skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Early adopters are silent, because they have nothing to prove and are too busy enjoying their wealth.

Holders are positive, partly because they have financial motive to do so.

Nocoiners are negative, partly because they are kicking themselves for not cashing in on one of the biggest opportunities of the last decade. They like to see crypto fail so they can say: See, I told you so! and feel better about missing out.

Then there is the perversion of the cryptopunk community, where it became all about greed and hype, and much less about the technology and vision. I wouldn't mind if the greedy folk dropped crypto and it became more about sticking it to the man (because I already largely cashed out, and kinda feel bad for the environment and taking last year's mom-pops Christmas money).

It pays to revisit the very first post on Bitcoin on HN and maybe realize that what HN thinks about crypto is not so relevant as it may seem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

> Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency. - May 2009
I believe that fits the last one, below the main classifications - "salad", where the starch is mixed in with the non-starch instead of wrapping it.
I have the entirely opposite opinion - once you have managed to attack the supply chain and covertly deploy, say, some hardware can write a few hundred arbitrary bytes to the firmware (which was described as the attack vector by Bloomberg), then that's essentially game over. Perhaps designing the hardware hack is easy, but getting the malicious chip on the devices shipping to your targets and keeping it a secret is not trivial.

"communicate with external command&control and know how to read interesting data or send interesting effectful commands to the mainboard." is hard only in the sense that it takes some effort, however, this requires pretty much the same capabilities and skills as every engineered malware we've encountered, so you can assume that every serious adversary can do it, not only nation state adversaries but many serious commercial pentesting companies and cybercrime teams have demonstrated such capabilities.

I can imagine an attacker that can make the "hard" software required but doesn't have the capability to insert that modified hardware within a supply chain - as in, it's not even assumption, for pretty much every intelligence agency it's known that they can easily do software which "would need to communicate with external command&control and know how to read interesting data or send interesting effectful commands to the mainboard" - even just counting things that have failed (because we've detected and analyzed and attributed them), there's clear evidence that they can do it because they've done it many times.

I literally can't imagine an agency that can pull off the supply chain attack but doesn't have the capability to write software to control the board and exfiltrate data.
I thought the same thing, although I have heard it's not the voltage but the current that kills. Also in most modern households(at least in North America), bathroom electrical outlets are required to have a gfi or ground fault interrupt circuit breaker, to prevent accidents like this from killing.
Also, from 18.7 release notes:

For 3 and a half years now, OPNsense is driving innovation through
modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple
and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, HardenedBSD
security, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear
and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing.

Another 6 months passed by ever so quickly! The main goal for 18.7,
nicknamed “Happy Hippo”, is stability so we have not yet begun to adopt
FreeBSD 11.2, but there are several of its Intel NIC driver updates
included to bridge the gap until 19.1 comes out. The upgrade also
includes a tremendous amount of IPv6 improvements including 6RD support
as well as authentication and backup framework consolidation.
Yeah. This was an instant but for me. Knowing his past materials and insight. Any designer would see this as a strong investment. I can use this in future projects and keep this as a reference. Glad it was released.
Except the math is the opposite: for every dollar the IRS spends, people lose 7 dollars.

If all the money were to go to the IRS, congratulations, you achieved communism.
1) OFAC can say what they want, no one is technically barred from sending funds to that account (albeit it may not be in the best interest of the party)

2) Just as a logical proposition is written in law and exploited by persons (Check how often tax laws are updated), unaudited smart contracts will pose a risk. The state of auditing is improving daily

3) This is a disingenuous comparison; in 2018 One ASIC has a mining power of approximately 12 tera-hashes per second. For comparison, in 2013, the total hash rate of the Bitcoin network on April 29, 2013, was 79.02 Th/s.
Whoa! I did not realize that Halliburton was Brown and Root.
Network Identity and Public Key Crypto
I worked for several US-based handset manufacturers as a consultant. It's common to have the handset mfgr host features on its own cloud such that the phone is entirely dependent on it to function: the cloud goes away, large swaths of phone functionality breaks. It sucks but it's true.
Opinion pages are clearly set apart from news reporting. In The Guardian, opinion pieces appear in the "Comment is Free" section.
Do you have data supporting that claim?
I read the paragraph. It says the marginal return is 7:1.

And that's only counting the IRS's side of the costs.
I didn't mean to justify the status quo, merely to point out the difficulties. We should absolutely work to improve things. But we shouldn't do so blindly.
The same thing is also true for computer vision models. A core deep network usually trained either with a dual embedding of associated text against search ranking or trained to predict tags or labels. The output network may be of limited use on the original training task but ends up producing an excellent embedding model by extracting the neurons from some deep layer.

