skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a pretty low opinion on PHP, but this beats it. It's 2022, whow.
Quite frankly, you're completely wrong from a legal standpoint. We have a famous decision from our highest court (one that I very much disagree with by the way) which establishes corporate personhood and the right to free speech for corporations (and establishes that money is speech).

As long as Citizens United stands as good law this action can be seen only as a frontal assault on free speech as it is explicitly defined by the supreme court.
Why not just… the “board”? It’s the only board. There are no other boards, as the things they used to call daughterboards are now “cards”. You plug cards into the board. Board goes into case.
Each home server has a room directory. You can rooms in your client (top left in Element, I believe) or you can try browsing this list: https://view.matrix.org/
It will be fun to see Google's algorithm for ranking search results.
It's r/cablegore
Why high? Someone else in the thread made a remark about the insinuation of a "phone in front of my face" but in fact this could very easily happen by a sober person just simply not paying attention, and that is fairly common.
Why the spring has such a form? How to know where is an input and where is an output?
The funny thing is that I don't believe there is a "blockchain lobby" that is driving hype similar to bitcoin and other fads, that would at least make it more compressible. In fact it is not clear who benefits if it gets "adapted", whatever that means.

It just seems collective delusion in pushing the technology by people who have little stake in it if at all, and sensible people have just given up trying to point out that it is vapourware, but the attention seems to be increasing year on year if anything...
Either they are and this is a free speech violation, or they aren't and we have a lot of people to arrest for bribery.
By the way, as far as I understand, git is an example of a private blockchain.
* Centralised database is eventually going to be hacked.

* Decentralised blockchain can't be hacked because it's well designed and tested.

Problem is neither of these statements are always true.
Unless government regulates something, that thing is not going to have proper value. This is true for everything, and this is true for blockchain.

Society needs to officially recognizes something through government and law.

Libertarians don't like this, but it's true.
How to read an RFC (2018)
>Private blockchains, such as for cross company account clearances, complex asset exchanges (planes, land) may help dislodge the rent seeking lawyers.

I've heard this one before and I am little hesitant about it.

I imagine if you want to sell planes or land, you may want the seller to make certain assurances. So a lot of what M&A lawyers do, I understand, is work out what assurances need to be obtained and how to best enforce them in the contract.

How does a private blockchain ensure enforcement of such a term? Seems like a human arbitrator may always be needed (judge or arbitrator), and an intermediary to give effect to any decision. So what advantage is there to gain from blockchain as opposed to other financial platforms?
It's all in Timothy May's email signature from the cypherpunks mailing list:

Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
knowledge, reputations, information markets,
black markets, collapse of governments.

The key concept is: sovereignty. In the end, this will reshape the nation state.
Are they? Last time I heard of this was twenty years ago or so.
I don't know about this proposal in particular, but it is common for garbage-collected languages to use the highest bit to distinguish pointers and integers; which means integers cannot use it.
CNN lacks 'marquee talent' because they wanted their programming to be less about the personalities reading the news and more about drilling down into the stories themselves and finding experts who can offer insight.

Fox News, on the other hand, has found that they can drive viewership not only with a bevy of leggy blondes but with strong, domineering hosts in weeknight commentary slots. Witness Bill O'Reilly and his 'shut up' and faux 'no spin' catchphrases. Fox held onto Bill until the sexual harassment suits forced them to shut him down. As bad as Bill was, he wasn't as toady as Hannity is today, towing the party line to a point that he is unwatchable for all but the most indoctrinated. The Five is another Fox show that offers Fox personalities a means to build up their own personal brands, much like how Greg Gutfeld has done now in his own show. In fostering a stable of personalities, Fox places few limits on how far they can go. On Monday of this week, the mononymous Kennedy gratuitously muttered about how Bruce Springsteen was a 'massive pinko', merely as 'Glory Days' was playing on her show's return from commercial break [0]. Only a show that feels like it has its viewers eating of the palm of it's hand would act so brazenly.

While CNN is flawed with weak hosts and is overly repetitive, it was surely a source of fresh air during the Trump impeachments when the bias of both Fox News & Business made their shows mostly a fictional defense of Trump.

