skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What a major US Federal Regulator just announced is that all banks can use blockchains (like Ethereum) to move value, just like they use Swift or ACH https://www.coindesk.com/occ-banks-stablecoin-payments

I see this as a way for Brian Brooks at the OCC to appear to be a “thought leader” as a crypto proponent. I have had to interface with his type more than once (most unfortunately), but luckily it doesn’t appear the Biden administration will confirm him for the role the current administration has been pushing him for.

Many other countries have instant payment networks without the need for crypto or blockchain networks. Zelle already supports instant payments in the US, and the Federal Reserve is rolling out their own instant payment service in 2023. FedWire and similar institutional services are arguably superior when compared to distributed ledgers and their abysmal transaction rates. Are banks not going to keep reserve accounts at the Fed (which is where they’d net and settle)? And with central banks all moving toward digital accounts for citizens, and most of those central banks not considering crypto, this doesn’t seem like that big of a deal.

Ethereum is built for a financial world where trust doesn’t exist, and you must build your logic into smart contracts instead of your application. Very few jurisdictions where the rule of law and trust in the financial system doesn’t exist. I think there’s benefit in open sourcing the components that drive financial services and infrastructure, but believe it’s disingenuous to conflate that with the need for tokenized finance, distributed ledgers, and similar Rube Goldberg mechanizations.
2 months ago. I always thought fairness and integrity were part of US core values and I was proven wrong again and again.
No, in the sense that bait on a hook fills the fisherman's belly.
Salaries are already well below what they used to be, and are continuing to fall

Through actions against specific employers and minimum standards. If unions can have some control over wages, then the gate becomes irrelevant
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and use it to communicate with a group of about 20
friends. Most of them aren't "technical" people.

I'm insanely curious about the human side of things here. How did you get them to buy into this idea in the first place? That sounds like quite an achievement.

The non-technical folks in my life generally struggle with paths of least resistance (iMessage, etc) and it's hard to imagine getting them onto some alternative platform/protocol.
This might be awkward for some but can governments be compelled to use Foss software and where a Foss software is lacking features, fund for development of that feature so that everyone benefits instead of lacing more and more reliance on proprietary tech which inturn forces citizens to use that proprietary junk because "compatibility"?
Problem is that many who are moving aren't giving a whole lot of thought as to why California has had such a large reduction in quality of life. They simply know QoL has declined to a level where they want to be somewhere else. They may have different theories as to why QoL tanked, some might even know that some of the policies they voted for had a hand in it while believing that they simply weren't implemented well in California but think "we'll get it right this time" in their new home state.
NewCity is quite fun (if rough, due to its alpha state.) The whole game revolves around desirability and density; one can choose to make a low-services sprawly city or one can choose to make a high-value dense village.

Though the mixed-use scenario there is a bit iffy (mixed-use is a separate zone that only develops in areas with sufficient density/traffic to warrant it)
make this game. I would love to learn more about how real cities work by playing a simulation game. That's how I prefer to learn most things
It's fast, looks polished and I love that it has scheduling. That has been missing from my life (does anyone know similar projects?). If you could now assign completion times it might be possible to auto-schedule some things.

2 gripes I have after a few moments of use:

Why, just why, do so many apps including this one only allow one layer of sub-tasks? Infuriating.

The other is a bit less simple: Do I really want to invest my time into and become dependent on a SaaS that can do whatever with my data and disappear whenever? I tend towards no; the code being available would ease my doubts significantly.
You can use a sub domain black list for things like this, for example:

https://github.com/sandeepshetty/subdomain-blacklist/blob/ma...
This is a common wrong understanding.

WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted by default (using same protocol as Signal) and there’s no way to disable encryption.

On the other hand Telegram chats are by default unencrypted ... you have to specifically start a “Secret Chat” to benefit from end-to-end encryption.
I used the "people nearby" feature once, and I kept getting random messages from random people 2 months later. I could not figure out how the hell to turn it off.
I have a Somu. The docs I have found say it can only store one resident key. Is it particularly limited, vs. the Solo v1?
> Emergency powers should never be treated as temporary given history

The TSA. Body Scanners. Removing your shoes (America only; it's the only country out of the 10+ I've flow through that forced you to still remove your shoes. Some people do it in other places out of habit, but no one else actually requires it).

