skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sold a website a while back and had a chance to be paid in either BTC or a wire transfer. I opted for a 50-50 split. The wire transfer involved going to the bank and filling out a form to fulfil some regulatory requirements. The transfer itself took 3 business days.

The BTC payment was credited to my account in 10 minutes.
Type-Driven API Design in Rust
buddy hold, looking at btc history these cycles repeat over and over - it will go up again.

also, i highly recommend this guys channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClgJyzwGs-GyaNxUHcLZrkg
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> Once you have access and either root or pass whatever extra authentication the access requires.

How hard would it be to boot a signed kernel with a system ready to give you all the access you want or need?

> The extra failure mode here is that someone can copy the key and crack your password offline on their own time.

but what i was arguing about was once i could copy your encrypted key i could likely use it right away with TPM.

> At that point a camera catching your password should also be a potential threat. But yeah, if that's something you're realistically worried about then it's not a great solution for you.

i feel like everybody should be seeing this as a threat. Don't you look out for someone snooping on your typing when you enter passphrases? i certainly do and avoid it while being watched, especially in public places where cameras are more likely.
>car makers are incentivised to try to ensure their vehicles have decent resale value

Why? They are only incentivised to make more profit, and selling high-tech expensive cars that break after 10 years is great for that. The ones that will bear the cost of that will be either the financing companies (and it would be fun to see the market collapse as the current crop of shiny German cars hits the 2nd hand market and no-one is dumb enough to buy one), or those poor souls who insist on buying old-ish cars instead of leasing like everyone else.
Humility is simply not seen as a virtue in a business environment anymore.

Career coaches teach you how you can get ahead and to be confident.

But having knowledge also means you know about your limits, so your only option is to pretend to know everything.

It can be useful to convince people with low tech literacy of your solution, but I don't think confidence is a good metric. It is basically a dysfunctional form of communication.
Some of my favourites:

- "5. Life engine" and "92. Personal Data API"

I'm working on this in "Human Programming Interface" :) https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI#readme It's far from solving these in general, but it works for me very well.

- "73. Web Of Trust Recommendations"

Oh yes, I wish this so much -- it's much more meaningful to see recommendations from someone I know than generic ratings on Amazon. Also I don't think it should be limited to products and services -- imagine if you could also have some decentralized reputation framework for politicians/public figures etc.

- "33. Personal infrastructure" and "64. Peer to peer backup"

Syncthing is missing, who have added 'untrusted devices' recently https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html This lets you keep encrypted files on the other end.

Great list, also see

- https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

- https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3
I bought Discord Nitro a week ago and learnt it now has a free month for everybody, I can only imagine how awful it feels to be a bitcoin buyer last week.
I do recall, but the problem is the of the list of prior-issues you present, half those issues still persist in AMP, minus motion/fading effects. There are still so many ads it bogs down; ads break up content; there are articles indicated as text but masquerading as videos surrounded by ads. Alot of AMP articles are simply a link telling you to continue to the full page! All seems like new forms of the same old.

I'm not sure how its even possible, but I encountered one page I swear hijacked the back button.
I also looked on indiemaker and flippa, but microacquire was the only one where you dont need to pay to list your project and talk to potential buyers.. big plus
1. Decide that USB C is a must-have feature. No $25 blue yubikey for you - prices now start at $50.

2. Decide you want two keys per user, in case they lose one.

Now you're looking at spending $100+ per person.
> so that does mean once i have access to the computer the keys are somewhat free to use. thus i am authenticating the device not the user which is kind of an important distinction...

Isn't that the case with a U2F key? Since you observe how easy it is to fool a fingerprint scanner, is there any technology that enables you to authenticate a user at all? Password managers make passwords effectively an authentication of a device, not a person, in any case when the password is improbable enough to be secure. Maybe iris scanners work for you?

Really, all we can do is make it harder for people to steal an authentication device (gmail password, ~/.ssh/id_rsa, tpm module in laptop, yubikey, whatever) and easier for people to understand in their gut that they need to protect this from theft. Am I wrong?
Crypto/hashing based digital currencies will likely be used in the future, at least I think this is a safe bet to assume.

But I think Bitcoin has too many flaws to be used as a digital currency, the very long term value is nil, and I think this is a safe bet.

It will be replaced by something else.
I'll never regret buying a pizza with PayPal.
HN should introduce a "super-golden-upvote" which everyone is allowed to use once a year.

This post would earn that.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16455813

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11053415
I can’t see where it’s sensational when it’s just quoting and plainly stating facts. There’s not even a remark by the author.