You start automatically encoding your entire image collection and incoming images into that embedding model and rely on it as a lingua franca on which to base all sorts of other companion models like object detection, face recognition, gender/age/ethnicity prediction, spam detection, aesthetic / composition appraisal, caption generation, style transfer etc etc.
From the same source, for some context:

"Proof the IRS Didn't Target Just Conservatives", from early on in the scandal

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/proof-t...

After the evidence was overwhelming and denial was impossible:

"New Documents Show the IRS Targeted 'Progressive' and 'Tea Party' Groups for Extra Scrutiny"

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/new-doc...
The people that direct how taxes are spent have campaigned for a century to make people feel good about paying them.

The truth is revealed when someone refuses to pay, and suddently the prideful contributions become mandatory commandments, under threats of confiscation and ultimately restriction of freedom.
I'm not clear on why you would want TST as an extension rather than built into the browser chrome. It'd be like wanting the tab bar, or the address bar, to be an extension. Those things belong in the browser chrome; they're what the browser chrome "layer" is for. Just dig into the Firefox code and add TST to the browser itself. (It wouldn't be all that much work; it'd just be 1. adding "parent" and "children" properties to tab model-objects; and 2. adding a TST sidebar view-controller, fed from the same data-binding that backs the regular tab bar.)
It's perfectly reasonable, but it's always easier to blame others. Who's forcing you to work at Google? That's really the only job opportunity you have?

In your own link, the only relevant detail is that over half of the Fortune 100 use forced arbitration without a meaningful choice. That's bad, and I already said that it should change, but it means the other half don't have it. Also talking about companies is not the same as your entire industry, so it's not as simple as you make it sound.
Compiler hacking, OTOH is a lot of fun and actually quite rewarding when other devs use your product.
Because you can't see My Pictures and open Office docs via CLI
Neat! Do you know if there's anything in there resembling the rayon::join API? I didn't see anything on a cursory look.
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Check out picolisp. It has a built-in database and can call existing C libraries and Java (using reflection) without any fuss.

Though apparently, it doesn't have lexical closures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16981170
It's a hard nut to crack. What I've done myself is to jump into any book published about Kubernetes and to do some online training through a couple of different MooCs. This may be a good starting point:

https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes#books

https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes#interactiv...
oh wow.. I knew I had seen that word before... yeah I remember Compiz now. loved playing with snap to jelly windows...

the little things that make linux fun.
I'm a fan of IEC, what happened to the Polywell?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_electrostatic_confi...
Um, Compiz is far from little known. When I was in high school (2005-2009) I remember installing linux for the first time on my main computer because of Compiz. The animations for switching between desktops looked very futuristic. It was cool to play with but because I built my computer for gaming Linux didn't really cut it for me. I even tried it again after watching a video about how WoW ran faster on wine on Linux than it did on XP. I distinctly remember the cube desktop switcher animation from Compiz in that video.
I read this as "We've conducted a thorough review and made sure we've covered all tracks"
Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections
While I can understand the distaste for "dialog overload" the alternative being proposed here is that my service is broken for my users, or they go into `about:config`. My average user doesn't know, or care, what `about:config` is, so that's a non-starter. (Many of them are lost just going through the usual Preferences.) -- Plus I wouldn't want them to enable autoplay globally just to use my service.

At least with the webcam/microphone/notification APIs the average user has a chance at understanding what's going on, they are not being given the same choice here, and that's what I take issue with. Believe me I get it: every week there's some site that makes me go "what on earth do they need push notifications for?" -- I'm still happy to make that choice, though.

If this is about giving the user's more control over what they see: then the setting should not be hidden in about:config, full stop. I know this may be lost on the HN crowd, but doing that relegates the functionality to a small fraction of power-users.
Wow, looks like Go 2 might actually be usable.
The value proposition of bitcoin was a mathematical limit of supply in a decentralized currency.

A million currencies per day popping up essentially kills the supply limit which causes rapid, catastrophic inflation.

It’s exactly the same thing as printing money with a whole lot of people trying their hardest to convince that it’s not.
Thanks for coming on OP. Am wondering if you have any plans on sharing the code as well?
That's misleading at best (GUI windows apps that technically can be emulated from the commandline often practically cannot be--CLI tools or the registry/config-file interactions required to perform actions that are clearly exposed and well-documented in the GUI often have nonexistent or terrible documentation. In even marginally complex apps, this puts the effort required to script the functionality of the GUI on par with the effort of reverse engineering it--and that's Microsoft-authored tools and Windows functionality, which is worlds ahead of most third-party software in scriptability) and just plain false at worst (huge swaths of stuff just don't have APIs that are accessible without writing and compiling code--PowerShell and very aggressive pushes by Microsoft for WMI/CMI and WinRM more recently have only just begun to erode that).
At least crypto is way more censorship resistant than oldschool money. That's why it is called "censorship resistant" not "censorship proof". Claim stands.

