skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We and a group of partners run a restaurant together. One day you decide to turn it into an apothecary for the dispensation of poisons, and keep the name and pretend that it's still a restaurant.

Any mechanism which rubber stamps the above process as legitimate and collects a fee for doing so is corrupt, letalone over the objections of an enormous fragment of both customers and partners in the restaurant in question. Lack of objection or approval from those whom the change is in the interests of, or who are simply too ignorant to understand what is going on, don't change that.

That is effectively what happened with BTC.

The way that it was supposed to work would be that the hashpower would choose the canonical tip of the chain if there were two conflicting ideas about what the chain should actually be. BCH stuck to that ideal and through two contentious and many more peaceable forks proceeded according to it. BTC did not.
> It is the only geopolitically disputed area on earth in which both parties state “Nah, this is not mine, it’s yours!”.

I thought this was the same for Liberland, but apparently it was Croatia asserting that Serbia owns Siga, while Serbia makes no claim.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
Is there something about P2s that prevents the number of them from multiplying out of control?

A persistent theme I see with Confluence is that data just keeps getting added into Confluence, but without any organization or structure. It effectively becomes a "write only" structure - data goes in, but doesn't come out.

This line from the post jumped out at me:

"It’s organized much like a Yammer or Facebook stream, but on the back end it still operates like a blog, allowing for archiving, advanced search, and rich media embeds."

Does advanced search help P2s retain their discoverability? Does that make it easier to find relevant P2s?
For managed products, upgrades are often automatic and there is almost no maintenance that needs to be done. At least that is my impression when running stuff in GCP. For example:

* CloudSQL Postgres, automatic minor/patch upgrades, they working on seamless major upgrades.
Automatic disk increase. You would only need to make sure that you have enough resources in terms of CPU/Memory.
* PubSub, no maintenance or updates required.

It is more work to keep java and the related dependencies up to date. We use renovatebot to help us automate things like that.

In my experience it is very easy to change and setup the managed products, I declare them in code using terraform and then I don't have to do much at all. This is what is so awesome with the cloud managed products.

If you are trying to be cloud agnostic, then you are just treating the cloud as another datacenter, and then you don't really get any of the benefits of using cloud specific managed products. Then you need a professional to keep maintaining your infrastructure.
Zero-waste single-pass packing of power-of-two textures
Man, can I relate to that! Not wanting to smoke was hard but being out of the loop because I wasn't in the smoker's area during breaks was harder. It made me re-think about quitting more than once, sometimes I buckled and said 'just one more box'.

Maybe that's a reason why people have trouble quitting, can you imagine that?
Brute approach (This doesn't account for whether a checkbox is checked or not so I don't actually know if the game prevents everything getting checked programmatically all at once. I had to set the setTimeout to "2" instead of "1" so it would actually record some time!):

document.querySelector('.readyButton').click();
waitForStart();

function waitForStart() {
if (document.querySelector('.setGo').classList.value.includes("going")) {
for(x=0; x<document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]').length; x++) { document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]')[x].click(); }
}
else { setTimeout(waitForStart, 2); }
}
That was Solend, not Solana. The concern was just that a liquidation of that scale would significantly move the market.
Nothing would be gained with that
Linus did a video on how much money they make from youtube premium/ads and the numbers can get as high as $50k-$100k/video for their most popular streams. It's not nothing. Floatplane is profitable because it's a subscription based system, and that's where the money always is. Hence patreon.
I prefer YAML to JSON for our infra. I know some people do not like the whitespace.

What do you prefer?
Kind of like minesweeper, but without the strategy part?

Because once a minesweeper addict has reached a certain base level of skill, the strategy part stops to be about where the mines are, it becomes all about reordering the click queue for speed. (don't ask me how I know)
I consider myself a hardcore Amiga fan but I agree with you!

Even if Commodore hadn't killed the company through bad management alone they never would've survived selling computers with Workbench.

By the end they were selling machines that could pump out higher resolutions than before but still shipping them with fonts & a UI designed to look good on crappy television sets
> Prevent the DOM from being manipulated externally (i.e. extensions) to guarantee that the DOM always matches the EditorState. [1]

Can you talk a bit more about how this is achieved? Is it DOM obfuscation?

[1] https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/differences-between-prosem...
Hopefully you forgot to exclude 3sec timeout from that
> Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes?

No, just the ones that were linked to u/maxwellhill, the lead moderator of r/worldnews, r/politics, and r/technology:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-M...
You seem to be having a lot of trouble grasping the concept of abstraction, which is absolutely fundamental to what we are talking about. Mathematics, logic and computer science study abstractions, they do not study physical things. The mathematical fact that 1 + 1 = 2 is true regardless of whether we are counting apples or oranges. On the other hand 5 + 5 = 30 pounds is mathematically a non-sensical statement, even though there are physical objects for which it is true (ie. objects which happen to weigh 3 pounds).

