skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crazy that the owners of steam.com and valve.com haven't sold. It's pretty obvious who they should sell to, they just need to agree on a price.
You realized Bitcoin was rolled back early in its history as well right (someone figured out a way to mint billions of BTC)?

It doesn't make sense to take an example of what happened in the infancy of a technological innovation like Ethereum and think that that's what still defines it.

A rollback like the one the one that happened in 2016 is almost impossible right now as the tech and the community/ecosystem has matured and grown.
> Rather than relying on a few giant platforms to police speech online, there could be widespread competition, in which anyone could design their own interfaces, filters, and additional services, allowing whichever ones work best to succeed, without having to resort to outright censorship for certain voices. It would allow end users to determine their own tolerances for different types of speech but make it much easier for most people to avoid the most problematic speech, without silencing anyone entirely or having the platforms themselves make the decisions about who is allowed to speak.

Most platforms have APIs that allow people to "design their own interfaces, filters, and additional services". Many also allow people to build their own platforms on top of them - subreddits, discord servers, facebook groups, etc. that they can moderate as they please. It would also be possible to build browser extensions that automatically block certain speech. But this is all besides that point, because this debate is not about letting people "determine their own tolerances for different types of speech", it's about preventing other people, who are willing to tolerate certain types of speech from doing so. This is the reason subreddits, discord servers and facebook groups get banned. The people who joined them have decided that they are willing to tolerate certain types of speech, but others are not.
The concept of people leaving audio messages _with a reasonable expectation that someone will listen to them_ is (thankfully) dying out, at least among my social circles.

You can leave a message if you want, I'm not going to listen to it. The only entities that make unexpected phone calls are scammers and bots.
Switching doesn't change where the prize is more likely to be. That's not how the Monty Hall Problem works. It's the host giving you information about what's happening behind the scenes, by choosing a door to open and you knowing how the host operates.

Whether you end up switching or not, the other opened door is 2/3 likely to contain the prize and the door you picked originally has a 1/3. Whether you switch or not, doesn't change the odds.
What's always blown my mind is the trend for businesses to fail to understand this. Building your entire company around AWS means a future competitor also already has full control of your company and access to your data.

And I think the most hilarious example is Microsoft, a trillion-dollar level company which chose to hand over the entirety of the web (by switching to Chromium) and mobile (by abandoning WinMo for Android) and doesn't understand how they handed control of their entire business to their top competitor.

The architects of those two decisions probably guaranteed the future collapse of Microsoft.
Guy Returns Lost Ring to Honeymoon Couple with Lego Metal Detector Toy
Paid for by all the Google ads you run or money from Patreon haha
I did a pair of videos a few years ago, neat product, had a bunch of crashes the first time (like every few hours while editing, but never while exporting), not so much the second. Encoding options were confusing, so as a total novice I just choose at random until I was happy with the results.
Collabora's long technical deep dives are so excellent, such a wonderful peak into the world.

This was suchhh a long read, but it's a ton of great modern & historical context, then a long walk through the long winding road to success. "Bag of fences" rebuild for amdgpu is an incredible & concise phrasing that i loved.
>And whilst it is still widely used today and has practical use cases e.g. data distribution it wasn't transformative.

This comment reminds me of the scene in The Social Network where Eduardo Saverin taunts Sean Parker about Napster losing to the record companies, and Parker says "you wanna buy a Tower Records, Eduardo?"

By which I mean: just because peer-to-peer didn't win as a technology, does not mean it wasn't transformative. We live in a world where the iPod could launch and we have access to $10/mo unlimited (centralized) streaming. This world exists because the mere existence of p2p technology places limits on the way that the content industry can operate.
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I believe that social culture, random luck, not being leveled during ww2, and the ensuing emigration of high-skilled workers to to the US were all significant factors.

Also going to the US in this context really means half a dozen cities where there are unique opportunities.
Yes, the submitted title ("The EU plan to monitor your phone is unconstitutional") broke the site guidelines, which say: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We've changed it now. Submitters: please don't do that.
Important PostgreSQL 14 update to avoid silent corruption of indexes
Stitch Fix stock sinks to new low as revenue and users fall, layoffs confirmed
Are there any known cosmological phenomena that would produce fast radio bursts? Even if not on a periodic basis; just at all?

Obviously it is a big leap to assume this is evidence of ETs, but do we have any plausible explanations – besides that one – for what could be causing this?
Yeah. They were engaging in planned obsolescence by prolonging the lifespan of their devices.

