skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even treasuries are not risk free, nor are they unbounded. Tether is trying to play in the big league, I'm not certain what the rules are, but I'm pretty sure making 1%-2% annually on the float is a pretty good deal, and that might even be a conservative estimate.

In addition you have to keep in mind that it is also about absolute numbers. No one invested these billions with them, no one is charging them some kind of relative rent. Every dollar is profit. If you could make 0.001% off storing 5 billion, that would still be an attractive business model.
This is what the old inet was about, obsession over freaky things. Not people, not self, not money, not attention.. just obsession with that one topic.
Wouldn't you agree that the disruption caused was a 'good investment' for bringing up the climate crisis higher up the political agenda?

Wales has declared a climate emergency and so has the First Minister of Scotland. Labour are going to launch a bid this Weds to do the same.

“Blaming Extinction Rebellion for causing disruption is like blaming a fire alarm for waking you up in the middle of the night”

XR's strategy seemed to work pretty well so far I would say.
You know how far you are over the ethical line when Zuck tells you to take your shady scheme elsewhere.
Petrol and diesel are not the only form of carbo hydrates in our economy. I agree EVs will likely replace ICE vehicles long before this scales. However, oil is used for a lot of other things as well in our industry, including e.g. plastics, solvents, etc. So having this will help on that front while also allowing us to continue to use combustion engines where that still makes sense. As an energy storage mechanism, petrol/diesel still offer pretty decent energy density. If it can be created cleanly and cheaply, the price won't matter that much. At 1 $/gallon, nobody cared about fuel cost. Hence the popularity of enormously inefficient cars in the US. This stuff has the potential to be cheaper still.
At 8mpg I’ll wait for the electric or mass transit edition.
The oil industry’s FUD has done its job here. I don’t completely understand how they managed to turn this into a partisan left/right issue but hats off to them for understanding how to play the system so well.

Lately I wonder if there are other intelligent species on other worlds that managed to deal with this problem like adults or if technological change always outpaces social and political maturity.
Haven't read the article, don't know anything about their network. Assuming they use a Windows domain for their corp infrastructure.

Lower level Windows authentication mechanisms can't be configured for 2FA. If your active directory domain is functional at all then at the very least your systems need to be able to talk via SMB and ldap to a domain controller. With sufficient privileges you're able to execute code on other machines via either protocol.

You only need an infected machine, not even user credentials, to be able to perform password spraying or kerberoasting attacks.
It'd be cool if people could post about their employer's policy on this. Is to common to warn staff to not travel internationally with their work devices?
There's always the problem of information. I'm certain that basically no citizens know enough about the NSA, the surveillance capabilities and extent of data collection etc to make an informed decision. So they're not really polling what people believe - they're polling what the media companies think which people get their information from.
They claimed this 74% in filings to the NY Supreme Court, so, while I agree it is not as strong as an auditors' report, it is also a bit stronger than a PR release or a Twitter burst.
Before the ACA San Francisco implemented Healthy SF which eventually came to cover every family making up to 500% of poverty levels. It was just slowly phased in over about 5 years.

Key thing I've noted about was it was designed to get people covered and to stay that way. That's the opposite of neoliberal ACA which is designed to be annoying and has traps designed to rat fuck people.
> they don't have up-to-date software I want

I take your multi-machine point but the above just depends on what repository you're pointing at (eg stable, testing, etc) and which Linux distro you're running. You can't really blame apt for being out of date if you're running Debian. And nor could you blame apt for delivering buggy packages if you're running the testing repos on Ubuntu.

It's the same package manager, just different end points.

> Unlike apt/yum nix offers good ways to do this – no cruftiness involved. E.g. you can just write a small file with what you want and you'll get it, on any machine.

Technically you can do that with any package manager - given that's the core point of a package manager :P

I've not used nix (read a little about it but never taken the time to try it) so I can't comment how much easier that makes the process of custom repositories than hosting your own apt or yum repo, but it's not actually hard to do in those two either. Plus you could always compile your own .deb or RPM and install it like a standalone installer (MSI et al).

I've got nothing against nix though. In fact weirdly I think your underselling nix by focusing on the points you have rather than it's major differences from traditional package management.

> That's not what's happened, my VMs where capped at reasonable limits. I used to run some tools for various reasons that could in some scenarios eat a lot of a ram fairly suddenly (I don't think the systems was anywhere close to overloaded CPU wise was true most of the time but I can't vouch I remember this right anymore).

The problem with over commiting is the limits might seem reasonable under normal workloads but when you do end up with an empty bucket you have no safe way to recover from that. Or at least not with desktop virtualisation solutions like VirtualBox. ESXi et al will handle such situations more gracefully because they're designed to over commit during off peak work loads.

