skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Information Horizon with Tyler Cowen
I suppose the problem is because entropy is a proxy for the number of states of an abstract configuration space which has the same observed quantity as the concrete object that you take to measure its entropy. So, for example, if you know that your object with mass M and temperature T then to measure its entropy you take all the posible states for an abstract object with mass M and temperature T and the logarithm of that number of states is the definition of the entropy of one object that has mass M and temperature T. So the more you know about the the concrete object the less number of posible states for the abstract model and so the entropy is not a property of the concrete object rather is a property of an abstract model with same fixed global properties.
Obviously, non-digital assets, but does the Hawala system fit your analog version for decentralized escrow? Early stock exchanges were sometimes created to get around existing third parties ("auctioneers") and allow the brokers to directly transact p2p. What about a credit coop (it is central, but it is also owned by all the users)?

Edit: at it's most basic, reliable coinage was kind of way to create reliable p2p abilities without risk of "double spend". Once the coins were out there, central authority didn't matter so much, i.e., "good" coins were used fair and wide beyond the coining state (e.g., Athenian tetradrachma). Funny add. in some areas people actually allow temporary double spend (so that can be another solution)...
Fair enough, but still not too rich of content, is it? I guess while we are here I'd like to add on as a 'crypto believer' that there is a certain type of dogma alongside the false advertising (and I shouldn't even have to mention scamming) that myself and others like me share a disdain for and actively call out.
> mining 1000 Monero per second

They couldn't mine it, but if someone somehow learned the number h such that H = h * G (where G,H are the generators of Pedersen commitments), then they could undetectably mint arbitrary amounts of Monero.
You always have a choice to not engage in any commercial activity with other people and rely on your own devices.
It happens often and there isn't any recourse that actually works.

TSA employees are poorly paid and poorly trained, so easy thefts are common.
It's the released water not the seawater. That causes
vomiting, delirium, and hallucinations :-)

“A Japanese official said it’s okay if you drink this water,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a news briefing. “Then please drink it.”
As I said, reputation is not relevant over content.
Our site has mainly non tech people on it, a large amount of those have browsers that inject js/css into our HTML, I would say that is something user hostile. When we tested CSP with report-only I had to stop counting at 20 different malwares, the analysis was that even though CSP helps, those malware authors would just find another way. Thousands of our users were affected.

Do you think HTTPS is user hostile as well, not being able to read all the network traffic generated on my machines feels off for me. In the end I guess HTTPS is good for the user and so is CSP.
A high number of decays per second per gram yes (it's a light element with short half-life) so a small amount of mass gives a lot of activity. The total activity of tritium in the stored water is a few hundred TBq (i.e. a few grams of tritium in all those thousands of tonnes of water).

GP was probably referring to the low energy of the decay (18 keV per decay) which is much lower than other common radionuclides found in waste. For example, Cs-137 releases 600 keV per decay, and Sr-90 releases 576 keV followed by 2274 keV. Tritium is a much lower energy decay, per atom.
> that people were given loans they should either never have gotten (2008) or that they shouldn't have asked for

I bought my house in early 2007 and mortgages were indeed crazy back then. My analysis said that at the mortgage rates for a 30 year fixed mortgage back then (a tad over 6%) said that my ideal home financially would be around $H or less, that I could go up to 1.25 $H without house payments being high enough to crimp my currently lifestyle, and maybe I could push it to 1.5 $H if the house and location were really great.

When I went to get a mortgage from the now infamous Countrywide Financial they looked at the same data I had and pre approved my for a loan of around 3 $H.

That was an absolutely ridiculous amount. I had the analysis to prove that, so just laughed and went back to looking at homes in the under 1.5 $H range [1].

A lot of people who didn't know how to do their own analysis thought that the mortgage companies would only approve them up to what they could reasonably afford, and so getting a pre approval for much higher made them think they could actually afford way more expensive houses than they actually could.

[1] In case anyone is curious, I found a house that was almost perfect as far as size, layout, and location for 0.9 $H and almost bought it, but then found that its water source was a well owned and shared by a group of 4 houses. I could not get satisfactory information on how maintenance and repair of the well was handled. I ended up with a place a little bigger, in a better location, but without quite as nice a layout for 1.16 $H.
Thanks. What are the limitations one would run into if using this for a customer facing SaaS app ?
A centralized escrow is not heresy; it involves a different set of trade-offs. In some cases the decentralized escrow might be more appealing. To go back to my original example of a domain transfer, the exchange can occur in a matter of seconds or minutes within a blockchain, rather than 1 to 20 business days with escrow.com.