Your 'business school case study' discussion needs to consider the fact that right now is a very poor time to start up a streaming service, regardless of the quality of the CNN+ service itself. Look at what just happened at Netflix earlier this week with the drop in subscribers. The market is simply reaching saturation. Also, give CNN credit for cleaning house of Cuomo, Zucker and even his girlfriend -- but this meant that CNN+ lost its brainchild Zucker. Let's not forget there was a time when Zucker was a wunderkind [1]. At the same time, the fee structure was poorly thought out and the material just wasn't there.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCJn4giT9c

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/endurance-of-jeff-zu...
Does anyone want or need “bulletproof” anything? The one feature of any transaction or contractual framework that I’d be most reluctant to give up is the one where they are fungible and reversible e.g in courts. Features luge secrecy, resistance to hacking, corruption, and so on seem to be second to this in nearly every case in the regular/legal economy of open democracy (I.e the part of the economy that matters).
I have had one interview rejection, about ten years ago. It was when I was in a new country and hadn't fully decided what I wanted to focus on, and it showed. The rejection showed me that I need to be clear about what I want to do. If I apply for a role, I need to go all in on that thing and not apply willy-nilly for random things hoping one will stick. Since then, I've only applied for roles I am genuinely interested in, with clear view of what exactly I want. That's worked out much better.
Not an economist, but my understanding is that they propped up the ruble by requiring it to be used for transactions that could previously have settled in other currencies, and by forbidding certain foreign currency purchases. If you can't buy dollars, it doesn't matter what the exchange rate is.

Obviously that won't work, long term.
It should be possible for some recipients to donate plasma after they recover. So if pfas levels are a real concern, there’s an easy solution for at least some of the recipients.
Expressed differently, 1 in 37 people is a millionaire. Sounds achievable.
I just said I'm not a fan of _any_ politics on a tech forum. I do not spread my political beliefs on HN.

Talking politics is, together with discussing your favourite football team or religion, the lowest form of intellectualism: if you agree, it's an echo chamber, if you don't, we're just talking past each other.
Just like several years ago you'd say "there's a big difference between these trippy deep-dream images and an actual meaningful illustration with a style and a coherent theme". But here we are.
Without a single trusted party. You're trading trust for one entity for trust for many entities.
That would only be possible if they proxy your connections and you have accepted their certificate.

The entire point of SSL is to create an End-to-End encrypted connection between you and your target server. That includes anyone who can view and try to manipulate your traffic.
> The West, typically, eats a tiny, tiny fraction of the fat it used to. And also far less animal fat.

We dont do the exercise of previous generations.

One study conducted around the early 1900's got ordinary people off the street to carry out a set of physical tasks. What stood out for me was the tasks and time it took to complete, todays special forces people would struggle to keep up with the physical exercise of those from the 1900's.

Yes our diets have changed, we can grow food more quickly, the nutrition of the food is different to that seen in the early 1900's and arguably less nutritious but satisfies the short term needs of an over populated planet.

One example, muscle density is in decline, for example US special forces know that black people have higher muscle density that Caucasians, this means Black people cant tolerate the cold or swim because they dont have the layers of fat seen in Caucasians. To the point Black US special forces have successfully sued the US military over Arctic deployments because they fail in this environment and the US military knew this before deployment.

What the science doesnt tell, is Caucasians used to have the same muscle density and limited amount of fat in/on their body as seen with Black Americans generally.

Carnitine is one of those chemicals which increases muscle density and its similar to Choline, main food source Beef Steak! Even ground beef has substantially lower levels, the mechanical processing removes some of it. Now this shows how science can obfuscate, look at the studies which show Choline aiding exercise and weight loss, Carnitine is structurally similar but studies on Carnitine generally dissuades people from using it for exercise enhancement. So if you didnt know about the structural similarity of the two, you wouldnt link their biological properties together.

There are a lot of chemicals like this and some chemicals which are generally seen as the best FORM to take are not always available in a unadulterated form of bulk consumer amounts, but only as a consumer end product adulterated with other chemicals you dont really wont and in some cases working against the chemical in question.

Diet is a very expensive absolute mind field, fortunately even the medical experts dont know it all because of their instance on injecting some chemicals still!
Personally I've not yet had any value from knowing that I can make a financial transaction logged on Bitcoin's chain and I don't know anyone who has used Bitcoin for that reason, so... I guess you do need to discuss why that log has value if you want more people to use it.

I find the tech interesting, but that's not the same as useful to me.
Johnson and Johnson know about this in the Baby Talc products.
It is simply trust reduction/removal through distributed consensus. Any industry or application that depends on trust could be improved through use of blockchain for trust minimization.

But just as easily as a knife can cut a slice of bread, it could be used to slice a jugular. In short, don't confuse the technology with the use cases. It's just a tool, some people will misuse it.
People transacting large amounts of an economy in a currency not controllable by central banks or sovereign bond inssuance is a really serious issue. Parliaments and regulators absolutely need to get a handle on this.
Honestly? To me it sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

How would this affect me in daily applications?
This is really cool. I love threads, especially in larger channels!

If there are no threads everyone just has to patiently wait in line, when there is one conversation going on.
PhotoSynth can connect the world's images (2007) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI sums it up nicely.
Colorado/Montanta/etc are just too damn cold in the winter for homeless to survive, so they migrate to other warmer places
Chinese military scientists say they have created ‘invisibility cloak’
Not sure about that one; TDP isn't exactly the same as actual power consumption, but for i9-12900K it is more than doubled.
Politics is also more tribal and emotive than it's ever been. I'm terrible at not getting upset and replying emotionally to perceived injustices when someone frames facts with a bent towards the other side.

