skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The city", he crashed the market for the entire Mediterranean, and that was predominately because of what he gave away in Cairo (a city he never part of his empire, and the primary market for gold at the time).
They have distinct forms for some of the cases. There are many that are indistinguishable.
What a horrible quote. It sounds like Oscar has never spent any time around poor people. Those crumbs can make or break their ability to treat a life threatening wound. https://watsi.org/
If it was easy everyone who inherited a big chunk of money would give it away.
I don't agree that Gov's are not corrupted by capitalism. neither are corrupt on their own, but you layer one with the other and it seems to me that corruption is nearly inevitable, ubiquitous even.
I find the focus on the employee being WFH very weird -- there's no justification for the remote work situation contributing to this theft. There's just a nebulous claim of too little oversight. But if Sony apparently allowed this employee to just directly transfer nine figures by saying "yeah my boss approved it" then I highly doubt they have robust safeguards to stop this from happening in an office environment either.
I dislike NFTs for the use in "art ownership" in which sense it may be a bubble/fraud, but the underlying tech has good foundation for practical uses. It is used as gaming items and as tokens for debt and probably some more, but I'd like to see it used for certifications, deeds (apartments, cars). the problem with art is NFTs can be minted infinite times, hence it's not an N-FT, it's a perfectly fungible token...
Ask HN: How do you manage time spent across the browser applications?
I am a startup founder, and we use a variety of applications for different areas. I spend quite some time tracking data every day, not adding time with the 2MFAs and separate password entries. Most of these applications stay logged in, but since I use the same machine for testing code pushes, I have to clear the cache from time to time.

Most of the time, I am looking for specific metrics across these applications, and if it's significant, I do deep-dives.

How do you keep track and be efficient across multiple applications?

PS: Some browser applications I review:
Linkedin, Trello, Mailchimp, Intercom, Hubspot, Google Analytics, Freedcamp, Bitbucket, Gmail.
Considering said CO2 is already out there and doesn’t seem to be magically disappearing on it’s own, that seems unlikely.

And not like those 8 billion mouths that currently need feeding are going to go quietly into that dark night if something starts to go wrong.
Gates started selling off large portions of MSFT a long time ago, but at a very controlled and planned rate.

Investors do not like to see serindipitous transactions at that scale, from post-Founders who are still effectively 'Godheads' even if they are not in control.

Just like coupon payments or stock dividends, what matters is the consistency.

So they signal well in advance, offer a structured plan, and then sell of $X every year, which goes into Gates Foundation etc..

It's 100% the purview of these mega donors to enshrine some kind of vision for their funds, which may last a long time, if not generations.

They make take the view that they will invest 100% of the money into a charity fund, and the returns from that fund get distributed.

I don't think there is really any specific merit in 'how quickly you give your money away'.

Mackenzie was 'one degree removed' from Amazon as it was built, she probably feels less attached to it, and maybe she just wants to push it out the door now, that's fine, good on her, but I don't think it means anything really.
Possibly a separate question, but I was wondering just how serious the energy use problem is. I haven't actually seen what the stats are for carbon footprint etc.
Note that those slides are slightly LLVM/Apple biased.
Two theories I like wrt number stations.

1. Most of the time you don't have a message to send, so you send random numbers. Maybe you have an agreed upon header to signal to your spy that the following bytes are significant

2. Maybe you don't have any spies, and just want your adversary to think you have spies, so you blast your numbers station into their territory just to make them nervous. Who knows, someday maybe you'll have spies, and you wouldn't want to announce this change by suddenly having a numbers station.
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A half decent manager should be able to handle this feedback, surely
Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order
It already surpasses the muzzle velocity of many handguns with more flexibility in terms of projectile. I would not want to be on the receiving end of one of these.
I replied in a separate comment, but want to respond to this:

> their parents had the money and ability to put their kids into good schools, good programs, volunteering, and did not throw them to the streets for their LGBTQ status. That already meets plenty of generic scholarship requirements.

I fit your description. My daughter applied for well over 100 independent scholarships. She received zero. Her peers had about the same success rate.

Anyone whose parents earn above poverty wages will find it exceedingly difficult to qualify for scholarships, because the vast majority are need based and hugely oversubscribed.

Sure, the top top tier of valedictorians and overachievers may get those elusive full ride or performance-based scholarships, but that is a tiny minority and far from the "generic scholarship requirements."

If you disagree, I suggest you fill out the FAFSA application to understand the depth of financial analysis done on parents and students. Though designed for federal financial aid, many schools and scholarship programs also use it to screen for financial need.
If you are interested in this type of tech...this is the book to read.

https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Crystal-H-Peter-Friedrichs/dp/0...

