skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Are there any leading theories as to how this trick is performed?
No, they're shit because manufacturers cheap out on the hardware and furthermore install crapware themselves.
100% so his argument fails. The need for houses is more essential today than ever, we’ve built more than ever, yet they’re very expensive.

The scarce resources Naval fails to point at is what also powers your “there’s more people today” point.
Money is much older than agriculture. Recognizable money-like grave goods, in the form of shells of a consistent size with holes for stringing, date back 80,000 years.

That's about is Lindy as it gets. I'm dubious of anyone who supposes we can "rethink society" to make money less crucial. It seems simpler to assure that anyone who doesn't have enough money gets some.

It's a dangerous experiment we're running, to have all currencies in the modern world be government-issued paper. Such currencies have a known and spectacular failure mode, which continues to happen right now, and "it can't happen to us" is just a bet, not a law of nature.

I'm glad that cybercoins exist, as a hedge against that occurring. Gold is the old standard, but difficult to transfer other than hand-to-hand.

Maybe it won't happen, perhaps Modern Monetary Theory is perfectly correct and the Fed and ECB will keep on trucking indefinitely with a manageable and smooth inflation curve. I'd prefer that, of course, a currency collapse tends to be a regime-ending event as often as not, and it's bad for commerce, which I need in order to eat, clothe myself, and travel more than about ten miles in a day.

But I'm grateful that there exists at-least-one distributed and uncensorable way to "track who owes what to whom". We might all be grateful for it one day. Or we might not.
> it's all either outright stolen, counterfeit or bad/rejected parts

The other very common possibility is that it's what's called a "ghost shift" where the factory runs a whole production run on a possibly overnight work shift, creates a batch of product for sale to third parties, and then resumes their legit-for-transfer-to-apple production run the next morning. Happens with all sorts of electronics manufacturing in mainland china.

This does not necessarily mean that the ghost shift products go through absolutely the same level of QC that the main production run gets, but I wouldn't call them counterfeit.
Well, in this case it mostly didn't happen in the future - most of it happened last May. Our failure to catch it recently was a mistake, but the root error was building it that way in the first place. Still, I take your point.

After last year's snafu, we had a company-wide retro to discuss what had happened. It lasted a couple of hours, during which several people (including myself) were pretty blunt about what we thought. I don't want to get into a complete postmortem here, if only because it would make this post require ten paragraphs of niche internal culture context, but the biggest problem was that we had an internal communication breakdown. Many people who were uncomfortable with what we were doing, and who could have predicted the public response, did not feel empowered to speak up about it. Not in the sense that they'd face backlash for doing so, but in the sense that they felt they'd be ignored. This was less true than they thought - had they all spoken up at once, it probably would have made a difference - but more true than it should have been.

Since then, a number of people within Triplebyte (including Ammon, but also myself and various others) have made an effort to create space for those kinds of concerns.

One of our defining traits as an organization is that we're very good at creating coherent internal narratives. Everyone knows what we're doing and why. But the flip side of that is that in the effort to create clarity, we sometimes run over inconvenient details like "wait isn't that a terrible idea". That means that to avoid problems like last year's, we need to be explicit and deliberate in actively seeking out dissent about what we're doing, especially from people who are not the very assertive strong personalities that tend to show up in leadership. That doesn't mean that dissent is always right - strategic decisions are difficult and complicated, people do sometimes lack the visibility to see why they're made, and in a room of fifty people there's always going to be some disagreement - but it costs us very little to listen to it and (as we learned last year) can cost us dearly when we don't.

(Actually, as I was preparing to submit this post, one of our engineering leads pinged me on Slack to suggest ways we could avoid mistakes of the kind that spawned this thread - TLDR, build less automated shit that we can forget about until it bites us.)

I realize this reply is a little bit nonspecific ("make space for"? what does that even mean?), but that's the nature of solving a culture problem. You're necessarily wrestling with subtle cues and unspoken assumptions rather than with a thing where you can go "ah, yes, we just need to change step 2a of our product development process". But for what it's worth, I think we've gotten better about making sure we consider how people feel about what we're doing, and we've avoided some potential bad decisions in the year since then as a result.
Did someone say useless stuff! I love useless projects.

Do you need a doctor that is published on the procedure you are about to have?

https://www.opendoctor.io/research/?research_papers=mohs+sur...

What about ranking doctors based on their Opioid subscription count? I got you covered.

https://www.opendoctor.io/opioid/highest/
The 80plus sticker program doesn't mean a lot, but it does mean a little. Being from a brand that's been around for a long time and is not known for cutting all the corners helps too.
Seriously, can you list those 5 companies? Because where I am currently at, this level of ineptitude is something to aspire to.
No VPS has a shared IP address. The real problem is that the pool may have been dirtied by previous customers. But once you get a clean IP you can keep it for as long as you keep the service running.

