skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably don't. I had that happen.

In my case it was the charging chip. I took it apart, installed charged battery and got the data, then wiped it.

Had that not worked, I would have just kept the phone.
Don't forget the centralization that undermines its ability to be private!
What about Nexus 5X? Which is phone by Google made by LG.
It doesn't matter if they're being robbed of cash in their wallet or magic beans in their e-wallet. What matters is the action, and making light of it.
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The principles of crypto finance? Cryptocurrencies are not built on principles, they are built on technologies. The only unifying principle across all cryptocurrencies that I've noticed is that you access your assets through a cryptographic hash. You could launch USD+SEPA+your banks online banking interface today and call it a cryptocurrency, it's as much a cryptocurrency as for example Ripple is.

edit: ok the other "principle" might be that all (most?) cryptocurrencies are independent from government, they are owned and managed by individuals, companies and groups of people/devices (if you're lucky).
> One really nice feature is that there’s no concept of out of memory killer.

Interesting... So what happened if you ran out of memory ?
And here I am in France, where the closest thing to a gun I can get legally is a nail gun.
From page 8:

"We don’t switch from blue to some other specified color, because we don’t know the background color of the
terminal. Some people, possibly aliens, don’t favor a dark terminal background. If the terminal background
were white, and we had just used e.g. ncdirect_fg(n, 0xffffff), text following “house” would be invisible.

"One might observe that a user with a blue background will have invisible “house” text. This is a real issue,
one lacking a perfect solution. It is not generally possible to discover the RGB values of the default colors.
I suppose all one can do is rest easy, serene in the belief that white backgrounds are one thing, but people
with chromatic backgrounds deserve whatever happens to them."

That's a lot of cognitive dissonance in a work about UI design. Let's try to do better in making TUIs mainstream. That requires encouraging people to use the few features terminals _do_ provide. Like chromatic backgrounds.

I've been doing a fair amount of ncurses hacking recently[1], and I prefer to always explicitly specify colors. People won't get their preferred colors by default, but they'll always get a legible configuration by default.

[1] https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
The one downside is that you need multiple missions to observe just single target. The mission could potentially be modified to be good for more than one target but at the cost of length of the mission. The path of drones would have two intersect two points that need to be reached to observe two targets, but that would require most likely less hyperbolic (meaning slower) escape trajectory.

The major benefit is that we don't need to invent anything new -- all required technology already exists. And the mission wouldn't even be that costly (at least in comparison). Just select the target, build (a dozen?) drones, shoot them on a right orbit into the Sun's gravity well and wait something like 20 years until they reach destination.
They're also the best (and possibly only equitable) way of distributing money that you're going to print anyway for e.g. economic stimulus.
Africa is trying to get from zero to one. Its not surprising to me that independence after having all their institutions destroyed would not result in an immediate rise to prosperity. It takes leadership with vision and a distinct lack of selfishness to push a truly long term vision. I'd argue that africa is still reeling from cultural trauma. Fixing that is going to be difficult.

As far as import substituting industrialization. The devil is in the details. There are as many ways to do it wrong as to do it right. In many countries, its cheaper to buy a bag of onions from europe than to buy locally grown. Thats not right. I dont' have all the answers but some degree of controlled import-substituting industrialization needs to be done and informed by people who've spent considerable time studying the economy.

As a start, Europe could easly bring people from africa to study civil engineering, modern agricultural practices which they would then bring back with them along with financial assistance to bootstrap the very institutions that they destroyed. Expensive? sure, consider it reparations.
Your first sentence is grammatically incorrect and incoherent.

"Poor people would have more children because each child = [$$$]"

A lot of poor people already do this for this exact reason.

"The ultra poor underclass who are undocumented would still get nothing"

Should a person be allowed to enter Japan, refuse to leave and then demand the Japanese people pay them $1k a month?
To Deny the “Lab Leak” Covid Theory, the NYT and WPost Use Conflicted Sources
Ok, who has an LG smart TV?
A propos the single binary wiki server. Last time I was looking for something of this kind, I stumbled upon Fossil SCM, which also includes an implementation of Wiki [1].

Editing can be done in Markdown, all version-controlled, there's user support built-in, the whole thing basically resides in a repository, which is a kind of a SQLite db. The wikis can be imported from text files too.

It may be not fancy-looking, but for "note-taking" can be good enough. I guess it may be made to run in Tmux or the likes to have a Wiki served locally to the smartphone.

