skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should release hashed and signed files and disk images as torrents. It's that easy.

I had hoped to see the captures and disk images online somewhere to see what kind of analysis they did, as I've done reverse engineering of protocols, devices, software, and large systems throughout my career. While I'm not an elite reverse engineer who presents new methods of obfuscated malware reversing at conferences, it has fallen to me to do it professionally on and off for the last 20 years and there are certainly some thousands of people with at least my level of skill who could weigh in on it.

Demonstrating technical uncertainty to present and frame risks is a lower standard than reproducing an exploit chain. As they say, POC||GTFO. I don't know that their conference (symposium) has met that standard yet. There was a link to their conference being broadcast on rumble, and I watched some of it. What I saw wasn't as good as a defcon presentation, let alone with the technical clarity and polished execution of a good blackhat presentation, which their concerns would need to be at to get serious popular consideration.

My impression right now is that the 'cyber' aspect of this is really a vehicle for promoting the more serious and rigorous statistical case from a perhaps too colorful character named Dr. Douglas Frank (?), which if real, would be much more damning than technical voting machine vulnerabilities. Everyone knew a decade ago electronic voting was vulnerable. I commented multiple times here and to acquaintences involved in politics that electronic voting risks social unrest because it can be so easily discredited in a highly contested situation, and there is nothing surprising, unanticipated, or unforseeable about the consequences of using these machines. Elections that use them now have a foul smell about them. I don't think any technology evidence these people present will change any minds, mostly because minds are not generally changed by evidence, but I do think they will set a new bar for elections scrutiny that will require the integrity of elections to withstand forensic analysis.

Until we have signed and hashed disk images that can be compared to sealed hardware that has a verifiable chain of custody, the Chinese hacking narrative will be bluster. Whether the "election fortification," methods used in it were legal or will be tolerated in future ones, however, I think they may have made their point.
I was reading some old engineering textbooks (from the 50s) and they used imperial units. It was actually pretty nice since I think in terms of those units.

Edit: also, if you are designing anything structural in the US your loads are probably going to be in pounds unless you convert them to kilograms first, so if you use metric you're going to be doing a conversion anyways.
If you like this, check out Lingdong Huang's personal website. It's chock-full of really joyful little projects.
Another problem is that in wet conditions the virus aerosols spread much more rapidly. If people crowd into cooling shelters they’ll all get covid, masks or no masks.
The first two are outliers I'm pretty sure. All of my very best experiences with AirBnB have been of that kind, for what it's worth; VRBO is just as good for that, or at least, it used to be.

I suspect the last one is still pretty common, but/and AirBnB's meat and potatoes is short rentals in desirable neighborhoods of big cities, mostly tourist destinations.

Which is what hotels are for, and hotels don't jack up the housing market, cause problems for neighbors, and otherwise annoy the natives.

I must confess I've done my fair share of this, I was a 'digital nomad' for almost three years and it comes with the territory. I can confirm that the AirBnB experience for this use case has declined considerably relative to, say, 2014.
Yes, I’d say it probably is. That may not be a bad thing for many people depending on your outlook.
I was done with Reddit 3 years ago. I was on Reddit the first week they existed. No longer of any value!
So you would drive a chariot on the same places as a four wheel traction drive Jeep?
And a very large chunk of BTC’s value has come from Tether buys.
> Forcing a sale to another company/investor when they have zero leverage is a negative outcome for the Giphy team and product.

That's just business. No one says a business has to be successful or profitable.
This. I think innovation real-value is spikey. A low band of timesavers bumps along the bottom but is punctuated by occasional leaps in particular domains. From what I've seen the cochlear implant can offer an amazing difference to quality of life for those that choose it. I can only imagine the difference the implant, or the improved aids, would have made to my hearing-impaired college roommate in the early 90s.
Coinbase modified the USD Coin page on its website after an audit revealed that not all USDC reserves are held in cash. The myth that each USDC is backed by one dollar has been shattered.

https://liquidity-provider.com/news/coinbase-has-dropped-the...
>What happened is that during the pandemic when fares were at the bottom

I don't know where you tried using Uber during the pandemic, but from many of my attempts to use it in Seattle, Cincinatti, and ATL during the pandemic, I had the opposite experience. Prices were simply off the charts.

