skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that cryptos are going to become more popular in the coming years with the ordinary people. As for the businesses — they don't want to own them, since they are not widely recognized currencies. When CBDCs come along, that would be a totally different story. They will be likely just made the official currencies of their countries.

Having said that, I can see a case for payment systems to start transacting in existing cryptos, so long as they can satisfy the regulators. They already do that with different real-world currencies. When you have a card in one currency and a business charging you in a different currency, the payment processor does automatic conversion between them for you. With cryptos, everything works the same way, except there may be a crypto-exchange in the middle. The payment processor just needs to guarantee the delivery and some stable exchange rate.

Admittedly, these are not pure crypto transactions. But businesses can already do those directly over blockchain. The major thing stopping them is that there are few other businesses who would accept crypto. Hopefully, payment processors adding support for cryptos could move everyone else to broader adoption.
> My moral intuition says that when deciding a question like this, one should imagine that the valuable object belongs to society and disregard who actually gets the benefit.

How do you decide when to apply this kind of thinking?

For example, if you believe I'm making poor use of my car and you think you could do more good with it, does that make it OK to steal it, on the basis that humanity still has the same number of cars and now one of them is being used more effectively?

I'm not saying it's wrong to pick a dollar up off the floor, just that I'm not convinced the reason it is OK is the reason you gave. I think the reason it is OK to pick a dollar up off the floor is because that dollar basically belongs to nobody at that point.

Casey Neistat has a good video on this topic: The Ethics of Stealing a Bike ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW6gGyfxn1U ) where he argues that it's never OK to steal someone's bike, but it is OK to steal "nobody's bike", i.e. a bike that has clearly been abandoned.
Ahh... that's enlightening and helpful. Reading up now. Thanks for sharing.
No, nothing about destroying. It's just you cannot know something sufficiently at infinite precision due to uncertainty principle. It just depends if maximally allowed knowledge of all of person's chemical states is sufficient to reproduce consciousness "sufficiently" closely (I bet it is).
I believe it to be no negative impact with one parachute failure and survivable with up to two parachutes of four failing. Down to just one parachute is probably bad news, and if they all fail then you die. Just like every other capsule.

Propulsive landing was not qualified, nor likely even finished, so I very much doubt it shipped. An untested propulsive mode is a significant liability.
china cheats, they even cheat their own kind

take that for argument
It's pretty meaningless on motorcycle too. Even aviation with their culture and checklists isn't that.
Because you're curious you get my curious answer.

Philosophically I would argue yes, all organisms are capable of swarming. I do not think any species has been able to sufficiently adapt or evolve unless in copious and sufficient populations which requires some kind of implicit understanding of sheer numbers. Swarming only requires computation at the local level. Which is to say, swarming is an emergent behavior from being able to self-organize. I would imagine most organisms have some kind of drive for attraction and repulsion, whether its mates or predators. Those two instincts can drive the computation for swarming. I'm kind of applying some semantic flourish here but avoidance is kind of vaguely high-level concept for computational behavior. It's definitely not as cut and dry as what I said but you can certainly program it that way if you have a high-level language. I'm not saying it's difficult to understand by the way, I'm saying it's hard to write out predict complex behavior from simple rules because it's hard to simulate those systems. Self-organization falls into like, computational reality theories that are way above my head but a good place to start is cellular automata's theories of complexities.

Shorter answer: almost everything living on this planet is still here because it exploits some kind of metaheuristic that increases its advantage from there being more of it. To massage your statement, I think almost everything exhibits some kind of swarm intelligence. I think it's philosophically simpler to argue the following procession of ideas that swarm intelligence is a metaheuristic algorithm, all life is capable of computing these algorithms, but then ask the question what the hell is life exactly?

I'm being handwavy here because I don't have a rigorous definition for life and therefore can't answer you directly. Some kind of computational substrate that mutates and replicates? That's von Neumann's definition I think. You could probably do without mutation! Death and radiation already provide those conditions for you. Again, I'm curious as to how we self-organize in the first place. The hard part isn't how do we know how to fit ourselves into a larger system, but how do we reduce ourselves to a single unit? What makes an individual organism at a higher-level of abstraction one cohesive thing when it's actually made of layers and layers of processes?

Do viruses swarm? If you follow what I just said, that's if viruses compute the algorithm. But do they compute at all if they're technically just data? Is information itself a computer? What are we but games within games within games?

