skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia on Wednesday said it will allow imports of goods without trademark owners’ permission

That trademark owners' permission was needed in the first place is a disgusting infringement of basic ownership and consumer rights, in favor of manufacturers. Do other countries still have this requirement, to allow corporations to do better market segmentation, so only "authorized" importers can do business? Is this what "free trade" agreements are about? Letting corporations decide who may trade in their goods, even after they've sold them?

Edit: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_import, most countries do allow parallel imports, so the situation is not so dire.
The only way to produce a higher density metal at standard pressures and temperatures would be to get it to go through some sort of allotropic transformation to a crystal structure that is more tightly packed, but the ordinary solid phase of most metals is usually (relatively) close to its limits due to atomic structure already. Most of these alternatives are only stable at high pressures or unusual temperatures or both, and they may very well be less dense than the common form.
One of the things I find frustrating about talking to Americans online is they often seem to assume your opinions must be defined by the same left-right divide that characterises their politics.

You accidentally signal to them republican or democrat group membership, and with it enemy or in-group status. The ill fitting political box you are then placed in colours all further interactions with that person and all your political opinions are then taken as read.
To be fair, also asset transfer out of authoritarian monetary regimes.
But the t&c is between you and column, not your customer.

If you comply with columns' t&c, your customers should be none the wiser.

I don't expect a SAAS app I pay for to show me the t&c of AWS and expect me to also comply with it.
Aphex Twin included the loading sound inbetween some of the tracks on his Richard D James album and it pleases me no end that he did. That you can also make the loading sounds with your own mouth is also a giant plus!
It might be powerful, and Lisp like, however in any large application eventually the amount of C code in extensions to make it perform, outgrows the TCL code.

And then one stars wondering if it isn't better to migrate to something else.
> We live in a fascist system (corporations + governance),

OK, I agreee that fascism is bad but is that fascism? I don't like to see words with a precise meaning [1] being used as a catch all for everything we dislike. What you describe is a democracy of corporations, not one of the people which vote but have far less effect on decisions than corporations have. It's on a divergent axis from fascism which is dictatorship, suppression of opposition and control of economy and society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
By the way, why post this? The Python-vs-Perl war ended long ago. Python won in a number of ways, in particular the popularity contest.

But Perl still has a lot to offer (CPAN, backwards compatibility, speed). Go look for example at Git (https://github.com/git/git), not a small nor insignificant project. It says there is 5.9% Perl and 0.9% Python there. Maybe some intelligent geeks out there still appreciate Perl, and Perl still does a good job.

Just use what suits your needs and tastes.
Battery life is really good. I get about 6-7 hours of screen on time with intensive data (4G) use, several messaging apps, new pipe and spotify 4-5h daily. I charge my phone roughly every other day or every 1.5 days.
There are rumors that Eternal September is starting on HN. This is probably the reason.
> That last move, the digital yuan, constitutes a revolution: when fully-fledged, it will equip every resident in China, but also anyone from around the world who wants to trade with China, with a digital wallet – a basic digital bank account. In one move, therefore, the commercial banks will have been ‘dis-intermediated’; or, in plain English, they will have lost their monopoly over the payments system. This is genuinely a radical break from finance as we have known it. And, yes, it is one that we should emulate in Europe and in the United States – which is, of course, why Wall Street and the rest of the West’s financiers will do their best to stop it, preferring to blow up the world rather than allow themselves to be… dis-intermediated.

So is that why Stellar is still being used for a CBDC trial in Ukraine then? [0][1] Or even a Bhutan CBDC [2] using XRPL being trialed as well? Perhaps that is where we are going then.

It also doesn't surprise me at all that Bitcoin has been a total failure in being useful for any of its original purpose and Ethereum has propagated and accelerated scam tokens with 'DeFi', ICOs and JPEG NFTs so quickly that it has become unusably expensive to almost everyone except millionaires spending $1k to send $100k hence the layer-2 contraptions that it needs to 'scale' up.

[0] https://cryptobriefing.com/ukraine-cbdc-is-progressing-durin...

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ukraine-electronic-...

[2] https://ripple.com/insights/bhutan-advances-financial-inclus...
Uh, you’re not actually required to watch something just because it exists. Some subset of people not liking content isn’t, in and of itself, reason to stifle peoples ability to create said content.

The job of a literature professor is not to protect Literature by ensuring that inadequate students are never allowed to write.

If some combination of AI and community driven filtering can prevent sub-par works from entering your queue, you are no worse off.

