skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the US wants the privilege of suggesting how we should run our country, then perhaps they should work on their end to repair the bilateral relationship

This article is based on the comments of two Senators, one a Republican who ran against Trump and the other a Democrat, asking Canada to do something. Given how close the American and Canadian economies are, it is of American concern that information which crosses north of the border might become vulnerable to Chinese exfiltration.
To be honest I always just define:

get '/foo/?' ...

That will handle both, although I appreciate I should probably stick a redirect in place to make one the canonical link.
1- write side project properly (2 words)

2- put side project ideas in the search bar of HN (rinse and repeat with reddit)
> In other comments I suggested that ICOs are not always scam.

> There are lots of questionable projects and outright scam. I would say that 90% of cryptocurrencies and ICOs are junk.

That's damning by faint praise.

Your comment was likely downvoted/killed because it was heavy in link spam.
Do you know if any tethers have ever been destroyed? I have not seen it confirmed that this has occurred and if people were withdrawing to the dollar via USDT I would expect there to have been destructions.
> anonymously traded

Where exactly does anyone claim that?

They have a team of lawyers and access to all the regulators by virtue of being such a huge exchange. Do you honestly believe they haven't consulted widely on this?
Pentagon reveals cyber breach of travel records
They regularly fuck up security so much that you aren't getting what you pay for. In the last major release they both allowed anyone to login as root by just not supplying a password, and writing the FDE password on the disk in plaintext as the "hint" instead of the actual hint.
Having money you control is not money laundering.
Bloomberg absolutely loves writing these "Anything not a central bank is on the brink of implosion" scare articles. They must generate a tons of views.

Unfortunately Bloomberg as a whole doesn't know anything about cryptocurrency beyond the speculation side which is similar to their existing competencies. But that's all they see.

We have a blind man feeling an elephant's ass and telling us it's shitty. While true, it only describes a tiny part of what cryptocurrencies are or do.
>> AI simply isn't a field that's deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school.

I guess by this move their goal is to now make it deep enough.
Neural net changes in Tesla autopilot V9
Cycling is at least four times the space efficiency of cars, unless all the cars are Smart Fourtwo or equivalent. And that’s when parked, the multiplier goes up with speed.

Additionally, low density US cities are one of the worst places I’ve seen for cycling, because not only is everything spread out, but also the multi-lane roads everywhere make it much more dangerous than equivalently populated towns and cities in Europe. Despite having cycled through central London (UK) and just over 1,000 km along the Rhine, there’s no way you’d see me cycling around Salt Lake City or Sacramento. I’ve cycled around Davis (CA), but Davis has better than US average cycling infrastructure — almost as good as the average level in the UK.
>I think a certain amount of "youthful exuberance" is indeed tolerated - but go too far and Thou Shalt Often Be Shut Down.

Living in Boston I see the revolving music venue scene. It seems like about every ~5 years or so the well known venues close down for whatever reason (mismanagement, fallout from harassment/drug use, etc) and another one pops up to fill the void. It seems like getting shut down is a power check from the government to keep us complacent, as the next scene will appear and be just as much as a Time and Place as the one before it.
And why would someone put $50m into a highly volatile, unchecked tech, where mediators are mostly known because of their security problems and breaches?
James Damore?
So, in 1983 I think the possible variants are 4.2BSD, SunOS 1.0, Xenix 3.0, SVR1.

Someone in a sibling thread mentioned the kill line characters were already replaced around 2BSD. SVR1 had vi and ex, too. `lpr` is BSDian, I think, but maybe System V included that too as an alternative.

It's hard to tell, really. At the time SVR1 was out and included fairly many bits of BSD in it, as did Xenix. The only thing I can really say is that SunOS is unlikely, since it was designed for workstations with video monitors from day 1 and the kill characters seem anachronistic since erasing was a standard feature in terminals already and default behavior in current BSD.
I appreciate the feedback.
> always inflating

> fixed number of Bitcoins

Don't think he needs to.
Don't reject good advice just because whoever gave the advice doesn't have your best interest in mind. I've good some good advice from some otherwise awful people. Sometimes following the advice furthered their ends more than mind, but it was still the best course of action for me.
Same.

But the users whose data was emitted should have been immediately notified. That's (a) law in some places, (b) common decency if one party holds another's PII and then fails to keep it private.
>If most of HN readers call crypto a scam, then I’m out of HN.

Oh no. Whatever will we do without you.

On a serious note, I can’t speak for everybody but as it currently stands 99.99% of crypto are scams bent on “replacing something” but really end up doing nothing. And the .01% of crypto that aren’t scams/worthless are being used to buy drugs.

And as a last edit, there are so many buzzwords being thrown around in the cryptouniverse it makes my eyes bleed. “Stablecoin” is one of those.
Some of those eternal truths may not be as secure as you might think...

https://psmag.com/social-justice/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum...

