skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> non-custodial wallets in general to protect people from predatory institutions or governments

You can do that now by hiding money in your mattress. In both cases, it's not on you to protect your money, and a lot of people who are tech savvy have been failing to do so. Regular folks are going to get robbed often.

> smart contracts that always do what they say they'll do

Except when they don't, because they have a bug, and all the money is stolen.

> inherent global jurisdiction of blockchains, ie. borderless

This is only true if you are able to spend the money as cryptocurrency. Once you try converting that into fiat, you start hitting those borders really quickly.

> vastly reduced transaction costs

Except that the transaction costs are higher, on average, and especially so if you consider the fees for converting from fiat, and back to fiat.

> Tesla stock (backed by custodially-held physical shares, not synthetics) has been available on Solana for some time

Sure, but a financial institute is holding those shares. You could cut the middle-man here (the cryptocurrency) and just use the financial institution.
My deepest condolences to you and your son for your losses.
The Beanie Baby market on eBay is useful to study because it shows much the same behavior as NFTs. Beanie Babies are non-fungible - each one is different. So there's no "market price", just lots of individual offers. On eBay, you'll see asking prices around $5000. But if you look at completed transaction info, prices are around $50. That's what an illiquid market looks like. NFTs behave the same way - high asking prices, few transactions. Such markets don't crash, they stall.
> As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok. Apple already had some of the basic infrastructure in place with podcasting, but a middle aged outlook meant it missed the (mildly but interestingly) anarchic possibilities.

Apple has stores for music, for books, for video and also nice recently includes subscriptions for periodicals, news and podcasts. Go ahead and add "apps" to that if you like, although people tend to not think of software as "generated content".

Apple doesn't really have it in their DNA to be a social network and provide free hosting in exchange for monetizing people's content with ads. Podcasts existed before Tim Cook; Apple jumped on the chance to promote it but always considered it more a way to people get further use out of their Apple hardware.

This has changed recently with the focus on services, which means Apple is competing for people's attention and free time. Making it easy for people to pay for premium content (and providing Apple's own premium content through subscription costs) is pretty much a necessity.

However, they are still continents away from say the algorithm-driven video maelstrom of TikTok. And even if they made hosting user content easier at the same tier as professional content, I would suspect they would sooner do revenue sharing of a monthly subscription than they would leverage advertising for monetization.
+1 would be a great idea
Ask HN: Fraudulent Google DMCA takedowns – What to do?
Hi HN,

We’re a startup and have recently been victim of a series of repeated fraudulent DMCA takedown requests filed with Google against our website, a popular regional/niche (Persian) media platform called arzdigital.com which is very dear to us.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/arzd...

Each time this happens, lots of our website links are delisted (currently 45 Urls) from Google and hobbles our business. Despite DMCA notifications being sworn statements filed under penalty of perjury, the reporter is making an entirely baseless/false claim using a (presumable) fake name, disposable email, and VPN, so while submitting them is a crime, our website is still delisted. (They’re claiming copyright over our logo, which is completely bogus.) This amounts to a legally-specified denial-of-service, as I understand Google has limited discretion in how they respond to properly formatted DMCA takedown requests.

We are heavily dependent on Google inbound traffic and we generally receive ~750,000 uniques from Google to our website each day which, while we are delisted, We have lost ~250,000 uniques so far. We’re a media platform so without traffic, we’re toast.

We are very concerned that we will lose our rankings and perhaps our entire business (we are small but still we employ over a hundred people) if we can’t figure out a way to stop this from happening.

We already have submitted a DMCA counternotification, however it will take 10-14 days until we are reinstated. Meanwhile, the attacker has recently submitted a second fraudulent takedown notice for another 167 Urls (presumably in response). We are very afraid that this issue will keep us largely deindexed and perhaps entirely destroy our startup that we have worked so hard to build from scratch over the last four years.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a person or team inside of Google that cares about this sort of thing? I assume this attack doesn’t work against facebook.com; what is a little guy to do? Is there US-based law enforcement that gets involved when there is such blatant criminal activity? What should we do?

Thanks,
James, Seyedi, and Shabani
arzdigital.com
I'm completely with you on that. WebP should be the smallest, best supported solution right now.
I personally wish that in repos with the warning enabled, that the �s were displayed in lieu of the malicious characters instead of in addition to them. For example, I'd rather see this:

var accessLevel = "user";
if (accessLevel != "user� �// Check if admin� �") {
console.log("You are an admin.");
}

than this:

var accessLevel = "user";
if (accessLevel != "user�") {� // Check if admin��
console.log("You are an admin.");
}
Mouser has a through hole very similar part 1N4148TA from onsemi / Fairchild - Stock status 435,824 Can Ship Immediately
$19.00 for 1000 of them.