Never heard of Paxos, if it could achieve the same problems I've outlined earlier, I'd be curious to see it implemented.
The better solution is not to use Google at all. Google invades our privacy and Google keep its users hostages for money. We've to stop Google at any cost.
The fifth amendment taking clause of the constitution prevents the government from just taking it and selling it.
HackerRank is a terrible product. If any company I applied uses it I withdraw immediately.
working in church ministry i wonder how much time the OP actually commits to work. My guess is they think they works 40 hours a week but actually doesn't.
Alternatively it took ten years for Aurelien Pelissier's misunderstandings of entropy to decay.
Here is some nice background reading on Swim, Serf and Raft by Hashicorp.

https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/everybody-talks-gossip-s...
Malamatiyya
The issue is that you hold this as axiom valid across industries. Since your personal experience with IT projects was that process was always issue, therefore when nurses say the hospitals need to hire more nurses, you assume they must be wrong. And you also completely ignore industry specific realities - like there being surge of patients due to covid.
> but you still couldn't plain brute force an encrypted message today

The analysis you link to shows that it has about 76-bits of keystate based on the most generous analysis for the 3 of 5 rotor machines. This should be within the range of a motivated nation-state attacker using custom hardware to just outright brute force.

Even if you don't know the plaintext, you can do a quasi plaintext attack where you just try every long enough word in the dictionary at every non-prohibited location and apply the classic attack-- and I expect this would still be much faster than a brute force search while only having extremely limited assumptions about the plaintext.
Why get frustrated over something like this? You’re seeing one data point on how the author lives their life. I see these kinds of comments more and more and can’t understand the need to judge someone else, without full information, based on your own personal standards.
U.S. and more than 55 other countries pledge to keep an open internet
In an ideal world a frail weak person could lift boulders and build mountains.

At some point, the situation gets so bad that people can’t help themselves.

Unfortunately, the situation would’ve corrected itself decades ago in a vacuum, but China keeps funding the elites to maintain their stranglehold.
Everytime I read the words "Mars Helicopter" I get giddy. Especially the fact that this is running on close to COTS cellphone hardware, it just makes me so happy for the future of space exploration.

Now to design a helicopter to do the same thing on Venus and Mercury!
I think people forget a lot of secured offices handling sensitive info have CCTV cameras all around and very restrictive desk and device policies. Some got the idea during pandemic measures to allow work from home on these sensitive jobs, as long as they could observe the employees using this kind of software. It's considered a compensating control.

Somehow people are weirded out by webcams and screen grabs but not CCTV?

* This was mostly aimed at the critics of the friend - not the NK goons!
> As is known that Tritium is bioaccumulative to the point of probably acting as a persistent organic pollutant

Huh? It has a half-life of 12 years.
Gossip, Serf, Memberlist, Raft, and Swim in HashiCorp Consul (2019)
Pip and Docker and i never had any issues with python packaging.
I came across this a few years ago, it’s very cool. I enjoy the quantified self thing but personally struggle to do anything useful with the data I collect. It’s always interesting comparing time spans but other than that nothing actionable. Do any quantified self people have any advice on how to utilise data for positive effect?

Edit: after reading the full thing something that jumped out to me was summer/winter comparisons. If you have the freedom to work anywhere, chasing sun seems like it could have quite a positive impact on your general health and well-being.
The poster you asked is not that Japanese official. They just said dumping it was not a concern. Posting someone else's claim and asking them if they're ready to "back their claim" is disingenuous.
Ok I didn't make it clear that I was wondering about references to 1776 in Heinleins work. Anyways it seems that Moon is a Harsh Mistress is entirely a reference to 1776. Going to read it mor closely now, his wife probably appears in character..
Ask HN: Can you help me find a popular open-source tool?
Hello HN. A while ago I came across a post here that showcased a really neat FOSS project which I am very certain was made and open sourced by the uk government.

It a was a web based app that included a very extensive collection of data tools such as data converters (i.e. json->csv), currency converters, hashing data and back and all sorts of other types of tools like that... it was very similar to 123apps.com but also leagues ahead of it.

I can't for the life of me remember what it was called and searching for it hasn't yielded anything useful. All I associate with it is the gov.uk website and their github page... But the problem is I couldn't find it on there either, so it could very well be a false association but I am not entirely sure.

I know this is an extremely long shot given how little I remember about the project, so I really appreciate anyone who tries to help me find it.