I sent emails from a VPS for years without issues. I stopped purely because Fastmail had better software and cheaper storage.
Agreed, and AFAIK if you’re implementing IO, it’s either in the runtime or you’re doing FFI, so bizarrely (again AFAIK) all of those statements are accurate.

Edit: sorry I glossed over the last bit regarding a sub-language. The point is the whole language is considered (at least by many of its proponents) pure: monads + runtime + FFI are the gymnastics that allow one to perform IO in a pure language.
Ghost shifts are getting rarer and rarer in the days of 24/7, nonstop manufacturing lines.
The computer enthusiast market is a difficult niche to cater to online. Most of the visitors will arrive with ad blockers enabled and they’re going to buy products from the cheapest retailer directly, not through affiliate links. Also, some of them will be brutally combative for no particular reason.

The originator of that website landed a dream job doing R&D for Corsair. The owner of the domain (not Johnny, as far as I can tell) simply decided to let it expire.
The blockhcain may be "forever" but the history is definitely is not. Its a lie because the most likely outcome are that Ethereum dies because the history cripples it to an unusable system (its a lie then) or the the history dependency is removed so it can keep working (its a lie then as well because which part of the history is preserved is up to whoever does want to preserve it and no longer "guaranteed by the system")

BTW history-sharding[1] isn't that complicated. If a DLT is build from the ground up with payment in mind and thus history is completely optional then you dont have to do any tech magic. But ofc this is not the case for Ethereum as it was not made for payment.

[1]https://xrpl.org/history-sharding.html
It’s not even the mains voltage.

There are components in there that can exceed mains voltage when probed the wrong way.

When you start getting into the higher voltages, the body’s resistance is much lower. It only takes a few milliamps to stop the heart.
The problem with that is that this isn't just about end-users. Apple is being unfair to developers too, and just leaving iOS isn't a viable choice for them. Apple has a 50% market share in the US, so any American company who cut ties with them would instantly lose half of their customer base, since most people won't buy a new phone over a single app.
I mean on a larger scale. The great promise of crypto, A billion plus “unbanked” people turning to a crypto enabled shadow banking system, will not happen without drawing the attention of the eye of sauron
So someone from the Belarus intelligence service made a call to Ryanair and made a bomb threat. What can Ireland or any other jurisdiction do about it? Pretty much nothing, especially if the call originated in Belarus.
I think money transfer was Blockhain Era 1.0 use case. The use case has advanced - very rapidly - to money automation. This is all really new stuff, much of it barely a year old, and it has come so fast that even I've been surprised.

A smart contract can currently take your tokenized USD (we'll use USDC since its backed by Coinbase), use that as collateral to borrow ETH on AAVE.com (a lending protocol), use 50% of that ETH to buy up USDC again, use this USDC + ETH to create a liquidity pair on Uniswap, and earning 0.3% fees on any swaps made between USDC and ETH.

All in a single transaction.
That's not a consensus at all.

Many are of the position that the IO monad is purely a type theoretical hack that allows one to control the order of effectful functions in Haskell that under the surface creates a vacuous data dependency that ensures the optimizer must sequence them in a particular order.

There is no consensus as to what the IO monad “is”; only what it's specific semantics with regard to execution order is.

But it serves it's purpose in that allows one to control the order of certain effects in another wise non strict language while semantically not necessarily relying on controlling the order of execution of function calls.

On the type level, the effect of the function is separated from the calling of the function and it's effect need not necessarily take place conceptually when the function be called; under the hood, it simply ensures that the optimizer cannot move out of order the effectful kernel of the function by way of this vacuous data dependency.
So many words about the situation, but what we should realize is what Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend are going through now. I don't even want to think.
There are many ways to measure the cost of something like this, but a blind look at average salaries is probably the worst. It doesn't factor in overhead or opportunity cost. In most companies, having a developer spend a week on maintenance of a system which isn't a core business value doesn't make sense. They would be much better utilized on value added work. I guarantee you most engineers could delivery way more than $500 in savings in a week.
> The price is manipulated

Clearly. Watch the price after Musk's announcements.

> fleece unsophisticated investors

Someone speculating in an unregulated asset that's seen massive growth in the past year should have no expectation of not being on the bad side of a trade.
I hope the EU will do something and not just as usual express a concern. The entire world is laughing about European weaknesses.
Respecting private property? Whose property is an iPhone? Apple's or the end user's? Whose (intellectual) property is the Epic Store? Apple's or Epic's? Apple wants to use the only thing that's theirs in the equation (the App Store) to restrict an interaction between both of the other things that aren't theirs.
>By your argument, piracy of digital media and software should be 100% legal because it's just exercising first amendment rights to share text in a file (which is ultimately what any software boils down to)

Why, thank you, I didn't even have to spell it out for you. That's reasonable even if the extension to CSAM isn't.