> Entitlement? Entitlement is how to describe every comfy white collar worker that rolls out of bed and hops on Zoom, and then condescendingly and abusively berates everyone else that does not have that privilege

The vast majority of people on here are silicon valley types. They don't understand people are loosing their businesses, their lives, their savings and their minds. They've never been out to the country and seen farms or know people who grow food. They see all republicans as racist and the enemy. It's dissociative, sad and frightening.

> If masks solved the issue (which clearly they don't)

Thank you for having some sense. The numbers are really clear on mask usage. Zero correlation and no better than a coin flip. It has a high social cost too. People are berating others for wearing masks. It's created a new talisman, and ideology and religion. It's causing insane amounts of pollution and textile waste that will further damage our oceans. It's terrifying.

Thank you for saying what you have. I have a comfy job where I can work from home, but I have been in touch with an America and a world that is falling apart, yet also gripped by insane and unreasonable fear. This is a terrible time, for reasons many cannot truly grasp.
They have a union but it seems to be passively rolling over and allowing this to happen.
The rich irony here is that Telegram, in fact, way less secure than WhatsApp, yet, it's users (wrongly) perceive it to be magically more secure.

The reason why WhatsApp is more secure is simple: it uses e2ee for all chats, and consequently has issues with multudevice usage and chats syncing, while Telegram just stores all chats in its servers, sans so-called "Secure chats". (I'm yet to see one person who is using them to contact me)
Grab seeks more control by its founder in Gojek merger
I submitted the C binary-trees program. I did check to see if OpenMP increased the performance and it most certainly does. Just looking at the CPU and clock time usage on https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... you can see that the clock time used is about one third of the CPU time that was used.
> Telegram is better in every way... except security.

Which is why anyone bothers with these type apps in the first place, I'd like to say I'm dissapointed with the sentiment towards Signal, especially given how many here work in tech and understand how leaky these apps are designed to be and how hard development can be with a bare bones team (I experienced this first hand), but it never fails to bank on the notion that convenience will always win against security. regardless of expectation(s).

Shrug... I like Signal more: and I think Telegram has many useless features that are not of any interest to me and only create needless bloat at the expense of security/privacy which is untenable, so while I hope some bugs get sorted in Signal as I run both I know why I side with Signal.

I also understand that Signal runs on a thin donation based hacker budget and Moxie Marlinspike's podcast on Joe Rogan is a really cool watch that made it clear to me it's just a hacker project that scaled really well and is in need of funding and staff. I think Joe revealed himself to be a part of the money-centric Corpo class to Moxie's dismay when he refused to have that rock, paper, scissor match and you could see the disappointment in his eyes when Joe reacted almost offended at the idea that Moxie had anything worth his stake and could so quickly ascribe a dollar value to it.

It reminded me that it's okay to care about the messenger (guest) that his podcast attracts rather than Joe or the brand he's created around himself, even though I agree with may of his points I struggle to think its nothing more than hook or gimmick most times. I don't really enjoy any of his standup and find a lot of his quips to be childish and immature reactions to what seem like feckless attention grabbing that can derail a guest's conversation or train of thought, much like uninvited fart jokes would amongst otherwise fascinating discussion and in depth arguments: then again he is a comedian first and foremost.

With all that said, donate to help get those fixes on Signal sorted here [0]!

0: https://signal.org/donate/
Gojek in Talks with Tokopedia for $18B Merger
Back when the P180 was new, its silicone grommets for HDD mounting and the thicker multi-layer side panels (instead of flimsy pieces of sheet metal) were highly unusual features.

I'd say they had reasonable airflow, with 2 120mm fans on the front (one in the main compartment, one in the lower compartment with the PSU and HDD). Though the intake fans were behind a door with vertical vent strips up the sides. I'm sure that restricted airflow a bit, but it was dramatically quieter than any case I'd had before.

My personal one was the slightly revised P182, but I'd previously built some computers at my job that we put in P180s.
I wonder how small this could get. If it could be shrunk to fit in, say, a 0603, you could fit a million of these on a decently-small pcb.