Nature really is the best computer science teacher if you want to be brutally effective at being inefficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metaphor-based_metaheu...
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Correct. Twilio does not give out any proper mobile phone numbers. Therefore you cannot send SMS from a twilio number to a short-code.
You'd want any interface like this to only be accessible over JTAG/serial in order to help prevent bad actors from recruiting the devices for Mirai-style botnets. Additionally, DNN NLP AI really isn't possible on these devices.

The ESP8266 microchip is very popular for use with consumer IoT, because it includes not only a microprocessor with full TCP/IP software stack included, but also WiFi hardware that's compatible with most consumer WiFi systems, all on a 5mm x 5mm x 1mm IC. However, it doesn't even have enough computation power to implement 802.11x WiFi certificate authentication for standard enterprise WiFi environments. There's no hope for implementing an NLP DNN AI on chips like this. You'd "need" to upgrade from a $2 microchip to a $100 IoT Edge AI chip like Coral or Jetson, and now each of your $30 IoT light switches would cost $130 instead and consume much more power.

You could instead have a pretty standard telnet access with 'help' functions like most *nix programs have, but enabling any kind of telnet/SSH is often a big security risk with IoT devices.
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> Censorship is so repugnant, yet so complicated.

The court ordered Facebook to ban sock puppet accounts controlled by people suck as the leader of Bolsonaro's party and a major backer that were used to spread libellous accusations targetting anyone or anything that might jeopardize Bolsonaro's political plans.

Prevention's someone from creating a false profile to persecuted you with fabricated accusations is hardly censorship. In fact libel and slander laws are not censorship.
Reading an article from 1995 with its original typos and all. Its funny reading someone criticising the lack of proper editing when there are a couple obvious misspellings by the author.
> You'll never have a password sent over the wire.

As far as I can see, you do need to send the full password over the wire once when you set its value. But the server doesn't need to remember it.

> For some reason PAKE schemes aren't that commonly used despite having a solid grounding.

It doesn't look like something you can implement unilaterally. How's browser support?

(Interestingly, I guess you could implement it unilaterally between your server and client-side javascript...)
And even when the screen UI crashes.
My mother's house gets an extraordinary 0.25 Mbit/s download rate. I didn't measure the upload.

50 metres uphill, there's a 4G signal which gets >20 Mbit/s download.

But ADSL is only 0.25 Mbit/s, and that's what you're getting in the shadows.

It's sold as "up to 8 Mbit/s".
So basically the same thing as the NSA, neat.
That looks fun. But in practice, from your video it seems you need to keep the implant extremely close, and hold it near the chip reader for a few secs before it’s recognized and accepted. That’s a major downside. I use Apple Pay and swing my phone somewhere close near it and it’s done within a second.
The profits are far more concentrated than before, and there are fewer public companies than before.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/business/shrinking-stock-...

You can also easily see this in the reduced bargaining power of the bottom 3 to 4 quintiles of the American people, as evidenced by their stagnating or declining pay and higher volatility in the demand for their labor.

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-...
Tax law does occasionally change, and it can influence your most optimal financial path. For example, with the 2017 federal tax cuts capping SALT deductions at $10k, mortgage interest deduction went away for high-income earners in high-income states. The loss of a tax benefit makes home-ownership a slightly less attractive option.

In California, a single person pays $10k in state income tax on an income of about $142,510.

It's good to pay attention somewhat regularly, as it could impact planning. Annually, limits for 401(k)'s and IRA's are re-assessed, as well. When possible, you should take full advantage of completely filling tax-advantaged accounts (and not relying on last year's numbers).
Child porn carries very steep mandatory minimums. It is common for defendants to settle for a plea deal under the minimum.
> If your server is compromised, you don't want it handling plaintext/raw password input from your users.

This doesn't work; see the other line of the comment you're responding to:

>> if your adversary has broken your TLS then they can also intercept cookies or inject code to capture the plain text

You're assuming that the attacker controls the connection with the user. Such an attacker is free to serve a login page that sends the unhashed password, and read that.
>This is literally impossible to avoid. Whatever the server receives, that's what the password is.

