skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I've just scanned over this stuff, maybe someone can fill in some gaps for me.

There's a list of DID methods "in development" [1]. Is this the list of methods, or is there a centralized registry, or are these just "known" methods?

If there's a centralized registry -- then this isn't really "decentralized" is it? On top of that there's a land-grab that's already begun for the method names, and isn't that going to kill the spec? com, nft, object, web, are already registered by private orgs.

But if it's not centralized, then it's not unique. What stops me from making my own "verifiable registry" [2] for eg `did:nft:internet` which cryptographically proves I own the internet? "Ceramic Network" (the owner of "nft" on the w3c site) says they own it in their registry .. but who's correct?

[1] https://w3c.github.io/did-spec-registries/#did-methods

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#dfn-verifiable-data-registry
I shouldn't be commenting this deep into flame but...

That's a demonization argument. If anything china-related is bad ipso facto, then I suppose discussion ends where it starts. What comes after "tyrannical, genocidal, geopolitical rival" in a sentence doesn't matter.

If talking IP/Patents... I think the american position is somewhat blind. Consider:

(1) Patents are a recent invention, not a longstanding or inevitable institution

(2) There are some decent (IMO) arguments for patents being bad in general, economically, technologically and morally.

(3) China has been forced to adopt this "western" patent system, under which it owns almost no patents. They play very loose with the rules, but they still exist within that legal framework.

The US' no. 1 priority in trade deals and foreign policy generally was and remains patent enforcement, US-like contract enforcement and other commercial law stuff... "Governance" is the categorical euphemism. The US is as serious about this stuff as China is about Taiwan. China, and almost every other country abides it, whether or not it's compatible with their interest, values, etc.

(4) Those American companies made those investments, and have enjoyed the returns. They knew the rules going in and chose to comply over decades. Are they US companies? Aren't they "global companies?" That's the approach the US itself has been evangelising for 40 years.

Is the "fair" scenario you imagine a world where US companies produce their products in china, without local technology transfers and spin off industries? That's total nonsense, and outside the (advisable) scope of a legal system to enforce. US companies take the lion's share of profits, offloading the high turnover, low margin sectors... Like the Apple/Foxconn thing. Well... everything has consequences.

You really imagine a world where china builds all the vacuum cleaners, but can't build vacuum cleaners by itself?
Device management becomes much more complicated when you have multiple OSes, though. Unless your company is small enough that self-management remains viable, you have to hire for both Windows and Mac administration experience, and/or shell out a pretty penny for cross-platform "enterprise" device management software.
>And Iran has been "6 months away from a nuclear bomb" for the past 50 years.

To be fair, that statement has always been "if Iran seriously tried to build a nuclear bomb, it'd take them roughly six months to do so."

That is probably fairly true, but they've constantly lied about how serious Iran has ever been about building a nuke while using the statement stoke fears.
I'm closing mine over this. Like any customer movement, enough disgruntled people just need to actually follow through.
Isn't there technology that can prevent this kind of replay attack? And shouldn't the maker of a $50,000 car take advantage of this kind of technology to protect their car buyers? This kind of article would make me much less likely to buy this car.
You know what the US also had in the 1800s? Slaves. Doesn’t justify for anyone else legalizing slaves in this day and age. That’s why whataboutism is a fallacy.
Past history is not a moral argument.
Taiwan calls itself China. The official name is literally the Republic of China. Both China and Taiwan agree that there is just one China, but disagree about what formal unification would or should look like.

Edit: The USA also agrees that there is one China, at least officially, though it’s not like the US doesn’t like to change its mind frequently.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Communiqué
This is the first of several cases, I think.

If he were to be charged with perjury, it might take a little while to prepare the indictment too.
Ask HN: Where to find good tech podcasts?
What podcast aggregators do you use to search for let's say cloud migration cast studies or other cloud related podcasts that are not from cloud service providers?
It does spot duplicates. I have submitted something and been immediately directed to an existing submission of the same story.

Presumably an exact URL match, and maybe within a timescale?
The ruling class gets to lie with impunity whenever they want

You seem to be parroting the exact thing that Alex Jones said in his video responding to the $4.2 million verdict. It's simple Whataboutism.

The fact is, people's children were murdered. He created and spread a conspiracy theory that the entire event was fake, and that the parents of the murdered children participated in the conspiracy.

He admits he was wrong. He admits he did harm to the parents. A jury found he was liable for $4.2 million in compensatory damages. We'll see what the punitive damages end up being soon.

In the meantime, talking about lies that other people have done doesn't take away from his reprehensible actions.
This is being posted just a day after this tweet: https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1555324387087097856

I really wonder what it's like inside Gitlab. The product ticks all the boxes you'd want it to, but the user experience just resonates with sadness and misery.
I'm no fan of Windows myself, but I find this a fairly bad policy.

