skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're already not allowed to move undeclared cash across borders

Right, because it's generally recognized that countries have the right to protect their borders

> not sure why you can't have a rule that you can't have undeclared crypto wallets

Are you exempt from this if you don't make cross-border transactions? Would it be constitutional for the EU to make a rule that you can't have undeclared cash wallets?

> That does not ban cryptography, that just forces people to declare their wallets.

In the strict sense you're correct. However, I would counter with saying that this isn't a "ban on cryptography" in the same sense recent proposals for key escrow (eg. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/as-doj-calls-for...) isn't "a ban on cryptopgrahy". However, the end result is the same: you won't be allowed to practice cryptography unless you also give up your secrets to the government.
My dad would always tell me about his ideas for smart phone apps, if only I would build them (and in my mind---he'd get the money). I would always then search the app store for his "idea" and find N number of apps, already there. He never did stop with his "ideas" though (and he never bothered to do a simple search either).
> scam

There is a legal concept called "due diligence" where a party to a contract is expected to take reasonable steps to know what they're doing.

Googling "starting salaries for [my major]" is a very, very low bar for due diligence.

The posts in this thread absolving the student from making any effort whatsoever at due diligence is illustrative of the point I was making.
If I had a really great idea I absolutely would build it in stealth as far as possible, to give the greatest possible advantage before launching it.

Consider ClubHouse - remember them? It's a great idea and every single big player has cloned them into their product.

Consider facebook itself - the movie says that the idea was from the Winklevoss twins but MZ lifted it.

You're crazy if you think a really really great idea is worthless and should be shared around. If you've got a truly groundingbreaking idea then you should get as far ahead as you possibly can before going public with it.

Ideas are not inherently worthless - an idea is an ingredient and there are lots of people out there with the other ingredients to turn it into something awesome.

MOST ideas however aren't likely to be amazing and will be hard to convince people to believe in.
Exactly. And then compare the language used in the Open Letter with the claims they are making. One easy example which seriously undermines the Letter's credibility:

Letter Claims: "Distracts from actual mathematics by having teachers develop students’ “sociopolitical consciousness.”"

Referenced Section in Proposal: "Ms. Ross teaches fifth grade at the Jackie Robinson Academy. She has been focusing on developing her students’ sociopolitical consciousness through language arts and wants to bring mathematics into their thinking"

The letter uses an anti-pattern of redefining something and arguing against the definition, rather than doing the hard work of discussing the actual something. Bringing mathematics into a subject where it can be applied is not 'distracting from actual mathematics'. Whether or not the sociopolitcal consciousness element of the curriculum is appropriate for fifth grade is a red-herring as that's not what's being proposed.
Except this is completely untrue, since there are private cryptocurrencies you can use.
My opinion is it's due to the growing inequality. Folks have almost zero support, and the past year has probably hammered that in more than ever.
Which one seems more likely to you:

a. Amazon solves brick and mortar
b. Walmart solves online sales.

Given the way things are going with Amazon essentially throwing in the towel with counterfeit reviews and products, I would put my money on Walmart eating Amazon's lunch this decade.

Don't forget political influence as well. Walmart has a large fraction of congress on bankroll.
"Secure" and "uneconomical" are generally equivalent. A door lock is an _economic_ instrument, that just happens to leverage the laws of physics in its operation. If the NSOs of the world are your enemy, and they are by definition of having you on their list, then you must wisely expend your energy on making their attack more costly or else get eaten.
Don't know why you are being downvoted, this is the same case as DeCSS and and AACS. A "crypto wallet" is nothing but a public/private key pair. So... will SSH keys be banned? will sharing a SSH public key be banned? will sharing a program that transforms a public SSH key into a "wallet address" be banned?

The premise is stupid.
Agreed. For non-movies/games people -- think ML, neural networks, simulations, ETL -- this is far from how we think about them. Instead, focus is much more on thread divergence, NUMA memory models, consistency models, hw/sw schedulers, latency hiding, growing variety of DMA modes, funny ISA stacks, etc. The rendering pipeline is a tiny bit relevant for GPGPU people, e.g., if you're trying to do 1990s style shoehorning of it into antiquated webgl 1/2 rendering primitives because google/apple won't let you do the real thing.
We obligated minimum wage service to do mask enforcement, and it got a lot of them assaulted and murdered.
It's a "well, yes, but actually no" situation, seeing as some torrent-related programs implement a few draft BEPs. I haven't seen any that support the torrent signing BEP, though. https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0035.html
Yep, "dir /s /b | findstr x" is way quicker than searching for files in explorer.
So how is it different from a similar influx of migrants from Eastern Europe? (Disclaimer: I’m from Eastern Europe myself.)
I think you're having a pedantic moment. Nobody claimed that the red/blue ball example was some big unsolved mystery. It's merely to give people a taste of entanglement in a way that your average person can understand.

