skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it's likely to take a couple of hours to set up this tool too!
> Ok, but the problem is, _which_ book?

I have solved this particular problem but have myriads of others. (See my main comment on this thread.)

First, when you are looking for a book in a particular topic, search Kagi/You.com, and sneak into 4/5 lists quickly. Some books will appear in almost all lists. Take a note.

Second, append reddit to search term and look into 3/4 threads. Take a note of highly upvoted or "+1"d responses.

Third, ask people you know who are experts in that topic. Ask 2/3/4 persons. They likely have read many books on that topic. Take a note of their top recommendations.

Fourth, there are some titles ubiquitous on HN, twitter, Reddit, word-of-mouth in academia/industry. Such titles are The Algorithms Design Manual, Designing Data Intensive Applications, etc. When you look into a new topic, there will be 1/2 titles that you will instantly recognize. Take a note.

Now you have narrowed down to 3/4 titles. Find them. Taste them, couple this with Third, and you find the most appropriate book for your situation.

The whole process takes 20-25 minutes excluding the calls with people IRL.
Unfortunately the podcast was recorded in the US. For people sending money domestically in the US, like SBF was proposing, it's more likely to be 1-2 business days of latency (so add 2-3 days to that if you happen to try to send it on the last weekday of the week, naturally) and consumer banks commonly prevent such transactions from occurring at all. For example they may impose much smaller limits on the daily amount transferred, so the client must make phone calls and pay fees on many different business days.

The situation is a bit worse for US people living outside the US. My baseline experience for cash transfers between my own accounts involves about 1 week of latency and some phone calls at like 2 in the morning :)
> User A holds digital asset X (such as a valuable domain name "xyz.eth") and User B holds digital asset Y (such as a valuable sum of stablecoin tokens) and these users wish to exchange them in a single public + cryptographically verifiable transaction (i.e. atomic swap), without relying on the trust (and for-profit services) of a third-party escrow agent.

OK, how do they do this? Let's say X has 1M gold in World of Warcraft, and Y has 100M Gil in Final Fantasy XIV. How can X and Y use a blockchain to exchange these atomically?
Genome of girl with severe lupus pins down genetic target for treatments
Totally agree. You're describing Hanlon's razor. No malace behind blocking it, just a result of incompetence.
Yep. Motorbikes are surprisingly cheap, e-bikes are surprisingly expensive. The difference though, at least in the UK, is that for a motorbike you have to shell out more money and time to go sit a series of driving tests before you're allowed to ride one; whereas for an e-bike you just strap on a helmet and go. I'm not surprised they're a lot more popular.
Great Reset- living in the country? Analysis of the WEF plan. (video, 15min)
+1 for cursorsense
How Patience Pays Off
The quantity of Tritium in the water of concern is 760 TBq. This is not a huge amount; if the accident had not occurred the plant would have discharged more than that amount into the ocean over the years since during its normal operation.
I guess start with breadboards? You can get them cheap at SSP WECL - my friend also living in HK made a DIY exhaust duct taped to his window in his room, to generate negative pressure for carrying away the fumes.

As for equipment you can get started with a multimeter.
I am sure there are plenty of contracts between companies in sanctioning countries and Russian companies or institutions that are not being honoured due to sanctions (pretty confident none of them had the clause "Contract is void if Russia invades Ukraine").

One of the prominent contracts not being followed is all those US banks freezing Russian USD holdings/reserves measuring in hundreds of billions of USD IIRC.

So I don't see that difference you are talking about. I mean, that's the purpose of sanctions, to stop doing business with a country (iow, stop honouring existing contracts in addition to not signing new ones) to make them change course. IOW, to blackmail them to change course.

It seems like you are disputing that sanctions are a type of blackmail? Perhaps both are better described as "extortion" instead, but "blackmail" applies equally well.

