skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think these guys are trying to encourage people to be thoughtful, despite what they may claim - it feels more like one tribe using the power of google to try and control another tribe.

Giving these dummies what they want won't defuse anything. Thus far, doing so has not retarded the progress of this sort of language policing, but has led to increasingly insane demands. It's like handing your lunch money over to a bully in the hopes she will stop bullying you.

I think the way to stop outrage culture is to stop incentivising 'outrage' by refusing to indulge these lunatics.
I could see smart contracts revolutionizing PBM's. There's so much infrastructure around looking for violations, auditing dumb contracts, and executing them etc. If the contract was a smart contract that the manufacturer, and payer, and retailer interact with the whole process would be easier, more reliable, and faster.
Sorry, I should have been clearer.

GP comment posits a deterioration over the last 5 to 10 years.

1. That deterioration might be imaginary, due to recency bias. One would need to examine it carefully.

2. That recent deterioration is most certainly embedded within a massive improvement over a longer horizon.
> You are killing two birds with one stone in that case

Achievement unlocked: Dennis the Menace
There’s also just a lot of commercial jets everywhere. Even if you kept private jets at every airport in the world you’d be out of luck if you needed to deliver two parts from the same location.
Lies of the Russian government about non-negotiability can be ignored much like the statements about non-invasion turned out to be lies. I don't see how they'd prove anything.
250W continuous is not that much, and very much necessary (and possibly not sufficient) to handle even middling hills.

For reference, 1HP = 735.5W. The worst 50cc you'll find are around 3HP, or above 2100W. Child-class go-karts generally start around 5hp, and the most common engines are the 6.5HP GX200 (or harbor freight's copy).
I was skeptical for many years until it sort of clicked. Blockchain is important because it allows us to solve the issue when a company providing a service goes bankrupt or closes off the service, the service stops being available. This is especially horrible when said service requires a social network to work.

We can't just say "let the users run the servers" because most users can't do that, thats why they trust centralised services. We need to split people to two groups of people: people who simply use a service, and people who can sustain a service.

I'm seeing a potential future where apps and services are run on separate, individual blockchains. It will work similarly like the Tor network except now the permissionless, decentralised network can hold *state*! I envision a world where people running the network can be incentivised within the service itself, this doesnt have even to be tied to fiat money, like "honor" or "trust".

Too bad the current crypto community isn't exploring this much yet, because there's a few cryptographic problems thats yet to be solved, but I see people also trying like this : https://github.com/stellar/slingshot
This is pretty much the classic forum system, isn't it? A bunch of sections (sometimes nested), inside which you can post threads, and reply linearly to those threads.
But even 'digital cash' doesn't need this, for most definitions and use cases.

Even if we're talking about smuggling money out of authoritarian regimes, or buying soft drugs, or hiring hitmen online, I'm not sure it makes any actual sense compared with alternatives.

Feels like a way for people who've been convinced that government doesn't work to feel like they're re-inventing government with extra steps, mixed with a cult/mlm/ponzi scheme.
Deducing language preferences by the country TLD is just plain wrong. Especially in a country where about 25% of the population is from abroad.

My knowledge of French is basically non existent so showing stuff that is only available in French is completely useless to me. Even worse, it's confusing as I am not sure if there even is a German version on the site or not.

The strange thing is my profile is set to German. A better experience would be if I could set my preferred languages. If you would get fancy, add sub title options to the mix.
Bitcoin is flag bearer for crypto and the first one in the long line of crypto "currencies"
Pirate Party needs to start learning from the alt-right and the the politicians with other totalitarian tendencies. Instead of maksimalist goals that "must be achieved at once or we are doomed", better find something analogous of "think of the children" instrument which is used by the bureaucrats to gain power and aim for gradual steps in a similar way that the alt-right is doing it. Marine Le Pen in France become a credible candidate by distancing herself from maximalist and extreme ambitions(that she probably still holds) and aim for issues that large number of people want addressed(not just elitist niches). Populism is fine, up to a point.

Equating the "Not everything that we wanted was implemented" with "We lost everything, they won" sounds toxic to me. It's also arrogant t believe that you have the perfect solution for everything, you are pure and all knowing when the others are corrupt and stupid.

I like having pirate parties as a voice but the I would never vote for them, they are extremist and maksimalist IMHO.
I wouldn't call it "curated propaganda". I've seen livestreams of people using it and taking requests of what to feed into it. Checkout @karenxcheng on insatagram.
Are We Microfront Ends Yet?
Moldova protests to Russia over comments by top military commander
Perfetto – System profiling, app tracing and trace analysis
> game servers of the same game operated by different entities which have a real-mony related in-game economy

Are you thinking like poker and other traditional card games of chance and skill? I would think the only way a distributed, multi-entity-operated game would work is if the game had very well-established, static rules, with little to no chance of any changes to the rules occurring.

