skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a video about a Chinese kid going through this exact dilemma

https://youtu.be/4L6RKFbQoxs
> amateur crackers could recover private keys pretty efficiently

That's only if the key was derived from a weak password, which allows it to be brute-forced with standard password scanning techniques. If you're even slightly concerned with security you let a computer generate a fully random key using the proper amount of entropy—preferable on an air-gapped system or an HSM (hardware wallet). No one is going to be "recovering" private keys which were generated and handled securely without a very large budget and physical access to the storage medium.
And I suppose the carrier vehicle is somehow invulnerable to missiles? In fact, why wouldn't it just carry missiles in the first place?
Why not something of more concretely useful value, like protein folding or climate simulations?
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2 people with the same income get different benefits, if one lives in a red state, and the other in a blue state. The red state is a net recipient of federal funding, the blue state is a net provider. Most red state economies would implode without this fire-hose of free money. Texas or Florida might be okay, the rest, not so much.

The same thing plays out on the state level. Eastern Washington loves to complain about taxes, and I would love nothing more than to let it have its wish... As long as Western Washington can stop subsidizing it.
Does the 503 page load fast(ly) or slowly?
I have two personal use cases

1) Myself, I grew up on a game boy color and I have a nostalgia for playing games where the developers were so bound by compute resources on the device they were developing for. It allowed smaller teams to be very competitive in game design but also enabled a different sort of creativity than what is commonly seen today in game design where resources are virtually unlimited. I've also been wanting to toy with game development for a while now. This seems like a neat and quirky way to jump in.

2) My kid, I think we've gotten far too good at making video games addictive for kids. I want my child to have video games the way I did, with simple graphics, stories and gameplay that come to an end, unlike games like fortnite that you can keep playing for eternity. Added benefit if he gets to experience trying to play games without a backlight using the streetlights to see as you drive down the road.
Yes, looks like these people are living in a temperate zone.

Try to walk through the jungle where I live and lets see after how many minutes you will want to breathe normal air again.
You can do this with WSL or Docker, can you not?
Games are great because they are terrible propaganda tools. With a game it's no longer enough to write a compelling story: it must be self-consistent.

It may be a model that doesn't represent important parts of the world, but that's still better than a narrative.
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The charity “scam” is brilliant because it is the hardest to argue against by the masses.
not my opinion. I was just confused why other commenters would think this.
When I worked at Home depot as a lot boy I got stock options
I could name a few things I admire about Elon Musk, investing in BTC is not one of them.
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Great post. Captured the problem nicely. I went on a similar journey recently.

There is a moment when you step back and realize that all the data-wrangling code we write in apps is essentially what an SQL query planner does. And our frontend is just one big materialized view that we need to update.

I often think that if we had a database that runs in the browser, and we could subscribe to queries, and missing local data would be fetched on-demand, frontend development would be a lot easier. Its of course much more complicated than that.

I think the reality though is that backend scaling requirements always end up dwarfing frontend productivity concerns. And there is also a huge amount of glue between backend data sources, preventing the creation of a clean database on the backend to sync with, meaning we are creating API gateways and GraphQL federation layers, and all we can hope for is a good client-side caching layer.

If you look deeper though you will find many projects doing all these kinds of things already. Mobile developers are very familiar with offline techniques and SQLite on the client, and it doesn't feel like anything special to them. For the web/desktop, maybe no one has packaged it in the right way yet, or maybe we are still digesting GraphQL, SSR, and serverless, and then there will be another shift with offline-first, reactive SQL in the frontend.

It's funny though that if you think long enough about these concerns, you always seem to end up wanting some Datalog thing.
Data privacy-focused NFT startup raises $2.3M in seed funding
Never never use a mobile phone if you're a dirty criminal
> I find it absolutely fascinating that your arguments are shot down on this board, because it's business, but that is literally what you're told on a constant basis if you want to go into the education field in the US.

It’s not actually that fascinating, and has a simple explanation: the people saying this about teachers are not the same people that are commenting here. It’s a non-sequitur.

The notion that educators (or anyone else for that matter) ought to accept bad pay or working conditions because of “passion” is completely objectionable. Teachers should be well-compensated for the important and difficult work they do.
This pretty much sounds like my networks class final project.
Yes, absolutely. Thanks for sharing your insights. I like the test/thought experiment.

You know, there is also the other camp, and I have been part of it myself. Those who say that you shouldn’t find a passion to follow, and why that’s a foolish and romantic thing to do. But I have switched sides (again).