There is a second book as well which teaches you to create electronic parts from scratch.
Nope, I only found out later that "SCAMP" appears to be the most widely used CPU name in history!
For the core parts of Tvix we won't have any OS-specific dependencies, but each platform will need a working builder and sandbox implementation. I suspect that OpenBSD has at least one OCI-compatible sandboxing/containerisation method so it should end up running fine on there.
We can't stop workplace sexual harassment without banning NDAs
Spotify users and artists react to CEO's €100M investment in defence tech
He was a warlord who conquered territory with force. I don't understand how anyone can believe that his contributions were made with philanthropic intentions.

Imagine Paul Graham conquering San Fransisco after measurably enriching North America. Would you still feel inclined to feel he's charitable?

Timbuktu was the center of trade at the time. Making it a part of his empire was a logical move.
I am not American and I didn’t follow these events but sorry for me after watching that video it’s still complicated: the self-defense seems justified, but the initial issue of protecting property with guns is not: material possession and private property is not on the same level as human life. I understand a law allows it in that state hence the jury logical decision, but that doesn’t make it right, just legal. Had he not posed with an assault rifle in the first place two people would not be dead today, he is still morally responsible for that to me. So in the end I surprisingly understand Facebook choice.
:)

I could use a helping hand on AnonyProxies.com, see the Github repo via the link on https://anonyproxies.com -

thanks,

Alexander Schliker
Facebook (co-Founder), Microsoft (co-Founder)
> Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful
Honestly... I love it.

The whole website is just aggressively bad. The C suite cube faces, ugly color palette, spinny cube complete with a Jay-Z curated soundtrack, the misaligned text & links on the media kit page etc.

It reminds me a lot of aesthetic in the game Cruelty Squad - just an intentional rejection of design norms. Nothing worse than being boring right?
The comparison seems incongruent. Surely her donations aren't on the same scale as, say, the stimulus checks, let alone the sort of money that would crash the entire US economy.
wow that website is a treasure trove of encoding details

My only exposure to number stations is the podcast "99% Invisible", an entertaining account sprinkled with audio clips of various stations: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/numbers-stations/
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Canada has helicopters, a functional military, and Allies no?

Certainly folks could be evacuated or supplied with essentials if it came to that. They did so as far away as Afghanistan.

It would require some adjustment and dealing with adversity, but your comment makes it sound like everyone would starve to death and be found having eaten each other or something if the roads were out for a week.
What does this even mean? That ungrateful poor people are the best poor people?

This entire thread is actually making me upset. I'll bow out.

/r/antiwork would have a field day with that quote. It's pretty much the poster child of disconnected rich folk. A real "let them eat cake" mentality.
Or Baby's tape recorded remix https://youtu.be/Dtb_8Y5bHww
Yeah I've wondered about that since they first started gaining popularity. The series-oriented nature of minting 100 different colored bear gifs with the artist's promise that there will be only 100 doesn't strike me as terribly non-fungible. Obviously they can all become worth different amounts as they sell / resell but still something just seems fundamentally off there.
> Be discerning, be critical. Not everything is awesome, and it doesn't have to be

Having worked as an outsider with Americans and of course the heavy American influence on the tech scene in general, this one piques my interest because it can lead to some product blindness even in small teams.

I'm obviously generalizing in order to discuss the stereotype, but I find there is a habit of Americans to overstate how awesome everything is and how great it is that you did it, and then one day you find out it's not great and it never was. This affects your ability to make good decisions and deliver good results, because feedback is your touchstone with reality and client needs. If someone tells me it's awesome, job done, I stop working on it. If someone tells me it's no good, I fix it. If it's not perfect and you tell me it's awesome, I still stop working on it, because I figure it meets your needs and the job is done.

I had this in Japan too, everything was great and nothing was bad, food was always considered the best thing ever. I do enjoy the endless optimism and positivity for general living, but it can cause issues when you're trying to deliver a great product.
If you read their Glassdoor reviews, one of the common complaints was the company’s hostility towards automated tests.
Good old days of the yore, when Twitter's general manager quoted the CEO saying "We are the free speech wing of the free speech party" [1], and the ACLU would rigorously defend free expression.

