skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the part where they reveal how they plan to negotiate with regulators:

"At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more cash transactions — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that features regulated on and off ramps with proper know-your-customer (KYC) practices, combined with the ability for law enforcement and regulators to conduct their own analysis of on-chain activity, will be a big opportunity to increase the efficacy of financial crimes monitoring and enforcement"

In other words: let us do Libra and we'll help you win the war on cash.

The biggest blow on privacy in the world's history, brought to you buy Facebook.
I read "drop-in" as dropped in to new code. Certainly this could never be dropped in transparently at an OS or processor level. As long as the change is opt-in, neither of the things you mention are problems. I think a new world where programmers don't have to be aware of negative zeros, etc, would be appealing to a lot of people.
My child learned to read using phonics. We didn’t use this book though. At some point she asked us what the squiggly black “pictures” in her book were. Once she figured out that we weren’t just making up the stories and that they were there for anyone to read she was motivated. Then reading time basically became sounding out words with her until she could read. We were lucky to have access to a lot of books very cheaply and some good libraries in walking distance which helped.
And depending on where you are, it may be an international SMS, which will either cost a lot or just fail silently.
Stayed on that call for over 3 hours and I just have to say that it was one of the best experiences I've had on the internet in years.

People behaved pretty good considering it was a random public Zoom call (except for a few trolls, but nothing really bad).

It just felt like the internet of yore where random people would meet and chat and just be nice to each other.

Lots of interesting topics, people from all over the world, lots of surprised faces, random camera sights out the window, someone with a unicorn mask...

It was a blast. Thank you Jonathan for a great time!
My interpretation of your comment is that if someone applies their experience and expertise during a code review, and comes up with issues or suggestions that are not part of a written standard, then you will assume that your evaluation (maybe of the merits of the case, or perhaps just the importance) is more worthwhile/accurate than theirs.

Also, your preferred approach is to passive aggressively let the PR sit until external pressures build enough to force it through.

Do I have that right? If so, I personally find that to be a deeply problematic approach. Though I can imagine situations where it would be defensible and even optimal -- but those situations would involve working with idiots and/or control freaks. In which case my preferred approach would be to find a different place to work.
I've got school aged kids in the UK, and I've never seen anything other than phonics as the way to teach reading.

Seems to work just fine, never came across a kid who couldn't read quite soon after they started being taught.

But of course that may just be my particular environment.
Just to be that guy: using two names very similar to eachother (especially for a non-native speaker) is very confusing for examples like this.
Ray Kroc was already a successful salesman by most ordinary standards, and then became extraordinarily successful. Walter White narrowly missed out on a place as a co-founder of a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company. Neither is really a late bloomer.
The absolute greatest discovery I made on this article is oulipo.social, a social network where the letter e is banned. The text on the page has to be one of the greatest things I have witnessed in a long time. There is a fully functional and amazingly well written FAQ all without the letter e: https://oulipo.social/about/more

Here’s question 6 from that page for a taste:

What synonym should I sub in for [x]?

Try to stop looking for synonyms; if you try to swap out individual words, you'll find it tough going. Pull back and think abstractly about what you want to say and find words for that.
Unlimited message retention. Different bells and whistles.
Was i was trying to say was mainly that saying please implies that what is asked is more of a personal taste, and not an objective thing that really should be fixed.

If it's really something subjective I would say "This would be nicer if..." or "I think that could be changed to..."
Instead of formulating some almost passive-aggressive request with "please".
It does tree-to-tree comparison for deducing exact changes, and it can also, optionally, use file system change notifications to schedule the actual runs.
There really are some amazing nurses and nurse practitioners out there. I am unhealthy and I have at least 1 medical appointment per week. I am literally indifferent to having a nurse practitioner or a medical doctor as my care provider.

Anyways, my endocrinologist is a nurse practitioner with a masters degree. I have a very rare autoimmune neurological disease, that affects my peripheral nervous system, that was initially blamed on type 1 diabetes complications.

In fact, its onset was so insidious that it looked just like "diabetes complications." My endocrinologist (you know, the nurse practitioner with a masters degree) sent my blood to the only lab in the US that tests for the disease I have...and it came back positive.

The rest is really history, and now I am getting proper treatment for it.
You teach Russian or Spanish with phonics. You teach Chinese with whole-word. English needs a bit of both, since it is mostly phonetic.

