skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, a crypto bank could be cool. Maybe the bank could create its own class of coin, and make it so that each bank_coin can be redeemed for a btc they have in deposits. Since not everyone needs their btc often since they're hodling all the time, the bank could probably lend out more bank_coins than they have bitcoin to help others get access to more assets and get a return on the loans. As long as everyone didn't withdraw at the same time it'd probably be fine.
It gets so much trashier shortly after that segment.

> Making matters worse, Lee also had an ongoing relationship with a mistress that he brought to company functions and the LTM offices, despite people knowing that he was married. Lee met his mistress through a company offering female companionship for money. Lee abandoned his wife and newborn child to spend time with this woman, and their relationship was toxic. His mistress was physically and verbally abusive towards Lee, erratic and unpredictable, and caused Lee to act over-emotionally.

> The two fought on a daily basis. And this happened in front of LTM employees, including Plaintiffs. For example, a few days after the February 2015 Meeting, Lee and his mistress had a violent altercation at a club in front of Park, Ken, James, and other LTM personnel. His mistress became infuriated and violent when Lee did not pay attention to her to attend to a conference call concerning LTM business. She punched Lee in the face, causing Lee to lose a tooth.

All that MtGOX money couldn't buy class.
Channel takeovers were mostly done by re-creating channels, which causes everyone to be kicked from a channel.

Also, yes there are lots of idle people but at the same time when nobody responds to them with ~50ppl to the room, they will eventually wonder why.

Plus channels having no op (Just chanserv), maybe freenode staff. Which will look even weirder than usual.
As USA is no longer Safe Harbor compliant, transferring PII outside EU's jurisdiction requires a legitimate interest. Does Stripe do the assessment on behalf of its customers, or does it rely on the customer being truthful and risk exporting data without consent?
>Not the case in France (at least for the past 20 years), and I doubt it's the case in most other European countries.

Nope, your parent is right, in Austria you also don't get healthcare if you don't work or are looking for work via your local job center.

Maybe France is an exception due to having stronger social system that heavily favors the workers (insert memes about strikes) while in Austria the system is very rigid, designed to favor businesses and the government rather than the workers and to discourage abuse.
I can only second this general consensus. Doing tech at large non-tech companies has an entirely different and more laid back pace and stress level than start-ups and tech companies, while the problems that need solving are every bit as fun, challenging and interesting.
the price will be what the market will bear. How could it be otherwise?
Even though I have zero confidence in similar claims by big and small players, in this case I would give them the benefit of the doubt and blame your browser instead, because exposing themselves in this way would be extremely stupid.
Valuations of everything are so high they make little sense. In this situation, yes holding cash is bad, but it doesn't exactly feel safe holding superinflated assets. What will happen when interest rates rise? How long are we going to keep inflating stocks and houses 2x in a year?

My overall problem is that it makes the entire process of preserving money a time consuming and scary game of predicting what the central bank will do and hoarding assets. We are forced to play that pointless game, when really that is what a simple bank savings account should do. Preserving (not growing) money shouldn't be so complicated.
It’s not really a “trend”—if you think about it, ID verification is already required when checking into hotels, buying alcohol, or when visiting a bank teller.

As more commerce moves online, Stripe Identity was built to significantly reduce the number of organizations and humans that would touch your ID—in a faster, secure way that’s hosted by Stripe (https://support.stripe.com/questions/common-questions-about-...).

We are also very direct about collecting consent:
https://support.stripe.com/questions/common-questions-about-....
From the inventor..."You are correct. The pronunciation is spelled out right in the specification. However, it is also certainly an acronym, and so pronouncing the acronym could never be considered wrong. Mostly I'm delighted that anyone cares."
Do not ever rely on this sort of safety mechanism. There are also systems in use that rely on axle counters and bookkeeping - basically, on each block they count the incoming and the outgoing axles. When your draisine now is either too lightweight to trigger an axle counter or you set it on the rails in the middle of a block, the ops central won't know you are there.
I don't understand either the lionization or demonization of the rich as doing anything other than maximizing their self-interests (greed) with the power and wealth they've accumulated by compounding.

The purposeful gamification of the US tax system is self-evident by it's Enron-like accounting complexity.

The accretion over decades of a litany of exemptions and credits, numerous changes to the tax codes, and minimization/dodging chicanery are the evidence of regulatory capture by the rich to make themselves richer.

Furthermore, the special privileges afforded to the rich for their income and balance sheets compared to the property, savings, retirement, and income of individual workers is completely unfair.

Over a certain point of income, personal or corporate, the tax rate should increase geometrically.
The problem with having those APIs in the browser is that it increases the attacker surface area, which makes the browser less secure for everyone, including those who do not use PWAs.

