skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who knew such theatric fuckery lay within the US treasury system? Based on the line below, I guess we should view the helicopter as the modern day folkloric finger of Hans[1] awaiting dispatch to plug the dike, stem the flood and save the country:

"In case of emergency, a trillion-dollar coin could be deployed to bridge any gap between the money running out and the debt ceiling being raised".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Brinker,_or_The_Silver_Sk...
It seems that the main problem Facebook group in restoring device was a lack of a completely separate out of band management network

If my network (way smaller than FB, but budget way lower) goes, I can get in via another ISP and WireGuard into the OOB network which is completly separate to the inband management.

Not every access switch is on OOB, but the core ones and a few critical devices are.
I don't know about you, buddy, but most people are forced to consume practically all of their income to keep their family fed and to keep a roof over their heads. Having savings that could be eroded by inflation is not really a relatable problem to have, in general.
They can afford to do this because "it just works"(r)(tm).
While "mainstream media" deserves its share of opprobrium, they didn't generate a lot of the "content" shared on Facebook:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-02/14/1...

Or if they did, they'd be looking at some consequences.
The benefits are that the government isn’t in control of the monetary supply. Period. If that doesn’t seem like a benefit, then of course cryptocurrency seems useless.
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log.warn("Request to REST API was rejected

Don't throw exceptions for auth failures.
I think I will need to think on it a little more. Since I checked your links a little, I would be mildly interested in what formed your opinion. Could you share books that are relevant from your perspective here?
> The debt limit has always been backdoor spending cap, Congress curbs their spending in part because they know they are going to have to fight over the debt limit

This seems to be the premise of a lot of later conclusions you're making, but it's basically wrong: Congress can print money at will. The debt ceiling is not the reason we don't do that. Reputation and inflation mostly are.
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." - Václav Havel
Software at Scale 34 – Faster Python with Guido van Rossum
I'm fairly confident that widespread internet-based multicast communication is almost solely responsible for many of the profoundly weird things that have happened in global politics for the last six years. It's a very powerful new tool for communication that has hit very fast and without enough time for society to adapt to the change. A textbook example of accelerating technological change throwing a monkey wrench into what seemed to be a well-oiled machine.

It's fair enough to say that Facebook is only responsible for a significant part of this, as there's also Twitter, YouTube, Instagram (pre-acquisition), Snapchat, TikTok and so on, and there would be others if these did not exist. The root cause is smartphones, the Internet and cheap bandwidth & servers.

But in the context of regulation, finding out how to deal with this new weapon of communication, starting with a case study of the biggest seems like an excellent beginning.

I honestly think unregulated social media has the potential to do more damage than unregulated tobacco sales, if by regulation we mean "government-enforced rules". But I don't mean to frame it as a context; it seems obvious that both are a good idea.
Pretty sure at that point a wormhole opens up at the center of the U.S. Constitution being held in the National Archive
It literally does. He was democratically removed. The fact he left lasting damage is besides the point, and no system of government can prevent bad actors, only minimize the damage.
Pride and Prejudice and Asset Prices
This is a terrible article written by someone who doesn't know anything. Plenty of proof of stake coins are currently active, such as Binance Chain, Ripple, Avalanche, Cosmos, Polkadot, and on and on. Ethereum will get there but they are being very careful.
Should it be subject to social sanction? Yes.

(arguably eating cookies that aren't yours is a crime, and I don't doubt that someone has in the past been arrested for it in ridiculous circumstances)
Plato put it like this in his "Laws": “Laws are made to instruct the good, and in the hope that there may be no need of them; also to control the bad, whose hardness of heart will not be hindered from crime.”
I was referring to residential. Otherwise it's usually the network admin/engineering team of a company that manages such.
Because let's face it: writing code is seen as digging trenches.

I hear all the time from fellow developers how important we are. We get a lot inside jokes how non-devs don't understand things and all the self importance of devs that comes with it.

I have a friend that is hanging a lot out with musicians/artists where they do the same thing as devs - thinking they are important.

While developers earn more than musicians - a lot of musicians are just menial workers performing what they are told - coding is still menial work to be performed. So it is implementing other people ideas or they can just get another violinist.

Surgeon while is quite physical and menial, everyone agrees it is occupation that deals with life and death - most developers are nowhere close to such responsibility.
Already happening.

Crazy mandated ethanol blending.