That said, I don't know how long ago it was you last did this but a few years ago VirtualBox did add a CPU execution cap in the guest config. IIRC it defaults to 100% but if you're running multiple guests and/or running heavy applications on the host while also running heavy guest VMs then it's worth dropping the CPU execution cap down so the guest cannot lock up the host.

> Either way, I don't think the whole OS falling over because one app wants to consume too much memory and the OS has decided to never say no is reasonable.

I think your expectation here is a little unreasonable to be honest. You cannot drain the host of free system memory and idle CPUs then expect the host to gracefully recover. It's like trying to dowse a fire with an empty bucket. I honestly can't see how OSX would perform any different to Linux in that regard. So you were probably using different virtualisation technologies on OSX (VMWare perhaps?) that handle guests more responsibly.
Wow, an actor of the crypto-verse doing something unethical, almost unheard of.
I think that's backwards. Size and weight of batteries is more of a problem at smaller scales - electric motorcycles get up to around 220 miles (Zero SR) compared with electric cars at 370 miles (Tesla Model S). The Tesla Semi has an advertised range of up to 500 miles.
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I’d strongly disagree, seeing as that filing was in a court they see as a joke

> Bitfinex and Tether dispute that the court has jurisdiction over the companies because, among other reasons, they do not operate in the U.S., and because both companies bar New York residents from doing business on their platforms.
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Nix is similar to Bazel, supports distributed cache + build + CI (via Hydra), and has a huge amount of existing build support tools. It's not typically used as the only build system though; it's more like glue that wires all your build systems together deterministically. Build steps (derivations) are simple bash scripts executed within a sandbox.

The only catch is that while the language and tools are simple, Nix is really a pure functional language and you have to treat your build process like code rather than config. It's easy to go down rabbit holes...

(I considered Bazel but it's very half-baked and lacks all of Blaze's proprietary toolchain support.)
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That's actually backwards. You are in a better negotiating position, when you've had the treatment and been given the bill. You can simply say, I can't afford that bill and I can't pay it. Don't beg or ask. Tell them. The people trying to collect money from you are paid a commission based upon how much they collect.
Saw this BBC story on it last year:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181129-the-underground-cat...
While this is a viable “fix” it once was buried 2 or 3 levels deep in your settings and not modifiable on the fly, if I recall correctly.

Even if it had been implemented in its current form 5 years ago, filtering post audiences still seems to involve a level of added complexity not readily tractable for your run of the mill user.
>China's economy is still cratering.

Except Huawei manage a 30%+ growth in its own region.
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Exactly.

Also, the only real solution for stopping warming is geo-engineering. We'll not have enough clean energy to even think about effective (as in - actually making an impact) carbon recapture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
Thunderf00t will debunk it. ;)
Why does it seem unbelievable? The US is a pathological jurisdiction that frequently tries to indict people with no direct connection to it and extradite them. Avoiding it seems pretty reasonable to me, I'd consider doing the same.

Whether doing so breaks US commercial law seems by-the-by given that they are very pointedly not operating within US jurisdiction.
Same for me - I even do it for things that don't really need a server restart to take effect, just because it's an ultra-quick reflex. It's a non-issue really.
Chicago impounds innocent people's cars
This is one of the very few areas where SV traditional 'startup' thing could actually work and make big difference in the energy as well as environmental field. Other might be battery tech but there are too many serious big competitors there with 100 years of experience, and ample self-funding... But CO2 removal producing fuel from electricity is one such field - it's not taken seriously enough by big players who more pretend to be working on it than they are actually working, it's really overlooked, and there are absolutely zero fundamental reasons why it can't work. And it goes hand in hand with renewable energy, to make perfect use of energy overproduced by intermittent sources, straight on site. Solar cells cost almost nothing, but there is lack of transmission capacity, grid is imbalanced, and corrupt permissioning process is hard to navigate through? Just put that thing straight on site and collect the gasoline once a week using a truck.
Ask HN: How to request a takedown of confidential post on jsfiddle.net?
Over a month now, I accidentally posted an anonymous submission to JSFiddle.

There was no excuse for this other than human error. I was working on development and production at the same time and copied a users personally identifiable from an email template that our production env sent out instead of development. The development is all sanitised but the prod contains the user's name, email and an order reference ID and what they ordered.

I submitted a take down request within 10 minutes of submitting at:

https://airtable.com/shrm1ACZfg5PsTaUa

Every day for a week I altered the reason. It's still not been taken down.

I've tried the GDPR route, the copyright route..