Thank you.
Only mildly related, but is a "sleeping HR" of around 60-61 normal for someone who's really fit and active like this guy? I do not engage in organised exercise (gym visits "0% of days"!) and my HR during sleep tends to be ~48. I have a regular medical and was told this is fine though.
This is also what the pushback against asset price inflation looks like.
OK, then. They might have 10x the relevant experience that you do, but the outcomes were still different for reasons beyond their control. Better? Your scattershot insult was still full of hubris.
Take things apart that you're interested in and look at the components, look up the datasheets. Only need very basic tools for that (screwdriver etc).

Also, simply browsing through parts catalogues and looking at datasheets can be a great learning experience.
It’s written in Chinese.
I'm interested to see how Hatch develops, especially in the currently quite fragmented mess that is {pipenv, poetry, conda, pyflow, ...}.

I see that tox switched at the beginning of March, which is a realtively high-profile project. I'm curious.

I'm using pipenv and poetry, with a slight preference towards poetry.
This is a problem of how exactly you define the word "blockchain" - you can meaningfully define it to I either include Git (as the first proposition on Wikipedia does) or to exclude it (e.g. by adding a consensus mechanism to the definition, which excludes Git but keeps Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum PoS etc).

The important thing is that the article is very clearly referencing the concept of a blockchain used as a permission-less DB, which Git clearly isn't. None of the arguments in the article apply to Git, and saying "Well, but Git is a block chain" would not make the article moot - the author at best needs to clarify that they are talking about a blockchain + consensus mechanism.

I'd also note that Git and Hg predate the first use of the term "Block chain" (2011, according to Merriam-Webster) by 6 years, and their design was in turn inspired by even older systems.

The Merkle tree or Hash tree data structure that underlies the design was invented in 1979, and also fits the definition of "block chain" on Wikipedia.
> Food service workers don't want to take food into a patients room... nurses will do it

No idea where you live but in German hospitals I've never been given the food by anyone but a nurse. There are literally zero people/professions besides doctors, nurses, and cleaning staff near patient rooms.
Reading “triggering” traumatic material does not appear to increase distress
User friendly web games
> > there are a few steps to make it usable in Video Sequence mode.

> What steps do you recommend?

Here is a good video about it: https://vimeo.com/76661940 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uy_nh0ysVk

You have to customize a lot of little things here and there in the UI to make it work "by default" as a video editor when you start the software.
Perhaps, but my original question was around digital assets across the internet (and ideally on a global scale). If you are trading a plush toy for a coconut the "atomic swap" could be done with each party's two hands.
github (and other providers) have no obligation to host your content though, so the "restore the challanged material" part has no effect in a lot of cases and the material stays down regardless of sending a counter notice.
The games have no ads, no dark patterns and require no registration. They just work, on both mobile and desktop.

My website tries to be similarly user friendly and minimal. I’m hoping to capture the web 1.0 vibe of personal homepages, where people would put links to their favorite obscure online places.

If you enjoy it, bookmark the page and visit every now and then. Also, maybe skip this post if you have a deadline today.
True but this is not as much work as writing a book, moreover it could turn out as a liability if the stocks go down.
The thing is we discard Aristotelian Natural Science as obsolete and nonsense (which it is) but somehow some people take these systems seriously because 'modern philosophy', whatever it is... To me this is completely unbelievable. Especially given the pseudointellectualism in which those systems are based.

But, you know, 'psychoanalysis'...
Also disruption of social cohesion and trust scenarios.
The speedtest looks quite similar to the one baked into Google's search results; did any of your codebase make it across?

Also, kudos (?) it outlived Google+ as linked from the footer :-D
Tesla Investors Send a Serious Warning to Elon Musk
It's a Merkle hash tree.

You can call that a blockchain if you want, but we already have a much older and more specific term for it: Merkle hash tree.
>Docker

It's like paying someone else to do the thing
There was a specific part of the flight envelope where a higher angle of attack would lead to less pressure on the stick. This was a result of the engines being further forward, and thus at high angles of attack having more 'leverage' trying to pitch up the plane.

This had two problems. Firstly, this flight characteristic (more AoA gives less stick pressure) is considered risky, because it can trick pilots into thinking the AoA is decreasing. Secondly, and apparently more importantly to Boeing and American Airlines, this meant that pilots certified to fly the old 737 would need to go through new training. This new training was required because of a significant change in flight characteristics and would be very expensive to airlines.

