skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, I often wonder why cities don’t promote local telecommuting over building expensive public transportation infrastructure. Building one kilometre of subway costs anywhere from around $100 million to $1.6 billion (https://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/events/how-much-does-it-cost...), and then requires subsidies to run. Why not use this money to provide incentives for people to telecommute?

And while some might say, “but then people who rely on public transit for things other than commuting to work would be hurt,” note that most public transit currently doesn’t serve those people well because it’s focused on work-related commuting patterns. Example: https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/01/public-transit-service....
I miss the days of mystery and adventure as a child, of being totally disconnected and unfindable, and lost without fear.
You see the huge problem we from journalism have when even in a place like HN people can't discern between reporting and opinion on the news. Levine is terrific, but he isn't a reporter. His job as columnist is to give context and his opinion on subjects he's an expert on, not to report events.

Most people can't tell the differences between a reporter and an editor or a columnist. They are, like the parent commenter, ignorants on this matter. And yet they complain vigorously about something they don't even comprehend. It's fascinating if not terrifying.
> we risk creating more isolated echo chambers

Isolated echo chambers may be an improvement, overall.

What's toxic about flat social spaces is that conversations gets reduced to fights between the most vocal, thoughtless, or aggressive holders of opinion X and !X. And this influences the acceptable modes of social behavior. It leaks to real life and institutions. It is corrosive.

First assumption made is that echo chambers do not exist in twitter. This seems to be based on a somewhat patronizing view of humanity that excludes the possibility of willful affinity and choice by the individual, and posits an environmental basis for opinion formation. You can easily dissuade yourself of this by picking a hot divisive topic, choose your side, and follow tweets. You will be in an echo chamber on Twitter.

So I propose we consider the two distinct goals that seem to get conflated in these discussions:

Goal 1: promote uniformity of acceptable opinion du jour.

Goal 2: prevent the poisoning of general social norms, discourse, and institutions by the ideological warfare on social networks.

The latter goal 2 appeals to my sensibilities. And post Elon acquisition, most seem to be lamenting the loss of political control over Twitter (goal 1).
is asthma correlated with ADHD ?
APIs are not copyrightable (Oracle vs Google). However, the code that interacts with an API might be.

Regardless, it is interesting to think about what domains are easier to generate effective models for. I would expect it to be easier to generate a supervised model <test description> => <test code>. My intuition is also, that it is easier to generate React component code, and harder to generate feature code.
Read tbray's article looking for QLDB. There were keywords along the way suggesting the possibility, but it didn't get there.

As a NYC financial services CTO, a few years back I spoke to Jassy personally, asking him to please not make 'traditional' blockchain nonsense, but to please productize and release a distributed ledger primitive. A few weeks later, AWS got back to us and said they were willing to work on such a thing, and a few groups (perhaps such as yours) jumped on as well. In our case, we were looking to use it to help manage multiparty contracts where we as a bank were trusted by the multiple parties who didn't need to trust each other.

When AWS did eventually* announce AWS Blockchain at re:Invent, they announced QLDB alongside. One was what everyone was begging for, one was useful. I'll leave which is which as an exercise for the reader. :-)

TL;DR:

I encourage anyone serious about solving financial services problems where blockchain comes up to look at QLDB instead, but also anyone looking at security, compliance attestation, or other multi-party trust or regtech related problems.

* Note: "eventually" as in, quite late to the blockchain hype party, and dragged kicking and screaming by the sales org, as tbray describes, so that at least they'd stay in the room with "big IT" signing up for IBMs hyperledger and other failed experiments.
What if both actions are equally valid? What does UI/UX theory say about that? Honest question here. I see how having two primary buttons would look ugly, but inducing the user to pick the choice they didn't want (because they were just pressing next and didn't stop to read the "skip" button in the small print) seems even worse UX to me.
I can find this watch by googling "pro trek". At first I thought it's just because that's the name of a series and not a watch, but I can't even find that watch in that series. What am I doing wrong?
You might want to take a look at descheduler: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/descheduler
Cool!

Seems like a proof-of-concept that an online platform for many old DOS games can be implemented... Guess I have a new project to add to my (very long) to-do list :)
With of course the irony that it will almost guarantee they don't get that.
What does that bring on top of TLS?

If you want to check whether an article ever appeared (even if it's no longer there), then something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency would be enough.

No that's not a blockchain, at least not for a useful definition of blockchain (see https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...).
> Weak institutions, corrupt legal systems, and low levels of trust undermine development and prevent people from building and maintaining wealth for themselves and their families.

> For me, the promise of the blockchain is that it can provide a technological framework upon which to build new kinds of institutions

You're trying to solve social and political problems with tech. And you cannot. You could spend 30 seconds thinking abuout the problem and realised why it can't.