Hence why I specified no knowledge of the plaintext password, which is absolutely possible to avoid sending over the wire.
> All of these things have illegal non-speech components (fraud, child abuse),

Do you find slander to not fit the bill? And what about calling for a military coup to persecuted anyone they see fit?
It's probably because of the adjuvant. It's needed for the vaccine to be effective but people can have reactions to it. With so many people to get vaccinated it could lead to frivolous class actions.
I get your point, and it's highly plausible .. but he was the head of the highest oncology facility in the country so I don't think he's looking for numbers. Now this is an interesting topic.. every year journals list the top 100 hospitals. It would be "fun" if the best ones are the one who picks the most favorable patients u_u;
The amount of work put into the exploit, the breadth of low-level knowledge involved, and the number of moving parts required for the successful privilege escalation is impressive, to say the least.

I suspect that getting thought this all took months, considering that iOS runs on platforms not exactly open for experimentation of such a kind.
What's up with the misspelling of cleanliness in the title? How could that slip by an editor? Maybe it is some kind of experiment to see if they get more clicks with a deliberate error.
Would you support this even if Facebook suppressed some ideas you believe in, or are you working under the assumption that Facebook will always agree with you about what's true?
Don't "selling at cost" and "breaking even" mean the same thing?
Counter example: Apple. Low dividend, but all other check boxes apply.
You can sell shares of a no-dividend company and reinvest the money in something else.
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The words "driver", "license" and "crash" have two sets of meaning in software and cars domains. Tesla intersects both domains. Took me a while to gather what was happening.

At the beginning I thought the person driving the car sued Tesla because the LCD driver crashed, and Tesla got its license to sell cars in Germany suspended.
Review of Japanese Complete: I used it for two months.

I caution people to use a Privacy card [0] when subscribing to this service. There was no clear way to cancel or pause my subscription (maybe I didn't look hard enough.) Two months in I wanted to pause due to COVID-19 but simply closed the card instead.

I have no way to unsubscribe to the e-mails that keep coming in. The author should be careful here -- people will report and blacklist your domains.

It is not easy from visiting the main site that Japanese Complete is in beta. The site has promise but it's not worth $50.00 / mo right now. I strongly recommend:

1. Fleshing out all the missing lessons; there just aren't enough yet.

2. Add audio to all the lessons. I can't tell you how frustrated I was to lose audio after merely a few lessons.

3. Audio should play upon selecting lesson paragraphs. I want to practice along with (or re-listen to) text without scrubbing some audio player somewhere. At the very least least make the audio player a popup window.

4. The signup / login flow needs serious improvements, as discussed elsewhere in this thread.

Good luck. You have unique ideas not seen in typical texts: the animal stories, Iroha poem, Kanji frequency analysis, etc. but the system is too rough for the current asking price.
> It's a viable alternative to Spotify IMO as one use.

Indeed. I've been using it to play background music for D&D, no more annoying adds.

I may well wind up hosting an instance following this.
A project to implement a similar earthquake early warning system for the earthquake-prone west coast of the united states has faced a lot of difficulty in obtaining funding but is slowly making progress. They are currently developing alert communication systems and integrations with automated controls, and have complete sensor networks for just a few areas.

https://www.shakealert.org/
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interesting, one assumed that journalism per se is diverse than other fields.
Oh thanks I didn't know that. I thought it was the annoying assistant.
Got it. Thank you both for the warning :]
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> We added a keyboard for search (this was a mistake, but it was worth a try).

I have a keyboard kindle. The keyboard is not a mistake; it's great. I wish other kindles had kept it.

(The keyboard does feature a glaring mistake -- it doesn't have any number keys, despite the fact that its primary use is to type numbers. But the solution is to have number keys, not to get rid of the keyboard.)
You’re conflating daily price action and the balance sheet. From a pure financial perspective, the stock price is reduced by exactly the amount of the dividend and nothing is reduced if a company doesn’t pay a dividend.

Everything else is the typical movement of any stock, that of course can be detached from reality. The thing is: people are way too focused on the dividend part as if this was the only valid way to investing.
The original paper Lack of awareness despite complex visual processing: Evidence from event-related potentials in a case of selective metamorphopsia [1] is not as Freudian as the article about “consciousness”:

> How does the neural activity evoked by visual stimuli support visual awareness? In this paper we report on an individual with a rare type of neural degeneration as a window into the neural responses underlying visual awareness. When presented with stimuli containing faces and target words—regardless of whether the patient was aware of their presence—the neuro-physiological responses were indistinguishable. These data support the possibility that extensive visual processing, up to and including activation of identity, can occur without resulting in visual awareness of the stimuli.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/27/16055
funny how you never find gems like these on any other site, go HN!
Remix of Wilford's Liberty Medical commercial:
https://youtu.be/2hNu1I9r_1A
How are finite fields constructed?
Yet sidewalks in cities around most of the developed world drown in dog/cat poop and pee, something that would have seemed strange a generation ago, and still seems if you travel from a less pet-crazy place.
>You're assuming that the attacker controls the connection with the user.