Why solve problems for people you don’t care about even if that makes you rich? It’s nothing I’d like to do with the limited amount of time I have on this planet.
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I think it's pretty easy to make poor use of HTTP to the same end. Imagine you're dumping traffic between a client and a server and the exchange is:

GET /asdfasdfasdfdsaf
X-Asdf-Asdf: 83e7234

HTTP/1.0 202
X-83e7233: 1
X-83f730b: 4

It's text, but you still have no idea what's going on.

Overall, I think it's kind of a wash. It's basically equally easy to take a documented text or binary protocol and write a working parser. Neither format solves any intrinsic problems -- malicious input has to be accounted for, you have to write fuzz tests, you have to deal with broken producers. It's a wash.

People like text because they can type it into telnet and see something work, which is kind of cool, but probably not a productive use of time. I can type HTTP messages, but use curl anyway. (SMTP was always my favorite. "HELO there / MAIL FROM foo / RCPT TO bar / email body / ." Felt like a real conversation going on. Still not sure how to send an email that consists of a single dot on its own line though.)
So.. somehow the heat output of a mining computer just disappears? Oh wait that's nonsense, because your CPU is literally a heat pump.
Usually updates are penalized, which this is.
Not necessarily. I've wondered the same thing for years while never holding any.
That makes sense. After all if you have an arbitrary JSON (or XML) you don't know what is that, unless you have a schema, then you can check conformance, etc. And probably given a schema it's easy to give the user (developer) bound methods that reference some value in that "structured blob", and of course it's possible to reuse that method with other blobs. (While having some error handling of course.)

But how come people have aversions with ASN1? Is it just stylistic as with XML? (And that it's used as the substrate for a bunch of old harebrained standards and protocols - all with artisanal shitghetti C codecs instead of the aforementioned robust parser + schema?)
very good point - the entire reason for PoW is to "waste" something to prove you're invested in the ecosystem. If you can do useful things with that work, you're not really proving you're invested in BTC, but you may just be invested in whatever that useful side-effect is
It... what?

If you put 1000W of electrical energy into a Bitcoin miner, you get 1000W of heat out the far end. It's the same efficiency as a resistive element space heater, just has done some work (useful or not, it's still work) on the way through.

Same thing for a computer running BOINC or Folding@Home. Power goes in, heat comes out, but you've done something useful in the gap.
Well sure if you happen to live somewhere that has 100% carbon neutral electricity - but in that (very rare) case the electricity use for mining Bitcoin without heating your house is also not an environmental problem. In reality, the vast majority of Russian electricity comes from fossil fuels.
Inefficient compared with what? Gold requires a ton more energy. As does the existing banking system.

Bitcoin uses less electricity than Christmas lights and provides a completely electric, transparent, uncensorable currency.
Ahh, makes sense. So they are never paying back the loan with earned income. Thank you!
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This is a little random, but I had received stock as part of an acquisition, which I had to pay taxes on as if it were income. Now, if I sold that stock, do I have to pay taxes again?
This is excellent news! I hope Fossil can eventually obsolete both my tag script and the JavaScript TOC.

As for transclusions, I don't expect Fossil to implement them. While something like https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/IncludeOtherPages would be cool, it seems probably out of scope for Fossil.
It's also unlikely that you will only use AWS, forever. At some point in time you'll have to deal with various resources (be it IT resources, time, money or people-as-a-resource), and whenever you bind your knowledge and workforce to an IaC tool that doesn't transfer or isn't portable you're going to end up with N+1 tools every time. In other words: it doesn't scale all that well. (And that doesn't mean Google-scale, but going from 2 IaC engineers to 5 IaC engineers is much harder if you can't apply universal tooling)

Tools are never 'just tools', there is context and there are externalities. And as you already pointed out: migrating/uprooting all of those other things isn't a likely scenario.
Not really. Heat pumps can't be used in cold climates due to ice forming on heat fins which breaks the efficiency. It's why we use a lot of baseboard heaters in Canada. Bitcoin mining would be perfect for electric heating of homes here. Plus the added bonus of eliminating green house gas emissions from burning natural gas in a furnace (how my house is heated). The problem with baseboard is that gas heating is far cheaper than electric. So could Bitcoin actually be used to make the world greener?
Many times it comes out much much later that the kingpins were in on it. The spy world equivalent of the double agent.
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Now that would be cool. I can't wait until they have it around here.
In my opinion, Randon should not put Ruji back online.

I think it would show that he respects the opinion of Amjad, even though Amjad has acted immaturely and completely inappropriate in the first place.
Haha is "the office" WallSteetBets?
"Well, this tax might still hit someone at the upper-upper-end of the middle class if they live in the fastest-appreciating real estate market in history" seems equivalent to admitting that it does not hit the middle class generally.
32,510.30 USD/BTC
The idea that blockchain will change the world.
I feel it is somewhat obvious and goes without saying that malicious action results in personal responsibility & repercussions. However I don't have any evidence or past experience that malicious action by an internal employee is a likely scenario for most outages. It may well occur but most examples I've heard of seem apocryphal.

