skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It's not hard to build a very conservative investment portfolio that beats managed competent-Western-central-bank inflation. Hell, you could just buy something like TIPS or Series I savings bonds and be done with.

From that perspective, it's less "robbing savers of purchasing power" and more about converting savers from "dragons sitting on top of a pile of gold" into actual investors participating in the real economy.”

I will concede that one could build an investment portfolio that beats typical western consumer price inflation rates but I don’t think it is right to force savers (read unsophisticated investors) to risk their life savings just to earn a positive inflation-adjusted return. To me, more choices for individuals is generally a good thing. Governments around the world are starting to consider or even implement negative interest rates. I for one believe Bitcoin should exist as a counter to such things as forced negative interest rates, which I referenced earlier as theft by central banks.

Since the 1933/34 when the US, Canada and the UK all simultaneously dropped the gold standard (and confiscated their citizens gold by force) there has been no option for a citizen to store their savings in a bank while earning a positive return net of inflation. Store your money in a bank and you are guaranteed to lose purchasing power over time. That has been true nomatter what the inflation rate is at the time. Bank yields on savings always trail inflation.

With Bitcoin individuals finally have an option that, while volatile in the short term, has a high likelihood of retaining purchasing power relative to inflation over the long-term. As such I find it difficult to understand why so many are so quick to ban such an instrument simply because it could also be used for criminal purposes.

On a side note, one of the greatest inventions of the cryptocurrency revolution is the availability of positive real yields on stablecoins. With USDC, an individual has multiple options to earn 8-13% nominal annual return on a stablecoin that is pegged to the US Dollar. For the first time since 1933, an individual has an option to store their life-savings in a stable currency which maintains it’s purchasing power over time - try that with a bank.
>The government's own guidelines require the FBI to pursue alternative sources before subpoenaing a newspaper

Or "we could always just buy this data, we requested it for some other reason but the media got more pissy than we expected."

The entire thing is just so strange, why was the challenge not hidden when the subpoena was?
Mostly adoption purposes. Bitcoin, for better or worse, is now a globally recognized asset (if not official recognized). Sure they could adopt a coin like Ripple or Doge, but that would almost certainly permanently sabotage the market for both respective coins. While I agree that this is a bad idea, basing it on a larger currency does have some considerable economic benefits.
More likely they acquired the data through other means like hacking into a "foreign" server.
What would happen to the markets if Satoshi appeared and starts trading his 1 Mi in BTC?
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A culture built on human sacrifice has nothing to offer.

The Spanish did nothing wrong.
It's funny you mentioned that, I worked on SFGate experiment for optimizing ads and web performance in 2017.

I got it down from 85s load time to 15s load time, and Speed Index score from 21,000 to 7,000. Ad revenue went up by 35% too (better UX as well)

Then some jackass on business side signed a deal about a auto-play video player on every page and the project was killed

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12ds0b4nTxzcDy23te0Zm...

It is a bit sad to see where it is now. The potential was there.
Senator Harry Reid wrote this letter, affirming that Elizondo did in fact have a leadership role in AATIP: https://twitter.com/GadiNBC/status/1386872125835812864
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Thats very nice of you to say. We're trying our best but have more work to do.
I mean every RFC over 9000 is an "over 9000" opportunity.
Probably easier to subpoena the many many tracking pixel providers embedded on the USA Today website...
Sir, please get in touch. Include the last 4-digits of your SSN so I can verify against my own records.
Nothing to do with retaliation. They just want to protect their assets from being seized by the US government.
Voice over sounds great to me as it is! Very clear, engaging, good audio quality.
Big government doesn't have competition.
It would be helpful if you could give some concrete examples of the sorts of situations where you want to improve your writing or speaking skills. Are you wanting to communicate more effectively at work, in your personal life, or somewhere else? I might recommend a different book depending on the answer.

A couple of books that have helped me:

- The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane. This book changed my life than any other. The premise is that charisma is a skill that can be learned, and isn't something that some people are born with, and that you can become more charismatic by working on your internal mental state and learn to emit signals of power, warmth and presence. I didn't used to be a people person until I read this book.

- Mastering Communication At Work by Ethan Becker and Jon Wortmann. This book is specifically aimed at leaders in a business context. It contains lots of great advice on subjects such as understanding different communication styles (and tailoring your approach accordingly), managing your "ethos" i.e. the way that you come across to people, running effective meetings and many more.
Ortiz has a long history of overcharging controversies, most of which were not in the area of computer crimes. Mentioning Reagan three times while not mentioning the person who was actually responsible for this self-aggrandizing "hanging prosecutor" being in office in the first place (i.e., Obama) is pretty disingenuous.

Of course, that's par for the course for Doctorow.

