skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am always torn when it comes to blockchain.

(As an aside, I was an advisor to Storj.io, a web3 storage company. Largely because of my relationship with the CEO and less because of my enthusiasm with the space.)

The leveraged, financial engineering side of Crypto as a get rich scheme never really appealed to me. I see this like any other risky investment, blurring the lines between lawful and not. Borrowing a ton of money and staking it on crypto seemed like a path to glory to many, and I am saddened by all of the people that lost their shirt in the process.

There's another side of me, however, that sees web3 as an evolution of the traditional technology marketplace. A lot like early days of the internet, or of open source.. web3 seemed to be the continuation of the hacker spirit, where builders met to build cool stuff.

Some of the coolest websites and communities these days are related to NFT's and minting them. Some cool thinking about persistent storage, or cloud, or storage with blockchain/coins as an incentive structure for micropayments. How to directly monetize content on the web without having to prop up the ad industry. Interesting, worthy goals.

It's hard to reconcile this spectrum of thoughts and come up with a clear, personal, answer on the value of blockchain technology as a whole.
I'm not one to jump infront of a bus for the big company, but the "testing" being reported on here is so incredibly lacking.

- Single proof via a single device on a single OS version from a single API response.

- Claim on the latest version it is doing the same, but can't prove it. Just that requests are being sent when you interact with the application(ok?)

...And that's it.

I don't know the state of the jailbreaking scene, but a quick search seems to indicate that throughout 14.X and 15.X could have been checked, but they haven't. Would happily take this more seriously when reporting of issues is more sufficent. (or others proving more proof)
As someone trying to help his sister learn to code, I think part of the reason why ppl reach for python is because it can be run easily.

I would be happy to teach her using C# instead, but the last time I coded in C#, one couldn't simply run a C# program.

In our specific case, she's a psych major, so python has the added benefit of being in widespread use in the social sciences. She will probably have to use it at some point anyways
1) It's probably not good enough for 4K if you've got a viewing set-up on which you can actually tell the difference between 4k and 1080p. Which, sure, is only a smallish minority of viewers.

2) But you can fit a basically-perfect 1080P rip on a dual-layer DVD with modern codecs. Easily.
SCHOOL2 (~11-14)
Found a used keyboard that had voice / sound recording option built in - can quickly record a sound and play it with all the keys. Battery powered.
This got used, then paused, then picked up again, and combined youtube / similar with offline use (learning some songs on occasion).. has been used during discord chats.. quite surprised (and very glad) at the amount of use.

after age 9 or so (past 7 years or so).. every single toy I've seen in every catalogue of toys.. a waste of money. even if it's something they like, it will be opened then cast to the side while attention is focused on phone / computer (that's where to fun games are, and friends to talk with are)

yugioh cards have been a thing - but that is mainly because a group formed at the school.. this could be pokemon or similar... DnD gained some traction for a bit, but fades if group meetups are not consistent from my experience.
I think you are overusing the term "we."
China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’
I personally don’t care about what you post on social media. The question is more, are you taking an active stance against this war?

Actively supporting Ukrainians is taking an active stance. As long as you don’t do anything actively pro-war on the side, that is good enough in my book.

Of course others will disagree and say you have to post some bullshit hashtag or donate or whatever. In my opinion it’s about what you CAN do, not about what some internet rando wants you to do.
Arguably yes, since that curation is paid for with the cut Apple takes on sales in the Apple store.
9 years ago today, I was in a pub with my uni pals
Looks quite heavy compared to a standard nozzle.
I am still phreaking and active in the demoscene.
Galactica: The AI knowledge base that makes stuff up
> to generate permutations with dice, a simple (but laborious) way to do it is

Of course, the article rules this out, and requires a single roll.

I can vaguely imagine a system where what the authors describe will come in handy. Let's say you have a group of n distributed agents that collaborate over multiple rounds, and they need to establish a fair order of precedence for each consecutive round. Let's say each agent issues a message each round, and a "counter" decides the order that those messages resolve.

In that case, you can (pre-)assign each agent a pseudorandom go-first die. They can tag their messages with the results of their go-first die, and the counter can now resolve the messages in a fair order.

If you publish the PRNG seeds for all agents, so that every agent has it, they can all be counters. This means that every agent will resolve the messages in a deterministic order every round, and over all the rounds, the processing will be fair. Seems like a useful property.
Micro.blog is actually pretty nice. It is still a very small community. I would love to see it gain more traction.
They may have been playing RSS, which does have the Moon: https://github.com/KSP-RO/RealSolarSystem
I really appreciate these little tangents, got a good couple of “TIL”s from this thread
1. Build a social life outside of work.

