skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the users of TC was an affiliate of the DPRK, was it not? So this isn't just about "transacting freely and privately without intermediaries". If you want to change sanction policy, might need to go down the policy route, I think.
On the flip side, why would you expect us to be equipped to observe more than 20% of matter give the narrow range of our vision and hearing?
Anything that doesn't interact strongly at our scale wouldn't be useful evolutionarily.
I can recommend PocketBook i recently got some cheaper Touch HD model. It simply does the job. It runs linux, it has several book sync options natively and you can instal KOreader on it easy.
What speech laws were in place in Weimar Germany? What was Hitler advocating for before he took power? Without that this isn't the evidence you say it is.

Lone wolf terrorists seems a better example. I assume you're referring to school shooters. The problem is that's an issue of the US, not of speech laws. To me it seems more like the psychology of people jumping off golden gate bridge.
The author falls into the same trap as many others who write about blockchains: “people will build centralized apps on top of the decentralized protocol, so there is no need for the decentralized protocol in the first place!”

A better way to understand blockchains is as a base settlement layer: they are a shared, permissionless and open source protocol that is resistant to takeover by a single entity.

What this means is that a company, like Meta or Coinbase or even a US bank, can build a centralized platform that lets users manage their crypto assets. But as long as users can still withdraw into a non custodial address, they have the option to escape to that neutral base layer.

This is a different design than what we see currently in the web and banking sector. You can hold ETH or an ENS domain with nothing but a private key. But with a .com domain, if you want to withdraw from GoDaddy, you will be forced to transfer that into another centralized service like Namecheap that will also extract rent. There is no “neutral base layer” with traditional digital assets.
99% of this difficulty goes away if Grandma uses her phone or tablets browser to download unlimited free books from zlibrary and reads them on the same device.

Honestly the grandma example is starting to feel dated. When I was born in 1980 a 50 year old grandma was born in 1930 and probably didn't own a TV until they were raising their own family.

The same 50 year old today was born in 1972 and would have been 5 when the Apple II hit the scene. At what point do we realize that eventually old folks will be those that only grew up with iphones and stop assuming that anyone with grey hear needs to be assumed to be technically incompetent.
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The American health care system before the 1960s. And also:

"How American Health Care Killed My Father"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...

compares the free market section of the health care system with the rest of it.
Yes, I agree that moderation is important and I think Big Tech companies are trying to do this job under difficult conditions. But someone said that they didn’t like private companies taking state responsibilities, and I’m wondering what the statist alternative would actually look like? Maybe that governments run their own social networks, similar to how they maintain public parks where people can gather? Not sure how it would work. People complaining about private companies doing the moderation don’t seem to be proposing alternatives to it.
Try https://colab.research.google.com/
I can recommend PocketBook.I recently got some cheaper Touch HD model. It simply does the job. It runs linux. It has several book sync options (including dropbox) out of the box. And you can instal KOreader on it easy which i recommend.
The free market produces goods and services at less cost for everything else, why would health care be any different?
Same as others said, i break it down into subprojects. Mine’s a game, and i realised that the trick is to make little reusable modules that will eventually integrate into the bigger project.
The DPRK is also known to use US dollar banknotes, gold, silver, etc. Should we ban those as well?
https://lobste.rs is one good alternative.
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For local storage just use Calibre and stop worrying about formats IMO.

Drag whatever into Calibre, press send to device, end of story.
Good writeup. It's amusing to me all the VCs and developers running around trying to find the "killer app" for blockchains, somehow not realizing that reinventing money is the most killer app possible.
Apparently, there are several kinds of PVC and only some of them are properly food safe. See more here https://www.howtoaquaponic.com/designs/is-pvc-food-safe/
So you think the yellow jacket movement were riots. Fine.

By the way, they did convince other they should be supported. Most strikes in my country start with 40 to 60% support (because we actually have political education), and after a day of CNN-like 24h hours news, by billionnaire-owned medias, you see a 10% drop in support. Easy to convince for some more than for others, right?

But anyway.

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>> I grind my teeth everytime I hear middle/upper class people complaining at boycotts and 'cancel '. What do you want from them?

>I want them to present their views, and attempt to convince others of the merits of those views.

>I don’t want them to use bullying, intimidation, authoritarianism, or violence to force others to adopt (or pretend to adopt) their viewpoint.

Yes, so convincing 1 to 5 percent of the population on social media and ask them to boycott a product or a brand is fine then? Exactly my point. Or do you think this is bullying (that would be rich tbh).

