skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice to see another promising avenue. The Wendelstein 7-X (a Stellerator) design is the other one that I'm particularly interested in. I believe it met its initial goals and is now in a multi-year refit before attempting continuous operation.
Nobody suggests that technical advances should be driven by governments. Technical advances are spurred by the prospect of extraordinary profits in competitive markets, and competition is only fair when the same rules apply to every market participant. So regulations need to apply to everyone. Are you arguing that we should give an unfair advantage to some participants over others or to some inefficient technology? Just because you personally have invested in it? This is the very definition of corruption.
Canada doesn't recognize pardons and expungements from other countries. You must wait 5 years to apply for forgiveness after your sentence has ended (which would've been in Jan 2017).
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Paying parents for medical bills/car payments, Buying my brother's old computers and other electronics, Building websites for my friend in Argentina and accepting crypto as payments, Splitting airbnbs with groups of friends, plenty of other examples but I'm not going to give you an itemized list of all my transactions.

Buying a $5000 car for my parents in particular was a nightmare because they needed the money quickly and the banking options I was looking at were either too slow or had cash limits or had fees. So I just sent it in Bitcoin, they cashed it out the same day on Coinbase and it was smooth and easy.

Receiving money from my friend in Argentina is obviously difficult when they dont have a USD bank account, so we just use crypto.

My brother and I are both crypto enthusiasts and we are comfortable settling our debts in crypto because it's so easy and we both prefer to keep our assets in crypto than USD.

If you think these anecdotes are hard to believe, you need to broaden your horizon in life. I'm not even that weird a person.
When one system measures another, there is no collapse, only entanglement. The superposition just grows. As trillions of environmental particles entangle with the system, that superposition becomes in practice -- but not in principle -- impossible to detect or exploit. This is called decoherence, and it is often wrongly used to explain away the issue.

When does "collapse" happen in principle? There's no clear answer. Yet, when you observe a system yourself, you are free to say it has one result (at least, in "your world / branch" if we use MWI lingo). So there is (possibly) a sense in which you are the only observer -- at least, w.r.t. the place you think of as "the world."

(And of course when we say "you observe," we mean "you experience". If only your toe measures it, you may treat your toe as an external measuring device. This is how "consciousness" enters the picture, though nobody agrees on what exactly it means.)
> Cryptocurrency cuts out the middleman in a transaction

How are you going to do ANY crypto transaction without a middleman? Will you wait months and burn insane amount of electricity to finally mine the block yourself? Of will you submit your transaction somewhere and pay the fee?

I have free next-day transfers, pay $1,2 for instant transfer up to $1200 - and those are bank transfers, with all the security of it, not some shady apps. This is in highly regulated market. What are commissions on bitcoin transfers again?
The challenge is not the individual program but how it all fits together to make the business work. It may be easy to find people to turn out Cobol code but it will take a long while to fully understand a beast with million lines. Fun bit: Some of these lines only run once a year during holidays so one better makes no mistakes here.
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Don't worry, I'm not confused...
Canada will acknowledge crimes that you've committed in other countries for denial of entry. As long as there is an equivalent law in Canada that is.
Big Tech Companies Helped Fund Far-Right Groups Pushing for Texas Abortion Ban
> 47% of Americans cannot meet a $400 emergency expense.

As I pointed out above, this does not seem to be a correct interpretation of the actual survey data involved.

> You deny their poverty?

Yes, given that the claim is based on a misrepresentation (or, more charitably, misunderstanding) of the actual survey data.

I do not deny that there are plenty of people in the US who are in terrible financial shape and really would be thrown for a loop by a $400 expense. They do not make up 47% of the survey population.

The other interesting question that I do not have an answer to is whether the survey sampled individuals or households, and hence how to translate the survey percentages to population (of non-dependent adults?) percentages.
Do you still have to quench the magnet to shut it down? I read back in the day, older magnets could suffer irreversible damage so it would often total the whole machine.
>hyper programmable middleware to stitch together multiple vendor solutions

well if that doesn't stir excitement I don't know what does!
@RustyConsul, I have no idea why you were downvoted so much and frankly I feel annoyed about it. I liked your comment and wanted to continue the discussion but because some people downvoted you so much, I can't reply to your comment. I hope you see this one and realize not everyone wanted to shut down the discussion.
Here in California everyone who has a driver's license had to have a fingerprint/thumbprint taken.
Facebook did that early on, no idea if they still do. As a professional software localizer, I was not amused by the resulting translations.
I don't think I would want to return to a home in a hellish burn zone, with all of my neighbors gone.
P Does Not Equal NP (New Proof Candidate from Martin Dowd)
But those are running lightweight embedded stuff with no or minimal OS. A modern intel x86 CPU is never used that way and a) is broadly compatible with other x86 cpus and b) is used in products that rely on a million software dependencies and a supported OS, along with all of the updates along the way to keep it working online which is a standard requirement these days. So unless the system is totally offline, all the mentioned stuff, plus the other spare parts are also supported for 50 years, there’s not much of a market there.

