skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fungible value is only “centralized” in that it creates a virtual fully connected node in the market graph.

Yeah, I'd agree with this.

> This is a strictly good thing, decreasing maximum market hop distance to a constant.

I think I see your point here, but I disagree. I will agree it's more convenient than the alternative (and exponentially so at longer distances), but I'm not sure it's strictly better. The trouble I see is that authority then always accumulates to that node. With something like Offset, which is mechanically highly decentralized but measures value in USD despite actual USD never needing to change hands, the value of a unit there is still tied to American financial policy because that influences people's perception of the value of USD. But of course if we changed it to some other real currency like the Euro, that would just shift the authority to a different government. And if we shifted to a completely imaginary currency, then we'd need consensus on the value of that currency, and whatever form of consensus was used would then have authority over the whole network.

So I arrive at non-fungible value as the only way to avoid this situation.

That said, for most modern use cases where you're dealing with untrusted individuals (and thus this proposal doesn't work), money is better, yes. The intended use case for this proposal would be for "local" things like co-ops where there's already trust among the members and they can then benefit from cutting out transaction costs (and relative to Offset, which offers zero transaction costs between trusted members, also provides insulation from third-party financial policy by not measuring value in any fiat currency).
Does it? One thing going for this is that Apple is huge and iMessage has a massive amount of users. But on the other hand forcing developers to support all platforms is just not realistic.
> In 1990 you could buy a AA duracell for 30 cents[0]. Presently at Walmart you can get them for about 68 cents (24 pack for 16.24[1]). That's a nominal price increase of roughly 100%, although of course in real terms, it is flat (30 cents in 1990 were about 63 cents today). But those are alkaline batteries

I think you're misreading your sources. The NYTimes article says zinc-carbon AAs cost $0.30 each in 1990 (which, IIRC, are pretty crappy). The article doesn't give a clear price for alkaline AAs, but it sounds like they used to cost about $0.50-$0.75 each back then ($1.02-$1.53 each in today's dollars).

Then there's also the fact that in 1990, probably the only alkaline batteries available to consumers were name-brands in smallish packages. Nowadays some store-brand batteries are pretty good and cheaper. For example, you can get AmazonBasics AA alkalines for $0.90 each in a 4-pack, and $0.45 each in a 20-pack [1]. These are apparently manufactured by Fujitsu [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Performance-Alkaline-Bat...

[2] https://onezero.medium.com/unraveling-the-secret-supply-chai...
Curious how the AR glasses from Lenovo and others coming out this year will shake this up.
I actually have written bionic -> glibc compatibility layer.
https://github.com/Cloudef/android2gnulinux
If it's a native binary, there's good chance you can run it with this. JNI/Java stuff is mostly unity and even that's very proof of concept.
SvelteKit looks like a promising upgrade from Sapper.
Again, this is not about data being collected, we do know how much data Google collects, it is all about what is being done with the data and by extension how good the end result is.

This touches the broader subject of systems engineering and especially validation. As far as I am aware, there are currently no tools/models for validation of machine learning models and the task gets exponentially harder with degrees of freedom given to the ML system. The more data Google collects and tries to use in ranking, the less bounded ranking task is and therefore less validatable, therefore more prone to errors.

Google is such a big player in search space that they can quantify/qualify behavior of their ranking system, publish that as SEO guidelines and have majority of good-faith actors behave in accordance, reinforcing the quality of the model - the more good-faith actors actively compete for the top spot, the more top results are of good-faith actors. However, as evidenced by the OP and other black hat SEO stories, the ranking system can be gamed and datums which should produce negative ranking score are either not weighted appropriately or in some cases contribute to positive score.

Google search results are notoriously plagued with Pinterest results, shop-looking sites which redirect to chinese marketplaces and similar. It looks like the only tool Google has to combat such actors is manual domain-based blacklisting, because, well, they would have done something systematic about it. It seems to me that the ranking algorithm at Google is given so many different inputs that it essentially lives its own life and changes are no longer proactive, but rather reactive, because Google does not have sufficient tools to monitor black hat SEO activity to punish sites accordingly.
$220M is not pocket money, but Durov's net worth is apparently $17.2B, so he could afford it for a few more years

https://www.forbes.com/profile/pavel-durov/
Leaving aside services like bitcoin mixers designed to obfuscate the process, I think the usefulness of bitcoin for ransomware is that it allows you to move a big sum of money quickly without verifying your identity and without going through bank checks.