I think you’re being the sensationalist here by the prejudice of pure maths and literature being “unproductive”.
How can a shared Slack channel improve your data quality?
Elixir 1.12
It might be possible for you to get self-employment visa. That would allow you to take some time off and get back to work on better monetary terms later in the year - the work is the same but it's better when you're getting more money for it. I'm a citizen but that's how I work - 3 months of work and 3-6 months off. There are enough staffing companies looking for contractors in the EU, and not enough programmers.
My point is nobody has an answer to "Why did people bid up Bitcoin 5x from September 2020 to mid-Feb 2021?"

Maybe Elon is the trigger for the 30% drop over the last few days... but remember he didn't announce his initial holdings until mid-February 2021, which was after the 5x surge. If anything his timing was awful.

Everything in hindsight is pure speculation and rationalization. Nobody has a clue, markets are complex, volatile and full of irrational actors.
The only problem I see here is that if intelligence has a large evolutionary advantage over non-intelligence (or lesser intelligence), then intelligence should always emerge given a large enough population over a large enough time-scale.

Given the galaxy, and given billions of years, the Great Filters that seem most likely are the ones that occur on the edges of the timeline: before multi-cellular life begins, or after a hyper-dominant intelligent species arises.

Having said that, I think you’re absolutely right about mammals and societies. If the Great Filter does occur in between life and intelligence, it seems like it would happen where the first signs of intelligence begin. And for earth, that means mammals and the arms race of mind-modeling that their social lives initiated. No other type of animal on earth has parental-care so fully built into its biology: milk glands and placentas force mammals to be social from the start.

A great book that doesn’t deal with intelligence and mammals directly, but provides a key connection, is “Consciousness and the Social Brain.” The book makes a strong argument that consciousness sprung from evolutionary pressures that were essentially social — that being able to model (and predict) the mind of another is essential for communication and cooperation. But one can only model the mind of another if you first model your own mind, and thus, consciousness (which I would argue is just another name for general intelligence).
From the hiring manager perspective it’s a numbers game of time and risk mitigation. Firing people sucks; managing people out sucks. Not firing people that should be fired sucks. Unless you’re in a big company with centralized hiring and onboarding, having headcount that needs an expensive ramp up period sucks.

If you’ve done a lot of different things because you’re smart and creative, maybe I’ll have to spend more time making sure you’re motivated (so you’d have to be worth the extra time cost). It’s also common to see people with an ungrounded perception of their abilities, and I often see breadth-heavy people suffer from an inflated sense of their own abilities due to lots of small scale, diverse wins.

Most people don’t understand how valuable a hard worker who will agreeably take orders and deliver consistent results is; magnitude doesn’t even matter that much. Unless you’re single handedly driving significant business metrics (e.g., directly saving millions of dollars), from my perspective, my job success is tied to predicting your output. If I succeed, I get to expand the teams or build new ones. If a product release is late or buggy, it’s also wasting tons of other teams’ time or damaging customer relationships besides pushing the eng roadmap back.

We reject a bunch of faang people for having experience we don’t find valuable. If you work at a big tech company, but don’t have an impactful role, you’re potentially not going to succeed in a small startup at the level you’re demanding.

Finally, one bad hire can ruin a team (i.e., one bad hire converts others into bad hires). “Bad” is subjective and can refer to different things. At the end of the day, it’s my job to define it and make sure we’re avoiding it. You can ask about this in an initial phone screen, or in a follow up conversation because it’s not secret, but I can’t talk to you about it after we reject you due to lability.
Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al (colloquially known as CLRS) is a pretty good place to start.
A lot of smartcards won’t support FIDO2 though which the web is using going forward.
IMO it's quite following the same trends as the stock market. Elon Musk makes statements on Twitter about how Bitcoin is an environmental disaster and rolls back on accepting Bitcoin in payments for Teslas. Bitcoin goes down.
Maybe it is a feature of how old you are? To me at 50, GBA/DS just doesn't seem very retro. It's just a slightly worse version of modern gaming with no real charm of its own. But I suppose if you are 30, it has nostalgia value because it was what you grew up with.
Yes. Are you familiar with what public health is? Such restrictions are so people are encouraged to get vaccinated. Taking something away so far is most effective way to convince people.
Which it certainly is not, if you look at the numbers.
Handshake raises $80M at $1.5B valuation
Enabling by default:

- cross-signing (so users verify their own devices themselves, and you verify users only once by verifying their public key, regardless of how many times they add or update devices)