The scar tissue: this is where good choices come in because it's certainly not a rule that a change as a result of an incident review is an impediment to work. These definitely occur, and sometimes linger after the root cause is phased out. But best practices often reduce cognitive & process overheads.

A rough example is that there are still people out there FTPing code to servers, having to manually select which files from a directory to upload. Replacing this error prone process with a deployment pipeline leads to a massive reduction in the likelihood of errors and will actually speed up the deployment process. It's all about making the right choices, not knee-jerk protections, and sometimes the choice is to leave things as they are.
Like this RC airplane (drone) modeled after a WW2 dive bomber. https://youtu.be/ogxKvQeVqqc?t=583
The Daily Show, and I believe most similar shows, use a product called Snapstream: https://www.snapstream.com/entertainment

Crucially this is not a cloud product, I suspect for copyright reasons.
There are other laws libertarians would like to circumvent. Occupational licensing, over scheduling of drugs, civil asset forfeiture spring to mind. Starting a new country on the ocean is a pretty drastic way to fight back, but i can't deny the impulse to opt out when change appears impossible.
This comment begs for some sources and citations.

Edit: I have a recollection of this incident but certainly not as mysteriously inexplicable and shady as you make it out. There was some context I've forgotten. Your story rings false.
Not sure why this got downvoted. These are great ideas! Any interaction that requires some degree (ahem) of radial precision is exactly the kind of mechanic that would shine with this novel controller.
Marcel Proust wrote a piece on the subject.

> since within twenty-four hours, in the empty frame of that long morrow in which everything was so well arranged because I myself had not yet entered it, my good intentions would be realised without difficulty ... Unfortunately the morrow was not that vast, external day to which I in my fever had looked forward. When it drew to a close, my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome certain internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63532/63532-h/63532-h.htm
Why zero-trust security is stupid
Masad response does not seem to have the tone of apology. He is apologizing to the legal threat only. He is still not ready to accept about open source Project.

Good that Radon has responded well to that criticism and made communication transparent in his blog.

Setting the wrong tone from the position of CEO.
I didn't mean academic consensus. More like industry / security-aware people in IT consensus - almost nobody in software does formal verification and it would be foolish for any user, whether person, business or government, to take this as solution to their VM hosting security problems.

Yes formal verification has made advancements and is a useful tool, in proper context. Not in the context the article is selling the work of the researchers.
There are a number of bulky systems intended for larger targets which will work against drones, but most are not very portable. Ship-mounted systems such as CWIS do work.[1] But all those shells that don't hit the target land someplace.

[1] https://youtu.be/3UVuV5WvraQ
Don’t confuse being rich with being ethical or wise. (This is a kind of appeal to authority, too)
Pumps were inaudible - I mean a birthday party full of 5-8 year-olds isn't a quiet environment, but:

- the pumps were submerged

- I put a rubber mat on the bottom of the big black rubbermaid container, though the thinking here was to stop them bumping around rather than noise per se

- and the connection to the raceway was via flexible tubing, so there was no vibration transfer.

Overall I'd expect the pumps to be one of the least-loud parts of the system , the flowing water was way louder, and that's not very loud.

I've since bought myself a 4'x3' laser-cutter [1] (and many projects have been jointly undertaken as a result :), and the plywood has been satisfactorily repurposed (one side is fine, so I just made sure the side I had painted previously wasn't visible. There's lots of projects where re-using is pretty simple :)

[1] https://i.imgur.com/IiIvFFv.jpg
> The only way their business model can work is if the majority of customers sign up and never use it, which is a very weird thing for a business to depend on, IMO.

This is basically how gyms are profitable.
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100% agree. However, finding nature in a big city is a challenge. Finding a quiet place in that nature in a big city is a bigger challenge.
It's certainly not as simple as "take a 5 min. walk". It might involve driving 30-60 min just to get there.
> what is the right way for him to assert his own moral grievance before this whole matter wraps up?

No one owes Replit success. It doesn’t matter what the CEO says, I’ll be using alternatives. There’s really nothing to “wrap up”. Other than to act as a cautionary tale to other executives who may be tempted to flex a power differential.
No, your CPU is a resistive heater, which is less efficient than a heat pump.
> Everything I know tells me that most people, because they seem capable of doing the same things everyone else can do, all have extremely similar minds and don't differ in major ways like this, at least not in terms of potential.

