skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a systems person you don't see any benefit to having different layers? Currently you are getting to watch the issues of shoving everything into layer 1 play out on Ethereum. Bitcoin isn't just a distributed system, it's value is derived from being a decentralized one.

Almost every technical aspect of Bitcoin that people like to claim makes it "old technology" or inefficient were purposefully chosen trade offs with decentralization. It's obvious that a single centralized database would beat every cryptocurrency on transactions per second.
Show HN: Wrote CLI tool to stand up website in 2 commands
In the 2020 preprint:

"These new algorithms factor integers N ≈ 2^400 and N ≈ 2^800 using 7x10^10 and 4.3x10^12 arithmetic operations".

He does not specify how many it uses for 2^1024 or 2^2048. This is clearly nonlinear. Assume (nevertheless) that you multiply x100 every 400 binary digits, then for

2^2048, you get

(2048-800) equiv 1200/400 equiv 3, so you would need approx. 10^12*10^6 operations. Assuming you can do 10^6 ops , you need 10^12 seconds (like 30000 years).

BUT those are very very rough assumptions (an "arithmetic op" might probably take more than 1 microsec).

EDIT: sorry, this link is pretty interesting. Factor RSA-260, which only has 862 bits. Should be feasible in about 2 hours. The link: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/88582/does-schnor...

EDIT2: sorry again: Schnorr is 78 years old. I am not gerontophobic (being 50 I am approaching that age) but: Atiyah claimed the Riemann Hypothesis, Hironaka has claimed full resolution of singularities in any characteristic... And I am speaking of Fields medalists.

So: you do really need peer-review for strong arguments.
Internet Shutdowns Plunged Millions into ‘Digital Darkness’ Last Year
This is awesome, I want to see Amazon make more moves embracing the OSS community a la Microsoft over the past few years.
Or if its less efficient it might increase ad spend - not to be to cynical
I mentioned this on another top-level comment in this thread, but it looks like they have a job posting for this open: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1424393/software-development...
Indeed. As person suffering from endless agile bullshitery scrums, stories, sprints, and crap. I now have to keep a lookup table for normal names in my mind as every fucking thing has a "code/cool" name. So QA/UAT/Prod environment are now "Audi/BMW/Tesla" environment at work.
It's directly connected to lots of power usage today being from coal.
Thanks Matt!

I'd love to reconnect after YC, the last few months have been fairly hectic, so apologies for dropping off the radar.

I've been following your newsletter on https://taskablehq.com/, looking awesome!
Shane and Niko, regarding Tenet 4, what's the latest on an AWS Rust SDK? AWS Rust members contribute to Rusoto now. Are there plans for an AWS branded release?
No sorry - I'm also eng. YC has a few resources that should be able to help you though (see below). Something that they stress is "clarity of thought". "Student loan repayment automation for workplace benefits providers" is a great starting point :)

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6q-how-to-pitch-your-sta...
Is Zoom big enough to support an entire app ecosystem? Sure, say investors. ($)
Strongsync: A first-of-its-kind, macOS 11 File Provider
> it’s all artificial value

The distinction between artificial and natural i.e. intrinsic value is completely arbitrary if you think it through. Where do you think comes the value of dollar bills from?

Of course, why things have value originates in their utility. But everybody has a different idea of utility. You don’t think Bitcoin is useful but others have a different value. That’s why they are investing despite the risk. Since Bitcoin’s market cap is nearing the $1T mark quite a lot of people seem to agree in its utility...

BTW: You might want to google “subjective theory of value” and “regression theorem” to get a better understanding of what’s going on. Spoiler alert: The concepts are fundamental to economic theory and have nothing to do with Cryptos.
Depends on the goal of the organization, really. For organizations that follow the current business dogma (maximize short-term profit/increase shareholder value) then yes, they always have an incentive to screw over whomever they can.

