skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What part of it is paranoid?

It's true that Microsoft which was once "the sworn enemy of Linux and open-source" now holds great power over where Linux may be going (or not).

Is that a problem? Is it OK? It's clearly a change, and seems like something one might find worthy of discussion or reflection.

And what about the Linux foundation and spendage? Is it OK that they collect money and goodwill in the name of Linux, and then spend all that money on pretty much anything except Linux? I can't imagine any other case where that sort of organizational public misrepresentation is deemed anything but misleading.

It's also true that OSI has shunned all it's original founders. Why did that happen? And what does that imply about OSI as an organization? Are there bigger changes being implied by these actions?

Are you also saying it's being "a paranoid right wing idiot" when you raise concern of what used to be pure community-driven projects are now 100% corporate run? I thought that would be the concern of "left wing idiot", not a right wing idiot? :)

As for someone accusing someone else of being simplistic or biased, you seem to have your own simplifications and bias affecting your own judgements ;)
When we are already at the point of giving advice: use postgres instead of MySQL.

Anyway the article is actually not very good. If you are able to put your data in a managed db with backups and stuff, this is mostly better anyway than playing around with some local data but plenty of people don't have access to a managed db service.

And no 16gb is nothing. Go get more ram for 50 bucks and forget about it.
When Is Suffering Justified?
I am one of those people that uses cash and bitcoin for privacy and reliability and for 100% legal use cases.

I have experienced bank accounts of mine and those I know be frozen, emptied without warning due to identity theft, a false criminal accusation, forgotten debts, etc. I also know very well that banks have data sharing relationships with Visa, etc, that form a full map of where and when you spend money to aid data brokers in selling changes in your behavior to advertisers. Do you really want metadata on every purchase you make at a sex shop or a pharmacy stored in databases and sold to the highest bidder?

Cash has limits though. It is impractical and unsafe to put cash in the mail when paying friends back for dinner after we all go our separate ways or if I am buying something online I wish to be anonymous like a VPN subscription. In those cases Bitcoin solves a problem and I have legitimately used it on a regular basis for many years. I never use venmo etc and friends and I regularly settle debts with Bitcoin.

I would prefer not to have to carry around cash all the time so when possible to use Bitcoin in retail, I do. I have used bitcoin to buy drinks at bars in Germany, electronics at big box stores in Japan, meals at various restaurants, and coffee hundreds of times. I can also get cash from Bitcoin ATMs worldwide without having to deal with a bank denying me my own money because I am in an unexpected country.

Bitcoin, when purchased with cash, gives me all the privacy of cash with all the portability of a visa card.
Oh, you're about to enter the world of wonders: https://ethereum.org/en/dapps/#explore
While I find the use case useful (I often skip the normal search and default to site:reddit.com/site:stackoverflow.com, etc.), it doesn't do enough for me to justify having yet another plugin in my browser. It could be replaced by a text-expansion tool. In my case, it is deep in my muscle memory so typing it by hand doesn't bother me.

Maybe if this extension supported more types of filters commonly used (e.g. filetype/directory).

Upvoted though for increasing awareness about this one simple trick.
> Enigma is interesting because it's so famous and yet it's completely the wrong design,

The allies sigaba was basically the same design-- but it lacked the reflector so letters could encrypt to themselves. The down side of this is that it needed a complex mechanism to reverse the signal flow when switching between encrypting and decrypting.

(there were many other improvements in sigaba, but the big one that made it hard to crack was eliminating that one weakness)

> You could perhaps say Lorenz is a (distant) ancestor of, say, ChaCha20.

The first cracked Lorenz message happened because a signal re-transmission was needed so they sent the same message again using the same keystream-- except it wasn't the same message: the operator abbreviated a word, shifting the following characters. So they effectively reused the same keystream with different messages.

Systems using stream ciphers (e.g. CTR mode) are still falling to this today.

Seems we haven't learned that much after all!
Since he’s a quite famous guy, maybe the thief knew this and used more sofisticated way to bypass the iPhone security? Or could be simply that the thief knew his passcode?

I wish to have more info before give the culprit to iOS.
> You can ignore the news for years and live care-free without psychological consequences.

Yeah, the problem is that your children's children will be living with the consequences of 3 °C global warming or worse, while both of us will probably be dead for long at that time. Humans psychologically aren't wired to deal with long-term threats, our brains can't process them and their impact nowhere near as well as short-term threats.

Just look at the Ukraine crisis: People raised the bells already in 2014, and no one listened to them. Only when tanks rolled up on Kyiv, the West finally got its collective arse up and started actually delivering serious ammo towards the Ukrainians.
And to speak to this...

Electronic computers have essentially been around for a century. The internet is easentially a subset of that market, and bam!, that massive growth.