So Boeing created MCAS, and tried their best to hide the change so no one would question whether new training might be required. If I recall correctly lion air (the airline of the second MAX crash) had actually asked Boeing if they should do some new simulator training for the 737 max in an e-mail and had been ridiculed for even asking that.
Exactly, sampling and software synths have been around for a while.

The research on the asserted brain effects of the songs seems unlikely to be too rigorous.

I guess the point of the product is to have an accessory in the car for average consumers to easily play around with.
> 2) that he'll be free to board and fly? - thus he is free to leave Russia whenever he likes.

Well, OK, in my books you can get a medal for naivety. Obviously it's your speculation against mine, but I speculate he's sort of a "soft hostage" of Putin's, because Putin could give him up to the US government to trade for something worthwhile. And if Snowden's not always being monitored by FSB/police, then the Putin regime really is incompetent.
I suppose it depends on the market. I have been involved in a number of contracts to develop bespoke software for big private sector companies. Twenty years ago they were happy to just buy usage rights, but since then the customers have grown wiser to their leverage and keep insisting that if they pay for the development work, they get to keep the rights to the results. It's different if the vendor already has IP that can be licensed to the customer to substantially reduce the development cost of the bespoke solution.
It’s a great question when the desired outcome is climbing the corporate ladder
>This one is big for product designers. Often we listen to the people who pay for it and miss out on the people who actually have to use it.

Pedantic, but: I think it's the responsibility of the people that pay for it to talk to the people who use it, and buy the best software.

I have a hard time believing that you can sit a bunch of nurses in a room to talk about the software, and that they'd design and/or elaborate on an awesome UX. Is there an example of that ever working? People have funny ideas about what they want. Homer Simpson's car design is a meme for a reason.
> labour is stuff you do,

by this measure there may be no such thing as passive income, or at least very few instances of it in this world since just about everything requires you to do something to realize a profit from it. I guess having a rich relative you never knew die and leave you everything is passive, as long as you don't have to go to the will reading or anything.
pup: Parsing HTML at the Command Line
A blasphemy law will do nothing to stop the actual issue in Sweden, which is the failure of its migration policy and integration. Riots like this are just one symptom, massive gang-related gun violence is another. But nobody cares since it's mostly concentrated to poorer suburbs, just like in the US.

Eventually people will care though. As the share of marginalized population keeps growing, the issues will spread to new areas until even the richest are not safe. Maybe Sweden will be like South Africa, with gated communities and private security.
Just to be clear, they are dumping a few grams of a relatively benign element which is regularly & safely discharged into the ocean during the normal operations of nuclear facilities worldwide, diluted in an extremely large volume of seawater.

"it could affect all the life that live there and consequently human life that feeds of it" is not supported by any science, it's just fear, the same fear that leads us to keep running coal power plants that kill people on a daily basis.
Here's additional background, and an HN thread:

https://lwn.net/Articles/890219/ ("Debian still having trouble with merged /usr")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929024 (288 comments)
Checked luggage is handled by many persons and in many different places. The TSA are only one of those many steps. Even though TSA keys should be secure, I doubt that there aren't counterfeit ones around. Rogue baggage handlers are not uncommon.

You need to read the fine print on your ticket and your travel insurance to find out what actions are available to you. Most travelers would never put valuables in their checked luggage.
I mean I'm not a smart contract evangelist, I'm just replying to your point that they are risky, that you need to understand them before using them. You do, that's why most people shouldn't.

As to use cases, you only proposed two things, coffee and real estate. Those examples are both silly, for different reasons. I think in general it very seldom would make sense to use smart contracts for real assets.

The only real use cases I can think of are financial derivatives with crypto assets as underlying, and various decision making mechanisms that govern processes that are controlled by code. As soon as you need to cross into the physical world, it's hard to see how it would work. Then you need a centralised institution that people trust, which mostly defeats the purpose.
You can observe the movement of molecules beyond macro properties like temperature.
Nah, global warming due to CO2 is a world wide problem; this is, at best, a regional issue, since the water will be so diluted once it reach the other side of the ocean. Most likely, that this won't be an issue at all.
He could just use his russian passport.
This reminds me of that Putnam contest comment, a bit of a classic on this forum.
I have a tritium vial on my keychain. 5 mm of air is sufficient to block it. It’s pretty harmless stuff in the level of dilution being proposed.
Did everyone ignore the word 'considered'.
>America is full of terrible jobs now.

At what point in time did America have better jobs? A lot of people may reference the glory days of 70s and 80s manufacturing, but those jobs went from bad to good with the power of unionization. There was no free lunch.