Binary streams should not come with impllicit legal chains. It's all math.

Don't want it copied? Don't make it digital. The rest of the world shouldn't be held at gunpoint over your inability to cope with trivial reproduction of information.

>Come on.
You can have this back. Use it for a post that needs it.
Seems like one way to do the trick would be the following: Choose some pre-determined sequence of the cards and memorize it. Buy 52 decks of cards, and put them all in that same sequence, but shifted by various offsets, ranging from 0 to 51. Then hide all the decks in various places. Now when someone names a card and a number, you just need to figure out which deck is shifted by the right amount to put that card in that position and point them to the corresponding deck.

Anyone see any obvious flaws in this approach?
US bombs landed on Croatian Serbs on multiple occasions thus enabling ethnic cleansing. But no biggie, what's small ethnic cleansing between NATO friends?
Flash-the-format is gone, but Flash-the-editor never went away. It's just called Adobe Animate now. It now exports projects (incl. arbitrarily-complex ActionScript-based games) to HTML5 rather than SWF, with literally no loss of functionality (and in fact gains in functionality instead) compared to the SWF days.

Animate also exports to Adobe's AIR runtime — which isn't just "that weird Adobe thing you had to install on your PC once to run a business presentation", but much more importantly translates to the ability to export a project to a native mobile app for iOS/Android, since these platforms have AIR-runtime implementation as libraries you can link into an app project.

Not sure why everyone seems to have forgotten it existed. It's not like it went unmaintained or anything, the way Fireworks was for a while before its death. Animate is still a great and modern tool, with new features being added all the time. It's become a first-in-class tool for animation studios to produce cartoons with — thus the updated name/branding. People just seem to have lost, in the process of that rebrand, all awareness of the fact that it can still be used to make games/interactive experiences. Which is a shame.
Cocoa (and most Wayland compositors) have default decoration. Gnome does not. That's left to app makers to do it. The issue is not the design of the compositor, just the lack of a default decoration.
Are there ARM CPUs that have upgradeable microcode?
> Mutagenesis, has been around since the 1920's using x-rays and chemicals and currently doesn't normally fall under most GMO definitions because its "traditional".

Not, is because is a different technique. Hybridizing two closely related species is a thing. Introducing the gen of a fish into a tomato is another totally different, and mutating the gen of one species (often with poor results) is a third thing. GMO mix the genetic code of species that can be even in different kingdoms.

There is also an international consensus into not including selective breeding in the same category as genetically modified, for similar reasons. Would be confusing.

The so called atomic gardening had produced several fancy and really ugly cacti, but not much more really. Plays in a much lower league than hybridization.
The cost to the company per engineer hour is significantly higher than the engineer’s hourly rate.
Didn't Belarus have mass conscription? IMHO a large portion of Belarus men should have proper training to handle a weapon and squad/platoon tactics from their mandatory army year (or year-and-a-half). They don't have a lot of weapons, though.

But if most of them were willing to do that, then the same motivation would apply for the conscripts who currently make up the army and do have all the weapons required, so that would be the scenario of "internal coup" with army turning against Lukashenka; but we as far as we see, neither the army nor the general population are currently eager for violent action, so things would have to get much worse before they might reconsider.
The usefulness question is the a poison to discovery.

How many things we use in our daily life would have survived the first peer review for usefulness?

The printing press? Makes no sense, use scribes. The public cant even read.

The internet? Why would people use a computer to communicate and share data? Its super slow, just send a magnetic drive or even better, copy the images on paper.

Solar power? We have coal, oil, nuclear, that stuff has no future.

If something is not useful, in dubio assume, that it is, but you just are not capable of seeing the use or the market it will create.
Yes, there's bridge rectifier.
I often wanted to go do this as a child growing up in Arkansas.

In hindsight, each time I would bring it up my parents would have something of an "oh shit, anything but that!" reaction and would quickly distract me with some other activity or suggestion, and to date I've never been.

I'm certain that to them, the suggestion was essentially to drive several hours out and back to play in the dirt.

(this article is well-written and quite interesting, btw)
For a blockchain to be decentralized, it's crucially important
for regular users to be able to run a node, and to have a
culture where running nodes is a common activity.

you don't convince users to do stuff. you bribe them.

introduce a small form of reward for running a validating node and voila, nodes popping up everywhere.
All I know is, if "intelligence" about my medical records ever gets released I'm gonna be pissed. These are human beings with rights, even if neither China nor the US recognizes that.
You could email everyone on Earth for less than the salary of an engineer with SES.
> I tell you that I'm totally going to follow what a program tells me and you should give me your money to earn interest. Are you excited about the possible interest from this uninsured, pinky-swear promise exchange?