And case of those could have a billion memristors.
good point. they’ll do it about anything but discuss the idea, and mods will downvote your comment instead of those distracting everyone from the topic. probably thats why this article was first posted on reddit and not hn.
I've only just begun publicizing it, after getting the client & server implementations to a point where folks can evaluate them.

Protocol: https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/blob/master/Protocol.md

Why TMTP? https://mnmnotmail.org/rationale.html

Follow: https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
Reminds me of this wonderful fiction story (in form of twitter thread):

https://qntm.org/person
I actively avoid super general code in my Haskell applications.

Here's some code to add a bookmark in an api controller:

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial/blob/master/src/Handle...
I bought the course and did the first day. It is pretty good so far. And definitely a great way to get yourself to actually work on the 'idea' you have had for a while. Dropping money motivate people, including me.
It's under Hamburger Menu > Contacts > Find People Nearby. You do not need give access to Contacts, but you do need to give access to Location.

Barring no exploits, you have to press "Make Myself Visible" and then confirm with a popup in order to share your location.
This is still true, but things are getting better. I'm a few years removed now, but I had the priviledge of getting to admin most major sequencing machines and their data output, and it was a great learning experience for how much the scientific community stands to gain from modern tech stacks imho.

One of my favorite examples, I was doing some fastq munging, and had written about a page of perl as per some existing documentation. I kept failing, and eventually just emailed the researcher who wrote the relevant paper... and he said something like "why not use awk, something like $oneliner?" With a few modifications my huge glut of perl became a one line awk...

Of course that just means I'm bad at perl, but for some reason it sticks in the mind. I still get invited to bioinformatics conferences... too bad I didn't take them up on it pre-pandemic.
But the point is using dead drops doesn't attract attention unless you already have it.

> I agree number stations are overkill but perhaps some similar methods...like cartels using email drafts to communicate

That's basically a digital dead drop, and they've caught people doing that: for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal#Summary_and_c...
> That is the problem with autocracy. If the leadership is good, it is very efficient and effective.

It really depends on the demographics. For example, I think you need a more decentralized and federal government when the state is comprised of different nations.
Isn’t HR already basically acting as a union for these workers?
Capitalism doesn't require regulators or regulation. It doesn't even require the rule of law. It only requires that workers and consumers be prevented from free negotiation of the terms of production and commerce. Laws and regulations are often used this way, but capricious despotism does the job nearly as well.
> Difficult to see much excess death in the UK in the past few months beyond levels seen in the 2018 and 2017 flu seasons.

Excess mortality is only just starting to creep back up. It's easy to see that UK excess deaths peaked in early April at a weekly rate nearly 4 times that of the highest pre-2020 peak (2018-01). Ideally, we'd avoid a repeat of that.

> This absolutely seems like a coordinated global action to achieve some kind of strategic aim.

Could said aim by any chance be to avoid running out of hospital beds?
[I'm definitely dreaming about finding a remote job and moving out of SF, like half the developers in the city.]

[like half the developers in the city... I could easily afford a house in any other part of the country.]

Was this intentional? This is amusing, interesting. I hope you figure it out!

You are scratching the surface on the idea that comparing yourself to your musician friends with less marketable skills doesn't help you really continue optimizing your own life.

Your aspirations are not different than the current crop of transient developers in the bay area (ie. getting tf out of SF before it becomes Detroit West). The only difference from what I can tell is that "career" doesn't mean the same thing. Big Tech is paying enough for people to do 2-4 year stints and be done with that part of their life. Career and retirement becoming concepts that people aren't really banking on at all, but lump sum and leaving definitely being an opportunity people are really looking for.
On the positive side: Creating an account via Google is fast and easy. Had that not been available I'd have walked away too.
Stimulus checks now cashable on Venmo
I think reviews, especially something honest like the site in this article is aspiring towards, might be an ok market because the quality of those sites has declined so much in the last decade that I think there's room for a much better product.

However, it's the affiliate based monetization that I was calling tough. At least for me, an affiliate link is an untrustworthy link because that link is working for the manufacturers and retailers, not me.