An on-demand approach to phonics works very well. The rules and exceptions are pointed out as mistakes are made. This avoids the boredom of drilling endless phonics rules and the long-term difficulty of whole-word.

A common mistake with phonics is the accidental association of specific vowels with consonants. For example, B is not buh. It is equally bye, boo, bah, and so on. When describing the sound B makes, it is best to always resist giving just a single example. Instead: babe, boob, Bob, bib, bub. That mistaken association causes trouble when sounding out words, because the extra vowel ends up in the resulting word. Something like "baby" turns into buh-ay-buh-ee with 4 syllables.

Untreated speech problems also interfere, no matter if you want to call them accents or dialects or whatever. It is common to fail to distinguish running from run-in, or pin from pen. It is common, particularly in New England, to drop or add an "R". This makes reading so much harder. Teaching a person to read can easily turn into speech therapy.

Late readers face the additional problem of not wanting to read books that parents would buy for 4-year-old kids. (the intersection of things 4-year-olds like and the things that won't offend or embarrass parents) There really isn't much adult fiction with the vocabulary at the level of The Cat in the Hat.
Do you have screenshots that can demonstrate this? I'm surprised to hear it, I'm fairly picky about visual quality but I've never noticed an issue with PDFs on MacOS or iOS. Never used a low PPI screen with them though.
> What's your point?

You said that the U.S. president controls the Fed, and that is just objectively incorrect. My point is to correct that, so that you and anyone else reading will know better. I thought that was pretty clear.

> AFAIK he also technically has the power to fire him too.

No, he doesn't, so your knowledge doesn't go very far here.

And by the way, although the U.S. president nominates the Fed chair, he or she must be approved by the U.S. Senate. So the president can't pursue a specific monetary policy agenda via an appointee unless the Senate agrees.

> Can you use the dollar to buy food at a foodstand in Germany? No.

Sure, but the dollar is used for more international trade (e.g. oil) than any other currency, and is also a store of wealth probably more than any other currency.

For instance, many Germans hold dollars in the form of US Treasuries, because they actually pay a positive yield, unlike German government debt.

Anyway, if you are afraid of Libra, and I'm with you on that. The solution is decentralized currency like bitcoin, not fiat. The Fed is pursuing a long-term suicidal interest rate policy (too low) and the ECB is no better off. Plus, the U.S. government has started using dollar banking regulation as an international weapon (e.g. Iran sanctions), so there is a rising risk that eventually other countries will wise up and stop using the dollar, and that will destabilize it.
I have, but never got around to doing it. All other utilities (Diskovery, CCSIOBench, etc.) are like that though already.
Matrix is a distributed (federated) protocol, I also run my own server.

However, I have not yet advertised it to my family, because that would mean having to maintain a high uptime.

To alleviate this, decentralised user accounts would be needed, which [1] is about.

[1]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/915
> like in small stores that can’t really afford to have a credit card terminal

Remember that most of those small stores are able to do this by breaking the terms of service. Accepting MobilePay is NOT free for business, it's not even cheap. As a customers is pretty easy to spot, if the stores MobilePay number is just their phone number, they're breaking the terms of service, and you should pay cash.
Yeah, mouse support seems a little pointless at the best of times but in vim it’s down right annoying.
I really like this line of thinking. But also I have noticed that schools do not teach our children enough of any particular skill to be competent. It is true that to achieve mastery one must see more broadly. But I think also that to achieve mastery one must have achieved competence. One must have obtained a cup to empty, in Zen parlance. Before we can forget the details, we must learn them. Before we can overcome our preconceptions, we must form them.
We do a free schooling approach. My daughter speaks 3 languages and learned to read all 3 simultaneously on her own* once she was ready (around 9). I felt a lot of pressure from everyone (family, friends, etc.) to teach her earlier, but now she reads just as well as her peers, and most of her peers/friends only speak/read one language.

*literally on her own in that one day she wanted to learn to read, so we got a stack of books and she started stumbling through each word and asking how to pronounce it. She already knew some words from the environment, which provided the foundation. I also guided her on the books to choose so that she wouldn't feel overwhelmed, which was in the beginning board books for babies, that way she could feel satisfaction without giving up.
The people on the other side of that controversy have the opposite opinion, and are just as sure of it as you are.