Make a Jewish joke and Paypal will not be your friend. Piss of governments and Visa and Mastercard will make it impossible to donate to your cause.
Yes yes yes. A friend used to call compiz the “dancing balogney” of Linux. I agree.
i wouldn’t necessarily call it a knock-off. i could be wrong, but looks like spaces first came to OSX in 2006, which is the same year that compiz launched

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaces_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz
I remember when they could ship booked undamaged. Those were good times.
Heroin is a commodity drug. Unlike pot, LSD, and shrooms, heroin and other opiates are must-haves because they are so addictive. There is literally a steady pace at which the users require it, different though it may be per user. Without heroin, the user is in serious pain and suffering. This basically means there is tremendous and steady demand for heroin, and thus suppliers have the upper hand.

On the black market Tor sites, a lot of the forum transcripts you read insinuate that, while initial contacts may be made on these markets, some people were and are moving very large quantities of drugs through outside agreements. I've seen forum threads describing transactions between two parties that grew up to the $100k range, but of course, the side that money was transferred to vanished immediately.

That means the black market sites and escrow systems are basically mandatory for these transactions to take place reliably, and thus, the market for them is out in the open, with visible pricing.

In the end, the one thing that was lacking in this market was the BitCoin. High demand, low supply. Thus, the market cap of BitCoin quickly rose toward being an equivalent for the entire black market worldwide, but a better proxy for that, with a steadier definition and a fairly tight correlation to the whole shebang that is illegal commerce, is heroin.

So while black market transactions in general are what really made BitCoin what it was, heroin was the only real commodity being traded that could be considered to be something similar to gold, oil, or pork bellies: more traditional goods for which the market has steady demand.

I capitalized for emphasis. I consider Heroin to be sort of a synecdoche for the pricing of the black market. Heroin is the S&P 500 of the black market.
And receive answers like, "A faster horse."
So according to you Facebook is not responsible for Cambridge Analytica scandal.
ASN.1 DER (the variety used for X.509) is IMHO quite easy to parse. It's a TLV (tag-length-value) format, so you know the lengths of every value before reading the value itself, and you don't even need to know the length to check the tag and fail if it's unexpected. Very much unlike text-based protocols that require skipping arbitrary amounts of whitespace and reading until you see a delimiter (or an arbitrary limit is reached), dealing with case-insensitivity, comments, etc.
there's a difference between investing and speculation. angel investors should "invest"
The current price on .scot domains is $49. Perhaps you're seeing a difference due to exchange rate? This is the first and only report I've ever heard of Gandi even remotely doing something like this. Unlike Google, Gandi actually does live up to its motto. And like Google, if they ever fail I'm ready to jump ship.

On what date was this picture taken?

[Edit] I just checked the exchange rate on google and 49usd is 67aud. Looks like it was just an exchange rate mixup on your part.
Verizon says its media brand including Yahoo and AOL is essentially worthless
Thanks for the tutorials and for keeping them up to date. I’m probably not their target audience for the most part, but when I need to do something in an unfamiliar stack, [stack name] + digitalocean is usually my first search. Wish you guys had a little more of a professional oriented products (think AWS/GCP) and no ‘max 10 servers’ kind of rules so I could use it.
Unfortunately, Compiz seems not to be actively maintained since 2016. It looks like the development is suddenly stopped. It is quite surprising to me considering the fame in the past. I'm kinda wondering what happened to them.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/compiz
If you think Ethereum is a way to buy (inefficient) computation, you have completely misunderstood what it is.

As for fundamentals, it is obviously a technological product, with people working on improving it and building services based on it.

It's also trying to solve a rather hard problem, as it turns out. It's possible that it simply isn't good enough at solving that problem yet (too many bugs or whatever).
"Even making objects flat at the nanometer scale is quite difficult."

Lapidary flat laps regularly get down to 125nm fineness (that's 200,000 grit) with very little issue.
I’ve always been concerned the majority of trading was done by large players manipulating the markets through churning and pump and dump.

With truly anonymous participants, what’s stopping someone from trading with himself over and over again, creating the illusion of trading volume and price appreciation?
For 4, you’re able to hide the Firefox tab bar with some css in userChrome.css now. I’m using tree style tabs and have hidden the default tabs as my daily driver.
Genuinely wondering which Linux distros/desktop environments you've tried. I think Elementary and Gnome 3 Ubuntu are both incredibly well-polished, so much more so than Windows. And all the Windows fans I work with complain that Office 2016 crippled their workflow in some way and hid features.
If this is about giving the user's more control over what they see: then the setting should not be hidden in about:config, full stop. I know this may be lost on the HN crowd, but doing that relegates the functionality to a small fraction of power-users.