Again, this is an attempt to use more emotionally charged language for effectively the same actions. I am not sure why it needs extra explanation though.
A very reasonable explanation of the WEF plan for 2030, with a focus on living in the country, and land ownership.
I initially was skeptical but statistically the 737 MAX really is about 44x more prone to major loss of life than the 737NG![1]

[1] http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
.NET MAUI Release Candidate 2 – With 100% More Tizen
I think it's how long a response to a request takes.
What is "activism" other than various implementations of social ostracization?
Huh! I had no idea Yamaha made routers.
Good point. Since the Travis incident I don’t give any app write access to anything.
It's impossible to do a proper blinded experiment here, but in this case, even if you're measuring a placebo effect it's still meaningful.

If you think you should be feeling good today because you're well rested, you probably will feel better.
>Compare that to AWS, which is a nightmare of config hell, permissions, roles, policies.

Absolutely ! It almost get to the point now where you need to be a "level-100+ aws <user|expert|warlock>" to know what and how to do it.

PS. Focusing JUST on UI/Ease-Of-Use. Look at hetzner cloud. I just love their cloud-ui ! (I feel that german efficiency in there - lol )

It reminds me of FreeBSD VS Linux. It's so less complex and the whole system(ui) just "fits" in your head :)

I love their UI in comparison to their competition. Like say Scaleway which I like very much and use every day but their (Scaleway) UI is looking like

"12 year old girl's bubblegum-and-unicorns party theme"

PS2. Now if only Hetzner has a default FreeBSD install image for their VPS
I always thought the grocery supply chain was a good example use case. Multiple parties (seed origin, farmer, fertilizer manufacturer and/or dispenser, pesticide manufacturer and/or crop duster, harvester, transporter(s), grocery association, grocer) who all handle any given tomato, all with incentive and opportunity to lie to some other members along the chain, but not to their immediate neighbors. Plus, even who the members ARE is not necessarily known from the beginning (eg the destination country for produce in the EU is decided based on market conditions when it's already en route). And the end consumer (or their representative in the grocery store) cares about the entire origin chain. (By which definition(s) is this tomato organic? How was this chicken treated? What was this cow fed? What's the real carbon cost? Etc)

In order to solve this in a centralized way, you need to sign up and authenticate literally all the farm organizations in Europe, and all the competing grocers and transport companies. They all need to sign that they trust the third party service to be a fair and neutral record keeper... the third party company which has enormous financial incentive to cheat, on behalf of literally all its customers.

But with distributed ledgers with attestation, the record is unfalsifiable. Each tomato can have its own blockchain with attested entries from each fertilization, spray, and transporter, all added and attested at the point where lying is hard and the value of the lie is low.

You could achieve this with paper and signatures for each tomato, but it would be a lot of paper.
Coordination in rollling out a bugfix is not a strong indication of bitcoin being centralized. There are certainly aspects where bitcoin is not as decentralized as one would hope, but overall and when compared against alternatives, it's pretty decentralized.
Fibre ~21 ms

GSS ~650 ms

LEO ~60 ms
I can hear my author friends gathering to beat you with hardbacks at the suggestion they're wage-slaving, too!

More seriously, I agree it's hard to write a book - but I don't think you can claim it's just like normal job when you wrote it in 3 months and it keeps earning you money for years and it's more than a full-time job would earn you.
I think one of the biggest use cases for blockchains is missing: getting investment into technology approved by sprinkling in some DLT. Doesn't have to matter really (i.e., private permissioned "DLT" in some corner) but gets funds flowing in quite a few organizations.
Let's just kill the silly myths
I'm a blockchain sceptic but I think this is too harsh. The arguments are mostly taken from Bruce Schneier's (better) article, available here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_an.... There, he says:

> Honestly, cryptocurrencies are useless. They’re only used by speculators looking for quick riches, people who don’t like government-backed currencies, and criminals who want a black-market way to exchange money.

and he points out that many forms of trust provided by e.g. credit cards or currencies are non-technical and not solved by blockchain. For example, they allow you to cancel a transaction you made by mistake, or to prevent someone stealing your card.

