skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can still have an effect on society for sure, but I believe the concern is out of proportion with the effect.

I believe the contrary: that high-quality, convincing audio (and video) deepfakes will be cataclysmic for society. Voice audio is one of the last digital artifacts that people will believe with their senses.

When Donald Trump’s “grab them by the p—“ audioclip came out, he was at least forced to acknowledge it.

Once high-quality audio deepfake tools become available, amateurs will be able to flood the web with fake audioclips of politicians saying things they never did, and truly unscrupulous politicians will be given technological cover for any damning audioclips of theirs that get leaked.

Once we cannot trust our senses, then we will be only able to trust our institutions and then our tribes. But trust in institutions is already decaying rapidly, so in the end there only ideological tribes will be left.
Kinda solved https://www.wired.com/story/cypherpunks-bitcoin-ham-radio/
Start with Bug Bounty programs. You can do that while still doing what you do to make money. See if you like it and any good at it.

This will tell you in a year if you like it, make some money and take the dive, or not.

Pentesting (except for the really smart cookies) is the dumbest thing ever, nowadays. You spend a day running your scanner, 3 to PowerPoint your (low hanging fruit) findings, a half to present your PowerPoint to 'managers' who are just hackling about the rating of said findings, a couple of calls / email to try to explain the findings to the developers and on to the next. It sucks and is mainly done for compliancy reasons.
We have stiff penalties for civilians lying in court. Cops can lie in court, get caught, and still have the court accept their version of events as basis for proscution.
Don't think this as financial move, think it as marketing move.

He buys Bitcoin for $1.5B to get publicity for the fact that he will accept bitcoin.

Bitcoin has low liquidity. Selling large amounts affects the markets. $1.5B supports BTC valuation in the case that BTC speculators want to buy 50,000 Teslas.
Google is investigating another top AI ethicist
Ambiguous genetic test results can be unsettling–and lead to needless surgeries
The fees are too high and at least in the US, every transaction is taxable.
So... what is Tesla going to spend that BTC on when the time comes? They can't use it to pay wages or purchase materials. What kind of assets could Tesla possibly trade $1.5B in BTC for?

I like the idea of cryptocurrency, but right now it seems to be more like a stock than an actual currency. There isn't much you can do with it still other than trade it back and fourth for other currencies. And I've never heard of a company making an investment like that in a stock. It'll be interesting to see how this play out.
https://archive.vn/Ulq7m
meh. Same for missiles, ads, porn and crappy derivative Netflix cooking shows. So what.
Not an economist, but IMO this might be the most effective emergency monetary policy ever enacted. Massive amounts of money printed with very little effect on average things people need to pay for. The inflation occurred, but it occurred in things like... Bitcoin.

Alternatively, if Bitcoin was our currency, we'd be in a deep depression because it'd impossible to increase the money supply and people would hoard. The government would have had to confiscate Bitcoin, like was done with gold in the 30s.

I have been skeptical of the MMT people but now wonder if they might be right. One way or the other, the policy will be taught in economics books.
Tesla makes 93% of its revenue by selling cars and 7% with energy generation and storage.
Draeger requires calibration prior each use for temperature and humidity. It is easy to get it thrown out as evidence.
I wonder if this will be another AT&T situation. Rather than racing to the bottom of the car industry, perhaps Apple will revive the Saab or Saturn brands.
This is only the case until it comes to light the one not admitting mistakes has been making them, at which point all trust is lost.
The crazy journey of empty iPad boxes halfway across the world and back
Newark fails to attract immigrants, which is fatal to a city. Immigration brings life. Newark needs to be more like Queens. Once upon a time, it was.

For example, the article mentions the redevelopment of a mansion once owned by one "Gottfried Krueger". Who was this man? From [1]:

> [The family's brewing tradition] began in 1853, when a teenage Gottfried Krueger arrived in America fresh from his birthplace on the banks of Germany's famous Rhine River. Newark, like most major cities, boasted dozens of breweries by mid-century. [...] [A]n exploding population of European immigrants spurred a demand for the lighter, less alcoholic German-style lager beer. Within a short time, German immigrant brewers had perfected a uniquely American version of lager beer. [...] The ever-burgeoning condition of their industry offered German-American brewers inroads to positions of leadership within the community. Of this, Gottfried Krueger took full advantage. He was first elected Freeholder, and then, in 1876 and 1879, served as a New Jersey Assemblyman.

Who is today's Gottfried Krueger, and where is he setting up shop? Maybe not in Newark, but in another town nearby...

[1] https://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/krueger.shtml
Several of the tools on the list are based on WireGuard, and I think we'll continue to see other useful abstractions over it in the future. It's an excellent technology.