Question: who is the rightful owner of the marked land? See my comments in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564

> Is a smart contract better than a written contract? Maybe it is, if there is no well-functioning judiciary to adjudicate contractual disputes.

And who is going to enforce this smart contract?

> It's important to remember that what might seem redundant or useless to those of us who reside in the first world may not be redundant or useless to those who live elsewhere.

It's also important to remember that people who claim this (and claim blockchains are solutions to problems) also reside in the first world and have literally no clue about the problems outside their cushy bubbles.
We had good logarithm tables in the 1620’s. http://www2.cfcc.edu/faculty/cmoore/LogarithmInfo.htm: “Napier died in 1617. Briggs published a table of logarithms to 14 places of numbers from 1 to 20,000 and from 90,000 to 100,000 in 1624.
Adriaan Vlacq published a 10-place table for values from 1 to 100,000 in 1628, adding the 70,000 values“

These will have had errors, but I doubt they had them in the first 4 digits and if they had them, they would be easily spotted. (Edit: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1872MNRAS..32..255G says there were errors)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan_Vlacq)
“The central premise of DEI, that discrepancies between demography statistics and employment reality, is defacto proof of discrimination is simply false. The sooner this erroneous analysis fade from prominence, the better for all.”

This is the biggest problem with DEI efforts. Corporations are attempting to correct an issue that begins during childhood.

Handing out pamphlets telling employees to “be less white” isn’t going to fix a pipeline problem. No matter how many HR people you hire. Neither does setting a diversity quota, or telling your Asian employees they are now “white adjacent”, any other cringey DEI lecture of the month.

Think about these tactics for more than 5 seconds and it completely falls apart.
I am on Aderole, and it works for about 6 hours. During this time I can concentrate a lot, but can't listen to any music or any sound, it just annoys me.

I put on a noise canceling headphone with out music (The bose seem to do a good job)
Netflix or YouTube with subtitles, simple as that. Sounds silly, but works amazingly well.

https://ejoy-english.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-learning...
> Because no one wanted to look at it. Softbank, Sequoia and many others that would have had access didn't do their job.

According to John J. Ray on the 17th of November in filings to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court [1]:

"The audit firm for the WRS Silo, Armanio LLP, was a firm with which I am professionally familiar. The audit firm for the Dotcom Silo was Prager Metis, a firm with which I am not familiar and whose website indicates that they are the 'first-ever CPA firm to officially open its Metaverse headquarters in the metaverse platform Decentraland'

56. I have substantial concerns as to the information presented in these audited financial statements, especially with respect to the Dotcom Silo. As a practical matter, I do not believe it appropriate for stakeholders or the Court to rely on audited financial statements as a reliable indication of the financial circumstances of these Silos.

57. The Debtors have not yet been able to locate any audited financial statements with respect to the Alameda Silo or the Ventures Silo."

That isn't to say that the behavior of Softbank et al isn't questionable. They probably knew very well that things looked fishy, but also probably knew that they would likely see very handsome returns in the short-term.

[1]: https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188450/042020648...
This is excellent and I'm glad to see they took on the effort.

Thanks for sharing
Qualitative analysis of 2022 Haskell survey results
I think Byzantine Fault Tolerance is the name of such propriety (being resilient to a limited number of adversarial nodes).
Can you pull 4k from the Pro cameras without the controller?
Amazfit have a few model even Bip has a few. Do you have particular recommendation on them?

Do you care to comment on the smartwatch features or health monitoring one?
Unfortunately I'm with the other guy. We have a Nest Mini in every room, and a Hub Max (only paid for 2, another 2 were free with Spotify and the Hub Max was an Instagram giveaway win).

We have to whisper to the Hub Max in the kitchen, from 3 inches away, and the Minis in the dining room and living room often still hear. If I don't whisper, even the ones upstairs hear. Sometimes I get 2 timers for my cooking, sometimes I get one on the wrong speaker. Then I try to cancel the timer, and the Hub Max hears instead and tells me I have no timers set.

The Hub Max asks on the screen if the wrong device responded. It clearly ignores your response, as the wrong device also responds the next time. I have pressed that button easily over 50x before I gave up and stopped.

Something clearly changed ~6mo-1yr ago because they never used to be this bad. It used to be that they would all listen, then only the closest one (that heard the command the loudest) would respond. Problem is, when I'm cooking the Hub Max is 1ft away and the rest are through (often multiple) walls metres away from me.
I didn't get it at all.
There are two design approaches to wristwatches that I haven't seen but which I think have distinct benefits: wide (landscape) bodies/faces, and bands with batteries in the links.

In Sci-Fi, it's normal to see landscape displays on forearms. Often it's part of a suit, so it is kind of an obvious solution. But watches could take this concept at a smaller scale and provide at least double the screen real estate without ending up looking like a brick.