I can't think of a decent way to monetize a review site without relying on a revenue stream that's susceptible to corruption (product access, affiliate links, advertising, etc.). Just look at the whole Hardware Unboxed / Nvidia thing that happened recently. The whole review industry must be completely FUBAR for Nvidia to think they could get away with that.
Unless your data is at rest, you're paying for bandwidth, not capacity. SRAM > HBM > DRAM > NVMe when you're buying bandwidth. Seriously, when we have a low-latency network, the most cost-effective way to run some simulations and graph algorithms is out of L3 on EPYC (where mid-tier parts have over 1 TB/s at a fraction of the energy and cost of an A100/MI100).

Your NVMe quotes 3.2 GB/s, versus 25 GB/s (theoretical) for a stick of DDR4-3200 (which is in the same price range). A standard 2-socket EPYC server can give you 300 GB/s from DRAM, but you'd need several servers servers packed with NVMe to provide that bandwidth.

The rationale for persistent storage (like NVMe) as an algorithmic device is either (a) you need it to be persistent or (b) you have physical or algorithmic constraints that prevent you from using more parallelism and you're willing to pay 5-10x for the privilege of executing from NVMe.
I solve business problems with technology. Extensive knowledge about cloud as I worked at Amazon(AWS)

Location : Bangalore-IND

Remote : yes

Willing to relocate: yes. Preferably Europe.

Technologies: Python,shell scripting, Linux,AWS(EC2,VPC,lambda,apigw,sqs,sns,step functions, S3, ECS,EKS,cloudfront,RDS etc),terraform,k8,Prometheus,grafana, TCP/IP and a lot of cloud stuff.

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Step 1,replace the board with morally inclined individuals. No more Sundar.
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Largest canyon in the solar system revealed in stunning new images
Flip it around for a second. You sign up for online banking. You use your GMail account as your e-mail address. You get banking statements in your e-mail, you can reset your password to the bank with that e-mail address, etc.

Now, a scammer is trying to access your e-mail account. What level of proof do you want them to have to offer Google to get ahold of that e-mail?

These tech companies are not asking for an "unreasonable view" into your life as long as people are using these products to interact with the real world. They are trying to strike a balance between convenience and security that meets real-world needs. And they are trying to set that balance point somewhere where it works reasonably for the majority of their non-technical users, not for the edge-cases and not for people who think LARPing as a 90's cyberpunk novel is the most important usecase. So, yes, so long as the vast majority of GMail users are using their GMail account in a number of ways that intersect with the real-world financial system, they are going to want some way to verify your real-world identity if you lose the log-in credentials to your account.
It's a static address that hasn't changed for 3+ years. The only thing I can think of the makes it proxy-ish, is that I have a 6 person household here.

Edit- The IP my employer uses as its outbound nat IP that we vpn from while WFH (so it actually is a proxy) gets a clean bill of health while our corporate email server (not a proxy at all) is tagged as one.
Correction here, Telegram is using transport encryption, while Signal and WhatsApp use end-to-end encryption.
You know what you're in for, I think?

Also, if your site is thread the line of review-spam-without-actual-content-or-actual-review-site, then this bound to happened sooner or later.
Offset as function of user and location?
Melvin Williams

as posted above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626484
Not just the UK -- the North American variant Timex Sinclair 1000 was fairly popular too (relatively speaking)
They should of called it Spicy.
> One thing that wont happen: better working conditions.

Some of these are true, some are not, but workers in unions make more money, have better benefits, and have better working conditions overall
Actual caricature portrait of Adrien-Marie Legendre (not reproduced in the article): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Legendre...

Legendre made many major contributions to mathematics, but perhaps the most well-known (for folks here) is the method of least squares for curve fitting.

For those interested in the science and politics of the French Revolution period and how methods like least squares were first applied, a wonderful history (in which Legendre plays a supporting role) is Ken Alder’s The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World. (“The truth belongs to everyone, but error is ours alone.”)
>Recidivism in the US is 55% after 5 years, as compared to Norway's 20%. Apparently not treating people inhumanely is a great way of getting them not to commit more crimes. [1] Who would have thought?

There's a thousand other ways America is different from Norway. The quote statistic -> unwarranted conclusion -> logic dunk! shitposting ruins websites.
This is a really well-formed response with great historical context. I think you should consider posting some form of this to the main article so more people up top can see it.