skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s also how stock buybacks work, and stocks in general.
It's an important development. Forensic labs and companies are expert witnesses with black box processes and the incentive to protect the authority of their profession. They are as likely to lie as any other witness. Perhaps even moreso.

"Those arguing on behalf of the defense cited past problems with other genetic testing software such as STRmix and FST (Forensic Statistical Tool). Defense expert witnesses Mats Heimdahl and Jeanna Matthews, for example, said that STRmix had 13 coding errors that affected 60 criminal cases, errors not revealed until a source code review." "They also pointed out, as the appeals court ruling describes, how an FST source code review "uncovered that a 'secret function . . . was present in the software, tending to overestimate the likelihood of guilt.'"

An analogous situation with an alcohol and drug testing lab caused a scandal in Canada and called into question 16,000 child protective services cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherisk , and then at the same hospital(!), a forensic pathologist was giving fake prosecution evidence, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Smith_(pathologist)

Maybe there's just something about Toronto and compromised processes, but defense challenges to the integrity of automated systems looks like a growth field.
"I didn't like what he said" isn't a legal defense to defamation.
Does Zoho Mail offer Youtube accounts now? Any serious game ends up needing promotion on YT.
Tesla and all other world wide companies hold a variety of currencies for several reasons. They have Euros but not because they think that the Euro is superior to the Dollar. It allows them to run gigafactory Berlin and customer transactions in the local currency.
CoinShares research shows at least 78% of Bitcoin mining uses renewable energy! Making Bitcoin mining greener than almost every other large-scale industry in the world.
(In addition to this, the energy is not "wasted")

https://coinshares.com/research/bitcoin-mining-network-decem...
Why has gold prevailed over thousands of years while almost all fiat currencies went to 0?
My exact thoughts. This sounds like a classic example of launching a prototype created by domain specialists (biostatisticians and bioinformaticians) as production software and skipping on the expensive stuff, like sound development practices
Why is that? The consensus mechanism only prevents a 51% attack?
There's that, but also the fact that to these people games are "just games". Maybe the HN crowd is accustomed to dealing with professionals and business clients that use their software, so it looks jarring to see responses like in that Twitter thread.

As a developer providing professional software, you're reasonably entitled to some respect from your customers, since your relationship is likely work related. But if you're making games, your product is eating up peoples' very valuable free time. If you mess that up for them, then you shouldn't be surprised to get a torrent of hate mail.
You can use bitcoin without being vulnerable to quantum computing attacks, you simply have to never sign a transaction from the same address more than once (which is already considered a best practise for privacy)
This is similar to a case a few years back where someone asked to see the source code of a breathalyser that had found them guilty.

AFAIR, the breathalyser was incorrectly averaging the readings, giving disproportional weight to the first reading.

I don't know if it was enough to rule in their favour, but I'm sure it called the data into question

Edit: Looks like it was a Draeger breathalyser https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/software_prob...
I once planned to get a lightweight media player with a nice retro feel running on my RPi 2. Since it still possible to compile gtk 1.x on a somewhat recent system, I downloaded it source code and compiled it.

Worked beautifully.

Sure, it is not safe to have such outdated software running on your system, but having a lightweight Winamp-classic themed mp3 player pays off. Maybe I should run it on firejail, just for increased safety.
Or more succinctly: FOMO is what creates bubbles
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How would being black change anything?
Ask HN: DigitalOcean IPs added to UCEPROTECTL3 Spam list and they want money?
This is becoming a real issue for our customers and I was wondering if anyone else has faced something similar.

Apparently, a lot of DigitalOcean IPs are added to some SPAM database called UCEPROTECT [2] and I just found out that some large companies (microsoft/outlook exchange etc) uses this list to block emails from an entire domain IF this domain is on this list.

DO is one our primary server provider and looks like tons of their iP is on this list by default because 100%, we don't do any spamming. We run a legitimate SAAS business and this is very concerning as a customer who pays thousands of dollars a month to DO.

The part that is really troubling is that now to unblock a specific IP, we have to PAY these guys. The amount is not the issue for me but as a principle, it feels like a Ransom and I absolutely hate paying a random 3rd party when I know we are not at fault directly.

Does anyone at HN know what's going on here ?

