skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I wanted a more-open-but-more-dogshit experience I could always switch to Android and Linux. I don't want that. And I definitely don't want that for my nontechnical family members.
>How can you exchange bank notes electronically?
They are called "transfers" and you can do them at a bank or on a licensed broker.

The first question is why would you want to transfer money from A to B electronically without any kind of reasonable guarantee or safeguard? The major use case is to avoid paying taxes. Feel free to add any other usage scenario that isn't skipping taxes directly or indirectly.
I enjoyed

FAANGMULA

and

TARANTULAS

fun meme

There are also a handful of sub $100bn marketcap publicly traded tech companies that pay on par of FAANGs and may have more enticing vesting schedules too. Greater upside as well.
Okay, so if we're talking about murdering people because they are trans, that is what I'm talking about as not allowing them to exist. So let's look at the data. 33 gender-non-conforming people killed in 2021, by August, which we can extrapolate out to 50 for the year.

CDC says 19,000 homicides per year: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

So, 50/19,000 means that 0.26% of murders are to gender-non-conforming people, which is less than the 0.6% of the US population which identifies as transgender. So the murders are literally under represented. And given that the murders are a broader category of gender-non-conforming, vs the 0.6% figure which is a subset that is specifically trans, the degree to which gender-non-conforming people are murdered as compared to the general population is even more under-represented.

So, no, trans people are not being prevented from existing in that capacity in the United States.

Now, in regards to not accepting people's identity, as I've already said...this is a completely different thing. If you take someone like JK Rowling, who is frequently labeled a TERF, then the criteria for "not allowing trans people to exist" is literally predicated on the existence of somebody who says that biological women exist as a valid category that is distinct from trans women. That is what JK Rowling says. She doesn't say trans people don't exist. She doesn't say that trans identities aren't valid, or that she wouldn't treat a trans person by the gender they identify with. She just says that a biological woman is a valid categorization. Now, of course there are people that don't accept that trans people's identities are what they say they are, but again, this also includes a good deal of semantic disagreement.

When a trans woman asserts "I am a woman," and somebody else says "no you're not," there is quite a bit of semantic warfare going on in that disagreement. The trans woman is saying, "I am a woman, which I mean to say that my gender is woman, which I mean to say is that my gender identity is woman, and therefore I am a woman." The critic says "no, you are not a woman, which I mean to say that your sex is not a woman." Again, this is not denying their right to exist, this is functionally a semantic argument. Freedom to exist does not mean that everyone in the society accepts the identity you put forth, and this isn't just limited to gender issues.
1. Tornado is self described as “experimental software.” I would not trust that protocol over a token designed around privacy like xmr. Especially with volume this large, timing attacks become a concern.

2. LE can still catch you on the way out. People are gonna start asking questions when you spend hundreds of millions in crypto.
Exactly. Inflation is a gamed metric that doesn't reflect real loss of buying power.
From the iPhone settings app, it’s literally 4 taps to cancel any subscription. No questions asked. I also am willing to pay a premium for that convenience.

No doubt the upfront premium has saved me money versus the the time and difficulty of cancelling a service in every individual’s product bespoke system.
Reminds me of the judgement in U.S. v. Microsoft.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/503541/downlo...
AFHV had a robust editorial process. They only showed the clips that Bob Saget or his editors picked out.

You can upload a video right now to youtube and it is _immediately_ available to anyone who can access the site. It's also really hard to compare the two because one is a scheduled broadcast TV and the other is on demand.

The license isn't a function of random people submitting content it's a function of whether you're broadcasting to the airwaves on frequencies controlled by the FCC, which all the major networks do. Media companies that are cable-only or internet-only don't fall under the purview of the FCC.

That's why you can't swear on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, etc but you can show gratuitous explicative-laden orgies on HBO.
Dota 2 allows for a real time coach to join your team during a match at any time, it's built into the game. They have full vision/information of what your team has.

However, "Coaching is available in private lobbies, casual matchmaking, and Co-op bot matchmaking, but not Ranked matchmaking, Team matchmaking, or Tournament lobbies."
Business will grow after Covid19 or will crash again
Agree. Getting my MBA was way easier than my CS degree.
While the mysterious and unsolved death of their son on 9/11 is a sad and captivating story, I find the juxtaposition between the way his mother and father each handled the grief to be equally fascinating.

> “The only thing I do is 9/11 stuff,” Bob Sr. says. “My whole basis of everything revolves around the day.”

> This is not, it should be said, anything like what Helen does with her days. A two-decade investigation into 9/11 was not part of her retirement plan.

> Crucial to Bob Sr.’s understanding of September 11—that it was the cynical skulduggery of the U.S. government, not a grisly act of terrorism by jihadists using commercial planes filled with helpless civilians—is the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which popularized the idea that jet fuel couldn’t burn at a high enough temperature to melt beams into molten steel.