Like i said, if you actually said once "vote with your wallet", you don't get to whine about boycotts. I know hundreds of people who boycotted Total (or shell, i was a kid and doens't remember) after one supertanker shipwreck that polluted hundred of miles of coast, were you against this boycott too? Once everybody, including children spend hours cleaning beaches and trying to save birds, once the protests didn't even make national news anymore, and blocking the refinery was met with police force, what do you think they could have done? burn everything? Or boycott one of the dozen companies who who do the same thing anyway, no matter how inefficient that is? What were their options as "resilient adults"?

You see, i know most people complaining about cancel culture agree with boycotting when this doesn't really affect them or their political views. I have uncles who are so hypocritical about it, it mades me laugh to ask them "what should you do" because i love to make them sweat a little.
"You might think that you could devise an interferometer or other device which combines two beams in such a way as to cancel completely, without having observation points for which the wave crests align. In fact, I tried my best before writing this answer. I encourage you to try as well, but if you are careful to take everything into account, you will find it just isn't possible!"

Is there a video of someone attempting this? Is there a name for the experiment? It's been in the back of my mind for awhile and I'm still not sure what would happen.
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After finishing shapez.io (another open source game similar to Factorio) I went looking for more and stumbled upon this masterpiece that's been occupying my evenings for the past weeks - thought others would want to check it out too.
Notebooks, with the right workflow, are just fine, just use nbdev or equivalent.
It's not beanie babies, most of it is more like a ponzi scheme, which tend to be financial perpetual motion machines.
Hate to break it to you, but one of the users of Tor is probably also DPRK. That should not be reason to shut down a protocol.
Then they would become the inefficiency in the process
I will never forget the conversation I had with someone about competitive Excel.

Them: It's a real thing, I was watching on YouTube!

Me: I know, it's pretty awesome/hilarious.

Them: Yeah, and they treat it like a real e-sport!

Me: With announcers and everything!

Them: I know. "Helloooo sheeeetheads!"

Me: .......yeah that's a parody.
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As I said, it's slightly annoying, not a deal-breaker. It required me to change my wifi setup to be dual band (I'm in an apartment so lots of congestion on 2.4 ghz, and I don't need the extra range).
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After the long pause of production due to the IC shortage, finally, Hermes Lite 2 is back to re-production, and the group buy is already opened.
Nfts.com Bought for $15M [pdf]
I wouldn't say WKWebView is 'the old way', it isn't marked as deprecated and just because there's a new class that's easier to use doesn't mean they replace older classes that let you do more stuff. As you've found out, you've run into problems, but I have no idea why you would think not to use WKWebView if you can't do what you need.

That said, in general, never, ever use in app browsers for surfing the web. We use them for specific pages on our website that should interact back to the app, otherwise we tell the system to open the URL in the user's browser
Android is a chat app?

iMessage is nice but has far far fewer users than WhatsApp, WeChat, etc.
How is that different from the old default, which was MOBI?
> There are now open formats. Look up "GLTF" and "USD" formats.

We had fbx for decades, only difference is that it wasn't open source. Even better USD is an art format, nearly every concept it supports is for art direction, comparison of various designs, hiding of details that may get in the way of some modellers work. It isn't dynamic, it doesn't even have the concept of level of detail, so it will render a 10 million poly model even if all you see is a three pixel wide spot on the screen.
Hey HN

I've been working on Mailisk - an easy email testing tool that lets you receive emails with code. It's built for developers and QA teams, it lets you automate email signup flows, email verifications and test email delivery and spam scores.
Or as paraphrased by Jeff Atwood:

There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Worked fine if you enlarged the font. You ended up with 1/4 or lesss of a page on screen at one time, but who cared. Weeks worth of reading in your pocket!
Wasn't podman mostly C at some point? Did they rewrite it in Go?
I'll probably be downvoted because this is stupid but I was wondering the other day whether Japan will be the first country to start factory breeding of humans, Brave New World style. If there was ever a candidate for it, Japan is certainly it.
Fair enough on the intermediate step possibility. However, it is often sold more like a return to simpler lifestyles for forever - or maybe the proponents I encountered just happen to lean that way.

As far as dire scenarios are concerned, I struggle with them as usually the realities play out differently. Arguably in part because people do consider such scenarios.
Apart from c, lua is my favourite language. c + lua is the perfect combination and I have developed a lua-based build system using them. https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake
I sympathize with the OP. Particularly this part:

> A typical piece of advice I receive is that there comes the point where you need to "give in," especially to people in authority. This preserves peace in the workplace and helps with promotions. However, "giving in" is not the same as acknowledging when you are wrong: it is simply playing mind games—games I am not interested in playing.