I'm not sure what non-nuclear options I have left?
This poll should provide some context:
https://twitter.com/thecryptomonk/status/1123265349175119872

Seasoned cryptocurrency traders are used to Tether breaking its dollar peg from time to time, its reputation is infamous. Honestly it's a relief that it's not a complete scam, 74% is better than most people expected.

https://imgur.com/42Nn10h
Maybe the Flickr user did buy a license from Google for that particular screenshot that allowed them to publish it as CC BY-SA. How would you verify this? What's the legal situation here? Can Google sue me when I use that image, or do they have to sue the Flickr user?
I am no 'Robin Reliant' fan however they were far more stable in real life than what Jeremy Clarkson would lead you to believe. In the Top Gear show where they rolled the Robin Reliant a few times there was a lot of weight over one side of the vehicle but not the other to make it perform for the cameras.

They were stable and quite nice inside for the time. However, they came with a stigma not from being three wheeled but because they did not require the full driving license. If someone had a Robin Reliant then you knew they couldn't pass their driving test and had gone for the cheesy way out.

They weren't performance cars but they weren't the slowest cars on the roads either. I grew up in the countryside with narrow and very steep roads, there weren't a lot of these three-wheeler things but they actually were suitable for the terrain. Being lightweight helped, and, if you meet an on-coming car in a narrow lane then having the front wheel in the middle has advantages when it comes to 'tucking in'.

Anyway, I am not sure how up to date the article is as the Mercedes 6x6 version of the G-Wagen deserves to be mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_G63_AMG_6x6
Yes, for one it hosts your code on the internet.
Anyone running build servers on Windows, or ReactOS.
This is the first decision in as long as I can remember that I've heard from Australia, in favor of civil righrs.
What is IMDB business model?
This applies for many other aspects of life too.
Didn’t realize the blog was named after a thing. I guess I feel young now.
Who Owns the Law?
> Now they never actually delivered any of that.

Yes they did, they delivered exactly this for years, ever since US banks shut them down. A whole ecosystem was built on top of this which to this day seems to run smooth (poloniex, bittrex, binance).

> And I suspect they did actually make a stack of profit by printing tether and selling them on exchanges. But that makes it a scam because they weren't following their own rules that they laid down at the start.

The only thing that has come to light after numerous of subpoenas and investigations is the Crypto Capital mess. Your claim is very much unsubstantiated. Yes, Bitfinex&Tether did some things against their original promises, but clearly to keep the system running. And clearly with the intention to resolve everything once they got their money from CC back (I'm not saying that was ever going to work).
> Unfortunately, most interesting questions in life don't have single, un-debatable, simple answers.

Because as soon as they have, they stop being interesting.
How much time it took you to get there once you consciously started working towards it? And what path you took? If you don't mind me asking :)
Excellent job. Thanks for all the hard work.

A few usability issues. 1/ Doesn't work without javascript. and 2/ At screen resolution 800x600 the search field gets completely hidden. Shown bellow.

https://imgur.com/a/bPkdOoT
And "socialized" like Github with followers & favs, but without the forks or personalized pages.
Upon reflection, I recall that I've been ripped off in drug deals. Fortunately, I was never robbed outright, but that was always a possibility. And I knew that if I had been robbed, I couldn't file a police report. Even if I'd been injured.

But if my car had been stolen, or my house burglarized, there would have been no such constraint. Unless it was that someone had stolen my drugs, anyway.

Now, though, with so much personal data on devices, any interaction with police entails some risk of disclosure. But I guess that's part of what "outlaw" means. In breaking some laws, you give up protection by others. It's just that we used to have enough privacy to finesse it more.
This post seems very focused on projects with just a single developer. The "recognizing and tagging" versions for example completely breaks down when you have multiple people commit and merging things to master and multiple pipelines running that are trying to recognize and tag versions.
That's not necessarily true though is it?

Two people can have different interpretations of events without one of them making maliciously false allegations. The complainant can have an honest, sincere, belief that they did not give consent.

And, for phone evidence, there are good reasons why a complainant may say one thing to police but something else to friends of the accused.
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> I also can't see how we can have a war amongst nuclear powers. Could we have a peaceful war? Is it possible? Is that what the cold war was?

I'd say the answer is "Look at Syria", proxy wars etc are the current best method for engaging without actually having to fight directly (which just ends super badly as it almost inevitably escalates)
Nix handles this just fine. You should check it out.
If you aiming for community discussions and link sharing, first things that come to mind is https://www.discourse.org/
It's one of the first episodes, like the third or something? In the context of 62 episodes in total, I would consider that to be "at the start".

That said, it's needless verbiage, and removing "at the start" made the paragraph better.
> And global CO2 emissions have spiked far higher and faster than anybody could have imagined due in large part to China's ultra-rapid industrialization.