But by all means the embedded stuff, motor controllers, instruments and so on should have simple interfaces and either last 50 years or be easily replaced 50 years in the future. This is largely true for industrial stuff. In industrial plants you rarely even have a serial connection to instruments. Instead you will have something like a 4-20mA analogue signal.
I remember going to the USAF Museum in Dayton when i got out of the air force. One of the last things i worked on was the new AGM-129 cruise missile that we could "neither confirm nor deny" it existed. I went to the museum and they had one on display. Blew my mind as i thought the shape was classified.
Try symbols in the preferences. As an example:

Settings - https://materialdesignicons.com/icon/cog

Language - https://materialdesignicons.com/icon/translate

Example: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/62114487/94086518-...
That's an interesting choice. I wonder if they perceived a cultural similarity... you've given me something to look into.
> Check cashing, wire transfer, western union style money transfer are all overpriced because competition doesn't really exist.

And competition doesn't exist, because in many parts of the world in order to transfer/manage large sums of money you need to have political influence (read -> bribes) to operate at scale. This is the "hush hush" secret of any money transfer service that operates worldwide, and why you don't see many people try to enter the space.

Source - friend ran a P&L at WU in a high risk area.

> Coins going up in value just because they are scarce or first movers, is just like Pets.com being valuable because they have a good domain name.

Not true. Pets.com goes up in value because it has utility: i.e. tangible business/economic value associated with marketing and driving customers to your business.
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It's strange to me working at a startup how vastly different the company programs are to support employees at enterprise level companies, the scale of this kind of program dwarfs our entire company many many times over.

Maybe this program will go entirely unused like my $500 yearly education budget though.
> The tech probably figured out that this was happening but was unable or unwilling to isolate the issue.

I suspect. It was just a run of the mill repair shop. If he had found it, it would have warned me when I told him about my future intentions.
ZDI, like Apple, doesn't tell you the average price of the vulnerabilities you can sell to them when you email them (yes, Apple has example payout ranges, but they aren't clear on classification). At Pwn2Own, ZDI paid roughly half of what Apple should pay. When you consider Apple themselves are 1/4th the market price, thereby making ZDI 1/8th, it becomes impossible to work to them. I raised my concerns with ZDI, no reply.

I submitted some details (nothing technical, just the classification and affected platforms) of my vulnerability to Zerodium. Two days later someone tried to hack into all of my personal accounts and failed due to 2FA, and not many people have the email I used when I communicated with them. I've found other buyers outside the US, but I had ethical concerns and decided against them (at a 300K min loss).
Microsoft Delays Full Headquarters Reopening to Undetermined Future Date
Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk despite smoke, alarm on space station
Bitcoin was created for the very reason that US finance was, indeed, not a functioning market and was unlikely to be a functioning market in the foreseeable future.

Theoretically, I can't argue your points. Practically, however, in the world that produces the news articles I read, the theory remains entirely ... theoretical.

The point of crypto is to sidestep the way finance markets work in practice. Regulatory capture, paid-for ratings, revolving door appointments between finance companies and government, all sidestepped, by design, by bitcoin and various other cryptocurrencies.

But, yes, cryptocurrency is an immature alternative market, so the myriad potential opportunities to deflower its purity are many a long year from being discovered and exploited.
Years ago they had the B-53 and other bombs under the B-36 bay. But they have moved the plane since then.
Articles like this are literally why I come to HN
Intel loved big profits (note the lack of an under $300 market for much of the WinTel years), and MIPS was just a confusing mess with SGI.
And that was ethically consistent for Arthur because he didn't view women as people.
I've heard this, too. I don't know if it's true, but it is feasible.
Full-disk- or file-system-level encryption on everything reduces the impact by a lot.
The Afghanistan war cost an estimated $2 trillion. Let’s double the 10,000 and say it takes 20,000 facilities to ‘solve’ the climate crisis. That gives us $100 million to spend per facility to equal the cost of the war.
Considering that you'll need at least one Bitcoin transaction to use LN, then yes it's still expensive.