On the other hand, some scripts like Severance, which languished for years on the best-scripts-never-made list, would likely never have been (finally) made but for the vast expansion of content creation due to the rise of streaming. In fact, if only a dozen movies were allowed to be made each year, they would probably all be Marvel movies or something with similar mass appeal. Most of the truly innovative work appears at the margins, hence expanding the margins is more likely to yield groundbreaking art (along with a ton of crap).
I'm almost tempted to say that you're wrong on both accounts, that vapourware doesn't get prolonged attention and that blockchain is pure vapourware.

But to focus on the first one: homeopathy was invented in 1796 and is still going strong, with national health systems having committees on how to deal with it, even some accredited universities offer courses at least covering homeopathy too. And that's despite its impressive 200-year record of complete absence of evidence that it has any effects. Various forms of alchemy were complete vapourware and yet courted and sponsored by monarchs. Also in our enlightened days there are people building (and crashing with) rockets to 'prove' that our earth is flat, newspapers print horoscopes and the previous US president touted things worse than vapourware as cures for a global pandemic. Looking at the history of ideas, I'd almost say we're living the exception, with so many ideas that actually work.

Re blockchain, if you take it to include the whole "crypto" (web3) space, it's gone from implementing papers from 20+ years prior (Byzantine Fault Tolerance) to papers from a few years ago (Zero Knowledge Proofs). It's had societal impact in creatig a global subculture of crypto 'bros' that donated (at least) $100m to Ukraine (and also to other causes like India Covid relief), and created outlandish investment returns for early adopters.

In terms of the tech or what it can do, blockchains allow trustless peer-to-peer transactions, and smart contracts allow making trustless binding future commitments. The latter is no small feat if you consider that the difference between cooperative and non-cooperative game theory is precisely the ability to make binding commitments (think of what the rational action in a prisoner's dilemma would be if you had a third move of entering a smart contract that plays the cooperative move on behalf of both parties if and only if both sides committed, and defects on behalf of that player if only one committed - would you still choose to defect unilaterally, or would you rather enter the contract?). You might say that we already have a legal system and courts that can enforce commitments, but in reality not everyone on this planet has equal access to such a system. Smart contracts will always be "beneath" the courts (as in, if someone wants to renege on their commitment, eg because the contract didn't do what they thought it would, the courts will always have the final word), but they can remove a lot of friction, especially for smaller projects and if parties are in muliple countries.
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See also "Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?" from 2020:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881140
XRP is special in that it's distributed, but I wouldn't call it decentralized (so you're completely correct in calling it a crypto with a centralized authority). For instance it's possible for nodes to block other nodes at their whim. This is a very attractive trait for banks or groups of banks. But similarly it's a very bad trait for any smaller actor. So sure, it works, but it also gives up huge amounts of control to central authorities. I mean, if you're OK with giving up your freedom to uncontrollable inflation, then go right ahead and use it!
The rule should be ammended:

Off-topic: partisan politics

Almost everything is political. For example, the very existence of large tech monopolies is political. What they do or don't do is political. There are plenty of things related to this we can talk about that are political, but the real problem is being partisan about it.

edit:

If you want to up/down vote in a non-partisan way, up vote comments as to whether they are interesting or likely to lead to interesting discussion rather than just because you agree with them. Reserve downvotes for comments that are uninteresting, diversionary, partisan, etc.

I often post articles that I personally disagree with, but which are interesting and I am interested in what the HN community might have to say about them.
It is something that has troubled me for a long time: as individuals the capacity to do harm is unlimited but the capacity to do good is very small in this world.

My own family profited greatly from leaded gas in the 1910s we even had a cottage named No Nox over the success of the sales to gas stations.

I myself have neurological issues and so do many of my peers in my little town in Central Ohio. There is no way to know how and what contributed to so many birth defects in our town and no one is interested in knowing the truth about it.

Thank you for posting this, it was a good presentation.
I don’t know if it’s still the case, but Lazarus used to be a part of the high school IT course in Ukraine. Might be that they’ve already ditched Pascal for Python.
I recommend this article https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/eu-institution... with additional factual reporting on what the DSA contains.

Patrick Breyer is a member of the Pirate party which holds a minority position and isn't quite happy with the results. While their views are, of course, a valuable part of the discussion, they portray the DSA in a deliberately bad light.
> I don't know how this is a sign of python lacking

If a language cannot be written or used effectively by devs without IDE, it is an incomplete language.

This has happened in the past is Java. Within a few years, Python will bloat up like Java and everyone will move on to greener pastures.
I see a vast technical writing documentation project in their future.
TCL already had a couple of well known packages for OOP before 2006, like [incr Tcl].
aside: Varoufakis used to be economist-in-residence at Valve

> Beginning in March 2012, Varoufakis became economist-in-residence at video game publisher, Valve. He researched exchange rates within the virtual economy on the Steam digital delivery platform, specifically looking at exchange rates and trade deficits. In June 2012, he began a blog about his research at Valve. In February 2013 his function at Valve was to work on a game for predicting trends in gaming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis#Academic_care...
Thank you. I'd like to be able to do both. That sounds great but I'm afraid it's well outside my budget - I paid less than half that amount for the 50 inch TV.