- and key backup (so moving between devices doesn't need manual polling for other devices' keys the first time for decrypting messages)

would be a great step forward. Those are there, but they are disabled by default yet, which is a disservice.
This is not the only flaw but this is a big one, and it was designed this way.
Do you think governments are going to give up their power after implementing digital passes?
Is this evidence of the effectiveness of following CDC guidelines, or evidence that opiates are still a bigger problem?
Planting Rainforests and Donating Rice: K-pop Fandom (2017)
> citizens will have to present the pass either as a printed document, or a code in the french government's TousAntiCovid mobile application

What about people who don't have phones or printers?
Which is great in theory, but the only people interested in influencing such prison laws are the trade groups that represent those who benefit from the status quo.
these are valid points and of course everything you do to improve your security posture should somehow be related to your real threat model. However, OP was implying TPM might be more secure then an encrypted key on a disk which i disagree with for the mentioned reasons.
I think it's a great idea to keep lists like that.

There was a point in my life where I was working on a long-winded, personal project. It really put a strain on my psychological health but I knew I needed to finish it. But as things go in situations like that, suddenly all kinds of other things started to sound so much more interesting (hello, procrastination!).

After too long, I finally noticed that by starting new exciting side-projects all the time, I was just dragging out my main project. So I decided that in order not to get side-tracked any more, I wouldn't jump head over heels right away any more into every "great idea" that popped into my head. Instead, I started writing all these ideas down on a list so I could come back to them after the other project was finally done.

And I actually did go back to the list! It had some 25 ideas on it... and, of course, by then, none of the ideas that sounded so amazing when I first came up with them excited me at all any more. So for sure, I would have never finished any of them-- but I would have started all of them had it not been for that list.

These days, I still stick to that general approach. Writing ideas down on a list is a little bit like not writing an angry reply right away to something that upset you but to sleep a night over it first. It's the short version of the "test of time", and it really helps you focusing on stuff that's actually worth it.

Time is a valuable resource and you only have so much of it. Even if your ideas are better than mine were (and they probably are), it still does not hurt to let them sit on a list for a little while.
Oh yes, LE is a completely different can of worms (and a horrible one at that). I was referring to classic Bluetooth, since most LE headsets also support it as a connectivity mode.
If we just stop for a moment and think how little we can “receive” from our surrounding (100 hundred light year max?) and how vast the universe, even our galaxy is and how incredible long the time span between the birth of the first stars and the birth of our petite civilization then we will realize we still can deduce nothing about the existence or non-existence of other civilizations.
Most companies that people put up as examples of asking "fundamentals" that are unrelated to the job, actually don't at all ask candidates to regurgitate fundamentals. Instead they ask them to solve a programming problem, which commonly requires them to apply their knowledge of some very basic fundamentals. This is very different. "Very basic" is important to note here, because almost no companies nowadays ask anything other than very basic application of common data-structures. If we are sticking to the music analogies - this is closer to asking a musician to perform a well known piece of music from a sheet than regurgitate esoteric music theory.

The performance part might be a problem for some people and I agree - programming is not music, and it's tricky and unnatural to program in front of an audience, but this is a completely learnable skill by practice. That said I agree that it will always penalise a subset of people who will always perform less good under pressure.

There is a flip side to this though which often goes overlooked and author hints at it: programming interviews are a great equaliser - there are no credential checks (or they are getting much less common) for getting into top companies, and you can be based almost anywhere in the world - all you need to do to get in is crush the coding interview which is totally a learnable skill. This has opened many doors and economic opportunities for people that did not have them even a decade ago, and I think we as an industry don't talk enough about the opportunities our attitude to barriers to entry create.

Finally there's the question of whether the skill tested in coding interviews are really unrelated to the job performance. I've seen arguments that state: "some data shows that how a person performed on the interview is unrelated to how they perform as an employee". But this kind of reasoning almost certainly suffers from selection bias, as we'd really need to include how people who did not pass the interviews perform at the job (for obvious reasons companies don't have this data). I would bet that there would be a much stronger link with interview performance in that case.

Overall I think it's more likely that coding interviews are the way they are because they work extremely well in practice, most of the time. They are also on average a massive equaliser and overall a good thing for almost everyone involved provided they are executed well. They do have their problems, but commonly proposed alternatives (like take home tests etc.) have problems too. Coding interviews are not a thing because there is some kind of collective madness in the whole industry, where people in charge of procuring the most expensive resource just can't help themselves succumb to group-think. They are a thing because they work well (but not perfectly).
Single stocks perhaps, not the broad stock market.
Didn’t Marvin Minsky come up with frames by 1974? Or are Clarisworks frames different?
I'm not a fan of China's actions but your post is both mis-informative and ironic given that every one of your points apply to the U.S. at various points in time.