If nothing else - what's not used is not tested. And if you expect any real population of users to be using Windows machines with your products, you should have developers/PMs/QA/support interacting with your products using Windows machines.

I see this as: We're saving a bit of money and making ITs life easier, and in exchange users will get a worse product.

Realistically - that's a bad trade. It is almost never the right decision to prioritize IT quality of life over basically any other business need.
Why Developers Need a Management Plane
Seems weird to harp on the cost of a windows license when they're buying Mac OS licenses instead (although hidden in the device's prie).
> He's just an alcohol-and-attention-fueled nut.

I know a bunch of these, including some in my family. None of them are capable of amassing even the fraction of following of the nut in question.

I am not in agreement with 'just' in that sentence.
> your lawn.

My self-control has kept me free from the dependencies that create the conditions for having a lawn or needing it mowed.

Edit: adding https://www.the-utopian.org/post/25567348762/aldous-huxleys-...
Damien Hirst plans to burn 4,851 physical works
Absolutely not. Machines and software that interrupt users are Kafkaesque torture devices. Hell is full of Clippies and microwaves that repeatedly beep for eternity.
Yes which require specialist gear.
$4M is a repercussion for spending years making up conspiracy theories and targetting the families of dead children. Also note that this is compensitory damages only, and hasn't even touch on punitive damagers yet.

It has nothing to do with his perjury.
I like this because once you decrypt you can have all the nice properties of integer keys, like ordering.
The risk of someone ripping off your idea, designs, etc. has always existed, exists now more than ever with the internet, yet it doesn’t seem to stop people with ideas from trying to take those ideas to fruition.

I’ve never talked to any rational person with an idea they were passionate about who said they weren’t interested in continuing with it because someone else might steal it.
That falls under "search engine is bad"
You wouldn’t use Home SKUs for enterprises anyway, if you want to apply any policy you need Pro/Enterprise. In the end it’s about GitLab dismissing an entire laptop over a $70 upgrade key, or $200 Pro license.
They are talking about the call centres
Who is claiming that the primary quality of this article is being "interesting"? Unsurprising evils must still be visible, and it is harmful to try to hide them under the pretense that they are not surprising.
This is pretty similar to the policy at my company: you get a Mac, unless you specifically request a Linux laptop. If you need Windows for testing, Microsoft makes VM images available with a browser pre-installed at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
A person isn't lying if they think they are telling the truth.
I am curious about the M1 max for the top performing configuration, wonder if there is a business need for it over an M1 pro with the same storage and memory. Especially since they are mentioning the few hundred dollars a windows pro licence would cost as a reason not to get windows laptops.
That it is black is not racism, there are real factors that make them bad areas. You are far more likely to be accidentally show in those areas (even though the good neighborhoods may contain as many guns, they are not used in those areas). You are far more likely to be assaulted.

Those are also the cheap areas, and black families tend to move there just because they are poor. Of course the gangs in the area thus can recruit young local black kids (not being a member of the local gang can be dangerous). It isn't racism though, it is just reality - one that is very hard to escape for black people.

There is racism in the US as well, a lot of the current problems are rooted in the historic racism.
It matters because people who take risk and innovate should be rewarded. When that fails, theres no point for anyone to take risks and release new products.
You are right.

I propose automatic de-dupe: whatever the title says, if the exact same URL has already been submitted, just count it as an upvote on the existing story... optional: if the submitted caption is different, then add a comment that says "also submitted by X with the caption `Y`."
Duplicate of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27098446
I know lots of family members in their twenties and teens who thought this was a joke Michael invented. I had to tell them it was lame and old even when the show first aired.
> Due to MacOs' dominance in GitLab, it is now most targetted by MacOs spyware, viruses, and ransomware who wish to steal corporate secrets.
There's no guarantee a cashier can actually handle processing sales without the computer to add things up. I can't remember the last time I saw a calculator or battery-backed adding machine for backup at a checkout. Assuming prices are even printed/stickered on the products.
Also often times there is some underlying mental illness that carries you there. A lot of people had "funny schitcks" persona for purpose of entertainment - look Stephen Colbert in Colbert report.

But even without strong psych knowledge you can clearly feel if this is a parody/pastiche of particular genre. Alex does not give this vibes. Feels like there is a meta-person luring the physical person into some dark stuff.
Yeah, that's the issue, the autospotter is not perfect. Maybe someone from HN could enlighten us.
It's how he became a media personality among right-wingers, make up the most outlandish and inflammatory things to get attention. Plato covered this in the Republic.
Gets even worse on mobile. Android supposedly lets you turn some types of notifications off, so unscrupulous companies put all their notifications, ranging from necessary to pure advertisement, under one type.

