skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no doubt that the US is acting vindictively here, but the pro-Assange camp does little for its credibility by using the same tactics.

Revelations about an important witness lying about Assange to get immunity from the US is blanked by corporate media. How is reporting that this important story was blanked "acting vindictively"?
artificially enforced scarcity is something I wholly agree with, at anytime in the future the MAX_MONEY could change.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/7fcf53f7b4524572d1d0...

Code is not immutable. If there was a algorithm for MAX_SUPPLY immutability that would be something of interest.
Certainly “because it’s legal” is a decent argument, but culture does a lot more than decide which recreational drugs are in or out. Overuse of and dependence on drugs and alcohol vary widely among different cultures regardless of legality.

Were there cultures that didn’t produce as much demand for altered states of consciousness, those might be seen as better addressing the needs of its people (in theory, not making this argument as I’m not a Puritan but just for the sake of conversation).
I think anything needs to go beyond "app" and be a full blown business, albeit a non-profit business. An app alone doing computational things doesn't help people much.

One idea is handyman services but employ under-privileged people that need help getting back on their feet or a new career. Usually small handyman jobs are really hard to get done because most reputable companies would rather do bigger jobs. Things like "fix my deck stairs" - decking contractors want to do new deck builds because that's more profitable.

The app's users are not just affluent homeowners who don't DIY anything but also local trades companies like plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. The idea is a local carpenter could donate their time, take an apprentice and do handyman calls say 1 day a week. The carpenter could possibly get a tax write-off, the apprentice gains experience, the homeowner gets minor jobs done that are really hard to get contractors to do.

The app would need scheduling/availability, bids/estimates, places for homeowners to make requests, etc. Any costs to run app are built into the pricing that homeowners pay. All money is local, except maybe a flat fee for app+server maintenance for the non-profit.

Its sort of like Habitat for Humanity but handyman services instead of building houses. An app just glues the people and services together and gives it a one-stop-shop feel.
Wow, just like with GitHub master branch stuff
I haven't tried this, but from the screenshots I must say that the UI looks greatly more usable than what the official software from e.g. Logitech offers. Great job.
macos/ios have this built in but not all OSes come with a pdf viewer
Fossil fuel plant reactivated and expanded solely to run transaction validation for cryptocurrencies.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkby7z/a-fossil-fuel-power-p...
There's no such thing as a "secure operating system," at least not one with any adoption whatsoever.
Not disputing your facts, but I've used journalled file systems in flash drives since forever and never had a performance issue that was not directly tied to the hardware, and most have lasted many years.

I prefer having to replace a cheap flash drive more frequently than to lose data altogether.

Of course, everybody's use case is different and tradeoffs need to be considered.
Or the middle ground "eventual consistency"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portcullis
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I don't have an iPhone so I don't really know what I'm talking about, but maybe there's ways to reset the phone as long as it's already unblocked? It would take a while for a victim to get to a computer and use Find My iPhone

Anyway, I assume they do something with these unblocked phones, but maybe only androids :shrug:
Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (2006)
You want PWP <https://blog.jonudell.net/2016/10/15/from-pdf-to-pwp-a-visio...> (Later aborted, and the group's work was rolled into EPUB3. As you note, there remains a genuine need for it.)

On the other hand, there's nothing stopping you from using a double-barrelled file extension for denoting this sort of thing, e.g. "memex-opus.pub.html"; so long as it ends with something recognizable, double-clicking should still open it in the browser across all the usual platforms, AFAIK.

(I'm fond of using "xyzzy.app.htm" myself to take advantage of this trick for distributing simple, self-contained programs that are designed run in the browser.)
reviewing your other comments on HN, you seem to skew towards assuming hostility or contention, rather than the opposite. I suggest you're viewing my comments through the same lens.
I don't know what kind of recycling service you're talking here, but here in France "recycling" electronics (huge emphasis on the quotation marks, as electronics are usually NEVER recycled) does not involve speaking to anyone.

You have cardboard boxes for electronics devices at the entrance of every supermarket of a certain size (by law) and you simply drop it there. Although admittedly most devices thrown in there do not end up on the second hand market (though i can't say i've never helped myself from these boxes in the past :D)

But the same goes for most ressourceries and other second-hand market: some people donate cardboard boxes full of stuff anonymously, the workers triage through it, then stumble upon devices to which they don't have a passphrase... and don't have any way of contacting the original owner.

Definitely not a solved problem in 99% of the world.
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of gamers cried somewhere.
That rant doesn't make any sense.

What's stopping you from creating an equitable (or whatever) coin based on the European social welfare state model or even communism (send an email to the devs that you "need" 1 million coins and your wallet address - problem solved)?