Hydrogen "superhighways"

etc
I think the logic of a trillion dollar coin is that it will prevent the debt ceiling from being a crisis for a couple of election cycles, long enough for Congress to get their act together and remove one leg of the trilemma that they have created, but not so long as to make them not have to deal with it at all.
By definition, bitcoin transactions are not traceable, right?
The first-order disruption definitely isn't long over - important manufacturing locations like Vietnam and Malaysia were in lockdown until as recently a week or two ago, and I don't think things are back to operating normally there yet Parts of China might still actually be under lockdown right now.
Comparisons, analogies, and metaphors are useful tools to increase understanding and draw parallels to ideas that are challenging to navigate and naturally, lead to a variety of thoughtful outcomes or interpretations.

Crying "whataboutism" is as fruitless as you've described above. It is often used to steer a conversation towards a single direction of bias when those comparisons lead to inconvenient conclusions/possibilities that fall outside of what the person claiming it has accepted. Just sayin'. ;)
Energy Footprint of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms Beyond Proof-of-Work [pdf]
Ads have been around for more than 2000 years now - would need a massive shift in mores to get rid of them (they survive in a lot of very different societies).
Where WhatsApp is zero-rated, people can use it (for free) when they can't even afford to send plain-text emails from their phones. The options are Facebook or nothing.

It's a social media company, nothing more.

I disagree completely. It's also an advertising company, an ISP, an SSO identity provider, a movie streaming company, a VR hardware and software company, and so on. And I already mentioned the amount of lobbying they do to get regulations and tax laws changed.
"they estimate 12.94GW or 0.45% of total global electricity consumption, with theoretical bounds of [4.65,31.17]GW"

Devastating.

Now imagine if we spent 0.45% more of global electricity on carbon capture (and growing) and how much better off our prospects would be.
That's what the unemployment was for, and it was quite generous. $1200/month on top of the existing unemployment benefits, plus the stimulus checks.

Most low wage workers earned more on unemployment during COVID.
It's really just a matter of someone caring. I don't see finding myself with enough time to work on that any time soon, but if someone has a good use case for it and motivation to get it done I'm sure it'll happen (and I'll gladly help).

Some things are dodgier - e.g. though supporting the AMX CPU extensions is quite viable in a kernel fork, I'm not sure if that kind of thing would fly upstream. Same with security features like SPRR - not likely to happen. But these aren't really things the average end user has to care about; they're bonus features, not anything core.
Is it a dangerous line to walk? For who?

FB are involved in unethical practices that whilst not illegal at present are much more consequential than your example.

There are obvious questions here to ask that may lead to new laws being made and perhaps even retrospectively enforced.

Social engineering for profit is a little more serious than who ate the cookies surely?
Wow I am so sad I am just learning about this now - and finding out it's ending this year.
One thing that I've been thinking is that in addition to restricting what APIs JS can access, browser could restrict when JS can run; in practice I guess that'd mean what events are allowed to trigger JS. Most importantly I'd block the stuff that runs automatically in the background, such as scroll/hover/timer events, and allow stuff that represents more explicit user actions such as form submit events.

Not sure if such thing would be really feasible without breaking half of the web, but I envision that it could bring nice perf improvements and block many sorts of nasty user behavior tracking
At the expense of security. Many people do take that trade.
From reading the protocol "spec" I do not see how it could be used to transmit 32 bit color (or higher). The spec describes 8 bit indices into a palette. I have seen no sixel tools that are able to output 32 bit color, or any sixel terminals that can display 32 bit color. But I could be misreading it. I haven't dug through all the code so if someone could show how this could be done, then we could start to change those sixel implementations to do the right thing.
> Facebook - by its own acknowledgement - negatively affects teenage mental health and the democratic processes in many countries. Do you see how different this is from selling more mayonnaise jars in Walmart?

Replace mental health with physical health and you have a great argument against how food is produced, marketed, and sold. We tackled these issues first with tobacco, and food wouldn't be a bad place to turn our attention after the social media companies.

Corporations are ruthless, inhuman optimization engines. When we don't sufficiently constrain the problems we ask them to solve, we get grotesque, inhuman solutions, like turning healthy desires into harmful addictions.
I think it's mainly how physical the process is. We can't just decide this stuff informationally, or even on a paper document, or ahead of time. We have to hike a chunk of metal somewhere else within a specific time window like it's The Amazing Race or something.
> Specifically to this case though, they might argue it's violating the so-called "power of the purse", which constitutionally is solely given to the Houses.

Unlikely to work. The Appropriations Clause gives Congress control over spending; the debt ceiling only affects money that's already spent per Congressional appropriation.
https://archive.is/ET1TS
Kickstarter for Lynx, a passthrough AR/VR headset
Kobo announces two new e-readers, including $260 note-taking Sage
What about the benefit to the rest of society? Everyone else will, in theory, have some of the same powers that the oligarchs have.
Fuck 'em. I dealt with my doubts and got my shots; they can do the same.
You can also theoretically go the completely opposite direction and use dynamic typing. You have the usual tradeoffs related to that, plus maybe a couple new wrinkles, but it can work.
If we are trapped somewhere with no other food than the cookie jar, the we will see how long before eating all the cookies is illegal.