Looking at you, UberEats. The tradeoff for knowing my food is arriving should not be a business being able to interrupt my goddamn peace of mind at any hour it wishes.
He has quite a few other pending lawsuits, plus the jury can still find for punitive damages. But you are somewhat correct, filings show that he has spent $15M in legal fees, though his income is around $62M.
Oh, nicely done! :-)
Also faster iteration. Back in my mechanical engineering days, we'd design prototypes and then have to wait months for them to come in (of course they were built off-shore).

Doing it onshore was difficult (few could handle our requests, or they were exorbitantly expensive and couldn't scale, and terrible quality control.)

Thus we'd take a long, long time to work out design issues. A Chinese company can iterate much faster because of this.
Problem with Apple computers is their software. Hardware is great though.

Until it can run Linux smoothly it will be undesirable for me.
I didn't even realize this is why the feature didn't work anymore. I thought I was doing something wrong. It's terrible. I find text selection and cursor placement on the iPhone to be infuriatingly difficult. The trackpad feature made it sooo easy. It was world class. Now it is just... gone? With no alternative?
I’m definitely renting!
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are perjury charges on the way. Things like that take longer than we would like, but DA’s saw the same stuff we all saw.
Everyone knows Taiwan is its own country, the US et all merely engage in the "one china" pretense to keep the PRC happy.
I have anecdata. I worked for an European guy who was designing new (and at least in his mind) innovative hardware from scratch in the US. And getting it manufactured in China. The Chinese looked at him like he was insane because he was designing everything from scratch instead of cloning something.
It seems to me that this is (albeit in a somewhat convoluted way), "solving" one problem but opening a whole can of (cryptographic) worms on another.

Namely the biggest chestnut being the old classic of performing decryption on untrusted data. Since basic AES-128 is not an AEAD cipher, you are basically in the realms of trusting untrusted input.

Personally my preference would be to maintain UUID (or possibly KSUID-type implementations depending on application). And then if you need to partition/shard/whatever you do that by some other means (i.e. by or in conjunction with a different database column).
My $800 Asus monitor developed a faulty power supply, so I RMA'd it in original packaging. They refused the repair on the basis that the screen was cracked and sent me back a cracked screen. Unfortunately, my proof pictures weren't illuminated and in focus on the corner where Asus RMA cracked it, so I couldn't prove anything and was SOL. Ah well.
To be fair, they're probably going the israeli route and have 'turn key' nukes. No way they don't have enough highly enriched material for a bomb or two by now. It's just not in their interest to advertise it.
I'm less worried about what a Chinese surveillance device will do in my house than an Amazon one. Only the latter has the ability and history of turning over data to those who can arrest me.
I assume this is sarcasm. They are a public company with a multi billion dollar market cap.
Who has ever had respect for Marc? this is just another example in the long list of reasons he's a complete piece of shit
I really like ULID for this problem (e.g: https://github.com/ahawker/ulid)

- similar characteristics to UUID: same number of bytes, equivalent collision resistance, hard to guess, etc.

- start with a date, is monotonic, and is lexicographically sortable: not only it has great locality but sorting is super easy and most code get it right by default.

- can be created from an existing date or uuid, and exported to a uuid, so there is a migration path.

- you get the creation date for free, which is always nice. As a bonus, you can now use the uuid as a base for dispatching, bracketing, sharding, etc.
Concrete, coarse finish
This is kind of dated view [1]. The median position in Taiwan is something like "change nothing" (status quo). Essentially nobody wants reunification in any realistic manner.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/taiwan-china-politics-identity-inde...
High-impact vulnerability in DrayTek routers leaves thousands of SMEs open to
It would be great to have an OS where you had to enable "Disturb" mode to get notifications.
Nix is React for system configuration.
I'm not sure if this applies to nbb, but there's a command line flag for the node repl (`--experimental-repl-await`) which allows you to use await in the repl, allowing you to kind of sidestep the normal annoyance of handling promises.
Sorry for the late response. Actually there're some useful guides inside the repo's wiki (ugh I should have mentioned them in the first place).

I think you can start from here: https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages/wiki/Setup...
> early 8-Bits had rather poor BASIC documentation

Maybe in the US where the TRS-80 was sold but in Europe we had really good manuals with things like the Amstrad CPC.
See also https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa which is an image -> unicode library written in C. I built it into my BBS so users can embed images in their posts. Some turn out better than others but it gives the board a unique feel at least.
> Maybe in some sense this is in the same spirit of Calvin's serializing WAL first and executing it later

Yes, it is very similar in effect, with the absence of a global log conferring some important differences with pluses and minuses. I expect to offer interactive transactions eventually, for instance, which may or may not be difficult for Calvin, and faults on a “log shard” are isolated with Accord, but have global impact with Calvin. But snapshot queries are much easier with Calvin.
The pretext for banning Windows is comically bad. Paying extra for Mac hardware is perfectly fine (no, encouraged!), but paying $100 or so to upgrade Windows Home to Windows Professional is prohibitively expensive? That's such a joke.