Epic.
NG cost is not declining. Renewables still are.
Reminds me of the scene in The Big Short where Baum learns about synthetic CDOs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25EUhZGBws&t=111s
No. I was addressing the ACA. Should have been more clear
I wouldn't say that's the only use, but it is a very legitimate use. Let's not forget legality is not morality. I consider it highly unethical to prevent someone from trade simply because you don't like where one of the individual lives.
Leetcode style questions are not a bad backdrop as long as you do a few things.

1) pick questions that are actually somewhat aligned with a problem that would come up for the role. Usually implementing a data structure of sorts is going to be way more predictive and relevant than a dynamic programming problem.

2) Ensure the question requires a fair amount and complexity of code to complete.

3) The question should just be a backdrop. Consider also how quickly and proficiently they can code. How intelligent they come across in conversation. Things they call out as side notes, testing, quality etc.

Many interviewers seem to have forgotten the purpose of the interview is to be predictive to on the job success, not to invent some separate funnel and gauge how well the candidate did on that funnel.

In practice, at scale, you will likely have enough correlation between success on a contrived interview system and general competency, but you're going to get a lot of false negatives/positives using that as a yard stick.

My experience has been that leetcode "theory" is very weakly correlated with competency for most roles, and quality and speed of coding much more highly correlated. One of my best hires was a guy who couldn't implement a tree traversal in the interview
Title should be changed. Does not match the article, and "appears to violate the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights" is not analogous to "unconstitutional".
Looks like it's the other way around. He posts on his site and it syndicates to the other platforms.

https://youtu.be/X3SrZuH00GQ?t=852
Protocols, sure, but then you still need to have HW running them, which enables platform building. Also, that HW (and bandwidth) has significant, non-zero costs, which again tilts the field in favor of those with the capital to pay for it, and they'll want to monetize their investment, which again means platform building.
My usual preferences are digital-first; I'm quicker at it, and my writing is abysmal. I have started carrying a notebook in my backpack, because sometimes typing is just not convenient. I don't want to sit in some settings, poking at my phone, as it is both inefficient and anti-social in ways that scribbling in a note book isn't perceived to be.

It's all pretty new to me, but I think the paper supplement to text interfaces works where it gets transcribed in some form later. The paper can be disposed of, I won't be keeping that once it's served its purpose.
Nope. That version is listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_...

"Monty Fall" or "Ignorant Monty": The host does not know what lies behind the doors, and opens one at random that happens not to reveal the car. Switching wins the car half of the time.

Swapping doesn't affect the outcome, it's a 50/50 whether you swap or not.
Precisely. It is what you usually see pushed by critics like web3isgoinggreat, Stephen Diehl (CTO of blockchain startup Adjoint), and many more to hype up the uninformed for their ultimate goal of banning all of them, which isn't realistic; otherwise it would have happened along time ago.

While we have seen a scammer like Do Kwon getting reported to the authorities by his on employees to the SEC, it proves that the regulators are not going to sit around and let him get away with it. That is the whole point of why crypto regulations are coming, just like they did for regulating ICOs in 2018.

The same is true when one tries to 'hide' their funds using a blockchain with a transparent ledger or if they are trying to cash out stolen funds to exchanges which regulations have introduced KYC, AML checks on them if the hackers / scammers try to send the hacked funds to custodial wallets.

So in reality, it is getting harder for scammers and criminals to actually cash out the funds and anyone can still technically trace the transactions on these blockchains.
In some sense this is the eternal question of life, the universe and everything, life being complex self reproducing software itself which adapts to environments and sometimes collapses when it changes. It's a fascinating subject, especially from the perspective of trying to push towards the limits of information and entropy. I'm not sure the root of the problem is solvable however.
Maybe my answer is entirely UK based, but I'm pretty sure if I asked in my circle of non tech friends, I don't think any of them would have a concern about buying anything legal on a credit or debit card. You might not want your friends to know, but I don't think they care in the slightest about the bank or CC company knowing. And even if they did, that can be obfuscated a little more by buying it with a non-high street bank (like Revolut) they never have to go into/use for their mortgage or whatever.
> I think it's important that we think abour abolishing orisons and looking at the brutality ans arbitrariness of the system.

I'm all for doing something, but what do you use to replace the prison system? Just don't arrest people?
(EXTREMELY minor spoilers for Everything Everywhere All At Once)
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My inner child chuckled to see 55378008 displayed on a calculator near the end of that movie.
there's no blockchain in IPFS, but there are cryptographic hashes
Ostensibly yes, but: https://xkcd.com/224/
Gonna be interesting how this plays out. The status quo of having one big governing body for (almost) every sport is slowly getting upended. Look at the Super League plans that were discussed last year in european football for example. That idea got killed for the meantime, but is still hovering around. If the old federations dont move with the times or dont shell out enough cash, whats gonna stop the members from going somewhere else?
I believe the wording used is "effective technological protection measure". So it's presumably up to the courts to decide whether the DRM was "effective" in the first place. (I am not a lawyer etc. etc.). I suspect it largely comes down to intent. To make an analogy, you'd still be on the hook for breaking-and-entering, even if your victim's front door was made of cardboard.