This is fair, but note:

(1) we use cash, and sensible people don't want to abolish cash, even though it has the same problems as bitcoin (e.g., if you lose your wallet, you lose your money; someone can steal it from you)
(2) services can be layered upon bitcoin, just as they can be layered upon cash. For example, if someone steals your cash, you can go to the police. And if someone steals your bitcoin, you can go to the police. (I appreciate that if "someone" is in Russia, you're out of luck as of 2022.) Similarly, an honest retailer will refund your cash for a mistaken transaction, and they could do the same for bitcoin.
(3) The set of "people who don’t like government-backed currencies" is quite large, and it is not limited to libertarian ideologues. Especially, many people in developing countries would like their savings to be safe from government-caused inflation and/or from "financial repression" where interest rates are kept artificially low to support favoured borrowers.

This suggests that cryptocurrency has at least one valid use: an alternative to gold. I don't know if there are any others.
Note that the measurement on geostationary is almost certainly performed on a contended (tdma) 32:1 consumer grade oversubscribed link or worse.

Actual 1:1 dedicated geostationary which is very expensive in $/Mbps is a fixed, flat 492 to 495ms rtt latency, plus or minus a tiny bit either way, depending on modem encode and decode FEC type.

Consumer grade geostationary could be anywhere from 495ms in the middle of the night local time to 1350ms or worse.

Re: the figure for terrestrial fiber service, I'm curious how the presumed residential last mile "fiber" link in Geoff's example which is not real gigabit service would compare to one of the symmetric gigabit last mile operators that exist in some cities. Where you can see actual 980 x 980Mbps speed test results from fast.com or speedtest.net in a browser.

I'm always very suspicious of anything that says it's fiber but is limited to like 25Mbps up, either it's a totally artificial limit or in reality it's some vdsl2 link, or "fiber" delivered over docsis3 copper cable with limited upstream rf channel allocation, etc.
I think I'm defrauded a lot less than 1/20 of the time, so it may make more sense for me to stop paying Stripe and Visa 5% or whatever, if I ever have that option.
> (Spoiler) It doesn't work

Citation needed.
Ask HN: Dang – Dupe Url Filter?
dupe url filter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newscientist.com > 'Ordinary copper telephone wire could carry gigabit broadband speeds'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190688 > https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317040-ordinary-copper-telephone-wire-could-carry-gigabit-broadband-speeds/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31187267 > https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317040-ordinary-copper-telephone-wire-could-carry-gigabit-broadband-speeds/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31172909 > https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317040-ordinary-copper-telephone-wire-could-carry-gigabit-broadband-speeds/
Including the research and reading steps necesary to collect the data to aggregate in your books you write? You say you have read the 3 top books and several tech blogs <--- what are they? What main sources did you read to collect the data? Maybe you won't answer since all your business is based on that, finally :-).
It does not solve the Byzantine Generals problem... This has been apparent since Satoshi had to fly in to communicate from a place of authority how the protocol should be fixed to address bugs. This happened again after Satoshi's departure in 2013 [0] where the Byzantine Generals had to meet in a chatroom and be the "trusted central party" that the rest of the stakeholders followed. Without the leaders of the space being able to communicate directly on the Internet, Bitcoin would be a confused mess, since it's never clear when the longest chain should be abandoned given the ambiguous nature of bugs/features.

[0] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-...
Simplified/Rough results:

Terrestrial Fibre: 20.6ms IPv4 / 21.5ms IPv6
Geo-Stationary Satellite Service: 660ms IPv4
LEO Satellite Service: 60.6ms IPv4
THERE IS NO CLOUD: It’s just someone else’s computer (2016)
Around here, monthly rent is as high as or higher than mortgage payments. With mortgage payments, you accrue ownership (for the "standard" mortgages around here). If you expect house prices to remain stable or increase during your residency in a property, ownership financially makes more sense.
Yeah, we have a shared QA environment which gets a fair amount of data populated in it, and this is what I was actually syncing in this case. If syncing prod data then I'd definitely want to have very thorough filtering. But then at that point I'm not sure I'd trust this tool!
> As of March 2022, a total of 2,335 Starlink spacecraft have been launched, with 2,110 still in orbit.