Justice is a messy concept because is rooted in specific circumstances, and it’s absurd to think there’s a clear line between what’s unethical and what’s illegal.
Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge that tracks what’s inside
> You're talking about the idea of some one who hurts and abuses other people no longer being allowed to be a part of polite society, and the people that want that to be the case, like its a bad thing.

No , the bad thing is that when somebody is dragged out in the court of public opinion all the positive contributions of that particular individual are not taken into consideration.

I am now a wide eyed utopian, I am a very practical person. As a practical person I tell you that if society doesn't let the good things that one does offset the negative flaws that one might have....then people will ask themselves if it's worth to do good things at all.

The SJWs I mentioned (and suspect also you) would retroactively cancel Richard Feynman because he grabbed by the waist some Brazilian dancer while he was teaching in Rio. Even if that meant succumbing to Hitler's Nazi Germany.

Dick Feynman earned the right to dance with as many Brazilian girls as he wanted.
These are actually really good ideas, I had never thought of it like this but I like it. History is really all you need in the end. Bookmarks are just a starred version of history, which could easily be included in the matching algorithm you're talking about.
There's Zelle in the US.
This might fall under Matt Levine's theory that "everything is securities fraud"
They managed to remove him democratically despite a rebel faction storming the capitol. Slightly less dramatic than Yeltsin on a tank, though.
Wars and oil are way dirtier, but most people aren’t cognizant that those things are pet and parcel to their preferred centralized currency.
> Using adb is a feature only in developer mode, plugged into SDK tools.

I'm aware. The difficulty in this process would act as a filter ensuring only powerusers can do it. It would certainly not be ideal to have to do this just to use Termux, but if Google wants to eventually enforce W^X exec(), it would be better than nothing.

I'm honestly curious as to what the security implications of allowing exec() in writable directories really is. For example, GrapheneOS' top priority is security and it hardens the Android sandbox even beyond AOSP, and yet it still supports Termux (and I doubt its users would accept if it dropped support for this, even if in exchange for a little extra security).

If anyone knows about this, I would appreciate your input.
> The actual press, WaPo, NyTimes (which does great docs, so does Vice imho) have rigid editorial process.

That hasn't stopped them from publishing complete bullshit to start wars and similarly abominable shit. The New York Times allowed Judith Miller to uncritically publish flagrant government lies to start the Second Iraq War. In the leadup to the First Iraq War, ABC and NBC published atrocity propaganda (the "Nayirah testimony") for the American government. In the 20th century, the New York Times let Walter Duranty publish Stalinist propaganda denying genocidal oppression and famine in Ukraine. In the late 19th century, a bunch of American newspapers were used to start a bullshit war with Spain.
Offline messaging is important for a lot of people. Previously, my hope was with multidevice support, if you could have on device online, it could hold/route messages for the rest of your devices. Doesn't really solve all the problems, but it's an easy way to get closer. Anonymity and reliability isn't the problem. The issue we've always been blocked by was abuse. How do you prevent someone from DoS'ing the whole network. Evicting valid messages, or exhausting space for new ones.
Thanks! We just get in touch over email and make it super simple to answer remotely.
Legal tender is generally not invalidated unless destroyed. Stealing property does not grant you legal possession over it, so you'd be hard pressed to find anyone willing to accept that coin in exchange for anything since they could easily determine that you have no right to exchange it in the first place.

The most you could do is destroy it, the end result would be as if nothing happened and that's about it.
Do you use a VPN to connect your corporate laptop to your employer’s network from home? Do you use Wireguard, or its easier-to-use derivative, Tailescale, to connect any of your devices? Do you use any form of VOIP (Voice over IP)?

(Edited because I forgot the big one) Have you ever used a name and not an IP address to connect to something on the internet?

Congratulations! You’re a UDP user!
AFAIK SEC laws and regulations about misrepresentation are only sporadically enforced to encourage compliance by example. Look at what Musk and his companies have gotten away with. Of course, I am all for these disclosures, which of course FB will pay their way out of without admitting wrongdoing. Because corporations manage our government, not the other way around.
Why do Intel contracts pay so poorly?
I'm regularly getting emails from contract recruiters about jobs at Intel. The pay rates are inevitably well below market rates.

