skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the "not your keys, not your coins" setup, that trusted third party is the government, which gives you security against theft, kidnapping, burglary, etc, so you can keep your keys safe.

Adding another trusted third party, like a gaming company, to the mix, to act as the custodian of who owns what, creates a much less-reliable / more-fragile private property system, as that custodian, at their own behest or that of a political faction who holds the reigns to the govenment, can deprive you of your control over the virtual asset.

So to put it another way, trusted third parties can also be a threat to private property. The right balance between being protected by a trusted third party from theft and robbery, and being protected against a trusted third party stealing and robbing you, is the "not your keys, not your coins" setup, where the trusted third party only enforces rules against others trespassing your person or home, without having custody of your property on your behalf, so as to not have intimate knowledge of and control over everything you own.
>They don't

This is wrong. It's pretty standard for contracts to be able to be upgraded. Usually you want to put a delay before updates are applied. This time delay allows users to see what is happening with the upgrade and gives them a chance to cash out if it's bad.

There might also be a way to do an emergency upgrade, but typically this account is much more locked down compared to just being able to make a normal update.
I can’t picture images at all and thought it was normal. I mean it seems to be relatively common at least so we aren’t total aliens.

It always seemed really odd to me that people can sit down and draw whatever they want. The way my mind works it’s just absurd to imagine magically knowing what color to use and precise brush movements. But if you can visualize things you basically are copying from an image of sorts.

That made art both more and less impressive to me lol
I work with students and over the pandemic I've generally not asked them to put on their video when on Zoom. I figure -- they are in their dorms and bedrooms, it is their personal space, they've got enough shit going on in their lives -- I don't even really want to put them in the position of having to explain that they don't want to.

But it definitely reduces communication bandwidth significantly. There are always silent gaps when discussing anything technical. The silence of "I'm just totally befuddled" and "I'm digesting what you just told me, and about to understand it" is indistinguishable on a voice-only call, but instantly communicated when you can see the other person's face.

IMO a workplace culture of having video on by default would be necessary for me to be interested in remote technical collaboration for anything actually difficult.
Have you accepted Jesus into your CI/CD pipeline yet?
PostMarketOS is pretty great.
You can start a company, as a private person, and expect everything to work when you run it from home. Just as if you were to run it from anywhere else.
There is a sane alterantive: keep your code free of warnings, so that they stick out like a sore thumb, so that you then take them seriously in order to ... keep your code free of warnings. Disable anything you don't intend to fix; don't leave it littering your build output.

A clean build looks like this

CC foo.o
CC bar.o
CC parser.o
parser.c:42: warning: new thing found here (-Wnew-thing).
CC lexer.o
...

you hide all the details of the compiler command line so the diagnostics stand out.

Warnings-as-errors is just a kind of negotiating hammer that is useful in team situations, when the developers have gotten used to ignoring new warnings, usually because they are hidden among reams of ignored old warnings.

Also, in a compiler that has a GCC-like interface, you can turn specific warnings into errors, which is useful. If there is something you don't tolerate in the code base, and it happens to be diagnosable as a warning, then you can error it.

GCC turns some required ISO diagnostics into mere warnings, like say assignments between incompatible pointer types. That kind of thing may be worth turning into an error.
> Of course there's room for improvement, what's silly is thinking a coal-powered linked list is an improvement :)

Again, Proof of Work is not the only consensus model for blockchains (and while I dislike PoW, it's worth noting that while there's a lot of "greenwashing", many mining farms have legitimately been moving towards using more renewable energy)
> It seems that as people get richer around the world they move away from $200 Androids to what is more perceived as luxury: iPhones.

This but not only this. There’s also that phones have moved from being a simple voice communication device to the most essential item a person owns. It makes sense that a larger portion of income is spent on them when they get more important in peoples lives
Whatsapp is the number one app in most EU countries. It's not age but the fact youve clearly never socialized outside of your country (or with foreigners).
But apple is not an advertisement company (and I don't have iPhone for information)
>A judge is supposed to read the smart contract source code and determine the intent?

If it's hard for a judge, it's presumably also hard for anyone using the smart contract.

>There is no basis for determining intent besides the code itself.

I'll bet you any frequently used contract has an associated website.

Basically, conducting your business on a blockchain doesn't exempt you from the law. You - the squishy human at the end of the transaction - are not on the blockchain, and neither is the author of any smart contract you might use. As long as the law recognizes blockchain assets as valid consideration in contracts, contract law trumps blockchain law.
>>> This does not mean that the existing sanctions aren’t working.