I think you are correct about getting dollars out being the risky part, but this way the criminals will at least have a head start in their race against the FBI.
VirnetX Market cap: 356.004M

Apple could offer every shareholder ten times the market value and end the problem.
That's a good point. I'll make the correction. It's still nothing near the percentage of the headline but is more accurate.
Made an app with pomodoro timer+ task manager+ analytics+ leaderboard+ community
> The person you're arguing with has some apparent domain knowledge; try extracting it?

He's also a resident HN reactionary.
It's definitely a big step up from ISO8601 (removal of useless stuff, stricter rules, no defaulting to local time), but it still lacks time zone information.

Since internet protocols are almost always talking in terms of events when it comes to time (and almost always in the past), RFC3339 is fine for its purpose. But for other uses of time it's not enough.

I did up a little summary of use cases here: https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time/blob/master/compac...
FBI built fake phone company in global wiretap operation of historic proportions
The useful thing would instantly become useless because people would start gaming it.
I googled "texas bankruptcy horses" and it seems a real thing, e.g. [1]:

Another good aspect of Texas bankruptcy code for farmers and ranchers is the specific delineations of property that are allowed to be kept during bankruptcy: 2 horses, mules or donkeys and a saddle, blanket and bridle for each, 12 head of cattle, 60 head of other types of livestock, 12 fowl and pets. If you’re a farmer or rancher considering bankruptcy, Chapter 12 could be a better option—a bankruptcy allowed specifically for the debts of a family farmer or fisherman.

[1] https://www.chancemcgheelaw.com/sanantoniobankruptcyblog/tex...
https://techcrunch.com/2008/02/07/heroku-lifts-ruby-on-rails...
It probably has a fraught history everywhere.
As webdeveloper I have a strong feeling that we are writing web for google bot and not for people. For any website I created I have a list from SEO what to add. Like 200 links at each page bottom, different titles, headers, metas, human readable urls without query params, all that canonical urls, nofollow rules etc. Most of this things invisible to users and created only for googlebot.
These websites can still use the JavaScript GeoLocation API[1], can they not? The article just talks about removing the ability to ascertain a users Geo-location via their IP address (unless I've missed something which is very possible at this hour). I'm not at all familiar with these services or their respective regulations but it seems, however, if the need for Geo-location exists, it may still be had if the user allows it. (via the permission prompt displayed when activating the JavaScript API).

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation...
As someone who "tried to invent the tablet" (we were not first, and we'd all seen Star Trek and the like; nobody at the time thought we were inventing anything new), it was very much the hardware.

It's possible software would have stopped wide adoption, but software was a solvable problem - porting Linux apps to our platform was comparatively easy, for example, and we could run Flash, so we could show fairly fancy demos.

But it never got far enough for most of these platforms for software to become a problem, other than for Palm who had apps, but stumbled in all kinds of other ways, not least in never shaking the image as a serious PDA, which instantly made it a niche product.

The devices were hampered by all kinds of hardware limitations. Screens were awful. The touch panels were awful. Even really expensive devices felt like toys because of it. CPUs were awfully slow. Lack of wifi was a big issue with the first generation tablets and solved in all kinds of awful ways. Flash was ludicrously expensive - we agonised over 16MB vs. 32MB storage. We used NanoX [1] rather than X11 for our windowing system because the engineering cost of adapting NanoX and writing our own widgets for it was worth it to save a few MB of flash and a few MB of RAM.

And so getting distributors and retailers and the like to commit crashed and burned before you got to the point of what software you could launch it with.

[1] https://github.com/ghaerr/microwindows
I did, mainly because alkaline batteries are the ones I use on a daily basis.
Wikipedia has some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futuro

Plus some thoughts on why 1960s "dome homes" never took off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome#Dome_homes

Finally, while the house is indeed from 1965, the article is from 2018.
As a corollary, I wonder if Slack will now implement calling functionality once Mozilla adds the necessary APIs for Apple to do its job here, which is probably very likely since I don't think Apple chose to ignore a non-Google browser on purpose.
Both these guys sound autistic af. Goodnight.
One of the warrants they were using to legally collect the information ran out today.
> Focus helps you stay in the moment when you need to concentrate or step away. Choose a Focus that only allows the notifications you want — you can get work done while you’re in the zone, or enjoy a distraction-free dinner. Pick from a list of suggested Focus options or create your own.

distraction-free dinner? Why would people use their computer while eating dinner? I find such a weird thing to say in a feature highlight(ps: i am not american)
Good that they arrested the culprits. But infiltrating the encrypted messaging app isn't the best thing I guess.

