades our privacy. It needs to be avoided at all cost.

Yep. Totally agreed.

> I always encourage people to use Amazon or MS products.

Oh dear...
But you can't verify that the content behind this URL was the same all the time. How can you enforce rights in a court if you can't prove that the content was the same.
https://www.schwalbetires.com/tech_info/rolling_resistance:

“Tires with a smaller diameter have a higher rolling resistance with the same inflation pressure, because tire deformation is proportionally greater. The tire is flattened more and is “less round”.”
I trust the pirate community infinitely more than I trust any big corporation, Microsoft, EA, Steam etc.

Imo it's more common for the "legit" copy of the software to have dodgy spyware and such in it, which is removed by the cracker.
Does the same answer need to apply to a two person startup and a multinational tech giant?
When I read the book I never got the impression that lean methodology required a lean (as in small) team.

It was more about being lean (as in efficient) in the development, iteration and pivoting between ideas. Don't waste time and resources on an idea that customers don't want, cut your losses and pivot toward an idea that has been validated.
Too many people confusing between lean and dumb in this thread maybe?
Yawn. Once again. Another boring and weak article with no new arguments.

Not all NFTs are JPEGs and there are those that have utility like ENS [0] which anyone can register a domain and it cannot be seized. That concept works well for identities in general and here is a use case of this [1][2].

Lets address all of this:

> Web3 Platforms are Centralized

It's true for OpenSea, Alchemy and MetaMask (Owned by Infura) but that is the point of platforms. They are not hiding that fact and they know it. However, OpenSea is not Ethereum and the blockchain is the one that is claiming to be 'decentralized'.

Not everyone is using MetaMask? Maybe they are using Trust Wallet, Portis, WalletConnect or Dapper or even Ledger as their wallet.

Am I forced to use a centralized wallet like MetaMask?

> Mining is Centralized

Yeah, PoW is garbage and getting centralized due to the mining pools, but not all of Web3 cryptocurrencies are using PoW (or even PoS) are they.

> Blockchain Sucks, Period

> We need a hyper-efficient system that takes minimal computing resources to scale to a whole planet of users, while making it easy for newcomers to join the network.

Algorand? Solana?, Terra?, Stellar?, Avalanche?, Nano?

Efficient alternatives already exist and the author's arguments have been refuted to death.

Just ignore cryptocurrencies and the hype of Web3 if you don't like it then, but once again they (and others) are even incapable of simply doing that, no matter how many years they keep watching it and writing the same articles.

Until the next time we complain about Web3 on HN, I am begging anyone that knows it's doomed downfall to just ignore it and let it die. Can you do just that?

[0] https://ens.domains/

[1] https://www.skiff.org/

[2] https://www.skiff.org/updates/skiff-ens
They really don’t and you’re just promoting the same mystical thinking about how the NSA / FBI / CIA is totally wiretapping us all and knows all our details.

Ask yourself the solve rate on most serious crime on the US.

While the SEC has “algorithms” to look for insider trading, it’s most relying on folks with bad OPSEC bragging and getting turned in by bitter third-parties.

Source: worked for Thesys / Thesys CAT group before our fucktard brass lost us the contract.
> When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas important aspects (does the code change do what it is supposed to do, is it performant, is it backwards-compatible for existing clients, and many others) tend to get less attention.

Code formatting and style discussions that don't start and end with, hey, our code formatter is broken have absolutely no place in code review. Also, keep your damn nits to yourself. If it's a nit, it's not important.
<- bare metal + Ansible
I find this a better explanation:

> But the team's calculations showed there were differences in the gravitational field around the black hole. Specifically, information about the composition of the black hole was stored in gravitons, a hypothetical elementary particle that mediates gravitational forces in quantum gravity. "We found that quantum gravity enables us to find the difference in the gravitational field," Calmet said. "There's a memory in the gravitational field of what went into the black hole."

https://www.livescience.com/black-hole-quantum-hair
The Added Costs of Accessibility
Even if you're not following all the arguments involved, you can brighten your day by spending a few moments reading the documentation in this linux code (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...), which is a great example of how to document complex code.
> I said "It's not built on Postgres.", but I didn't say that was necessarily bad

The three other bullet points are criticisms of Appwrite, and now you're going to claim the fourth point about being not being built on Postgres was not a criticism? You set the tone with your three other arguments. Don't try to claim the fourth wasn't in line.

The Maria and Redis are the first bullet two points in the link you gave. I also actually read the docker-compose file instead of inferring.
Reader mode would work in such a reskin I think, but Safari has its own reader mode anyway.

The original Readability was a bookmarklet that worked in any browser.
Anne Frank betrayal book pulled after findings discredited
You might be interested in what we're building with http://nhost.io. We have serverless functions available together with event triggers (hooks) on database events using Postgres and Hasura (GraphQL).