Roku does appear to be the best option indeed, thanks.
Frankly I haven't seen a DAO that operates the way I'd assume a DAO should operate. Today they seem like little developer collectives. It doesn't surprise me that it's less effecient. I think I explained in my previous post what I think needs to be built.

There does exist gitcoin today, but that is not a repository attached to a smart contract. The idea of smart contracts governing a repository is POWERFUL and critical to making it work IMO.
Annotated Implementation of DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1k Layers
Am Canadian. This isn't something I've ever heard and smells like FUD by people who have never been through the Canadian healthcare system.

The system has room for improvement, but is not broken in the way the IS system is.
Some of the largest houses my cadre of friends & family own are in Florida — they are built with cinderblock. Timber & wood are just different, not necessarily cheaper.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5951175/

"Myocarditis is an uncommon, potentially life-threatening disease that presents with a wide range of symptoms in children and adults."

That's experts, scientists, who are saying this and this is published on a government website.

I can source most things I say but I find it to be pointless because the comments just get dismissed after I did all the work.

Btw, why doesn't he have to source his ridiculous claim that mycoarditis is "mild"?
I don't get it. Why on earth would anyone want a random person to fix your car? An apprenticeship in Germany only takes 3 years and then you are a real car mechanic. I get that people want to go to a cheap family owned garage but even those have competent and properly trained car mechanics.
> The sole purpose of blockchain is to prevent double spending without a trusted party

NIST's Blockchain Technology Overview is really good explainer:

* https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final

See especially Figure 6 ("p. 42", 53 of the PDF), which is a flow chart to help you decide on whether blockchain matches one's use case. Extracted:

* https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed
The problem is that if you allow overrides in the computer absolutism, corrupt governments will use these overrides to their benefit. And you’re back to the square one.
More NFT chunder
I'm confused by this response, so I'll assume the best and guess that perhaps in your emotion you didn't look at the actual source material. It's embedded on that link, and available elsewhere. I would love to link you to a CNN article that embeds the course curricula, but alas - they've chosen not to report on it.

So anyway, the source material is the actual curricula. 277 pages of it, all approved for use with 5-8 year olds.
The only problem with BASIC is that it's kind of gross scaled up for medium-sized applications. It's downright charming at the Tiny-BASIC, VIC-20 BASIC, or even BASIC-52 level though.

LOGO has real depth, an elegant syntax, and there's an alternate universe where it has Python's niche as everyone's favorite scripting language. But it's effectively a toy language so there's nowhere to go from "learning".

Here's my hot take: before you teach anyone "the basics of programming", teach them how to enter formulas in a spreadsheet.
Why the set of developers is considered centralised? I can write an implementation according to the specification and have no relationship with developers of another implementation.
The Czech Pirate Party, now in government, has basically abandoned its focus on digital topics and concentrates on power, lawmaking and who is going to get which seat on what ministry.

A huge disappointment. Their once-core positions are now good for lip service only. Even the Pirate Party Forum (an open discussion forum) is now basically concentrated on power politics and discussions about such important agendas have atrophied.
As the old guy at a startup
IMO, in 99.999% of cases, the part about voting could be cropped and the comment would be stronger.

I’ll sometimes come across comments like:

> [very insightful, interesting, well thought out comment here.] Edit: Why am I being downvoted?!

I don’t know why it was downvoted, but I would have upvoted if not for the ending. Unfortunately, now I feel obliged to downvote it too.
I was convinced government doesn't work and indeed that is the only reason I am interested in blockchain applications. Watching first hand how badly the entire affair has gone has been very useful into getting insight into why government doesn't work, which I still firmly believe. However I am no longer under the illusion doing away with it and replacing it with a blockchain based substitute is either cheap or easy, and if we skipped a hundred years into the future and it turned out that the end result looked almost indistinguishable from what is presently described as government I would not be altogether shocked. I would however consider that amongst the worst possible outcomes.

It may well be that there is a necessary deadweight economic loss to pay based on the nature of human social interaction at scale and this loss cannot be avoided entirely, only minimised to a certain extent.
People who can’t afford to get their car fixed by a “real” mechanic.
Which means, people in liberal member states will no longer be indifferent towards the actions of the illiberal ones. Maybe if the illiberal states don't share the values of the liberal ones, they shouldn't be in the same union? The thoughts an prayers being with the democrats of Hungary is not enough, Hungarians might better choose if they want to be a part of the society that tolerates stuff or go live in a system where Putin-like governance is the way to go.