Wait, what happened to the missing 225 Starlink spacecrafts?
where are you getting these $1 international wire transfers? Sign me up!
I don't understand how are surrogates in UTF16 a problem solved by UTF8.
From the article it seems that two main improvements were smaller memory footprint due to mostly ASCII data and using better algorithm which resulted in even better performance in UTF16.
I had to deal with surrogates in UTF16 and it is much easier than dealing with variable encoding in UTF8. Naive UTF8 decoder is easy and fast but if one takes time to fully validate each UTF8 code point then it becomes much more difficult and a lot slower...and that is going forward, trying to move backwards in UTF8 is again much harder than in UTF16.
The main disadvantage of UTF16 is memory usage when dealing with ASCII data but if that is the case then just use array of bytes and don't worry about unicode.
The most likely outcome is that Putin is out of power in 5-10 years and everything turns to being just what it was prior to this invasion (in terms of working with the Western countries).

No money was confiscated from Russia yet (it was only frozen), and it will take long legal battles for that to happen (10+ years). Ukraine will get EU/USA help (it's already getting a ton in weaponry), but nothing can cover for the loss of human life and years lost to emigration and rebuilding.
Maybe the executive is asking the wrong questions and puts it on the data scientist. Hint : 'Can you create a report that shows that my last decision was a success ?' is not a good question.
The article blames both. I think the focus on DMCA makes sense from the point of view of preventing this from happening again. HackerRank likely will exercise more caution, given the PR and monetary cost of this episode, but the DMCA still exists and is prime for abuse by others.
Yep. That would be the legacy (predatory, inflationary) financial system.
How does blockchain solve the Byzantine General's problem without relying on a (corrupt) central authority?

Math or not, police & courts overrule them.

Actually, blockchain isn't even mathematically a solution to BGP, is it? You need to define your actors better, here.

A 51% attack means communication can be denied. And there's still the question of how does A know that B has seen that A has seen, that B has seen…

Am I missing something?

The fact that communication happens on the blockchain doesn't mean it's not communication.

I just read a couple of articles about blockchain and BGP, and I think they all misunderstood what BGP is.

I'm A, and see that B is "committed on the blockchain to attack, assuming A is too". I can then add my block that says "I see B commits to attack. I agree let's both do this. I'll attack if you attack".

Ok. So now B sees that. Do they attack?

If you think the answer here is clear, then you've misunderstood BGP.
"Greater Kelowna is the fastest-growing urban area in the country, Statistics Canada reported Friday. The Central Okanagan's population rose 14% between 2016 and 2021, from 194,892 to 222,162, according to information gathered during last year's census."

In fact, all three of your examples are on the list of fastest growing locations - Halifax at 8th and Barrie at 13th https://canadamag.ca/fastest-growing-cities-in-canada/
They lost a bunch due to a solar storm recently https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-lost-geomag...
One issue I see with your example. You say “had the IT guy chosen to work”. This statement assumes OP can just pickup more hours easily. That is not the reality. If it’s a salary based position, OP can’t put in more hours just to earn additional income. If it’s a hourly job, OP all can’t put in more hours. Usually anything outside 40 hours is considered overtime and would need to budgeted and approved by the employer. OP could use his IT skills to find more work at that rate for a different company, but now we are back to the passive income example. TLDR. The math makes sense, but the example falls flat in reality.
US banking/payment system just seems so broken from across the pond... Account to account transfers are just super normal where I live (not always using the instant method, because no need...).

There are usually lower limits on daily transfer here as well, but you can change them. I think €100k is more a system limit, but I might be wrong.
It is a classic play, the kind that local theatres regularly stage, I went to see it as a teenager but not through school.
Also look at author's joy web framework build on janet ! Really cool.