> How can bypassing DRM even be illegal?

Same way anything else can be illegal, they made a law saying so.
You could make this same argument every time someone gets phished on the internet.
51% attacks don't rewrite history, they rewrite accepted history (with accepted further narrowly defined to mean "accepted for transactional purposes"). It's not like the other 49% are under any sort of obligation to delete the alternative chain from their hard drives.
Rejection sampling, that is. Unexpectedly, but obviously in retrospect, the common (ancient) wisdom of using that in the continuous case instead of figuring out tricky combinations of special functions to get the result from a bounded number of uniform samples... fails miserably on LuaJIT. Of course atan2() is not the fastest thing in the world, but on a compiler that only really understands loops with linear bodies calling it even via FFI beats adding an unpredictable nested loop.
$10/mo is infinity dollars — I’m not committing to that, especially because the cost to leaving is high.

$10 for lunch, even regularly, is still a one time expense.

It’s capx vs. opex
Interesting. Seems related to the algorithm that the first chess machine used to beat the world chess champion in 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-beta_pruning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparo...

Edit:
If you're interested, I found a reddit comment thread that describes the history of chess AI.

https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2d55fx/what_hav...
When I was a kid we also computer class were programming was taught. And music class. And drama. And woodworking.

And like with these other things, you can make getting into them easier. With music, children start with simple instruments that no professional ever uses. And it's the same with programming, there are plenty of easier environments for children. But if you want to make programmers and you want to make musicians, eventually they have to use the real thing. My own son jumped straight into the deep end of Unity development knowing nothing because he wants to build something real. I neither encouraged or discouraged that environment and it's pretty unforgiving.

I don't think the solvable problems you speak of as are as solvable as you think they are. Also making software development out to be special both in terms of it's benefit to thinking skills and rationality and how it's merely some tools away from being professionally approachable to the masses is totally unfounded.
Someone using something unethically does not make the thing being used unethical. Encrypted communication is a great example of this...how many people circumvent local laws with encrypted communication in order to reveal crimes against humanity? There have always been unethical laws somewhere in the world as long as governed societies have existed.
I am interested in this and I have an emotional desire for you to be right; I'm skeptical of every application I've ever seen for blockchain.

That being said, it is not clear to me how a hash chain guarantees that the data it stores hasn't been modified.
If the DVD was taking up shelf space and no one was buying it the thief might actually be saving them money
For those curious about what this looks like in the trenches: https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/complexity
If I understand correctly this was a substitution cipher where the alphabet was mapped to notes A-G, 5 sharps and 5 flats (15 characters total)? A-Z0-9 is 36 characters. I guess you could use chords (or different note values or rests) to reach the entire alphabet. Good thing Soviet officials did not insist she (or someone else) play an encoded composition which would probably not sound good.
git is a fantastic usage of blockchain, no?
Yes. Shortened manually now (from "ZeroTier Business SSO is here And so is our new pricing")
There’s no guilt involved in civil cases.
They today import fuel and burn it. They are equipped to continue doing so.

They can add transmission lines, for cheaper importation.

As fuel synthesis -- ammonia and hydrogen -- comes online and undercuts NG, they can import that instead, at times when their transmission line power capacity or availability is exceeded.

Fuel synthesis from solar in the tropics undercutting NG extraction will be a big business. Synthesis using reliable wind, in other places, likewise.

In the meantime, as minority participants, their contribution to the ongoing climate catastrophe is relatively small.
> receiving more spam than actual worthy content.

Let me take a minute to commemorate "Canter & Siegel, green-card lawyers", for being the first sharp-eyed critters to spot they could make a buck shitting in the common's spring.
I agree with this and will add that the cost of the risk of having to pay to support a disabled veteran for life needs to be considered part of the whole deal. If you can't afford the servicemember, properly trained and properly insured, then don't "buy" them at all.
> Can you think of any practical uses of a blockchain? I also think they're a fascinating concept, but I cannot think of a killer application for them.

Identity / authenticity. As we head into a world of digital (deep) fakes, being able to authenticate the source of information/media will be very important. Block chain seems well positioned for this?

I think NFTs will settle down eventually and they'll be useful (after these short term stupids).