2. Save enough money to take out a mortgage on a place to live.

3. Fall in love.
> I wouldn't really prefer SD for anything regardless of age.

For movies, sure. But a lot of content produced for TV wasn't produced and/or archived in HD formats. Some older shows are occasionally remastered in HD if the original film can be found and digitized, but that's a fairly expensive and time-consuming process when it's possible at all. Older content that's in low demand, like children's shows or soap operas, may stay SD forever.
Clippy for Emacs
Adding more and better fuzzing instead of trying to fix the issue (potentially malicious user input inside a C library) seems like the wrong way to address the problem. Buffer overruns just shouldn’t be a concern of the developer or test suite but of the compiler or language runtime.
Does this make how Cloudflare/Fly.io use of SQLite easier now?
Ah yes, the new link says that. The old link didn't that detail.
SLS put a capsule into orbit for an absolutely princely sum of $4.1 billion per launch. That's after the over $20 billion program cost. All using technology largely designed in the 70's. But at least those the designs of the 70's were meant for reuse were as SLS is completely disposable. The entire program makes the space shuttle seem like a bargain. Now that's an accomplishment.

> Additionally, pinning the entirety of the American space program on a single private company seems like a recipe for disaster.

That's exactly what happened here. America pinned the entire project on Boeing Space. With disastrous results.
Occupational Exposure to Refractory Ceramic Fibers (2006)
If it the concept that counts, not just that particular tech, some do "race" to get big data without compromising privacy, even when they don't have to (because no competitors are racing on the privacy dimension).

For a survey, check out what firms are doing on "differential privacy" not just "homomorphic encryption". As a for instance, Apple -- since the OP is about them -- spent significant extra effort to make Maps anonymized.

Concept: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...

In Apple Maps: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navigati...
This is a solid take on task management. We've got some similar features in https://hourstack.com with dragging and dropping tasks from other platforms into a calendar (team or personal). However, our focus is on tracking time against those tasks once scheduled and then reporting, invoicing, etc. against the work completed. So different end goals.

Best of luck to you as it looks like you've got a great start.
You’re really stretching here. Ad companies make their money by selling ads; compare how much of Apple’s revenue comes from selling ads (very small %) vs how much of Google’s revenue comes from selling ads (almost all of it).

Prompts to buy additional products do not make a company an advertising company. If it did, every restaurant in the world would be an “advertising company” because wait staff, cashiers, and menus encourage customers to order additional food.
Layers of abstraction aren’t automatically bad. Sometimes abstraction even adds performance. There do seem to be a few layers that are responsible for more performance loss and complexity than others, however. For example, Python is great but runs anywhere from 100-100,000 slower than C, depending on where you look. Investment in some of these layers has outsized importance.
> How many eyes are on Debian vs memecoin-smart-contract-22112?

To be perfectly honest, the memecoin contract probably has more. A smart contract's code base is much, much smaller and changes less often, and a greater number of people are much more strongly financially incentivized to find bugs. Plus, they often do a thorough third-party code audit up-front at the time they publish the code, which would be impractical to do with OS code since it needs to be constantly updated due to its threat model.

I would trust the Shiba Inu token code to have less critical bugs in it than the Debian code.
More importantly it's a capability program. People and organizations who can build rockets, execute space missions, and have regular work doing so is necessary if you want to maintain the institutional knowledge and manufacturing capacity to do so.
> Promotional text on the lock screen? Sure, once in a while. But it takes a LOT of effort to actually click on that.

Ads don't need to be clickable. Most ads aren't clickable.
>Such difference seems very significant to me.

Thank you for your honesty. As a Catholic it's interesting to hear the perspective of an atheist on this topic.

Christianity rejects at a philosophical level any sort of dependence on 'secret information'. The teachings of the Catholic Church should stand up to scrutiny and there is nothing to hide.
Ask HN: How hard is it to manage self hosted Postgres?
I want PG for hobby side projects with a user base.

I was looking at fly.io which has a nice free tier and Im aware of the digital ocean offering.

I’ve been self hosting some infra on Hetzner and was wondering how much of a pain it would be to just self host? It seems much cheaper, but don’t want to shoot myself in the foot
I found a bug in vim/neovim. if the file name is approximately 33 characters long. When one opens one of the feed directories in vim, neovim and tries to open that file, it fails. For me, there need to be 2 spaces between the file name and the file size or other part of the directory listing when I do "gvim ." for current directory. I use default listing style of 1 for long listing.
FYI, you can right click on the candy crush ad, say hide, and never see it again, period. You can do this with most "ads" on windows 10.

My start menu looks like it did in the 7 days, because I turned off the entire side panel that had all the "tiles". Even the panel that comes up when I click in the "search" bar (which is not the start menu!) is devoid of basically any tiles, because they are all hidden.