[1]: Guardian (2012) https://archive.ph/0HnBB#selection-2031.1-2031.153
I don’t think the quote is criticizing charity itself, but rather the inequity and lack of redistribution that makes charity necessary.
Except Jeff’s voting power is tied to Mackinzie’s holding of $AMZN as he retained voting rights (until she sells). The transaction itself is small relative to overall volume.
I agree in applauding her, but I also don't think she didn't earn it. She signed up to be part of a team with her husband, and part of that agreement is you get a piece of the earnings if you get divorced. You can claim that Jeff did all the work but she held up her end of the bargain.
Are you trying to suggest that a registered non-profit charity organization is an equivalent to a panhandler?
At some point Jeff might rue the agreement that he votes her shares.
It's funny how you chose Mansa Musa as an example because I just watched an Epic Rap Battles of History between Jeff Bezos and Mansa Musa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCeUvPL9rMc
:)

I could use a helping hand on AnonyProxies.com, see the Github repo via the link on https://anonyproxies.com -

thanks,

Alexander Schliker
Facebook (co-Founder), Microsoft (co-Founder)
founders@anonyproxies.com
Color is really, really hard.

I love the clarity of black-and-white imaging, but the thing that keeps me coming back to it more than anything else is the ability to successfully render my intended image on more electronic platforms.

When working in color, I either gravitate toward images with unambiguous color or accept the fact that only those with calibrated screens will see what I intended to create. Moreover, those calibrated screens need to be calibrated to the same reference I'm using, or they'll see something different.

Even with prints, without controlling the viewer's ambient light, you'll also get different perception. It is really hard.

Agreed that debugging is hard, too. I've recently come across the notion of 'canary images' [1] , which can make some of the debugging effort into binary search.

[1] https://instagram-engineering.com/bringing-wide-color-to-ins...
People cannot “earn” $60B, they can work hard and smart but luck is always the key multiplier in reaching astronomical success.
I think that for extremely small perturbations the discrepancy will be linear until it reaches a critical threshold, at which point the trajectories diverge exponentially. Basically, you need to get to the point where the path of one atom diverges by ~atomic radius. But until that happens, there is no non-linear mechanism to increase the divergence.

For example, if you just consider a billiard ball bouncing between two walls, the divergence in trajectories will only ever grow linearly. But for very small perturbations, the case of collisions between atoms is effectively the same as collisions between walls --- the curvature of the scattering atom can be neglected. After all, the curvature here is a second order term, and when the perturbation is of the order of 10^-68, the non-linear factor will be (10^-68)^2 ~ 10^-136.
Even for people using normal date formats, since 2021-12-02 is, amazingly enough, also today, and is also a palindrome day. Enjoy!
I don't know why but I really despise this article.

It isn't journalism. You don't have cartoon recreations of the story in journalism. This is somebody's lit journal piece covered in cartoons masquerading as journalism to grab some ad revenue by using the name Indiana Jones in the title for vanity fair.

That probably seems like too much but something about this really rubs me the wrong way.
If disaster recovery or separation of duties makes you shrug, I’d recommend some basic risk management and security training.
Even if she fails to give it all away in her lifetime, she has signed up to The Giving Pledge which means the rest will be given away after she dies. Many billionaires have signed up to the same pledge.

Notably, however, Jeff Bezos hasn't sign it.
Michigan Became the Epicenter of the Modernist Experiment
I guess I should be happy if this is true, considering my kids go to a public school, but there are just so many unstated assumptions to make the argument work that I could almost imagine it saying "...and for simplicity, we assume that students are spherical objects in a vacuum."

E.g., colleges know which public/private school each student is from. It's not a blind selection process.
> Timbuktu was peacefully annexed by King Musa I when returning from his pilgrimage in 1324 to Mecca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Timbuktu
Point is doing a whole rebrand to get a burst of news about it is dumb. The burst is over in days, but you're stuck with the new brand for years. Some short lived publicity is at best a small side effect, not a big reason to do it.
I'm pretty sure I ruined a job opportunity for myself by expressing my distaste for crypto. I mean, I might as well go work at a multi level marketing company if I'm willing to work in crypto.
It wouldn't cause the problem in itself perhaps, but I find it a bit reductive to look at the type in isolation like that. Sometime, somewhere, someone will call std::vector<T,Allocator>::data on that vector and use the resulting pointer as the src argument to memcpy (or some other function), and someone else will make a change that causes an overflow of the dst buffer. Shit happens and code written in modern C++ also has bugs and some of those bugs have security implications.
We've replaced it with the article title now.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd be willing to wager that the detection techniques said to be used in the vans are a product of mendacious fantasy (some might say that is par for the course with the BBC), and the actual method used is to simply correlate homes that do not have licences with those that previously had them, and to simply look towards the roof and see if an aerial is present.

Ockham's razor and all that.
That works too but there's only so long one can spend in the shower.
It's a technology, and open source. You could say it is literally the opposite of a scam.

Alternatively, you could say everything is a scam. For example the USA is a scam. It only exists because people play along and collectively decide it exists.