> There is more to life: I am an engineer; I like solving problems. I embrace fairness and open intellectual exchange. This matters to me a whole lot more than getting promoted. Plus, "giving in" does not preserve peace—it simply appeases bullies and makes the workplace toxic.

I've repeatedly been in situations where a person in authority proposed a bad idea, and I tried to push for a better alternative, but I was told I should "give in" to preserve the peace. So I believe the OP.

In these comments, a lot of people are advising the OP to learn better soft skills. The implied reason boils down to "Most people are allistic, so allistic people make the world's implicit rules. If an autistic person doesn't learn to play by those rules, they're going to lose." For example, allistic people tend to respect hierarchies, so there's a "rule" that OP should "give in" to the person in authority.

I think this advice is correct for the individual; learning better soft skills is the only thing OP can personally do.

But, it makes the organization as a whole more dysfunctional. If a person in authority is wrong, then if the "rule" is that OP should give in, then the person in authority will continue to be wrong, and that's bad for the organization! I believe the organization can do better. The "rules" are not set in stone; although they arise from human nature, they are shaped by an organization's culture. For example, many small organizations are less hierarchical, so the "rules" would tend to put more pressure on the person in authority to listen to what OP was saying. If OP was actually right, that would lead to a better result for the organization than if OP gave in.
What I find fascinating about this project is it’s longevity. It was started in 1995, a year before Civ II came out. I remember playing it in 2000. And here it is still going. Development is pretty active and there is even a 3D mode.
Removing support for a file format must be one of the dumbest things you can do in software. Congratulations!
Absolutely - and Carsten kind of worked / works in this space.
We cannot simulate evolution of galaxies using equations of General Relativity. So at best the simulations are done using Newton mechanics with minimal corrections like accounting for finite speed of light. And often it is not even done using Newton mechanics per see, but numerical models use artificial constrains like a minimal distance between stars to avoid dealing with numerical instabilities.

Yet there is no proof that such simplifications or constrains are valid on the scale of a typical galaxy. Moreover, when people managed to use full equations of General Relativity, then it was possible to account the effects previously thought to require the dark matter hypothesis.

So until it is mathematically proven that the current simulations are valid approximations, I will remain very skeptical about the dark matter.
You're presenting it as if Kobo doesn't have its own store. It does: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebooks

You can access it via Kobo e-reader, same as accessing Amazon's store on a Kindle. Somewhat more limited selection, but both contain Big Five publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster) that own hundreds if not thousands of imprints.

Calibre/OPDS server/custom software (like koreader) are an added bonus for the techies, but it's absolutely not a requirement. If your requirement is ease-of-use, there's no difference. If your requirement is a hacker-friendly device, you can do it on both, but it's in my experience somewhat easier to do on a Kobo.
What you call change is the concept impermanence in buddhism. You had an insight into impermanence.
> I think the natural end point for heavily worn clothes would be as a rag?

This is what I do, but I read somewhere that old clothes make bad rags due to losing texture over the years of use and washing and especially fabric conditioner making clothes progressively less water absorbent.
The ridiculous pricing of ebooks on Amazon in the last few years has forced me to alternate sources. I'm not interested in paying through the nose for something that's far cheaper to distribute than a printed book. In today's market Kindle doesn't offer any value proposition.
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That is of course until the laws change and what you formally considered a fundamental right becomes an act of terrorism.
>Start with the smallest working example —it doesn’t matter where this comes from, it could be a website, blog, the documentation for the technology, a friend or coworker, it could be from anywhere. This is your basic working example. It’s the baseline for building further knowledge.

This is the main idea behind over 400+ micro samples I created for ASP.NET Core https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore
I imagine serious cyclists also carry spare spokes, spare brake pads, spare derailleur hangers, spare bearings, spare cables, spare tyres, lubricant, assembly grease, spare batteries, spanner for truing bent components, hydraulic fluid (if using disc brakes), spare helmet in event of crash, etc.

The worst mechanical I ever had was a rear derailleur which deformed under load and pulled into wheel. I have never heard of anyone carrying a complete spare derailleur unless on a round the world trip.
Assuming you are allowed to transfer into the base layer. Most currencies and finance have a similar decentralized base layer: Cash. However in many jurisdictions your ability to transfer into that base layer is severely restricted due to money laundering, anti-terror-financing and / or currency-control regulation.
> This is of course factually true true

If it's factually true, it's not testing ideology.

> but it seems much more likely to test ideology than scientific knowledge, in part because of how it is phrased

Is there anyone credible who disagrees with the statement here?