I had conversations on this subject with a friend who has no mental monologue, I don't think you're correct. I think we get by through making use of the thinking processes we have available, but that doesn't mean that there's no major differences in how we find out our answers, just that we tend to get to roughly the same answers no matter which route we take.

For one thing that doesn't take into account how long it takes for your thought process to reach conclusion, if you're incapable of creating mental imagery and have to solve a spatial problem through mental monologue alone might that not take longer to intuit?
No, it's not "tricky" to argue which computing is inherently "valuable" or "not valuable" when the examples are research that will benefit for all mankind, and PoW is so incredibly wasteful for the benefit enriching so few. Even those NN are no where near as wasteful for the benefit of having pre-trained weights anyone can use and build on forever.

We need to stop thinking that tech inherently neutral and without moral or ethical implications when there are clear benefactors and externalities.
I've been saying this for years. Low interest rates are like a triple handout to the extremely wealthy.

1) pump up asset prices.

2) lower the rate at which you can borrow against unrealized gains to make avoiding taxes more attractive.

3) people use this savings to buy more assets. Repeat step 1. Virtuous cycle.

I can't go to a bank and get a loan against $1M in my 401k at 2% interest. But I know people with $50M+ that are doing this. It's absurd.
The three words "reliability, security [and] capacity" are adjectives in list form for the successive noun "posture". Posture here simply means "ability, position(ing), readiness, attributes, quality", etc.

From webster:

> Posture (n.) - state or condition at a given time especially with respect to capability in particular circumstances

To be clear, you could re-write it more verbosely:

> Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability posture, security posture, and capacity posture.

While not exactly the same meaning (the original sentence groups them together as a single, nuclear idea), maybe it helps parse the grammar a bit better.
> It's not uncommon to get a windfall (stock option vesting cliff, inheritance, capital gains, etc.) that boosts income in a single year to many multiples of one's typical income

Estate taxes don't kick in for estates worth less than $11.58 million and most states make immediate family exempt from all inheritance taxes.
Nothing like a barrier to entry to the top 1% to keep out the rabble! But yes, you've discovered the crab pot cheat code that will continue to keep things exactly where they've been and they will remain. Go ahead and propose a 1% tax on wealth beyond $50M. Even make sales to pay that tax 100% tax-deductible. It won't happen. Or how about a 50% inheritance tax on wealth beyond $100M? You're not getting that either when there's a sweet middle to upper middle class pile of Quatloos to mine and they don't have enough money to hire the right people to make that problem go away.

But I'm starting to think they need their own PAC and they could afford that.
The idea is that it is a non-smartphone device intended to occupy someone and delight someone in small doses. It also intended to drive a community of creativity with it being an open dev platform.

It's just meant to be something fun you can pull out and play for a little while. Just like Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators were designed to be. I think we might have passed the point of realizing how wonderful it is to make something fun and whimsical with minimal profit ambitions.

Another bit is that the people who built it are legendary software developers who created Audion in the early 2000s (who then turned down an acquisition from Apple to become iTunes so Apple had to buy their worse competitor), Transmit (FTP), Coda, Nova, Prompt, and who published Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game. The idea is that it's a gimmick done hardcore and right.

Seems like a huge amount of interest. Personally I love the idea of whimsical creative ideas come to life.
It's a piece about the energy usage of cryptocurrencies, possible solutions as well as potential problems with those solutions. What does the bargaining stage of grief have to do with it?
>> It seems like kind of an evil move for law enforcement to put a target on his back like that.

This is actually a very old method of getting criminals to cooperate with law enforcement.

The FBI used to do this with mob guys all the time in the 1980's. Show up, arrest them publicly, put out false newspaper articles saying he was close to flipping. He starts getting heat from the outfit and sooner or later, distrust is sown and suddenly he becomes a marked man. Word gets back to him they put a hit on him, or things get dicey with the underbosses and suddenly, he's like a cat in a cage with nowhere to go - so he turns on his associates in order to save his own life.

Cops used to do the same thing with low level drug dealers. Pressure them to flip on their supplier by pseudo arresting them, taking him away. They'd drive around a bit, then drop him off without cuffs in the middle of the neighborhood in broad daylight. Word gets around what happened, and suddenly the heat gets turned up because now he was seen getting out of a cop car with no cuffs? Must mean he's turned informant. Same thing, he gets too much heat and feels he needs to save himself and flips anyways.
It should probably be noted that the hangman proves to be quite passionate before the film is through.
It is useful if you consider having a non-governmental/internet native currency a useful thing.

If you don't see any value in that, it's gonna be hard to justify that computation.
I’m from the future. ;-) But I will fix it, thanks for the info
Literally anything except what we are doing today