The truth is that these narratives are all made up, based on however what people notice passes through whatever filters they have. That's also why these digressions are so tedious—they're self-referential projections.
Thanks for the FYI, should be working as expected now.
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Yes, that's a hard bug to catch, but if the mantra of "every floating point comparison must use a context-appropriate epsilon" is followed, then it wouldn't have happened in the first place.
When I was a runner, I had a resting heart rate in the low 50s. While running I would hover at 180bpm. Now that I’m sedentary (knee accident) I have a heart rate in the 70s.

There are about 10k minutes per week and I ran for about 300 of them. That means my active lifestyle had about 588k beats per week and my sedentary lifestyle has about 750k beats per week. Sedentary life added about 27% total heart rate.
It's a tough question isn't it? One we've tried to answer a good many times as a species. The last sincere attempt may be considered to be the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; that an individual may live freely regardless of race, color, sex, religion, political opinion, etc. That seemed contradictory at the time, bit it was always predicated on the idea that no one could ever affect the ability of another to live their life in a free way.

It's just funny to see the same old argument brought up the thousandth time with maybe a slight context change to the last.
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What reinstall feature?
Aside of success != happiness - I really do NOT know what I'm supposed to do. I'm in corporate world since 2005, I'm doing OK, but not great and I'm dreaming of success, which to me means:

1. work for myself, not for any company - that's hard to start because of mortgage and kids which are taking 90% of my free time

2. Earn around the same money I have now

3. Have something that can grow, doesn't have to be fast growing, just a bit quicker than inflation.
I have some experience with this, you can use javascript on the https:// meeting link to detect if the app protocol (zoom:// or whatever) exists. If the app protocol exists then go straight to the app protocol link. If it doesn’t then prompt the user to download and install Zoom. The JS is a bit messy and requires a few different approaches but it works on all popular browsers on Windows and Mac (Linux support wasn’t needed, so not sure).

Of course, the browser will pop up a confirmation dialog to ask if you want to open the Zoom app but this is a feature not a bug.
I really wish people wouldn’t trying “hacking” education. Sure the system has its faults but it’s far better than the alternatives (eg waiting until your child is 9 before teaching them to read).

Ultimately it’s your own children that your disadvantaging in life.
Blocked in China too.
Ironically the URL for the FAQ contains the forbidden later, but it sure sounds like a cool concept.
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Maybe the ransomware author used someone else's library instead of implementing textbook RSA from scratch.

It also occurs to me that (unfortunately) the ransomware setting may be one where comparatively few kinds of attacks are feasible. The ransomware will encrypt one short fixed-length random value (chosen by itself, not the user) once and then stop. The public key is presumably fixed and was most likely generated offline using a separate tool like OpenSSL.

The decryption presumably happens only on the ransomware author's infrastructure and is gated by a payment, so it's potentially hard to perform oracle attacks (and perhaps different kinds of decryption failures don't produce meaningfully different observable behavior, especially if a human being is in the loop returning the decryption tokens to the ransomware victims who've paid the random).
I'm pretty skeptical about Libra overall.

In the case where it succeeds massively as in some of Matt Levine's recent thought experiments, I'm not convinced that Facebook has captured enough of the US regulatory framework for them to turn a blind eye to a new global currency which eventually rivals or overtakes the dollar in usefulness. If we accept, for example, that needing to buy and sell oil in dollars allows for a much more effective sanctioning infrastructure then it seems unlikely they will let a corporate-controlled currency whose ideals don't align explicitly with those of the US get too powerful without a fight.

In the other case, where it just becomes a data-hoarding venmo, but initially for the unbanked global poor, I'm not convinced that a) those people are truly sitting around unable to transact while they wait for Facebook to provide the solution and b) that a payment token which is pegged to a basket of global currencies rather than their own is truly the solution that these people would be seeking.

Now, the (theoretical) implementation makes it look more like it's aimed towards the first scenario, some kind of global-corporatist dystopia which we as a society walk into blindly because it's conveniently available within WhatsApp.