(You don't have to if you use more centralized solutions, which is what most use.)
How can the highest rated and lowest rated comments (at this moment) be the exact same thing?
Right, and GPL is making all of us open source devs rich. I can't fathom getting into open source and then getting mad when people use your tools to great success.
The original HN-rewritten title ”What would happen if I lost 1% of my electrons?” was way better imho.
Exactly what is required to cause it to collapse is still not a solved problem. But no, it isn't humans causing it, since it alters the state you can see that it happened afterwards in a system and systems works the same regardless if humans watch them or not.
TIL they changed this policy.

Used to be the bathroom had a PIN lock, and the PIN was printed on your receipt. (I assumed it rotated regularly)
This seems to be the common sentiment, we don't really have an appetite for geo engineering yet. I think it'll take many more climate related catastrophes before we start to accept that engineering our way out of this problem is necessary.
This incompatibility is a unique feature of GPL. Wherever it goes, it's incompatible with something (in this case, with itself). You could use MPL or CDDL and, as long as GPL isn't involved, you won't have problems with license compatibility.

However, in the case of the Linux kernel (which "perf" is distributed with) changing the license is not an option --- no CLA and, even if it was practical to ask so many people for permission, many contributors are dead now. So here the only option is using dependencies which are compatible with GPLv2. So maybe we need a new library to replace libbfd, which would be more permissively licensed.
great, super easy for regulatory capture. Just bribe the inspector to not approve your competitors.
As a CERN summer student in 1993, I remember we had a very similar presentation.

This is not surprising that CERN is that knowledgable about extreme magnetic fields given how hard it is to deviate the beams.
Can someone tell me what the heck AsyncAPI actually does? I've had it bookmarked for a few years because it sounds relevant to the types of things I work on, and I often return to glance at the docs for a while.

Is there a benefit to describing APIs using YAML instead of just, y'know, prose? Seems like basically all you can do is generate HTML docs from YAML. Ok, so let me get this straight: instead of writing docs, I write YAML... --Either way I write 1 thing,--but now I can only create docs from the problem space of the known YAML schema. So it's a lossy abstraction.

Looking around I see you can now do some basic code gen of models in any language, as long as that language is python or matches the regex /java/ . But usually these messaging systems already use some data format with schemas and code gen tools like protobuff or avro! It's not just redundant, it's a collision, because something might not match up right.

Unless there's something else, it seems like something I'd advise to NOT use.
"We don't have the time to test it!"

"We don't have the budget to test it!"

I guess hope _is_ a strategy!
Discussed 2 days ago with 153 comments:
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I think I'd rather just do the army for 4 years than work front-line for Amazon.
I looked at it the exact opposite way. To me, the headline was flattering. It shows that Western Union sucks $400MM out of people while providing a service that is easily moved to cryptocurrency. I see it as a declarative win for Bitcoin by showing how it actually saved Salvadorians a lot of money.

Its also common knowledge that Western Union and their ilk have been exploiting and sucking dry people who live on the margins of our financial system. Any article that says they're loosing money to a competitor is fine by me.

Even as someone who hates the crypto hype, I have to say this time the crypto-win is legit.
It doesn't make sense. A total collapse of global civilization means that all major governments have been knocked off, which can only result from either a full-scale nuclear war, or an impact of an asteroid or something similar in scale. I don't really see that coming in the near future.

Of course one can always retreat to the woods or some remote places. There are people who do this and I enjoy watching their vlogs. But overall I don't consider it healthy to completely withdrawn from human civilization. After all even those vloggers use modern technology for transportation, vlogging and all other stuffs.
How does this work? You need to be full-time at work, but also somehow manage college classes? How can you fit anything after an exhausting 40 hours of work per week?
A lot of it has to do with the amount of leverage you're allowed to take on these exchanges. If you have 20:1 leverage, your collateral will automatically be liquidated (or purchased) if the price moves 5% out of your favor. This causes death spirals as more crypto gets dumped (or bought in case of short selling) magnifying the movement.

Crypto needs a strong financial network of derivative products. There need to be instruments to hedge the price risk for short periods. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to cap movements for a fixed time period, limiting the amount you can lose. So if I want to use it as transfer of fiat, I should be able to do so within a reasonable timeframe.
I think I do get leakage through the one window that has the film and the metal bug screen. The paint when grounded is very good shielding. You are describing all the right aspects of this!
> Had Intel done that 20-25 years ago the story might be completely different.

One of the fundamental challenges for x86 at that time would have been the CISC ISA and decoder complexity overhead. The overhead of the full CISC ISA was just unacceptable for an embedded application. That's probably why Intel was fiddling around with XScale around that time.

With the P6 lineage, the x86 instructions were decomposed into micro-ops, RISC like instructions, that were executed by the CPU. I've read that decoders at the time accounted for up to 10% of power consumed. Intel really didn't start to address this problem until Pentium M and later Core.

