skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is trustworthy in the way that gold or beads or shells in a vault are trustworthy - if you have it, you have it, and if you give it to some else, they have it and you don't[1]. That doesn't make it easier to get people and world governments to agree to construct value (and accept payments and taxes) in terms of Bitcoin, or to trust that Bitcoin will continue to be exchangeable for a predictable amount of real goods and services in the future.

It's a sort of stable system if everyone already measures value in terms of bitcoin, since the database itself works well enough, and users are incentivized to make choices that sustain it as a store of value. That's true of _any_ unit of account though, nothing inherent to bitcoin makes it more stable in that regard; the energy usage, transactions costs, and distinction between miners and users probably add risk on that account.

Also (and this is not directed at you personally, but the arbitrary bitcoin maximalist) its hard to take one with millions of glass beads seriously when they argue the world should measure value itself in terms of glass beads, which then by pure happenstance will make them fabulously wealthy.

[1]: and I do appreciate the social and software engineering that allows a purely abstract quantity to have those properties.
Hello -- I did just send an email. I would enjoy a relaxed discussion.
You're right, it's not predictive of the future because modern reactors are much safer than 1970s designs and are even less likely to kill anyone.
Which band do you think should not be on the list?
Clarifying that the ruination of lives here is the direct result of profoundly bad laws that inappropriately criminalize benign behaviors.
GrapheneOS’s main dev can come across as paranoid, but it is sort of understandable given the history of the project. Nonetheless, they are doing a spectacular job and I think using GCam with properly set permissions is the best of both words.
Where’s the context switch?
> ensure they can make the right decisions rather than throw away their future over a stupid prank.

Is it a good system if a "stupid prank" can "throw away your future" ?
There's something interesting about the fact that the "no-code startup" mentioned in the article's product is a site for hiring developers.

[0] -"Hire Pre-Screened Freelance Developers & Designers"
[0] - https://flexiple.com/
It would have to be spinning pretty darn fast to affect polarization of light in a detectable way.
In my personal experience with working in government related cyber security, the positions are for dudes that type bash commands to run tools that are all developed by 3p companies, which end up hiring people regardless of criminal history.
> Why isn’t a spectrum dedicated for use by police, fire, emergency response, and local governments

There is, hams use a small fraction of the available frequencies and the FCC manages all frequencies in the USA to help commercial and non-commercial users share the available frequencies.

So taxis, commercial trucks, FRS radios, radar, fire, police, ambulance, marine radios, cell phones, CB radios, wifi, bluetooth, GPS, time sync services, etc all have allocations managed by the FCC. Similar organizations exist in most (all?) countries.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Maybe stop for a second and think before spamming multiple hate posts in the thread.

Scalpers provide the service of price discovery. If there exist scalpers, it is because something was mispriced in the first place.

Most scalping happens on scarce luxury goods that are not necessary in any way shape or form for your survival, existence or even happiness.

No one owes you a 3090 GTX or a front-row concert ticket, but if you really want one, then you're going to pay a bit of extra money for the convenience of being able to get a very scarce good on short notice. Don't try to project your own morality on this transaction.
Fact check: is Congress exempt from Covid vaccine mandates?
True! Congress exempt from vaccine mandates.
Yep. SRE is not a substitute for high level, overarching architects and designers.

One pattern I see is that, as the company grows the development gets split into different product groups which will organically diverge unless there is rigid enforcement of design patterns. In some places, SRE does this implicitly because they will only support X, Y, or Z but in others each product group will have their own group of SREs.

There becomes a point when you need one or a small group of people who are the opinionated developers who can make design decisions and who have the authority to cause everyone else to course correct. If you don't have this, you'll wind up with long migrations and legacy stuff that never seems to go away.
> I think a reasonable rule should be to cull any probabilistic statements

Isn't that all statements, if we're being honest bayesians?
Italy's mandatory health pass not boosting jabs as hoped, data shows
It's good to be an sre. From my experience, there is high demand, low supply and schools don't really teach for sre roles so the pipeline stays small.
> if you can put a hand or even just a few fingers on a stationary object. The propellers offer similar benefits.

As do gyros
Sounds like you should cycle in safer places then? Airline pilots don't complain because highways aren't a safe place for planes to be, and similarly it can be pretty dangerous to ride a bike in a place where cycling is an afterthought. Shifting the blame back to the drivers doesn't change that, if anything it tarnishes the reputation of cyclists even further. I get a similar feeling when I see people on Hacker News complain about how many DAUs Facebook has: making people feel worse about their online time isn't improving the status-quo, if anything it's making their alternative look more attractive by comparison.

