skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title ..checks out! I wonder why the government did not just seize these miners and put them to use for the local economy? If it makes money, why not?
are we a community of technical people or sleazy sales people?

What you say about being synced to the cloud in a way that can be decrypted is correct and can be problematic for some people but calling it unencrypted is wrong and detracts from your message.
I do not, but will look. I will say, back in the 80's someone asked me that and owned an Atari 800 XL and so did I.

I took a weekend and made this big BASIC program that did something cool for everything they did. Press one key and a smile face. Press another, and the colors change, etc... And some were random, like a set of lines drawn differently each time, or a big smile and a little one.

The little guy loved it. Would press the keys, watch, and repeat.

Later I found his Dad sitting with him, saying the letter of each key while responding to the action.

I did not introduce old computing, until the one I am raising got some basic skill. She is doing letters, numbers and can use a joystick. She asked.

Surprisingly, she loves to play Drol! Weird, but pretty game. It has clear, cute graphics and so there you go. She is 5, and became aware enough to play with me later in her 4th year.

Before that, I loved watching her play touch games on an iPad. Sadly, I do not have it handy and can't remember the name, but it has shapes one can drag into matching color holes. Anything like that works at 3.

At 4, I also did ABC Mouse and she loves it. Bought a year. She will ask for mouse and do it for a few hours at a time. I may buy another.

I was going to wait on the Apple, but she saw me using it and asked. (I am making a retro assembly language game and doing some electronics with that old computer for fun)

I brought up a few games on the Total Replay and she seems to really like that computer. It was unexpected. So, I decided to get some MECC stuff setup and will probably have her write programs as soon as she can handle it.

Another friend grew up with the Color Computer and has kids a few years older and expressed interest when I shared these experiences. I have a nice one all setup, and it is going to their house to see if the same thing happens. I will just not have the time for it. I want to, because sweet 6809... maybe his kids will jam on that machine and love it more than the box it is in does.

We think some young people will get that spark same as we did, so why not give them a go on the old machines when it's fun?
The big business of (mostly fake) nobility titles
Ex-Habitica user here. The accountability element broke me. I quit in shame when I couldn't keep up with my clan members without burning myself out from too little sleep and having too much on the list.
Every part of your comment expresses contempt for the child.

No part of your comment expresses empathy.

No part of the comment takes responsibility for any aspect of the relationship.

The solution of shutting up the child is outrageously irresponsible, childish, and selfish.
It was only true for 1 month after m1 started shipping.. because the Docker Desktop Beta was released on Dec 16, 2020:
https://www.docker.com/blog/download-and-try-the-tech-previe...

It worked pretty well.. sometimes you had to use the x86 container instead of the arm version. And I had one container that hadnt been updated by the maintainer in a few years, so I had to update it myself so it would work. And sometimes qemu would crash... but those cases were all exceptions, and it generally worked well.
I don’t want to get raided by the DEA cause my neighbor and network sharer likes to buy LSD online.
If you have root, you could as well remount /system read-write and delete that "security center" crap altogether.
I think there's a correlation between the age of politicians and how much they care, and we have far too many old politicians. (I'm old, btw.) We need more young people to get involved and get into positions of power. They have a vested interested in seeing solutions implemented, rather than the current crop who know they'll be dead when the real shit hits the fan and they're just letting things stay as is, because they want to maximize their benefits between now and death.
Presumably because they'd have to pay for power
Apologies for commenting before reading the article. But I'm curious what the sales process is for spyware. I understand the underground groups do all their stuff anonymously, but what sales ops do legitimate companies like NSO Group practice? Do they have sales targets/quotas? Do they vet their clients? What channels do they sell through?
I think the point they were making is that LAPACK et al are a pain to use directly (they really are!), and abstractions are limited by the capabilities of the language or heavy to compile (not sure I agree, Eigen is pretty okay).
I suspect you meant to post this to another item, most likely the one about Elisabeth Holmes [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874916
Could the same not be said for Windows developers, or Linux developers? Or, heck, almost any developer?
I think you mean reuse, not recycle. The first step in most recycling processes is a shredder.
Bezos nudes weren’t stolen by a hack, but by physical access to his mistress’s device. Her brother. At least, that’s what I recall.

The forensic investigation showed that bezos’ device was clean. From what I saw.
There are really 2 options here:

1. Live with the first amendment at section 230 as. That means things stay mostly the same. Big tech will continue to censor too many of the things I like and too few of the things I don't like. And we wait for the pre-internet generation to die off and be replaced so society can progress.