What metrics do you use to determine 'working'? Can you provide a couple examples of sanctions working to provide peace?
We shall wonder about the how many people. This is called the "singular they" and it has been a feature of English for hundreds of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
The solution with a compiler that has a GCC-like interface is to use -Werror=<specific-thing>. Not -Werror globally for all warnings that currently exist and that will exist henceforth.
I think people can decide for themselves whether having arbiters of truth is "good news" or not.

Personally this is just another step down the Orwellian slope, not really news as it's Twitter going about their usual agenda.

Misinformation is a scary word though, can't have those gullible peasants falling for trickery, you know best for them!
"Imagine being able to deploy energy anywhere on Earth and not have to setup a logistics chain to facilitate it."

Logistics is quite a complex beast and you mention "the military". Out of POL (Petrol, Oil, Lubricants) you now have one item nearly sorted - "petrol" ie power source. Your machines also need a few other things to work. Then there is food and water - your army's people need a power source too. Oh and they need a few things to throw at the opposition - munitions.

There's a major war being fought in Ukraine right now. Ukraine is bloody huge and it's all about logistics. Russia cannot possibly "win", where win is take and hold all of Ukraine. There was a huge armoured convoy headed for Kyiv and it stalled because it could not possibly have had enough of anything to run for more than a few days.

As my dad always used to say (Col. (Retd) RAOC): "An army marches on its stomach". That means that Russia may continue to commit acts of barbarism but it cannot possibly achieve its original aims. They have not got the legs.

That's not much comfort for the peoples of Ukraine suffering massive indignity and savage brutality, day after day.
> That's an accurate summary of how TLS+ECH would work with snid.

snid or not, ECH doesn't function much different to domain fronting, does it?
I'm surprised this is so highly voted, given the poorly grounded nature of the article.
Caught criminals, the house is still loaded.
Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017)
And there’s a good chance that 404mm’s cat5 would pass as cat5e.
Foucault implied the same. Or at least, suggested that as the scientific definitions are created so too does the phenomena emerge. Ian Hacking expanded upon this and named this concept, dynamic nominalism.

That's why we had "madmen" in 19th century and that no longer exists, only to be subsumed by supposedly more specific new descriptions that psychologists have come up with.

The idea of dynamic nominalism is not that such a label as "Multiple Personality" is contrived but that the described phenomena becomes real. The two simultaneously and unconsciously converge, in a sense, to exist.

My own thought is that you can this expand concept for a lot of current & former social categories that are even broader - and not restricted to psychology, such as being a hippie. And also the social category that is currently in vogue.
If a "real" (big) black hole takes billions of years to evaporate, what does it look like just before it's about to die? (and completely evaporate). Why is this "tiny black hole" not possible to reproduce experimentally? (is it?)
Direct Realism and the Brain-in-a-Vat Argument
Even still, is there a good reason anyone would take the performance/security/size hit instead of grabbing the official deb file?
It seems inevitable that space will become a focal point for conflict. Every other area of humanity has been.

The key is to win, not to hide.
Geeze, I should go into banking. This is nuts.
Yearly inflation seems to be going up mainly due to how it is calculated ... Monthly inflation seems to be going mostly sideways (although it has increased the last 3 months).

There's not (yet) been a market crash ... If you look back a month or a year, it's been mostly sideways too.

It may be the beginning of a horrible market crash ... But it may not ;). Trying to time the market, you're just as likely to lose as to win. Diversifying is always good; the stock market has usually provided the most growth long term. Unless you need the money soon, close your eyes and keep your money in the market.
This was clearly a due process violation by the same man who set up concentration camps for Japanese Americans. He packed the Supreme Court so he could get away with it.
We don't use video at all and I for one have gotten used to it and never turn it on now. It all happened one week where everyone just started showing up to scrum with the video off. Me and one other coworker where the last to give it up. Something that probably helps is all the other collaboration tools: git, the wiki, ssh. Also our understanding is more or less "on the same level" with each other so there's a lot less "teaching" and more of "oh look at this" kinds of conversations.

If people can collaborate over IRC and email they can certainly do it over a voice call.
Blackberry's android application sideloading made it one hell of a killer smartphone. I had a Q5 as a work phone for a while and it was great to still have so many apps I was used to from android. The killing blow was everything moving to needing play services just to function.
I really, really hope you told them to fuck the hell off.
Is there any chance that this could ever be reliable enough to act as the primary power source for a plane? (In other words, you'd keep just enough fuel/battery onboard for emergency landings, and otherwise rely almost entirely on space microwaves.)

If so, is there any possibility that it could also provide sufficient throughput to handle supersonic flight?

What if we spent most of the journey at a very high altitude, or even in/near LEO?
> While I also appreciate a healthy dose of skepticism, and in weaker moments I can also get very cynical, this is not a very constructive attitude to science or life in general. If we were all doing science like that, we'd not have gotten anywhere.