The only saving grace is that you have to accept the permission box (I hope so at least...), which, for the average user, may not be much protection.
From NAND to Raytracer: Raytracing on the Hack Computer (Feat. Rust)
> I'd truly like to know how Von Neumann remembered everything.

I've been hearing claims of von Neumann's perfect memory for a long time on HN, but I've been unable to find primary sources to back them except for a single quotation by Herman Goldstine. Could the claim of "perfect memory" have been an exaggeration?

Surely von Neumann had an exceptional memory, but truly remembering everything is extremely rare (some say impossible). If he did, I imagine that the psychologists at Princeton or the IAS would have caught wind of the mathematician with a perfect memory and wouldn't have missed a chance to examine him; all the more so since "true photographic memory has never been demonstrated to exist" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
Even US federal employment has started considering remote work as a permanent policy (where possible).

I'm currently looking for new work, and full remote has become a _hard_ requirement. In addition to the great point that you've made; if an employer is insisting on in-person work, there exists a strong signal of deeper issues. For example: dogmatic/discriminatory thinking, egoistic processes, stifled/silenced innovation.

This certainly isn't universally true, but it is a giant red flag.

There's also my responsibility. This is my responsibility by choice, and I'm not out for anyone who doesn't make the same choice. If I am hired by said in-person employer, then I am supporting and perpetuating that behavior. The transport device also happens to be destroying the planet: I would be supporting that. The transport device is a luxury: I would be supporting discriminating against people with no access to it. Some jobs are by definition in-person (doctors, baristas, cleaners, etc.), and I would be consuming their transportation resources (whether that's room on a train, or a road). The housing market madness has been driven by access to in-person work hubs.

In-person work, where it isn't actually required, is a terrible idea. It's bad for you, and it's also bad for everyone around you.
Child labor rises to 160M – first increase in two decades
> Microsoft was able to build Teams from scratch to compete with Slack and managed to it

Teams is complete shit though, they didn't compete on quality of their offering. They're competing because every org already pays Microsoft a lot of money and they may as well use Teams because it's "integrated"
They write "Now that web apps are capable of reading and writing files", and link to their article about the File System Access API, which is a Chromium only API. They're trying to make it look like Chrome only apps are regular web apps, and if they doesn't work in other browsers that's on them and you should just switch to Chrome instead. They want Chrome to be thought of as the default web experience.

https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api
Different police departments have differing amounts of citizen review associated with them.

That's my point. The sheriff of (insert small town) has no accountability aside from an election that's all but guaranteed to go his way again.

Other municipalities have better accountability systems. In particular, you need to have the accountability to come from outside the police department.
They could also provide protections for end users so that if there are fraudulent transactions they could work with other banks to undo transactions.

Wow this is such an advancement in banking and finance!
Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine mostly doesn’t exist in Europe.
> People that know they have incriminating evidence will either not carry it on their phones or uses some form of steganography to hide it perfectly.

I think your point is valid, especially the part about normal people, but you might be overestimating the intelligence of most criminals.
I like it! It looks similar to strong lifts app. Will you have your own app that goes alongside this?
Stripe hires elite Stanford grads unlike Equifax is the simplest answer they probably wouldn’t say publicly. But the pedigree and engineering talent is miles better.
> - An officer can use these requirements on anyone who "appears to him or her to have access". They don't appear to need any evidence beyond that. The person does not need to be a suspect or, it appears, the subject of a warrant, just a person present at the location subject to the search warrant.

Well that's handy then, the "helpful roomate" tries his best to enter the password, but didn't realise that after 3 wrong tries it wipes the device!
> “We can’t pretend the Constitution doesn’t say what it says.”

And then you read how some Supreme Court justices make a decision and you’re wondering if they are even reading the same document
This happens to me a lot. I need to have access to keyboard for being able to type some older password. Same thing with pin codes.. Funny how brain works.
If you remove the editorialization of events, it seems like the primary motivation here is to merge the ##linux and #linux channels, which actually makes sense from a new user perspective. It was always odd to me that some channel names had a double hash, while others had a single hash (and the two can co-exist iirc).
Federal safety regulators investigating AmazonBasics products
amazing how everything gets rediscovered :)
Everyone Has a Theory About Shopping Carts
Whats something silly you've done in your career that still makes you laugh?
Would _love_ to see a community sourced database of "explain it like I'm 5" translations.

Example: What does "Bent Over Lateral Raise" mean? Show me? Lateral ... to what?

I'm sure I can figure that out, but, for the newbies of the world it's another hurdle to keep them from actually starting/moving.
Amusing: the linked library page, https://www.ka9q.net/code/fec/ says (from 2007) "The new Intel Macs are not yet supported. Stay tuned."

Ignore an issue for long enough, and it stops being an issue :)
This is the problem I wish cryptocurrencies had focussed on - verified identity is the central problem in payments.
"Proper criminals"? What does that even mean?