Computation is not a physical process any more than addition is a physical process. It is true that to actually perform either a physical instantiation is necessary but in the same way that the results of addition do not depend on what we are adding the results of computation do not depend on what kind of physical process we use to perform the computation.

This was the whole point of my earlier water based computer example. Would it be correct, on the basis of that example, to say that the program "makes you wet" or that some computations make you wet ? No, such a statement would be as non-sensical as the statement that 5 + 5 = 30 pounds.

Now the key thing is that when people make claims about computers being conscious those claims are usually based on what some program does (ie. what its inputs and outputs are), in other words a computational property of the program that would be the same regardless of what kind of computer it was executed on. The guy who claimed that LaMDA was conscious wasn't basing his claim on something specific about the kind of hardware it was running on, he was basing it on the program's inputs and outputs, which are indeed a computational property and therefore abstract.
I've been using AirVPN for many years now and is has always been reliable and fast for me. Recently they introduced Wireguard support.
Hash power in the context of potential forks in the BTC chain, not a different coin.
Stjepan Sejic is a very good artist / storyteller and his work with the majors and his other independent projects are amazing. Death Vigil is amazing.
Thats not the point. China controls it much more so that they have to make the algo addictive different.

Instead of promoting sex, they need to show helpfull videos (in theory)
Just an interesting curiosity I stumbled across, after watching Craig Federighi talk at Berkeley Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43sjym5ZS68

He discussed how he took 2 years out from management to go back to his roots as a software engineer. It looks like he worked on the Java-based AribaWeb framework.

I always respected Craig as a presenter, but more so now, having seen some of his real-world contributions to a defunct 10-year-old web application framework :)
> This includes in-transit encryption with TLS […]

Will EFS be updated to use the NFS-TLS RFC once it settles down some?

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpc-t...
By this definition, the current financial system is also decentralised. After all, if one bank fails, a new bank could very easily take its place. Even our system of central banks consists of a relatively large number of more or less equal peers. If the US central bank fails, I'm sure "the economy" will be more than happy to change things up radically and reassign some of the global influence on the financial system that the fed currently has to competing nations' central banks.
Just a little farther back, however, and things ease again to audio tape technology. I’m still able to use my TRS-80 CoCo today because it used audio. I’ve adapted a cable to my digital audio recorder.

It was built in about 1984 and it still works. It’s rather difficult to use compared to modern computers though.
> I kinda feel like VR is still in the "Should I get an Amiga? Or an Atari? Or a TRS80? Or a ZX81? Or an Apple II?" stage.

Exactly, we are still in early days for VR. Many of the annoying things will get better.
You could naively block certain domains, authors and keywords. However it's incredibly difficult to determine if a piece of media has political motivation without interpreting the entire text.

Politics also overlaps with morality, philosophy, society, ethics... so having a stance or discussing any issue could be viewed as politically motivated content.

Persuasive writing is especially political. As the author defines their stance on a topic, they will inevitably leak their political beliefs in their expression...
The real question is why they had o-rings. Because it was built in parts.

Why was it built in parts? Because it was built in Utah.
The risk wouldn't be someone deliberately targetting you: the risk would be someone deciding that this is an excellent vector to gain backdoor root access on many random machines.
I got 0.087 with firefox but subsequent tries are all in the 0.3-0.8 range.
NFS can be...interesting to configure. Most of your enterprise storage systems support it (as well as the smaller stuff like Synology) and there's all kinds of 'but what about if we need to...'

https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/storag...
> A Times investigation analyzing over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens is more expansive and invasive than previously known.

A country that cares about its people, that data could be used to train models and advance medical research to insane levels

This with stem cells advances, i think it is safe to assume that the next generations of chinese babies could be immune to most diseases and potentially smarter

The natural way of procreating, not only is dangerous, but will be a thing of the past!

What a time to be alive! (what the west is doing?, still debating about how companies can make money off of people's biological data?)
Still down, here.
At this point it's easier to solve aerodynamic drag than it is to continue making hardware slimmer.
They do that so you're screwed later on without them when that first bit of money starts to run out and boom they own your company
There's also https://i.reddit.com/ for mobile devices.
I just run Firefox on my iPhone, could just suggest that on the tumblr landing page?
The fact that your uncle is not "looking for web3" does not mean that other people are not using it.

And, fiy, I was born and raised in Brazil.

