skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by this article.

Is there any CCP-style AI panopticon precriming employees happening, or is this an anxiety? Where's the evidence?

Is this demonization of young people or the left (Telegraph is conservative) as pro curtailing fairness, privacy, and/or freedom?
Free Pascal on Amiga, AROS and MorphOS
Related to my earlier comment in this branch, where I said "many belief systems have some truth and some good ... [and] Keep all the good that you have, and let us see if we can add to it." (I hope I'm saying this right.)

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believe that all our choices have consequences, based on what we know/understand. All will eventually know about Jesus Christ (in this life or the next), enough to choose whether to accept His payment for their sins (by following Him), or suffer the consequences of those sins, personally. Sometimes that is called damnation, but He is merciful if we really try to do what we know is right, and everyone will get a chance.

I suppose that the best heaven wouldn't be so great if it requires being around those who, knowing the truth, still want to lie and hurt others, right? (My thinking, anyway.) Seems like those should all be ... together somehow. Hopefully they can learn better eventually.

The scriptures say we will get what we are willing to receive, that God knows all, cannot lie, and has a Plan which allows for both justice and mercy, for all His children, which we humans all are.

Edit: He also says not to procrastinate our repentance (the changes we make to our lives when we follow Him). I can attest that He helps make life better in many ways, and more bearable in the hard times we can all have.
I think you vastly overestimate how progressive telcos are with this kind of thing ...
To be sure, this entire thread is about principles, and while the costs may not be prohibitive, the title is "obstructs," not "prevents."
If you hit a Semi Trailer from behind, it would matter... a small vehicle might go UNDER the trailer, decapitating the occupants.
WhatsApp CEO on the controversy surrounding proposed German communications laws
It seems a fairly reasonable set of levels. For example, L4 seems like something that may be achievable in the foreseeable future if it means something like full autonomy on designated interstates in some weather conditions. That actually sounds like something that would be very useful for a lot of people (and probably a big safety benefit). It just doesn't do anything about eliminating private car ownership or the need to be able to drive at all. But, personally, those are of less interest to me anyway.
There's plenty of data on it. Safety is _the_ number one thing people are paying attention to in self-driving cars.
It's just indicative of the fact that we're 20 years into the blockchain, and the only real use case seems to be "acquire garish amounts of wealth from nowhere."

Something everyone wants for sure, but if that's all it is, the party's gonna stop someday.
>The community around Bitcoin is one of the most toxic. It's the main reason I haven't bought, and won't buy, any BTC (regardless of the fact I think the tech is completely subpar).

In that case "Have fun staying poor"
> "Regulations which include language like 'X% of units must be for renters making <80% AMI' appear positive, but often favor larger-scale, high-capital projects..."

yes, regulatory capture at work. any time a stipulation is prescriptive rather than (largely) descriptive, it's quite likely a mistargeted regulation. being numerical makes it seem objective, but despite that, it doesn't lead to the implied/explicit intent, which is more equitable housing. it's a token gesture meant to veil the true intent of benefiting, and concentrating power among, cronies. oftentimes, the rationale behind writing regulations this way is to create a clear delineation of what's acceptable and not, but the line is nearly always drawn in the wrong place and is hopelessly incomplete in scope relative to objective.

it's the same class of deception as citing selective (i.e., incomplete) statistics.

what we need is to explicitly encourage human-scale ownership and development everywhere, through every means available, including zoning reform and tax policy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410487 (it's a significant part, though not the entirety, of this comment)
Yes, in a way. But I find it so incredibly convenient it's actually encouraging me to enable 2FA on all websites that support it (and 1Password lets you know if the website does).
Regarding the "Kingdom of Nouns", I always thought Lobster[0][1] had a really cute idea: x(a, b, c) and a.x(b,c) are equivalent. Don't know if that is original to the language, but it's where I saw it first. It only really makes sense with the other features of the language, though.

(Also, I just discovered that it now targets WASM. Maybe I should give it another go!)

[0] http://strlen.com/lobster/

[1] https://github.com/aardappel/lobster
People remember two things - when things don't work, and when they start working.

The first is why people will complain something is "crappy" if they had one bad experience with it, and the second is why the "new" thing is often perceived as better EVEN if it has more problems than the old - as long as it doesn't have the same problems.

After awhile the "new" wears off and it's crappy again.
> at least if we talk about Alan Kay's vision

Big if there. Most people do not mean Kays OO when they say OO.
>why is 99% of the conversation related to Bitcoin about the current price.