Had Intel launched something alongside P6 in the early 90s they might be relevant in that space but they were targeting the datacenter and mainframe space at that time so they were thinking big, not small.
Oops! I misread it as “10% to 25%” of GDP rather than “10% off of 25%”
Sure, but there's a significant subset of attackers for whom this isn't an option. For example, I live in the USA. Torturing me because the government thinks there's a 7th key I'm not being up front about isn't an option for them, at least on paper.
I've yet to come across a complete tutorial for setting up cached docker builds (one involving a rust compilation) within a Github Actions workflow. I've been figuring it out from pieces of info scattered across blog posts and github repos. How is anyone managing this today? How/where are you persisting cached objects?
91% of IT teams have felt 'forced' to trade security for business operations
Pro-China social media campaign hits new countries, blames U.S. for Covid
In most cases, if you want to change something you can also send an e-mail with your desired changes, without registering on any platform.
>since it alters the state you can see that it happened afterwards in a system

What experiment shows this?
Publication of the European Commission’s Study on the Impact of Open Source
I agree, it's nice to think that business types might realize they should treat you nicely if their business literally depends on it.
GitHub tackles severe vulnerabilities in Node.js packages
What Is a Tontine Pension?
Seems like this program will mostly reward those who can somehow survive the Amazon culture, similar to the way Amazon RSUs are back loaded for SWEs.

If the accounts of Amazon front line workers having to pee in cups and being PIP'd for taking lunch breaks is true how could a significant % of workers maintain that level of workload while attending university?
Times Newer Roman is a font designed to make your essays look longer (2018)
Can you run Erlang on a Cloudflare Worker?
There are 128 hours left in a given 40-hour work week.

Edit: funny the downvotes cannot disprove my simple math. :)
Well, I don't think I agree with him and would licence GPL code with the "or later" clause, but he has a very reasonable and convincing argument against it.

See this video of him explaining his take on GPLv3 and the "or later" clause at Deb Conf if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU
I agree with you, China is a nation run by a single dictator that is imprisoning and torturing millions of people without trials or even letting anyone else know.

The USA has its problems, but they are all extremely publicized compared to the secret nightmare going on in China.

I have noticed that there are armies of Chinese and Russian shill accounts on HN now that brigade with "whataboutisms" whenever criticism of Putin or Jinping's dictatorships arise.
> hundreds of education partners across the country

Thats different than saying "any accredited institution".

I wonder if it is only low cost educational programs...
> employees must continue working part-time or full-time at Amazon while taking classes.

From: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/business/amazon-college-tuiti...
Solana: What you need to know about the skyrocketing cryptocurrency
I worked 40 hours a week and full time undergrad and grad school. You work, go to school when you aren't working and when you aren't doing either of those, you sit in the library and study.
Well put. Too many of those commenting here are unable to view political issues in other countries through anything other than (mostly) American political paradigms.

The debate around freedom of speech, for instance, is different for those of us in Kenya and South Africa than it is in the US, just by virtue of having different legal frameworks, recent histories, and other factors. The same is true for the debate in European countries.

The media, too, is a complex phenomenon with the interplay between the big international media companies like the BBC, Reuters, CNN, etc and local media. There's also a difference between local news outlets that publish in English and those that publish in one or more local language. The CNN vs Fox News tribalism that grips so much American political discourse about the news is completely irrelevant.

These disinformation campaigns also have real impact. One campaign orchestrated by the Bell Pottinger PR company on behalf of South Africa's corrupt then president and a family of benefactors helped provide the cover to dismiss key incorruptible individuals in government and paved the way for the capture of key departments, institutions, and state-owned enterprises by private interests. The country has still not recovered from the damage caused.
That is why we have IPFS and soon, SAFE Network!

Look them up.
Just learned about this today.
Defi will be all over this.
Thank you, I also wasn't getting the joke.
How about solving the actual root cause; making a sustainable economic system which does not exploit earth’s limited resources infinitely?
> If the fringe theory of microtubules storing memories in quantum states in the human brain is correct, there is a critical magnetic field past which you'd forget everything... including the things you learned in infancy, like how to hold your head up, crawl, talk, etc.

This was a plot point in one of my favorite sci-fi books [0]. I thought it was totally made up for the book.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413556-the-gone-world
Can we make giant rolls of this and enclose large swathes of land to make giant fire cells (while a fire is ongoing)? Or more simply, could this be used to wrap currently burning areas of land to prevent spread?
so you make choices based on how much profitable your portfolio will be?

china? you bring politics too?

who are you?