I googled DO's support on this and found that they are replying with generic answers on this which is not good enough. [0]. Also found an interesting reddit article on this [1]

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-removed-my-ip-as-blacklisted-in-uceprotectl3-spam

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eur4ju/removal_from_uceprotectl3_blacklist/

[2] http://www.uceprotect.net/
This really seems like yet another failure in governence. There doesn't seem to be any good reason for a car company to be investing in crypto currency other than their CEO's personal interest in the technology. If you have something productive to do with the money, invest it in your business. If you do want to keep money on hand for investments, investing in such exotic instruments seems weird, you want something reasonably hedged and low risk so that you can invest in the future. Otherwise why not just let Musk set up his own crypto holding company?
This is why Ubuntu's forced auto-updates policy for snaps is crazy.
Looking at GSM security 30 years later
Thanks for sharing that - it really helped me wrap my mind around both how weird this object is and also the holes in the argument that it's an alien craft.
https://coinshares.com/research/bitcoin-mining-network-decem...
This is just anecdotal. On the whole clubs are just as popular with young people as they have ever been.
Without the sun we'd all be really cold.
> The contract the EU signed said best effort everywhere.

If the contract really said best effort everywhere, they may have a leg to stand on, since that seems to preclude using different delivery guarantees in other contracts.
> Maybe a company at a certain scale should have a legal requirement to get a person on the phone for any support issue, full stop.

For any support issue? Given the realities of running a business over the Internet today, that would be a waste of resources and needlessly expensive.

But I do agree with you in principle though: I think there should be a legal requirement that anyone with a dependent business relationship to a service provider should be legally entitled to human review of any automatic suspension decisions within a single business day. This shouldn't affect long-tail businesses because when there's a strong dependency relationship there's definitely large amounts of money exchanging hands - from which presumably a small fraction would pay for the requisite support costs.
On top of that, you have to be online to receive Lightning funds, if they were routed through an intermediary. It's an interactive protocol.

https://github.com/moneybutton/yours-channels/blob/master/do...
Is calling someone "the pedo guy" count?
Not hard to do some Google searches to find lots of examples where people were banned by Google without reason or explanation. Sure, a reason might exist, but if it's impossible to get anyone to tell you what it is, then how can you tell? In at least one high profile case a Google employee's spouse was banned and it was still impossible to get an explanation or reversal!

You can assume that a high-profile game developer in a business partnership with Google is evil and got up to some sort of large scale malfeasance with their gmail account (why??? for what purpose? why would you risk a business deal to do this? what's the upside?) and then Google decided to ban them but not expose them for their misconduct. Or you can go "huh it sure seems like something bad happened to this person and he's not getting an explanation for it."
I mean, in competing for him instead of being willing to walk, they're basically validating his choice, and then putting him on a pedestal where they're making it clear to him they see him as higher value than other men they might find. I'd imagine it made him even more inclined to keep seeing both of them.
I closed mine 3 months ago. Among many positive changes this has had in my life, one I havent been seen mentioned is that now I call/msg people I care about often.

Before I would never feel like I missed someone and just call them. Its like fb artificially satisfies this need for human connection. Its interesting to notice these kinds of effects you weren't aware of.
Graphs to organize annotation labels are necessary to avoid concept drift! Even though BLAS on graphs and fancy JVM property graphs are cool and interesting, my small brain is fully satisfied with LTREE labels in Postgres :)
@djder thanks for referring to us (Enso)! The topic you mentioned - leaving the graph structure (layout?) entirely up to the user - why do you feel it is a bad choice? In our experience (strongly influenced by VFX tools, like Sidefx Houdini), people are designing the 2D workspace similar to how you structure your code. For example, "on left top corner we will have database filtering", "on right bottom space we will have credit risk analysis". This way authors of workflows are able to navigate trough hierarchical graphs really, really fast, knowing where are things they have designed. With auto-generated layouts, the layout can change drastically when you apply even small semantic changes (like when you pass a new parameter between two nodes), and thus, it will break this mental space-mapping between nodes positions and their responsivities.

Anyway, we are building Enso in a completely open way, allowing third-party auto-layouting algorithms to manage the graph visual layout, and we are very open to investigate it further - that's why I asked this question :)
Not sure at which extent they still use Common Lisp, but syscog used to be a Lisp shop for their transport and trafic management software.

https://www.siscog.pt/en/

https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/scheduling/siscog.lh...

Google also became a Lisp shop when they acquired ITA

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/technology/02google.html

https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/data_mining/itastory...

Apple, Walmart, Baresquare, Nubank use Clojure

https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2015/6/30/walmart-runs-clojur...

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200184362/apple-media-p...

https://www.baresquare.com

https://nubank.com.br/en/
Keep in mind there are a lot of sour grapes when it comes to Bitcoin. Critics have had so many chances to buy in, and Bitcoin price and popularity continues to grow.
I moved away from google a few years ago after putting it off for years because it sounded like effort. It turned out to be rather straightforward.

I still have my google accounts, I just don’t use them (except YouTube unfortunately). My gmail still forwards to my new address, but I mostly just get emails where people got their own addresses wrong nowadays.