That's one of the major problems I see with NFTs for game assets. Games are ever evolving systems as issues of balance need to be tested and worked out. The higher the stakes (i.e. me competitive, more it involves real money), the more necessary it becomes that the games rules not be unfairly exploitable. A game like poker has the benefit of have ~150 - 200 years of play testing applied to it.

Also, nobody owns the game of poker. There are no licensing agreements to negotiate, no standards bodies purchase specifications from, no gate keeper. Anyone can make their own poker implementation and nobody can say a thing about it.

That is, except your local government. In the US, poker is treated differently than other gambling games, as it's considered a game of skill versus chance. But it's still regulated, just not as regulated as games of chance. So while the whole, global, CryptoPokerStars or whatever network couldn't be shut down, individual entities need to operate somewhere, and users need this entities to operate in jurisdictions they can trust to regulate the entities and make sure they aren't building in back doors and cheats like pocket card x-ray vision for company employees.
Hopefully a sustainable blockchain solution will be the sole currency for a future civilization on another planet.
Wow, looks like TCL is "the better bash"
> Ukraine was "not negotiable"

Like cutting the gas supply to the country itself to drop the transfer fees?
Please. This one is not even up for debate. Crypto mining is a waste of electricity.
Credit cards cost 3% + $.25 per transation (doing this from memory, but I think i'm in the ballpark here). USDC to USD costs .20% + $.50 (and that's per payout, you could aggregate transactions to pay only one fee). If you use a modern chain to do the transactions, the fees are getting increasingly more trivial (like a few cents regardless of size). As scaling solutions come online, they should be even cheaper. Avalanche is the best chain i've used if you want to understand what I consider modern. Solona and NEAR are interesting too, but I haven't used it.
The downside is you might end up resenting your hobby
Maybe rapid ejection for new threads? i.e. single level threading, with a UI that makes it easy to range select a bunch of messages and eject them into their own thread topic?

Of course at some point this becomes a management problem: if no one's taking the lead and given the authority to enforce this, then no one will. Arguably a lot of companies are big enough that technically someone should be employed as a "forum moderator" for online discussion spaces anyway.
I work at a major financial institution and there is no insider threat problem.

There are systems in place built over decades and regulated by the government that audit and monitor the behaviour of all employees. In particular those who have a higher ability to conduct fraudulent activities.

If you really want to see an insider threat issue you should look at the pump/dump schemes in the NFT world. That sort of immorality (and hopefully soon to be illegality) is truly shocking.
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hey,

im looking for some tool to handle support (tickets, email, live, KB etc) for my saas.
whats everyone using or recommending? any one on HN run one?

grateful for suggestions.

have an awesome weekend!
> Padding without the length isn't suffix-free

Can you give a more concrete example? Specifically with padding with 1 then all 0s without length. Appending the 1 then all 0s is supposed to prevent collisions.

The length suffix is used as an early attempt to avoid length extension attacks on MACs of the form H(secret|M). However, we've later seen that it's not sufficient as it's easy to determine length of the secret by trial and error. This eventually led to the creation of HMAC H(H(secret^opad)|H(secret^ipad|M)).

In theory, the length suffix is no longer needed (or the "1" suffix but we save more space by removing the length). Maybe a cryptographer with more history knowledge can explain this but personally I think it's now one of those "don't fix what's not broken" things. It doesn't hurt security and it's already been thoroughly analyzed (and hardware optimized) so we just leave it.
They can regulate where it counts: in the pockets of constituents. The US regulators don't care if UAE companies are running pump-and-dump schemes on Cameroonian citizens (or whatever other random countries you'd like to insert) as long as they keep US companies and US citizens out of it. So crypto being ungovernable doesn't matter. The people who use crypto are governable.
Yeah, I'm exploring writing a Dash-clone for Linux as well. The killer feature only Dash has is being able to import the documentation for any package one might use in JS, Elixir, go, etc. I can't live without that.
> It's about every transaction having a hash of the previous.

We understand that... GP even said:

>> I get the value of having a chain of "blocks" of data
Why must JSX expressions have only ONE parent element?
There are many great uses of the technology e.g. asset distribution.

But in its hey day it was going to change everything like Web3 claims it will do.
Fiat aren't less "online/digital" than crypto, they're less "cash" than crypto in the sense that no third party can prevent you from receiving or sending it.