Prices seem to have been returning more to normal recently (while still being at least 50% higher than pre-pandemic). But during the last year, it was total hell. A ride that would typically take $12 was closer to $30+ (both Lyft and Uber btw). A ride from Seattle to Redmond, which normally would cost around $27-31, was in the range of $55+.

Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment about fares being at the bottom, but from what I saw myself, the fares during the pandemic in 2020 were at their sky high.
So as an individual, it doesn't matter if your livelihood is destroyed because for the greater good of the community?
I don't really care, other than to hint to the author that they're giving away more info than is being shared. Did not expect a million replies =)
Sounds like giphy clones are the order of the day.
> The type of monitoring used was disclosed as was the "likely cause" of me being flagged

You're correct, I misremembered how you wrote that. Unfortunately, that makes it even less believable. How did you find out that you were being monitored, and why was that disclosed to you? Who disclosed this monitoring to you? Did you run some sort of FOIA request (whatever your nation's version is)? You're making a very big claim with very little to substantiate. Keep in mind ProtonMail has over 50 million users, It beggars belief that using PM is sufficient to get yourself monitored in any serious capacity.
“tech companies that have demanded total freedom from legal oversight despite their inability to produce benefits for the rest of society.”

There are a lot of statements like this, which make one doubt any bit of objectivity in the reporting - it’s schadenfreude about Uber’s uber-problems with a blind eye to what consumers really value about Uber.

That said the criticism about the fundamentals seems about right. They have billions in cash though, so there’s some runway to dial things in yet.
Yes, I come put once in awhile to attempt a reasonable discussion on HN only to be downvoted and disappointed.
How is minting to a few companies proof of fraud?
How? They have to maintain that million dollars so I can withdraw it when I need it.

Nothing has yet shown that is a problem or that’s not being done.

Go deposit 1 million in a bank, and then ask for it in cash the next day. You won’t get it.
Of course. Just like any sociopath...
Y2K100, aye!
They are, because they are releasing open source tools with the goal of stopping gerrymandering.

Just because you don't think it will work, doesn't mean it isn't happening.
I have zero need to ever write that many USB sticks at once, but man does this trigger my inner "I want that" feeling.

Question: how do I justify it to myself? (kidding)
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I do love the idea of these, but at that price ($990) I'm afraid our church will stick with 16-port USB hubs and my horrible, cobbled python script to rsync a folder to them.

Looking at the price, it's probably justified, but hard to switch when I have a working solution that was $23 + a couple hours of coding.
Came here just to say this. Each SQL program needs to run on a blockchain so that there's no central authority that can unduly influence the data.
More commits != Bad, but there are a few bad ways to do it. Committing incomplete changes just to save your current changes, carelessly trying stuff and then piling on fixes to previous mistakes instead of fixing them, etc. But yeah, some people are just threatened by certain things.
From what I understand you are talking about an chat inside your app, and not a chat for your company (like matrix or Slack).

I would say it depends.

If you know how to implement long polling then making a simple chat is not hard, the hardest part, being certainly the UI, but it can be improved over time. The only thing to remember is to sanitize and check all the input data, as a chat is basically moving untrusted data from user A to user B. A lot of in-house built chat systems are vulnerable to XSS and other injection attacks.

Otherwise, I've never used it, but I believe that a service such as https://pusher.com/ would make it.
Because as parent mentioned, the people who control this specifically DO NOT WANT rules that take ANY control out of their hands. They want the ability to skew the voters to their party, exclusively.
Microsoft plays a very long game. 3-4 years is not enough time to boil a frog; it takes much longer or the frog will realize what's happening. Be patient. Give them 10-15 years after their "We love Linux" shift and you'll see. They love it so much, they will own it.