Your interest in those "eternal truths" is amusingly subjective.
Some of these plants use a local source of water for cooling, not the traditional cooling towers.

If it's inland or starved for water you need cooling towers.
All the security concern about Huawei may actually make its devices more secure in the long run. The heightened scrutiny by various players not only deter Chinese government from conducting blatant hacks, but also expose many conventional vulnerabilities that pose a greater threat for most businesses. For example, UK intelligence agency has a joint testing center with Huawei to vet its source code and hardware design. It's really hard to find this kind of capable and independent party to perform such comprehensive security audit.
I think this has been discussed quite a few times already.
Freedesktop.org: its past and its future
For anyone downvoting this I'll expand what he said so you can understand it before reflex downvoting.

Nationstate backed fiat currencies require enormous amounts of energy waste in the form of standing armies and other tools of power. Compared to the energy Bitcoin uses to protect itself from attack or fraud this energy is very large.
I love this video it actually got me into fooling around with elevators. I have a full box elevator keys just because of this talk, with no idea what to do with them.
How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database
Then stop using instagram.

What's with nytimes, theatlantic and the rest of the media and their endless spam and whining about social media?

If you don't like it, stop using it? Leave HN alone.

HN has a massive nytimes, theatlantic, etc spam problem too. We don't have a way to filter useless clickbait media.

If the "journalist" at theatlantic don't like instagram, go start your own version of "nice" instagram and make billions.
That's an example, yes.
If you're concerned about radioactive elements, coal plants and fracking also release a lot of nuclear contamination.
Not a power engineer, but I'd expect burning dinosaurs in one stationary place should allow for cleaner & more efficient combustion, with better scrubbing of noxious gasses from the exhaust. One really big, really heavy, really good catalytic converter instead of millions of small lightweight ones, clunking over bumps & quietly rusting out.
This doesn't use hardware enclaves, so it's a totally different approach to privacy/validation. I'm not sure about the trade-offs and how that impacts their respective niches.
Binance suspends Tether withdrawals
Public transportation that runs on the power grid also burns dinosaurs if it's powered by fossil fuels.

Edit: why the downmod? Energy is energy.
>Echoing sentiments of mainstream economists

Yea, Paul Krugman has been saying "Bitcoin is doomed" since 2012. He'll always be wrong because this is all politically motivated. The banking and political establishment are scared shitless by alternative currencies, crypto or otherwise. Google the "Liberty Dollar". Mouth pieces for the financial industry like Bloomberg will attack alternatives to the petrodollar no matter what they really think, and obviously they know Bitcoin has a future because Goldman-Sachs has bought tons of them.
> but years ago there was serious vulnerability in a very common open source library library whose name escapes me (it wasn't libgcc, someone help a brother here).

I believe you're referring to an OpenSSH vulnerability?

...though, I did a search just now to find when it was from (I remember there being a major one around the time you're thinking of), and instead found posts from only two months ago about another one that has existed for at least 18 years.
If Educational Videos Were Filmed Like Music Videos
I think the saying is "cutting your nose to spite your face"?
Bit hard to do when they're calling your work, visiting your house, swatting you, etc.
Precisely. It's not as if you are Buzz Aldrin, trying to walk away again and again and continuing to be harassed by a moon landing conspiracy theorist. The 1's and 0's are easily silenced.
A couple more Asimov Three Law stories on this theme would be "Reason" and "The Evitable Conflict".
Some of these groups probably warranted to be kept an eye on. The question is more the extent of the monitoring.

Like in Norway, where extensive illegal spying on the left was "revealed" in the mid 90's ("revealed" because many subjects of the spying had reported it for decades and been laughed at), a large part of the disturbing aspect of the scope is how little they found given the resources they kept putting into it for decades on end, and how clearly a lot of the resources were put in more to intimidate than to carry out surveillance. I used to know a guy that had been followed to and from work for years - he was a trade union rep and communist party member, and the only reason he had for why they might have done that was that his route went past the Soviet embassy; of course if he'd actually been a spy, he wouldn't have been dumb enough to meet them there, and presumably the police knew that as well as he did; his impression was that they wanted him to know.

I don't know if this affected their work in other areas in the UK (but note that they monitored a huge number of left wing groups and 3 far right groups), but in Norway their obsession with the left led to them largely overlooking the rise of the neo-nazis in the 70's and 80's despite increasing levels of violence including several terrorist attacks (fire bombs thrown at May 1st parades and the like). Instead of taking them seriously, police took advantage of a firebomb thrown into the book store of a tiny maoist group to illegally secure copies of their membership register for example, and went on to suggest they'd thrown the fire bomb themselves. It was first towards the end of the 80's that escalating neo-nazi violence forced the policy to refocus their attention on the far right.