There are hundreds of criminals who are not tech savvy (or not tech savvy enough) who will not have any of the mechanisms you postulate, who are frequently caught by the police and are very much "proper criminals".

I don't agree with this law but to say it doesn't do anything against proper criminals is patently false.
At least when I've joined a gym, a person there would assess your fitness, ask what your goals are, and based on that you would get an exercise routine.

Following a random exercise routine can result in injury.

You should at the very least talk to a lawyer and put a disclaimer in that page.
The usability is going to be there. People will use centralized stuff like Paypal and Venmo and then move to handling their own stuff.

Metamask was just copying some addresses and stuff. I realize that the average person can't even come close to doing it yet, but soon it'll be all QR scanning and stuff and they can prob do it.
27 gallons of water per load of dishes? That sounds like they were washing dishes under running water which is obviously wasteful. Fill a dishpan, do the dishes, rinse them with clear water at the end and you will need very little water in total.
Probably need some sort of central org to agree on a fair rate bank_coin / btc to avoid a race to the bottom though
I agree, that's why I said "basic", not "simple". Basic in the sense that we had them for over half a century and everybody is using them. The amount of thought and engineering needed to build an efficient word processor still amazes me.
You're thinking of UUIDv1s, which pretty much nobody uses.

UUIDv4s — the ones that are specified as being populated with 122 bits entropy from a HWRNG — cannot "be collided pretty easily." Those are what anyone clearly means if they're talking about "bits of entropy" in relation to UUIDs.

(Also, as it happens, UUIDv3s and UUIDv5s are specified as having their payload bits populated with the cryptographic hash of a user-defined input. But just to muddle your point further, the cryptographic hashing algorithms used in v3 and v5 are not ones that you'd trust today for collision-resistance; MD5 [v3] and SHA1 [v5] have both had at least one collision attack successfully done against them.)
Pre made routines would be awesome
> In my circles, everyone from 25-35 is simultaneously preparing to FIRE and no-one that's 35+ has actually changed jobs despite being 'financially independent'.

I think your circles are rather unusual, if this is true. A $900k net worth is in the 99th percentile for 30-34 year olds and 95th percentile for 35-40 year olds in the US (https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-united-states/)

Even among my anecdotal very-highly-compensated NYC tech-salary coworkers and friends, having money issues and easily sub $100k net worths is way more common than not.
See nondualism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism

It's considered an "ultimate truth" in those traditions. The question isn't whether or not this is delusional, it's why is this experience widely shared across human history.
What's the difference between filling out your address in text versus scanning? Is your face not on the internet yet? Just curious what specifically would make you never want to use it?
Raidz Expansion Feature
Gari Kasparov versus Putin
> Plaintiffs noticed that Lee was a habitual user of marijuana and cocaine, and would frequently abuse drugs in the office in front of his employees.

WTF
I'm pretty sure that's not the case in the UK either, given how it's financed.
> Iranian supporting the Syrian regime as positive

I don't see it as positive at all.

Just saying that Israel has no problem with Iranians in Lebanon when if they mess up local establishment, but have it in Syria because there Iran is pro-existing regime.

> You still didn't explain how.

Hezbollah ruined Lebanese political establishment, and the state at the same time. Effectively, they made it a blank space on the map as it is now.
Chinese startup markets and their implications for Western startup markets
Ask HN: Thoughts on immutability in programming languages?
I have developed a proof-of-concept Python package to freeze objects [1]

I've developed it for the fun of doing it, without any useful use-case in mind, and to tell you all the truth, I can't find any. I have some idea of what a functional language is (have developed a bit with Haskell and Erlang), but I've not used them in any job. I suppose that's why I can't find a way to use this package to solve any real issue.

What are some sources to learn about immutability on programing languages? How could you use a freeze package in Python or other languages? Would it be useful to share information between threads?

Any advice/idea/feeback/criticism or comment on this matter is appreciated.

[1] https://github.com/diegojromerolopez/gelidum
I read all those but consider them fairly partisan, at this point, e.g. they have to satisfy their clientele. I add Reuters and a few others like that to the mix but even that is difficult. Sometimes you have to search within the website to find coverage for specific stories and it's buried deeper down.

I think the idea that media can be neutral is pretty unrealistic anyway. Even non-profits like PBS or government orgs like VOA will have their slant so it'll always require the extra work.
That’s why the coins I have more faith in are coins which incentivize things like distributed compute/storage. However, currency in google play or whatever is missing features that “cash” provides. Sometimes I don’t want credit card companies/payment gateways/stores selling my purchase data to the highest bidder and would prefer anonymity.
Great idea, thanks for the feedback!
All identity services we use keep all the data.
Be your own bank and enter the centralized payment systems whenever you want.