> Only a preplanned detonation, he argues, could bring down those towers, and only a lobby embroidered with explosives could explain the injuries to Bobby’s body. He has the full medical examiner’s report.

It was a bit long winded for sure. But learning about the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth organization was interesting at least [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architects_%26_Engineers_for_9...
In HN fashion you'd usually expound on which definitions of inflation you consider valid or not.
You completely ignored my main point. Physical housing is not the issue when it comes to the homelessness crisis. The fact that homelessness, in a majority of people, is a symptom of underlying psychological issues. Namely addiction and/or mental illness. Bezos would be better off donating that money to help understand and combat mental illness than giving every homeless person a house.

You can treat me like I’m so heartless, evil, person if you want but my point is there’s a hell of a lot more nuance than “there’s no houses.”
They have Jefferson's polygraph at the Smithsonian, an idea before its time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph_(duplicating_device)
Anyone with small children. Who are learning musical instruments.
Since when did any political operative not kick someone from the other side when they were down? When they're down is when you stomp on their face.
The article is very short on how Uber "victimized" riders.

Uber is a way for me to get a "taxi" in a foreign country largely without having to worry about which local scam I'm not aware of.

It's also usually significantly cheaper than a taxi, and I doubt it's any more dangerous than a taxi. I've definitely had fewer bad experiences with Uber than with traditional taxis (disclaimer: male, so my issues were scams and bad customer service, not safety/rape).

I'm pretty sure at least some drivers are getting royally fucked on hidden costs, although there seem to be many who seem to understand what they're doing and insist it's still profitable. Investors? Maybe/probably, but I don't care.
Developing nation export companies can already borrow money through international markets. If they are going through the corrupt local bank, it's either because they are forced to by legislature (In which case crypto does nothing for them), or because they have corrupt executives who are getting kickbacks (In which case crypto also does nothing for them.)

Is there an actual problem that this solves?
The modern financial system IS what causes global warming among other problems. Too few people understand this, and it's not possible to change it politically. Bitcoin is the only real solution for this problem.
Chattel slavery was relatively rare, and my understanding is that in most systems of slavery the slave was either working off a debt or could buy themselves out of bondage. Like you might with a student loan.
Dropped Netflix in the winter and haven't looked back since. Self hosting is just the way of the future if you don't want to die from subscriptions snowballing.
From the article:

> The GitHub.com repository is almost 13 GB on disk; simply cloning the repository takes 20 minutes.

Their problem seems to be mainly this. Which I'm surprised that they don't fix, but invent a workaround for. Deleting/rewriting a git repo's history is not impossible and often necessary for these kinds of cases.
good feedback. thanks!
An irony here is that after a lifetime of frugality, the hospital and library this man bequeathed his fortune to will spend it flagrantly on pet projects, staff perks, political turf and tail chasing IT projects (and sure, a bit of the mission as well). Such is the way of the world.
> It should be illegal to waste resources this way. All in the name of destabilizing the financial system.

I agree. But the genie is out, and profit will be had. If one tries to enforce, say, emissions standards on computers, then maybe AWS fees go up to justify taking time from bitcoin mining.
> might

This is the key word. If it hasn't formed already, there's a good chance it won't, so anything that reduces the pain now instead of a hypothetical in the sky is a win in my book.
> The Facebook web browser. Never say never. If we knew what we know today about privacy, we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google.

Google were already making money off targeted ads at that point. There was even an outcry about GMail scanning people’s emails several years before Chrome was released. But you could probably argue that we didn’t fully appreciate just how bad things would get at that stage. Many of us were just happy to see Microsoft get some competition.
This person doesn't appear to be qualified to write about imposter syndrome. Irony much?
Why downvotes? Can we please have a discussion of ideas rather than blatant info-warfare on HN?
I expect my tools to work well too, that's why they're almost never web-based.
> The current direction of travel being voluntary means you've just got a bad nose for building security.

Could you elaborate on this?
Thanks, I haven’t tried that one before.
N95's for daily long-term use just isn't feasible. I've had a bunch of them from long before COVID19 for working with some auto detailing chemicals and I can't wear one for more than 10 minutes. Breathing becomes extremely difficult, maybe it would get better with time but it gets to a point where I constantly feel like I'm about to pass out.
> Want to go to the airport? The 15 drivers circling nearby on the map ignore you since its too long of a drive

I've seen cherry-picking by taxi drivers. Do Uber drivers even get to see the destination before they accept?
This looks great! How well does the auto fill work for web pages? Is there a browser extension? The website is a bit light on detail.
Understood. Will fix this trim issue. Thanks for testing!
Now the demo is working and fast now.