If you use something like Monero it's also much less traceable than digital fiat.
The transactions don’t use the power, the power is used to protect the contents of the chain

(sorry i intended this as a reply to a different comment, not yours, not sure how i did that!)
A terrible idea, or just terrible in practice, and in particular with the current state of tooling and understanding etc.?

For every lawyer relishing a loophole there's surely another wishing for a more codified less ambiguous language than even Legalese English.

(I'm no cryptocurrency advocate, hold a small amount, have never written a 'smart contract', I just find it interesting and somewhat compelling. As an idea at least, yes I've written bugs.)
Two. One is firefox and the other is the snap store desktop app. The rest are dependencies and things like that.
^ you will understand that code as law is terrible idea, especially when it comes to finance.

Why are we relying on code for controlling Safety-critical system? e.g. Nuclear Reactors, Autopilot of aircrafts, docking of two separate free-flying space vehicles, and weapon of mass destruction launch and control machines. All of them use "code", is finance more critcal than systems which are kill capable.
While I agree that the UX on mobile could be better, it might actually be beneficial to comment quality that HN encourages desktop use.
> Cross-border removal orders issued by illiberal member states without a court order can take down media reports and information that is perfectly legal in the country of publication.

It is bad, but what's worse is that this is not even all that consequential. Remember the case with Leica advert featuring the famous Tiananmen shot taken with one of their cameras? After CCP's outrage, Leica took it down at its own initiative (and nearly apologized to boot).
I’ll paste what I wrote in https://cryptologie.net/#article_555

The simplest abstraction is to see cryptocurrency / blockchain / distributed ledger technology as a database running on a single computer. Everybody can access this database and there’s some simple logic that allows you to debit your account and credit someone else’s account. The computer has a queue to make sure transactions are processed in order.

Blockchains that support smart contracts allow for people to install programs to that computer, which will add a bit more logic than simply debiting/crediting accounts. Others can then just send transactions to this computer to make a function call to any program (smart contract) that was installed on the computer.

The cool thing really is that we’re all using the same computer with the same database and the same programs.

Now in practice, nobody would trust a single point of failure like that. What if the computer crashes, or burns in a fire? Distributed systems to the rescue! We use distributed system protocols to run the same database on many computers distributed around the world. These distributed system protocols effectively simulate a single database/computer so that a few computers failing doesn’t mean the end of the blockchain.

On top of that, we refuse to trust the computers that participate in this protocol. They could be lying about the balance in your account. We want the computers to police one another and agree on the database they are simulating. That’s where consensus protocols are used: to make the distributed database secure even when some of the participants are malicious.

And that’s it. That’s blockchain tech for you. The obvious application is money, as the secure and simulated single computer is useful to simplify a payment system, but really any distributed database that cannot trust some of its participants can benefit from the advances there.
Road network extraction from satellite images
"Large volumes of food need to come from some rural area, but if left to its own devices, the market would never demand that so much of it come from the rural US, or that the rural US make so much from the crops it produces."

Why not? The US exports a lot a food and consumes a lot of food (per capita). If we were to cease exports and even some domestic production, then prices will rise. The worldwide demand isn't going anywhere but up, while arable land is the same or shrinking.

In a way I do think that many farm subsidies should be examined and maybe done away with, but in another way I realize that we can't compete globally (exports), and many likely can't afford to pay the the true cost of domestic production. Not to mention if we become an importer because of this, we could outbid other nations and instigate famine in the poorer nations.
Thanks for the input. Not born i those countries!
I just can't picture how performance couldn't be one of the milestones, surely it's common to have a minimum performance target at least?
Sure, but how is this different from all the blogs, vlogs, social media, and the Internet in general (with an assist from smartphones, digital cameras, game engines, camera drones, and real-time ray tracing GPUs) allowing humanity to create an unprecedented global flood of content now? Or the problem of finding something satisfying to watch out literally tens of thousands of shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, AppleTV+, etc?

That’s why we have critics, reviews, review aggregators, search engines, recommendation engines, community discussion boards…

Clearly, the answer to an AI generated problem (pretty much anyone being able to content previously requiring massive budgets) is more AI! We can evolve content critics to help people navigate a world of practically unlimited content to find stuff they enjoy.

Also, consider all the potentially great films that never got made because even the best filmmakers can only get a fraction of their ideas actually produced.
I am worried about the term "disinformation" since that can be really subjective. On the other hand anti-vax content is harmful, to me, so there's no easy answer.
> Digital cash, as defined in the Bitcoin whitepaper, still seems like the only real use case.

