skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting but short. If anyone has the link to the paper; much appreciated and thanks.
How many people were buying Tesla's with bitcoin? Tesla hasn't sold their bitcoin, as far as I can tell, they are still holding a portion of their cash in BTC.

The hedge against inflation still exists. The future potential for international industrial payments in BTC for Tesla is still there.

I'm sure there are some accounting tricks there too. Plus, the tweet from Elon clearly states that they are looking at other crypto's with better carbon footprint...ETH moving to Proof-of-Stake (or any DeFi built on ETH) sounds like a good opportunity.

I musk be missing something here.
Agree, buying sampled Netflow data would technically hit this bar. Hard to know if it is troublesome without knowing the purpose. Are we using this for analyzing citizens traffic and correlating with other identifiers... Or are we analyzing traffic patterns to critical infrastructure and/or foreign nations?
> The absolute best of the best commercial IT systems implemented as envisioned with full support can maybe protect up to the $10M level

And yet Apple still manages to keep its private signing keys secure. Even from the FBI.

It’s doable.
Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking
> What’s the point in having a “blockchain” at all if under adversarial conditions, miners are necessarily demoted in favor of trusted human coordinators?

If you want to see precisely how "miners are demoted in favor of trusted human coordinators" in Bitcoin, you can read this analysis of the 2013 fork: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-...

In the quote you posted, Nelson is wrong when he states "[Bitcoin] provides a computational method for ranking fork quality". It only provides such a method when both forks agree on the underlying protocol. If two chains aren't being reconciled because the network is in disagreement on which set of rules is valid, the "computational method" is thrown out the window, and the big guns are called in (high profile developers, influencers in the space, etc.). He uses the words "canonical chain" and "attack" as if it's clear which chain is the attacker and which chain is canonical, but we need humans to help us make that determination on which is which. Chains by themselves aren't hostile or not, they're just numbers.

I'm not saying Ethereum is better by the way... they're all the same.
I feel the points mark similar allegories to physical presence. The idea is that you cannot just shoo protestors to protest in a little corner of the town where few see them. Because that impacts the effectiveness of a protest and can effectively squash revolution before it begins.

In this respect, with the conglomeration of the internet into a few dozen big news hubs you can argue that the defense of "don't do this on Twitter, protest on your own blog" is becoming increasingly similar to "don't protest in the mall, do it at your own home". spinning up a competitor to twitter to get the reach needed to effectively protest is about as feasible as buying a lot of land in a public area to protest on (heck, nowadays, change that to any land at all).

The metaphor isn't perfect, but that's because the digital space is a very different area , and I sort of hate the constant comparisons of the internet to physical land in terms of ruling. If we had access to instant, worldwide teleportation technology in the 1700's, I'm sure we'd need entirely new rulesets and ethics to take this into account. That's basically what the digital space is.
I like to believe to that theory as well.

But there is probably a simpler explanation : crypto is still experimental and Elon is pragmatic as new informations arrive. Where Bitcoin is the graal for some people, for Tesla it was only another real scale experiment about a payment method.
Can't find it now. Curiosity has an instrument to measure isotopes, which tells how its air chemistry changed over the aeons. It showed disparity in heavy vs light gasses trapped in rocks of different ages. Light gasses are lost first, so that gave a clock on atmosphere loss. And a profile of that loss over time.

Here's a sunday-supplement summary I did find:
https://science.time.com/2013/07/23/revealed-how-mars-lost-i...
> There is utility in the bitcoin network that is not found in existing financial systems (censorship-resistant, seizure-resistant, borderless, and pseudonymous)

That utility exists in most of the crypto offerings. Bitcoin is horribly inefficient as a payment layer although that's exactly what people want. If it's not good for what people use it for, something better will replace it. It's not about who's first, but who's last.
The moon is a useless place to locate military weaponry for use against earth.

It would take those nukes three days to reach earth, which is a huge amount of time for countermeasures to target and destroy them. And a handful of responding nukes could easily wipe out all lunar military sites and personnel, while lunar weapons could barely nick Earths military capabilities.
I wouldn’t get sequenced in America with the fascists so close to control.
> "There are over 20,000 prescription drug products approved for marketing."

But how does that square with the claim that the FDA has approved 1,453 drugs in its entire history?

I wonder what they mean by drug products? I'm guessing that the FDA Fact Sheet you found is counting every combo pill, extended release or sustained release form, oral vs injectible vs suppository formulation, and maybe even different dosages as different drug products.

Whereas the paper mentioning 1,453 drugs is counting only new molecular entities.
Micro-houses are for the time-rich.

Ain't nobody got the time to select all the sub-specifications for a simple house. It's simpler to live in a small corner of the Burj al-Arab, you can piggyback on some work made by the big hoteliers.

The metaphors are crumbling...
While I really dislike some of his behavior, this goal post moving to try to deny Musk credit for what he's accomplished annoys me.