Isn't it true that if you entangle two particles, separate them, then measure one it'll tell you something about the other particle? That's all the example is trying to communicate.
I've literally never tipped anyone less than 20%. Tipping might be a terrible practice, but to me it's an unwritten contract that since I'm accepting service from you, I'm going to tip at least the standard amount. I'm in a pretty privileged position now but this was the case when I was living on poverty wages as well. I just can't imagine telling someone "you don't deserve to be paid for the service you offered me today." I can't believe anyone is comfortable with that notion, but I suppose it's probably more out of apathy than spite.
The author is a lost cause. He messed himself up following the teachings of clueless gurus. Then, when he realised he was just damaging his mind, he switched to different gurus. Now he's teaching meditation again, so he is himself taking on the mantle of the clueless guru, spreading around his mental illness to more unknowing victims.

This never stops. These people never face reality. The lure of the supernatural, of enlightenment, of insights, of metaphysical experiences, is too strong and they eventually lose the ability to tell the difference between reality and the crazy teachings of their books and their masters.

Madness is the loss of the ability to discern the boundary between reality and imagination. Meditation is just one of the many ways that supernatural and metaphysical sects have to push the mind beyond that boundary, lock the door behind it and throw away the key.
That is actually a surprisingly simple yet fundamentally true summation. Thank you.
You're extremely correct, of course, but what I'm really proposing here is something much more boring than actually solving the technical problem(s). How about a dose of good old-fashioned bureaucracy? If you want to sell exploits, in a Western country, then yeah sure you can, but first you should have to go through an approval process and fill in a form for every customer and have them vetted, yada yada.

This wouldn't do anything to stop companies who base themselves in places like Russia. It wouldn't even really do anything to stop those who base themselves in the Seychelles. But, you want to base yourself in a real bona-fide country, like the USA or France or Israel or Singapore? Then you should have to play by some rules.
> Virtually no one wants to use a messaging platform that just sends ASCII strings.

That's just about all I use for messages. Some images, but it's not critical. And if I had the option to turn off "all advanced gizamawhatchit parsing" in iMessage to reduce the attack surface, I absolutely would - and you can bet any journalist in a hostile country would like the option as well.

The whole "zero click" thing is the concerning bit - if I can remotely compromise someone's phone with just their phone # or email address, well... that's kind of a big deal, and this is hardly the first time it's been the case for iMessage.

If software complexity is at a point that it's considered unreasonable to have a secure device, then it's long past time to put an icepick through the phones and simply stop using them. Though, as I noted above, I feel this way about most of modern computing these days.
Somewhat related, Disfarmer's photos were the inspiration for the album 'Disfarmer' by Bill Frisell. The album is a beautiful piece of era-spanning Americana, almost like a concept album. It's also a master class in leitmotif; the art of creating and re-using themes. I highly recommend it to anyone fond of introspective music.
Bring data please.
He may have a good grasp of what Catholicism is about, but his grasp of Buddhism seems pretty shallow. I would not take this article on faith.
I came across a synopsis of this book a week or so ago, read about the time differential and it got me wondering: what's the explanation for the time differential?

We know that time passes slower in stronger gravitational fields. A neutron star has an enormously strong gravitational field near its surface, so time should move much slower there, not much faster... but in the book it's the other way around. (According to the synopsis.)

Am I missing something?
< But the vast majority of them wouldn't get involved in the industrial porn industry

This is a great claim that has no evidence.
> It's almost like swearing in English is not swearing at all

I feel the same way about apologizing in a 2nd language.

I'll overly apologize on minor inconveniences because the words don't carry the weight of saying "sorry, sorry, sorry" in English.
I don't see how

> "Not suprisingly, [...] global counters [...] are poorly distributed as well."

is true.

I mean, yes, they are not uniformly distributed, but that was never the requirement. As the article itself states, the desired property is that "the values for distinct objects are more or less distinct". With a global counter, you get maximally distinct hash codes. More distinct than any of the other approaches (and not less than any user-implemented function), at least until 2^31 object allocations.

Yes, after 2^31 objects you will get repeated values, but that is trivially the case for any pattern of assigning 31 bit hash codes to distinct objects (and any of the pseudo-random approaches will get birthday-paradoxed much sooner, and much harder). The only case where this could matter is in an adversarial scenario where someone is trying to DoS your hash map with crafted inputs. But according to the article itself, it would take 4+ minutes (120 ns * 2^31) of only allocating objects for each global counter wrapping. If an adversary can reliably achieve that already, what's the point in slowing down a hash map by an epsilon every four minutes?
I'm having a hard time parsing your argument. Could you make this concrete, what are your values and what are the values that are irreconcilable with yours?
With all the public and private surveillance, the US can do something similar.
that will probably the last blow.
Not the OP, but a related feature -- I could also see use in tying notes to a document or sentence.