Bad infrastructure is an infrastructure issue. Trying to gussy it up as a social one is going to be a really tough case to make when there are actual human rights violations happening in-media-res.
Listen, if you can't write a working text justification algorithm in 45 minutes a decade after college, you have no business doing completely unrelated SRE stuff like monitoring services or scaling databases. Everybody knows leetcode is the key to software. If you can't do that, maybe you just don't have the right IQ to build the next chat app @ Google.
> The entire criminal justice system is broken. So you did something stupid at 20, at 46 you still can’t find a job due to your record.

Welcome to the War On Redemption. Primary participants are the harmful people who create these systems and the people who remain silent while countless lives are ruined for no good result.
https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
> Intellisense will find you a solution but it won't find you the solution.

Yes, and what is the penalty for finding a bad solution and then having to try another one?

For me, the cost is only my time. My customers don't see any of these fuckups because they only live on my computer until I get things sorted.
"Third, Lepanto showed the Christian universe, mired in internal political squabbles, that diversity was not detrimental to its potential world leadership."

I'm not sure about that. The Christian coalition (Venice, Spain, and the Roman Catholic Church (Note: this is during the Reformation)) had a history of backstabbing and repeatedly fell apart, including the year before when they might have been in a position to prevent the fall of Cyprus. In fact, as I understand it, the reason the battle of Lepanto occurred so late in the year was because the Coalition couldn't get their fleets together any earlier---which meant that even if they wanted to follow up, they could not until the next year.

"The economic damage of galley warfare had been considerable. Philip defaulted on his debts in 1575; the tax gradient in the Ottoman Empire rose. Lepanto revealed the first cracks in its system and signalled the start of a long, slow decline."

Got a bit of a problem with that, too. The economic damage of galley warfare was a drop in the bucket (for Spain and the Ottoman Empire; the loss of Cyprus was another is a list of major costs to Venice). I can't really speak to the Ottomans, but Spain was pretty near broke to start with, even with the revenues from the New World; Philip II wasn't getting his cut of the revenues due to corruption and those very revenues had caused hideous inflation.

On the other hand, the Battle of Lepanto, along with the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English, did kind of put an exclamation point on the end of the power of galleys and the beginning of the age of sail.
What course?
No it is not a good system. But nothing I said is invalid because of that.
Capture The Flag challenges. You don't need much more than a terminal.
Inbucket/inbucket: Disposable webmail server
To check for notifications? I’m fairly sure they haven’t implemented a complex AI model to determine that “you are using it rarely”, so the check it out each n minutes is a constant thing.
Technically, you're right, but the word "just" strongly undersells the strength of this consensus compared to fiat currencies, which has none at all.
> I am not here for this conspiracy-theorising rabbit hole

It's not a rabbit hole, but it is a different thread. I can summarize it this way: official media outlets can only give you a partial picture. It's not in their best interest to show you the full picture for multiple reasons. Any meta-analysis would reveal this, but those results would, of course, never show up in those sources.

> And I'm not seeing a similarity of structure or mechanism, are you? The other drug, AstraZeneca's AZD7442, "contains two different antibodies" so won't be anything like _either_ of these.

I can't comment on the specific chemical properties or differences in the molecules. I also cannot fully expand on everything that I've read and watched on this, or give sources, sorry. There is really too much information. However, you can see ivermectin has anti-viral properties in the wiki, and the Covid19 section just says it's not approved with exception fo the trials. It's not far-fetched to suggest the official authorities on this will end up concluding it does help. Additionally, it has been tried around the world, this isn't another "theory". Again, it's just not reported by the main outlets.

> "you should read the same junk science and disinformation as I, to validate my choices"

Not really what I'm saying. We are transitioning worlds right now. The old world consisted of a concentrated number of official media outlets telling people what was the truth. The new world consists of anyone having the ability to search for multiple angles of what the truth could be. It is certainly harder and more time-consuming to the work, but that doesn't mean there aren't thousands of perfectly capable people doing the work and sharing it to the world to the demise of these official outlets, which seem to be desperately trying to stay as the only source of information by demonizing everything else.
> The driver did not physically touch the bicyclist.

A headline would be used even if the car did physically touch the cyclist but hit the bike and knocked the off.

Also, we don't have headlines that say "bullet shoots child", because the person shooting the gun did not physically touch the child. In some of these cases, the car is the lethal weapon, the agency of person driving the car matters.

> but "driver hits cyclist" literally implies to me that one person punched another

"hits" can mean "impacted" or "run into", so it's accurate here even though it's not a punch.
Can't get 'em through the metal detector. Gotta grind down a toothbrush on concrete these days...
> You believing or agreeing that climate change is an existential risk to humanity makes no difference to the evidence we have.

It's not me "believing", it's no sane person believes it. What "evidence" are you talking about? If you have evidence, then you should inform the bankers, government officials, business leaders, etc because they aren't planning on the world ending anytime soon.

> If we don’t act

Act? You mean ban 0.00000001% of ads on google?