Before Musk we had no economical reusable launch systems, economical space flight was sci-fi, and in the 2000s there were many people who thought modern civilization must inevitably grind to a halt as we deplete oil because oil is absolutely irreplaceable for modern transport.

SpaceX built the first economical to operate reusable space hardware at any scale, and Tesla validated the market for EVs. Even if Tesla fails, without them I highly doubt the EV revolution would be happening. Traditional car companies would never have cannibalized their ICE sales with EVs without a hard kick in the ass to do so.
I think these ransoms are net good. I'd rather greedy hackers shake them down for money then having the country get crippled by political terrorists or enemy nation states that can't be negotiated or reasoned with.

There are lots of infrastructure management teams taking security more seriously than they were a month ago. That alone is worth more than $5M
Firefox also has a lot of settings that mitigate various finger printing techniques. There are some good sample configs on Github. [1]

Ironically, many of the settings can make you more unique because they disable a lot of functionality.

[1] https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
Thanks so much for the support -- we feel really lucky and excited to have been able to grow Ditto over the last year. :)
You would typically integrate with a gateway who integrates with one or more banks who integrate with the schemes to get global coverage.

There are generally a number of domestic gateways in each region (I’ve worked with gateways in Australia, Malaysia and a couple of other places) but there are also larger providers.

There are name brands like Braintree and lesser known but still quite large, like Adyen. The API quality is extremely variable.

Checking out multiple gateways is a good idea. Stripe is supposed to be great but IIRC is relatively expensive.
We kind of naturally got from Prometheus -> VictoriaMetrics. Vicky is very simple to operate, which was a win. I'm a huge fan of Timescale, though, and we have big Postgres plans that I hope include Timescale. :)
Human extinction is likely linked to extinction of all higher order life forms on earth.
You know what is a good thing about it? There is some spotlight on the issue. Maybe IT security won't be an afterthought now.

I mean yeah, there are already attempts to blame everyone, but management who effectively made it clear that long term paying 5MM is cheaper than actually being careful, but I remain hopeful.
Cryptocurrency is almost completely unregulated, so no there are not likely to be ramifications. It's anarchy and just about anything goes. Buyer beware.

Also I didn't get the sense that Musk single-handedly pumped BTC. He jumped on the bandwagon about mid-way through the current pump. I am still foggy on what kicked off the current bull run.
Feeling eh-deprived.
You better sell your GM stock then since that seems mostly to be happening to Bolts lately. Second thought, if you think people are dying driving in cars you better sell all car stocks.
I'm surprised by how broken the english of GPT-2 is. A lot of sentences are just broken.

I would be curious to try again with GPT-3.
Read up on monero. Transactions in Monero are almost always untraceable.
The crypto still interfaces directly with the financial system on all ends. The company move money to an exchange (using the financial system), and the hacker cashes in the crypto eventually (using the financial system).
+1 on Obsidian. It requires a different way of taking notes to be really useful but it's all part of learning to take better notes.
> paying the ransom puts their shareholders at risk of serious sanctions and indictment from the US Dept. of the Treasury.

Treasury doesn’t indict anyone, that’s Justice’s job.
This quick babble from 7 years ago [1] might scratch your itch while you train your own GPT-2 model. :)

[1] http://drusepth.com/series/how-to-speed-up-your-computer-usi...
Basic game theory dictates that the cost of ransoms will continue to rise until it hits the price point at which the targeted company would have to replace its compromised systems from scratch.

5M, 50M, 500M, 5B, 50B?

I wonder how the government would react if a hacker group held gas/power/clean water/etc. hostage for millions of Americans for a ransom in the tens of billions
But the pipeline has been closed: https://abc11.com/business/theres-plenty-of-gas-in-the-us-th...

And the toilet paper shortage was not purely panic-driven. People did shit at work before the pandemic, and that part of demand switched to a different supply chain. The panic-induced bullwhip was probably stronger than the original demand spike, but the whole thing wasn't just memed into existence.
Clickbait title, there is nothing in the proposed legislation that forces platforms to do anything. It just gives the CRTC jurisdiction over the online platforms. The real application will be debated in court and hearings.

The current law is really outdated anyway and needs reform, there is not question about that. In Quebec, the proposed legislation has been well received in general.