I'm not a fan of blockchain currencies mostly due to the preponderance of bad actors. Maybe some day, but it's a bit of a shit show atm, and not nearly as practical as originally hoped for.
I used to be with the SSO-wall-of-shame crowd...until I had to maintain and support SSO within a production app. G-suite/Social SSO? Fine. Not a problem. SAML? Good luck automating that and not having to reset certs / tweak things per-client. That's why it costs money.

Another problem I have with the "SSO should be free, because it's security-related" argument is that it's a misunderstanding of why it costs money. It's not because companies want to gate security features. It's because when you're trying to create a pricing model for an otherwise free product, going from "I'm ok with manually inviting/deactivating users" to "I now need SSO, because this product has enough adoption within the company to merit it" happens to be an almost a perfect way to delineate between casual freemium users and business users who should be paying. That, combined with my initial point, is why I dropped out of the SSO tax crowd.
It's a requirements change. Those happen all the time in everything. Why would that be completely forbidden or impossible here? Like you said, it might really suck. But the NRC does not allow trading off safety the way you suggest.
paid for with what, patreon?
Such a bullshit
When you consider the massive reforms carried out by Lansley (a Conservative health minister. These reforms caused huge problems, didn't particularly work, were widely misunderstood even by his own party, and are now being rolled back) and now the Hunt/Hancock/Javid reforms to ICSs it's just plain wrong to say "the NHS can't be reformed".
Bitcoin is 13 years old. The "crypto" that you're most likely referring to is Smart contracts based dApps, 7 years old.

The Internet in early 1990s was still over a decade old but had it disappeared overnight then, absolutely nothing about anyone's life would've changed back then.
Strictly speaking it's not the hosts knowledge that changes the problem, but the fact that as a contestant you know how the host operates. This makes you able to extract information about the choice the host makes.

Different ways of host operation changing the outcomes are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_...

>"Monty Fall" or "Ignorant Monty": The host does not know what lies behind the doors, and opens one at random that happens not to reveal the car. Switching wins the car half of the time.
I'm not even giving them enough credit to try and explain anything away. What I said was meant as examples of obvious ways this can be manipulated, not direct attempts at explanation.

In a major assault on basic civil liberties, the burden of proof is on the assailants.

You care about those kids? Educate them and give them the tools to protect themselves, to protect their identity online. Instead, you trained them to sign up to shady sites everywhere with their real names, real phone numbers, the same email address tied to their real identities, to readily give their real names away and above all publicly post pictures and videos of themselves.
Way easier to create software for it, and with more flexibility, for starters.
You may want to support the EFF in their challenge to this law: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-appeals-court-ru...
> an NNTP overhaul that would allow most people to host mini-NNTP servers for true decentralization

That would be quite an idea: extended NNTP over P2P, but doesn't Mastodon do sort of a similar thing today?
oh thats cool. I imagine all the pathogens are effectively killed for free
Here, let me save you some time.

When a new technology comes along, a lot of people want to invest in it. That’s a big opportunity for scammers. People who are unable to discern scam from not scam get scammed.
What natural physical mechanism is likely to create FRBs?

An antenna might be plasma gasses. This must be fed with an alternating current; perhaps a brief physical phenomena like a landslide of ionized material on the surface of a dense object. If the two are in close proximity and happen to be resonant it will radiate RF power.

Doesn't appear that hard to conceive of given scale and diversity of the universe.
https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?s=20&t=Ns...
The law includes a definition of that term

>a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

So bypassing trivial DRM is still a crime.
Not sure if we disagree. To be clear, in the following scenario

"Alice and Bob are equal shareholders in a company. They agree that the fair value of the company is $20mn. The company pays $10mn to Alice for her shares."

the correct answer is

(a) "Alice has now $10mn in cash and Bob is now the sole owner of a company worth $10mn [their joint wealth is unchanged]".

If for some reason you are under the impression that

(b) "Alice has now $10mn in cash and Bob owns a company worth $20mn [the deal has created $10mn of added value]"

maybe you could try to explain your reasoning.
Strawman. Most mid-range ($700-1200) PC laptops are just fine nowadays.
That's a great example. Thank you
This sounds oddly like my experience with a blockchain startup for identity management…
What happens if there is a grandstanding region that simply refuses or can't get it passed into local law due to a euroskeptic local government?
The best programmers are the ones who can solve problems without writing a single line of code.
For most people outside universities, BBSes came first for all practical purposes.
If you don't live in Wyoming, why can you impose your idea of justice on them? It seems like a matter for Wyoming people to sort out.
From ‘open minded’ to ‘underwhelming,’ mixed reactions to Covid-19 origin report
At this point I’m convinced you are merely trolling, so I’m engaging no further.