What I read in this article is pointing out that these black hole information loss papers are not doing science.

There are no falsifiable predictions, because we can't actually run a meaningful experiment on black holes. At least in regard to information loss. As someone else in the thread said, thinking about how things might work without a way to tell if your idea is right is philisophy. Last I heard, physics was supposed to be science and not philisophy.
Excellent book. I enjoyed the hardware and software projects at the end of each chapter. I had been looking for a good hands-on text for a long time, and this delivered.
That's github more than git, isn't it. Anyone can maintain their own fork of a repository. Much like with blockchain, it comes down to a community decision which one to accept as "canonical".

The difference is a lack of consensus at the protocol level for git. The network's only 'canonical' version of things is at the whim of the maintainer (who can also rewrite history)
Found a hilarious blog entry regarding OP's comment. "Analyze", for one, is unnecessarily masculine in job postings, they say, and then present their tool to alleviate the problem: the Text Analyzer.

Or maybe they want to help people write specifically masculine job postings?

https://blog.ongig.com/writing-job-descriptions/top-10-mascu...
Just like one of the comments in the article says, the final rankings table is actually quite funny: https://www.memo-project.eu/flatCMS/index.php/News#17.

Changing lanes, overpassing, crossing trenches and lost molecules.
The tone is off putting for me as well. It comes across as arrogant mixed with what I'll call a “Youtube language”: the TRUTH about X, what they don't wan't YOU to KNOW, along with excessively expressive thumbnail.

This “Youtube language” is something a lot of content creators suffer from, unfortunately.
Not a new idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

And with more conservative science goals than tunnelling to the centre to find mystery meta-stable high pressure metals, it might even be a vaguely good idea. Nuking astronomical objects would release a lot of matter. The nature of the crater produced provides details on deeper structure and density, etc. The plume of gas is mostly vaporized rock, and its elemental composition could be analyzed from Earth by spectroscopy, etc. Probably the cheapest and easiest way to find out what the deeper layers of the Moon are like. And even better if you littered the surface with seismometers before you set it off. Maybe just a bit too outside of the box thinking, though.
Why isn't it weird? To me it's very weird. Why do we think a slightly better job opportunity will lead us to greater happiness than focusing on our personal relationships?
$430 is an insane amount to pay for a phone if you aren't in the global top 5% or so (which most people reading HN are, but it's not very representative).
It’s enough to run a hair dryer or a medium size microwave oven.
There was a separation between savings and investment banking between ~1933-1999.

Glass–Steagall in post-financial crisis reform debate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_in_post...

(Edit: Monetary policy / Monetarism
> Current State , Liquidity trap > Global financial crises of 2008 and 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap )

How do microlending and DeFi rates democratize subsidized capital availability?

From IL-RFC-1 Interledger Architecture https://interledger.org/rfcs/0001-interledger-architecture/ :

> Settlement for one account MUST NOT depend on the status of any other accounts.

> If settlement of one account in the Interledger is contingent on the status of another account or relationship, this could create the threat of cascading risks and failures, similar to problems that occurred during the 2008 global financial crisis. Nodes can protect themselves from such risks by choosing to use settlement technologies such as collateralized payment channels where available. These types of arrangements can provide high-speed settlement without a risk that the other side may not pay. For more information on different ledger types and settlement strategies, see IL-RFC-22: Hashed Timelock Agreements.

> Nodes can also choose never to settle their obligations. This configuration may be useful when several nodes representing different pieces of software or devices are all owned by the same person or business, and all their traffic with the outside world goes through a single “home router” connector. This is the model of `moneyd`, one of the current implementations of Interledger.
This sounds great, but extrapolating from what I see in the article, the setup required for moving any for of armor would be impractically large (not to mention fragile).

I’m fairly certain that even if this works you need battery or fuel based backup power.
I mean they often still do …

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-18-Volt-NiCd-Battery-P...
But when Apple copies your feature, your feature gets better. When you copy Apple's feature, it feels like a cheap knockoff.
The site locks up after typing a few words into the search bar, maybe make whatever it was doing async?
I have been a lot less depressed after switching antidepressants. As for talk therapy, I should probably get back into it but I'm traveling a lot lately and I've only had negative experiences in the past.
Yeah but microwaves aren't exactly neutrinos, those don't really interact with much of anything at all. Like comparing a sound wave with a dump truck hitting you in the face. Water absorbs microwaves like a dry sponge, which is why microwave ovens are a thing and wifi over water sucks.

Humans are what, 60% water?
PoW is not needed at all its just a puzzle do "randomizes" who can write the next block. Its comically inefficient and p much the worst known working solution.
Some BTC devs realized this and created Federated Byzantine Agreement (FBA) which used Byzantine Agreement rather than a puzzle to created the consensus and then federated the whole system to prevent 51%-like attacks.