2. Restrict the 1st and force fact checking, fairness, neutrality, etc. This would get us back to a functional media/societal/democratic state a lot faster. But it would require pretty radical change. Also, the biggest losers wouldn't be big tech. They would be Fox news and similar orgs.

I don't see any other option here. I don't see that "regulating" (wtf that means, different things to different people for sure) Facebook but not Fox is productive or fair or possible even really.

Personally, I don't trust the current system to do anything other than beat tech companies with a stick for no reason but that they exist and don't pay enough in "lobbying". I don't see Fox or similar, much bigger propaganda/censorship orgs being touched. Certainly not on a bipartisan basis (and that's what's needed to do more than sneeze in Washington).

So here we are, and I am glad the right and left and (stupidly) fighting each other...

Thanks for reading, you may now downvote these inconvenient truths...
hey super cool my dudes, I'm sure your department or community couldn't use a cool million from some university who wanted to research folding proteins, or any of a number of startups who had some machine learning needs… just the coolest, vroom vroom crunch
The issue is that all the business models in Tahoe seem to be failing, you can't have a modern town without a coffee shop, but the business cant generate enough to pay a few year round employees to live in comuting distance. A town cant be completely served by the children of second home owners the entire year.
Exactly. Government has been backstopping/de-risking asset ownership since the Great Recession and massively increased that program in March 2020. At the same time, they started to de-risk the asset consumer class with eviction moratoriums and significantly increased unemployment benefits.

Seems to me one of those two classes will need to be inconvenienced if we don't want inflation to spiral out of control, because otherwise the asset owners will continue to buy more assets with cheap money that will push prices up, while asset consumers will continue to require higher and higher salaries to afford to pay the increasing rents to the asset owners.

Asset owners should be the ones taking the hit since they have been backstopped for far longer and are in a much better financial position to deal with it. But the asset owner class is also the one running the country and its tough to imagine them doing something against their short-term self interest.

Gonna be interesting to see what kind of equilibrium shakes out. I hope this plane can be landed without crashing...
Did anyone else play the Voyage of the Mimi games?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/089443938500300...
I find it bizarre that the article doesn't mention immigration and how brutal ICE policies are discouraging seasonal workers from coming. I know someone who manages a restaurant in California. All the cooks are of Mexican descent. Obviously they are taking jobs no one else wants.
I had a teenage diagnosis. I went off it because of the same drunken-misinformation and stigma. 5 year dark age. Went back on it, I was suddenly MUCH more able to build the SLEEP, DIET, EXERCISE loop I need. Going back on my meds, after educating myself properly about them, was one of the best decisions of my life.

ADHD prescriptions are the first line of defense. This is simply a fact of medical science. Executive Function disparity is the result of a chemical imbalance. Receptors for dopamine and Norepinephrine in the ADHD brain are oversized, which ADHD medications correct.

https://youtu.be/38qpm6VKBFc

I was spreading misinformation about the "drugs", when truly they are the proper accommodation and treatment. They are not "meth", they are a therapeutic dose which do not directly stimulate but rather correct a hormonal and neurological imbalance which I require to maintain my executive function and the Sleep, Diet and Exercise which all together healthy accommodate my needs.

Your self-determination is your own and I so I only ask that 1) Inform yourself, don't take your uncle's word on it. 2) I implore that you reconsider spreading the harmful idea that ADHD pills are bad, which can only make us ALL worse off.

Separate, but just as important: Drug User stigma is also terrible. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is Connection. Healthy Bonds. (https://youtu.be/PY9DcIMGxMs)

Written with sincerity, and frankly, tears in my eyes. It's a topic I've got a lifetime of experience with, and we must break this cycle of stigma.
Here's one part of it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interb...

Besides that article's subject, it has enough links to keep you busy for months. Be sure to read the "Security" section.

"Banking" is a huge subject. If you really want to learn (part of) it, best would be to find an area that interests you, and work in it. That's one of the best parts of programming, it's not really about programming, it's about the industries that use it.

As for "key words," I think better is to follow links, and soak in any keywords that gradually come from what you find that's interesting.
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tcg9kOfkg
what's your reason to use vm? it's more resource consumer, take ages to boot, it's hard/slow to share...
Or you can just go into your reddit settings and change back to the old interface permanently. I have that enabled and both these links are the same to me.
> Do Signal, Wire, or Matrix do this transcript consistency thing, or is there some other way by which they prevent message reordering? From what I know, encrypted messengers almost never implement that. At least in Wire I noticed reordering at some point and it uses an implementation of what is now called the Signal protocol.

If I'm reading this right, the issue is that a network MITM can reorder the messages in the client to server connection (without being able to read them). This would likely reorder messages in the chat transcript too, but that's a different issue.