The main reason to use something other than WireGuard today is that it requires root to run, in order to change the network configuration, so you can't use it to tunnel out on machines where you don't have elevated privileges.
Isn't that exactly what one would expect a free market for juristications to look like?
Possibly, but consider how often people hit others or throw things when they get mad, and now imagine the person is a 350 lbs bundle of muscles with reduced higher faculties.
Prosecutors want a 100% conviction rate. They are the ones who hire these companies. Generally speaking companies give customers what they are looking for.
> How would a team of independent reviewers even go about examining source code of this scale? How can you possibly find bugs that aren't super obvious?

Something tells me that 170k of Matlab code is going to contain plenty of obvious bugs.
Are you familiar with the critiques of Radin's works? They're plentiful.
I still can't believe they started Brexit because of a non-binding referendum that only got 52% of the vote. You'd think to start something so massive in scope they would at least want a super-majority buy in.
I agree. I regularly send money from Denmark to unbanked friends in shanty towns in Zambia through World Remit — it works 24/7 as fast as an sms.

https://www.worldremit.com/en
Paraphrasing some of my other comments - "no Dockerfile" isn't the core benefit, it's the ability to control what base images are used and rebase the base images of running containers without needing to rebuild. It's very easy to create a Dockerfile that builds an image with vulnerabilities and it's hard to discover which containers are using the compromised image. Buildpacks provides a framework to ensure your fleet of containers use compliant images and a easy way to patch vulnerabilities without needing to involve the development team
I've been thinking something along these lines too. If I were a billionaire I wouldn't be buying yachts, I'd found new cities. Personally, I'd pick the middle of Baja Mexico. With solar and reverse osmosis you could terraform a desert into an oasis there with a perfect climate.
The mathematical models aren't running the Bitcoin network, clients running program code are. And those have had fatal flaws found in them multiple times now, it all isn't as robust as you're saying.
The trouble with that argument is is the cost of office is trivial compared to the cost of employing some one.
I mean, the "is it real or not" is the point of the show :)

The second season is...different. I loved the first season, but had more difficulty with the second. Its not bad, and offers -a few- answers, but if you don't like the unexplained/mysterious aspects of the first season, definintely skip the second.
This isn't a DNA testing kit as one would normally think -

"TrueAllele uses a hierarchical Bayesian probability model that adds genotype alleles, accounts for artifacts, and determines variance to explain STR data and derive parameter values and their uncertainty. The computer employs Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) statistical sampling to solve the Bayesian equations. The resulting joint posterior probability provides marginal distributions for contributor genotypes, mixture weights, and other explanatory variables."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1556-4029.1...
The pymetrics test mentioned in the article involves among other things, clicking on a balloon till it pops and pressing the keyboard as many times as possible in a minute. As much as people love to hate on leetcode-style interview programming questions, they are at least remotely related to performance on the job.

Personally, I've found it to be a good filter in terms of deciding where to interview at. Companies that have adopted these pop-psychology tests (management consulting companies and big banks like BCG, JP Morgan) signal that they've let non-technical upper management hold sway over recruiting in comparison to tech-centric companies/hedge funds etc. that seem to have more rigorous recruiting standards.
I don't know the answer to your question, but blind testing is complementary to (not a substitute for) source code review.

It's very common for software to work correctly a high percentage of the time, but fail on rare input data. If, say, the software works correctly 999,999 times out of a million, you're going to be very unlikely to discover that error by throwing random samples at it, especially if you need a physical process (ie, drawing blood) in order to generate a test case.

On the other hand, once you have a known failing case (as you would if the defendant knows the result must be in error because he didn't commit the crime), it's often fairly straightforward to identify the error by reviewing the source and/or using a debugger to examine the progress of the algorithm.
Because they are not really decentralised. Vast amounts of cryptocurrencies as they are designed right now are disproportionately held by the early adopters, who will inevitably engage in rent seeking in one way or another (I wish I was wrong on this one).

Decentralisation has to happen through increasing trust between people, while cryptocurrencies are designed to replace trust. Yeah, current institutions controlling our monies are hardly worth the trust, but honestly bitcoin doesn't even remove that trust (it just shifts it to some random self-proclaimed experts at Tether, twitter gurus or god knows what else the crypto people are up to nowadays).
> as we, as a society, have decided that letting a few bad folks go is preferred to imprisoning innocents.

We, as a society, like to say this because it makes us feel good.