I literally never saw the candy crush tile, because I installed windows myself from a microsoft CD, turned off every option on the "personalization" or whatever page when you do a fresh install, and have no OEM bloatware as well.
For what it's worth I agree highly with this perspective. I'd invite you to be on my gang of post-apocalyptic systems engineers [1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
RGA/CT - Replicated Growable Array/Causal Tree

I don't like unexplained acronyms/initialisms.
I used to have entire Keygen Jukebox on my iPod. And speaking of iPods: iPodLinux and Rockbox. So satisfying when you are 14, just change colors of the blocks in "copter" and it compiles and runs on your nano.

Oh and I also loved to show off with Tiny C Compiler on my jailbroken Kindle 3rd gen
thanks for the tip, added to the list. :>
Anti-Woke Bank GloriFi to Shut Down
A lot of people are still using old TVs or have a very small one they watch far enough away that 480p is barely, if at all, worse than 1080p.
But if you need 0.1% tolerance resistors and the circuit diagram requires a 13.3 (±0.1%) kΩ resistor, you can just order one ...?

I have a hard time imagining situations like "We need a very precise 57kΩ (±0.5kΩ or about 1%) resistance but we can only get three precise resistors: 10kΩ, 22kΩ, and 47kΩ! Oh thank god we can connect 10kΩ and 47kΩ, if the last one was 46kΩ we would have been in trouble."
Didn't seem so bad at first. But once i realized that this is just a tiny bit less than one full charge on a Model 3, that number of miles per month seems a tad too small.
Idk about your region, but the App Store in my region features actual advertisements on the front page.

The first showcase is an actual showcase, but the second item is very much ads. And the way it's set up is to have something like 1/2 the image visible without the user scrolling, but the part that says is that it's an ad is not visible without scrolling. So the idea I guess is to have the user click on it to find out more based on 1/2 the image without them knowing that it was an ad.
a “panic sparked by others is not a good enough reason to circumvent complex security arrangements” that have kept its investors’ assets “safe for years.”

"Come on, you know we're good for it!"
"He didn't elaborate on the circumstances of his departure and declined to say how many people Twitter employed in France either before or after Musk's takeover of the company last month."

Doesn't tell you anything, did he quit, was he fired?
SQLite on Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-open-alpha/
The thing these discussions invariably miss for awhile until someone points it out — I see this on art cinema forums all the time — is that all of the resolutions are functionally bottlenecked by things having nothing to do with the disc.

The size of the screen, for instance, how far you're sitting from it, your actual visual acuity, and so forth and so on. Because these things tend to be suboptimal more than they are optimal, the benefits of higher resolution have diminishing returns, because you have to increasingly have everything "just right" for it to matter.

There's been studies showing that in actual typical viewing conditions for most actual people, higher resolution formats are overkill.

My preference is for blu-ray for instance but we have a small screen by today's standards, which we really don't have any desire to replace in size.
> Ironic that CBDC systems are being built on a technology exclusively aimed at eliminating the C in that acronym.

Thanks Pjkundert, you're correct I should have said 'first C".

What I meant was that it was ironic that CBDCs are being constructed using systems that use blockchain, i.e., centralised systems, designed to deliver centralised currencies, based upon technology exclusively designed to deliver decentralised currencies.
Web scraping. I love figuring out how to reverse engineer websites and defeat systems designed against web scrapers. It's also super interesting (concerning?) how much data websites leak. 4 out of the 5 bug bounties I've discovered have been while poking around in my scraping efforts.
Interesting choice of a database. Duckdb seems like it is a much better fit for the type of query being done. Wonder why sqlite was chosen over duckdb.
It does. It would be nice if controversial statements, said in good faith, were not downvoted and flagged, but thats not a reality on HN.

Much easier to make burners, say what’s on one’s mind, and move on.
Apple MDM for iOS, iPhone, iPad, MacBook

Basic G Suite MDM, by Google for various devices, mobile and desktop.
https://archive.ph/fmqYf
In addition macOS probably means macbook, where they either don't have drive bays or only dvd drive bays.
Well, as a big fan of Michael Lewis, I never would have thought Moneyball and The Big Short would make good movies, but here we are. Good scriptwriters are wizards.
> Central/commercial banks, Treasuries, etc. cannot abide any fire-exit that is not chained shut

Ok, then call it what it actually is: tax evasion, fraud, and laundering money.

You're getting caught up in an anti-government agenda and forgetting that's not a good thing to most people.
The determination of an event will vary by contract, but are all external sources of validation, listed in the contract up front. For example, the moon landing resolves to yes if NASA announces by X date. GDP is resolved by Bureau of Economic Analysis, Inflation by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and so on.

