skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess same thing that happens to any application that sets weird modes. You should use 'reset' command which just emits escape code to reset terminal and terminal emulator hopefully sets everything back correctly.
What is the use case of blockchain besides evasion of law enforcement and speculation?
Nobel created the prize pool to atone for his deficit of imagination (or at least, to improve his posthumous image) upon reading scathing obituaries of himself mistakenly published when his brother died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prize

If Satoshi does something like this with his cold wallets, or Mr. Keurig does the same with his k-cup loot, then we'll think about it.
> Tried to setup auto pay and it would break. This happened a few times, so I left it broken figuring someone would call and we could sort it out then.

Never do this in the US. You need to proactively call them to resolve the situation. The standard thing for nonpayment -- which maybe Frontier didn't have working, but you're taking a real risk -- is for these to go to a collections agency, and it will go on your credit record, which affects your future ability to get credit for large loans of various kinds.
Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus
Sounds like the ISP equivalent of "when everyone is breaking the speed limit all the time police have justification to pull over any individual car they want". I wonder if there's anything behind the scenes that Frontier refused to participate in à la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...
Personally, I'm reacting negatively because it feels like she says she does all these things that I do, and that nearly everyone in nearly every office I've worked in does. And she uses it to draw a contrast between herself and us. So to me all but a couple items read as "I knew I was different because I do this thing that nearly everyone does."

Maybe I'm in a weird lucky tech bubble where I've gotten to have a whole career that's mostly devoid of the people she's drawing a contrast against, but I've worked at a pretty disparate variety of jobs, and my experience seems to ring true with a lot of other commenters too.

Maybe I'm just having a kneejerk reaction because the last articles I read this morning were "silicon valley and californians are bad/clueless," and I'm reading that into this when it's not intended subtext.
Azeron keypad, but for typing instead of gaming.
I have Frontier Fios (formally Verizon) and I always get over the advertised speeds on the downloads and uploads. I've never had DSL however.
Attacking a lock remotely still requires physical access to the property in order to reap the benefits of that attack.

Given that most mechanical locks can be trivially picked, I fail to see the disadvantages of electronic locks. Yes, the failure modes of mechanical locks are better understood - they are understood to be incredibly serious, and easy to exploit. An $80 snap gun will open most locks, and requires zero skill or training to use.

Saying that you prefer a mechanical lock to an electric one because its failure modes are well-understood is like saying that you prefer ROT13 encryption to <My homebrew encryption>.

Are homebrew systems stupid? Yes. Is it likely that my homebrew system has problems? Yes. Are those problems well understood? No. Is it probably better than ROT13..? Yes, because ROT13 can be broken by a child.
That's not really true at all. There are entire divisions at investment banking firms called "delta-one" desks. They exist solely for the purpose of creating synthetic equity positions to avoid regulatory, tax, capital, settlement rules on cash equities. I can easily sell you a "total return swap" in lieu of shares, which bypasses all kinds of existing rules.

Fraud and money laundering are very narrowly defined, and require mens rea. If simply structuring alternative financial vehicles constituted fraud, then nearly all of Wall Street would be in jail.
A family member has told me a story of her poor childhood in the thirties in rural Poland. During springs, their family had to steal rotten potatoes from other people's fields and eat weeds to survive. THAT's being poor. What the original article describes sounds more like a anxiety over a risk of falling into poverty, than actual poverty.
They have also cultivated a reputation and so they get leeway to do things that the average person wouldn't be allowed to do. Most of us wouldn't want live in a house not connected to the power grid, so the fact that in some places it is illegal unless you are Amish doesn't bother us.
Written English is quite different from ASL. For a person who was born deaf and learned to sign from the start, text chat would not be easier.

This is an acknowledgment that sign is a distinct language and, the same way that Apple Stores are localized in different countries, this localizes the Apple Store experience for DHH folks
Sadly, these days my threat model for anything new is basically “how will Google/Facebook use this for ad targeting?” — it's good for both a realistic level of risk (most of us are not targeted by the CIA/Mossad/FSB) and a sober assessment of the level of resources available to the attacker.

For blockchains in particular I think we tend underestimate the amount of information which someone with that kind of analytic capacity could derive, especially if they also have other data sources — for example, I would be quite surprised if the various anonymity schemes are less effective when evaluated as part of a full system against someone who has a lot of visibility into web activity (Google Analytics, Facebook beacons), DNS, email, etc.
I agree. I'm curious to hear your take on what are the main pain points with a) yaml b) the way k8s uses yaml
Why not? Are you trading so often that a bit of additional friction is an issue?

If so, a) you should reconsider, that's generally a good way to lose money, and b) you're probably classified as a pattern day trader, anyway, and you're already subject to a (very mild) speedbump:

https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/pattern-day-tra...