[0] https://github.com/joy-framework/joy
It seems more rich/poor from where I'm sitting haha. I'd love to have cashed in on the crypto too, I just couldn't afford to get in

An internet with a door fee is a failed internet, I hope the web3 bubble bursts before we lose anything
https://github.com/USEPA/
I am a big fan of Keycloak as it’s been mentioned a few times in previous comments. Maybe this could help someone interested in implementing SSO, but currently working on a full stack starter kit that has Keycloak support/integration included: https://appcket.org.
Clever reframing, but when you choose such a different way with clear downsides, it's on you to justify it. It would have been the responsibility of the founders of Uber to explain to stakeholders why they were justified in running a taxi service without owning cars. Just like if I point out that you're not wearing pants, I'm generally expecting the response to explain why that's justified for me to continue standing next to an apparently pantless lunatic instead of telling me that you already have.

There's no part of the article that ever said crypto people aren't aware of this problem, it pointed out the problem. It's a problem. "I have intentionally chosen a path that runs into this glaring problem" is not helpful or interesting at all. If you have nothing more to say beyond "they know", then I guess I don't have anything more to say either.
Sure, that's one technical solution, assuming you can get a card.

I was just trying to point out that trust is not binary.
I shouldn't have used the word 'can', 'will' is more correct and makes it sound less conspiratorial.
> Coordination in rollling out a bugfix is not a strong indication of bitcoin being centralized.

It depends on how many parties, relative to the whole, are coordinating. It is a very strong indication when 2 devs are coordinating a fundamental decision for thousands of people.

You have to realize also that "bugfix" is subjective to human judgement. It's often unclear whether a given behavior is truly contrary to intent or not, and it takes humans in authority to judge this for the rest to avoid perpetual conflict.
.eth is a TLD for crypto addresses (the system is called ENS). Instead of saying, send it to 0x827DCAB38F00624466A99211e9c5a48b9D6Ec14D or whatever I can say "send it to myname.eth". The ENS is an NFT, so all the NFT infrastructure can be used to manage it. NFT's are generic digital assets so any marketplace can do the swap. The major downside is that gas on eth is SUPER expensive, when I regestered my ENS name, it cost $5 for the name, and $200 for gas. On the other hand, ETH is an obsolete chain (there is a v2 coming, and L2's are starting to come on, but V1 is obsolete... lets be honest), and some new more modern chains solve the problem better. I have a .AVAX name (not fully deployed yet) which cost $15 for the name (which has a weird public notice period thing, kind of interesting) and $.15 for gas. Again, it's an NFT, so I can use any of the numerous marketplaces to buy and sell it.
This seems pretty nice, but it seems an odd choice to release it for two platforms that typically don't have touch input. Using a cursor (even on a laptop touchpad) feels clumsy to me. I wonder if they plan an Android or iOS version, or even (unlikely I know) a physical device?
I have very little respect of country's who allow the use of such software.
At no point will people deliberately give up consumer protections they have today. If an economy is undergoing extreme hyperinflation, the consumer protections would have likely already been gone at that point.
How would a cryptocurrency be different here? If the counterparty is known you can still go after them via the legal system. If they are unknown, there would be no way of recovering the cash either.
See you in 10 years
> suppose you are asked to assign a probability to the proposition that there was once life on Mars

As soon as you accept this question as meaningful, you have already come out as a Bayesian. Deutsch would simply say (if I understand him right) that this question is not a matter of probabilities, whereas the coin question is.
You think that you're onto something but your rhetoric and arguments honestly make me cringe.

People are increasingly aware that governments/authorities do not deserve the trust that they have been given + the opaque nature of the system only allows authorities to abuse their power. Thus the technology you love to hate so much does in fact serve "real world" problems and is more trusted, so much so that Ethereum for instance processes 4.5x more transactions than Visa [0].

There are many more arguments how this technology delivers real value to real people NOW, but I have no interest in entertaining more of this kind of bad faith discussions. The better technology will survive and eventually dominate, with or without you.

[0]: https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/ethereum-...