> a lot of people will die

Not anymore. Google banned 0.00000001% of their ads.

> our supply chains will be severely disrupted (do you think the current chip shortage is serious?)

Honestly, do people bother to think anymore? You are just parroting talking points. Why are you so worried about supply chains if we are all going to be dead?

> and that could cause a partial collapse of our civilisation.

So which is it. The end of humanity

There was a time when I was like you. When I was still in school and watched Al Gore's "documentary".

You went from "existential risk to humanity" to "a lot of people will die" to "supply chains" to "could cause a partial collapse of our civilization". It's almost like you don't know what you are talking about and just parroting nonsense you saw on TV or read on the news.

Climate change happens with or without humans. It will be detrimental to some, beneficial to others. As with all things, it'll have its winners and losers. We will adapt. Whatever the case, life will go on.

Certainly, if we faced existential risk, we wouldn't let google exist and certainly wouldn't allow google's founder to boat around the world and buy up property in new zealand. The world is ending but all the rich people are living the good life. But you have the evidence after all. That's why you jumped from "existential risk" to a possible "partial" collapse of civilization.
There are multiple solutions to your 20mph car traffic restriction, one of which is “disallow bicycles and pedestrians on this stretch of pavement”.
I remember asking a candidate whether they were doing microservices at her current job.

She answered "I don't know if we have microservices, but we do have services that don't do much"

It's since then that's my definition of a microservice :)
> All of this sounds like disruption to the status quo, which is a cornerstone of the hacker ethos

What part of "millions will die" is difficult to understand? I don't think genocide is part of the hacker ethos.
Fair enough, but for that price it's hard to beat. Sadly, getting another rack is cheaper than another power circuit though.
My read on the article was that much more was related to each team being on their own to set up & drive their pipelines, operate their own services, and there being a lack of commonality/shared experience.

A vast number of the software engineers don't get the ops (running software) stuff hardly at all & half of them can sort of play along, hack stuff into place. The engineers on product teams who do know how to do things meanwhile don't get all the constraints, best practices, ideas that other various DevOps folk have done & have their own wants/desires/expected ways of doing things, so they end up creating their own very unique sub-ways of doing things within the org. None of these practices converge on regularity or consistency with what DevOps machinery ends up being built.

What we do have often is just a random pile of containers and scripts that a couple people sort of know decently & everyone else suffers through & survives within. Almost never does it look like any other company's devops kitchen.

SRE doesn't scale because it's an every now and then thing, and few people notice or care about the difference between a well-built corporate citizen that runs well & is monitored & operated according to whatever the in-power SRE cabal wants. People start to care only if things are going bad, either via services not building/integrating/deploying/running as well as they should, or from too much confoundedness/general head scratching by either the SRE or regular engineers. SRE is not a priority, it's not practiced regular, it's only an every-now-and-then thing, so we don't have the chance to get good, to institutionalize the right ways of doing things. That's what the articles is discussing. Not the rest of the everyday normal software development rushing-bedlam you describe.
The Saudis have been raining hellfire (using US weapons) on the Houthis for years. It hasn't worked. Any attempts to seize the tanker by force might result in the Houthis scuttling it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention...
I'm not even sure that most are making hundreds... I know a lot of musicians, and they can't even afford to rent the usual props for music videos any more... :/
What in the world are you talking about? Many US cities have already created traffic calming programs due to advocacy like this.

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=traffic+calming+site%3A.gov
Let's do it! Macron just announced the French are doing small nuclear reactors with a massive investment.
California's Covid cases are lower than in other states more vaccinated. Why?
Unencrypted communications are better than none. You can arrange for an escape without mentioning a street address, social security number, or full name. Becoming a ham includes the knowledge to keep yourself from being easily tracked. Ham (at least in the USA) does have the idea that anything goes if you are trying to save someone's life.
It's bizarre to me that one would gauge the credibility of Ethereum today based on an event that occurred less than a year into the existence of the protocol, and despite massive performance with respect to digital assets since then (algorithmic stablecoins, AMM's, etc.).

It's certainly fair to debate the strength of immutability guarantees with respect to a given blockchain, but in practice no blockchain is perfectly immutable given that humans still write and deploy the clients that run them. Consider the 184 billion Bitcoin hack from 2010, a similar straw man about the _current_ immutability claims of Bitcoin.
1) People systematically underestimate the possibility of creating collisions that still do something "interesting", like being polyglots (files that can be interpreted in multiple formats, executable or otherwise). See PoC||GTFO, specifically anything by Ange Albertini, for examples; grep https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/README.md for "MD5". I specifically recommend this writeup: https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/writeups/19/R... .

1bis) You can use an existing collision to create new collisions. People seem to think you need to generate all the work again from scratch; this is not true. See PoC||GTFO for proof by example.