I'm kind of hoping for a similar thing happening globally. The actions of states like Saudi Arabia are well tolerated only because their actions don't have any real impact in EU or USA.
That is not the type of log level security we are discussing.

"Security" here means that a piece of data that was written to the log stays there unaltered.

"Theft" is on a much higher abstraction level. A "Bitcoin theft" is that someone steals your key and then appends a message to the log "Boplicity pays 17 BTC to Joe. Signed: Boblicity". Stealing your private key does not take place on the blockchain. And all previous entries to the log are still there.
Data Reliability (1975)
> All three times it has become lucrative, but none of them are hobbies any more.

I regularly wonder how to balance the intrinsic pleasure with extrinsic value. I keep thinking that people could meet on the point where both find great pleasure in this venture. Something rare in the current economy it seems.
What’s the requirement for having it all concatenated into a single file? What’s wrong with having the webserver binary and the ZIP file be separate?
It's not really an aside as he directly tells us about this experience in the first few questions in the article!
How does content consumption work then?

Would you not say there are clear characteristics, like your preferred genres, that matter quite a bit whether you will like a movie or not?
I think thats a bit dismissive. All of Elons's ventures are linked back to his dreams of Mars and he's been pretty open about this.

The Boring company is about subsurface construction on Mars.

Fully automated factories are about manufacturing on mars (and in orbit).

Electric cars, self-driving technolgy and hyperloop are about transportation on mars.

Solar City and batteries are about the power grid on mars.

SpaceX is about getting to mars.
That just makes the Horror-Clown frown. Calm down.
https://longplayer.org/about/overview/

longer duration, faster tempo
you don't need to spend money to have a homelab. you can do it all using VMs in your personal device (laptop/desktop) just fine
He was also the finance minister of Greece. You may or may not agree with his ideas or not but I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone with more nuanced takes on politics, tech, and crypto. Unusual combo. Interesting person.
Do these things have to be NUC sized? If you're driving a TV, there's usually plenty of space in the TV 'stand' aka shelf/cupboard, or even behind.

What's the best/cheapest cpu/gpu or igpu for tv/movies currently?

I had been using a thinkpad T430 (broken screen and keyboard) as a 'tv-box', but had to switch to a raspberry-pi 4 recently. Sorry to say, the rasp-pi just doesn't cut it. Sure it can output to 2 4k displays, but it can't decode netflix, youtube, or lan (or even sd-card-local)
movies smoothly, even at 1080p.
I am a laymen who is skeptical of cryptocurrency tech, mostly because of what I'm seeing (hype, greed, fomo, and apparently no real use-cases).

If... crypto were to be able to reverse transactions... would that completely undermine the whole point of it and make it look absolutely stupid?

Do you think the solution to irreversible transactions would be to then have some kind of algo that would then send back a mistaken transaction after getting checked by some intermediary checkpoint? Would that then make the whole point of cryptocurrency also completely pointless?

What on earth are people dumping resources into all this as digital currency or even investment/ speculation vehicles if they don't address the irreversible transaction part, or try to compensate for it somehow? It seems utterly anxiety inducing otherwise, where you'd have to quadruple check, then quadruple check again, and then sleep on it and then quadruple check 4 more times before you do any kind of sizable transaction.
"Linear Algebra"
I can assure you there are some very scared people in whole Europe and elsewhere because of Ukraine invasion and Russian inflammatory rhetoric.
It's transactional anyway so it's possible to make the file/dir structure as merge friendly as possible. In the simplest case just 1 file per operation with unique filenames.

Speaking of trusted parties, (multiple) of those could be set up using a chain of trust in every network segment that do as much cross-signing/-verification as deemed necessary. Once it goes online again, the performed operations could go on-chain.
The phrase "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" comes to mind.

Whilst they are focused upon the larger outlets and targeting that, the lesser, future platforms will be burdened with an entry cost far higher than before; Pushing that opertunity of inivation further from the reaches of those on the otherside of wealth.

Just ironic that the intentions of the EU upon this only fuel anticomepative divides via that entry cost barrier to compete.
Videos I would go with Jellyfin for self-hosted. Its FOSS (forked from Emby). It has no ads, free to use. Steam client for games. For music, I use Spotify (should work on LOS or jailbroken devices), but if you want to self-host Airsonic or Navidrome or something like that. For YouTube I'd go with Premium (from Romania if you're from EU) or NewPipe.
>Certain communities (e.g., scientists) can obtain status among their peers for expressing truths.

I miss the days when this was more true.
That's very common. The keyboard membrane material loses its flexibility over time and cracks, breaking continuity of the embedded conductive traces.

Replacements are sold on ebay and online retro stores. I've had to replace the membranes on both my acquired Speccys.