At most you could argue that tanks would come and force people to play along if they stopped. So is that perhaps your threshold for something not being a scam? What is the minimum number of tanks that stand ready to enforce an idea, to make you call it "not a scam anymore"?
I mean... That is what someone who's setting up a patsy would do if they could. Home networks are not exactly Fort Knox, are they? I had a bunch of rogue connections banging around trying to brute-force database logins within my home LAN earlier this year. I imagine they could have made a connection to a server look like it originated from within my LAN, and if I wasn't watching a live feed of my database connection logs at the time I never would have noticed.
SEEKING FREELANCER above auspices of ticket to gold, disabled to gold, golden ticket, etc.

Visit https://www.anonyproxies.com - there are a few things to make happen:

Create an auto-deploy section on the page that allows you to automatically deploy the service to a new cloud VPS for a service fee just like the other sections that say Subscribe Now. This needs to be part of the API which is located at https://anonyproxies.com/api/ (django-rest-framework). The API url mentioned and its functions just needs some configuration to resolve any kind of Internal Server Error and it needs setup to ensure it runs using a database like MySQL (settings can be places in live.py of anonyapi repo located at https://bitbucket.org/anonysurfer/anonyapi/. The section and the configuration modal that you generate allows the person to at any moment in the future specify custom advertisement javascript code or any javascript code at the top of the A2, Glype, PHProxy, PHProxy++ pages assuming the user is logged in (use a "Config" button that opens up a modal where this can be configured using our API). The "Config" button and its modal also allows the user to specify if they want their deployment to be part of the mirrors, a DNS domain name option where they can provide a domain name (otherwise we provide them automatically with a domain subdomain of anonyproxies.com and anonyproxi.es [an alias of anonyproxies.com])

VPN sections need to be configured and a .sh script needs to be generated to automatically setup the VPN and proxy options that are offered on https://anonyproxies.com

Login functionality needs to be setup so that people can login to the /secure/ URL with some kind of secure cookie and also login to the individual sections

PhoneGap application needs to be deployed (the code is already there, just needs to be compiled) with more clear instructions for setting everything up at https://bitbucket.org/anonysurfer/anonyproxiesgap/ - an .apk file, Apple Store file, Microsoft Store file needs to be generated and uploaded to the PhoneGap repository at https://bitbucket.org/anonysurfer/anonyproxiesgap/

If logged in to both the anonygap and anonyweb apps from github.com/anonyproxies/ - sections on the page need to show, based on what was paid for in particular whatever VPN or proxy details are necessary to use the application.

:)

Email me: founders@anonyproxies.com

A few thousand lines of code and I'll add you as a co-Founder to AnonyProxies :)

A few major contributions and you can join the team page at https://anonyproxies.com/team.php

:)

Alexander Schliker
Can you explain in which ways is it incorrect? I am puzzled. I guess that what was is incorrect is using the word "crypto" instead of "POW blockchain-based"?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Instagram?
Artist defacto forced to use IG for the last half-decade or face non-existence oblivion amongst professional peer community.

I've found it toxic and dysfunctional since day one but yet another corner seems to have been turned in it's decay.

I want to be on a more socially responsible minimal app, just tell me where to go.
This is the polar opposite of what is happening in cloud.

All vendors are moving up the stack, with the eventual endpoint being even business productivity apps aligned with Azure, GCP, AWS.

They all see IAAS as the commodity end with less value add and lock-in.

This is undeniable through actions and PR statements and has been the observed direction of travel for a decade at least.
You have no idea what you’re on about. You should have indicated that you’re a denier, and saved me this waste of time. Good luck.
Looks like many companies in Japan are worried about remote working, something that is not a surprise given the slow rate of innovation of Japanese culture.

This is just a bad PR campaign against remote working. That someone can transfer more than 100 million without safeguards does not make any sense, working from home or not.

And if you can do that you are not a "Sony staffer" or worker, you are a Sony high ranking executive.
Well it is fast, and does some security checks. The interface to its image processor is not via cmdline to some imagemagick horrorshow, but not much better. From first reading it uses a dynamic libffi into the vips shared library, not a proper static binding. Cannot you do that with cgo? Looks very weird and fragile.
I’ll mention that the abilities of cheap shortwave radios have never been better.
The new Countycomm GP-7 SSB https://countycomm.com/collections/radio/products/countycomm... is under $100 and fits in your hand. It supports SSB modulation, so you can listen to utility and ham radio transmissions as well as AM used by broadcasters. It's one of the neatest shortwave receivers out there. (I don't own it, but I do own the predecessor, along with several other HF receivers.)
Did they really succeed though?
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