skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had at one card # stolen each year for the past 4 years.

I’m pretty sure it’s gas stations and airport merchants. But it could be hacked online stores.

Amex is good at catching it.

Pnc bank on the other hand wad bad. My work card got used shorty after flying from sfo and PNC bank let them ring up 2,000 of hotel fees and didn’t flag any of it, and due to how the work cards work I didn’t find out until a month or more later
> a mandatory training where leadership read out emails from customers telling us how we let them down and lost their trust

Is that normal at Google? Making people feel bad for an outage doesn't seem consistent with the "blameless postmortem" culture promoted in the SRE book[1].

[1] https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/
Screenshot of the front page of Hacker News the day Steve Jobs died: https://i.imgur.com/yheyTOh.png
This isn't entirely true. While the Reps slash some programs they also extend others and extend the executive power. The only difference between them and the Dems is that, as you said, the Dems are open about their power grabs.

I do think we have to stop talking as if we criticize one side that it implies we align with the other. We should be criticizing all those that hold power. I believe a major problem we are facing today is that we're lacking critique of the parties we affiliate with and justify bad actions with "we need this to defeat the other party who isn't playing fair." There is no "for the greater good" in this. That's why the powers are extending in the first place.

I think saying "left" or "right" is too simplistic of a notion and that we're getting too caught up in labels. Labels are just hints, but we're not using them as hints.
I am a bitcoin owner.

That said, I agree that the PoW mining reward is excessive.

Right now, a 51% attack on the network costs upwards of $2M/h[1]. That is an obscene amount. I argue this comes from the very high growth not being expected by the creators.

Most of the miner rewards right now come from inflation (in spite of inflation being less than 2% per year). This was intended to allow the network to grow permissionlessly - so, anyone can sacrifice real-world resources for some tokens, and they don't have to buy from someone already owning it.

The reason such a sacrifice is required is that you need a form of scarcity to prevent a Sybil attack[2]. Otherwise, a single person could spin up countless VMs to fake identities, which would be unfair.

Since everyone must have heard of Bitcoin by now, I believe this high reward is no longer warranted, and results in a lot of waste. It should be reduced, to reduce the electricity budget of miners. A larger share of this cost should be borne by people actually using the service - i.e. transaction costs.

I believe that Bitcoin should reduce its block time, in order to trigger the reward halvings more quickly.

[1] - https://www.crypto51.app/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
So the Burmese government and military junta had nothing to do with the genocide. The local media, endemic discrimination, local warlords, international support, nor the people actually guiding and doing the genocide had any responsability.

Was social media the cause for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda too?
I'd say the failure at Chernobyl was that anyone who asked questions got sent to a labor camp and the people making the decisions really had no clue about the work being done. Everything else just stems from that. The safest reactor in the world would blow up under the same leadership.
MIT Cancels Geophysicist's Lecture After Outrage over His Views on Diversity
Agreed.

I found out a few years back that a large industrial device our company made was recording all users passwords due to a logging statement that was blindly just logging every piece of user input via UI.
Workers at Citizen Are Unionizing
> His supreme court appointees will continue to enforce his policies for the rest of their lives.

that's not how the legislature works. A motivated majority can undo anything via the passing of new legislation via an election of a majority of the house and senate.

> Everything's the same! So crypto's no worse then?

I already explained in the GP. Give it a read.
You really think the internet will still be a robust system haven if this apocalypse plays out?
Facebook revelations are shocking. But nothing will change until Congress acts
Ok so the DNS servers at PoPs, outside of backbone, did not go down.

Does it mean they can respond with public IPs meaningful for local PoP only and are not able to respond with IPs as directions to other PoPs or FB's main DCs? So that has to mean different public IPs are handed out at different PoPs, right?
My first thought is you can share your thoughts with the armed people at your door if you decide to push your voluntary taxation idea.

They'll probably listen to you as they're giving you a free ride to your new home.

Point is, it's not a balancing weight when the state has the actual power.

Broader point: instead of focusing on changing and improving the actual social/political system, people build fantasy escape solutions through technology.

But it's all based on the assumption that the current liberal, democratic society is an immutable right for everyone. It's not.
https://archive.is/HUzLT
Reliable Cypress Browser Testing at Benchling
A blog post from the Benchling Engineering team that tells the story of how we leveraged Cypress to build a reliable testing suite at scale.
Your point is a good one, but we should be careful not to equate [edit: completely] Facebook's actions with those of Standard Oil.

If we say that the Sherman Antitrust Act was only necessary because of unethical behavior on the part of players like Standard Oil, we cannot say the same in this situation.

If you consider Facebook's behavior unethical, how do you view the behavior of the millions of people who fund them and provide them such market power? There are many many alternatives to Facebook. But non-Facebook parties routinely force people to Facebook if they want to be involved in an event or receive a notification or provide feedback.