(Disclosure CEO of Nhost)
He meant they could have hired other experts to cover the Ukrainian course part. and kept Paolo for the Russian expertise part of the course.
the university clearly wasn't interested in getting attention on what he had to say. precisely because what he had to say would gather much attention.
You can buy testing kits on amazon and such to test your drugs. These are not illegal to poses iirc
OK, I'll try. Keep in mind that English is not my first language.

Two horses go on a date. First they go and have a few drinks, and then they go to the restaurant. After that, they decide to go to the movies, and they go in one of those theaters with a big balcony in addition to the floor seats. They sit on the balcony and the movie starts.

After a while, one of the horses gets bored and decides to stretch its legs a little and walk around. It approaches the balcony railing and has a look around, at the people down on the floor seats, because it's more interesting than the movie itself. But suddenly, from leaning too hard against the railing, the horse falls down the balcony onto the people below.

The other horse doesn't notice at first. But after a while, it realizes the first horse is missing, so it looks around, looking for it. It approaches the railing, looks at the floor seats, and suddenly trips and falls down on the people below.

At this point, a very annoyed gentleman shouts: "hey, up there! Would you stop throwing horses??"

There you go.
A post hosted on a website that's unreachable saying that it's unreachable. Just my humor. Love it!
I’m confused how you can find that something is stored in a hypothetical particle. Is it only hypothetically stored?
>> simple

I don’t think anyone has ever referred to the process of power glitching a chip as “simple”.
There are literally thousands of concerts, and sporting events, and any other events that people buy tickets to.

Guess why people still go to Sziget or Woodstock.

Also guess why it's impossible to just click your fingers and pull an unlimited number of Woodstocks out of thin air.
>It's remarkably strange

In the old days there was a movement / trend / opinion / hype cycle ( or whatever you want to call it ) that articles without date was a way to make it ever green.
I don't think there's a post - it's just a link to the main domain which is not currently reachable to demonstrate the information in the title.
In-engine is not in-game. I'm not that interested in what a game engine can do unless it's also constrained by doing all the other things a game engine can do. Show me what's possible in unity at 100fps on a consumer system while doing normal game loop things as well.
I mean that Putin does not seem to be able to distinguish himself from Russia, mistaking his ambitions for Russia's best interests, etc.
Assuming you can establish a zero trust, publicly declared swap of crypto for said key... A smart contract could be established to act like a bounty program for this purpose and could be re-used for sharing other secrets.
Show HN: 1MB Has Leveled Up
As long as there are still some idiots calling it "misinformation" because they want to believe so very hard in all the crypto bullshit.

The response is full of handwavy "it's being worked on" and "this is true, but..." and the full-on admission (without apparently realizing) that it's all a completely meaningless game since the real word in the form of the legal system simpyl overrides whatever your blockchain says.
"If there is a game I want to play that has DRM I get a nice clean pirate copy."

Surely you understand that people who work in building games don't exactly like that attitude ;) So they might decide to release exclusively on Switch and not do a PC port, if pirate copies are plentiful on PC but rare on Switch.

BTW, I believe most of the games I've played recently are Switch-exclusive:

- Super Smash Bros.

- Super Mario Odyssey

- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Wars
SEC: Musk should remain bound by deal on Twitter use
If they were just trading cards, then they'd be bad, a Ponzi scheme where everybody's trying to convince everybody that their trading cards will be worth more in the future.

(One way the scammers promote the Ponzi scheme is by saying "these trading cards are so much more than trading cards," in deliberately confusing ways. That's why "people can't wrap their heads around the simple concept." The scammers are trying to conceal it.)

But NFTs are way worse than trading cards, because every time you transfer one, it wastes more electricity than an ordinary person uses in a year. So this Ponzi scheme is damaging the planet, too.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8 "Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C"
Link in post is https://f-droid.org/ which isn't a blog, but main page
Free members have been upgraded to 1 GB of storage - that’s 1,000 times more storage than before. Free members have also been given access to blogging and can add a custom domain with SSL to their site.
> This is a good thing. Combined with remote lock, it renders stolen devices useless.

Of course it's not a good thing. What Apple can do to someone else at your request, they can do to you on their own initiative.
The compromised tenant looks like it was specifically _not_ one of the EMEA ones so GDPR wouldn't be relevant here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776666

Free market as imagined by libertarians can only exist in the presence of unlimited resources and magic.
I'll wait until you have a public API. The trick with reinforcement learning is that I need the feedback from what triggered your system to determine how to modify my image to bypass it.
Thats the way I interpreted it too. Probably should have a Tell HN prefix.
I'm using NAPS2 for about 10 years now. It's simple to use, powerful, and it does what it has to do.
Only drawback: only available for Windows.
I'm sure Bromptons are great, but the prices are just ridiculous, and their marketing grates. I really don't need my bike to be handmade in London.

I have a Decathlon foldable. It doesn't fold quite as small as a Brompton, so I wouldn't want to be regularly taking it on public transport. But it's light and solid, folds easily and rides well at about one third the price.
How Visual Look Up works in detail 1: paintings on Intel and M1 Macs