But that's not how everybody thinks. The Craigslist leaders, for example. From 2006: "She recounts how UBS analyst Ben Schachter wanted to know how Craigslist plans to maximize revenue. It doesn’t, Mr. Buckmaster replied (perhaps wondering how Mr. Schachter could possibly not already know this). 'That definitely is not part of the equation,' he said, according to MediaPost. 'It’s not part of the goal.'" [1]

I do agree that privacy regulation is necessary to set a floor, though. Since our current system over-rewards juicing short-term metrics, we have to compensate by blocking the worst of the exploitative behaviors.

[1] https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the...
* sigh *
There are some big uncertainties though. For example, now that studios can own theaters I wouldn't be surprised to see Disney buy one of the chains to show only their movies. It would be a huge problem for Alamo and other chains if they didn't get Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar movies at the same time as a Disney-owned theater would.
> Spend a couple hours reading the instructions...

lol bro, I'm employed and married with 2 kids.

I guess that's considered a partnership.

;)
Thought this was some new kind of homomorphic encryption and got pretty excited for a bit.
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint
Yes. And Intuit's lobbying has helped ensure that never changes.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

Most Americans are simply unaware that other countries have dramatically simplified this problem. It's amazing how many have magically assumed this was because this was some socialist concept and the immediately launch into "oh, but how much more in taxes are you paying? pfff."
I don't feel that good about this.

The thing is that Cliqz was "majority-owned by Hubert Burda Media" [1], and that "The deal, terms undisclosed, makes Cliqz owner Hubert Burda Media a Brave shareholder." [2]

Doesn't Hubert Burda Media have a interest in removing ad-blocking technologies from the web? Couldn't partnering with Brave get them into a privileged position where they are capable of displaying ads and build user profiles?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_e...
I think there are good reasons to be skeptical. The USA PATRIOT act was rushed through congress in a previous crisis and it took nearly 20 years before it stopped being reauthorized.
Wow, a rad hard FPGA! Now that's something I didn't expect - thanks for digging this up! :)
Agreed, but one ought to be able to FOIA the entire pipeline that handles the data. This is especially so given that the results of the pipeline are used for tax enforcement and litigation.
I can't deny that taking the ship counts as piracy, but I think that's somewhat different from the kind being discussed here.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Radiant Robot
Oddly, the official rust lambda runtime is not being actively maintained any more and the community is moving towards a fork by netlify [0][1]

0: https://github.com/lamedh-dev/aws-lambda-rust-runtime

1: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime/issues/27...
Consider that it’s not just the changing times but also your own changing economic situation. Would you have had a spare $20/month foe a search engine subscription as a 16 year old? I sure had better uses for my money back then than something like this, privacy be damned.
TCP sockets appear to still be supported by pipewire-pulse.
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6700 XT
This depends. Google project zero routinely discovers vulns in Google products.

However they're empowered to fix them, essentially no questions asked. So you don't often get p0 posts about unfixed bugs in Google products.
I don't understand this prediction (emphasis mine):

> Google’s heft means that its move is also likely to stoke a backlash from some competitors in the digital ad business, where many companies rely on tracking individuals to target their ads, measure their effectiveness and stop fraud.

Isn't this just an opportunity for these guys to differentiate themselves from the 900 lb gorilla? And if that tracking really leads to ads with higher conversion rates then those competitors will do better than Google (until, if those ads really are better, the latter reverses its decision).

BTW this is not in any way a defense of intrusive tracking, which I consider both a tragedy and a significant waste of money. My intuition is that this tracking adds little to no benefit. I suspect we're still in the at least "50% of advertising spend is wasted"* world; more like 70%-80%. This is another nut to be cracked, and one unlikely to be addressed by any incumbent.

* Attributed to John Wanamaker (among others, though I feel he is the most likely source)
You could, yeah.

You could put in a lot of work, just for read-only feature parity.

Or you could work some more, and have a competing product.

You seem adamant, that the former is a better path, but I don't quite see why would you do all that work for naught.