People like to talk about money. Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1138/
This is an artifact of not allowing 32-bit applications on Catalina. It seems silly to blame Valve over this. Have you considered setting up bootcamp for gaming? Otherwise you can pick up fairly cheap refurbished laptops off eBay or amazon. Remember proton is for Linux, support has and always will be shotty for MacOS.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1055-ISJ...
I agree with most of this article except the part about fractional reserve banking. All fractional reserve banking means is that banks are allowed to loan out their customer's money. People have known this to be more economically efficient since the Middle Ages. If you're not using your money, it's better in the hands of someone actively using it to conduct a commercial transaction.

Without a central bank to print out money, it's unlikely for there ever to be a fractional reserve banking system in Bitcoin. Any large scale bitcoin bank exit event would completely crash the bitcoin economy.
> All we had to do was buy some. We can still do it.

So you look at the four orders of magnitude that separate the famous "dude overpaying for pizza with Bitcoins" from the current price. And you apparently feel so strongly you leave out the argument for why that is relevant to encouraging others on HN to make a current investment in Bitcoin.

Are you seriously implying that a Bitcoin will be worth $500,000,000 over the next decade? I don't think you are, so what's the relevance of history of Bitcoin's price? Why does that generate FOMO in you?

Is there a more persuasive explanation than simple gold fever? Are you really not able to think of practical circumstances which would cause the price of Bitcoin to go down?
Make systemd bind to that port and let it pass the open fd to your process. See socket-activated services.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html
The “unreliable” luxury brands are reputed to be just fine during their lease/warranty periods. If this defense works for Tesla it has to work across the board.
This is a rant about a personal experience. I couldn’t help but imagine tears running down his face while he wrote this. Bitcoin has done a lot of good in the world, the existence of some trolls on the internet doesn’t negate that.
Pretty impressive to see a 40-year-old technology still around with modern, popular devices still being shipped that can read the discs. Future technologies like DVD and Bluray using the same form factor was a huge reason, and despite what Neil Young would have you believe, 16 bits and 44kHz really is good enough for human perception.
Actually Bitcoin is all about wealth redistribution. It is not possible to make money with Bitcoin unless it is at the expense of somebody else. And the fact that some people are making money with it indicates such redistribution is taking place.
Where would you tell a crypto noob to start today?
If you look at it from the perspective that ad-clicking has funded the biggest information retrieval system and the biggest human connection platform, yes it was overall socially beneficial.
Till the fuses flip.
> If you need food and I have it, trade or violence are your only options if currency doesn’t exist.

Another option is debt. You give me the food and I owe you something equivalent later.
I agree such clauses are absurd. Of course whether it has as much legal weight as the paper it is never going to be printed on is another matter.

I thought the objections to the licensing in this case were more about the limitations like having a maximum number of users covered, but perhaps I misunderstood what at least some people were upset about.
It's obviously not as simple as that. Tell that to all the families whose members die each year to any other vehicle accidents. Should we ban vehicles in general?
Hmm, when I try that one it gives me an "invalid function" dialog. Tried it on Firefox and Chrome.

Any suggestion on how to get it work? Do I have to change the range settings, if so, to what?
Did you convert it by hand and translate the code into idiomatic rust? Or just run some C code through c2rust? Because the latter will not produce anything like a typical rust program, it will be C types and logic with minimal changes to make it compile in rust (and those changes will make it look very verbose).
The only reason I have some crypto is for paying for things.

The only way to do MMS over the internet that isn't completely crazy* or requires a google account is jmp.chat as far as I can tell. It looks like they originally accepted paypal and paypal did it's thing so now the default is bitcoin. For small projects like this bitcoin is one of the easier ways to set up payments.

My DNS provider also had a bug in their payment form when I went to renew the domain name (or maybe it was really my bank despite them telling me it was on their end, who knows.) I was able to just pay them with bitcoin and that solved the problem.

Whether you like it or not, crypto is here to stay and it's way easier for both users and developers.

*One of the providers I was looking at even tried activating my camera on the log in page (the browser didn't say anything but the camera on that machine is weird and if you don't use a special API it just spams the kernel log with errors, idk how they did it.)
This is called unified function call syntax
I was thinking more from a point of view of Epic, the company, wanting to secure its future. In Epic's case they're actually currently suing (and running a propaganda campaign) against Apple and Google because the latter are charging 30% of all revenue including in-game purchases.

Rather than funding the development of the similar initiatives on PC (i.e. Linux) to prevent Microsoft from doing the same thing, instead Tim Sweeney tweets about how switching to Linux is like moving to Canada and is generally rude and unpleasant about it.