It's not that you can't get parts, you'll likely need to be flexible in packaging. If your surface mount design only needs a few diodes, and you can handle the extra height, you should be able to manually place and solder then glue them to not stress the pads. Obviously this isn't optimal for production runs.

For someone used to just building with the parts available in the parts bins, it's no big deal. For a highly optimized, no stock, just in time manufacturer, your supply chain just became a noose. If you have sufficient other projects, you could idle that project and wait for parts to come in, and focus on something else.
Can you share a bit on how the process of creating a spiced blend goes? You buy individual ingredients wholesale and mix them together with your own recipe?
Seems like a unique but very fun side project!
I went into a PhD programme in Australia straight out of my undergrad degree, and while it certainly wasn't great for my financial security, I'm glad I did it. Anecdotes don't make data, of course, but this is background to what follows.

I had a really easy time getting admitted to the program, was fully funded and received a scholarship. I had a lot of freedom in terms of topic and got to travel every year of the PhD, so I think the actual experience was much better than it sounds like other people have it in the linked study.

What I did see, however, was a university system that was pushing through students at what I would consider an irresponsible pace. This was especially the case with foreign students, who were fodder for the supervisors' career aspirations (the supervisors having to see through a number of students to completion per five-year period to advance). The quality of the resultant PhDs was shockingly low in some cases, but there is no incentive for good theses, just complete theses. And for a university system like Australia's, which is to a large degree reliant on exporting education, these incentives are probably far worse now than they were when I was in the midst of it in 2015-16.

The other major problem is that a PhD is, essentially, an apprenticeship for academia. In Australia, we have a apprenticeships in trades (like electrical, plumbing, etc.) in which you learn 'on the job'; you're paid poorly, you do the menial jobs, but at the end you have a career. A PhD is like that: you do almost everything a lecturer or professor does, except -- and here's the catch -- there's no job prospects whatsoever at the end. And it seems like it'll get worse. Imagine working for four years on something that you love, that you're passionate about, and that you think will change the world intellectually, to only end up being some cheap labour to get publications for others more advanced in their careers -- and then you're done, and shown the door.

I was incredibly lucky in that I got a two-year postdoc, but I had to change fields (which I wanted to do), and I ended up paying for my own post-doc doing contracted research through the university. My heart wasn't in being an academic, and the applied side appealed to me a lot -- but I imagine this would be intolerable for many candidates.

These are factors I tell anyone who is thinking of a PhD. It is a highly-specific apprenticeship for a single industry that is, in Australia, collapsing substantially as the result of its own mismanagement, poor education funding policy at the Federal level, and (of course) the pandemic. It's no wonder that PhD candidates are so discontent, in my view -- despite my having had a wonderful and very fulfilling time.
$5 per month is too much on your competing services. If you want to differentiate, you should offer an option that is less.

At $5 per blog, I can’t justify subbing to more than… 2 at the most.

Compare the value proposition to something like Spotify.
Slowlaris: /slo'�lahr�is/, n.

[Usenet; poss. from the variety of prosimian called a “slow loris”. The variant ‘Slowlartus’ is also common, related to LART]

Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's System VR4 version of Unix that came out of the standardization wars of the early 1990s. So named because especially on older hardware, responsiveness was much less crisp than under the preceding SunOS. Early releases of Solaris (that is, Solaris 2, as some marketroids at Sun retroactively rechristened SunOS as Solaris 1) were quite buggy, and Sun was forced by customer demand to support SunOS for quite some time. Newer versions are acknowledged to be among the best commercial Unix variants in 1998, but still lose single-processor benchmarks to Sparc Linux.
I don't see how there can be risk free 40% gains without them being arbitraged away. It is the equivalent of printing money. If the gains are real the only logical conclusion is that the risks are being underestimated.
> we'll see how important that role is without any workers

We've known the answer to this question for decades: Very important. You can export entire factories to China, layoff everyone in manufacturing, keep management and design in country. Works just fine.

Don't believe me? How about this short list: Computing hardware. Hand tools. Medical equipment. Home appliances. Office supplies. Power tools. Etc.

What do they have in common? Offshore manufacturing.
Correct, and not only them but also certain others who weren't perfectly healthy. In Germany parents who were NSDAP party members brought their kids in voluntarily.

For more details look up Tiergartenstraße 4 or Aktion T4, but be aware that the details are ugly.
If you read an article by an algorithm and then discuss it as if it were written by a human, was the turning test passed?
It's OK to use energy. There's no shortage of it. Please keep your eye on the target: pollution.
Like I've always said, if there's something to be learned about society, you'll learn it in Star Trek.

"Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged."
- Picard and Worf, discussing both the investigations and the misguidedness of Admiral Satie

Season 4 Episode 21
The Drumhead
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Drumhead_(episode)#...
If you're using the drives with normal sata power plugs (not in an enclosure), you can also just snip the orange wire. (And maybe electrical tape over the live end). IMHO, this is easier than precision cutting and applying tape... But it doesn't work if you've got an enclosure that supplies 3.3V.
Shipping costs (cars are big) and exchange rates (buying components/labour in the same currency that you sell in reduces some pricing risk) are major considerations.
Sculpting scale models of computer history hardware, putting weird faces on them, casting them in concrete and leaving them in the woods.
The basic operation can be explained in English, but comments for that are potentially not as important as the implications for the application domain.
I‘m wondering what‘s your motivation behind that… Do you just like the sensation of studying so much?

I‘d probably feel empty myself just accumulating knowledge all my life and not applying it to any high impact problem worth solving.
Consumers are quickly moving to all SSD
I'm guessing lifestyle inflation, divorce, bad investments ...
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Is for fortnite running via Rosetta?
>Then we will tariff ...

>There's a reason why GM, Ford, etc, make cars in the United States ...

Is that even true after NAFTA/USMCA?
I draw two lines: no vaccine mandates and vaccines are unnecessary for kids. But, the data we have so far does show that vaccines are very good at preventing severe covid & death among adults. While natural immunity is also good, the individual risk and collective pandemic burden can be significantly reduced in adults by getting the vaccine.

For reference, nice epi data dashboards from MN: https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/stats/vb...
I see this attitude a lot among younger workers with technical expertise.

“How hard is running a company? Making “X” is what’s hard.”

They then point to the fact they are at the top of their game and an expert and have a post-graduate degree. Their job is very hard and they are very skilled, no doubt.

But once you get exposed to upper management you start to realize it’s really hard to get a large group of people to work towards a common goal. Stuff goes off the rails very easily when people don't understand, care of even know what the company is trying to accomplish and how that relates to their job. And convincing outside investors (public or private) that your business is actually worthwhile investing in and in "capable hands" isn't easy either.

Yes, giving speeches and making “best guesses” on where the business is going seem trivial. But it’s a critical role where if not done well shit falls apart quickly. Remember, some hedge fund doesn't want to know the intricacies of your CPU design - they want to know your company has a product people want and you can deliver it to them profitably. There is a definite "we trust this guy can deliver" filter when it comes to CEOs and it's often based on track record (fairly or not).

Look at Elon Musk. What is his value? Knowledge of rocket design? Knowledge of battery technology? Though I hear he’s technical his knowledge is trivial compared to the experts he hires. The depth of his expertise is likely asking his engineers which is best, asking some pointed questions and then making a call on the totality of everything at stake.

His value is also in being “the face” of Tesla internally and externally. Motivating his employees with a vision when everyone is betting the company will fail. Convincing people they can do something no one has done before. Very few people can do that well and even fewer can do it for years like Musk did.

Now of course very few CEOs are like that, but don’t underestimate the value of CEOs who successfully run even a small business. Those soft skills many technical people think are useless are critical and not many have them in one package.

As such, if you've demonstrated you have the chops to run a billion dollar business you can ask for (and will get) a pay package that dwarfs a typical job.

And of course you have grifter CEOs who are idiots, but say the right thing. No different than any other job. They don’t tend to last very long as CEOs either.
Did they expect you to find another team during the quarter of no work?

Was finding another team ever offered as an option (other than on a PIP)?
I think it was Emilia Käsper who was the first to do this. That was back when we didn't have any built-in AES instructions.
Latent Equilibrium: Arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons
The response time of physical computational elements is finite, and neurons are no exception. In hierarchical models of cortical networks each layer thus introduces a response lag. This inherent property of physical dynamical systems results in delayed processing of stimuli and causes a timing mismatch between network output and instructive signals, thus afflicting not only inference, but also learning. We introduce Latent Equilibrium, a new framework for inference and learning in networks of slow components which avoids these issues by harnessing the ability of biological neurons to phase-advance their output with respect to their membrane potential. This principle enables quasi-instantaneous inference independent of network depth and avoids the need for phased plasticity or computationally expensive network relaxation phases. We jointly derive disentangled neuron and synapse dynamics from a prospective energy function that depends on a network's generalized position and momentum. The resulting model can be interpreted as a biologically plausible approximation of error backpropagation in deep cortical networks with continuous-time, leaky neuronal dynamics and continuously active, local plasticity. We demonstrate successful learning of standard benchmark datasets, achieving competitive performance using both fully-connected and convolutional architectures, and show how our principle can be applied to detailed models of cortical microcircuitry. Furthermore, we study the robustness of our model to spatio-temporal substrate imperfections to demonstrate its feasibility for physical realization, be it in vivo or in silico.
This is nonsense, and borderline malicious.