What I did was: I registered a domain name from a company that i don’t use for anything else besides domain names (incidentally a local registrar who I trust and can call on the phone). I then set up a new email address (I use fastmail) using that domain name. Then I forwarded all my old emails to this new address.

If someone emailed my old address, I would always reply from my new one, which slowly updated peoples address books. If I got newsletters, I would either unsubscribe and resubscribe from my new one or just unsubscribe. I did that very slowly and it took a year or so before I stopped getting any forwarded, but there’s no rush. Don’t think “oh I have to update everything at once”. Similarly, I updated services that I still use that used the old email to log in on a case by case basis as I used them.

You can ditch google and it’s not as hard as it sounds!
BTC miners make significant money from transaction fees which largely offsets future drops. Unfortunately, if rewards drop enough 51% attacks become possible so Bitcoin requires massive energy expenditure to remain viable.

The basic equation the rewards from mining using X hardware over it’s useful lifetime vs the rewards from using that hardware for a 51% attack.
Bitcoin is notca security, so at least SEC has nothing to say about it.
Probably redditors subscribed to /r/futurism.
Reminded me of a story from Bangladesh where a person took in a tiger cub as "pet" after killing its mother. Years later the tiger, now considerably grown, escaped from captivity and killed the owner(the same person). So the warning applies for Tigers too.
Yeah, be careful doing anything like that on the Play Store. You can get your account randomly locked out with no explanation (I haven't been able to review apps, leave comments or contact the developer for like 3 years, and I never got an email or notice about this)
If someone wants to learn more about Bitcoin, that is a good source:

https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html
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> The difference is being able to solve crypto puzzles has actual uses

I was hinting at crypto-currency mining which is an activity that would be meaningless if it did not produce results that are rare enough to suffice as store of value. I updated the earlier comment to make that clear.
Antitrust regulation.

Seriously, the only reason Google is unaccountable is its scale. Otherwise "Google but with customer support" would be an obvious market opportunity. And the only reason losing your Google account is so impactful is that it controls everything from access to apps on your phone to your email to your calendar to being able to chat with friends. It's theoretically possible to vote with your wallet against Google, but far harder than against, say, Chick-fil-A, which means no boycott gets further than an HN comment.

No startup can compete with Google for those services because Google can artificially offer them for free, and for very high quality, because it's all funded by their advertising business. (Not to mention that a startup would have to "do things that don't scale" and offer real customer support... which also costs money.)

It's not a fair market at that point - you can't say Google is surviving because they offer the best value to customers, simply because the value is so disconnected from the service being offered. And in the other direction, potential customers like me who mostly avoid Google are still "paying" for it in that we're still seeing (and being tracked by) Google ads.

Every incentive mechanism behind the underlying assumptions of a market-based economy - that companies that provide more value are more likely to succeed in the market - is completely broken when you allow trusts like Alphabet to exist.
I've had an email on a personal domain for years.

But I still use my old gmail for one thing: Point of contact for the my domain registrar. Do you have any suggestions for how I can solve this?
Check this: https://singularityhub.com/2021/01/19/a-language-ai-is-accur...
So the cheap alternative is to throw away the whole setup and DAW plugins and start from scratch....
The connected battlespace, part two: The fault in our (joint) stars
I like the visualization of the holes in Swiss cheese. The 'negative space' is actually the important aspect. It's a reminder to manage the gaps between meetings.
Reduced mining rewards will indeed reduce the amount of energy spend. Just check the price surges/declines of the past.
On the scale of time and things, his endeavours are significant. It is of extreme importance that we colonise mars. That is the single maxim by which I will judge Elon. He might me manipulative but he's not on the wrong side of humanity.
All the EU ones have at least some monetary control over the Euro. They also get support when they start struggling due to lack of monetary control (eg. Greek Bailout and Debt haircut of 2012).

The other countries in your list (Ecuador, El Salvador, Zimbabwe.) I wouldn't say are bastions of government stability...
But why does that require a specific monetary value for bitcoin? And doesn’t this apply to any cryotocurrency?
It's like many environmental pushes in the US. They tackle the low hanging fruit that aren't actually going to fix the problem.

Electric cars and low flow showers / toilets are some of the environmental steps this country takes to make themselves feel good.

For water, domestic use tends to be a small part of the US overall use, around 7% I believe. I haven't dug further into that, but I'd imagine lawns are a big part. https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...

For air pollution, about 14% of worldwide pollution is from transportation. Even if we go full electric the number won't go to zero because electricity is not free. Depending on how electricity is produced and factoring it the initial energy cost of producing batteries, we make that number smaller (maybe 7%, I'm not sure we really know). I do have worries about the amount of rare minerals that you need for batteries and how their life spans aren't all that long. And given their higher cost to produce, they are not as economically accessible.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

If people honestly wanted to fix our environmental impact, we'd have to drastically change our habits like covid made us do. Or we just have to have fewer people on this planet.