But a critical analysis of our actions reveals that we don't believe it for a second. We are happy to write overbroad laws that allow most behaviors to be criminalized, over police marginalized communities, and place those who have been convicted by this flawed system in deeply dysfunctional prisons that may well violate their human rights.
no, it really doesn't depend. there is well-established research on the relative safety of bodybuilding [1]; you have to provide evidence that somehow the diets involved in contest prep increase the injury rate of bodybuilding by a factor of 10 (to be comparable to other strength sports), or >100x for other dynamic sports. such an increase would mean diet-related injuries account for 90/99% of bodybuilding injuries; anyone involved in the sport can tell you that's not even close to true.

you would be on the mark if you mentioned the anabolic agents in contest prep, especially fat-burners/diuretics/insulin. those absolutely shorten the lifespan of bodybuilders drastically, but natural bodybuilding is a perfectly healthy and popular alternative.

> A competition weightlifter can only go for a record attempt once, maybe twice a year - their nerves are fried after that.

it's unclear whether you mean a true olympic weightlifter or a powerlifter - neither is true. the bulgarian weightlifting team under Abadjiev famously competed dozens of times per year while training just as hard throughout the year. the IWF olympic qualification (before covid changed the timeline) required athletes to compete in 6 events from november 2018 to april 2020 - that's more than twice a year alone. a top american weightlifter might compete at pan ams, IWF worlds, and USAW nationals alone each year. in powerlifting, an elite american lifter at minimum has to do USAPL nationals and IPF worlds, but might also do the arnold or local meets.

[1] Keogh and Winwood, or Siewe et al.
Rare devs talk about the nearly completed Goldeneye 007 remake
Bad time for an automated response: https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1358666067325968385
For now. Cryptocurrency is still in the 'honeymoon' phase where it hasn't been fully targeted by governments and regulatory bodies. That will change soon enough. You can't skirt AML regulations forever.
HN doesn't require my phone number to register nor does it track my web browsing habits.
The wikipedia page is heartbreaking. Griefing parents sent to jail, their other children taken away and placed in foster care... So many lifes made miserable by one person...
Paying investigators per conviction is a sure way to create incentive.
One problem that I see with SaaS vendors (and I am working on my own SaaS), is that some of them are delirious with their pricings, in my humble opinion.

For example Duolingo. Love Duolingo. My kids use it. So we want to support them, but that means paying 120 euros per year per kid (240 euros!), so we use the free option.

If they had a plan that was, I don't know, 1 euro per person per month, we will gladly pay 4 euros per month (we are 4), and then pay 48 euros per year. Or even a family plan of 5 euros per month per family of 4.

Instead, we pay 0, and use the exact same resources.

The same happened with a calendar service (those apps that allow you to reserve and appointment with a doctor or hairdresser or whatever).

Their free tier was obviously 0. And then they asked for 30 dollars per month for 20 features. I needed only 2 of those features.

I asked if there was a way to pay only for those. It wasn't. So I ended up moving to a competitor which was much cheaper (10).
Man I would love to see pine get into the home NAS space.
I literally was embarrassed. I didn't want to work for a company that selected talent like that.
In hiring, one size does not fit all
Sublime text has this:
"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation."

https://www.sublimetext.com/3
Depends on what you mean by repercussions. Since there is at least informal and sometimes fairly open scorekeeping happening at prosecutor's offices there's some hurt pride if your conviction is overturned later. Everything else either gets taken care of by the taxpayer or prosecutors' immunity for their official acts so on a personal level, no, there won't be any actual repercussions.
I admit that if central banks and governments don't get in on the dangerous hoarding process, the token bubble might resolve much better than in 1929. Let's hope that's what happens. However, cryptocoins might have stronger network effects and memetic effects than gold which might make them dangerous to the aggregate regardless of central bank involvement. You can buy more things more easily with bitcoin than with gold especially if companies like Tesla start accepting payment in bitcoins.
Hartserver announce Beta Club to shape the future of hosting
defendants should always be able to challenge expert witnesses qualifications.

and how could anyone on hacker news claim there is 'no evidence' that unreviewed software may do something other than what people claim it does? especially if it 170,000 lines of matlab?

from the article:

> "Without scrutinizing its software's source code – a human-made set of instructions that may contain bugs, glitches, and defects – in the context of an adversarial system, no finding that it properly implements the underlying science could realistically be made," the ruling says.
To an unbanked! person in Los Angeles? In a black market?

It is taxable in your hand as well as theirs. So any tax avoidance agenda makes the trade illegal.
You should also rescind your right to streets and other public services. You don’t get to pick and choose which part of your countries debt you get to keep and which you can avoid.
Every time something significant happens in crypto, someone who thinks they know how people/society should spend their time comes in and makes this asinine comment.
All physical theories are fine-tuneable to some extent. The Standard Model of physics, our best tested theory, has 25 physical constants that need be put by hand. That doesn't make the theory able to predict "whatever you want". It means that you have to perform at least 25 independent physical experiments to fix those free parameters and then your theory is set and can be used to make predictions.