And I don't doubt the value of convenience, nor that there are some very smart people behind this who may have estimated that with the right implementation and dark enough patterns, they can use their market share to break through the latter scenario and into the first. But these are interesting times - I don't expect governments to sit on their hands, and we're not exactly in the midst of a surge in the popularity of globalism right now.
We do that, but usually only when the two threads were concurrent. Five days is probably too much of a stretch.
Not sure I understand your point here. You're saying that in a production environment you'll write production quality code, but if you ask about the code style before the technical interview and are told to write production quality code you'll excuse yourself?

That just implies you can't, or can't be bothered, to write high quality code in a technical test. Why would you imagine an employer is going to overlook that and think you'll write better code if you get the job? That makes no sense.
No jasonvorhe wasn't suggesting that, you are. He just said it was sad this guy is still getting airtime and attention. He didn't call for him to be banned from any domain, or propose any other course of action. And ESR isn't entitled to free airtime from any platform he wants. I sure don't know how you leaped to the mistaken conclusion of "forbidding" him from "all domains" or "erase other humans from public discourse" (italics yours) from what jasonvorhe said.

I'd be happy for him to show his face around here and explain himself, rather than sending over his flying monkeys in spandex to speak for him, like he does to slashdot!

https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14122674&cid=58734...

Yes, THAT Jay Maynard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9dutFhebw4
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines ignoring our request to stop. I held off as long as I could, but this is egregious.

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Reminds me of CRAM dots on the Sega Genesis: https://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega_Drive/Palettes_and_CRAM#CRAM...
> But then the gesture doesn't correspond to the interface at all.

I remember learning soft synths when I was 11 - 12 years old and back then it maybe took me a few minutes to get it. Come on.
There's already a feeless, decentralized cryptocurrency which settles transactions in less than a second.

https://nano.org

Libra's selling point will be FB's onboarding of users. It would not be unreasonable to expect dark patters there.
You are right, technology is much ahead but politics back in 1930s.
> not wanting to read books that parents would buy for 4-year-old kids

Similarly, children's books can be great for learning a foreign language, except that they're children's books. It's hard to find simple language books to practice with.
That's a bit myopic. I think it's more a sense of values which is often having similar belief systems. Right now you have pointless devil's advocacy from manga-profile-pictured nobodies looking to assert their own masturbatory 'intellectual dominance'. Most people just don't want this on their platform at all and fundamentally don't agree with this level of muh free speech. This is why many users have sought a haven in Mastodon, like the LGBTQ+ community. Not engaging with these trolls isn't trying to create an echo chamber at all; this is allowing these communities to voice their thoughts and opinions without the malice of people not on the same ethical page.
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Miners don't really have much control in the bitcoin ecosystem.

Also, the composition of large miners changes over time and can adjust organically, unlike membership in the Facebook coin cabal.
Yeah they don’t fall apart after a couple of years. After 20 though those earlier plaits weren’t made to the same standard with the same material. Get off your ignorant horse?
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Imagine you live in Zimbabwe in 2008, or Argentina now, where people have no faith in their central banks to responsibly manage their money supply. Then ask yourself what's the value of a portable, anonymous, relatively stable currency that your government can't easily manipulate or confiscate.
Technically true! What I said was that it was missing the point, not that it wasn't literally true :)
Designing a VGA card precursor on breadboards -- Brilliant!

Should be the very first video any would-be VGA card designer views... (I want to design one in the future...)
This. After-sales service and support have kept me on Apple hardware for years and will do for years to come - butterfly keyboard or no. When there’s a problem, in my experience they own it.

Shudder to think what it’s like to get through on phone support and/or file a warranty claim with Dell, Microsoft, what have you. No thanks.
One could then put a hydroelectric power plant between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea - the influx of water through the damn could probably be balanced by evaporation in the Mediterranean Sea... I haven’t done the math on it though.
"Support for SAMBA quirks" As someone who has worked with a lot of NAS products, i can relate to this a lot.
I haven't read the article, just imagining how money laundering works, I assume you find a not too scrupulous guy with a nice apartment who needs cash. You give him some dirty money in exchange for the deed. You then take out a loan using your new place as collateral.
Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd
There was code in between that could have changed the value, but it was never triggered in the bug case.
It kinda means working for free for another company though...
Please don't do flamewars here and please don't go back to breaking the site guidelines again. Regardless of how wrong or annoying it feels like the other person is.

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Absolutely, and the fix involved adding a tolerance check. Not my code, I was the new guy at the time, and my job was trying to fix the bugs nobody else wanted to deal with...