I'll tell you what: that cryptocoin would go to shit in no time. There have been several attemps to create shitcoins with socialistic rules or management, and they have all failed (google it).

Free market capitalism is the least bad system known to man. I challenge you to create a coin that works on "democratic socialist" principles and survives more than one quarter!

And in the case anyone wonders how come the euro is still around, that's because you're forced to accept it and use it. In crypto, it's voluntary. You don't have to accept it, you don't have to use it, you can mint your own. So when someone says a voluntary crypto currency has taken wthe worst parts of capitalism, that is incomprehensible.
That was the impression I was getting, hence my question. But since thumb drives typically come preformatted in either FAT32 or exFAT, I thought maybe there was a third possible use of the word "portable" that I am unfamiliar with.
bitcoin is better than central bank in the same way that mafia is better than police :)
Is the US the only country complaining publicly about such things?
Very good, I go for project gemini https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
Here is official correspondence between the UN special rapporteur and the Swedish Foreign Ministry on this topic - this was easier to find for me than the official report, but I think it contains the relevant claims:

https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublic...

In particular, section 3 - Reported arbitrariness of the preliminary investigation - raises 11 ways the judicial proceedings were highly problematic, each with numerous instances of such behavior. Quoting a few of the more egregious ones, an order for his arrest was issued a few hours after two women first contacted the police about the possibility of compelling an HIV test for Assange; an official statement hadn't even been collected from one of the women yet; no statement from Assange had been requested or collected before emitting the arrest warrant; official statements made by the accusers were modified post factum in the police databases; and that both the investigating officer and an attorney for the two accusers (who sought to reopen the case after it was first closed) were both friends of a former Swedish minister of justice "at the time when Swedish security police unlawfully kidnapped and handed over two persons to CIA-custody and subsequent torture".

This final collaboration may be exactly one of the reasons why Sweden would have been preferred as the extraditing state vs the UK. It's also important to note that, unlike Swededn, the UK is a common law country where the mechanisms for protecting individual rights are significantly different from the civil law system in Sweden.
JFK announcing the US would put a man on the Moon before the decade was over.
A waste of what?

These were ASIC computers which were stealing electricity, all they can do is mine crypto, so what else are they good for except getting squashed?
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Yes, I am guilty about it. The original source [1] is indeed much more nuanced and humble than I thought it would be.

[1]:https://mtpsym.github.io
It is true that afaik, every pislocybe species bruises blue, the problem is, could it bruise blue, contain psilocybin, but also be poisonous. I think the truth is that it is pretty rare for that to be the case or may even be non existent but I'd definitely want to get verification on that for my specific region before harvesting anything.

Also, as a general point, it is a myth that bruising blue always indicates the presence of psilocybin. For instance, many boletes bruise blue and don't contain any psilocybin.

Here's a picture of an intensely blue staining bolete that does not have psilocybin:

https://i.redd.it/waumic0mjh921.jpg
That may be so, but it's usually been through code reviews, pull requests and whatnot - which means a maintainer somewhere has approved that code.

In any case, "a random nickname on the Internet, using a computer somewhere in the globe" is a lot more information than none.

Finding out that that's the case for a given project is part of traceability.
> Don't use vulnerable software

Is there any widely used software that doesn't have any vulnerabilities?
I've been doing something similar for 4 years now. I converted my niche website into a monthly magazine, that is released as a PDF (and also uploaded to Issuu).

It has its good sides and bad sides. People will download the PDF every month when there is a new issue, but you don't know if they read it, how much time they spend on it, etc. You won't appear on Google Results as you would do if you posted the articles as HTML, etc.

Based on my experience, I just keep doing it as an experiment and because I enjoy saying I run a digital magazine, but the true is that there is no real advantages on it.
Depends where you live. In relatively dry areas they'll grow like crazy after a few days of rain. If you live in an already humid areas it would be less noticeable I guess.
Generally it should be secured before an arrest warrant is issued, examined before a trial

You don’t have a right to fight an arrest warrant. But you do have a right to review the evidence that will be used against you during your trial.
Americans love to talk like cops, soldiers, and spies.
Source of this ever happening?
Living in a region full of conflict might be an additional factor why regards to ethics may be of secondary concern.

But I am sure that governments of all countries might be interested because it is just a weapons race from their perspective. A race to the bottom again.
Well its an error message and it is in the Piper frontend app. That is enough to confuse them and start googling around for that message.
Google Maps Could Be Offering “Potentially Fatal” Hiking Maps for Ben Nevis
Preventing data theft through wiping the entire device is perfectly legit in case of passphrase recovery.