With that growth has come all of this change. Some of this change is not even about the internet, but instead, about storage, capacity growth, and thus centralized control.

(Not just govenment, but for example, large banks have a central office approve or deny things, where 50 years ago branches made such decisions).

My point is, big change in an existent market, due to new tech.

That market has cooled, with repect to change. Another grows. Biotech.

Fueled by computing changes, and other tech changes, it will soon be as transformative as the internet was. Just genetically engineer humans as a start.

But all the other tech surrounding this, it will make the change the internet wrought seem tiny in comparison.

Just imagine furries everywhere, for example.

shudder
Consider a simple answer: my ENS domain is one of the few digital assets I own (and have “digital ownership” over) that is not inextricably linked to a single corporately-owned user account (that ultimately has full control over the asset).

Perhaps you do not see a value in that, or do not feel the risks outweigh this benefit, which is fine. We are acting on a different set of interests.
True if you only do DIP, wouldn't recommend it for SMD. Eventually you will need to debug your PCB and solder some fixes, which will be frustrating for SMD parts without the proper equipment.
Nim has staticRead and staticExec to run external processes. [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55891650/how-to-use-slur...
This is also a great way to get sued for perjury and be made as an example that citizens should not challenge their representatives in such ways.
They suffered huge losses in the war with Finland. But they still took a part of Finland.

They suffered big losses in the war with the Axis, but they still won.

They beat French Empire. They beat the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire.
Shannon explained the name 'entropy' in (McIrvine and Tribus 1971):

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'
You trust the private companies/individuals making your hardware and protecting your communications but suddenly trusting a private escrow is heresy? Seems like a weird double standard.

> record and alter global state without placing it in the control of a single centralized intermediary

Paxos solved this in the 90s
Mathematics meets real life (2012)
What does it matter if people "give up the protections" or if they disappear? The result could still be that they flock to crypto, which is what we're discussing.

But it's not a binary question. Some people are already "giving up consumer protections" in some cases. And not just by buying crypto. Ordering stuff from Wish is also a gamble.
Author here - thanks for the feedback to include CO2 emissions, I just updated the page to include the numbers, via Nomadlist's built-in CO2 emissions calculator: https://github.com/KrauseFx/howisFelix.today/commit/91c766b7...
Agonising surgery paved the way for anaesthetics (2020)
I am absolutely pro nuclear.
But I think that for every single invested or earned dollar from a nuclear facility a fraction must be reserved for storage, break down, clean ing etc. There should be an world wide independent institute setting these rules up. And all countries should follow them otherwise harse sanctions will follow.
Making mistakes with nuclear is unforgivable.
The curves appear to be a riff on "production possibility frontier" graphs from economics.
If someone in your family has an iPhone, they can set it up for you [1].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211768
> A real estate investment newsletter suggests that for a successful real estate investment, as a rule of thumb you should be able to charge almost one percent of the cost of the house as rent because a rational investor shouldn't count on the value of the house going up.

Does this have all taxes(property,rent,etc) included in the cost?
Funny story about CDCgov. Probably the most common question we get is “you should use CDC instead of CDCgov.”

Someone else has @CDC as they got there first. They aren’t active so CDC tried to get in touch with them and GitHub doesn’t provide a way to contact people. That’s kind of nice actually, they respect privacy.

GitHub did offer to contact the user without sharing the users contact info. They asked if @CDC was active and if not, would they mind letting CDC.gov use it. The user responded that they are active, just not with public activity. And that they would like to keep it.

I thought the whole process was pretty nice. Github respected the user, and still tried to help. User considered and didn’t change their existing account.

Some people got upset and tried to formulate plans to “make” the user give it up, but those weren’t pursued because it would be wrong and a waste of efforts and, I think, harmful to the purpose for collaborative software.

So that’s how CDCgov exists. And I suspect there’s a similar story behind CMSgov and all the other sites where staff were too slow to set stuff up.
Thanks for the additional information. Based on that extra info. My next step would be to validate the industrial designer's estimates with quotations from a couple of contract manufacturers.

The areas that would concern me would be: problems identified during the first production run, distribution, marketing, sales and support. If your product needs to be paired with smartphones (BlueTooth? WiFi? - you mentioned ESP32) then you would want to make sure you can support several generations of both iPhones and Android phones.