It's a smart contract. You can review it publicly. If there are vulnerabilities, if the ownership is not renounced, it would be visible. Can you say the same about your investment bank?

You don't have to trust the coder or the platform or the exchange. Code is Law. Trust the code.
Sign up with Google. No thanks.
Interesting product. As a feedback, anything that builds on top of existing Google infrastructure, including Chrome and Gmail, I would no longer consider. The same goes for products that tie me into other large platforms such as Apple, FB, etc... Also, it does not have to be free for me. Happy to pay $10/month, up to $20/month, especially if CRM could be extended to networking, fundraising, and other communication activities. Hopefully this helps.
It’s like you didn’t even read my post...
It’s actually fairly easy to own radioactive things. Bananas are fairly cheap, and potassium has a high enough radioactive fraction to give your body a few positron emissions a second. Of course your risk is still higher from slipping on the banana peel hilariously.
This use case is gambling with extra steps, except the software that runs a slot machine is far better vetted for correctness than a smart contract.

Without money transfer, this system remains a toy system. With money transfer, it becomes a regulatory bypass. No amount of complexity layered on top fixes this.
What GDPR fines are those, specifically?
If any accessibility experts are reading, is there a best way to do this? E.g. title attribute is best for mouse users to hover on desktop, but is there a way that works for all users on devices? Maybe the abbr tag?

So far I haven't seen an html-only solution that works on mobile.
There many videos on Youtube by hobbiests who frequent the park. It is back breaking work. The park rangers rightly prevent any modern, or even hobbiest, mining automation.

> was encouraged to keep the stone in its rough form—no polishing, no cutting. “It’s a beautiful chocolate diamond,” Kinard says. “It’s a nine-carat diamond. Those are very rare, and very hard to come by.

It might not be worth very much. Diamonds are not rare, are not particularly beautiful when uncut. The valuable diamonds are the diamonds that can be cut to produce a flawless gem.
Miners control bitcoin more than people realize.
What would France and Spain have done if Bolivia's jet entered their airspace? I'm betting it would have involved fighter jets. That threat is why denying someone entry into your airspace is possible. Well, that and ground-to-air missiles. There's no need to exhibit force if it is already understood that force will by applied if you do not cooperate.
Years ago, Canard PC Hardware (a French magazine) tested some low budget PSU: http://www.x86-secret.com/dossier-36-3000-Alimentation_Nonam... their conclusion was to not put those in any PC if you value your other components and maybe your home (lot of fireworks under mild load: https://youtu.be/f6snWfd1v7M?t=60 )

One of the constructors attacked them and lost.
If there is no app-store review process then all apps will demand full permissions, which means apps effectively get everything by default.

If it's a choice between permissions and not using the app then users will give them the permissions, and that is the choice app developers will give users, if they are sufficiently large to get away with it (Facebook, Fortnite, etc).
The global split of 85% Android and 15% iOS is super misleading, since a lot of companies' primary customer base is Americans, and among Americans it's basically a 50/50 split.

And there's no reason that fixing this problem would allow bypassing permissioning systems. On Android, apps installed from third-party sources still need to have a list of permissions and request them the same way apps from the Play Store do.

> major apps will explicitly use sideloading/third party app stores to bypass the app review process and permissioning systems, just as they have already attempted.

And if this were true, then why do so many apps still use the Play Store on Android? Why haven't they all switched exclusively to third-party stores?
You are aware that some of the bidding companies were operating satellite constellations when Elon was at school? Think their collective hands on experience of satellite telecoms might even exceed SpaceX's beta program! And if I was going to bat for the superiority of SpaceX (and US programs) to the European space industry, accuracy of projections and the proportion of revenue coming from government really, really isn't where I'd focus...
Curve did $1 billion in volume over the past 24 hours https://curve.fi

That isn’t hypothetical. It’s like you keep getting refuted and then ignore reality because it disagrees with you.

“Blockchain is unused.”

[a bunch of links with billions of dollars in actual daily usage provided]

“Oh, well, I’ve never heard of that before so it doesn’t matter.”

What kind of arguing is this?
> without the mouse

Like when you describe dependencies in text and parse them into a graph?
Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
I've been building a useless app in my free time, an hour here or there, for the last 2 months. Then last week at work, I got a chance to contribute to a project that happened to use the same stack. It was random luck. And the useless project prepared me for the useful one that pays me a salary.