I tried variations of the same code, changing the name of the `inner` function to `temp` and `banana`. In each of them I got a different explanation, for example:

> - The code is a function that takes in an input tensor and returns the squared difference between it and 0.5.

that I think it's more correct than "mean squared error". You should change that example.

I also got:

> - The code is called l2, which stands for "linear regression."

That is wrong.
Curious how and why they were tracking this guy initially.

It seems like this would be the most difficult crime to prove.

Not against throwing the book at him if there is substantial proof.
Is the point to stop misinformation, or to silence people.
The cloth masks we were given at my workplace to wear in the office included an information slip in the packaging that included amongst cleaning instructions: "This is not a virus proof mask". Would I get banned from YouTube for reading out this verbatim?
FWIW: That project was started as an internal tool with a playful acronym and then went from obscure to well-known enough to making renaming a somewhat regrettable concept rather quickly just due to momentum. I think we'd have named it differently if we were aiming for widespread usage :-)

We had no reason to worry about making it popular, the effort was staffed to improve developing Kubernetes itself.

As for googling, I recommend adding keywords like "kubernetes" and for issues searching the repo itself or reaching out to the community for help https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind#community

That tool is written in "Go" which also somewhat famously doesn't search well without changing your terms up a bit.
I usually use FAAMG instead of FAANG because I don't understand what Netflix is doing in there.
There was a similar service provided for Overwatch a few years ago that would provide information about how you played. I seem to recall Blizzard explicitly calling out that product as cheating, and the service no longer exists. Perhaps for some games this will work, but for others this seems like a risky endeavour.
You probably don't want to have stolen content on your hard drives.

Anyway, it's most likely boring corporate/large projects stuff that nobody cares about, otherwise they would have been a bit more worried.
> The solution to bad regulation obviously can't be having a company just circumvent it.

Why is that "obvious"? A lot of our society functions because rules get ignored where necessary.
Virtuaverse seems to be describing something similar: https://www.gog.com/game/virtuaverse

Permanent reality idea could be closer than it looks.
> Prohibition of derivative makes your software not open source

hmmm right, maybe my understanding was a little different, i was assuming "if you pay me, ill give you the source if you ask for it" would make it "open source" but that would be incorrect ...
We overwhelmingly use Celcius for temperature in Europe though, so the Fahrenheit option isn't as obvious as it might be in the US.
I think removing the self-managed data store feature makes sense even if not everyone likes it. It removes a source of architectural complexity, and most users aren't looking for local storage anyway.

Personally, the problem of managing reliable persistence of my password database just isn't something I want to spend time on, and the incremental difference in security posture is uninteresting to me given that it's encrypted at rest anyway. In terms of waking hours spent worrying about the security of my household IT, the security and persistence of sensitive documents (mainly vs. ransomware) is a bigger problem and I like that my passwords aren't tied up in that mess.
Did Pokemon Go make any major progress in AR interactivity in the 5 years since it's release or is Niantic blowing smoke?
Really? I've had the opposite experience. Every piece of old Windows software (except games) I've tried to use runs perfectly on Windows 10. Not sure why games are the exception. I assume that game development back then was like it is today - hacky and shoddy work - which uses shortcuts and generally uses the win32 API wrongly.
Fully agree with you. I believe a few years ago there was research stating that roughly speaking, 70K per year (in spending) is the happiness threshold.

Any spending above it leads to no, marginal, or only temporary extra happiness.

I put that bar far lower, personally. We already have the stuff we need and don't enjoy shopping. We're basically stuck at a particular spending level whilst income grows over time. Saving a large portion of our income is effortless, and not at all a sacrifice of quality of life.

The secret to life is to not want so much. It makes life so much easier and better.
Electron apps are laggy and frequently lack native features whereas Cocoa apps often get them for free when the OS updates.
May just want to stop before you step in things further. You’re honestly just making things worse.
So... don't install Facebook unless it's from the Apple App store. Problem solved, right?
> Maynard was identified after his car got stuck near a fire, court records say

It's in the article.
Granted I live on the west coast and fires have been very much on my mind in the past few years, but I do wholeheartedly support the most draconian punishments for arsonists who start wild fires. It’s going to have to be a part of our climate changed future to deter criminals.
Is there a good command line client for bitwarden. I recently moved from keepass (using kpcli) to bitwarden (so I can share passwords with my spouse), but am so far, very unhappy with the command line tools.

The official command line tool is way too clumsy. I've tried rbw and rbw-fzf which are ok. rbw doesn't let me view all properties of an entry (attachments, notes), and rbw-fzf has issues if things have spaces in them and is limited to only passwords, not other info.
Exactly.. I couldn't afford to buy before but for a brief window my salary allowed me to buy a home in the area of my city most people were choosing to avoid. I wouldn't qualify the following year and I would be very far off now as my salary did not rise at the same level.