Just think of Microsoft like the Borg.
But like how? I get why the SEC might have words for Tether the company but I don't get how users of tether have been scammed. You buy coin at around $1 and sell at around $1. Like from an end-user perspective as long as the thing actually functions as a stablecoin for some time interval you care about what else is there?
> In my opinion an algorithmic censor-resistant, deflationary value network is a useful potential technology that can give us potentially the best store-of-value known to mankind so far.

Neither of those things are true about Bitcoin (it will not become deflationary until 2140, and "censor-resistant" requires a lot of extra elaboration). But then what's the economic basis for that being a good store of value?

I'm mostly upset with crypto because it hasn't delivered on any promise, while still causing untold ecological damage, and has tilted the price of computing equipment so already rich industrialists can earn even more. Up until recently that was just GPUs, but the latest invention in the space is they made a cryptocurrency based around using up hard drives. The joy.
Reading through the change log, it looks like CAL/CARD Dav support is native now! Awesome.
Literally most of what Tether holds is commercial paper—basically IOUs for payroll. From who? Who knows. Probably other startups.
TBF, if you wanted your secret meetings to remain secret, doing them in a place that supposedly doesn't exist is not a bad move.
Pakistan has an algorithm for demarcating constituencies, included in the election law itself. It's not super precise, and there is still quite a bit of subjective human decision making involved in the process, but it reduces gerrymandering to the point where it is mostly a non-issue now.
If you are a market maker / arbitrageur working across multiple exchanges, US dollars can take days to settle and wire/withdrawal capacity is limited. USDT offers instant transfers, so you can rebalance across locations with ease. That's why it's being heavily used by the largest market makers in crypto.
Your bank has a balance sheet that adds up in the entirety, with maybe 10% liquid.

Tether claimed they were 100% liquid backed, then kept changing that as it became obvious they were lying.

It is extremely likely that they are insolvent (assets not adding up to 100%).
Not an audit, an attestation. They check assets at a moment and time.
There's an interesting but ignored question of intellectual property here: who owns the rights to the gifs? It's definitely not Giphy.
Sure. But we only hear about it when Republicans try to run any kind of site.
The parent comment said “less than that” not the same amount - clearly it wouldn’t make sense if you expected to spend the same. (That said, the parent comment is classic HN “that seems easy” and is likely to be wrong.)
Large bars which draw a lot of tourists use a book like this to guide them through validating out-of-state licenses.

https://www.driverslicenseguide.com/book-us.html
Why does this use let and var together? Was I (not a modern js expert) wrong to think var is considered obsolete? Is it because OP wanted to use var's scoping rules?
This is an interesting approach to the problem (and do read the article instead of just the headline since they differ in what Amazon is potentially planning). They’re basically fingerprinting computer usage to know if someone else has control/is using the machine. I’ve built authorial fingerprints for writing style, but never thought about typing style. I wonder how unique these interaction styles are. First step may be dead simple anyway, just make sure it seems like an expected human speed of typing, nothing fancy beyond that.
You realize that everything is a probability right?

There are people who choke and die on Hot Dogs every year. So there is a "risk of death from hot dogs"

Yet most reasonable people would not really care.
Apple only exists when they make you feel loved.
History of the evolution of the x86 platform, from the IBM PC to the modern era
This blew me away. That's 2^32. They took a cryptographic hash, with good preimage/second-preimage/collision resistance, and then discarded 7/8 of it before comparing to ensure some user-provided input is valid. What in the world?!
Many of my recent hotels stays were in units that have been recently remodeled to be suspiciously apartment-like: multiple rooms, working kitchen, laundry facilities, pet-friendly, etc.