I think a bigger issue is that it may be testing not knowledge but careful, critical reading. I can score well on this test, but my flippant quick answers are not very accurate. I am not surprised those that are worse at critical reading might be more likely to have anti-consensus views.

> My personal hypothesis would be that extreme views tend to be associated with high confidence and relatively low knowledge.

That doesn't seem to be the case here; while we don't know the "1" full agreement results, the rest seems to be a pretty dang linear trend line.
If you are equating 'hedonism' and 'living in the moment' then we have a language issue. Which is understandable as our language for such concepts and our language for mental states in general is not very well defined. My interpretation of hedonism is seeking pleasure for pleasures sake. Pleasure is the end goal and the more that is experienced the better!

Living in the moment is a stated goal of many contemplative disciplines including ones that explicitly eschew any hedonistic tendencies by practicing some flavour of asceticism.

Actually an argument could be made that hedonism can lead you astray from the present moment as your yearnings and desires increase for more and more pleasure the more you try and satiate these desires which usually entails some yearning for some pleasure experience in the future.

Living in the moment it seems is closer to the bullseye in terms of ones ability to experience well being. Hedonism just breeds further desire which by definition gives rise to what Buddhists termed Dukkha which is often poorly translated as 'suffering' but a more apt word would be 'dissatisfaction' (1)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha
No he paid it twice, so it’s feet
I've did a bit of reverse searching. They've used Go all the time[1]

[1](https://github.com/containers/podman/tree/3d0100bb44834d079a...)
Why give the DPRK an extra tool? Is the value of TC to society so high? If the value of TOR for society became negative, for example, why not shut it down?

Edit: Happy to see the case made for why TC or similar should be there given the externalities. Maybe it is a good case, but I have not seen it.
Well so what ? Hes acknowledging the problem and plan to fix it. Isnt that the kind of responsability taking you are precisely asking for ?
> But as long as users can still withdraw into a non custodial address, they have the option to escape to that neutral base layer.

Using blockchains for money is just about the most absurd solution a society can come up to the problems of financial centralization. Money is a form of power and the solutions to power problems are always political.

We need a financial system that protects individual privacy while reducing the options for money laundering, tax evasion, bribes, fraud and all the types of crimes motivated by money. There is a inherent contradiction in these requirements, the hope that a private actor or some non-accountable peer to peer algorithm can find a good political compromise is an ideological pipe dream.
There are.

There are however extremely few use cases for an immutable distributed ledger, which is sadly the other property blockchains have.

There are simply too many cases when there are legal requirements to be able to delete data. DMCA, GDPR, Right-to-be-forgotten, anti-terror-laws, anti-libel laws, and so on.
I think we actual try the stymie that at least - but I could be wrong. Why give them new tools?
Isn’t this an argument for blockchains? If you could rely on blockchains instead of trusting based on past cooperation, you could save money and thus add more value. Obviously blockchains have a cost, but in some cases the cost savings you could achieve may outweigh that.
> - Will switching to React make hiring and training future developers easier?

> - Will this technology choice make future projects faster to develop? (For example, do we get wins from a better toolchain, etc.)

> - Will this be an interesting project that helps me keep existing employees motivated?

> - Are the other claimed wins in the blog post actually going to work out that way?

But... These are (or can be framed as) concrete problems.

> - Do my existing programmers have the necessary skills to test this technology out?

If you can't produce a single concrete reason why to try a new framework, why should I discuss about testing it?

(this as someone who may be on the spectrum and for whom the original article hit a bit too close..)
Back in the early 90s I worked for a Mac company that made graphics cards for the publishing industry - color correction was a big deal (print magazines have/had 'white rooms' rooms with known color temperature where they looked at photos).

Marketing really wanted a game winning solution. One thing I learned - no two sets of eyes are the same - at an extreme 10% of the male population are red-green color blind but in reality we're just not all the same - there is just no perfect color matching solution
Hyperledger can offer a chain of authenticated data ownership transfers, and has several use-cases outside the classical database approaches.

It does however solve key logistics issues with distributed inventory ownership transfer involving 3rd parties. For example, Walmart has successfully deployed a blockchain system, and reported good performance of the technology under high-volume stress.

This is one of those edge cases most will never encounter unless they are handling millions of transactions an hour. It's a good problem to have though... =)
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A grandma might be pushing it, but my SO learned how to use Calibre and she isn't very tech-savvy.

Also, Amazon isn't as easy as it sounds - I used it a few times and found it quite confusing to get it on my Kindle after purchasing on Amazon. And its a nightmare as I moved country and would prefer to purchase a larger selection of ebooks in English from my home country etc. but I have a separate Amazon account and stuff.. that was even more confusing.