Tech is a big part of the escalation. It was much harder and weirder to yell at strangers before social media existed.

I honestly don't know how we get back to normal. I hope we do because I prefer being able to have discussions not heated arguments about politics.
Twitter and Reddit (and third party clients like Apollo) are allowed to bypass this.
The app. I'm not sure how the web interface behaves.
Half the front page of comments is "I cancelled Netflix because they are shoving political propaganda down my throat" with vaguer and vaguer acquisitions when asked for specifics.
You don't minimize trust, you greatly increase the complexity of it. There's a lot more entities and processes involved and it becomes harder to understand. You need to trust quite a lot more things now, only that it's much harder, so many don't even try and just assume trusting many through some hard to understand and changing mechanism must be easier, which I don't quite see the logic of.

As far as I can see - and when the blockchain hype started I made an effort and even took courses and did some programming with the new tech - many proposed benefits rely on them being hard to refute without quite a bit of effort for this reason, it's a lot of assertions that are hard to follow, to understand and to prove or disprove. The effort made for an assertion of some alleged benefit always is very low, but trying to disprove the claim without equally resorting to just making the statement is a lot of effort.

I must say though I'm skeptical this discussion, especially with the stated question, is useful on this site and at this point, after it has already been discussed so many times, and now with that kind of question I doubt this leads to any better discussion than what we already had.
Conversely, an employee reacting so strongly to attempts at introducing gender-inclusive language might be a red flag too. If the employee can't tolerate that, they may have similar hangups about indentation, brace placement, choice of technology, office environment, etc.
Strange just reading this I connected my two favourite film clips:

Mad Men, Carousel pitch:
https://youtu.be/suRDUFpsHus

And the Carousel scene from Logan’s Run:
https://youtu.be/viWT4JWWfTg

Forty is the new thirty…
Is space finally taking off?
thought this an interesting listen and wanted to share.
Also, Slack's thread UI is terrible. If you click on a thread inside the main chat, you get this side bar, but only one thread at a time, and no way to get the same from anywhere else (e.g. from the threads notification/overview page).
> Formerly it was just the U.S. footing the lion share of the NATO bill.

That’s not quite correct, though it’s true that the US spent more on its military than the next 10 countries combined. And that did turn out great: Europe had the longest stretch of peace in recorded history (about 70 years). Much cheaper for the US than getting into a war.

This is another thing that the war in Ukraine has upended, though I suspect the cost of reconstruction will cause that spending to revert to the mean.
> I was there with you until you said internet. Internet and phone plans in Germany are painful. Most of the major providers are still on VDSL - though they are rolling out optical fiber. My current phone plan from O2 is 10 euros for 3.5 GB a month - that data volume is peanuts. I do not know if the US is any better, but I used to get 1 GB _per day_ in India.

Yes, Germany is one of the worst in Europe (and nothing compared to India or the Philipines) but still head and shoulders better than the USA. In Oakland, I was paying $60 a month for a 50mbit connection, and another $40 a month for a phone plan that gave me 1.5GB a month with $10 per 100mb over that. And that was the super cheap plan.

In Germany I pay 35 euros for a 100mbit house connection, and 6 euros for my sim.de phone plan with 8gb of data (I don't use much mobile data so I opted for the super cheap plan).
Wait, is this the brother of the ingenious Sam Zeloof [1], the guy who makes semiconductors in his garage? Looks like it runs in the family!

[1] http://sam.zeloof.xyz/
Fond memories of tcl inside ModelSim - it was not the Lua I was enjoying then but, like using emacs, made me love automation and coding a little bit more.
This Week In Fintech by Nik Milanovic. Gives one a weekly digest of news, opinions, and all things financial technology. And also has content specific to different regions around the globe. https://thisweekinfintech.com/
"Let's say you snuck into my band's concert venue and didn't buy a ticket. Yeah you didn't physically take anything from me, but you are having access to something you shouldn't without paying."

And this is again a physical situation, where one more person takes up limited space, reducing something.

Copying does not reduce anything.

It also does not contribute anything, true, so I am not saying it is always ethical to do so.

But when a poor person in bangladesh or bolivia living under very different economic realities, where 10$ means a LOT and who could never afford to pay for western realities anyway, streams some hollywood movie from a warez site - than I see zero damage. And guess what, they all do. So do poor teenagers and students in the west and they usually start paying, once they can afford it.