Tbh I think the environmental impact of a true PoW blockchain used around the world isn't really worth it for the collective human species. But for each individual person who owns a good amount of btc, it's worth it.
Ask who your manager will be. Look them up on LinkedIn. Look at all the people on the technical side of the company and their LinkedIns. If their last few jobs for the last several years aren't technical, that's the answer.

In general, pretty much any company that isn't a technology company will fail this test. Working for companies which are young and specifically software companies is your best bet.
> Seriously, what's the matter with this guy?

According to https://corrupt.tech/1708590130-ocr-compressed.pdf:

> During this time, however, Plaintiffs became concerned with Lee's mental wellbeing and his ability to lead LTM and PIA. Plaintiffs noticed that Lee was a habitual user of marijuana and cocaine, and would frequently abuse drugs in the office _in front of his employees. Lee often combined his drug use with alcohol and would act erratically.

> For example, he told-LTM employees that he wanted to hire a female candidate simply because he wanted to have sex with her. Similarly, Lee expressed his desire to set up a "modeling agency" in the Hollywood Hills that would actually be a front for illegal prostitution (i.e., the "models" would be paid escorts). To that end, Lee circulated a memo to male LTM executives advising them to make sure and wear condoms when having sex with the "models." Lee went so far as to state that he planned to move LTM's offices to the Hollywood Hills mansion once the "modeling agency" was set up
As a paying customer, I built my entire family photo sharing and storage scheme on the longstanding ability to sync images between Google Drive and Google Photos.

Google removed that functionality, borked my entire system, and lost all of my trust that they know (or care about) what their customers want.
I think the first step would be to export routines as a spreadsheet. Eventually an app would be awesome though. Do you have any suggestions?
I first thought the exact same thing as you. But this argument stretched to it's conclusion means no one know maths. Which very well might be your point. But then it loses any useful meaning. Even professional mathematicians are specialized in a small sub field of mathematics and there are huge parts they don't really know.
Should police not pay special attention to someone with a swastika shaved into the back of his head who they see going into a synagogue?
I'm genuinely wondering how someone could implement a system that functions like a dead man's hand where the key to recovery (despite entering the valid password as required by law) which lies outside of the jurisdiction of that government, or relies on the data being unavailable for a long stretch of time.

>"If I live in Ireland, am I screwed when the stress of being detained causes me to forget my very long, complicated, and infrequently entered password? "

As for this part, I've become a cynic after learning so much about how courts actually function on a daily basis. There really isn't anything stopping a judge from simply finding you in contempt of court - even if you legitimately did lose your password. Ultimately, if the judge wants to, they can easily drag you through the mud and you have virtually no recourse.

Edit: I know Apple has a feature that disables FaceID that acts like a 'panic' button. How do the courts deal with that?
* State management in the browser. This is stupid easy. I even wrote about exactly how to do this: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/state_manag...

* Just about anything to do with the DOM. Its a standard tree model. You learn it and get comfortable with it and suddenly all that browser tooling you cannot live without becomes immediately unnecessary. Hiding from this, making a bunch of excuses, and complaining about how hard life isn't appealing.

* The file system is also a tree model. If you have an abstraction layer that normalizes file system access cross OS all you really need is a basic comfort of data structures.

* Tools that provide session management are there because planning for real time parallel distribution is challenging. This is yet another one of those that once you go through it a few times you just know how to do it.
Good point, thanks for the feedback
Anything artificial that directly affects the brain's reward pathways is bound to cause addiction. We can't, in good faith, argue that artificial food is addictive, or that artificial opium is more addictive than regular opium, and then, in the same breath, consider preposterous the idea that artificial sex is. (And let's not argue over semantics here, to pre-empt any argument about what constitutes artificial sex: a restaurant doesn't necessarily serve artificial food any more than a prostitute serves artificial sex)

>Let's be honest, are most people really watching porn, having a wank, then watching the rest of the porn? I'm not sure if porn has a model that drives engagement?

It's very easy, incentivized even, to open 10 tabs and switch through each to "optimize" the orgasm, finding the exact clip to reach orgasm. And much like social media influencers take many different photos and pick the ones that are the best, the same is done with the creation of porn. People don't finish the porn videos, you're right, but a lot of people also don't finish Youtube videos either. I think it's irrelevant whether they're finishing them - what drives engagement here is discovery of novel pornographic content. There are almost infinite possibilities for what one can watch. The problem with porn today is it's artificial and plentiful. So the model is to abuse our psychology to seek novelty as well as our desire to have many sexual partners. The engagement is in the desire to see many new and novel scenes at each session and the user's anticipation of another "porn session".
I think there's a spectrum of caring. Facebook users barely comprehend what their platform is doing to them, IRC users would get ham radio callsigns if they needed to.