skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really sorry, bud, but I count you as one of my "beyond reason" group. Sure, your technical solution will bring in utopia!
That's not quite what I'm talking about. Obviously if you transfer money to your account you need to be able to explain where it comes from. But once you have the money, you can turn them into cash or gold if you want. At that point they are anonymous.

If you the give them to someone, well then they need to explain where it came from.

Also, if you want to put them back into your account, you'd need to show provenance.
Amstrad CPC?
PEP 675 – Arbitrary Literal Strings
I don't even use my custom startpage anymore.

It is just static HTML with some links + some style to make it look nice.
It would seem that the temptation to set the price of everything is increased when there are impediments to setting the interest rate (since this removes an important monetary policy lever). I think this has been seen lately as the zero-lower-bound on nominal interest rates has started to come into play in many places.
It's not just timing analysis — look at their long list of difficult measures needed to make these transactions private and ask whether that's remotely plausible for widespread use:

https://medium.com/@tornado.cash/how-to-stay-anonymous-with-...

Very few people are so ideologically committed that they're going to pay extra and live with those constraints, which is a major problem for a protocol which is critically dependent on volume to deliver privacy and repudiation.

> Plenty of people concerned with privacy use public blockchains - you don't need to dox yourself to use them, just need a private key. Unlike traditional finance, where you just have to hope that your PII data won't get leaked one day with all your transaction history.

This is confusing a number of things. Most PII breaches are not the banks but the merchants who collect things like addresses because they need them for shipping or to satisfy legal requirements, and paying with a blockchain won't change any of those needs.

Similarly, very few people have a way to generate and spend a significant amount of cryptocurrency entirely for anonymous online services and will thus need to identify themselves for most transactions — a cryptocurrency exchange isn't exempted from Know Your Customer, companies which have to deal with abuse are going to want to prevent sock puppets or shell accounts, airlines aren't going to lose interest in checking your identity, buying a house without showing where you got the funds is going to attract a lot of attention, etc.

That link to the real world is the common reason why these promises don't pan out. In general, ask yourself how a particular activity would go if you showed up with a suitcase full of cash and refused to say where it came from. Cryptocurrency will be exactly the same in all but a very few cases.
But it is a good start and foundation for something bigger and better.
C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe exists if you want real curl. (or just run curl from a command prompt. curl in powershell is an alias for iwr.
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Many people want to live in communes or echo chambers. The problem occurs when they force and apply that to others in society, academia and the Internet. The elites will just use them as the ruse to stifle discussion and free thought.

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I support even grifters to have a platform for their voice.
One's grifter maybe another's leader.
It makes sense since there aren't enough houses for all the people who want to live in an area.
I believe they are gesturing at socialism or some kind of centrally controlled market which has helped companies like Amazon and Walmart excel.
I dont find search results to be too relevant (at least for me, also Spaniard here). It is my default search engine only for the bang commands.
Markets can be seen as regulatory institutions in themselves, though they exhibit many undesirable side effects. The inherent "decentralisation" in Western societies is enabled by markets. Producers meet consumers in a constant feedback loop, production follows demand. Some producers are weeded out, new classes of products and their corresponding market types appear. Consumers can choose what, when and where to buy. What would be political decisions in a centralised society are market mechanisms in a market society.

It goes awry when you add mass media, mass culture and psychology into the mix. They encourage all kinds of irrational group behaviour which skews the markets in unpredictable ways.
the internet has changed, partially due to google's influence

instead of discussion forums and Q&A sites, everyone's on facebook/twitter/discord/slack/snapchat/tiktok/etc... none of that is really very google friendly

online marketing and SEO is a much larger industry now, so with less (by % of total) searchable content generated by people (which is on social media) a lot of the high-ranking content that appears in search is highly optimized marketing

then you have other kind of weird things like... half of all internet traffic being bots
Isn't the entire appeal of crypto is that it's not regulated? Why the hell would I want it if it's controlled just like a fiat currency. That means it's susceptible to idiotic government decisions right?

The only reason our regulatory masters every say this shit is because they want a piece of the pie for themselves. You see it in every industry where they're not getting a cut.... oh gambling very very bad! Regulate the hell out of it and now it's fine to have sports betting and all sorts of other "sin" pleasures available.