The fact that someone else had to make a launcher for Epic is further proof that Epic is not interested in even supporting Linux, let alone invest in it.
Cython with all the appropriate cdef type declarations can match C and so might also do it. Not sure Cython exactly counts as "Python"..it's more a superset/dialect { and I also doubt such a port would hold many lessons for @burntsushi, but it bore noting. }
AWS is particularly bad with Safari. For some reason, AWS asserts that U2F doesn't work on Safari so I have been forced to remove 2fa from my account. Yay. And AWS Amplify never loads on Safari either.
Python does refcount-based memory management. It's not a GC design. You don't have to retain objects in an internal linked list when the refcount drops to zero, but CPython does, purely as a performance optimization.

Type-specific free lists (just a few examples; there are more):

* https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/floato...

* https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/tupleo...

And also just wrapping malloc in general. There's no refcounting reason for this, they just assume system malloc is slow (which might be true, for glibc) and wrap it in the default build configuration:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/obmall...

So many layers of wrapping malloc, just because system allocators were slow in 2000. Defeats free() poisoning and ASAN. obmalloc can be disabled by turning off PYMALLOC, but that doesn't disable the per-type freelists IIRC. And PYMALLOC is enabled by default.
> take unfounded trust away from individual organisations and governments, and instead puts that trust in maths and the collective

If by "collective" you mean a tiny portion of the community that are core developers, megaminers, megapools, exchanges and whales, uhh, then sure, but that doesn't seem much different than fiat. There is still an elite minority in control.
Yeah the QR code is not the special part. IT's the UX: 1 click and 1Password reads the QR code and adds a live authenticator code alongside your saved password, and auto-copies it to clipboard on mobile (and auto-pastes it in the 2FA field on desktop). So its like having a password manager and 2FA authenticator app rolled in one. I know it's sorta missing the point, but it's encouraging me to enable 2FA everywhere, as the hassle is now gone. (and most important sites detect when a sign on is unusual anyways).
The year of the desktop for me was the year I was happy running Linux on my desktop full time.

For me that was 2000.
I don't dispute the use case for urban commuters and short distances, however, these things should absolutely have airbags. You can be the safest and most responsible driver, but some crazy a*hole can still slam into you head on with a SUV. Airbags should not be a cost cutting option.
This reminds me of the Polish dictionary parable, where one guy must translate a letter written in Polish to English.

He knows strictly no Polish, but ... he has a Polish dictionary.

Not a Polish to English dictionary, mind you ... a Polish to Polish dictionary.

Historical, religious, scientific, political context carries a ton of unspoken information, and when you try to read a text without the context ...
Twitter Using Section 230 to Avoid Child Sex Trafficking Lawsuit
I think startups should stop using KPIs or BI dashboards. As a great friend said, “The best pilots can fly without looking.”

Same thing applies to Rubik’s cubes and 99% of complex challenges.

Just anecdote, so curious to hear what others think.
I briefly looked at nano based on the OP’s comment expecting to see proof of stake, but it looks like something more interesting? https://docs.nano.org/what-is-nano/overview/#what-is-nano

I don’t understand how it works yet, but I generally hold what I think is your skepticism for proof-of-stake.

To me, proof-of-stake takes all the technical guarantees of the blockchain and throws them out for a hand-wavy weak guarantee of correctness based on incentive structure. I don’t see how it’s that different from historical digital (or even fiat) currencies based on trust.

Proof-of-work is the interesting bit it crypto currencies.
Aren’t sockets the textbook example of what’s usually blocked? When do you have 1000 sockets all ready to read?
The Shocking Truth: The Fluid and Unfixed Byzantine Empire
Some incentives are aligned for open source data infrastructure but others are clearly misaligned. In practice we just get a different type of less-than-great outcome. Open source data infrastructure is not a solved problem.

A question that lacks a satisfactory answer in open source data infrastructure is this: who is going to pay for the initial architecture to be state-of-the-art? Architecture is forever, if you start with a naive design it will put the platform at a long-term disadvantage. Most open source infrastructure projects are started by well-meaning people that have no idea what a state-of-the-art design even looks like. At the periphery you might be able to burn a giant pile of VC money to make it happen but that is not sustainable without a clear path to profitable exit. The set of people with the critical expertise and the set of people building open source data infrastructure are nearly disjoint.

Today, the money is in state-of-the-art bespoke data infrastructure. If the tradeoff is "open source" and "10-100x better on infrastructure KPIs", companies happily pay millions for the latter. People that know how to design this infrastructure are extremely well paid, 7-figures is common and demand is high. Yes, they could take a year off work and create an open source infrastructure project but this doesn't seem to happen and it is easy to understand why, as there are few incentives and many disincentives. This is roughly my area of business, I see the dynamics from the inside and the trend is not favoring open source.