I have no trouble with companies mandating one OS or the other. But when the justification for the policy is so bad it looks petty and ideological as opposed to the result of a level-headed cost/benefit analysis.
I haven't had problems with viruses, spyware and ransomware on Windows for years. Microsoft's builtin spyware marketed as telemetry and diagnostics otoh is very difficult to counter even with dedicated tools like O&O ShutUp10. I get why companies don't want to risk giving business secrets to Microsoft.
That’s a lie
That's fair. I blamed immutability when I should have blamed the implementation. Thanks for helping me realize my mistake. :)

Availability of packages is what makes or breaks a distribution, though. If I can't (easily) install the software I need to do my job, I choose a distribution that can. My home Ubuntu server isn't bringing me joy, so maybe now's a good time to give Nix another shot.

Fingers crossed for Nvidia driver support...
This is really awesome. It's literally a real-life version of what happens in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. :)

From the wiki page:
`Harry finds an old potions textbook, once belonging to "The Half-Blood Prince", an individual who wrote numerous spells and tips in the book. Harry, using the tips in the book, excels in Potions class, winning a bottle of Felix Felicis, or "Liquid Luck".`
A clone is legally and ethically equivalent to a twin brother. You’re creating a twin so you can harvest his organs.
The fact that the embryos are not currently viable long-term is a technicality.

Create new life. Label it other via technicality, harvest it for your own purposes.

Evil.
> It's simple Whataboutism.

No its not in this context because GP responded to a comment that said this will teach people about general principle of 'lying = bad'. GP responded with 'it won't because ..' .

Context here isn't alex jones at all. Its wether this a general teaching moment for 'people' about dangers of lying.
This is not actually that unusual; in fact, if I'm not misremembering, Google also does not generally allow Windows, aside from some limited, less privileged stuff.
Is that the US process? UK, I believe, is still a lot of good old fashioned carpenters and bricklayers on site. Mainland Europe is, I believe, further still into that corner. In Poland, use of timber is a bit novel, it used to be all concrete and bricks really not that long ago, and is still the majority.

I'm far from an expert though.
If there are no consequences for anything, the system is coming apart. There is a good goddamn reason why lying under oath, or even lying to investigators, is a crime, because truth is the bedrock of accountability. Truth is always the first victim of psychopaths.
It was satire. (And in my earlier comment I had the wrong George Kent)

https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/commentary/un-to...
I guess you are right, it looks even worse then... Where is that money even going.
The USA officially agrees - which is a critical qualifier when talking about political entities.
The USA, colloquially, is miles from agreeing.
NY has one of the lowest suicide rates in the country (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/... / https://khn.org/news/among-u-s-states-new-yorks-suicide-rate...), is on the lower side for homicides (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality...) (5.5 for NYC).

Same goes for drug overdose rates (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...), for which the state wide rate is skewed by more rural northern parts.

I spent a large part of my time in the more dangerous areas of NY (Jamaica, Bushwick in early 2000s, Harlem) and never felt really unsafe.
Most of the stuff I’m interested in isn’t going to appear in print in libraries unfortunately
I always wonder what truly unlimited free speech would mean. How is it possible that perjury would be a crime? Fraud - just free speech right? And if money is speech, then corruption is just free speech as well. It doesn't really feel like it breaks the system down, it's more like does/did the system even exist?
Many developers make commits that are “wip” with messages to match. Maybe you commit before you go to lunch, or when you go home for the day. These are useless commits and should be rebased or squashed, but many of these same devs won’t do that unless you force them or the tooling does it for them automatically. A minority of devs build a clean history of commits that tells a story, carefully crafted over time (usually manufactured after the fact with liberal use of rebase). For these devs squash is awful. Unfortunately they are truly a minority and the majority ruins things for them.
Yeah for sure. My impression though is that the perjury played a role in the decision here though...the opposing counsel definitely made a point of highlighting it over and over.
Something related that drives me batty is you can't long press notifications on the iPad. Like let's say you get a Reminders notification and you want to snooze it for 1 hour (don't get me started on how stupidly limited your snooze options are or the many other failings of Reminders). On the phone you just press and hold (used to be 3D touch) and the context menu comes up but this doesn't work on the iPad for no good reason. Neither device has 3D touch anymore, it's just a tap and hold but on the iPad the only way to bring up that menu is to swipe the notification down slightly and then the menu opens.

It makes me angry every single time I try to take an action on a notification on my iPad.
> And that ought to be a problem for the HN crowd because getting acquired by big tech is one of the primary exits available to interesting startups.

This statement bothers me and pretty much says "our product sucks but we're hoping to fool enough FAANGs to get bought out."
I don't doubt it's true for him. I'm expressing a doubt that it's indicative of the American landscape broadly, a claim which seems to be implied by his opening "had.".