You know what, I think we agree! That's two votes for "move some stuff out of top-secret about:config and into Settings where the mortals can actually use it, it's useful for them."
It's very hard for humans, much less algorithms, to quickly distinguish marginalized speech of the legitimate, unpopular, thought-leading, high-integrity from conspiracy theorist, utopian, pipe-dream, violence-advocating, mystical nonsense without a deep evaluation of a large sample of content, including understanding satire, snark and comedy. Jimmy Dore, Chris Hedges, Phil Donahue come to mind as marginalized, reliable sources.

Maybe some obvious topics can be blacklisted if they're repeatedly, seriously mentioned like chemtrails, anti-fluoridation, anti-vaxx, zero-point energy, pizzagate and antisemitic conspiracy theories... and an appeal for those who get caught up in a comedy refrain.
To be fair to Kodak, it is very hard to invent digital photography but fail greatly to use it. Or Xerox, ... or IBM who is the largest PC seller exactly the time when it was overwhelmed by Microsoft.

An organisation large enough would have middle management and people who promote from within. And they are successful in one culture and it worked even for customers.

Then ...
Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing
> People ahem really need to update their thinking of what it means to be Windows.

Why? What benefit is there to me using windows rather than a proper operating system?
For-Profit College Chain Closes, Shutting Out Nearly 20k Students
Just what we need — more sirens. Like car alarm sirens, which are enormously effective ;)

Which go off randomly and in most cities, you can have one going off next to you and you would think everyone around it is deaf by their complete lack of care over your car being stolen. You think people are going to care more about a...scooter?
Citation desprately needed.

I would theorize the opposite.
It's even north of 30k at places like John's Hopkins in super cheap Baltimore (and this was more than 10 years ago when I left)
One consequence is that when trying to have rational discussions it is necessary to try to dig in to identify all of people assumptions

A coworker of mine who once worked at Symbolics used to call this, "Applied Philosophy."
Ask HN: How can I spend my time on the bus productively?
I am about to start a job where I will have to commute ~1.5hr each way to/from work whenever I can't work from home. I won't always have a seat, so being able to use a laptop isn't guaranteed. Is there anything other than reading I could do to improve my skills during this period? (Relevant areas are programming, security, machine learning)
Arts Meets Science and Chemistry Wins the Day
It's scary how populous the island of Java has become. Between Java and northern India, the way the map represents people, it looks like the land is overrun by people. Of course there are other high density areas but much of Africa and the Americas and obvs Siberia look like they have ample open lands without much people.

I hope economic growth and education kick in and allow some of these rapidly growing populations to stabilize. circa 100 million in the Pearl river delta --imagine a drought there.
Show HN: Crypto Asset Price Opportunity Discovery
They understood the GUI couldn’t be everything but NIH was definitely in full swing at that time. It was enforced from the top: If you wanted to use an external product and MSFT had a competitor you needed VP approval. Same went for Open Source. Only the most senior people would even attempt it, and it was understood they were spending political capital.

The one place this didn’t apply was your choice of code editor. You could use whatever you wanted and that had long been tradition. I spent a lot of effort getting VIM to work only to realize it didn’t scale well to multi-million LOC code bases.
I am someone who spends a great deal of my time reading about blockchain and attempting to separate hype from fundamentals.

There is a growing body of nuanced evidence that it's not the case that "it is scams on top of scams" and "the whole space is a joke".

(This isn't the same thing as saying "the price is going to the moon".)

I'm involved with https://augur.net. In a few years time, Augur will be the backbone of a new generation of entertainment, trading, and forecasting products. These products will have lower capital requirements as they effectively outsource the financial bits to Augur. Users of these products have self-sovereign control of their assets (ie. private keys; the emerging phrase for this is "non-custodial") which is a benefit over centralized alternatives.

Most products built on Augur will constitute a form of gambling, but unlike gambling on a dice roll, this gambling is more akin to trading stocks, with randomness and strategy.

Also, Vitalik Buterin tweeted yesterday on non-financial applications of blockchains https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/107215895799977164...
Hello,

Likewise for me, I would love if I could reach out to you. I had applied awhile back and hadn't gotten a response, and did not have any way I could mention that I saw the post here. Would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
The difference is that the relative cost of everything is skewed so far out of proportion to what other engineers work with that it's hard to account for the differences

Also, the industry has been pretty cavalier about measuring those costs, especially when it comes to programmer time.
Was this a professional post-grad program (MBA, Law, etc)?