Sometimes I "translate" a difficult passage to something I can understand (on paper I might write this in margins). At other times, I end up accumulating definitions of terms (or letters) while reading a paper. Today I write those on a separate piece of paper so I can have my definitions table viewable at all times. It would be really nice to have that sort of thing stored and available while I'm working my way through a paper (perhaps similar to the portal feature).
One upside of OnlyFans is that you do not need a pimp.
If anybody wants to read the fine-print for this proposal: https://ec.europa.eu/finance/docs/law/210720-proposal-funds-...
such colossal public good.

kind of weird to me that we still have so few phones that have started running mainline. there's a lot of postmarketOS phones, but my understanding is they Helium/libhybris which mixes in a ton of the Android support infrastructure/drivers to do the job. i could be overly concerned, but there being so few distributions & such specific distributions targeting phones is exactly the good this work OUGHT to be unlocking, & it just seems like progress in making that happen is disorganized / not really happening, alas alas alas.

getting a toe-hold in, where we start to see self-determinism on what our devices run, would be such a compelling & powerful vision. i really hope we can start to see that!

ubuntu touch targets the Pixel3. i'd be curious to know what they did. PinePhone & Purism really took it from the top, have their own hardware that starts in a more easy-to-work with set up. but I don't see why that would be required to get a decent regular linux distro (arch, debian) running on a phone, with a gui (sans many device drivers!).
They'll probably get a refund like with that unlicensed 1984 ebook incident.
I like the interface in general. However, as someone that has played some text-based games but is not super familiar with the genre, I think this log captures my confusion:

kill spider
You stab a small spider for 6 damage!
stab spider
Unknown command: 'stab'. Type 'help' for help.
kill spider
You're already in combat!
attack spider
You're already in combat!

I can see a floating box that says that I'm in combat, but it doesn't help me figure out what to type, because the only option is "FLEE"

If I try to flee, I get a loading bar that then becomes full and then doesn't do anything. If I try to flee again, it says I'm charging an ability.

I'm honestly not sure how to proceed. help didn't give me any useful commands.
One thing one learns in getting older is how well being nice works.
Liquidtext is a commercial multiplatform app with some similar and interesting functionality.
The laws will be trivial to enforce. Expect to be unable to exchange cryptocurrency (that you own in your wallet) to fiat, which will almost kill the cryptocurrency market for anything other than speculation.

I expect a parallel, dark economy will still be around, where people transact with cryptocurrency and can only exchange it for cash.
Exactly. Lein is like maven, declarative and just works in a standard way for 95% of use cases. Deps is like ant, can do anything, super flexible, but you need to start from scratch actually programming your build for every project.
> Similarly, once we get low-latency 10 GBit networking, new services will pop up that require these bandwidths.

like what? this is brought up, but i'm not aware of anything waiting in the wings.

is there anything in use these days on large campuses (corporate, or academic) where the bandwidth does exist, that doesn't make sense on the broader internet?

with most folks using wifi for everything at home, how are they even going to deliver 10Gbps to a device?
How private are those then? Isn't it true that at least everything is visible to at least all participants?

EDIT: in other words, my question is actually whether your claim has relevance, considering how most crypto currencies aim to be public (or that's at least my impression).
We do currently have something like this feature. If you select a piece of text and then press the bookmark button, then the bookmark text will be automatically filled with the selected text. Later, the bookmarks can be searched by pressing `gb' (search the bookmarks in the current document) or `gB' (search all the bookmarks).
I think it was a mistake to put hashCode (and to an extent, equals) to all objects by default. It makes Objects bloated, and because of that, those who will never be put to a hash table also need to provide their own hashCode implementations, causing problems like the one mentioned in the article. There should have been a separate, dedicated "Hashable" interface. Strangely, C# shares the same caveat. Is there any benefit to making objects hashable by default?
Is uniswap really decentralised? I mean it has a domain you can take down
It's not settled law, but IMO probably not, I don't believe it's ever been tested in court.

Windows comes with a click-wrap contract that you agree to when you install it, that restricts certain things you could usually do. So it's a bit of a bad example... but I'll use it anyways.

What does (generally, not legal advice, not a lawyer) need a license is making a copy of the software, i.e. installing windows onto your computer actually makes a copy, or making a copy of the installer for your friend - makes a copy. Just booting up the machine that already has windows installed on, that's (probably) not copyright infringement even if you don't have a valid license. It might be breach of contract depending on what contracts you have agreed to though! Physically giving your friend the computer with windows already installed on it, is similarly not copyright infringement. Cloning the hard-drive so you now have two hard-drives with windows installed, that's copyright infringement.
hahaha.