This is not true. If anything, CO2 emissions were actually slightly overestimated:

The IPCC’s First Assessment Report (FAR) in 1990 [...] featured business-as-usual (BAU) scenario assumed rapid growth of atmospheric CO2, reaching 418ppm CO2 in 2016, compared to 404ppm in observations.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...
Congratulations, this is an idea I’ve long sat on. I used to travel a lot on trains and planes, and always wished there was a way to break the ice with fellow travelers without looking like a psycho or annoying chatterbox (particularly early in the morning). There are additional challenges for those situations (bad connectivity), so I am not recommending to pursue that story, I’m just saying I think you had the right idea. Good luck!
FireChat works over BT without any WiFi.
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It's a loan. The way loans work is that you make payments on them over time. $300,000/day generates ~100mm/year in revenue. That's enough to repay the loan in 7 years. However, the loan is actually for $625 million, so a bit shorter than that. But you get the point.
Well, he probably could have pulled G+ out of the mothballs.
Nice to see AES GCM & ChaCha20-Poly1305 in there. Seems to generally be moving in a good direction.

Now we just need a CA that will offer free S/MIME capable certificates in a space that is rapidly shrinking (Sectigo have recently removed their offering... I think Actalis is now the only CA in this area that's trusted.

Let's Encrypt, will you step up to the mark?
Didn't Sony pick up exfiltration through exceptional data flows?
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“Water is wet”
We're here arguing about whether the defense is any good at their job, but nobody's asking about the long-term CTE caused by the team playing the game in the first place.

If we as a populous were good coaches/managers, we'd be using the players to protect our house, and alert us to better ways to secure it.
I believe OP is talking about relying on ad for monetizing your content.
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You can already chat with avahi.
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I think the point is, it's your/our fucking money, and they should be.
>> But cutting emissions in the United States and Europe isn't going to do anything.

You're right, we shouldn't bother doing anything, we should just tell them to clean up their act.
Uh, I only remember some highlights for some of the bundled software... Something like "if you need a office suite, libre office is available in the store" ...

Are you seriously complaining about that? Or is it something else I just didn't see yet?

Because if it's the former, I sure hope you're not using MacOS, Ubuntu, centos, opensuse or windows either to name a few. They do the same thing after all.
> Facebook doesn't pay $5/month for every discussion group they run.

Yeah, because they run their own highly efficient servers optimized for their own usecases. Of course your average joe can't run a forum for that cheap, that's the whole point of economies of scale.
> But another example could be that they want their Riot to default to their homeserver and not to matrix.org.

This isn't valid. They could absolutely ship Riot with its existing branding, with a config set to use their (or any other) homeserver. The matrix.org homeserver just happens to be the default (at the moment).
To be fair to Facebook (as if they deserve it it), they're fixing this with their focus on Groups. They know people aren't interested in the News Feed any more, so Groups are just another stab at that Circles concept.
For some clients we use tools that alert if large amounts of data are transferred outside the network in a single flow.

So even if it's someone with valid access, it would be investigated immediately.
Anyone who writes like that needs to have a chat with Uncle Bob.
It comes as no surprise that privacy is a joke to Mark Zuckerberg. He’s definately not taking serius the very real concerns of the people.
Given that the malware was seriously breaking shit, it wasn't all that hard to catch. I'm sure that at first they were looking for bugs, and thgen it became clear that it was too intentional.
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Ultimately some tools are meant to be efficiently used, not intuitively used.

A command-line program is not typically intuitive to the average person, it's why we have GUIs, but given enough knowledge of how it works it's very efficient and powerful.
If it's happening...?

I stopped reading. Please educate yourself on the NSA's faculties and budget.
Imagine AWS has the same Developer Experience as Zeit team, AWS could benefit even more from their services. The AWS console and its definitions is too low level to me, hard to grasp quickly to produce something useful.

Congratulation to Zeit team for the effort on DX. Thanks you very much for the inspiration.
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The $3.00/gallon price doesn't pass the sniff test, please tell me what I'm missing:

1 gallon of gas is 33kwh of energy

1 kwh of electricity, wholesale in the US, is approx 3-8 cents or higher, so 1.65-4.4$/GEG of electricity

CO2 to gas process efficiency electrochemical would be optimistic at 60%

CO2 sequestration from air costs 40-120$/tonne, optimistically estimated from not-yet industrially available technology.
That scales by approximately 44/14 or 3x (weight CO2 to CH2) so 120-360$/tonne gasoline. At approx 2.8kg/gal (350 gal/tonne) that is an additional 0.34-1.02$/gal.

So before research amortization, capital, operations, maintenance, transport, and profit I'm seeing an optimistic best-case of a >2$/GEG production cost.

This is of course assuming they can actually do what they are claiming. And that they can do it at scale, at meaningful throughput, and with process stability.
im not sure exactly but i think my old man was at least £50k in debt when he died if not more. my mum retired just after she paid off her mortgage so i guess shes probably worth about £75-95k
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