Judging them all as "thefts" from a position of being born into wealth, is maybe not very ethical either.
So to repeat it again, stealing implies taking something away. Which is not the case here.
Dead Cat Bounce brought to you by lots and lots of spending/maneuvering. Not sustainable. In about 2-3 months, Russia is fucked and will be forced to move to a new economic model apart from the world. The entire gambit was to take UA quickly and then use it as a pawn to get concessions from the West

Now they are finding themselves fighting a nation with a direct IV line from the US defense budget (similar to Israel) and that's not a winning position to be in given that the US alone is 10x defense spend - not even counting UK, the baltic states, etc.
Hard to tamper with data loggers also benefit from the Blockchain.

There are lots of industries where tamper proof records are valuable and record keeping is distributed.
You're not going insane but you are wrong.
I remember hearing on France 24 (from Anastasiya Shapochkina iirc) when the sanctions were just being introduced that the sanctions would effectively make it cheaper for Russia to finance the war as most their monetary assets are in foreign currencies while most of their expenses are in rubel.
Blockchain reminds me a lot of peer to peer e.g. Bitorrent.

At the time people thought it was also going to change the world and usher in a new era of decentralisation.
Tasteful Product Design: What I Learnt from Her and The Last Night. (Part One)
Supporting GC on WebAssembly has been a _major_ pain for TinyGo because WebAssembly doesn't allow access to the stack. It's really slow and I'm still not confident it's bug free. Having a GC integrated in WebAssembly itself should solve these issues.

Unfortunately, the current GC design for WebAssembly doesn't support interior pointers which is going to be difficult to work around (but I don't think it's impossible). Interior pointers are normally required in Go.
Sending human remains! I recently discovered it's cheaper to go in person with someone's ashes in your hand luggage on an international flight than to have them sent by air (actually, you can't send human remains by postal service or courier), and much easier too. I wonder whether anyone offers it as a commercial service (maybe as a side income?). It's too bad you can't take cadavers with you on flights, the cost of that is murderous.
I was thinking about this the other day. In a React app I had state stored in a component and had to extract it out to a Context so it was accessible globally. Sometimes it’s frustrating to know what you need to do but have so much boring typing to do.

Perhaps that particular thing is fairly mechanical and could be done with static analysis. Does anyone know of attempts to do such a thing? It seems not that much more difficult than IntelliJ style automated refactoring.

But in general it seems that AI-assisted code tools could help us write programs at the speed of thought.
"Here's 100PiB of unlabeled neural net weights. Knock yourselves out."
This is because some major refactoring has to happen in RTTI and system units to support dynamic linking so that true delphi-style runtime dynamic packages can be supported. This is easier said then done because of how many platforms are supported by FPC & Lazarus.

In contrast, Delphi IDE only runs on windows ...
The Traveller Returns
Create and Expose a public DNS service
Blockchain has no use other than to store tokens for speculative gambling.
Take a look at this presentation - https://bit.ly/3OB5G18

Proof-of-work - the USP of blockchain makes it slow and expensive and planet destroying at scale. But it's not a bug, it's a feature. You take it out and the blockchain is neither public not permission-less. A private, trusted, permissioned blockchain is pointless.

The whole blockchain, web3, crypto, NFT, DeFi, DAO ecosystem is a massive ponzi scheme. The proponents keep cooking up new buzzwords to keep the pot boiling and to attract new starry eyed idiots who will bring in real money into the system to keep the ponzi going.

Blockchain is a hammer in search of nail. A solution for problems that do not exist.
> The sole purpose of blockchain is to prevent double spending without a trusted party.

Yes, and avoiding the trusted party makes it more inefficient by a factor of around 100,000,000 (-ish), if you consider that BTC uses around 23 GW and can do no more (5 transactions a second) than a single trusted PC could do.

What are use cases were you actually need this and the high cost is worth it?
> It solves a problem no-one had

Actually it solves the problem of a lot of money given to VCs by LPs that is just sitting around unspent.
Please provide an example of any database that is tamper resistant. As a DevOps engineer I have setup and configured many different databases, I have yet to come across any that someone with admin credentials (which you always need at one least of), didn’t have the ultimate ability to tamper and do anything they will to database.
Blockchains are excellent for logging that uses trustable peer participation, distributed append, and tamper resistance. For example, each peer can add their own chain links, and also see all the chain links added by other peers, and also be sure that the log hasn't been corrupted by any of the peers.

Some examples IMHO are logs of participation (e.g. voting), agreements (e.g. contracts), exchange (e.g. payments), and auditing (e.g. compliance).

A blockchain can be public or protected i.e. private just to the participants. A blockchain can store plain text information or access-controlled information i.e. encrypted information or links to sign in systems.

All of these capabilities provide massive trust advantages over a traditional database as managed by a central administrative entity, which requires the participants must trust the central administrative entity to be truthful, unbiased, secure, and with sufficient high availability and disaster recoverability.