(Roam already broke my backup script 2 times, and there are better uses of my time than interfacing with a proprietary product, if there are better alternatives.)
Medium.com all over again.
This was actually a thing a couple years ago. I tried it out a couple times and it worked really well: https://www.flythere.com/

Basically the gave you a big "box" of air space that had 0 obstacles that you could fly around in. It's impossible to crash the drone and it takes off / lands automatically.
I'm really intruiged about the idea of topic/directory based searches. Usually when I'm searching for something I'm not looking to scan through the entirety of what the internet has to offer, I'm looking for something in a specific domain of knowledge.

I would much rather have a more detailed index for a specific topic than a generalized index covering everything. Looking forward to trying this out more.
I don’t find that to be true about brokerages. I have 4 different brokerages, and each one sends a well labeled 1099-B/DIV/INT.

Non W-2 or 1099 incomes with various deductions get things complicated though, and I would punt that to an accountant.
stand up site using host/registrar of choice. demo gif here. https://github.com/roymoran/page/blob/main/docs/pagecli.gif
Why would you buy it anyway ? It's not like the music / cinema industry is in trouble.

If it's only to be the "good guy" then well congrats.. here's your medal.
Mozilla was sending your browser history to Cliqz in Germany.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whi...
Ogham? For real? Talk about a USP!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
On the one hand, I absolutely agree with you. I tremendously lament the fact that outline, color, and shading have been thrown out so now we're trying to decipher little rounded-box hieroglyphics based on lines being subtly different.

But on the other hand, the problem is that icons took so much work to create before, and also because they had such a recognizable identity/brand they weren't easy to reuse. Now the icons are so generic that they might as well be letters of the alphabet. They kinda are. A right-arrow is just a right-arrow -- it's not a Microsoft Office style right-arrow, or Windows 95 style right-arrow, or Mac Aqua style right-arrow, etc.

These icon fonts make sense for when the icon is meant to be essentially decorative typography -- e.g. a share icon next to the word "share" or an "opens in new tab" link arrow. They work very well for websites.

However, I hate these icon fonts when they're used without a text label besides them -- specifically in toolbars. That's where I wish desperately we could go back to colorful textured icons that were easy to tell apart. Even after years, I still find Gmail's toolbar of monochrome blob icons to be entirely unusable for this reason.
The title reminded me of the now old "Copying is not Theft" video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
The hedge fund shorts were irresponsible but I don't think there exists any credible argument that they were illegal.
Not sure, I don't use Firefox. I'd assume they don't, given that a lot of the privacy ethics in Brave carried over from Mozilla.
Or perhaps we followed the original plan and had masks, tests, and tracking in place like the previous administrations had done.

The fact that masks are politicized at all shows how badly it was managed.
Why? You can just binary search. It'll take about 5 page turns. It's not like you can go to 77th page in one go, you need to "sort of" binary search in normal order as well since you don't know exactly where page 77 is. You just now it's somewhere around 3/4 of the way.
CSS color parser library written in Rust
How Much Minimum Wage Changed in Each State
Microsoft announces passwordless authentication in Azure
Something can be important to you and yet not important enough to pay the costs to remedy.
Well, if you are a simple family where everyone is biologically related and living together, then things are pretty simple in the end. The issues come up with mixed families, divorced parents, etc.

As for the dollar values, if you make $30,000 and have 2 kids, you can usually get a $6,000 tax credit or more. The U.S.'s support for working low-income families is carried out through the tax system. Put another way, tax credits are one of the U.S.'s most important social safety nets.
Technically you only need to file if you owe the government money. If you have money deducted from your paycheck, you will want to file in order to get a refund, but technically you don’t have to.
> and much of your deduction information

No, no they don't. At most they have your mortgage interest deduction - side hustle expenses, charitable contributions, etc. are not reported to the IRS automatically.
True that the US tax system used to be a lot worse and a lot more vindictive. See the hearings during the nineties that led to IRS reform. Horror story after horror story.