I don't travel enough since the pandemic to know if this is a nation-wide trend, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a solid market for ABNB-like amenities with chain-hotel consistency.
Should governments be able to ban end-to-end encryption?
Do you have references?

Edit: Haha.. asking legit question for data because I’m curious gets downvoted. Lol. I should know to avoid the crypto discussions here. Lots of emotion and not much useful information getting shared
Sigh. "Smart Contracts" are neither smart nor contracts. They're dumb little verifiable irrevocable pieces of code, act accordingly.
As a very long-term crypto-sceptic, I remember thinking this place was absurdly naive and pro-crypto early on. However, after a decade of, largely, pointlessness, it's not surprising that attitudes have changed.

My impression is that most of the pro-crypto communities are rather new; most people involved just haven't been disillusioned yet.
I live in Mexico so I get paid in MXN which historically has been, let´s say less than optimal ( https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/USDMXN/ ). I have a portfolio of different risk profiles (ETFs, bonds, IRA, etc [Mexico equivalents of course]). Some of that is in stablecoins, which are pegged to the US Dollar, because it is the easiest way for me to store them, instead of going to a "casa de cambio" and exchange the bills themselves (with the risk of being robbed, shot or killed).

It's a pretty good use case if you ask me haha.
All that does it export the entire db and write it down whenever something changes.
I view the "standards" argument as a red herring for building a NoSQL db in the browser. Which, to this day, is slow, buggy and requires third party libraries to be usable [1]

For those who are able to stomach an uncomfortable political history instead of an easy, technical answer, you can take a look at [2]. It's interesting that 7 years later, many the folks who pushed hard to get rid of SQL in favor of NoSQL seem to no longer occupy positions of prominence in the industry.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A...

[2] https://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memor...
Sam bankman-fried, creator of the FTX exchange.
It's really not, though. It wouldn't work in laminar micro fluid applications otherwise.
> That's a 14x multiple on ARR, which seems to be on the high side?

For small private companies, yes. Mailchimp is not in that set. Better comps likely to be public SaaS companies, since Mailchimp is certainly large enough to trade on the Nasdaq.

I anchor valuation around Snowflake on the high end (117x sales), but a lot of it is really about growth rate. Here are price/sales for some other public SaaS companies:

HubSpot: 29x

DocuSign: 36x

Asana: 47x

Atlassian: 40x

DataDog: 50x

Shopify: 49x

Twilio: 28x

Okta: 40x

Workday: 13x

A case could be made that a buyer could spiff up the Mailchimp app/company and prep for an IPO in the ~$30B range in a couple of years.
I'm no Tether apologist, but this doesn't seem like an issue to me?

Alameda and Cumberland are the 2 biggest liquidity providers in crypto trading. Tether is the source of liquidity for many of the exchanges that they trade on. So of course they'd use Tether to on-ramp into the crypto ecosystem and trade.

I suppose the real news here is that Alameda and Cumberland haven't redeemed much Tether (proportionally), so if Tether collapses, it could blow them up?
I feel like I'm Stallone in the movie Demolition Man.
1) Our algos are designed to detect brain activity patterns that are associated with the onset of stroke. Detection of these patterns will send an alert to the individual, their caregivers, and 911 (can opt out).

2) The patient will present to the ED, via medical transport or in special circumstances private transport. We will perform informative sessions with the EDs that lie within our initial rollout area. The EDs will know what to expect and will perform imaging on patients arriving with our alert. Going forward, the individual will also have information on their app they will be able to show the physician, to inform them with data about our tech.