If you would shame Facebook for their behavior, you should also shame others for using Facebook. Users enable Facebook's behavior.

Conversely, if you hold Facebook users harmless, it is harder to sympathize with complaints about Facebook's behavior.

Their are clear parallels between Facebook and Standard Oil. But it is useful to note where there are differences, too.
It seems like all new social networks have a vicious fact to overcome: nobody's on it, so nobody uses it, so nobody's on it.

How do social networks reach that "critical mass" of users?
Really? I mourned Ritchie's passing much more than Jobs.

I think perhaps the reason it feeling like that is that Jobs was a figure that consumers knew, but I definitely think folks in engineering mourn Ritchie's passing more.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Which personal information did it have, specifically? Twitter has a history of defining PII very broadly when it suits them:

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/04/11/twitter-censors-critic...
> As a recent article from The Washington Post put it: “They’re still spending most of their time isolated and glued to their computers for Zoom meetings, email, and Slack.”

At all companies I have worked for, teams sit together and talk directly. And Meeting rooms are full of people talking face to face. There are also international meetings, but that one are two or three meeting rooms with a team in each one, not people sitting individually.

You may like to work from home or not, but this opinion piece is based in the authors personal experience, and it is at least different from mine in all companies I worked for.

> Companies currently renting office space are just throwing money away if all of their employees are still doing the same thing at home that they were doing at work.

I agree with this sentence, and if your company is doing this you should work from home if you want. I just do not think that it applies so widely as the article suggests.
Exactly. If you live in a pure C world without external dependencies it makes sense to sit down and think it through. If you live in something like .NET or Java where you do a lot of interfacing with libraries and APIs a debugger is very useful to just discover how these systems are behaving.
As a moderator on the primary discussion board — discourse — please do flag problematic posts and/or DM me. We don't see everything and rely on flags.
> Early next year when Ethereum becomes PoS...

Haven't they been planning to move to PoS "soon" now for at least several years? I hate to say I'll believe it when I see it, but... the believeability of their PoS timelines is more than a little suspect now.
Could the solution be graduated luxury carbon taxes on unnecessary consumption, like private jets, regular flights, non critical home AC, Christmas lights, PC gaming, etc?
> I think it is considerably more bizarre

It's only bizarre when you believe that money is a concrete, tangible thing with unchanging intrinsic value.

When you believe that then of course it seems wrong and unnatural to create new money out of thin air.
Oh, why would they be less spendy when they can just take your crypto escape away by physical force?
> Sony lost a class action over this

Sony explicitly advertised an OtherOS feature and then pulled it.

Apple doesn't advertise support for booting another OS on their devices.

Huge difference. You're being disingenuous and you know it.

> Apple are absolutely not going to do that. That would be illegal.

Illegality has never stopped Apple before.

After all, this is the same company that prevents other web browser engines from being able to run on their hardware.

If that isn't more restrictive than anything Microsoft did with IE (and they faced an antitrust suit over this)... I don't know what is.

Take off your rose colored glasses and stop seeing Apple as a company that hasn't locked shit down whenever they could get away with it.

Drawing a line between Macs and iDevices is ignoring all the big fucking warning signs. It's still the same company in the end... and their Macs are now using the same SOCs that their most restricted devices uses.

Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Fundamentally, if people with your and the spawner of this thread's attitudes had won the day we wouldn't have any of the things this thread is allegedly about loving so much. That's my main point here.

Also I am not involved in or affiliated with or even a likely user of the Asahi project, to be clear. I just find this attitude incredibly frustrating, and I'm definitely bristling at accused of being a young'un or some shit for believing people can actually do surprising things. I am not the dewy-eyed idealist you seem to think I am, I believe what I'm saying here because I've seen it happen over and over and over again.
Would you directly contracted by Intel or are you being run through a firm? I can see that firm having a set rate with Intel and then just wanting the cheapest person they can find to fill the position to increase their margins.

That and hardware in general seems to pay poorly. I have some friends at Synopsys and it does not pay well either.
A reference manager like zotero would help. You can add non-paper references easily also.
Yeah, the forecast itself has to factor the changing of plans, e.g. don't pick a solution that won't get picked. If there is low trust placed onto the forecasting system, then no viable solutions is the only answer. There is a scale of influence to it as well, if the forecaster is giving a forecast to someone who can only purchase $1000 worth of shares, that won't influence the economy in any meaningful way. Someone with a $1B dollars who can actually present adversarial strategies to other players in the market? A lot less opportunities can be presented (assuming other players also have a forecaster), and a lot more trust in the forecaster would be required. Equilibrium only exists if everyone wins, and moreover, everyone is satisfied with the victory that they have been given.

It's all based on trust though, if one forecaster suspects that another forecaster has been hacked to optimize profits for that individual player, the equilibrium is broken.