Then there's always this "guarantee" that the tax dollars will go to the children except they pull the rug out on other money that was previously going there.
I've used Gigablast off and on for a long time (I think I first discovered Gigablast in 2006 or so). Would be cool to have a registration service for legitimate spiders. I used to run a team that scraped jobs and delivered them (by fax, email, us mail as require by law) to local veteran's employment staffers for compliance. We were contracted by huge companies (at one point about 700 of the fortune 1000) to do so, and often our spiders would be blocked by the employer's IT department even though the HR team was paying us big bucks to do so.
Windows 10 was a horrible release. With the passage of time, it has become just about usable (although not really in my opinion). When it came out, though, it had an immense amount of bloatware (candy crush), idiotic auto-updating, sample-your-DNA levels of spyware, Cortana rubbish, identical settings in two places, and a whole host of other unpleasantness. All for what, the dark theme? I fucking despised Windows 10. This myth of alternate-releases-good died with Windows 10. Heck, Windows 8.1, with it's full screen start menu, was still a better release in my opinion.
Cliqz wanted to build new search engine but failed. It's just too difficult to operate at that scale and break the existing monopoly of big G.

https://www.burda.com/en/news/cliqz-closes-areas-browser-and...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23031520

https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-fr...
I tried using Earthly, great product.

Unfortunately, we rejected it at our organization due to how verbose the commands are. I want my users to be able to say `earthly plan-stage` for a terraform repo, and for it to work. But you cannot.

You cannot have earthly automatically use environment variables from your env, you have to explicitly list the commands yourself using flags:

$ earthly \

--build-arg AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \

--build-arg AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \

--build-arg AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-west-2 \

--build-arg AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=$AWS_SESSION_TOKEN \

--build-arg AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN=$AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN \

+plan-stage

This means if I want to `terraform plan` something, I need to explicitly set all of my AWS environment variables.

Compare this to `task plan-stage` or `make plan-stage`.

It is much too verbose and will only get worse as we add features to our pipelines.
Trusted curators is a dangerous dependency
This all applies to when you receive the money. The discussion concerns what you then proceed to do with them.
i would assume its mostly anti scraping protection which is mostly for privacy.
you don't want to allow everyone scrap your website, pull and use your info. for example from fb, ig, LinkedIn, github, ....
you can build a really big profiling db on people that way.
so websites need to know you are a legit search engine first
I'm a Googler, but I don't talk about it on HN, mostly because the Google-related articles are almost entirely negative, and I'm not about to be in the trenches on HN defending my employer. There's plenty of other good articles to read instead. I imagine some FBers probably feel similarly.
Ultimately, your argument is a troll because you are trying to tell people what they should value in a programming language.
Crazy! Good learning for everyone, thanks for sharing!
Sorry I meant Conway's Game of Life, edited
So... I know someone with about that many bitcoins. They have never used a notary to sell any coins whenever they want. They have cash in multiple countries in many different banks and jurisdictions. I wouldn't say the notary and police interviews are required.
What’s a pox?
The page regrettably is rendering animations in an SVG. In my experiments in the past, all browsers tended to optimise SVG animation, of all kinds, poorly. (CSS, animateMotion, JS - well, JS always performs badly obviously but..).

I think it'd be worth trying to translate this to CSS on text in a web page and see if the performance issues are still there. One can do it transparently these days with CSS filters. Or just draw against same colour as page background.

In fact, I think I'm going to give this a try. Will update here, but might take a while to get to it. I also wonder if it could be done more simply. this is basically just slices of offset text right? Also, those clip rects are pretty large. Wonder if that would impact browser texture allocation.
FWIW, I'm pretty sure banks loose in the hundreds of billions per year to fraud... and it's all heavily regulated.
C ABI is still stable after all these years. Programs written in "The C Programming Language" bible still compile and work fine.

That's why.
Complete speculation, but I think you'd find that's true for most problems. Very little CPU time is spent on the business logic, and the rest is overhead.
following in sad mac's footsteps ... decades after.
Google does go way overboard with "NLP". Starting at least 5 years ago there was a trend toward "similar" matching and search result quality nose-dived.

You can search for, say, "cycling (insert product category here)" and get motorcycle related results. Why? Because to google "cycling" = "biking" and "motorcycles" are "bikes", bob's your uncle, now you're getting hits for motorcycle products.

Every time I try to do a very specific search I can see from the search results how google tries to "help", especially if the topic is esoteric. The pages actually about the esoteric thing I'm searching for get drowned in a sea of SEO'd bullshit about a word/topic that is 1-2 degrees of separation from each other in a thesaurus. I'm sure someone at google is very, very proud of this because it increases their measure for search user satisfaction X percent.