What I see smart young people doing is moving away from bigger cities. They get a decent house / lot compared to a condo in a bigger area.

Every generation has to move further away (or make more than others) if a city is growing. You don't have to live in a growing city.. you could move to a declining area or a neutral area. There are advantages to living in a declining city.
> It's just luck.

Well sure, but perhaps also it's just survivorship bias. It sure seems like there is always somebody that just got lucky, no matter what is going on. 10 years from now, there will be a group of people that "just got lucky" with something they did right now.

I guess what I'm saying is that the right attitude is to decide that no matter how terrible everything is and no matter how stacked against you the world is, there is an opportunity - somewhere, somehow.
That's achieved with frequent updates.
I think many customers will switch to alternative payment solution if the price is lower by 30~40%. Consistent payment flow and protection is of course desirable, but I don't think that's worth the current cost. Perhaps 10% makes sense.
Migrated from 1Password to Bitwarden, much MUCH happier.
Seems to be a lot of evidence to the contrary:

https://www.google.com/search?q=isis+social+media+presence
The irrational desire to never pay for something that was one free is powerful.

I live in SoCal and see BMW 7 series diving around looking for street parking to save the $1.50/hr parking charge.

I can't imagine what would happen to sla politician who would suggest putting in parking meters!
"I’m inclined to say that this is not very survivable, regardless of your precautions, if your air conditioning has died."

How is that fully accurate? It seems to me that "not very survivable" is not accurate and is an over exaggeration. I don't expect a 50% death rate, even 10% would be extremely generous. It would be like me saying linux desktops are very common.
> So no matter if it's in Dropbox, 1Password's servers, or your own hard drive, if anyone obtains a copy of the password file they still have to crack it before they gain access to anything.

Except that they control the client that I'm entering the master password into. So either the password is sent to their servers anyway or a malicious actor could simply update the client to do so.
$50M is a lot. Unless you assume the person is working 40 years with $10k/month invested at 7% return - you're not even cracking $25M. And 40 years would mean you've been investing $10k/month since the early 1980s at this point. So, yeah, of course almost no one was freaking doing that back then.

Very few people are investing that much and very few are interested in working for that long when they do have that much.

Most people here with $10M+ in NW didn't get it through hardwork over 40 years - they got it through an IPO or some big lawsuit or whatever.
Plenty of discussions and comments from the people who originally coined the term FANG / FAANG why they would want to update the term today.

Never heard of FAAMNG though.

FAGMA or FAAM have been suggested as updated terms in light of the metrics / characteristics that initially led to the term FA(A)NG being coined.

These terms were certainly not originally intended to describe high salaries for engineers ;)
I wonder how income inequality could have become a problem when the pentagon is throwing put 1.4 billion in contracts to one company .

Its hilarious that rhis level of corruption goes on completely out in the open.
> SAP is one of the largest software companies in the world and also headquartered in Germany (not Silicon Valley)

It should then be noted that SAP has been left behind and is approaching fossil status. They're not a great example of a thriving European tech company (there are far better examples of that, such as ASML). If they run any slower they'll shortly be the next IBM. Someone should knock them off in Europe, they're begging to be toppled by a local, faster moving upstart.

CRM had $10b in sales in 2018. Now they're at $22b (trailing four quarters).

SAP had $23b in sales in 2018. Now they're at $27b.

Run a reasonable growth projection on the two for the rest of this decade and it ends with CRM being twice the size of SAP.

And of course everyone knows the AWS growth story.

I suppose SAP is keeping growth pace with Oracle, which similarly has little growth and is also a fossil that is hoping to not get killed off in this era's inflection.

In the time that Microsoft has become a planet eating juggernaut with $70 billion in operating income, SAP has been mostly swimming sideways. Azure is an increasingly huge business for Microsoft, and it'll end up larger than SAP all by itself. SAP used to be a substantial peer to Microsoft in the software world, if you go back ~15-20 years ago, in terms of scale. SAP was a very prominent first tier software company, now they're not, they're fading (and yes, I know lots of companies still use their software; the same goes for Oracle).
The private key could be generated after the probe leaves Earth, via a process where many competing parties contribute seeding information.

Hence, barring deep compromises of the hardware, it will have never existed on Earth - only in the deep "Trusted Platform Module" (TPM) of the off-planet hardware.
VRChat is working pretty well. The interface is a little clunky, but, it's pretty much what I think when I think metaverse. Not sure what Niantic is on about.
Welcome to another installment of "but they're a private company".

Who decides what rights private companies have? Do private companies have a right to dump waste into rivers? What about to fire employees because of their race? The rights of private companies are not transcendental - we define them. And if we decide as a society that deleting information from publishing platforms goes against the common good, then we can do that.
> I read the paper when it was published, and wasn't great then and it's definitely not great now.

Would you mind elaborating on this?