P.S. how could I possibly have known that Reagan was mentioned three times without "reading the whole thread"?
don't interview with this company.

their hiring process is broken and they force you to do a technical challenge before even getting to decide if they want to get to know you.

completely backwards.
It's similar, but note that what differential-voltage signaling cancels (as in pro audio cables, PCB routing, or ethernet cables) is common-mode EMI; but, as I understand it, the differential-phase signaling in PAL instead cancels out errors introduced by dispersion (where the phase delay varies significantly over the 6MHz bandwidth of a TV channel).

So it's analogous, but there's a critically important difference. (Not that you claimed otherwise.)
You don't know that! Can't predict leap seconds
I've seen this for years, it is not new. You have to be running at the scale of tens/hundreds of petabytes of data to experience really quirky anomalies.

The failure rate and failure modes vary from model to model and even from batch to batch. The biggest issue is not that failures exist, but that they're hard to trigger in testing and when they trigger they do not cause a crash. The CPUs that any actually used computation is running on have already been through a lot of testing (manufacturer, cloud provider), the failures have to slip through all of them.

And the failures can be really nasty: imagine some distributed DB server damaging large % of database metadata records because 1 instruction malfunctioned, but didn't crash the process. By the time you know something's wrong you cannot recover 70% of the data because you have no idea which data blocks correspond to which logical rows (remember, the metadata is garbled), except through a manual process that can take weeks or months. Or something like a v-table "miss" where instead of something like Table.Info() the CPU calls Table.Drop() because that function happens to be exactly 64 bytes lower in the v-table and has similar enough signature for the call to succeed. Those are two real examples.
You'll have to excuse me for being primed to read that statement in two very different ways :)
I think you may have replied to the wrong comment.
On Writing Well: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction...

Also, practice. Keep writing. Write postmortems, discovery docs, blog posts, threaded tweets. Practice in multiple mediums and find your style.
As someone who readily admits to not fully knowing what legal tender entails, I have a question for the optimists:

As I understand it, legal tender status forces creditors to accept bitcoin as debt repayment. Given the volatility of bitcoin, wouldn't this impact risk assessment of loans? Being obligated to accept a high volatility asset as a repayment sounds like a nightmare for creditors. Wouldn't interest rates rise in order to cover this added uncertainty?
There are only 2^32 possible IP addresses. You can brute-force that on a personal laptop.
Bangladesh also has a fertility rate of 2.04, allowing women to focus on investing resources into just a few children, and working themselves, instead of just being 'baby-making machines'.

And this is mostly due to women having widespread access to education, contraception, and (to an extent) abortion.

If we want to help other countries develop, we should cease all food aid, and instead replace it with a goal for universal access for women to education, contraception, abortion.
And even then... history takes a long time.
No, the flagging was well within the normal range of heavily-flagged posts, if that makes sense.
Getting lost in optimization is the opposite of actually making things, and as an artist, it's at the top of my reasons why PICO-8 isn't fun to use.
Do you seriously believe that the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were backed by the CIA? What evidence do you have?
That's a brilliant side-step over a morality qualm, without ever really answering the question.
The difference is that you're never entrusting the authenticating party with any secret. Even if their entire full-cleartext database leaks, an attacker could not even authenticate against that _same_ site.
Fair enough, I just disagree and believe that increasing wages will absolutely benefit domestic workers, regardless of whether it incentives more immigration.
Another neat (more common) misprint is the Foreign Black Bordered "Wald"[1] (Forest) that was printed with the coloration of a Plains.

[1]https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Magic/Products/Singles/Misprin...
It's a good question, in that it brings out the fundamental issue with these discussions.

> Why not automatically punish users that abuse flagging to censor stories

The problem is with the words "abuse" and "censor". No one can agree on what they mean because it depends on what you think of the underlying story, and when it comes to divisive topics, people have strongly differing views on that.

When the topics aren't so divisive (e.g. Conway's Game of Life on the GPU, or something like that), this is not such a thorny problem. But those aren't the cases that we're talking about in this thread.
> 3. The parliament (for the US the Senate) ratifies the treaty, making it binding.

Under international law, ratification happens when a state’s international representatives (head of state, ministers, ambassadors) formally lodge instruments of ratification with the depositary. (See Article 2(1)(b), Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.) When the US Senate "ratifies" a treaty, that is not ratification under international law, that is a domestic legislative procedure which confusingly happens to have the same name.