"my UX wasn't diminished"

"nearly seamless"

That's pretty funny.
In this vein, the funniest thing I ever heard is that the Bible (of all documents), actually tells us what a “few” is. Namely, eight.

See 1 Peter 3:20 at https://biblehub.com/niv/1_peter/3-20.htm
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You didn't add anything to his example. This is just purely to be pedantic.
If you haven't, check out the Windows Admin Center app[1]. It's targeted primarily at managing Windows Server, but works fantastically for managing Windows 10 too (and they even mention that on the doc homepage). This[2] page in particular gives you a good visual and overview of the actual management features.

I originally tinkered with it to see if I could straighten out a Windows 10 dev VM that got mangled over time but I didn't want to wipe. It was a bit of a bear getting it setup and learning as I went, but once I got it going it was shockingly to actually find and cleanup all the little gremlins that had accumulated and started bogging things down and/or causing issues.

That sold me on it, and I've since set up all the Windows machines in the house so I can use WAC for maintaining them. It's been far more pleasant keeping everyone's computers chugging along.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...
EMTs and paramedics.

Often working 24, 36 or even 48 hour shifts.

Often for $15/hr or less (many places will pay EMTs literally minimum wage, and tell their employees, "you can have as much OT as you want").

Part of it is supply and demand. Private EMS is often an in-road or holding pattern to a more "cushy" unionized fire department EMS position (where firefighter paramedics can make into the six digits). So private EMS has little motivation to be competitive - "there's a line of 21 year olds who will happily take your job".
Lots of crypto projects are commercial businesses and this certainly creates conflict of interest toward monetizing and centralization.

However there are more and more truly decentralization projects.
Anything that doesn't do KYC when related to crypto trading/exchanging - have to be
They are a monopoly, they don't care. You're nothing to them and you have no alternative.

Enjoy the big G.
JWST is the cutting edge of space telescopes, hasn't actually been successfully deployed and now you're suggesting building and launching 25+ of them and then assembling them in orbit.. Right now the only things 'built' in space are all handled by astronauts on the ISS assembling things by hand which adds on the conservative end a staggering amount of cost to the budget. Add on to that that now you have a much harder job of building any new experiments to run on this monster space telescope which is a fairly common thing for ground observatories. We're many steps away from being able to move the best ground observatories into space and get equivalent data out of them.
Sure, they also use C6H12O6 every day, and interbank networks, but if we listed everything that wasn't similar to FTP we'd be here a while. FTP is "a thing" you intentionally use. You connect to FTP servers, and upload or download files, in the same way that HTTP is a thing you intentionally use to consumer web pages. TLS it just an aspect of how connections are negotiated and is on a completely different rung of the ladder of abstraction.
The simulation hypothesis seems as theistic as the creationist hypothesis. Maybe the main difference being that with the simulation there would likely have been many creators (programmers) whereas the creationists would say there is one (although there are polytheistic creation narratives, so maybe not so different). Other than that, they both seem to fall into the theistic category since a higher intelligence is posited who created (the simulation | the real world).
I think Rust has no language construction for that, but the best implementation of "size as i32" should fail on overflow.

In Haskell I would use an exception, and mark the function as unsafe, but the stdlib seems to disagree with me here.
It's true that there are many existing causes for the decay of the web, and we should work to fix those. But that becomes more and more difficult when we add more and more causes to the decay.

That's not two important services you've named, but only one, and at some point it will be destroyed; it's only temporary. Hopefully it will last a few decades.

Brewster Kahle, the founder of archive.org, has a saying:

Governments burn libraries.
I 100% believe that this is all you do with messages. In the 1990s, my cool friends did lots of their work on Wyse dumb terminals hooked up to FreeBSD boxes. Everything they did worked fine on dumb terminals! They were neat, you could have a bunch of them hooked up to one box! But nobody else in the whole world worked that way; even the bank data entry people who were the original market for those stupid terminals had moved on from them.

The issue here is that we aren't saying anything about the real problem. You can radically scope software down. That will indeed make it more secure. But you will stop making money. When you stop making money, you will stop being able to afford the developers who can write secure software (the track record on messaging software written by amateurs for love is not great). Now we're back where we're started, just with shittier software.

It's a hard problem. You aren't wrong to observe it; it's just that you haven't gotten us an inch closer to a solution.
Let us keep remembering that there is no evidence that raising minimum wages increases unemployment (The Big Lie the economists use to defend their hypothetical model of how this works).
Australian government has been unsuccessfully trying to bring this in too. its only a matter of time.
No, you can't see anything, basically. You can only see your own wallet and transactions, and (AFAIK) you can't even see who sent you funds.