Simply preventing passphrase recovery apart from a trusted centralized third party (Apple) is wrong on many levels: it's an ecological disaster, it's a disappointment to good-faith second-hand buyers, it's incentives for corruption within Apple and a shady iCloud unlocker business...

In essence, it's fundamentally incompatible with right to repair and fuels an Apple-insider mafia that honest people have to bribe in order to use a device. That's pretty much Apple's fault no doubt.
Not answering the question directly but you could use a free gpu from colab https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/docs/blo...
. Note that you need to be backing the checkpoints if you intend to run for more than a couple of hours.
> The solution is the same in both cases. Don't use vulnerable software.

So, basically, don't use software. Actually, given the horrific state of modern software, I can get behind that.
Gamers could legitimately cry if they were video cards getting crushed but these are ASICs, all they can do is mine crypto, they're worthless for anything else so why not crush them?
>At least over here (Poland, EU), people officially unemployed often work under the table, sometimes quite a lot, and they cannot afford the word of it to get to any public agency. Such people are unwilling to talk about it to researchers either.

"Job finding office" literally asks you whether you're willing to work "under the table".

I've been asked this question when attempted to find my very first job
They didn't do anything useful before being crushed. Destroying them is a net gain as they cant waste electricity any more.
> Bitcoin's scarcity creates an incentive to get in early and hoard your spot on the blockchain.

Paradoxically, what got people to get in early was the *early inflation*.

People would not have joined the project if it were released pre-mined, and just sold by its creator. But the fact that it was given away to newcomers (at a symbolic processing power cost) distributed it throughout the world.

What attracts people now is, sadly, the expectation of quick profit. That will burn them - a lot of people have heard of Bitcoin by now, and have invested as much (or as little) as they wanted. There is limited growth left; the returns are diminishing.

Personally, I believe the best use case of crypto is as a hedge against inflation.

After the last halvening, the supply is increasing by 1.8% year-over-year ending July 18th [1]. Contrast that to fiat supply increase: 13.8% year-over-year ending May 2021. [2]

[1] - https://www.blockchain.com/charts/total-bitcoins

[2] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
On top of that, skimming the results I see an effect size of 40 fewer words, not statistically significant.

Paper doesn't really support the headline.
You can't dispose these without due process. Not sure whre you're getting you're ideas from.
Actually the URL shows the opposite: that they don't act as forcefully as they could (lawfully), in order NOT to destroy his life:

>So, both repositories remain up, for now, not because we are powerless to take it down... it is that the process of exercising this power could very literally ruin the actual life of another person.
It's ironical that the author is pitching for PDF, and yet he is using a plethora of hyper-links.

The big "invention" of the Web was linking pages together. That's what made it great. That's what created "Google" in the first place. Links in a PDF are supposed to take you to a browser or open a different PDF file?

PDF is a step back. If you are angry about the overblown size of JavaScript and resources consumption, use a simple static website. It doesn't get easier than that.
No technology will solve willful misbehavior. If you want Apple to solve this as quickly as possible, throw someone in jail for contempt of court.
Our first economic experiences affect our relationship with work for life
It's because the tweet takes the article it quotes out of context. This is what leads up to the quoted part:

> That study design, as well as those of other drug makers, came under fire from experts who worried that, even if it was statistically valid, these interim analyses would not provide enough data when a vaccine could be given to billions of people.

Kind of an important passage to leave out, don't you think?
> Even the headline here has been massaged - originally this was a "key" witness but by the time it gets to HN, he's a "keystone" witness.

key: 1. Indispensable, supremely important. 2. Important, salient.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/key#Adjective

keystone: 1. (architecture) The top stone of an arch. 2. Something on which other things depend for support.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keystone

I grew up in the "keystone state". As far as I am concerned these words mean precisely the same thing in this context, and neither has stronger implications than the other. Are you sure you're not the one spinning here?
Ask HN: HR asks for a tidied up presentation after final round, is this normal?
I recently applied for a job and passed four rounds of interviews (not including phone interviews). The first round was a database coding assignment; the second round was a general knowledge interview; the third round was a case study interview; the final round was a presentation on a real-world problem that I had a week to prepare.

They got in touch with me again and said that the presentation I gave was good, but they want me to "make my presentation more beautiful". Is this normal for a junior position? It's starting to feel like they are just dangling a carrot in front of me for reasons that I don't understand. The only reason I can think of is if I am up against a few other candidates who also delivered good presentations, and it all comes down to who can make things prettier now...
No. People are docile.
> The difference between magic internet money and USD is the word internet.