> My instinct tells me

Your instinct is wrong. I can not do anything about that.
Right but someone has to host it though, otherwise your blockchain ceases to exist doesn't it?
I sometimes wonder if shutting down a website [say] with exception of Mondays or between 22:00 and 8:00 would add to the experience.
While it's great that we've started to standardize across architectures on a firmware for servers and workstations, I really wish it hadn't been UEFI. It's well documented, but in my (admittedly limited) experience, a pain to program for with one of the ugliest APIs I've ever used.
Seeing your surroundings generally wont be an issue as most VR rigs have external cameras. It’s that the software for such “augmented reality” isn’t there yet - the cameras today are mostly for boundary/guardian setting.
True, but notice how I said personal computing and not computing in general. There's no denying that much of the scientific advances today would be impossible without computers in research facilities and/or universities.
I 100% agree about Facebook being too powerful.

I basically have to use their products and in the case of WhatsApp, my experience is degraded unless I share my full contacts list with them (not going to happen) just to have a decent user experience. Friends names showing up...

Could go on about how I need to use Instagram for various reasons too...
You know you've got the right equity split when everybody thinks it's fair and the team can focus 100% on execution. Factors can be time spent on the project, experience, who "owns" what, connections, etc... But in the end, if you have to discuss this topic too much with someone, you know it's not going to work. If the Co-Founders cannot easily come to the same result, their mindset doesn't align well enough, which can be a risk for the whole operation. So, I'd advise against haggling too much, for both sides. Also, I'd suggest to discuss this topic very early on. Don't waste time if you don't know their expectations are in the same ballpark as yours. If you get the right people to commit helping you, I'd rather give them more equity, when the other option is to keep doing this on my own forever. Ideally, you can all "start" at the same time and split equity equally, but the reality is that you don't have all the stars aligned on day one.
Kind of off topic from the article, but here’s another scenario to add to the AI Risk conversation:

Sentience (along with consciousness, sapience, and qualia) turns out to be undefinable woo, leading to a declaration that AI is not sentient and neither are humans, and so rather than treating machines like people, we end up treating people like machines.

Yeah, yeah, we already do treat people like machines etc. etc., but we risk further dehumanization if we decide the human mind is nothing special after all.
Assuming that really anyone can become a provider in 20 minutes as the website states and there is no KYC whatsoever, this is ridiculously insecure.
Blackbird: A reference architecture for local-first connected mobile apps
Getting Started with ONDC
AR3038: A giant sunspot that has doubled in size in only 24 hours
In July 2016, we created a simple spreadsheet [1] comparing different blockchains and security state of the art at that time [2]. There are things to review there but the theoretical attack to Bitcoin was relatively low for state actors and miners. Miners are not incentivized to do this or do it only as the latest option.

It is also important to know that new blockchain technologies such as Solana, Algorand, Avalanche don't have enough scientific peer reviews to make a strong claim in favor or against them now.

[1] https://blog.coinfabrik.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Block...

[2] https://blog.coinfabrik.com/cryptocurrency/overview-of-block...
Yeah right, what about when I'm an unwilling participating, being tracked because I visit a web page with a Facebook pixel on it?

Give me a break please...
My objection to the article is that it is simply two guys bullshitting about what might be the case instead of a story of trials and results.
Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos
Yes. HN works well with one dual socket server (2 x 4)

A new server could have 4 × 64.

Also, to distribute the load you can use an ‘A’ DNS record per server:

https://blog.uidrafter.com/freebsd-jails-network-setup
Agree. https://www.tweakers.net rocks !

Also, to use Amazon I search for the 1/2/3-star reviews and see if I disagree with the given reason for the low review. If I disagree, I will contemplate buying the product.
NFS over TLS:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpc-t...
Why isn’t the more common solution to senior management imposter syndrome to capitulate to your ignorance and humbly speak with those at the lower rungs?
Sure, not Challenger, but what do you think an SRB is in itself?

There is no rocket motor on an SRB. It's a giant firework. The whole SRB was Morton-Thiokoi if I'm not mistaken

And when it lights up, the shuttle is flying. No ifs, and or buts (or holding bolts).
Older Macs had a tight hardware-software integration, to the point of fuzzying RAM/ROM/HD/PRAM and System/firmware boundaries. User level routines where stored in the ROM, for example, and there was no real kernel to speak about.

I think Apple is coming back to that vey confusing model now with M1 macs needing their internal SSD to boot (effectively a part of the firmware) but a million times more complicated because of sheer code size and a giant security model
Several have already attempted that. All hail Princess Emily of the Kingdom of North Sudan. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2014/jul/...

Or is that the Kingdom of the State of Bir Tawil? https://birtawilgov.weebly.com/

Or perhaps the The Emirate of Bir Tawil? https://emirateofbirtawil.blogspot.com/

Or the Grand Dukedom of Bir-Tawil? http://www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Micro-Nations/Grand_Duke...