IMO the big breakthrough of crypto past bitcoin is that we figured out that cryptocurrencies can use money incentives to run other applications than just payments. People are doing all sorts if things, many scams but also many useful applications.
What baffles me that paywalled sites are allowed. HN seems to be trying to establish a culture where people actually read the article before discussing it, and allowing paywalled sites (to which the majority of readers won't have access) directly conflict with this.
yup, international community = less than 1/4 of countries on this planet

judging by Western MSM you see here in Europe you would think everyone in world sanctioned evil Russia while opposite is true
I assume the potential employer will cover it, so not a big deal. Canada's health care is not that great either. There is a saying you die waiting to see a doc.
I’d argue it really started when Edward Snowden was on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic. HN was wall-to-wall with updates and rumors that, frankly, were not particularly interesting, informative or thought-provoking. But the ideological valence of the story was clearly more important.

We got a mini version of this more recently in the Net Neutrality wars.

It’s funny how both of those stories turned out in the long run.
> Current Bitcoin usage is literally a rounding error of global energy usage

I'd say that BTC + ETC use up about 1% of world electricity. That is significant, given that the main value is to make a few miners rich ($50m a day).

> and won’t increase too much.

The energy usage (more precisely: the amount of money spent on energy and electro waste) is roughly proportional to BTC price, I posit (until the next halving), and so would go up dramatically if BTC went up dramatically (like 100x, as Peter Thiel suggested at Bitcoin 2022 in Miami recently).
My company appears to be extremely concerned with discrimination and inclusion. Been there less than a year, and I had already three trainings on the topic.

The emphasis is very clearly on certain minorities. There's not a single "senior" on the training material videos/pictures and the issue of ageism is barely mentioned. There's clearly no will to hire older employees. I wonder what I could do about this at my level. I'm 45+ and already feel out of place and just "tolerated", don't want to raise any attention on me.
Oh please give us some examples.
The NLAW is apparently very popular among Ukrainian troops because it is more convenient to use in the confines of urban warfare (don't remember the details). Sometimes the best tool for the job is not the most sophisticated one. It may not be strong enough to take on the best Western armor, but it has certainly proven to be adequate for taking out Russian tanks.
We both know that it is the first, but that doesn't answer my question as that is irrelevant to my question:

Did the article [0] say or mention anything about Stripe USING 'Bitcoin' for payments? [0]

Or have you just admitted that YOU haven't even bothered to read beyond the headline of the article or even my comment and just quickly rushed to reply with a predictable 'CRYpTO iS sCAm' comment?

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto
The author has some good points.

What can look like a hobby to some people can be seen by the creator as part of their mission in life, or a calling card that is part of what makes the creator unique.

If you feel that way about something that doesn't monetarily pay off, does that make it a hobby or something else?

A company in a tangential space approached me the other day for a second time to discuss whether I could collaborate with them on something that would make their service offering more complete.

For years I have been building an on-line resource that provides information about an avocation of mine that I thought the on-line world needed. Currently, that resource is very poorly monetized, and its existence is financially supported by other consulting and advisory work that I do for which I am fairly compensated.

At one level, this is totally a hobby. But at another, I always believed that if I built this on-line resource that a group of people and/or companies would find my work important, and I would find a way for the work to pay off.

If a collaboration produces revenue in any amount, it's a confirmation that my work has utility and value to others who certainly are making money from a larger service offering.
You’re wrong because you’re talking about database when we’re talking about distributed databases.
Blockchains provide computational integrity across geographic regions and jurisdictions requiring no trusted intermediary. You can run a computation and guarantee that others running that computation are using the same inputs and will get the same result.

Even if Russia or France decide that they no longer allow Ethereum (just an example), this does not affect computations anywhere else.

This is a massive shift in power balance toward participants. No other computational platform before the blockchain has provided all these features at the same time.
Right, because you might die of old age before your bankruptcy proceedings are over in Germany, and your debts can then be passed on to your heirs.

But you're right about everyting else, especially comparing to California.
"You mentioned poor people skills like fixing cars - couldn’t you market those to make some money on the side?

Not easily. Poor people skills like fixing cars, appliance repair and Craigslist purchasing are absolutely essential to the family-on-an-extreme-budget experience, but they don’t translate very well to making more money, usually."

It's so bizarre to read this, as I personally know so many people who make some really decent coin doing exactly these things mentioned (quite a few from dirt-poor backgrounds, and two who are functionally illiterate).

To be fair, I run a fairly successful business selling used games for a living, so my social circle would look different to the author's - but on the other hand "selling poor people skills" basically describes every single Lebanese guy in Australia.
Fair enough, but I think I still would have used the Al wheels. They used known defective wheels, wrecked their project, didn't cross the finish line and potentially upset a big supporter. Not the kind of thing I'd do in a startup, at least.

Look at me though, judging people's decisions on the internet through a second hand story.