At the end of the day even if it was the case that youtube must push a bit more Canadian content, would that be a bad thing per say?
Just answered this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27148622
Coinbase and other exchanges do that actually, when they find that an address belongs to a hacker.
...expanding a bit, Spacex could be the first company domiciled off of the planet if/when they build a private space station. What tax laws apply to artificial satellites used as "HQ" these days?
They're explaining that cost-per-stop is much lower for a train than an airplane. A stop might cost an airplane an hour or more added to the duration of the full multi-stop route (slowing down, losing altitude, landing, taxiing, boarding, taxiing, take-off, gaining speed and climbing) even if we allow for some pretty serious optimization of processes. It might cost a train anywhere from 1-15 minutes. A train can make four stops between two points and, despite traveling at a much lower top speed, finish the whole route much faster than an airplane would, doing the same thing. That is, it's friendlier to multiple stops over medium-distance routes than an airplane. If you're going point-to-point and it's a very long distance, you may as well just take a plane. If you have a 250 mile route and want a stop every 50 miles, then a train's (way) better than an airplane. Multi-stop (not to be confused with excessive stops) routes are exactly where trains shine.
That assumes this person is willing to donate-- from their statement on the organization I think they probably are, but the tone of the article beside their description of the organization seems to be "Yeah DKMS is good but look here's a cool loophole to get free stuff!".

That's not exactly a message that will attract those interested more in helping people than free medical data about themselves.
I knew about the "pen", "pin" before moving to New Zealand, but the one that still gets me is "cache" sounding like "quiche".
The math is clear. A new atmosphere would take millions of years to get swept away.
In some sense I agree but in another, as a user, I don't want Canadian stuff to be recommended to me because it's Canadian. I want content to succeed by merit alone at least when it comes to the internet. Do I care that some YouTuber is a Canadian? Not really.
At that scale it's more likely a wicker man.
Even ETH is 25. This is a handy article in that it lists a bunch of TPS's of different cryptos, but its also a shill article for Aleph, so ignore that. As you would see, TPS ranges from 7 (BTC) to 29,000 TPS (Solana). This also ignores Layer 2 solutions (e.g. Polygon for Ethereum) which vastly increases TPS.
https://alephzero.org/blog/what-is-the-fastest-blockchain-an...
Off-topic question. Who draws the illustrations for Notion's marketing pages? I love the art work.
How do I disable this? I don't have any need to open Skype, or any other application, from my browser. Is it a browser setting (I use Firefox) or is it an OS setting (Windows)?

Edit: It looks like an OS setting. In Windows the URI schemes are configured in the registry: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80650/how-do-i-register-... Anyone know if there is an easy way to list all the URI schemes?

Edit2: After thinking about this more, I'm afraid that removing URI schemes from the registry may break those programs. I'd much rather have a browser level setting that will only open external http:/https: resources and other URI schemes that are configured from the browser like mailto:.
> The dude thought covid would go away last May.
> He's thought that full self driving was 6 months away for literally 4 years now.

He can't predict the future, so what?

>He thinks it's easier to make Mars habitable than it is to keep the Earth habitable.

He never said this.

> And he didn't really understand what Bitcoin was when he sank 1.5 billion into it.

How can you prove he doesn't understand what Bitcoin was?
I think this is a bandaid solution. If the government wants to promote Canadian content, they can find more Canadian content. Make more / better content that is worth watching.
Oh absolutely... It's a lot more expensive for sequencing, so there's no reason not to take a cheap option that at least gets you checked against known issues.
> and then maybe submit it all upstream

Right. That's typically the ultimate goal, because...

> the high level view is still centralized

Period. Just because you don't interact with the parent node in the organizational structure for a while doesn't mean it temporarily ceases to exist.
The necessary magnetic field is actually easy to replicate.
As someone who's donated via PBSC it's a whole lot more than a regular blood donation. Two batteries of tests, the drugs are no joke, and the donation session is more or less a whole day affair - or two days if you're unlucky and they don't harvest enough cells the first day (I was unlucky).

I don't have any regrets doing it - the impost on me was fairly trivial compared to the difference it can make for the recipient, but it's not a thing to be taken lightly.
Mainly at present I see it as a demonstration of progress in the capabilities of the models. A machine is writing coherent syntax and grammar in close to real-time, maintaining a semblance of context while it does so, without requiring excruciatingly complex and detailed semantic algorithms.

One use-case is as a creative writing assistant. Typical ways to beat writer's block are to do something else (read, walk, talk, dream). At some point, either consciously or subconsciously, the hope is that these activities will elicit inspiration in the form of an experience or idea that will connect with the central vision of the author's work, allowing the writing to continue. So too it could be with prompts generated from these models, just another way of prompting and filtering ideas from the sensory soup of reality.

(While the "dark" version of reality has bedroom "writers" pooping out entire forests of auto-generated pulp upon ever-jaded readers, being able to instantly mashup the entire literary works of mankind into small contextual prompts would be another tool in the belt for more measured and experienced authors.)

There are other more practical use-cases for these models. There's work being done on auto-generating working or near-working software components from human language descriptions. Personally I'd love to just write functional tests and let the "AI" keep at it until all the tests pass. So seeing the models improve over time is a sign that this may not be an impossible feat.