The Emerite of Bir Tawil - https://www.prlog.org/11294860-emirate-of-bir-tawil-is-forme...

The Confederated Empire of Bir Tawil and Territories - https://www.facebook.com/The-Confederated-Empire-of-Bir-Tawi...

The United Lunar Emirates - https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/accept-united-lunar-emir...

Whatever you do, watch out for bandits.
Wirecutter was great when it was independently owned. Since it was bought by NYT it doesn’t seem as neutral. They conveniently seem to favor products sold by Amazon or Walmart where they can get referral fees.
If I Get Canceled, Let Them Eat Me Alive
Deleted my account when 5G hysteria came to town. I’d rather stick with waves and good mornings, and not know what my neighbors are thinking.
Archived: https://archive.ph/x7x3V
Things to Consider While Developing a Fitness App
In my experience (and the industry I'm in), requiring identity verification upon withdrawal is an anti-money laundering measure, and often one required by legislation rather than company policy.
I'm using "What", "Why" and "How" here as defined in the article.

Problem with documenting in the code itself: The "Why" is further from the code than the "What", and the "How" is further away still.

Explaining "What" a function does is close to the code, I just put some comment lines before the function/type, etc. and maybe some into the definition. They are just to make the code better readable for the human.

But where do I put the "Why"? I could put it with the "What", but often the "Why" depends on somewhere completely different in my code (or someone elses code). eg. "Why am I using a map here instead of a list? Because the remote API expexts a JSON object and the map is easier to Marshal into that".

But what if the remote API changes? Okay, I change the code that deals with it, and update the comments for that code. Do I also change the comments everywhere else where this map is used? For that matter, is it explained anywhere else in the code why that is a map instead of a list? The "What" says "this code iterates through the maps values and appends an underscore to each", but is the "Why", which explains why that is a map there as well? In every function that works on that map?

My point is, not only is it difficult to explain everything in the code, it's also very very difficult to keep this documentation up to date, because the relationship between a comments location, and the code it belongs to, becomes more complicated the further up we go from the "What".
>Two engines were excluded from this list for having a far-right focus.

Does this mean like extremist terrorism or regular right wing stuff? Would be interesting to see.
Probably because I am old and it has been inevitable at this point for nearly my entire life.

The fundamental flaw IMO is that VR always over promises and under delivers.

Meta will make VR indistinguishable from reality but of course we don't mean smell as part of reality.

Indistinguishable from reality but of course we are not talking about going under water, feeling water as being wet and feeling like you are floating in water.

Indistinguishable from reality but of course we don't mean a virtual massage parlor that someone could touch your back and it feels like your back is being touch.

We mean we are going to make the tech equivalent jump from a 15 inch CRT monitor to a 27 inch nice LCD monitor and pretend VR is now indistinguishable from reality because that is what the Emperor wants and the Emperor signs my checks.

To me, you either need a full body suit, disregard smell and then stand on an underwater treadmill with a motorcycle helmet on or it is all a waste of time until we have a good brain computer interface.
Korifi – Makes K8s easy to use
There is a big movement starting in the Linux project to get kernel modules written in Rust now.
I see the lack of runtime parsing as a security feature.
There was a YT preso from several years back where the StackExchange founder explained how it ran off just ~10 servers, and could run on half that many if needed. He stressed the simplicity of their arch, and that their problem space was massively cachable, so the servers just had a few hundred GB of ram, and only had to do work to rerender pages, but could store them in cache most of the time. It was a C#.Net app.

So, I think there is a lot more in common than you think between HN and SO.
> I see you in the thread, so does a consulting company with a massive Data Science arm is of any interest to you ? :)

ha, maybe! You have my email.
Private equity groups that buy companies they own
You might ask what sort of filesystem maintenance they ever need to do. Replacing a disk is covered by the mirror. Backup is straightforward. The second system covers a lot more. If they need to increase hardware capacity, they can build new systems, copy in the background, and swap over with a few minutes of downtime.
Really liked the post! I really admire the attitude & intention that's there – at least from an outside perspective it seems like you've made the most of the experience and sort of had fun with it. Hope to take some inspiration from that.
Sorry, I should have clarified what part I was replying to. I was asking about the choice of detergent. You say it must be a wool detergent with lanolin while they say it doesn't matter.

I'd like to follow this up with the store too if you convince me that the detergent matters.

I appreciate your response.
SpanFinder a new experimental component that identifies span boundaries
You can do an in-kind transfer to move the assets over to a new firm without having to sell first. Definitely works for cash, stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. Not sure what else you can do it for
This list gets a lot more pertinent in a few years, or at least closer to what people see as rock vs. pop or other genres. Jagger, Richards, Davies, Daultey, possibly Townsend are sitting at 78. The problem with true rockers is their high mileage.