> China is a dirty old dinosaur of an economy, it has double the carbon emissions of the US while only generating 2/3 of the GDP! Horrific carbon intensity. Not to mention all the other environmental destruction it causes. The worker exploitation, the corruption, the human rights abuses, the bullying of its neighbors.

The U.S. produces roughly double the emissions of China per capita. Ignoring population is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. As for bullying neighbours, the U.S. lost both those legs after a long string of funding terrorists, assassinations, and aggressive wars.

> It's modernization strategy consists of copying from the west, and little else innovative, certainly not for its size and wealth. A single American company started less than 20 years ago has already surpassed its entire space program, which sees it losing control of its rockets in orbit and crashing them all over the globe.

Wikipedia has a quote from Alexander Hamilton:

> American founding father and first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton advocated rewarding those bringing "improvements and secrets of extraordinary value" into the United States. This was instrumental in making the United States a haven for industrial spies.

Industrial espionage was how the U.S. caught up to the UK and Europe. All developing countries will try to copy what's already been discovered because it gets you to the point where you can actually start competing on new technology much more quickly than trying to reinvent the wheel.
> automatic voice activation

Voice activation is a client side thing.
Ha ha. This reminds me of an old project / library [0] I built based on a Quora answer. I wrote libraries for Android and iOS, also wrote a simple server component which could be installed on Heroku with a single click. At the start of the app, it would contact the server for payment status. If server indicated that payment has been made, it would function like normal. If not, it would just crash.

I never used it in any of my projects nor I know anyone using it. I just had an itch of learning Clojure and building libraries for android, and iOS, so I made them.

[0] - https://github.com/avinassh/little-finger
I've Kickstarted Solo V2: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/conorpatrick/solo-v2-sa...

Still in production ATM but will support ed25519, and is open source
Another staffer, amdj, just resigned: https://gist.github.com/aaronmdjones/1a9a93ded5b7d162c3f58bd...
All software which does something that the user (owner of the device) would rather it didn’t do, is malware.
It doesn't, it also doesn't account for the fact that China has a larger population.
The US only has about ~23% of China's population to sustain. GDP/CO2 is a silly metric to compare (No Patrick, selling financial products to increase GDP/CO2 isn't green).

In reality China is just "greener" (in CO2 emission) than the USA if you measure more reasonable metrics like CO2 emission per capita.
You could arguably better correlate that with teenagers gaining access to personal image sharing devices .. i.e. camera phones, and publishing platforms i.e. they can share photos/videos ... systemically the issue is self worth being largely wrapped up in how pretty you are perceived to be, which is a social/cultural problem.
Yes! I love the consistency of dependent types. You don't need separate declarations for type aliases or a dozen language extensions to do some type-level evaluation, it's quite uniform.

> It's an explosion of possibilities!, but as it's a shaped charge of constructive and intuitionistic principles it mostly just blows up shackles and clears the air :)

Indeed, I feel like we are just getting started finding the right "design patterns" for working with dependently typed programs. It's sort of a Wild West of styles in the Coq world currently, IMO, which is great when something is well designed but terrible when using a theorem demands you prove some clearly obvious precondition (e.g. Riemann integration in the stdlib is a pain to work with).
Wacom has a 15.6" Windows tablet. Although it's not exactly sleek because it's basically a pen display that happens to have a computer inside.
Funny thing, regarding the music analogy, The Beatles never studied music theory. Not even the basics (ie reading music sheets).

They did however play a lot, and probably deconstruct and analyse many of the cover songs they played at their beginnings.
There is "free as in free beer", "free as in free speech", and then there is "free as in GPLv3". Because, you see, being prohibited from doing quite a number of things with a piece of software is the ultimate freedom™ (not actually freedom, just a 7-letter combination that looks like the word "freedom" but has its own specific meaning, further information available upon request).
Gattaca. I’m curious tho where does it stop. For example, US stopped TB vax long time ago while half of EU continues. Those born in EU bear the scars on their arms from the vax. Sure TB isn’t as prevalent in the US as it used to be but there’s nothing stopping it from coming on a plane.

Bacterial infections of the lungs are very hard to fight esp with the increase of antibiotic resistance. A single cough from a TB infected individual used to be a death sentence to the receiver (prior to antibiotics).

So where does all this start and end. If we are serious about health while traveling then let’s go all in across the germ spectrum and see what happens ;-)

I’d love to see planes reporting on cabin air quality as well. I’m sure I’m not the only one who gets sick (pre Covid) when traveling long haul.
Dimensions of Computing
They are also full of whales/market makers who dance to their own tune and can manipulate the price. All this Elon Tesla talk is just a side show to entertain the public.

There is no doubt hedge funds are playing in this space with lots of money and skills to extract maximum value from the joe shmoes