> Pattern Day Trade Protection alerts you when you’ve placed three day trades and you’re about to place your fourth. You’ll have the option to proceed with your trade, or cancel it to avoid being marked as a pattern day trader.

Also, note even if you turn that alert off, you get another mild warning:

> Even if you turn off Pattern Day Trade Protection, we’ll still let you know when you’ve placed your second and third day trades in the five-day window. On your third day trade in the five-day window, we’ll remind you that you’ll be marked as a pattern day trader if you place one more day trade within the five days of your first day trade.
I don't agree. The article misunderstands a potentially useful aspect of blockchains, physical assets and the legal system. The blockchain is a linked list of immutable data. But this doesn't mean the legal system is prevented from taking action.

Lets say that the matter of ownership goes to court but events leading up to that mean the private key has been destroyed. The asset is still owned and is sitting in a gallery or lockup. The naive now think "who holds the now-lost key owns the painting but now the key is lost no one owns it". Wrong.

The matter is brought to court and the potential list of owners can be determined from the blockchain itself. The court can then confirm using that record the ownership by going back into the blockchain, finding and determining who is the legitimate owner and then order the creation of a new blockchain asset item[1]. Failing to assert ownership in court might even work against you. Then the new blockchain asset is linked to the old. The old block chain item doesn't even need to be updated or deleted. Even if you could. Why? It still provides valuable history.

Blockchains recording ownership of assets is a benefit to the court system. Except for keys to lost cryptocurrency wallets. That's likely always going to be a dead end. But that is no different to burning cash[2] or losing gold because you buried it near a beach.

[1] a new blockchain tracking item. Not a new Mona Lisa.

[2] except that cryptos once destroyed or lost usually can't be replaced.
What stops a record company from including a clause assigning any NFTs (and/or the revenue therefrom) created by the artist during the contract term to them?
I’ve purchased several websites on empireflippers.com in the $10-30k range. Happy to answer any questions.
For a moment I misread the headline here as "Apple prevents powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities," and thought, "Oh for Christ's sake, how did App Store review go off the rails this time".
> Signal currently requires phone numbers for all its users. It does this not because Signal wants to collect contact information for its users, but rather because Signal is allergic to it: using phone numbers means Signal can piggyback on the contact lists users already have, rather than storing those lists on its servers.

But that's wrong? Signal totally has to build a global phone number database for the system to work, otherwise discovery wouldn't work. It doesn't matter if it hashes those numbers before, since the total range of phone numbers can be bruteforced with ease. Signal is a horrible examle for anonymous private messaging.

Serious alternatives are xmpp and matrix.
I think you're referring to automatic switching, which is a much newer feature. That indeed is broken iOS to macOS.

But the instantaneous switching works fine in my experience and has since the original AirPods.
I think you're correct in that this doesn't seem to serve advertisers and given that this looks like a server side (Google) feature, I won't assume this is going to be around for long.
“ I personally know many people at great companies like Google and Twitter who are _desperate_ to change, but they are too afraid to interview. They feel they got lucky and got through the process once and are unlikely to be able to repeat it”

Is this just a perception issue or have they actually tried interviewing a few times with negative results?
These experts are also upset that the term "crypto" now refers to "cryptocurrency" than "cryptography" and want to change that but don't seem to have a plan to do so.
Don’t publish this too much...
From the feature it does look like it's a server side feature but it might not me.
> IMO it's Bitcoin in combination with Tether that's the actual Ponzi.

Bingo.

The problem is, the big players have no interest in unwinding the scheme. As long as exchanges can wash trade USDT:BTC to drive the inflow of retail investment, things keep going.

What'll be interesting is if BTC continues to fall. I think the low $30k is a support level; if it crashes below that, I bet we're going to see more outflow from undercapitalized exchanges and things will adjust hard.
The next step is to make the tool easy enough to use such that GPT-3 could build a connector in 2 hours.
I actually run my own RSS feed aggregator (FreshRSS) and I can tell you that it's great. Combine that with an iOS app like NetNewsWire, I have hundreds of sites that are synced between my devices. It's actually how I read HN at this point (via hnrss).
> Also allows them to sidestep all sorts of cookie limitations on personal data

Can you explain what you mean by that?
Projected ~40% Cash Returns in 2023 for Tesla
A lot of folks here are making some version of the observation that an immutable public unforgeable database is, in practice, equivalent to ANY database which is sponsored by the state. That feels persuasive to me.

Does this imply that the blockchain ledger might have greater utility in areas where there is weak or no state control? Basically, the criminal underworld and black markets. What's been written about this?
I live at about the maximum ADSL range from my central office and for years suffered with service that was slow and unreliable no matter what.