Generally, event contracts are legal contracts technically. We have a team that spent a ton of time developing templates to incorporate all types of events (hard problem). Here's an example definition: https://kalshi-public-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/regulatory/ruleb...
Thomas Midgley Jr. – Inventor of both CFCs and leaded petrol
I wouldn't worry too much about the illustration. Patent illustrations are a very specific and interesting field! They do not have to represent the eventual design. Also, hands in patent illustrations always look very strange.
Questions to ask yourself every year
Biweekly on my 2018 ipad pro
Honestly, I am confused how this merits a patent.
Case in point twitter. Without that program and its hostages twitter would have shut down or reversed course. With the program in place they can continue to exploit
And the price goes down every year you renew for like four years I think? By year 4 you’re getting the all products pack for like $150/ year
It is right in the article: the phones are jailbroken and so the encrypted connections can be broken.

The function he is talking about is undocumented, encrypted, can’t be turned off and uses different servers.

The whole thing might be illegal too, at least in the EU
Copper is a perfectly normal material for rocket engines due to high thermal conductivity.
PDP-8 computers have appeared in several movies, starting with Three Days of the Condor in 1975. Starring the Computer has a complete list. [1]

[1] https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html#DEC
> I think the watch is often the best bang for the buck. Pretty small, rarely in the way, lots of utility.

What does the watch provide that a smartphone does not? Presuming that you already have a smartphone.
Was just a matter of time...and much more will come.
Companies have been using PTP to synchronize (frame sync) networked cameras for many years. It is much better than wiring up a separate ttl or differential signals. It is amazing the accuracy you can get with this protocol.
Which machine printed this?
> This. FFS....

Not this FFS.

Who says remote work means you have to stay home all the time? Stay home to work and make sure you leave at least once, ideally two or three times a day!

In the morning for a walk or workout or coffee break.

At lunch just to breath some air.

At 5PM[1] sharp laptops closed to reconnect with some of your favorite humans, not necessarily the same ones you live with.

[1]: or whatever hard stop you craft for yourself.
That happens when you host World Cups in a backwards regime. A big cesspool.
This is about a request used to report a click in the app store, which is technically specified in the privacy policy [1] and you can get a CSV of it from Apple in data requests. This is the subject of a class action filed earlier this month [2].

While I think Apple's data collection within its apps is excessive, the only thing the researchers achieve by conflating it with device analytics is giving tech media an "Apple Lies!" headline cycle. People should be informed about how these analytics/surveillance systems work and how to effectively navigate and counter them, not be sold paranoia and the idea that the settings are always lying. They're misleading you with marketing, sure, but the truth in this case is written plainly in the prompt that pops up the first time you open the app store.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/app-store/, "We use information about your browsing, purchases, searches, and downloads. These records are stored with IP address, a random unique identifier (where that arises), and Apple ID"

[2] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/apple-hit-with-clas...
Digital Equipment Corporation, located outside of Boston, was the developer of the PDP family of computers. A key figure in developing many of their computers was C. Gordon Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell. There is a cute meet story with his wife, Gwen. They founded the Computer Museum in Boston, which (long story) became the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley). He is/was on the Board of Trustees since founding. There is a four part oral history from 2005 with transcripts in CHM's archives. There are a bunch of videos on youtube. Most of his books are on the web, see: https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/gbvita.htm
Ha, fair point, sort of. Dropping a cage on someone in situ is a very specific form of liberty denial that doesn't really have a name because no one does it.
Cool, thank you, and best of luck to you too!
The space shuttle was too costly of a program to continue. So in it's place a disposable rocket was developed that costed some $20 billion to develop in spite of largely reusing technology from the space shuttle while costing $4 Billion per launch, twice the launch cost of the space shuttle. All while being extremely late. It is by every sense of the word wasteful and dissapointing.
the dreamfields which is the precursor to all this work is available: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1u5-zA330gbNGKVfXMW5... the meshes are so so, resolution wise. I made a bunch of architecture studies with the dreamfields: http://delta.center/20102020-ar-platform#/architecture-ai3d/ . I can't wait until the new versions are public; they will be so useful. I did not get good results with stable dreamfusion; I thought the dreamfields were better.
As others have stated matrix and XMPP are good options. I myself am an admitted matrix fan boy, so i lean heavy that way....but the choice is yours. For matrix, i know that beyond the mobile and web browser clients, there are several regular, (non-browser), good ol' fashion desktop style applications (scroll down on this url: https://matrix.org/clients/) for linux, windows and Mac operating systems. The story is likely similar on XMPP side, but i have not used xmpp in many years.
> Some of the coolest websites and communities these days are related to NFT's and minting them.

Can you give a few examples? Everything I've seen in this space are transparent scams.
Maybe not the average, but millions of people commute to a city like Atlanta every day. From the middle of Forsyth County in GA, where there are many exurbs of Atlanta that feed workers into the city, the drive is slated to be 1-2 hours over 44 miles to downtown as we speak even now. And nothing is 'wrong,' currently - this is not some outlier.

Many people that I know make this kind of drive in the Atlanta area, and that's not due to them all being in particular industries either. 1-2 hours to get across the city and into the suburbs/exurbs is a fact of life, and millions do it.