From a less utilitarian perspective, I'd love computer assistants to have a bit of "personality". "Hey Jeeves, tell me the story about the druid who tapdanced on the moon." and just let the word salad play out in the background. Yeah it's a toy, but it would jazz up the place a bit, add a bit of sass even.

I do think we're a ways off the first computer generated science paper being successfully peer reviewed and contributing something new to human understanding of nature, I'd have scoffed at the idea ten years ago but now I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
What basic concepts (beyond installing and managing Python env) would you learn by using an interpreter installed locally?

The point, to me at least, seems to be laying the groundwork for even more learning and experimentation in python, while making it as easy as possible to do so.

It also has the benefit that any reader will end up with the same expected environment the guide is written for.

I will say that I totally agree that calling it the "right way" is disingenuous at best, and pure marketing fluff at worst.
it pays to be a scumbag
There were some news reports yesterday about insurance companies dropping cyber-ransom insurance from their offerings (AXA, I think). Very likely more insurance companies will do the same soon, or at least, refuse to insure the company unless they comply with some cybersecurity standards.
Notion static pages are extremely bloated. I commented previously about a documentation page created with notion that was 2+ mb for what was essentially 10 links
(Sorry, you caught my post while I was editing it in the first two minutes.)

I don't see why shouldn't try to do both:

a) Lower the earth's surface temperature

b) Begin the process of building a backup of humanity on Mars
> If local broadcast has to play by them, so should internet TV.

That would make sense if it was anything like broadcast TV where users have no control and its public airwaves.

Instead this is a private website where users decide what to watch. This isn’t meaningfully different from requiring people to suggest Canadian content when chatting with each other online.
HN is pretty reflexive in their dislike of pro-crypto arguments/evidence.
For what it's worth, foxes are much closer to dogs and wolves (and other canids) than hyenas are to cats.

The relationship between cats and hyenas is more like the relationship between dogs and bears, raccoons, or seals, which are classified as caniforms but are obviously distinct from actual canid species.
Or it's that + some skin of the teeth grifting.
El Carro: a new open-source Kubernetes operator for Oracle from Google
Even with GPT-3, where this "game" would be much harder, this would be kind of a weak demo, because the human reader doesn't understand what the text means in either case (most of the time), taking much if not all away the interesting part of whether the generated text makes any sense or not.

We have known for a while that language models can generate superficially good looking text. The real question is whether they can get to actually understand what is being said. As humans don't understand either, the exercise sadly moot.
Well I guess it is lesson for both: Those who think technology is better because it is so successful and who think technology will be successful because it is so much better than other things.
Taking out a fuel pipeline in non-heating months seems a lot less likely to cause casualties than downing a power grid. Dead people get different responses than theft, even massive theft. Also, knowing how scary oil companies are, I wouldn't be surprised if some people turned up dead over the colonial hack. Even if they get the attribution wrong, a dead hacker group would have a chilling effect on such activities.
If the $1,000,000 specialist machine you absolutely rely on needs XP or 9x, which is very often the case in medical or industrial scenarios, that's not an option. What you _can_ do is use an alternative to the built-in (un-updateable) browser: although you won't be able to get the most up-to-date version of any alternative browser, it's still way better.
They are pursuing a tariff-style approach here, as they do on other platforms, whereas you're recommending a subsidy-style approach.

It's worth remembering that Canada is generally more tariff-oriented in trade protection than their neighbors to the South.
Likely an old misnomer due to American soldiers bringing them home from a French-speaking region of Belgium.

The "French" in "French Onion Soup" refers to how the onions are cut, not the origin of the recipe. That's not related to fries since they're julienned, but I thought it was a fun fact.
Thoughtful response, thanks for your participation.
European job hoppers I know ended up in the Valley or fully remote.
hm, I tried this on 2 browsers and it said I was unique both times. Shouldn't the second have been a collision?
Is there a reason you don't cover right-wing billionaires in your examples? For example the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch are extremely influential on politics.

In any case, money has always been able to buy political power. That's a big reason why wealth inequality leads to political instability.
No it doesn’t. The condition of slavery wasn’t addressed by interpreting “people” to exclude enslaved people, additional words were added to distinguish enslaved people from free people. But free Black people, for example, were always included in the count of “free persons.” Other laws may have imposed limits. In 1789 women couldn’t vote and in 2021 children still can’t. But they were all included in the definition of “people.” Those other laws changed but the meaning of “people” didn’t.
Also, like if you're not paying for something, you ARE the product, man.
By that logic it's pointless to pump a tire, since the air will eventually leak out.

Terraforming will in part be a permanent process. The atmosphere lost will have to be continually replaced. And that's fine.
If they are so easy, why isn't everyone doing it?
Why can't Bezo put payloads into space with a billion every year invested?
Why can't every other car manufacture seem to put together an electric car with the same range?
I don't want to buy a Tesla, I'd rather something with physical knobs, but there's nothing that quite hits the mark yet.