They put a fiber node just out of VDSL range but I have ADSL with two lines at 18 Mbps/s with an application-level load balancer. Each of those lines performs as rated almost all the time.

In the early 0's Frontier struggled with "middle mile" capacity even for customers who only got 1 Mbps DSL. People would have their service turned off with no explanation in my neighborhood, I had gone all the way up the CEO of the company to get help with one of my lines, the truck was followed by some lady in a car who was desperate to get hers fixed. Even when it worked the 1 Mbps DSL like would give more like 30k.

Eventually they fixed it, but around that time they announced they would implement a miniscule 10 GB monthly data cap which they were forced to suspend indefinitely once the public heard about it.

(I understand that upgrading DSL is a challenge, but there is no excuse for not upgrading the middle mile.)
I've always felt that the best way to prove steaks is with forks.
Venmo Exposes All the Old Profile Photos You Thought Were Gone
Go read the book manufacturing consent.
Eh, my modem syncs at the full 20 Mbps line rate for upload, I can't help that some of that gets eaten up in overhead for framing and error correction and other such things. You usually don't even get a full 1 Gbps with gigabit fiber either.
> we can know that Mona Lisa is illegally transferred to the corrupted official, and know who that is.

You mean if the thieves are kind enough to record the "transaction"? Nice. I can imagine several replies trying to rationalize the scenario you made, but this is just silly, because without much effort I can take them apart just as easily. How can you possibly construct an argument that the blockchain would somehow magically help when the Mona Lisa gets lost - no matter using what scenario?

The pro-blockchain arguments always are soooo strange that I'm not sure what to think I read the enthusiastic comments. There never is a believable causal mechanism that connects those ideas to the blockchain showing how - and that - it helps. I'm feeling a bit lost that there is yet another such discussion, which looks exactly like all the previous ones I read (here, mostly).

This is sooo bizarre!
First we had proof of work, and it consumed all the world's processing power. Then we had proof of space, and it consumed all the world's data storage. Then we had proof of steak, and it consumed all the world's food. Thus ended humanity.
-- Washing Machine example:

This is the user guide for the Dyson washing machine. The machine was released in the UK in 2000. It was expensive and a commerical failure.

The user guide from 2002 is fairly well-written for a washing machine. Link to PDF (1.5mb):

https://www.dyson.co.uk/content/dam/dyson/maintenance/user-g...
Moreover, how is this not just a form of DRM?
That's the opposite of what happens in video games like Subnautica, the dramatic music starts playing when the big baddy is about to attack!
Sure, I mean you're just describing the opposite position, that the price of cryptocurrencies is reflecting some intrinsic value and that speculators have a negligible impact on the price. In that case market forces should eventually reveal some stable winners and all the deflationary stuff that lead us down this rabbit hole applies again.
This has been my experience too. My mum grew up poor but you’d never guess it now. Knows all about etiquette and wears fancy designer clothing etc.

I’m sure it’s true many do have trouble adjusting after growing up poor but it’s hardly as universal as some here are making out.
I worked in the hot Florida outdoors, with children, for about 7 years through high school and after. Minimum wage. It's the part of my life I'd most want to re-live, though I can't say things have gotten harder or anything.

I had everything I wanted. Fitness, a rewarding job, a running vehicle, friends (via coworkers), and a decent set of fishing gear.
To be fair, large tech companies have a lot of people, most people don't talk to most people in tech companies, even if they are the same 'position'. Much like you don't talk to most random students as you walk around at large university as a student at the university. You talk to your classmates and professors and if circumstance permits, you talk to random stranger students sometimes.
Strength training for your fingers.

Might make you good at rock climbing if you're an avid typist.
I'm curious to know if you thought about building the capability of searching through the audio itself - did you run into transcription costs being a limitation?
I see NFTs as more like a gimmick which reminds me of the million dollar homepage, but pretending to be more than what they are by associating themselves with "ownership".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
> Except it's so volatile that you don't know when it's cheap.

You do know.

You just have to look at the logarithmic regression bands and fair value models.

Granted, these are useless if you intend to day trade, because prices are absolutely unpredictable on the short term, but they're useful if you want to hold for more than 5 months, because prices in the mid and long term are more predictable than you'd think.

The current price is not really 'cheap' from a technical perspective, but its cheap if you consider that the market cycle isn't over yet, so in the next 7 months the probability that bitcoin is going above 70k is so big that it's more or less a safe bet at this point. The only thing that could stop Bitcoin from getting over 70k between today and January 1st 2022 is a global economic crisis of the magnitude of the 2008 crisis.

IMO, buying today and holding for 7 months is the best think you could do right now.