Some SmartWatches have basic EEG capabilities and corresponding apps. So I would see marketing and sales as the biggest concerns. I'm assuming you have sufficient runway to address those issues effectively and in a timely manner.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Reset
The thing that is often missed with opportunity cost is whether more work feasible. Most of us are salaried. Most of us have contracts/policies that say working for another company has to be approved. Even if you find another job, will they actually pay that much and will the hours be flexible enough to rival writing? It's not really lost opportunity cost if the opportunity doesn't exist.
Very cool! I didn’t know that.
How come the trust regarding the physical goods themselves does not expand to the financial aspects of the transaction?
How do you avoid the servitude and uncertainty by renting instead? Aren’t you still dependent on an income stream to pay rent without being kicked out?
Most of the housing bubble is actually a land price bubble. Land is only a long-term depreciating asset in shrinking cities, because demand for the land is decreasing.
10 years into it and I still have no idea how to use it.
Author here: Yes, exactly which is why I chose to use Telegram to enter my data. If you go all the way to the bottom of howisFelix.today and check out the "Data Inputs" section I wrote a little about it. Being able to easily answer on whatever device you're on right now makes everything easier
Gitpod x JetBrains join forces to solve 'works on my machine' problem
Curious to check it out. I’m also on poetry currently, which is fine 90% of the time. The 10% of the time I wish for a better system: crazy-long waits for dependency resolution, strange errors when I have to remove the lock file and reinstall everything. A look at the huge number of issues on their repo makes me question the wisdom of relying on poetry.
While alarming, these kinds of stories usually result in the victim admitting they put their info in a text they received after, saying "We found your iPhone! Log in here, etc. Love from Apple."
So, you keep coming up with "smart contracts are not a good fit for anything".

Which really doesn't invalidate my original point.
> These are social constructs, maintained by social consensus.

AKA trust, so we're not transacting only with "a bunch of people that you do not trust".
Reddit search is terrible, so you use Google to search Reddit. Google search is terrible for product reviews, so you use it to get to back to Reddit.
Tritium has a biological half-life in humans of 8 days. It's not a "big danger". Japan has gone out of their way to take all the precautions here, but since it's nuclear you know somebody is going to raise a stink anyway.
Yes, there’s https://government.github.com/community/

And GSA keeps a list, sort of, of all the US gov projects at code.gsa.gov. But the code activity got defunded a year or two ago and no longer updates a consolidated catalog and now just points to all the various departments.
The process for releasing typically dilutes to a standard level before releasing into the ocean/ other water way. So when it's released, it's already at a level you could swim in (drink?), there's no process for it accumulating into a more concentrated form in the ocean, and it has a half-life of 12 years.
Just did this for my 5 y/o with a cellular-capable Apple Watch Series 5, so when we go to a theme park soon we can track him if he gets lost and call him if needed. It's $10/mo extra on my AT&T unlimited plan and the watch gets its own phone number that can receive calls like any phone. Highly impressed with this functionality Apple and mobile providers have offered!
A bit like a Centaur robot but with telescoping. Great design for the job.
That seems like an odd request. Something that is safe diluted across an entire ocean may not be safe to drink. In fact, regular seawater isn't all that great for you.
Author here - Yes, sorry for not putting that somewhere more visible. In my mind, the actual database running it was actually not relevant at all, it would have worked just as well with any database, including SQLite, as the basic structure, and size (~380,000 rows) could be handled by them.
Oh my, I remember that thing from my IRC days :)

Me: ***

Other: ? What's that?

Me: Oops I accidentaly typed something I shouldn't have

Other: Stars? How is that accidental?

Me: Wait, what? Passwords get automatically masked?

Other: hunter1
Well, claiming to having understood entropy is no joke. He should be flawless then. Just like with enlightenment he who claims to understand entropy really does not and he who does will not say so.
ColinWright, yes, I fully understand,

I belive the concept of the filter was to prevent fragmented discussions, and excessive re-posting.

You can clearly see it has been an effective filter by looking back through the history of source sites.

PS. I have a personal interest in this filter.
Analyst firms are full of shit
> We risk disrupting what has consistently been a downard trend by acting on some arbitrary definition of "cause of alarm".

> Teenage pregnancy after the 1960's is one example of that

Could you elaborate on that? What happened to teenage pregnancy after the 1960s (I sounds like the numbers are going up/not going down anymore?), and what did disrupt that trend?
Sneakers with LED-display launched by Bitrefill and NBA Star Spencer Dinwiddie
Author here - I actually talked about this at the very bottom of the howisFelix.today page, in the "Conclusion" section:

> Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting facts. There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project.
No one helped the Iraqis with with weapons, intelligence, money, materials and sanctions against their enemy to the degree Ukrainians were helped.

If someone helped Iraq to the same degree, I'm sure US army would have had more trouble in conquering Iraq.

And probably this will be the case for the next US war: Russia, China, Iran might help the enemies of the US.
This is not possible as the requirement either forces OSS or doesn’t. Bidders can’t alter the requirements without the contract changing and everyone rebidding.