It does this thesaurus crap even with words in quotes, which is especially infuriating.
I'm pretty sure that longer messages still generate multiple "packets" or whatever you want to call them on the backend. Which is important if you're paying per packet. It's just that every modern phone knows how to collect and stitch them together into a single displayed message. That's why phones still display the number of messages being generated when you type in longer ones. For instance, mine starts showing "10/1", then after another character "9/1", eventually to "0/1" and then "145/2".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29409458
Yeah it's still listed on her channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/YeonmiParkOfficial/videos . I'm curious what "visibility: unlisted" means. Would it show up in the feed of a subscriber?
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Also, where are the books about writing a search engine?

Knuth's "Searching and Sorting" volume desperately needs an update.
Hmmm. If demand is there only because supply is there, it’s not a strong demand. They might be applying some spin to lower expectations. Or the customers that once thought they needed a new phone every cycle now realize that they don’t?
This article is profoundly insightful.

I have been searching for patterns and insights in this field for 25 years. What
apenwarr concludes is true:

All we need is to build distributed systems that work. That means decentralized bulk activity, hierarchical regulation.

The problem is, everyone wants distributed systems that require everyone else to agree (global consensus), which is literally impossible (see: CAP theory, and what happens when Partition occurs). There's another word for "require everyone else to agree": Tyranny.

Fortunately, the entire universe and everything in it works without global consensus, just fine (for various definitions of "fine").

There is also methods for building computational distributed systems that work "fine" in the face of CAP failure:

https://holo.host

This is a serious breakthrough. And we really, really need this, NOW.

Just to whet your appetite, here's some high-level observations on how these breakthroughs may affect our lives, in the area of Money: https://perry.kundert.ca/range/finance/holochain-consistency...
Some years ago I was checking into a hotel somewhere in the US. The clerk's standard reply seemed to be "awesome", no matter whether I had just given my address or stated the number of nights we'd be saying. It took some work to keep a straight face.
There might be some collateral damage where sources of lies and propaganda get generally downgraded (even when telling the truth), but is that really a problem?

Of course it is if Google is one of the sources of propaganda rather than an objective source of truth. In that case "misinformation" is not a neutral question of factual correctness.

When the judge and prosecutor are the same person, the judge considers most of the prosecutor's arguments to be true and the defense to be an unreliable "source of lies" that needs to be kept in line.
How is this different than Chevron?
Brave's new search engine seems to work pretty well. Have been using it as my primary for about 10 days, and so far, I've only had to revert to Google once, and when I did the results were chock full of spam.
Russia issues threat to GPS satellites
I think unregulated in this case means crypto market in general is prone to pump and dump schemes and other market manipulation without legal repercussions
While I agree that crypto is not compatible with financial legislation as written, in the sense of having a third party (the state) back up your assets, it's not necessarily incompatible with law itself. It wouldn't be shocking to me if a government explicitly circumscribed parts of crypto as an unregulated space, where they legally provide no guarantees about asset protection. But I doubt the US government would do something a little risky like this.
Bitcoin and DeFi don't have utility outside of gambling and pump and dumps. Not everything (tbh not really anything) needs crypto.
Fun fact but the gov basically stole gold from ppl b4 in the good ole USA. They made it illegal to hold - if you were caught having gold it was a 10k fine. PPL were forced to go to their banks and sell their gold at a loss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102#:~:text=E....

That article uses the term hoarding but don't be fooled they made holding any relevant amount of gold for investment illegal. You were still allowed to have gold necklaces and the like though
That makes sense! Your explanation on why using the data attribute can enable more advance trickery just clicked multiple things in my brain when remembering other fancy codepens.
I also really like privnote but I don't think a service such as this should be carrying really shitty ads.
And customers who experience a loss are made whole through EFTA [2] and Reg. E [1] (if transfer related), with banks eating any costs unrecoverable after pursuing those who perpetrated the theft. Does Coinbase reimburse you if lose your crypto due to fraud [3] [4]? If not, clearly regulation is warranted if they put themselves forth as a custodian and exchange. This doesn't happen in centralized finance, and everyone has some semblance of recourse (depending on fraudulent loss experienced; either your securities or commodities are returned, or investment insurance pays out).

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/regecg.htm

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/efta....