(I'm talking about Bitcoin, because yes, ETH isn't cheap right now. No one knows if the ETH/BTC valuation is going to hold as it is right now, I wouldn't buy ETH today)
The hardware they are leasing costs more than $25 new, more like $100. Sure you can buy a phone for $10 at the store, but the phones people leased where a lot higher quality (drop one off the desk and your floor is harmed not the phone) with a resulting higher price.
The value of a Beeple NFT minted by Beeple is $0. The market just hasn't discovered that yet.

An NFT has no more value than a JPG.

I'll longbets anyone that says otherwise.
Exciting! Hoping to build Reddit & Stack Overflow connectors
Pick a recipe you want to learn.

Do it ~3 times as the recipe states. sometimes I even do it 3 days in a row.

After that, write it up based on what you learned that you fixed between each attempt. After that, try making some changes. Note - if you're baking don't experiment too much especially as a beginner, but if you're making cinammon rolls you can experiment with the filling much more than the dough, or you can find dozens of different kinds of dough recipes for cinnamon buns.

There is a lot to learn when cooking, but there are a ton of resources online (youtube and otherwise). You need to actively be trying to get better to get better at most things, I've found, unless you're doing it for 8 hours a day at which point you kind of have to become better just by time spent.
>> yet they expect GbPS for 39.99. 39.99 doesn't even cover truck costs for 5 years when somebody drives over or cuts fiber line on the street or digs to plant a tree, forget about any profit or return for the company.

Is there anything technical preventing companies from offering dedicated speeds and lines at a premium at residential neighborhoods other than pure economics?
Fix keyboard accessibility first, instead of releasing PR bullet points.
This is accurate in my experience working for numerous ISPs. Especially with DSL service, lines were often overprovisioned up to 20%.

I also gained a lot of insight into the tools available to support staff and they varied quite a bit. I even worked on a contract with Frontier for a few months. The service they offered for former Verizon FIOS customers was decent, but DSL customers were treated like crap. Unless a customer went out of their way to make multiple contact attempts and demand to escalate multiple times, they would be largely ignored in any situation that required a truck roll. The company truly did not care and it's obvious nothing has changed (Except maybe for the worse) since I worked that contract.

Of the ISPs I worked with I actually found Centurylink to have the best tools and best service. Personally I've been stuck with comcast for most of the last decade so I've never been the customer but the support staff was generally pretty well trained at the time and they had a lot of information available about the line status, as well as direct interface with the CPE. They were in a transition to off-shore support at the time though, and it was clear that the quality of service provided by the off-shore agents was much lower. They were very clearly trained off a tight script and were woefully incapable of handling situations that didn't fit the script.
As someone who was very por growing up and worked their ass off to become who I am today, everything she said is 100% true of being poor and not an artifact of a bad attitude. If anything, the fact she sees the opportunities for free lunches and tampons shows she's actaulyl got a GOOD attitude and is resourceful. All of those things are indicative of an observant, hard worker.
So nodes elect other nodes to have power to decide the rules for the shared community. Those nodes will probably need additional nodes to handle the computation needed so they will elect certain other nodes to act on their behalf.

Now replace nodes with people.

Does this not sound exactly like modern democracies but expressed in terms that are tech friendly? What is the actual difference? What is it solving?
It's not hyperbolic, it was the literal truth, and all of it is relevant because the question implies they do not know what Freenode was.

The staff are not secret. They have names on the network. Those nicks are published (at least on the old site, not sure if that has been transferred to new yet) and well-known.

The one guy who's name everyone knows is undisputably trying to profit from a non-profit organization, which he previously lied and said he would not, and in so doing has caused the worst disruption possible. So that proves that names don't actually help us.
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Do you think that only companies that pay dividends are "making money"? What about stock buybacks?

Netflix's stock price is 480x what it was 20 years ago. It has a market cap of 280 Billion dollars.

Are you one of the people that said "amazon doesn't make money" because they used their revenue to expand for multiple decades?
New YouTube interface broken on Firefox 88.0.1
You don't need a link. Someone just decided to cripple YouTube on firefox. Sad!
I think cutting off an interview is fine if it's clear that it's not going to work out. It saves everyone's time. Maybe he could have been less rude about it.
Citizen: Crime app falsely accused a homeless man of starting a wildfire
> which presumably "You may also exercise your rights by contacting policy@libera.chat" fufills.

I guess you are right.

> Swedish nonprofit organization Libera Chat

Which could not be found in the national registry. Compare to https://www.kth.se/en/om/kontakt/kontakt-kth-1.1947 which promptly resolves to https://www.allabolag.se/2021003054/kungliga-tekniska-hogsko...
When I first read this it did sound a bit funny - I'm guessing they thought you were trying to be humorous, but, like the other reply, I can also totally understand that you actually enjoy being called dude.