To me that is a bigger concern than their monitoring of the left - any such group with something to hide would expect to be infiltrated anyway; most of them had nothing to hide. But when their myopic focus on one set of group makes them ignore other threats, then it because a risk to society.
Only one person has made that accusation: Brian Shields, and he does so without any evidence.
The annoying thing about these investigations is that they disproportionately target laft wing groups while leaving right wing groups to organise more successfully. And we wonder why right wing populism is on the rise.

I don't know about the UK but there are a lot of ties between police and right wing nationalism/extremism in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if it were similar over there.

Other comments here are stating that it is perfectly acceptable to stop groups that hope to undermine the government. Yet less focus is put on how much effort these governments have put into undermining other foreign democracies. If such powerful institutions can wreak havoc abroad and turn a blind eye to right wing injustices and other problems (poverty, public health etc.) at home, while not really providing a well-functioning system for changing itself (i.e. electoral party politics), perhaps they really should be challenged.
> Mass action is a form of democracy, if the mass is large enough.

That cannot be what they are referring to - if the mass was a majority then they could use voting. They say they can't use voting, which implies to me they're planning some kind of minority undemocratic action.
Myanmar’s Military Said to Be Behind Facebook Campaign That Fueled Genocide
DevOps Enterprise Summit Speaker Q&A: John Esser, Veracity Solutions
>Yet I can't imagine why an entire 'college' of AI is needed. AI simply isn't a field that's deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school. Each of this college's AI degrees will span distinct problem or solution spaces? Not likely.

Depends which departments/courses they're assimilating. Course 6 is computer science that holds CSAIL, course 9 is Brain and Cognitive Sciences that holds cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. CBMM encompasses everything from probabilistic programming to deep neural nets to classical computer vision.

I think that if they take some of the more exciting but empirically rooted stuff from CBMM and build up a department that can actually train students for it in-depth, that will be a significant improvement in training tracks available to people now. Computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience, computational cognitive science, machine learning, statistical learning theory, etc all remain small specialties within larger fields when taken alone, but when put together really deserve to have their connections considered as potentially forming the foundations for a single field.
So deep, bro.
> Unfortunately Bloomberg as a whole doesn't know anything about cryptocurrency beyond the speculation side which is similar to their existing competencies. But that's all they see.

They don't know anything? Even though they partnered with Mike Novogratz to create an index?

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/indices/bloom...
> component ML engineer

Did you mean 'competent ML engineer'
Tether is something that traditional finance and speculation analysts feel comfortable with. They think that by looking at Tether (a very non-cryptocurrency "cryptocurrency") they have an understanding of cryptocurrencies as a whole. They don't.
Does it produce less CO2 than a coal plant? Yes big plants are more efficient than ICEs, but petrol and diesel have a lot of energy in hydrogen bonds, whereas coal is almost pure carbon, so I’d expect the CO2 emissions for a coal plant to be worse despite the efficiency boost.
Money laundering is when you launder money. Exclusive access to your own money is called financial sovereignty.
Mastodon vs. ActivityPub/OStatus
A Look at Game Streaming Tech in the Browser
Greg Young - The art of destroying software

He has a few talks that he barely uses any presentation material and it's very good.
I would have expected to feel a little more comfortable on a website made by user experience experts. Instead, it feels like a dark room where you search a book with a flashlight (exciting, but not comfortable).
> I'd have expected the numbers to be higher.

Your expectations are likely right:

> The database is incomplete as the full list of groups that were spied on has yet to be established.
>Bitcoin's daily transaction volume is moving to second layer so the metric used is not very useful.

sounds like woo to me
>To me, Schwarzman's donations reveal just how much of culture and history is straight up bought and paid for. If you have enough money, no matter how you actually live your life and what you do, you can just pay the right people or institutions, and you will be forever remembered as a good person. Remember that.

MIT already has a Charles Koch building.
I find the Google Music App for Android to have a reasonable design... not great, but usable. What I can't deal with is the fact that just like Amazon, it never seems to have occurred to them that you might have a large music collection, and it's insanely slow at times, sometimes taking 10s of seconds to respond to a tap.

You're right about the downside of streaming. I used to use Amazon until they killed their Cloud Music capability earlier this year, and I switched over to Google. Both services provide a lot of value, but in both cases my number 1 request would be to somehow allow third-party apps to access the cloud because the built-in apps are pretty awful.
Pixel 3 XL Review–Great software, but Google just isn’t a hardware leader
To the best of my knowledge, exchanges do not allow redeeming USDT for USD.
Can you post a transcript of doing so and getting the kernel stack? On not just Illumos but other UNIXes, to demonstrate that it is portable?
Switching back to stable (I was on dev) has made audio work reliably for the last 48 hours. And, I can still use crostini/containers now that it is in stable. Crossing fingers!
Thank you.