Obviously if the peers work together with the goal to reach consensus based on fix rules it becames way more efficient. Only a few year after bitcoin this was already invented theoretically and shortly after build an went online 2012/13. It essentially depreciated PoW (and Bitcoin) long before all the BTC clones existed and even before ETH.
People just tend to stick to "the first of something" and fight whatever comes after.

tl;dr
The secret sauce of blockchain is not PoW, its a public state of a ledger that can be verified to be correct by anyone without trusting anyone simply by applying the rules of the system yourself.
As a landlord, I would never, ever rent to a tenant that had a previous eviction. The risk is just too high. A bad tenant can take 6+ months to evict plus tens of thousands of dollars in repairs. Once the eviction process starts, the tenant has zero incentive to pay their rent or treat the property with respect. And it's even worse: I had a tenant that had a "roommate" not on the lease that was basically squatting. All the squatter had to do was claim that he paid the leaseholder rent to sublet and all of the eviction tools available to me went poof. I'm lucky as my building has 4 units; I can't imagine what someone with a single unit dwelling would do when they encounter a bad tenant.
Containers is a Firefox native feature. The temporary containers extension simply creates and destroys them on demand.

I understand the criticism though - increased attack surface. But the Web is pretty much a lost cause anyways.

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....
That's strange. I replied to a reply of your comment, but it's not there anymore.
This article is trying to make an excellent point (emphasized in the second half of the write-up), but the claim that "DID probably doesn't event exist" is untrue, and but I'm sure the author only meant as click-bait.

DID does exist, the problem seems to be the willingness of many psychologists & medical professionals to broaden the definition to encompass much of the phenomena we see on Tik-Tok.

Could it be that all young kids are extremely impressionable, and without a consistent culturally-enforced set of values (especially regarding identity), it's perfectly plausible for many of them identify (at the personality level) with a number of influencers that they follow on that platform? And how is that ultimately affecting their general mental health, even if they are not outwardly unhappy?
Windows only really works on x86 and is a mess of legacy and semi-deprecated APIs.

Too much backwards compatibility is as bad as too little.
You don't own anything in YouTube. YouTube can always deplatform you.
Start by seeing if you can make some neutronium in the lab first. When that goes off brighter than a million suns, the problem will dawn on you...
> > would convert a some portion of my savings into stablecoins

> This is probably the worst choice one can make. It's accepting a 0% nominal yield against an unregulated counterparty. A Bank of America savings account is literally a better choice.

you clipped out half the sentence:

> I would convert a some portion of my savings into stablecoins and spread them out into some interest accounts to try to minimize counterparty risk.

interest accounts. i.e. non-0% nominal yields.
Logistics (fuel, food, tires etc) were definitely a contributor to the convoy’s stalled assault.

As it turns out, there were also a group of Ukrainian Special forces that pestered and attacked that column relentlessly. Kudos to them and their efforts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/the-drone-oper...
Thanks

I am not sure how it's taught currently but the events between 1918 and 1941 haven't been drawing much attention traditionally. Even more so now that laws forbidding justification of fascism are getting harsher every year

I find it a little bit funny that after all these years of practicing in drawing comparisons with Hitler, people try really hard at not noticing Azov. Answering your last question, russian propaganda is focusing on Azov way too much, trying to make an impression that they are not a few thousand strong unit, but represent most of Ukraine's military and we don't talk to nazi. Any dissent is steamrolled
Also a small toaster. People way underestimate some of those appliances.
I see frequently on HN this idea that big company behind said web browser can simply throw more devs at it, adding things and features (useful or not) and simply drown any competitors with churn of changes. But you still want security patches too, so you have to install and keep up to date with upstream. Is this also causing relentless update cycle? I think so.
How about South Africa dropping apartheid? Didn’t take a civil war to accomplish
To give away the joke, my post should be read in the stereotyped voice of a British conservative with a mustache and harrumphing. Maybe not a full-on "fascist" (the Mosley sympathies I have projected onto him notwithstanding), but also very much not the person that Eco, or the people who want to use this ammunition, would want to lionize.

Also, some of the statements in my post, like (6), are at direct odds with what's currently trendy to say.

The main point, though, is that although I like Umberto Eco, this article has still never made a lot of sense to me.
I'm happy to show you data on the development of the Philippines economy over the last 50 years. Had your narrative won out, the people would have fared much worse, like the people in Venezuela, or North Korea, or pre-1978 China.
that talk made it really clear how tangent-point energy is easier to compute than mobius energy but not why it's a good proxy for it, it seems like a semihack