Privacy used to be the default mode for human existence. You had to go out of your way to attract enough interest, positive or negative, to have that privacy curtailed, even in minor ways.

In the information age, privacy is liberty. Unless you take specific action to prevent it, all of your information is surveilled.

Encryption allows you to protect the content of your communications from intrusion. Ephemerality removes the traces of your communications to prevent future intrusion. Those two features reset human communication to the state of nature, allowing people the room to think and communicate difficult things in a context of trust.

When people are monitored, they limit themselves to thoughts and discussions that are socially acceptable. This leads to groupthink, siloing people within a collectively imagined social ideal which is readily shaped by the ones doing the surveillance. The outrage mobs, public ridicule, and notorious cancelations are communicated far and wide, and the narratives conveyed about the context of those moralistic social displays are the levers of power being moved to influence social momentum. Marketing, politics, religion, social movements, and all manner of ideologies use the violation of privacy to amplify their reach and influence without the benefit of rational discussion and tests of validity that would have prevented such memes from gaining traction in the past.

Authoritarianism seeks the destruction of privacy. Whether it's a dictatorship, a cult, an invasive workplace, or platform, they degrade privacy as much as they can in order to exploit the resulting loss of individual liberty and agency.

So no, censorship is real. Cryptography is a tool that sets people in their proper place as sovereign human beings. Privacy, security, and anonymity give people the ability to speak on equal footing with any group or organization or fellow human.

By using apps and platforms and services that don't respect privacy, you're willingly accepting a second class status, ceding your right to express ideas that don't conform.

Buzz words my ass.
Are you? I'm paddy pretty sure I can run a single Linux and point a single gdb at it[0] and debug it in a single memory space; I don't think you can do that with a microkernel.

[0] possibly resorting to UML, but still
I've heard similar things from other sources. AIUI it's really hard to get a new banking license, both in terms of what you have to do to prove you are following regulations, and what you have to do to get the license.
Interesting perspective, thank you. I suppose that you are correct.
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (“Transitional Apps”)
I don’t think I could ever get enough of this type of writing and observation. The good, the bad, and going to and from possibly every combination of societies.

People are often too polite to be as purely candid as I might personally prefer.

This take on the U.S. from an Armenian perspective was also very enjoyable https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777745
> In any case, I expect servers to have replicas for high availability. So even an 8-core server would count for a total of 16 or 24 cores for a 2-3 node cluster, isn't it? And then this multiplied by the number of clusters that you have.

As long as you're protected by Software Assurance, you get one free replica for high availability, another free one for disaster recovery, and yet another in Azure.
> I always treat chicken as if it's covered with bacteria.

This should be done with all meat or raw eggs both of which cause more salmonella than chicken, this is minimum hygiene. Is this no longer taught in school?

Personally I rinse raw chicken (and meat and raw eggs) utensils in the sink well before placing in the dishwasher, perhaps this is overkill.

Salmonella is also on vegetables another significant killer, I don't worry about this but you should wash them.

I'm happy to eat Torisashi (sashimi chicken), but I see no reason to risk Salmonella by contaminating foods needlessly.
But if you die without a will there will be different heirs for your part of the property.
Decided against my better judgement to grind through my PhD and try and see it to an end. Almost ended up quitting, starting a job search a month or so ago.

28/M
The number one reason for folks who won the "IPO lottery" is they fail to cash out/diversify their stock, and at some point in the future the stock price drops dramatically.

For example, during the 2001 tech boom/bust a lot of tech companies went bankrupt in a very short period of time. As a result a lot of tech employees saw the value of their stock/options drop to zero (effectively). The speed in which the bust happened caught a lot of people off guard.

It is generally a good idea to move at least some of that money into a diversified portfolio as soon as possible. But folks often put this off because they don't want to pay the cap gains taxes and/or they think the stock will keep climbing.
I do not recommend vipassana unless you've done a _lot_ of meditation before. 10 days of complete silence is a massive strain. I did it, based on little more than a recommendation like this, and had a bipolar episode (no history of bipolar or serious mental illness before). My story [0]

[0]. http://livingvipassana.blogspot.com/2010/02/bipolar-chronicl...