TLS or Noise protocol are open alternatives here, and IIRC both require that you have received all previous packets in order to validate a new packet, which means either you've received all the packets in order or the MITM has compromised the handshake.

Signal protocol is the end to end protocol between clients; those messages do not require reception in order. Because the messages go through a server and may be retried, there's lots of ways things could go wrong and some messages may be dropped or delayed and can arrive out of order. You could refuse to display message N until you've displayed N - 1, but if the server dropped N for whatever reason, you need to get the sender to resend it, and that depends on availability of the sender which is limited (their phone may be off, out of coverage, or execution may be denied/delayed by the OS, or the user may have removed the app by the time the receiving app notices the message is missing, etc).
How is that possible, its surrounded by a national forrest necessarily creating a regulatory interference.
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The nice thing about the M1 Macs (as opposed to iOS devices or, uh, apparently Windows 11?) is that these systems can be turned off if you feel so inclined. More specifically, "Permissive Security Mode" can be enabled from the Terminal inside 1TR.

Apple recommends against this, of course, but it's your computer, so you can make your own choices!
Yes, unfortunately it is likely a false positive. The devs are aware but it appears to be difficult to fix.

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/17820
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Most mining rigs have zero use for anything but mining.

A few mining systems are GPU's (used for mining certain types of crypto), and those can be resold for other uses, although typically after being used for a few years for mining they might be damaged and no longer usable for other uses.
Sets are 0-categories, so this critique would also suggest that 0-category theories, set theories, are circular too. But we actually place formal logic before sets, and then use sets to reflectively study formal logic without infinite regress.

This is a version of the general pattern that there are no informal justifications for formal reasoning. Once a person tastes formality, then they can judge for themselves whether to adopt it, but there's no self-sustaining proof statement.
I always thought targeted assassination will be the primary use of autonomous weapons. And since I don't really see any obvious means of authoritative attribution, I'm not really sure how you would stop it? I think it will be ultra popular. Not only with cartels looking to rid themselves of annoyances in Mexico. Also with people looking to remove any mayor they don't like, or any police chief they don't like, or, more commonly, any boss they don't like, or even any neighbor they don't like. Most people in society would be almost a free target. Combine that with the fact that most people would have access to this tech and I could see tit-for-tat killings going on all over the place.

I'm really interested in seeing what law enforcement and military thinkers are working on to solve this problem. It really will be fascinating to watch this space, because I could see it getting out of hand on a time scale shorter than we'd at first anticipate.
Ask HN: Kindle or Tablet for Reading PDFs?
Hello HN,

I am from India.

I want to read lot of tech(and programming) books without distraction. I need reading device for PDFs. i won't be reading novels but PDFs(tech books and notes).

My Budget is strictly <= ₹13k. One choice is kindle basic 2019 edition(not paperwhite. it's ₹8k) and another choice is Samsung Tab A7 lite WIFI(it's ₹12k).

I am in dilemma. Please help
Thats not a "No", it is a "Yes", you're just trying to explain it

Although you might point at several things, including more than 50% of population being vaccinated

It still shows that the vaccine might not be that effective.

In the UK there is also the strange 12 weeks interval between doses, instead of 4 recommended by manufacturer, and used in other countries
Operate like what?
thanks for the link internet stranger!
Bitcoin miners can't be used for anything else except cracking hashes.

You could maybe save the power supply.
YOU may not be, but if I, or my loved ones lived in a high-patrol area known for police brutality, I certainly would be worried.
Weaver's testimony to Congress:

"Come out and get the telephone, and later on I got a chance to look at that robot sitting out there, and it had a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun on the side of it, bolted to it, aimed aright at the telephone, which later they said was empty. I do not believe that. I will never
believe that. If they want to negotiate with you and they honestly want you to come out and pick up a telephone, they are not going to have a shotgun there, because they know if I see that I am not going to come out after that telephone. They was hoping I did not see it, and the way it was aimed at the house, I did not see it the first time I looked at it. The second time I looked at it, I saw the hole of that barrel pointing up, and I got to looking better, and I said, holy cow, that is a sawed-off shotgun pointed at the tele­phone. I did not see it the first time."
From the article:

>According to the small print in Apple’s Platform Security Guide, when you set up a new M1 Mac, or set one up after restoring it in DFU mode, the primary admin account created is special: it’s the Owner account of that Mac. During that inital setup, the Mac sends a request to Apple for that Mac’s signed Owner Identity Certificate (OIC). This is based on a private key generated in the Secure Enclave known as the Owner Identity Key (OIK).

I'm not trying to imply that you're wrong at all, but I'm curious how the Mac goes about obtaining the OIC without a network connection.
A lifetime of listening.