The argument, it is used by criminals is flawed. Because everything is - water pipelines, cash, facebook, and so on.
Yes, I was going to say -- the increase in IOPS is off the charts. I worked at an ad-tech startup in 2010 and that was the biggest bottleneck for what we were trying to do. At that point SSDs were a thing on the desktop, but not really in the datacenter still. Too pricey.

Kids today with their insanely high IOPS! They don't know the pain!
the problem is that price isn't justified by the size or character of the team but by value added for the consumer, compared to other products in the same space.

60 bucks per year for a language specific IDE which has multiple competitors with more features just doesn't seem like that good of a deal. Others have pointed out LiteIDE, which is open source and doesn't cost anything.
I think the GP meant 'aiding them in commiting future crimes' in the literal sense (e.g. helping launder money, abusing attorney privilege etc.) rather than implying that by defending them in court the lawyer would then be culpable.
I’ve always wondered if Google AdWords hurts your SEO. Let’s say you sell widgets and searching for widgets you are ranked 5. You buy AdWords to be on the top. Since people click you AdWords ad that’s on top, they are less likely to click the organic listing thus penalizing your organic listing since it’s not getting clicks. Google factors in which organic listing click counts when determining ranking since it is a strong signal.
> It's not like you are going to switch to Bing

From personal experience, I switched to another tool (DDG) a couple of years ago. When I occasionally try Google, for 95% of common requests I'm appalled by the results: the top is only SEO garbage. For very specific and precise searches (where people are not trying to game the system), Google is still the best, though.
I'm also wondering how this UI will work when you have 30 tabs open in one window.
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How Do List Functions Fail in Erlang?
As far as I read the news and if it is true, then indeed I believe the US system is quite broken. Seems geared towards screwing over and bullying the poor.
PR firms are generally experienced with how to communicate well in public.

The vast majority of people just don't have any experience with public communications. Most people write shit that does not get read by anyone, especially as they develop their skills.

When a person without these skills attempts to communicate matters that require a certain amount of care, they are bound to fuck up. Now, does this mean that they're actually a "bad" person? Maybe. Should they learn how to communicate in ways that don't inflame the situation, but calm it down? Absolutely. Irrespective of what their character or intentions are, being able to communicate effectively is absolutely crucial.

In this case though, my personal opinion is that this person is just a huge jerk. He seems to have raised a lot of money, seen someone do a legitimately better job than what his firm (which raised a lot of money) did, had conflicting feelings, and just wanted to seemingly quash this little person with his new found power. Regardless, a PR firm would have at least been someone he could practice his message with, get feedback on it, maybe that process itself would make him reconsider his actions.
Intel don't use something like eFuse by Qualcomm, or it's same thing?
There are more details in a recently unsealed search warrant against a GMail user: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.70...

An informant (confidential human source, or "CHS") helped the FBI and AFP (Australian Federal Police) develop and distribute Anom to criminal gangs (transnational criminal organizations, or "TCOs"):

> The CHS offered this next generation device, named “Anom,” to the FBI to use in ongoing and new investigations. The CHS also agreed to offer to distribute Anom devices to some of the CHS’s existing network of distributors of encrypted communications devices, all of whom have direct links to TCOs.

Anom was specifically designed from the ground up with an encryption backdoor:

> Before the device could be put to use, however, the FBI, AFP, and the CHS built a master key into the existing encryption system which surreptitiously attaches to each message and enables law enforcement to decrypt and store the message as it is transmitted. A user of Anom is unaware of this capability. By design, as part of the Trojan Shield investigation, for devices located outside of the United States, an encrypted “BCC” of the message is routed to an “iBot” server located outside of the United States, where it is decrypted from the CHS’s encryption code and then immediately re-encrypted with FBI encryption code. The newly encrypted message then passes to a second FBI-owned iBot server, where it is decrypted and its content available for viewing in the first instance.

Naturally, the FBI can't spy on domestic communications without a warrant, so they got the AFP to do it for them:

> FBI geo-fenced the U.S., meaning that any outgoing messages from a device with a U.S. MCC would not have any communications on the FBI iBot server. But if any devices landed in the United States, the AFP agreed to monitor these devices for any threats to life based on their normal policies and procedures.

Closing Sky Global and Encrochat drove criminals to Anom:

> Since March 12, 2021, as a direct result of the Sky Global charges, there are now close to 9000 active Anom users. The criminals who use hardened encrypted devices are constantly searching for the next secure device, and the distributors of these devices have enabled criminals’ impenetrable communications on these devices for years.

Finally, the FBI quite directly admits their goal is to shake confidence in encrypted messaging:

> A goal of the Trojan Shield investigation is to shake the confidence in this entire industry because the FBI is willing and able to enter this space and monitor messages.