3) Most commonly symptoms develop within minutes, after the neurons are no longer receiving oxygen. In an ideal scenario treatment could be provided in the patient’s home right after the alert, but before this can happen the tech will need to have gone through additional confirmation. We are currently relying on confirmation of the stroke in the ED with the current gold standard: CT perfusion or MRI.
For a fun visual demonstration, check out nighthawkinlight's video where he runs a flamefront through one -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcV1EYSUQME

Also seconding the Huygen's optics video osamagirl69 already posted below -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnmP7UD_zk
AFAIK that's the official pronunciation, inherited from the Greek.
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neat tool if this is actually a need. the expansion/cable management looks pretty slick.

on a related front, I do sometimes wish that I could burn a lot of CDs all at once, but not often enough that I am going to buy a $1000 piece of dedicated hardware. One at a time with ImgBurn it is!
True. Some of that "more" is even free, quite a lot of it. Still, if you do the sums, the education industry is larger.
But what if they didn't? If apple was losing $10 per iPhone, would you change your stance? what if they lost $200 per iPhone? the profit model for both iPhones and gaming consoles includes post-sale revenue since they know most people won't purchase it if the cost was all up-front (eg. the $500 PS5 would likely cost $900+ if Sony didn't get their cut of game sales and/or PSN sales).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28152327
The link on there for widest subdomain is broken for me.
As a Swedish citizen, I would like to note that we are not socialist — basically nobody in the country wants to be claimed as some example of socialism. The highest income tax rate is nearly equivalent to that of the US. :)
> We don't need huge arrays of buttons like that anymore.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Here's the bridge of a modern cruise ship (Quantum Of The Seas):

https://safety4sea.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Wartsila-i...

Quite a few buttons; that keyboard in the front right alone has at least 104 keys.

Another image of rows of buttons inside the control room of a nuclear submarine:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/21/13/306D657A000005...

If anything, the number of buttons has gone up, not down over the course of the last century.

Airplane cockpit 100 years ago:

https://cdn.virily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/4F5A8778_M...

Airplane cockpit today:

https://airbus-h.assetsadobe2.com/is/image/content/dam/produ...

Granted half of the buttons are for redundancy, that's still quite a lot of buttons.
And at nearly $1000 a unit, that will set you back around $10,000.
Think about why the NEET / basement gamer stereotype attracts such disgust, derision, and pity.

The only thing different about being a remote worker is that what's on your computer screen is on average less engaging than a video game.
All according to Clinton foundation donor no conflict of interest there...
I'm generally an optimist but do think this time might be different. Never before have so many people had such access to information that they could become convinced they understand anything after a little research, and never before have producers of fake news had such reach. Yesterday's predominance of political apathy seems to have been much more stable than today's predominance of vehement polarization.

Conspiracy theorists used to be everywhere, but in small numbers and not very homogeneous; now they are plentiful and coordinated enough to lead to outcomes like the Jan 6 insurrection or the vaccine denialism gripping something like 30% of Americans.
Create a game that is NP-hard to solve.
Another problem with emojis is that it is not clear what it means to different people. Recently read in the WSJ that young people find smiley faces passive-aggressive or patronizing, not friendly or positive.

Admittedly, there is a similar problem with words, but there are at least dictionaries for them. :>
> there are companies that specialize in brokers...

You're describing a botnet here. There are certainly organizations that will sell you access to their botnet, but I wouldn't describe them as uncontroversial, and I'd like to learn about ones that are structured as companies or that have as authoritative a reach as NordVPN.
I'd argue it's not "just business" when a government intervenes (rightly or wrongly) in a free market outcome.
“This paper investigates whether Tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, influenced Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices during the 2017 boom. Using algorithms to analyze blockchain data, we find that purchases with Tether are timed following market downturns and result in sizable increases in Bitcoin prices. The flow is attributable to one entity, clusters below round prices, induces asymmetric autocorrelations in Bitcoin, and suggests insufficient Tether reserves before month-ends. Rather than demand from cash investors, these patterns are most consistent with the supply-based hypothesis of unbacked digital money inflating cryptocurrency prices.”

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066
Fractional reserve refers to liquid cash, vs stuff the banks lend back out, but that doesn't mean bank balance sheets don't have to balance out in terms of assets and liabilities.

You can't just declare yourself a bank and turn a million dollars into ten million dollars, say.