That’s the nature of being a parent.

It is placing a vulnerable person’s needs first.
Disgusting. When the topic of commercial "cyberweapons" comes up, I immediately wonder about the people who created them. How they can sleep at night knowing how tools of their design are used. I'd argue that it's a completely different class of cybercrime and worse than anything else out there.

Unprecedented action needs to be taken against NSO Group.
Looks like ASICs. These are worthless for anything besides mining BTC. Another counterpoint to Bitcoin. Ethereum has protections in place (had, Eth 2.0 changes everything again) to prevent ASICs.
> Are mining rigs useful for purposes other than mining?

Nope. Other than maybe the power supply they are single purpose devices - they crack hashes, that's it.
Israel is not in the NATO and it's time that we Westerners stop treating it as a Western entity.

More than half of the Israeli population are of Mizrahi (Arab) and Sephardi (North African) ancestry. Many of them are post-1948 refugees from other Middle Eastern country.

It will be easier to understand Israeli cynicism toward the Arab and Islamic world, which includes selling surveillance software to brutal Arab regimes, if we stop assuming that the country is made of Western Jews.
I'm not judging the importance of the story, but based off past reception of these stories it is wildly naïve to believe this will be the story of the year. That is especially true in a year in which the globe is still not through a global pandemic that has killed millions.

Most people simply don't care that much about digital privacy. Lots of people believe Facebook is spying on them constantly including recording everything said in the presence of their phone and many of those people go right on continuing to use those apps.
Health insurance is more expensive for smokers generally. Why not antivaxers too?
To clarify, Home will not. But home is targeted to the non techy layman. pro / Enterprise will allow this. comparing window home to oax is like complaining that my Honda civic doesn't have the towing capacity that my f150 has. different class and purpose.

apple doesn't even have a comparable os to be compared to home, as it's a market they don't even target or develop for.
I want to work a lot less. We currently work 40 hours a week and I would prefer around 30 hours. I could of course do a part time job but it involves being paid less which is a problem to afford housing in my area, and it's perhaps not good for my career. So if everyone is working less, everyone is more productive and happy and paid about the same.
We absolutely have an artificial housing supply shortage, that is induced by homeowners loving 15%+ year over year housing market increases and not wanting the undesirables to move in or be able to afford housing in the first place.

It would be so much more simple to say you can just buy a lot for maybe $25000 and put one of these garden sheds in and live on it https://www.costco.com/stonecroft-12'-x-10'-wood-storage-she.... There you go, full housing setup for under $30000, but it would be a very low standard of living, but much nicer than sleeping in a car or on the street. In many populated counties it is illegal to sleep on your own land if you don't have an inspected house or utility hookups.
Miners don't really make much money - the value of bitcoin is almost exactly equal to the cost of electricity to mine the bitcoin.
Unlike Telegram, iMessage and WhatsApp are closed source apps. How can you verify that they really encrypt the messages?
I think that is an overly cautious take on things. I'll explain why.

First, "for unknown reasons" deserves more nuance. The vague, high-level reason is clear: Jemalloc 3 behaves differently from Jemalloc 5, having different algorithms and data structures. What I mean by unknown is not so much an indication of incomprehensible arcane magic, and that things can collapse at any time.

What I mean is that it's not known in what way the algorithms and data structures are different. Consider that before I did my 2019 research on why Ruby memory bloating occurs[1], Ruby apps suffered from memory bloat "for unknown reasons". That didn't mean that before 2019, all Ruby apps were houses of cards waiting to fall over.

It's like saying "I don't understand why this Linux kernel upgrade made things faster" -- the kernel developers know but they have better things to do than to answer your questions. And the fact that knowledge about a new optimization in the Linux kernel is not widespread, does not mean that that kernel version is unstable.

Nobody truly understands every single detail about all parts of the stack. Yet I can build reliable, high-available web apps just fine without understanding how for example how 5G works and why users on 5G can access my app faster than on 4G.

The differences between Jemalloc 3 and 5 are not explicitly documented anywhere, and to find out requires research. I intend on doing that some time in the future, but not now. Jemalloc 3 is proven to work, it's proven to be stable. The combination of Ruby + Jemalloc is proven to work well, not only because we've had several years of user feedback now, but also because Github has tested this combination for years now even before Fullstaq Ruby.

The pragmatic thing to do is not to prioritize figuring out exactly how Jemalloc 5 works. It's to continue the packaging work to make Ruby + Jemalloc 3 available to the public. Jemalloc 5 can wait.

[1] https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2019-03-14-what-caus...
https://archive.is/4BSlw