Imagine a contract for a road that requires maintenance and the 9.5M bidder offers to lower by a million if they don’t provide maintenance.
Apple, Dell and Lenovo suffer from Chinese lockdowns
Ada is often used in microcontrollers where this is very common.

I write command line tools in Ada, and some other things, I've found this bit layout very useful when reading/writing binary file formats, or when binding to C and matching C struct layout.
Ask HN: How does one make an effective pitch without 'giving away' the proposal?
I'm in the situation where (I believe) I have system which solves important problems in a tech sector where it is unfeasible, or at least far less practical and resource efficient, that I attempt to build this business from scratch rather than working with established players.

The two classic issues:

How does one go about effectively 'pitching'? What are tips for getting in contact with the right people and enticing them?

And how does one go about the above without giving away enough information about the proposal to simply jot down, hire the relevant experts, and execute as if the idea is their own? Are patents the only way?

Not interested in the diminutive "everyone has a good idea..." response. You can go ahead and assume I've got a plan worth selling; if I was looking for feedback on the idea I'd share it, but as you can gather from my questions I won't be. Thank you.
I was thinking about this the other day - what’s the situation like now with the active manufacturing of 7400/4000 series parts in (literally) handy DIP packages and the like?
Ah I see I may have misinterpreted the comment. I took it to mean it should somehow fit in a regular size swimming pool.

As far as I can figure out it probably does not.
I have to complement your choice of FreeBSD and jails. If I didn’t have a Linux stack, I’d run FreeBSD and jails, too.

I wrote my own kernel modules that do exactly what I need in my stack and use case. No need for complicated SELinux, AppArmor or other solutions. I always roll my own solutions from the ground up (usually in a couple of all-nighters).
While it is surely bad for performance, it is not that bad in practice because haskell has many optimizations for dealing with these lazy, possibly infinite sequences.
Why would you need laws against physical punishment at a workplace if you already have general-purpose laws against assault?
Well, he puts a low-pass filter before the antenna.
Too much cash chasing too few decent investment opportunities is exactly the problem. The more cautious end of institutional investors have nowhere to go. Blue chip shares are at incredibly high valuations and bonds are returning next to nothing. Interest rates needs to be at about 3 - 4% to make government bonds broadly attractive, which will then make residential property uninteresting to this kind of investor without putting too much strain on the regular home buyer.
I wonder if the way I use "homeowner" differently than the phrase "own their home" is particular to me. I wouldn't say someone with a mostly unpaid mortgage "owns their home" even though they are a homeowner.

It is "their house" and things like that also, but I hesitate to directly say that they own it.
Yeah, I was expecting some mention of the editing and publishing process but didn't see them. The article doesn't have much useful information in it in my opinion. The whole thing is sort of like "look at all the money I made writing books; you can too by doing xyz", when in reality most self-published books make next to nothing. And to be honest, that making money and out of touch with reality kind of pisses me off.
That's the opposite of protecting the freedom, as with such legislation you're limiting people's freedom to enter contracts of their own choosing.
I admittedly am not using StarLink full time yet (my time is currently split between a city and a farm about 60 miles away), I have had virtually no issues with voice-only or video calls. I did a two-week stretch out here a month ago, and none of my teammates had any kinds of complaints about my video feed either.

Yesterday was the very first time I have seen any issues at all; during a pretty ugly freak wind/snow storm things did get a little spotty off and on for an hour, but remained flawless throughout the rest of it.

Could be a regional thing too I suppose? I'm around 51N 111W and generally speaking it seems like I have really good coverage and maybe a relatively empty cell?
Interesting, most theorem provers like lean [1], coq [2] and Isabelle [2] are concerned with formalization, and interactive theorem proving.

I initially thought "why do we need another one of these", like rolling your eyes at another programming language or JS framework. There's even another large-scale research project already underway at Cambridge [3].

I thought this extract from Gower's longer manifesto [4] captured the problem they're trying to solve:

"(just consider statements of the form “this Turing machine halts”), and therefore that it cannot be solved by any algorithm. And yet human mathematicians have considerable success with solving pretty complicated looking instances of this problem. How can this be?"

The heart of this project is understanding this problem - not creating another proof formalisation language. To understand algorithms that can prune the search space to generate proofs, using a "Good Old Fashioned AI" (GOFAI) approach, rather than machine learning.

Gowers makes a point to contrast their GOFAI approach with ML - they're interested in producing mathematical insights, not black-box software.

[0] https://leanprover.github.io/

[1] https://coq.inria.fr/

[2] https://isabelle.in.tum.de/

[3] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/Grants/Alexandria/

[4] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-FFa6nMVg18m1zPtoAQrFalwpx2...