I am making no such assumptions.

>Such an attacker is free to serve a login page that sends the unhashed password, and read that.

Depending on the nature of the server exploit, and depending on if the client code is even delivered via the same server handling requests in the first place. Both are quite large assumption to make.
Read about 1000 true fans: https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Amusingly I'm watching this right now. The whole movie is just awful, but in that wonderful awfulness of the mid 90s, where slow, repetitive pans of Van Damme's face seemed "cool". I just love it.

Directed by John Woo, with Jean Claude Van Damme doing his strange Cajun(?) accent, and Lance Henriksen looking like he just stepped off the set of Aliens.
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The idea that you could capture a satellite and return it was part of the mission requirements for the original shuttle design. If it was a 'friendly' or 'unfriendly' satellite was left unspecified.

It was also limited by the Shuttle's OMS in terms of delta-v so the orbits from which a satellite could be retrieved was constrained.
I'm hardly surprised they don't practice what they preach. The majority of journalistic outlets have rapidly descended into yellow journalism, lies, doxxing and slanderous allegations.

Journalism is a race to the bottom in quality, and journalists absolutely don't put the effort in anymore. Hitting the streets and risking their lives to get that one big story just isn't a thing anymore, now they get all their information from Twitter and engage in some pretty egregious conduct against ideological opponents.

ABC News covered up allegations against Epstein. NPR falsely accused innocent assault victims of being "right-wing extremists", then refused to retract it. New York Times thinks doxxing controversial people is okay. All of them vehemently support censorship, and some even call for the prosecution of their own sources.

These institutions don't need to be saved or reformed, they need to be burnt to the ground.
I may get downvoted for this but do check your Vitamin D3 and Vitamin B12 levels.
I appreciate the coolness factor, but from a practical perspective I think it would make more sense to go with something that's wearable but more easy to replace, such as a ring or even a piercing.
Many criminals are prosecuted under State Law IIRC. NYT covers Federal statistics.
I don't agree with the author here. The ARM replacing the chips is not bad, just the nature of what technical possibilities we have now. And having some funky chips in an old design does not help with repairing it.

I think OP has some sort of nostalgia that is not always well placed for old electronics.
Note that linked study [0] uses too high white percentages for Facebook.

> As of 2020, the percentage of white employees at Facebook is 63.2%.

It links to this [1] document where if you click on "whites" in the "US ethnicity" section, there is indeed a 63.2% percentage. But that number corresponds to the green curve which concerns people in leadership roles. The number for all facebook employees (including the technical engineers, etc) is the blue one, which only has 41%. In the image, facebook would thus be closer to the other tech companies and further away from the journalists.

It's also interesting to note that the percentage of nonhispanic whites in the US population is 60.1% [2], so they are actually underrepresented in big tech companies (and overrepresented in tech journalism). Didn't know that!

[0]: https://tech-journalism-diversity-report.github.io/code/

[1]: https://diversity.fb.com/read-report/

[2]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
The individuals in question, after being blocked on portuguese language, just changed their profiles as they were in english. It was just a matter of people that follow them changing their preferences making the court order ineffective. (Again their content were being delivered to Brazilian followers)

Than the court sent another order to block the content for Brazil of those specific profiles, in a way the content were not delivered to brazilian citizens.

This is exactly what the court order is saying..

Now if Facebook or Twitter cant act on geolocation, its a technical problem, that they need to solve, as its just a matter of blocking based on geolocation of the people who are seeing that content, the target, and not just the source.

I've read the court order, and it does not cover people from other nationalities, as if we follow whats being said on the court order, they are not the target.

Now if Facebook cant deliver this, they are just asking to loose the battle giving its pretty easy to destroy the narrative.

BTW, Brazil are more akin to Europe's convention to free speech, as to remediate things like "hate speech" learning from the past with the way fascist regimes spread out over Europe.

I dont know why Facebook feels entitled somehow to think the US way of seeing and working with free speech should be forced on others sovereign nations.
ABC News covered up allegations against Epstein

And NBC covered for Weinstein, see Ronan Farrow' book.