No, the differences are that people denominate prices in USD, there’s a gigantic and mature financial services industry around USD, and finally I have recourse to the courts for most USD transaction.
Your analogy sucks - MS would would be more akin to a company that sells houses. When are developers responsible for housing secuity? if you're going to criticize an analogy and propose another it ought to be better rather a garbage one.
> Secondly and more importantly, you don't need to be guilty of something under UK law to be extradited.

Most countries won't extradite you if the thing you did isn't also illegal there. The reasoning being that you wouldn't want to extradite someone for being for instance a homosexual and that is illegal in the target country, but you would do so if they committed murder.
> Portcullises fortified the entrances to many medieval castles, securely closing off the castle during time of attack or siege.

Is the US in a state of war with China? Do we need medieval tactics to deal with cyber security? Why insisting on blaming the victim.
I’m old enough to remember when java was the hot new language. It was legitimately exciting—-memory safety, speed, and reasonable cross platform support among other things. Eventually it became boring, not because it failed but because it succeeded. Maybe that’s how rust will go.

Do people excited about the new thing go over the top and upvote anything even tangentially related to it? Yes, I think you need to admit they do. Is that the worst thing in the world? No, certainly not.
Multiply the reported number by 10
>experience justice

I don't get it, did the "Bitcoin PCs" commit any crimes? Can an inanimate object even be responsible for crimes?
I think lot of your comments relate to Bitcoin, and that's a Gen1 cryptocoin. If you have a look at where Cardano (Gen3) is going, you might have a more favorable opinion.
It’s the new bugs that didn’t exist in the original code that you need to be concerned about.

Consider any long-lived complex library. Count the bugs fixed since initial release. That’s your baseline — you can expect that order of magnitude of bugs in the initial release of your rewrite. Perhaps a new language will eliminate some classes of bugs, so maybe you can cut that number in half or even to a quarter. But you need to come to terms with that number. Now add on the number of bugs due to compatibility. Image formats generally are not tightly spec’ed, meaning the de facto standard libraries become the de facto standard — that is, the library being rewritten.

Rewrites are a long road that starts off one step forward and three steps back. It could sill be worth it, depending on the case. But an effort to “rewrite in rust” that doesn’t account for this will fail.
Miele used to be that. I have a Miele stove and oven. The oven's humidifier killed the controller (I have the version where the stove controls are above the oven, I hate controls on the cooking surface) which was north of 400€. I used to be all-in on Miele, now it's giving me a pause. Proper engineering encases stuff in IP67 if it can't stand humidity. At Mieles price-point I'd expect everything being IP67 cased.
Well, that's innovative.

but, why not HTML 2?
>> Google generates 180 billion in revenue, 140 billion of which comes from ads.

The problem with looking at revenue numbers is that they ignore just how profoundly monetary policies affect the way the entire system works. A catfish may be a top predator in a lake, but put it in the ocean and it won't survive very long. The position of corporate proponents is to argue that a slight difference in salt content (I.e. interest rates) doesn't change anything when in fact it means the difference between life and death.

>> Well they have been profitable since 3 years after incorporation

Is it a coincidence that they started becoming profitable at approximately the same time as interest rates started to drop? If you compare interest rate charts with Google net income, there seems to be a strong correlation (with about 1 year delay for Google profits to react to changes in interest rates).

>> In economics that's called a competitive advantage

It's called having an unfair advantage by using your connections to governments to shape regulations and monetary policies to create an environment which benefits you and your large corporate customers from which you derive most of your income.

BTW, you don't have to believe me. We will find out soon. The Fed is basically giving corporations free money by the bucket loads now, it's a matter of time before hyperinflation kicks in and we get a revolution. They've made it such that there is no incentive for anyone to do any productive work so everyone will stop working and start scamming just like the corporations are doing. Clearly it works and everyone is getting away with it.
Ditto with our 2003 Citroën. This always online paradigm will cause more and more problems down the road, as the first IoT generations lose Internet access.
You can already see it in Hollywood and entertainment business.

John Cena's crawling apology for calling Taiwan a country is the most visible demonstration.

What you only can see trough the omission is how otherwise very human rights and cause oriented Hollywood movie stars are completely silent about China or Uighur situation. There is clear choice between making millions in Marvel franchise and criticizing China. China is huge and growing market.
Can't say i'm happy about perfectly functional hardware just being destroyed.

There is a game theory argument that the police cannot be allowed to sell these, or it would incentivize them suddenly find lots of "illegal pc's" as a means of increasing their budget. But surely there must be a better solution than steamrolling them?