There's also a number of sample conversations in the warrant application showing criminals openly talking about moving drugs and other illegal activities with absolutely no code. Definitely worth a read.
I’m not fine with it, and Amazon’s practices are gross. I wish we as a global community would put more pressure on China rather than turn a blind eye towards their more heinous acts.

Avoiding buying Chinese goods seems almost impossible, we have outsourced also much manufacturing now.
On an iPhone, the barrier to using facetime is very low, its like making or receiving a video phone call than using a video conferencing app - I'd imagine more elderly or low computer/smart phone literate would can a facetime call to their grandkids than use whatsapp/zoom to do the same
At least for our german-speaking users Dr. Drosten will be a household name already as he has been something like the public voice of reason during the pandemic.

For others who do not know him yet: he is a German virologist and leading the virology department of the Charité hospital in Berlin. His area of research is novel viruses and he has got a long history of researching coronaviruses. For example he was the first to develop a test for SARS-Cov-1 in 2003 and his group also developed a (the first?) PCR test for SARS-Cov-2 in january of last year already.

The submitted article is based on the following interview in German language if you prefer to read (or translate) that: https://www.republik.ch/2021/06/05/herr-drosten-woher-kam-di...
I know. But I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than use AMP.
You can as well as me google to see the myriad of critical social justice conferences and events she has contributed to. She is quite productive.
You can also see her calls for the critical social justice DEI solution when she calls for racial equity (as in redistribution based upon identity politics traits - not equality), inclusion (as in critical social justice activists of all identities must be given a platform with no critique by viewpoint opponents - not openness to different values being expressed) and calls for diverse voices to be heard (as in political activist voices with a critical consciousness - not viewpoint opponents).

Having a critical consciousness is about the process I described above, I never claimed I had to know what she felt. Deconstructing her words and going down the endless rabbit hole of claiming a “it quacks like a duck and walks like duck, it has ducklings, although it’s not necessarily a duck” then that might work on someone else, but not on me.
A PR firm that helps him realize what his words come off as might actually help him grow as a person.
> Feeding people is 100% the priority, which is why the vast majority of people in the first world have access to food primarily produced by a predominately private food industry.

This isn't true when feeding people is the _100% priority_, like in a big crisis, as a major war. The market flies out of the window and doesn't return before after the war is over since it just can't reliably produce goods in way that is appropriate for a crisis.

When the crisis is over however, the game of profit based production is restarted again.
Yes, that's what's so infuriating about it. I make a point of not doing anything out of the ordinary when I install things, or customizing my OS, specifically because I HATE it when this happens...
What Does AI Have in Common with the Moon Landing, Game Shows and Siri?
Batteries and coffee are the 2 supermarket things which amaze me. How is it possible there isn't some regulation on them having to display anything. Nescafe sometimes have "number of cups" displayed but sometimes they literally only have weight in grams. Next in line a hygienic products with also convoluted units but they seem to always have the "number of washes" at least.
I didn’t read it as being scared — more like moral indignation that a member of the team left, then published a clone.

Just don’t do that, it’s in poor taste.
> Did anyone really read the title thinking that the article was about alkaline batteries? I think not.

I did. For me "battery" without any context or other modifiers means some kind of consumer alkaline battery.
That sci-fi vibe is so romantic. We had one of these in our neighborhood in the 1970s, as its owner's holiday residence. It didn't turn out to be used very much and was dismantled after only a few years. The stuff that grew on its shell after a while didn't make it look too inviting. It would have needed regular scrubbing to retain that pristine spaceship look.
I would imagine not all technologies drop in price the same amount as production increases (the "learning rate"), and at some point there might be limits to how much cheaper something really gets to produce.

The relevance relates to climate change. Our ability to scale battery production cheaply is pretty important for a range of green technologies. My main take-away was that we haven't hit those limits yet, lithium-ion batteries are continue to get cheaper as the capacity produced increases.

The price vs market size graph is a good summary: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
So Vice says that an external source came to offer the app, while the Australian Police "said the plan to use an encrypted app was hatched overseas over a few beers with FBI agents in 2018, before police figured out how to decrypt all messages."

I wonder how this all ties together. As someone mentioned here, there surely be some movie about it.
> I save a lot of time and mental agitation by ignoring e-personalities and assuming that if something is important I'll hear about it from a quality source before very long.

We’ve had 4 years of media personas announcing Trump’s imminent incarceration. Call me when something sticks.
Kind people like you who take time to help strangers are awesome!