Its unfortunate the early adopters spent much time understanding and educating people about currency while the most recent crowd is following the greed. Tether is the opposite of the problem that was being solved.
You have no idea how much information the investments you want prohibited give about themselves. Not being registered with the SEC does not imply providing no information, and you want everything not registered with the SEC to be banned. Your ridiculous characterizations of non-registered investments are baseless/dishonest and intended to mislead people about the nature of these controls.

The fact that you have to resort to this, and to comparisons of buying an unregistered investment to selling yourself into slavery, shows that you don't have a solid set of arguments to support your position, and that you're prioritizing your agenda ahead of the truth.

And like I said, your actions belie your claim that no one agrees with me. If you thought no one would agree with me, you wouldn't be going to such extreme lengths to counter my claims. You would be comfortable letting them stand on their own merit.
He's also notorious in linguistics for heckling anyone who proposes an approach other than universal generative grammar.
I think your own domain is really where you have to go.

Any career / job site is all about selling / sharing access to data.
I never said they don't know anything about finance or speculation markets. But if you (and they) think that's all cryptocurrency is then you're missing 90% of what's up.

Bloomberg keeps trying to predict crypto's behavior based entirely on the most traditional looking speculation markets. Speculation markets aren't really a part of cryptocurency at all (they aren't on the blockchain(s)) but they are the only part of the concept that traditional finance people can (or will try to) understand.
Discord doesn't host forums.
Nobody is debating that it’s not already happening. We’re merely pointing out that it’s morally wrong. (Save me the false equivalences in the USA — we’re far better off than nearly every county wrt free speech).
The implication now is that there'd be no standing armies or other, as you say, tools of power? Do you believe this?
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163473

Direct download link for slides: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussma...

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
This entire article is one giant dog turd. Not even polished, just a white-crusty-dog-turd.

It's evident the 'author' has little true understanding of the underlying block-chain technology other than what would be naysayers (who themselves are mainly white...ಠ_ಠ ) have all regurgitated in their efforts to seem like saviors of the minorities (who CLEARLY can't think or fend for themselves without some do-good white person making the important decisions for them).
> By perpetually refreshing the illusion that progress is just getting under way, gadget worshippers like Kelly are able to wave away the problems that progress is causing. Any ill effect can be explained, and dismissed, as just a temporary bug in the system, which will soon be fixed by our benevolent engineers.

These were the key sentences to me.

I agree that we can't put our head in the sand about the problems technology produce _today_. Part of those solutions will be technical, and part of those will be cultural. Technology is never operates in a vacuum.

Regarding the "we're at the beginning" argument... I think it depends on the time horizon, and if you're a futurist (like Wired tends to be) or if you're responsible for immediate technical/policy decisions. If you view the potential impact of technology over the next 200 to 300 years, then, yeah, we're beginning. If you want to clean up the mess we've made over the last 20 to 50 years, then, no, we're not at the beginning.
You also have actual rotaries that are just buggy where the rotary spins 0-100% and instead of stopping at 100% it will instantly jump back down to zero when you complete the full 360°.

I feel like a rotary should “adjust” a value up or down rather than representing absolute values.
Hey, it's still less of a hack than using crouton was!
Actions by governments are actions by a minority and most governments are voted for by a minority
Also one could argue the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is it's computing power, as that is worth something.
Cool, thanks. Seems the Android heuristics for requiring passcode entry are fuzzier.
The problem is that it's not money thrown at it directly.

When you pay a company, they can use that money directly.

When you buy some coins, the developers/the company generally do not benefit directly. Some developers don't even have stake in the coins they create to avoid conflict of interest.

Who profit then? People who already have some of those coins, because you drive up the valuation, and they can resell their coin for higher. Those people can be scammers (pump & dump scheme), cryptocurrencies, your average joe, or the devs, if they got some. You could say, apart from the last category, that they add nothing of value.

Some cryptocurrencies try to have a part of the generated currency pay toward development effort, but that's not the standard.
This is normal. The Rhodes scholarships you compare with were themselves funded by Cecil Rhodes’ dirty fortune made in Southern Africa: Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
Maybe it isn't actually that big of a problem?
Coal ash, the waste from burning coal has significant amounts of radioactive heavy metals. It is stored in 'ash ponds' which can leach into the ground water and the ash can be blown into surrounding neighborhoods as they are not capped. Analysis of EPA data found that living around a coal plant can give you up to a 1 in 50 chance of cancer.

Clearly a biased source (not necessarily bad though) but the data is likely accurate, make of it what you will.

https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2009/epa-data-show-highe...
I tune out the instant an author resorts to using race to further their argument in this way.

Argue on the technical, socioeconomic, or political merits - don't resort to race-baiting.