For example, last week a couple of different recruiters contacted me about a compiler engineer contract job at Intel. They wanted compiler development experience, LLVM experience (including familiarity with backend optimization), excellent knowledge of GPU architecures, SIMD, vectorization, machine learning. When I asked what the rate of pay was I was told $65/hour.

Again today 2 different contract recruiters contact me about another job at Intel: 5 years C++, 5 years Linux development experience, 5 years of Python, 5 years of embedded development experience. The pay rate? $44/hour.

In both of these examples the rate of pay is about 1/2 of what you'd expect. And they wonder why they can't find people. What's going on at Intel - do they just figure they'll find someone in India or Eastern Europe to do these jobs? (for the first one it said you needed to be in the Pacific time zone or be willing to work on that schedule).
Fair enough. The browser is built because we think browsers should do a lot more than just tabs and bookmarks, so it wasn't enough to just add an extension (we have many more features that we wanted a well integrated experience around).

With that said, there are very few limitations to the browser at this point and it will be eventually open source so feel free to reach out as well!
> The issue is a) to what degree this is systematic and a part of company function and b) proportionality.

The federal court already concluded that the racism problem at Tesla was widespread and systematic, and was aided by the company's internal arbitration process which was bad enough that a Tesla shareholder voiced concerns it "enabled harassment and other problems".

The proportionality was obviously well justified, given that the bulk of it corresponded to punitive damages. The whole point of punitive damages is to punish the defendant, which is a company with an estimated market value of 800 billion dollars.

If there was any doubt regarding how well justified was the decision, you can simply look at how the ruling motivated Tesla's shareholders to address its racism and harassment problem right in their shareholder's meeting. This has been a long lasting problem at Tesla which has been festering for years, with multiple similar complaints handled (and muffled) internally, but it took this court ruling to finally get the company to address it.
> "now you've created some amorphous group of oligarchs whose power cannot be really removed by traditional means. It's just a regression."

"With the privatisation of money creation and the proliferation of decentralised currency fiefdoms, it was in many ways like a return to feudalism..."
The extreme dictators like Stalin, Hitler etc are so far out that it doesn't really make sense to call them either.

Edit: It is also meaningless. I didn't like Trump but he was/is obviously nothing like Hitler or even Pinochet. And Biden is clearly no Mao. Calling either of them these things is just lazy and brings no clarity.

As for which is best/worst I think that is also a bit harder than it looks. For example I'm happy that I live in CA that is controlled by democrats instead of republicans. But honestly, I think one party control is bad whoever it is. We need power sharing and transparency. It is obviously bad when democrats are in control as well even if they pretend to do policies I support. And I don't always like what they propose, sometimes republicans have the right idea too.
> And yet here I am, with Linux on an Intel laptop that can't play video without tearing.

Odd, because here I am with an Intel laptop running Linux that manages that just fine.

> Support from chip manufacturers doesn't mean you're actually going to end up with a better user experience.

Honestly, this is just ridiculous. Go ask the Nouveau folks how their reverse engineering project is going.

I love the drive you guys have, and I wish you the best of luck. But Apple could pull the rug out from under you any time they want in a future hardware rev (either deliberately or accidentally), and all you can do is keep on reverse engineering in the hopes of keeping up.

Edit: Updated pronouns since apparently the OP is one of the project maintainers.
That's ridiculously clever.
What is described looks to me like an interpreter for a Forth-like DSL in which the notion of the monad should find its "natural" expression. Still not sure if it can indeed be viewed as a practically useful extension of the base language (Clojure)...
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> We’ve done extensive work hardening our systems to prevent unauthorized access, and it was interesting to see how that hardening slowed us down as we tried to recover from an outage caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making. I believe a tradeoff like this is worth it — greatly increased day-to-day security vs. a slower recovery from a hopefully rare event like this.

If you correctly design your security with appropriate fall backs you don't need to make this trade off.

If that story of the Facebook campus having no physical key holes on doors is true it just speaks to an arrogance of assuming things can never fail so we don't even need to bother planning for it.
At least speeding is democratised. Any asshole can go too fast. Insider trading is tough and you've got to be an insider (or at least know one).

I wonder which causes more net deaths.
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Bitcoin transactions are far more traceable and easy to scan than it is to track payments in the offshore world, which involves many jurisdictions, subpoenas, judges, delays, getting stonewalled, etc. Night and day difference in ability to track.
Seethe.
This visualization tool is amazing.

Is rain just the atmosphere running bubble sort ;) ?
I am also waiting for the new 16" MacBook Pro (Apple Silicon) with great enthusiasm. I expect it to bring back Mac back to their glory days.