But that doesn’t mean it’s a great system now. I would favor dropping exemptions and moving to a lower flat tax, for instance - taxes by postcard. Probably never that way for businesses, but for 9-5ers, it should be way more straight forward than it is now.
I suppose what I mean is that there are many idioms that we have learned and gotten used to. For example, actions like copy and paste, or click and drag (touch gestures). Formats, like a table, grid, matrix, cells. Text is also universal and with editors we have a cursor, backspace, select, cut, but also, pagination, margins, fonts, boxes, etc., when we render.
Drawings are represented in various ways. We have paths, but then there are a multitude of serialization formats.

None of these are really first class citizens in computing. They are all application level concepts/implementations. Some are hardware dependent (margins, when we choose a printer with settings).

My point is that we would benefit if these "human needs" were met at a lower level. If a grid was a grid, an image was an image, a drawing a drawing, etc.
At the application level, there could be enrichment, but the essence of a thing could be universal. Like a protocol. Once these things are protocols, everything would start functioning more alike and be able to interoperate in a better way. Including the web.

Some of these things (idioms, actions) appear to work across the board, but they are fragile, unpredictable, and often fail just when you need them the most. That's because every application solves these problems for itself. (Please don't say Windows Clipboard).
Given that Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment[0] still seems to hold true, this all looks super powerful.

What type of uses does the CLI have? Is it for triggering actions?

One thing I think would be cool is if I could write a program that would run on one of my servers that would execute some automation when mailscript triggers an action. I assume there is some generic webhook support in mailscript that I could use to implement this, but the automation I'm thinking of is not the kind of thing I'd want to expose as a web-hook (like alarm remediations) so I guess I'd be looking for something more secure.

Typing that out gave me another idea for a potential category of actions: AWS (and other cloud providers). I could implement this on my own with the previous feature, but if it makes sense it could be cool to have them baked in if the user provided creds for a AWS API user with some IAM roles and let me template API calls to be run as actions.

A less glamorous but very interesting use case to investigate might be Linux kernel maintainers, whose workflows are heavily based around email (e.g. the use of git send-email [1] and all of the conventions in the Submitting patches guide[2]).

This looks like fun and I can totally imagine some use cases for this with personal projects. Excited to see where this goes!

[0] "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -- Jamie Zakinski
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/email-clients....
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-pat...
The Software Billionaire Behind the Biggest U.S. Tax Fraud Case Ever Filed
the only fringe viewpoint is that masks and lockdowns are actually scientific - democrats are just a bunch of brownshirting, goose-stepping nazis - hang em all
They do, it's just that many of them don't do it for long.

The bosses don't stick around long enough to learn that what they are doing doesn't work, and go try to repeat it somewhere else.
That's right. My example stated two very different outcomes. One outcome: an academic result is published. Other outcomes: something is put into production.
> women continue to have sex because it is easy to obtain?

It's not so much that it's easy to obtain but at least in Western cultures it's expected that the initiating side should be male, and females can either accept or refuse it. This creates a somewhat unbalanced economy.
And how do you prove that a totally-ordered, Dedekind-complete, Archimedean field does not lead to contradiction besides constructing it explicitly by bootstrapping from natural numbers?
Lenovo announces ThinkEdge fanless and rugged mini PCs with Tiger Lake CPUs
> for Safari and FireFox, FLoC is cloud based

This would require being to identify a user when they are on many different sites (cross-site tracking), which all the major browsers intend to prevent.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, speaking only for myself)
Wow nice, I didn’t know Cupertino widgets exist[0]. I guess we need them for Windows and Mac so it looks and feels native, I need to try that. Thanks

[0]https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino
These all had and continue to have enormous amount of users. I'm not sure how you can argue that these all got their valuations based on hype alone.
Newspapers have some level of editorial oversight, governance and fact-checking. Substack writers don't offer any of that. I understand that that's part of the appeal, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that Substack writers don't have their own agenda or biases.
What if the suffering could somehow be guaranteed not to occur? Since that seems to be your only (main?) reason to give up meat, would you go back to eating it if the suffering didn't happen?