If all of the cutting edge infrastructure development work is happening in closed source, whether cloud or state-of-the-art bespoke, it doesn't bode well for the long-term relevance of open source.
Of course this is adjacent to the point of the entire thread, but how many medical companies/ideas have emerged from the mythical garage?
Most sites let you reset the 2FA token. Took me 15-20 mins to reset all my tokens when i switched to 1P.
Those aren't excuses, those are legitimate gripes/complaints. If EVs were that great, they would've beat ICE, especially since they're available at artificially lower prices (subsidies). EV sales are microscopic vs. ICE because EV offerings are inferior.
The $1500 license for this font isn’t too far off from the single use licenses; also, I didn’t see any usage info about marketing material. It depends on the application/game/font with prices from $1000-$5000.
Because while the fee burn does act as a deflationary force on the eth economy, there is still the inflationary force of the staking rewards. If transaction volume falls too much, then the staking rewards will outpace the fees burned and the eth economy will see overall inflation. At some point (insert hand-waivium here) an equilibrium will be reached between transaction demand, eth asset price, and staking demand (as more eth is staked, individual staking returns will fall, but overall inflation goes up).
The YouTube thing was back in 2018:

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-exec-says-google-slowed-yo...
Looks like each site is assigned a color which displays as a square 'thumbnail' alongside it in listings.
Async/await and implicit thread scheduling solve different problems. Loom is more about catching up to Go and Kotlin, no?
Several posts by @pjmlp..(if they stay downvoted).
I'm in the UK - I used to belong to a gun club and could have easily gone forward to own a rifle if I wanted to, including a semi-automatic (only in .22). I believe most countries in Europe have similar policies. The main difference between here and the US is the categories of weapon you're allowed to use; here it's primarily sporting or hunting weapons where in the US, using guns for defence (and using serious calibres for sporting/hunting) is within the Overton window.

Note that you can get serious calibre rifles in the UK but only in bolt or lever action. Case in point: https://www.gunstar.co.uk/desert-tech-hti-bolt-action-50-rif...
Crispr Could Switch Off Chronic Pain Without Opioids
No problem! When you go on a website that supports 2FA, it usually shows you a QR code to scan in order to setup a 2FA token. Just open 1Password to your current login and click on the tiny little QR code button. 1P detects it and adds it to that login. Blew my mind as well.
Interesting, good point. Unfortunately that means that you can no longer be sure that it hasn't also been accessed by a malicious third party though.
I use it in this way too, but I had been wondering about that as well.

Taking a stab at reasoning through this:

My understanding is that having a second device means that if the password was stolen, someone still needs another secret to log in successfully. In this case, if a password was stolen from the site itself, the 2fa code generator is not.

However, if the 1pass master key was stolen, then both the password and any 2fa code gets stolen as well. That puts the main vulnerability on the master key one uses for 1pass. (So looking at it that way, one should never use the master key as a password for anything else).

It does lose the advantage of having a second authentication device, though maybe not necessarily losing the protection of a second factor.

Is there something I overlooked in this? I’m no security engineer so I am not used to thinking in this way, other than maybe when I play Go.
Did you even read through the issue? I don't see anything that indicates it won't work.
From what I've read there's Waymo and then there's everybody else.
It still doesn't really work. When I load YouTube in Firefox it kind of hangs for a while and then plays in low res. If I grab the URL and jump over to Chrome, it instantly play in the highest resolution.
I know it's not the topic here so apologies for the digression, but the Mac compatibility on this list is somewhat misleading. Games like TF2 don't actually work on the Mac any longer unless you stay on or downgrade to Mojave. And even then, the performance and bugginess leaves much to be desired.

If you're using this article at all to make decisions around a Mac for gaming, dive a little deeper to make sure the game you want to play works on Catalina+ (generally requires a full 64 bit port).

Back to the actual topic: I had no idea Proton got this good. That's quite an achievement for Linux gaming. What's the state of modern GPU support?
That was my reaction on reading the parent comment too. However then I remembered that the mayor of Toronto was Rob Ford a few years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Rob_Ford_video_sca...

Boundaries have moved in recent years, but I think this behavior is still outside of normal for politicians.
I guess I'd say CD is and isn't retro. It's looking close to being the ultimate physical digital medium for music, with vinyl being the ultimate analog medium. It's really only retro in the sense that there isn't much reason to keep physical copies.