The bands on some watches are already fairly thick, and people have shown they are fine wearing thick bracelet things for decoration. Why not embed batteries into parts of the band? The obvious case would be the big metal links (like tank tracks), with the wiring through the link connections. Not only would you be able to store a whole lot more energy compared to a single battery in the watch body, but you could also have swappable bands so you could always have one charged and ready.
You are not incorrect. Ledger databases, as a technology, do not eliminate a possibility of spinning up a shadow ledger and rebuilding the change history in the new ledger that is purged of inconvenient records.

Managed ledger database services in the cloud (e.g. QLDB in AWS) offer a partial solution to the problem such as platform generated timestamps in the delete/change history table (hard to forge), delete operations not actually deleting the data but moving it into a separate history table, the separation of access to the ledger (app vs account administrator), disallowing direct access to the storage, setting up anomaly detection alarms in the monitoring layer etc etc.

But none of that precludes the possibility of a ledger being nuked or rebuilt (and later nuked).
Those values make the E24 sequence evenly spaced with adjacent values. Since the other series are more course, any error is less important than manufacturing practicalities.
The war started in Feb 2014, just saying. JB closed offices only when they become afraid of getting squashed by new USA secondary sanctions, not because they opposed war.
Assuming people who think differently to you must be mostly motivated by hatred works well for a Taylor Swift song, but it's just about the worst way to think of other perspectives and ideas.
This can be downloaded with youtube-dl:

https://tcmedia.akamaized.net/techchannel/11131/iPhone/AA120...
I just noticed, before you rag me on about "in the last decade", the article closes with:

>In his book on the Equity Funding Corporation fraud – the Enron of the 1970s – Raymond Dirks wrote: "If routine auditing procedures cannot detect 64,000 phony insurance policies, $25m in counterfeit bonds and $100m in missing assets, what is the purpose of audits?" More than 30 years later, investors are asking themselves the same questions.
As a frontend developer, I hope I never get to work with a person who finds "flaws" from the hard section important enough to bother anyone about. As a user, I never cared about minor inconsistencies and flaw in UI as long as the effect was purely cosmetic. Lots of applications and web sites do just fine with subpar markup. As the saying in Russia goes, "when a cat has nothing to do, he licks balls".
If “right tool for the job” is too hand-wavey, maybe “optimal tool given the problem constraints” is a better phrase.

E.g. I’ve seen proposals for “credentials on the blockchain”, but if you assume that a credential issuer has a known public key (as these proposals do), the issuer can just sign a credential, no public ledger is needed. The complexity of using a blockchain for this is just waste.
Funny that no one here got the joke.

The cult is Hacker News.
maybe we should make russians wear identification badges. a patch? an armband?
https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/protrek/
What are the 3 arguments? Are you referring to IP theft when you mention meritocracy?

I know the current problems around manufacturing a little bit. My reading is that, yes, we can’t get out of fossil immediately, but I think we mostly failed to prepare and the current situation shows us that renewables are significant more resilient than detractors rate them.

Also I think producing cheaper products by running on coal is a thing of the past. What happens though is that bureaucracy and pay is clearly lower in some countries. Every country has to build a strategy based on those facts. In Europe I’ve seen too many countries comfortable with the past results and thus failed to plan for the future. Then blamed it on other countries because it’s an easy target for deflecting failures as always.
The reason is clearly outlined on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_series_of_preferred_numbers

> Since the electronic component industry established component values before standards discussions in the late-1940s, they decided that it wasn't practical to change the former established values. These older values were used to create the E6, E12, E24 series standard that was accepted in Paris in 1950 then published as IEC 63 in 1952.
I don't get it. F91W already has illumination.
> the vast majority (>90%) of devs would rather exit out of that pop-up

Converting just 5% of users to paying customers is considered pretty good for shareware/freemium, so just because you saw a lot of people using the trial does not mean it is unsustainable. I have no idea how much the developer of Sublime Text makes, but considering that they have been around since 2008 I would assume it's definitely sustainable.
>Nowadays, many OS don’t actually run on the “metal” directly

Even when they run on metal they don't talk "directly" to it..they often just talk to the firmware's.
See this is where HN has fallen off a cliff, the top commented Runeks supplies a highly theoretical and nonchalant answer to what blockchains _can_ be. That’s been the majority of HNs take on the technology. But the Internet was made for text communication and here we are decades later with social media and streaming video.