I think the parent comment to yours is more about avoiding meat because of compassion to the intellect/consciousness. Rather than avoiding meat in order to eliminate any suffering that may occur during "production" of it.

I'm curious because I'm pretty good at convincing myself that the meat I buy comes from animals that haven't suffered. And if it can actually be guaranteed (moose killed by hunter) I'm all-in on meat. But if I somehow "woke up" and realized that I didn't want to eat other living things because of compassion (or whatever) to their minds? I'm not sure that I could go back from that.
I still don’t understand basic attention token, but I know people that do understand it and I support them!
>The phrase 'if you're not the customer, you're the product' comes to mind

That doesn't really apply to the warez scene. People aren't releasing cracked software for profit, they're doing it for the challenge and to say they were the first to do it. It's pure ego.
here's some advice Jennifer, shove it up your ass
Easy solution: do medicare for all with lots of pictures of eagles, apple pies and stuff.
You went way over my head I'm afraid. I don't know how banks/reserves/etc work.
Try dark reader, it has a sepia setting and works on nearly all sites:

https://darkreader.org/
Been really interesting to watch you grow. Can't wait to see what you innovate next!
Yes, when you encounter ideas that make you uncomfortable it's important to shut your eyes, plug your ears, and run away!
It's an odd strain of thinking, where everything is compared to Nazi-era Germany except the actual current fascism.
The idea of paying someone $250 when the government already has the data is ridiculous. Accountants are accessible to some, but we shouldn't need to pay someone when the government can do the calculations.
I have a 2.5 year old.

A few weeks ago she (on her own) decided to dry her wet painting by taping it to the heat vent. We have never used tape in any way similar to that, and certainly have never used the heat vent to dry anything (it being a long-term safety hazard, and potentially bad for the ventilation system).

She routinely falls on her face because of getting herself into ridiculous precarious situations (in disturbingly similar ways).

The problem is intelligence just isn't 1D no matter how much we wish it was. Delayed gratification, problem solving and communication ability are not necessarily highly correlated enough for a single metric to make sense of the three.
The cell phone policy is a point of pride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch/1L3eeC2lJZs
Returns. It's about returns. And taxes that are not wage-tax already payed at source.
Correct. It left it up to the model creators to potentially evaluate those tradeoffs for future models.
Craigslist is the exception, not the rule.
In this situation, I don't think that the distinction between settled and unsettled funds would have mattered.

Robinhood was still responsible for the clearinghouse-mandated deposit requirements, whether the purchase was from settled or unsettled funds.

My understanding is that the deposit funds, and the funds-fronted-on-margin, are two different groups of money.
I use BRave exclusively on both my machines and my mobile devices.

I have one request within brave:

I want "Use Profiles" a switchable profile that states what I am using Brave for - and session states.

So let me explain:

1. I am using brave to do personal browsing at home and thus my 30 open tabs are related to my personal browsing etc.

A cool way of implementing this would be instead of CTRL+SHIFT+N would be CTRL+SHIFT+N[1-9] to shift to VIEW and would take me to that tab-stack... and there would be a page that would allow me to manage each tab-stack around [TOPIC] - Meta Book marks...

2. Educational tabs (bookmarks) associated with learning something - so I want tab grouping/session grouping around the resources I read for learning a topic

3. Work topics - so a group of resources related to work.

4. To sum up the above, basically VIEWS that I can dictate what bookmarks, sites, resources, etc relate to which view.

Kind of like multiple desktops - I want sep viewing environs that allow me to group, classify and segment knowledge tunnels... and overlap them as desired.

Love Brave.
bat tokens will eventually make sense to everyone we’re probably just 10 years too early into the private browsing space
Kill turbotax with fire and kill it again.