Even with everyone in the world having an all powerful genie, the greed of a few but powerful can ruin the entire thing.
The main problem with healthcare is prices are not transparent and the customers don’t have the ability to shop around even if the prices were known.
The minting of the coin has literally nothing to do with the performance of the USD as currency. It is an accounting trick to work around broken legislation.
one way would be to be interoperable with an existing ecosystem from the start.

Michelle Lim makes a great case for this here:

https://www.michellelim.org/writing/into-the-fediverse/
SEC cases are hard to put together, but the the SEC is far from toothless. Cf. [1].

Lying to Congress is another matter: perjury convictions are pretty rare.

[1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=933333
> It’s not perfect, as it can’t support a select few corner case drivers (that do things that are fundamentally impossible to support in this situation), but it works well and will support everything we need to make 4K kernels viable.

I'm curious what these corner cases are; could anyone share?
> How effective were the traditional means of removing oligarchs?

Having got the joke out of the way in a sibling comment, a serious one: "Oligarch" is an oddly modern term, usually applied to Russians in the post communist era, and of course they weren't removed. Buying your way into power is highly effective. And can expand into other countries, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev

Prior to the modern era (20th century), even the democratic countries were only partly democratic (restricted electorates). Most were constitutional monarchs, and of course the traditional way of removing a monarch is execution. Democracy provides a way of getting rid of bad leaders without having to have violence .. but that does also rely on them acquiescing in the result.
Most of the large DNS services are anycasted via BGP. (All POPs announce the same IP prefix)
It makes sense to stop the BGP routing if the POP is unhealthy. Traffic will flow to the next healthy POP.

In this case if the DNS sevice in the POP is unhealthy and IP address belonging to the DNS service are removed from the POP.
This is silly but sort of relevant.

During college junior year (1993) as a physics major I took a class in digital electronics (which included 68000 assembler programming). We had a lab contest to create the fastest sorting routine for a set of random unique numbers between x and y.

I won the contest by setting to 0 a y-x register range of memory and then inserting each number into the range based on the number itself ("27" into register 27, "18" into register 18, etc.). Then I printed out all non-zero numbers in the range.

The other 20 or so students did versions of bubble-sorting and called my solution a cheat. The professor defended my victory as I had not broken any of the rules of the contest...
While interesting, I would be curious to see if people stay on Telegram now that WhatsApp is restored.
I feel like a lot of spam networks have worked around this. When I went to school hundreds of miles away from my area code, I got very few spam calls from my phone's area code. Most came from the area code I was living in.
In the UK, the relavent legislation is the Consumer Rights (Payment Surcharges) Regulations 2012 (amended by the Payment Services Regulations 2017).

The ban on surcharges for credit & debit cards has been in force since January 13th, 2018.

Further details here:
https://www.businesscompanion.info/en/quick-guides/pricing-a...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/payment-surcharge...
That assumes that the all fail cases will create an exception and properly pass on that a failure occurred, with enough information so that the caller can decide what to do next.
I'd apply the tax globally, but make it proportional to GDP/capita.

A way to enforce this is tariffs.
The past is the past. Start with good habits now and if you ever get around to it you can retroactively sort the past ones.
So, like, NPR? That already exists, of course.

Or should there be more direct political influence, as you suggest—NPR, but the editor in chief is elected every four years? That seems deeply problematic, for somewhat obvious reasons.
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Then Prospera stopped charging for the water, and the only condition they placed on completely free use of all the infrastructure that went into it was for the village to acknowledge that they were receiving the water.
This is a big oversimplification. Some people got screwed therefore he was always screwing everyone over. His career spans many years and quite a few people managed great contributions working with him in that time and got very well compensated and congratulated for that.

Steve Jobs did give a lot of credit to the people who worked under him, just to pick out a couple of notable examples he frequently heaped praise on Avie Tevanian and also the guy who actually made the initial speculative potential merger call to Apple. And in doing so he specifically called out their accomplishments as being savvy and decisive and not just boring implementation stuff.
Generally there is a US company behind them someplace. though if it is a foreign company it won't work (well I'm not an international lawyer, maybe there is something)
Ex-Uber driver takes legal action over ‘racist’ face-recognition software
I once watched someone implement a heap in PHP in order to sort 4 domain names in order of priority and be able to resort them. The idea was I guess that at some point there may be 5 or even 6 of these and then we would really need the heap…
It really bums me out to see these sentiments at the top of HN. What to do about "misinformation" is an interesting question for private actors to think about, if they wish, but what the government should do about it is not an interesting question. The debate has been had for a couple hundred years, already. It's over. One side already won.
Who is actually belittling and ridiculing him?