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/huobi-global-warrant-seeks-1... (A Coinbase user lost $11.6 million in under 10 minutes after falling for a fake-notification scam, the US attorney's office said)

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=coinbase+theft
Most in the field would welcome sensible, light-touch regulation. Regulations brings institutional investment, which means [rockets][moons][bros]
it should be. there should be some sort of 'bots rights' to level the playing field. perhaps this is something the FTC can look into. but, as it is right now big tech continues to keep their iron grip on the web and i don't see that changing any time soon. big tech has all the money and controls access to all the data and supply chains to prevent anyone else from being a competitive threat.

look at linkedin (owned by microsoft unspiderable by all but google/bing).
github (now microsoft using this to fuel its AI coding buddy, but if you try to spider this at capacity your IP is banned)
facebook (unspiderable)
.. the list goes on and on ..

and as you can see, data is required to train advanced AI systems, too. So big tech has the advantage there as well. especially when they can swoop in and corrupt once non-profit companies like openai, and make them [partially] for-profit.

and to rant on (yes, this is what i do :)) it very difficult to buy a computer now. have you tried to buy a raspberry pi or even a jetson nano lately? Who is getting preferred access to the chip factories? Does anyone know? Is big tech getting dibs on all the microchips now too?
Perhaps some kind of centralization could help with that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29378307
I'm thinking it's likely an inside job (i.e., Target or vendor employees) or possibly parking lot broken WiFi password packet sniffing.

Also recall the POS malware incident in late 2013 was due to Target's and vendor's negligence in secrets management. This shows a history.

I seriously doubt it was Apple's doing because of how diligent they tend to be.

He's not going to get anywhere with corporate mutual finger-pointing like kids and missing cookies. If it's not about the money, why doesn't he consult an attorney for advice (rarely expensive) and/or take Target to small claims court?
It may be a neat observation, but you're not pushed in any way to recognize it so I struggle to see how it could be the point of the exercise. It's so dead simple to just code it up naively in thirty seconds that unless you notice the trick right off the bat (or already know it), no one's going to think twice that there might be a more efficient or clever solution.
I think the US doesn't understand this enough: Mature capitalism IS socialism (democratic socialism, as seen in European countries).

Mature capitalism is not what we have today. What we have today is capitalism that has not been allowed to evolve to its natural state.

It's been recorded many times in history that in the late stages of a mature economy, wealth is accumulated by landowners / elite / nobles / ruling class / billionaires / whatever you want to call it this iteration.

It's also known that as markets mature and competition becomes fiercer, it gets harder and harder to participate in it. In 1910, I could be a basketball player because the competition was that low. Now if I wanted to, I would not even make the tryouts. Apply this to every mature industry, which most all of them are (consolidated, hyper competitive, and dominated by a few players). The skill to participate in them has to be greater, which means that more and more people not gifted to be 2-3 standard deviations above the mean are left out.

Socialism is the natural, expected evolution of capitalism to maintain a high functioning society. It says, we ADMIT the above two things are happening (wealth is accumulated by the rich, poor people are left hanging). It also says, we KNOW that this is wrong, both morally as all human beings should be cared for under modern society, and societally, as if there are too many unhappy people (consumers in this iteration), it will up-end society as we know it (riots and revolts).

Capitalism is the growth spurt of a healthy country, but socialism is the adult stage.
Proving the correctness of a program is a famously hard CS problem, not “bare minimum literacy”.

> As to how they would know if it's the real smart contract: they would see what it was via their wallet after interacting with it the first time.

In other words, the system is not safe to use. People will reliably be fooled into thinking that they're interacting with someone else — the difference is that if you go to amaz0n.com and enter your credit card info, your liability is capped at a low amount and will likely be zero because the regulated financial industry has a fraud handling mechanism better than “the people who profited from you buying their tokens will mock you for being phished”.
For error messages I think you're ultimately a bit cornered. Even typed languages have serious problems with straightforward and reliable errors, everything else aside. The ones that do tend to have to make careful tradeoffs in the system to achieve that (HKDs probably just straight up make error messages worse, for instance.) That said I think having types would be useful for helping navigate code, but I think you'd need a fairly advanced type system to capture all the "open ended" parts of Nixpkgs, and that's where all the value really is, the tons of little ways people have built up to use it over time. So it's a mixed bag. I sympathize though; I've spent a lot of time on spurious Nix bullshit, even if I still love the tools.

As a contributor I actually think that the success of projects like TypeScript have shown that there should be a way to build a type checker for something like Nix, with incremental migration. But it probably isn't going to be the ideal solution we could all imagine and it will be very very difficult nonetheless. But it could work with the code we have now, and that's a very important bar to clear (I don't take some of the other suggestions like "auto translate 30,000 packages to some other better language that doesn't exist & isn't the one people are using now" all too seriously, I'm afraid.)

I do think having a store implementation (even a "virtual one") decoupled from the evaluator and builder tooling is a step in the right direction for experimentation and hope that it works out.