TimJRobinson at least states something which is rare on HN, a take on blockchain technology with experimental instead of theoretical knowledge on the subject matter.
> One of the modern applications of Egyptian fractions is the request of a specific resistance value needed in the design of an electrical circuit, a problem called in the literature the 2- Ohm problem. College students know well from their physics class, that the equivalent resistance R of two parallel resistances and is given from a law very easy to deduce, based on equating the current passing through the fictitious equivalent resistance R with the two currents passing through both resistances while maintaining same potential. One direct application of this, suppose an engineer wishes to incorporate in one of his designs a resistor of so many ohms which the manufacturer does not produce; for it is impossible that the latter displays in the market all possible ohm-values for his resistors. First, the market cannot possibly sustain it, but more important, one cannot feasibly produce resistors with values as elements of a dense subset of the real line, being, as analysis taught us, an uncountable set. Rather, manufacturers display only in the market what they call an "E12 series", i.e. resistors in sets of 12 different values, namely

> 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 27, 33, 39, 47, 56, 68, 82 ......

> 100, 120, 150, 180, 220, 270, 330, 390, 470, 560, 680, 820......

> 1000, 1200.......... Ohms, etc.....

> Now suppose an engineer needs in one of his designs a resistor of 7 ohms, then he would resort to a parallel combination from the fraction 1/7=1/10+1/56+1/100+1/120+1/150 in which all the resistors belong to the E12 series, i.e. he will replace his 7 ohms resistor with 5 parallel resistors; this he reaches using a special software (computer programmes exist for such designs, yet the exact solution is by no means trivial). What I did myself instead, is to resort to Ahmes 2/n table and wrote 2/7=1/4+1/28 or that 1/7=1/8+1/56. Decomposing further 1/8 into 1/12+1/24=1/12+1/48+1/48, but then I shall have to use instead of the 48 ohms resistor a resistor of 47 ohms from the E12 table. My final fraction is 1/7=1/12+1/ 47+1/47+1/56, i.e. my resistor of 7 ohms will be simulated by 4 parallel resistors instead of 5 (I am accepting equal fractions). My solution is both minimal and optimal based on Ahmes table. The relative error of my design will not exceed 0.6 per cent, being negligible; especially that any manufactured resistor will itself be subject to some allowed tolerance of the same order.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130625181118/http://weekly.ahr...

So, a thousands of years ago? Ancient Egypt and before? :)

Also:

> The measured values of voltages and currents in the infinite resistor chain circuit (also called the resistor ladder or infinite series-parallel circuit) follow the Fibonacci sequence. The intermediate results of adding the alternating series and parallel resistances yields fractions composed of consecutive Fibonacci numbers. The equivalent resistance of the entire circuit equals the golden ratio.
> can reduce the cost and complexity of enforcing property rights and adjudicating contractual disputes to a meaningful extent

No, they can't. A blockchain is, at best, a database. A database cannot do anything.
Perfectly put. Needed a comment as well as an upvote.
This page addresses your q:

https://www.open-root.eu/open-roots/

-- snippet --

Are there several roots in the Internet?

According to ICANN, a self proclaimed monopoly, there is one and only one root, operated by Verisign, under contract with the US Department Of Commerce (DOC). Any modification of this root must be approved first by ICANN, then by DOC.

Actually there exists many roots created by other organizations, in order to allow users to access sites that, for various reasons, do not have a TLD in the ICANN root.

What is an open root?

They are roots independent from ICANN, thus from DOC, created by private organizations, for users rejected by ICANN, or rejecting conditions imposed by ICANN.

Who might want to use open roots?

First, brands or people who cannot pay the 6-digit fees required by ICANN for rental and maintenance of a Top Level Domain (TLD).

Second, web service operators or suppliers wishing to start their own business model in low connectivity areas (Africa, Asia, etc.). With their brand or product as TLD they can deliver a service to their local customers, leveraging lower fee connections.

A third example is users located in countries not registered formally as States by the UN, or whose ccTLD in their language is disputed or shelved by ICANN, in contradiction with the Tunis Agenda ( UN Summit on the internet in 2003 and 2005 after which an outcome document was approved by all Member States, and is the current base of internet governance).
View WSIS site

A fourth case using TLDs is the protection against the censorship of authoritarian governments, or seizure without trial by the US Department of Home Security (DHS), or just avoid the systematic monitoring and resale by Verisign of access to the ICANN root.

-- end snippet --
That works better in Finland than in Italy.
> Trigraphs are removed from the language.

Finally! My joy knows no bounds.
Bizarre. Never had that.
I made some pretty bad quality games, published them on Google Play, also meme YouTube videos, put ads in them and after 5 years I was able to pay out whole $100.

Making business is hard.
I guess the biggest benefit is to be able to run Linux and stay away from macOS. For many of us this is a huge thing.
Anyone know if there anything similar for Android?
A reason I have been interested in blockchain is that it seems like a good way to make a decentralized application that could exist beyond the life of the company or person that creates it.

I work in a hobby industry where a lot of community run ledgers are suddenly lost forever due to the death of someone in the fandom (or rarely intentional sabotage or hacking).

Would this be a good use for blockchain or are there maybe other solutions I'm not considering or aware of?
This argument is equivalent to saying a data center isn't secure because a nuclear bomb can fall on it.