Some Apple defenders seem to be stuck sometime between the mid-90s when Apple was on the verge of collapse, and before the introduction of the iPod. Apple is the most profitable company on Earth. Jobs' place in the history books is assured. This isn't some plucky underdog that's in need of defense anymore. Even the fiercest critic of Jobs will need to recognize his accomplishments, and Apple's success. And even if they don't, so what? Apple is a giant. It has outshone M$ and made their mobile attempts look like a joke. Steve Jobs is a secular saint, an icon. Who cares what a few trolls think?

The most irritating thing about modern Apple fanboyism is that it lets the most profitable company on Earth and its leadership off scot-free. Anyone who criticizes Apple is put in the same company as bullies from decades ago who were on the side of Wintel and mocking a tortured genius. That's very outdated. And it blinds people from valid critiques.
This fascinates me, all these negative comments that seem to stem from projections of fear of failure. Yeah, this project has a chance to fail, like everything else in life.

But to me I think this project will be indeed ready in a few years, and I will certainly be running this on my M1 as soon as it is stable and useful. It will be interesting to see how this turns out, I just wanted to comment on the next-level narcissism going on. Why most of you choose to be pessimistic and make not your problem, your problem, is beyond me.

Keep up the great work Team, Asahi!
JD-GUI: Yet another fast Java decompiler
> The POWER backend (big endian or pre-POWER10) and ARM backend (32-bit only) will throw errors for musttail in the backend.

Hopefully it's just a bug in those backends, and not that the C++ standards committee ratified something that's impossible to support on certain architectures.
> We know that cigarettes impose a cost on society beyond the individual smoker

What's that cost?

From what I've read, all economic costs smokers impose on society are more than made up for in their dying early, they actually cost less [1]. I guess everyone should smoke to save the state money!

[1] https://pantagraph.com/news/fact-check-do-smokers-cost-socie...
Everything hits the poor the hardest, but I doubt there really is this hypothetical group of people with large cash savings they intend to hold for decades while keeping it in cash. At least in the US. I think that might be a thing in Japan, but not among the poor. The poor are generally debtors, who are helped by inflation because it reduces the real value of what they owe, whereas the goods they purchased on credit appreciate.

Honestly, I don't want to come across like I'm making an argument in favor of intentional inflation, but provided it isn't runaway levels that wreck an economy, I'm not even sure who it hurts. The poor are debtors. The middle class are the biggest holders of 30-year mortgages, which are about the best assets you can possibly hold when there is inflation. The rich hold their wealth in appreciating assets. Issuers of long-term debt and retirees who moved their savings into bonds and cash seem like the most likely to be hurt, but there are so many simple hedges they could have employed. Banks can issue long-term bonds so they're net zero debt holders rather than creditors. Retirees can move their savings into TIPS rather than cash.
Blaming failures on unions and employees' rights is a traditional excuse for US companies it seems.
Humanity isn't that selfish. It is idealistic but to even have the conversation to know why is minimally ethical.

Taking the converse argument of 0 ethics except THE LAW is infuriatingly common. Is it okay to murder so long as the act of murder is technically legal? Assuming perfect proof intent with direct action indefensible confession murder. But also 100% legal. Breaking no law. Would society find that acceptable? Even for those that used the loop hole?

It seems like folks want to live in a 0 common ethical baseline reality. We're discussing the middle and if Facebook is wrong. Not if they will get away with it. They will. And only because they get away with it does not make it right. Can we stop with the definition arguments of legality or the accountability of large corporations for a moment?

Is knowingly proceeding with a damaging action acceptable? One could even argue social media isn't damaging. The study is wrong and Facebook paid for it. Not me. But at least it's not this manifest destiny morality bullshit.
“ mandatory training where leadership read out emails from customers telling us how we let them down and lost their trust “

The same leadership that demanded tighter and tighter deadlines and discouraged thinking things through?
I think that the issue is known, but hard to track. It shows with NVDA and heavy web apps like Twitter and Messenger if they are running for some time. I'm posting here some of the crash ids, but it is likely that they are not representative. When the browser starts to clock up, it locks the screen reader as well and I'm not waiting for the crash, but kill the process with extreme prejudice. I'd be glad to help in any other way.

bp-cb27fd07-ad27-49bf-b6c2-9dbbb0211005

bp-96eef135-da51-45a8-a792-d28810211005

bp-184a8916-227c-42c4-8308-6e3c00211005

bp-ba6748d3-2d93-4d84-992e-8cf960211005

bp-8bdfb00f-0e30-4cd3-826c-efb910211005

Here is the Bugzilla ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572915
disheartening to see this downvoted. I come here for relatively neutral discussions.
It's a learnable skill although it is quite difficult, particularly if you didn't write the code (recently). And it's very useful because at some point the debugger (or logging[1]) will let you down.

[1] I myself don't use a debugger much; I'm frequently working on something distributed where a debugger is laughably useless.