1cis) The files do not need to be gigantic. See PoC||GTFO for proof by example.

2) You can do the collision in advance, and publish the malicious version later. What it accomplishes is that the concept of "this Git hash unambiguously specifies a revision" no longer works, and one of them can be malicious.

3) The standard should be "obviously safe beyond a reasonable doubt", not "not obviously unsafe to a non-expert". By the latter standard, pretty much any random encryption construction is fine. (The examples I gave use MD5, not SHA-1, but that's a matter of degrees.)

4) SHA-256 was published years before git first was.
Good job adobe. Flash and everything related to it simply needs to die off
Google made a business decision that may (or may not) align with the values of their organization. You are welcome to criticize the business decision. You are welcome to criticize the values of the organization. Yet making unsubstantiated claims is only contributing to the problem.

The thing is, Google has decided not to accept money from people who are promoting a particular political agenda. It's their right to do so. Perhaps they should have gone a bit further and said that they were not going to accept money from people promoting the opposite agenda since advertising is not the place for scholarly discourse, but that wasn't the decision they made and it's their right to make that decision as a private entity.
note that in computer science academia operating system is very often synonymous of kernel
No, but that doesn't mean you should deliberately play into it.
> There was a time when I was like you.

I seriously doubt it.
Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow
> because it sends the signal to other young aspiring cybersecurity professionals that this is OK,

There are multiple disclaimers in the text, almost every other paragraph.
Thanks for linking this issue, and I'll certainly look into it. I agree with your analysis on Twitter: manually annotating the article should yield the following issues:

1. Focus: she was struck by a Toyota Corolla (emphasis is placed on the VRU)

2. Object: she was struck by a Toyota Corolla (agent is referred to as an object, rather than a person, e.g. driver of the Corolla)

3. Object: a 2010 Toyota Corolla being driven by a 29-year-old Brookline man, was driving east (again, the wording personifies the vehicle instead of assigning agency to the driver heading eastward)

I will need to debug this particular example further, but it appears the "2010 Toyota Corolla" and "Toyota Corolla" are not being classified as CARLIKE, a label I trained an NER model on to help deal with all the ways you can name a vehicle: year-make-model, make-model, year-model, model, model-ish, generic terms like truck/pickup/pick-up etc., short-hands like Chevy instead of Chevrolet, etc.

Furthermore, the tool is not identifying "woman" as a VRU. It's a little bit ambiguous because while "[she] entered the roadway", it's not 100% clear that means she is a VRU: a driver/vehicle can enter a roadway too.
So that's what dinosaur tastes like.
Nah, i actually used powershell before bash because i did a lot of android hacking stuff before learning to code. I worked with Powershell 3, powershell 4 and powershell 5. Powershell 3 was the most painfull thing to work with. No state accross session, the default were shit so i had to reconfigure more often than not. Slow, painfull, buggy... Around the same ime i learned how to bash pretty well in two days, use rsync, use ssh, use sed and awk... Powershell 3 was shit compared to this.

Then i used powershell4, i guess it was better but honestly i don't think i've used it very much. Powershell5 might be better than bash for 90% of the dev population though.
"4. The Battle of Tsushima was the last time ships lined up and attacked each other with their guns in a blaze of glory."

Technically, I believe that honor belongs to the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944. (Darn you, Halsey!)
Maybe this. There seems to be an issue with formatting

https://bit.ly/3auVBjh
Beautiful, love it - let's get on with it already, though. I hate plastic, I love these ideas. Down with plastic, bring back glass for all liquids at a minimum.
Salesforce Shouldn't Be Your Source of Truth
You would cover a lot of ocean but you'd also cover all of rural Newfoundland. I believe there's also a site somewhere in Nova Scotia. Dozens of starlink earth stations are now up and running.
Looking at the FAQ provides more details on various ways GrapheneOS phones home by default. Thankfully, some of these "services" can be disabled.

The time service is enabled by default but can be disabled.

"An HTTPS connection is made to https://time.grapheneos.org/ to update the time from the date header field."

"Network time can be disabled with the toggle at Settings System Date & time Use network-provided time."

Connectivity checks are enabled by default but can be disabled.

"Connectivity checks designed to mimic a web browser user agent are performed by using HTTP and HTTPS to fetch standard URLs generating an HTTP 204 status code."

"You can change the connectivity check URLs via the Settings Network & internet Advanced Internet connectivity check setting. At the moment, it can be toggled between the GrapheneOS servers (default), the standard Google servers used by billions of other Android devices or disabled."

Why these are enabled by default, i.e., opt-out instead of opt-in, is strange considering this OS is aimed at technical, security and privacy-conscious users. Users who would surely know what services they want and be capable of enabling them.
That one is nasty.
What's the frequency, Kenneth? What part of the spectrum are we even talking about here?