Under international law, legislatures are not involved in ratification, only the state's international representatives are (which almost universally belong to its executive). Domestic law may require those representatives to consult or seek approval from the legislature, but international law mostly (but not entirely) doesn't care about those requirements.
"To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
Fair. But to play devils advocate: one stated goal of Julia is to solve the “two languages” problem where developers prototype in {scripting language} and then reimplement in {system language}. So while Julia is meant to be as easy as Python, it also needs to be as powerful and flexible as Rust (or C or whatever). It’s supposed to be the “best of both worlds” and Rust lives in one of those worlds. If developers are better off prototyping in Python jupyter notebooks and then reimplementing in Rust than they are implementing in Julia, then I’d say the comparison is relevant. Maybe it’s an unfair standard and Julia can be a “better Python” without needing to be a full replacement of a systems language, but then Julia isn’t fully solving the two language problem, right?
When you consider a country-wide currency or global reserve currency status, things like security/trust are the most important properties.

You can then use other layers for much faster and cheaper transactions while keeping the base layer as is (as lightning network on BTC and zk-rollups on ETH are doing, or even centralized layers like Paypal/Visa, etc).
6S running 14.5.1 works fine.
Normally shares are not taxed as income in the UK dependent on how they are structured -dividends are though.

To follow on it is easy to hit the limit on dividend allowance if you have shares outside of your ISA
They’ve done studies, and parents are dramatically happier than non-parents after the teenage years (when the kids leave).

It’s a long term investment that pays dividends when you have nothing else you want to do with your life, but chill with your family.
Accepting it as legal tender doesn't mean it is what the loans are denominated in. Nobody sane would denominate loans in BitCoin. (There are loans denominated in BitCoin. The obvious syllogism applies.)
> It's not even that. Most international agreements are executed without a treaty.

Only in the US (and possibly a handful of other countries which copy the US approach). Under international law, all legally-binding international agreements are treaties. What the US calls "international agreements" are treaties from the non-US point of view.
Well Google neutered ad blocking extensions for Chrome. It's very hard not to see this as them trying to do the same elsewhere. Google used to be the good guy darling, not too long ago. They brought it on themselves.
> Rust people keep saying they have no Garbage Collector, when they have a Region Based Garbage Collector.

Rust does not have a region based garbage collector. Memory management in Rust works exactly the same as in does in C++ (ie. destructors are automatically called when variables go out of scope, and those destructors may deallocate memory).

The borrow checker is purely a check: not only does it operate entirely at compile-time, it does not even influence code generation. The only thing the borrow checker can do is prevent code from compiling.
Bitcoin's lobbyists are better paid because Bitcoin got people richer.
You should be furious that you gave them a free loan.
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But when they occur, something could increment a counter that tracks the error rate like hard drives do for SMART
It is desirable for a reserve asset and a store of value - which are use-cases for a currency. It is obviously not great to have a deflationary currency as the only option for spending. However, luckily we still have fiat currencies which are ideal for spending as well as Bitcoin which is the superior savings vehicle.

Bitcoin has only been around for ~11 years and by all accounts it is still in price discovery mode. Eventually it’s value will stabilize and it may serve as a better unit of account.

Until then, spend your fiat and Hodl your bitcoin.
Living in the UK, and not taking particular care of my yard, grass is no longer the major species in my yard. There are plenty of native species in my garden such as daisies, dandelions and a lot of moss in the wetter places. The local bees and birds seem to be very happen with the garden and my kids can still play in it. I only mow the grass when it gets really too long (more than a few inches) to prevent any nasty native species taking hold (nettles and thistles).
> So has the US. Americans, and their mega corporations, have no moral high ground to lecture others.

That's nice, but considering that I am a Nigerian I don't really see what that has to do with me.

> No. Rather the pot should refrain from calling the kettle black

"On the one hand we have a former military dictator currently heading a regime that has repeatedly shown that it has no qualms using its security forces to kill civilians in order to keep the populace in line (besides starving them of resources). On the other we have a social media platform deleting a post because people reported it. These two things are of course the same."

> Censoring politicians has everything to do with elections.

Twitter removed a tweet that can very credibly be read as threatening genocidal action after Nigerians reported it to the platform as threatening violence.

I am still very patiently waiting for you to explicitly explain how, precisely, this is interfering with the country's elections.
I did not read this, and if the title is anything to go by neither should you, think for yourself instead.
The best way to address it is to restrict immigration, so that the demand isn't there in the first place.

For example the USA could end its refugee intake program (which Biden has increased by 50,000/year to 62,500) - which alone will bring in a Wyoming's worth of people over the next 9 years.