The reason theoretical physicist pay attention to String Theory is because it's the only consistent theory of Quantum Gravity we know of. That doesn't make it the correct one for our universe, but is the only one that we know. And since physicist have been trying to crack the problem for almost 100 years now, it makes sense that some attention is paid to it, at least in the hopes that we learn how to build other theories of Quantum Gravity.
Or 30% truth and 70% confirmation bias, as the case may be....
Same thing: those animal hosts are everywhere. There is no particular reason to expect that an animal host in Isreal won't be the source of the next mutation (Israel is currently number 1 in per-capita vaccination)
Well sure, if they rely entirely on Excel to generate and spit out an expert witness testimony. If that ever happens it will be extremely important to understand what’s happening under the hood in Excel.
so the guy filled the Stadia dev form: https://stadia.dev/intl/en_us/apply/

but used a gmail account instead of pro email account (that's not a good move on his part here).

and then he still can't get help from Stadia ?

Possible but very hard to believe.
Artificial selection over generations has left pit bulls a mentally unstable breed.
Also, the EU has no motivation to make Brexit look like a success.
> That has very little to do with currency and everything to do with you not wanting to pay taxes.

> You may think that COVID response has been a catastrophic waste of money but if you'd lost your job would you have claimed the increased unemployment benefits? I suspect the vast majority of people would have.

Do our expenditures like unemployment benefits actually have any relationship with tax revenue at this point?
Doing an online application to initiate contact with a potential employer is already a strike against the applicant.

The whole point of these systems is to whittle down the pool of candidates down to single digits. Of course each candidate is going to "perfectly match" the stated faux-objective criteria because that's what the users of these systems think they want. Whether or not that's what they need is another question entirely.

For the jobs where it's possible, it's much better to reach out directly to human beings and exercise one's human professional network. The best jobs are filled by referral and/or reputation, almost always.
DbSauce- Convert database to API without code
That's actually false. You can do what javascript does on the front-end with web assembly.

Nevertheless, my point has gone right over your head if you have to ask a question like this.
per-user is tricky. I can have a super duper complex terraform repo with just 1 user and a 10 liner repo with 5 people.

you should do a "build minutes" kind of pricing. or the number of times i triggered a re-run.

From your perspective, it can only be better than per-user, since the number of commits will be minimally proportional to the number of users.
Bitcoin “transactions” only appear to cost so much if you divide total energy usage by transactions. This is very silly, because it gives the impression that more transactions would lead to something like a linearly higher energy cost, which is not true; the energy cost is due to mining, and transaction validation comes along for the ride. You could try to figure out how to allocate the energy per transaction but only after you somehow set aside the energy required strictly for mining.

Another way of framing this is that for a system with a relatively low transaction volume, i.e. a small denominator, your “cost per transaction” is always going to look ridiculous.

All of that being said — I wish he had picked Ethereum instead.
Exactly! You can have "total liberty" to the extent that you can defend it. Since the cost of defending it against nation states (or frankly even against well-resourced pirates) is so high, most people group together and form their own nation state.
How large is the population of people who are both unbanked but sophisticated enough to use bitcoin?

95% of the population is banked, but only 11% own bitcoin.

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html
There are 2 types of self-hosters: Those that want to host useful apps, and those that enjoy tinkering with the hosting setup as an end in itself. There is some debate as to whether there's actually any overlap between these groups.
A typical large windjammer from the final years of sail carried about half that sail area on a vastly smaller ship; lengthwise about half, but the displacement/tonnage difference would be huge. So yes, this seems quite underpowered, even taking into account that the modern airfoil shaped sails are certainly more efficient and have less windage than a traditional square rig.

My guess is that the idea is that in low winds they use the engine to boost speed.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzogin_Cecilie
It sounds like justice to me :)
You can do that with SEPA? I mean, I just send money to my landlord every 1st day of the month, and I got it automated in my bank page.

And every bank account I had has this.
What is this going to do to their Sendgrid/SES bill this month, I wonder!
No one should be using on-chain Bitcoin transactions for in-person exchange. Partly due to the high fees, but mostly because of double-spending and lack of privacy. Lightning Network solves all of these problems. Fees are much lower, settlement is instant and clear to even unsophisticated users, and the recipient cannot see from where the funds originated.

Taxes are a different issue and that's up to each jurisdiction to solve via better legislation.
Hopefully OP will come back and update us
The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.

This is hilarious. As if you need to read every damn line and you can’t skip blank lines? You can skip whole files that aren’t relevant. Weak excuse
I would also be interested in a concrete example. E.g. TC discounts Tesla's tech advantage over competitors too much in my opinion, but flat out wrong? I'm curious.