I honestly look forward to the environmental studies that come out from how big of an impact Covid had on pollution. I think it will definitely feed our models in an interesting way.
recently Iran was blaming bitcoin for blackouts, so perhaps not all bitcoin is mined from hydro/thermal power. Of course it could that Iran was just looking for an easy scapegoat.
It's Samsung, though many other vendors also offer it.
The vast majority of BTC miner revenue - around 90% - comes from block rewards:

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/miners-revenue

With every halving, assuming price remains constant, BTC miner revenue, and with it, energy expenditure, declines, until it's 10% of current energy expenditure.

You're right that this could pose problems for Bitcoin's security, but that's unrelated to the fact that Bitcoin miners' energy expenditure as a share of BTC price will decline.
"Google creates barcode scanning app, replacing popular app with 10m+ downloads".

Platform providers are also criticized when natively offering features that apps offer. You sort of can't win.
Like AMD, that only supports GL 3.3 on a GL 4.1 capable card?
And why would it be? It was HUGE. Why on earth would aliens design a probe so large? It would take a ton of energy to make it to our solar system (like, a star exploding... hmmm..).

If aliens have probed us, I DOUBT we would have actually noticed them. Because, likely the probe would be about the size of one of our satellites and maybe even a lot smaller to cut down on the amount of energy needed to get them here.
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Is Elon Musk hyping Bitcoin in Twitter and in parallel buying it, market manipulation?
Why directly buy the Bitcoins with Tesla the automaker?

It makes no sense to me. If Musk is interested with cryptocurrencies, he should have setup a new startup dedicated with processing transactions from cryptocurrencies to fiat (he already has more than enough experience in the domain with PayPal) and facilitate the payment with crypto for Tesla (and other merchants).

Considering the high volatility of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, and the massive amount of market manipulation going on, this is very risky.

Is it to find new revenues for Tesla to justify its absurd market capitalization?
It specifically did not say that. I meant that it was used a lot in that specific contract.
So you continue to assert, but you provide no source for your claim in the face of many sources that claim otherwise.
One weird trick. CPU’s hate him!
Generalization much?
> This electricity often can't be put to any other use anyway.

This is false. If there is surplus electricity, prices would drop, and you could expand availability. Government, especially the Chinese government is more than capable of shaping market demand.

Furthermore, you could displace existing coal based electrical demand in the country.

The value of currency comes from trust that you manage it well, not from the number of bombers.
"iCon: Steve Jobs — The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business"

https://www.amazon.com/iCon-Steve-Jobs-Greatest-Business/dp/...

is fascinating. It has many stories you won't find in any other book about Jobs, including an unforgettable account by a guy who went to India with Jobs in search of enlightenment. They got caught in a monster storm in the Himalayan foothills and each dug a pit, burying themselves up to their shoulders to wait it out without getting struck by lightning. Frightening! I am not making this up.

Jobs banned the book from Apple Stores as soon as it was released and all mention of it seems to have vanished, for the most part.
As a European, I am much angrier about the politically driven and scientifically inaccurate comments to this effect and the damage it will have on this and other vaccination programs long term than I am about the EC's slowness in procurement.

What is Macron going to do when he gets loads of this vaccine in Q3? "Never mind that stuff about it not working, please go get vaccinated?". It's Trump level (remember that guy) irresponsibility.
Would you like to take out fixed interest rate loan, payed out over the next 5 years, which is priced and scheduled in BTC? Because it sounds like an absolute horror show for every party in the transaction to me.

Unless you can make long-term transactions and payment schedules with it, then its not a good currency.
Can it be proven that it is not an alien probe?
I love this comment because it doesn't state a position and can be used as proof of being right no matter the outcome. Brilliant.
Bitcoin unleashes a million possibilities and overall guides the market. Check out Ethereum, Polkadot and Cardano if you want to see a real use case - Until then the usecase for bitcoin is the same as gold. But one day Bitcoin will pour it's 'Gold' Into the broader crypto market.
I can assure you that I didn't mark your post as dupe. But then again, I am not the moderator.

Sorry for the poor joke, just trying to make you feel better :-)

Added: I do see that your submission was made before this one. Maybe because of Bloomberg (paywall?) vs Techcrunch? I am just speculating.
I don't get lisp. Actually I think I understand what people like about it. What I mean is that I don't know exactly how to "think in lisp". Is it like writing the AST instead of the text or describing what is needed instead of what needs to be done... I simply don't get it.

Not sure if I'm the only one though.
I deleted my FB account completely a month ago, so now I don't need to :-).