Secondly to limit immigration only to other highly developed countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
And to persecute and physically prevent all unauthorised arrivals.
Depends on what you think is best in life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos

edit: looks like I was beaten
Consumers don't care about it. Just like they don't care about the internal software running in their microwave oven.
America extorts other nations by virtue of the $US being the world's dominant reserve currency. The federal reserve can print money unimpeded, with foreigners bearing the brunt of inflation. The math is simple.
I understand there might be specificities for encoding but there coukd be some efforts to share some compression. By example png use gzip, we could let the browser sort it out and let it use brotli?
Newsweek has been an independent company since 2018 when IBT spun it off.
Any increase in market productivity is quickly compensated by aggressive, wasteful government interference. Citizens can never enjoy the benefits of increased productivity, only politicians and government.
Yes, to explore those differences was the point of the post.
Hm, I'm confused, usually the whole point of storing an IP is in case the visitor uses the platform to do something illegal, like a death threat. Without the original IP law enforcement can't subpoena the ISP, etc. But also as someone else said, if you use a nonce, and I think you mean salt, then it can be cracked nearly instantaneously anyways due to the small space of IPv4 (~4 billion).
I know about Google's compression proxy but what's Mozilla doing? I found something called Janus but it looks like it was discontinued. Opera Mini is still around and there's also the Firefox-based browsh.
> Julia was the first one where I started developing code.

This is fantastic! I think that Julia really has unseen potential for the scientific community, and even more unseen potential beyond that (most of Julia conf is scientific).

FP also comprises of some really great habits to pick up early on, I'm still trying to unlearn dumb OOP idioms (which is why I'm targeting Julia as my next language).
What "the cloud" offers that personal servers don't is:

- Reliability. The cloud is available with little or no downtime, to 5-8 nines (5 minutes to 1/3 of a second of downtime per year). Each nine costs roughly 10x the previous one.

- Bandwidth. Residential service may work for your own personal file transfer needs, but if you're sharing to the world, even a modest degree of traffic results in a hug-of-death.

- Security. Ideally, cloud systems are managed and monitored against network attacks, as well as affording physical security practices.

- Updates. This becomes Somebody Else's Problem.

- Ongoing development. Dittos.

It's not that these aren't addressible by individuals, but it's a lot of effort to do so, and at population levels, people are simply unlikely to be able or willing to do so. A small percentage, yes. The vast majority? No.

Raw compute power is a tiny fraction of the concerns involved in service hosting.
Along with the keyboard, easy access to the official hardware maintenance manuals are the best aspects of ThinkPads. Lenovo also has a part number lookup [1] tool you can use to find parts that could’ve been optioned with your machine, if you wanted to upgrade them in the future.

I recently replaced the 1080p display panel on my T490 with a 2560x1440 model with no issues whatsoever.

[1] https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/partslookup
yah, the lookup table is just discrete points of a stepwise function, so why not just use the underlying formula instead, and smooth it out while we're at it since it simplifies the calculation?

in this era of handheld supercomputers, we're well beyond having to manually multiply out the formulas anyway. and tax forms are already basically one long formula where you just plug in the variable values in a step-by-step manner (and usually have a computer do the math for you).
Speaking to the section on "Vendor claims"

> An attacker (or malicious insider) in control of the vendor’s network can change the code that is served to your browser, and that code can obviously access your passwords. This isn’t farfetched, altering the content of websites (i.e. defacement) is so common that it’s practically a sport.

Is this actually true? For Lastpass, I would assume the code run in the browser comes from the extension directly, and (for Chrome), the extension comes from the Chrome Web Store. There are some problems here, but in theory the system could be improved so that modifications to the extension in Google Web Store are very obvious, and an attacker couldn't just inject code into the extension and update it without someone noticing immediately.
uncharitable tldr: Google employee says that for Chrome users, using the password manager in Chrome is your best option.

He's a brilliant researcher, but I think he's wrong on this one, and the blog post is an appeal to authority and ends with basically a 'I've already heard your counter arguments and you're wrong'.

He should show his work.
> President Joe Biden recently criticized the policy, saying it's "simply wrong" to seize journalists' records.

The FBI is part of DOJ, which is an executive branch department under Biden's direct authority. If he thinks it's "simply wrong", he can just order them not to do it. He's not limited to "criticizing" it.
How do companies deal with this in practice? Running 3 or more redundant servers which vote on the correct result of an operation?
Just like AJAX - it's still a thing: you can't have SPAs without it.
There's even less 'usable' ones, when you exclude private ranges etc...
The mobile UI for sr.ht is pretty impenetrable. Navigation links look exactly like unclickable text...
You’d tell Pete that you drank the beer, not that you’d drunk it. Shrink, shrank, shrunk is the same as drink, drank, drunk.

The film case likely altered your perception.
Package managers don't rely on DNSSEC for package security (it would be deeply problematic if they did). But you can also just go look and see that, for instance, Ubuntu.com isn't signed, nor are most of the Pacman mirrors for Arch, nor is alpinelinux.org, &c. DNSSEC is simply not a factor in package management security.

People have weird ideas about how this stuff works.
There is no planet B - A podcast episode dedicated to climate change