Wish the Fossil was more templatable, also there's no proper wiki category tagging, but it does work for the purpose.

[1]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/wikitheory.wiki
This is where coding becomes more art than science. There's an intuition that comes to knowing when it's time to abstract something and when the ad hoc implementation is better. And I do mean better, not faster, or lazier, but better. The sense among moderately experienced developers seems to be that the abstraction is always better, but it really comes down to good sense.
this is super helpful. thank you!
The solution to this is to open source the unlocking backend, or give the assets to a foundation that can maintain it.
This article seems to be a precursor to his recent work, "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain", a book that analyzes some short stories written by great Russian authors, in which he also expounded on several opinions expressed in this article.

I really like his method of analyzing short stories, very practical, not too much -isms.
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Circle has passed multiple audits. Coinbase is a company that managed to at least convince the SEC they are doing things correctly. Also important, no one from Circle/Coinbase leadership is missing, incommunicado or in hiding.
And? So what?

If that quantity of Tether (1/75 of the float) were dumped into the open market for USD, you'd expect to see the USD change rate fall. That clearly hasn't happened. The rate has been very close to 1:1 forever.

There's this unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that as I gather goes like this: Tether prints tokens, uses them to buy bitcoin when the USDBTC exchange rate falls. These Tether issuance spikes always happen after BTC corrections, and this is taken as evidence of pumping USDBTC.

The problem is that if there were legitimate buying of BTC with Tether, which is plausible after the ass-whooping USDBTC has taken recently, new Tether would need to be issued to keep the 1:1 peg.

Sources critical of Tether IMO don't provide the evidence needed to distinguish the two scenarios.
> The biggest problem with all of this blockchain stuff is that all the incentives are around publicizing the scams.

I think you want to differentiate between cryptocurrencies and other blockchain applications here, don't you? Everything[0] I've seen that could be characterized as a straight up scam has been someone pump & dumping their new cryptocoin.

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[0]: Except NFTs, at least as they've been used so far. The concept of an immutable, digital record of ownership of a thing seems good to me (think real property deeds, for instance). But, the idea of using them to claim "ownership" of a JPEG or something seems ridiculous to me on its face. Either I don't understand how it's supposed to work, or a lot of people have been very publicly taken for a lot of money via NFTs.
> The Army wants us to have graduate degrees in engineering or scientific disciplines so that we can almost exclusively fill management positions

The former AF/SF CSO observed that the lack of technical expertise in commanding officers is a problem. [0]

> Please stop putting a Major or Lt Col. (despite their devotion, exceptional attitude, and culture) in charge of ICAM, Zero Trust or Cloud for 1 to 4 million users when they have no previous experience in that field – we are setting up critical infrastructure to fail. [...] They do not know what to execute on or what to prioritize which leads to endless risk reduction efforts and diluted focus. IT is a highly skilled and trained job; Staff it as such.

But 100% agreed with you that top-loading degrees isn't a solution either.

It feels like the military's historical solution to a lot of problems (forced, regular duty station rotation, with assumed interchangeability based on rank) isn't suited to the types of technical project it's now being asked to execute quickly and successfully.

There's a huge amount of good that comes from rotating people, but it feels like there's a new local optima that needs to be found.

A starter might be to make technical position rotations more pull / resume / experienced -based, and less solely on billet rank. I.e. Does a given position want you? Or who of a stack of applicants do they want most, for the job they're currently executing?

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-say-goodbye-nicolas-m-ch...
The USA actually does have laws against creating anything that might be interpreted as competing with the official currency. This is the most likely avenue for violence to come in, as people try to resist devalued money by using substitutes.
i would reconsider the statement about reputational damage, LG still does many things and honestly if their approach when closing departments is leave me with an expensive paper holder, then it won't be at least my first choice, i mean all vendors do the same crap more or less, there is not really anything that gives one or the other a huge competitive advantage, so in this context I'm not sure why I should buy from a company with this track record
80% of crypto trades are against USDT
Don't drop math. Linear algebra seems important for a lot of things I'm interested in, and I never took it.
Typo, it should be "The Medium Is the Massage"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage
Excellent! Every person should have the right to make the choice for themselves.
well... i never will buy from them again.
Denied list:
- Oppo
- Vivo
- Unisoc/Spreadtrum nonames/unknown brands
- Huawei
- Honor

Annoying list:
- Realme (supposedly ok, but needs to wait for "deep testing apk" for specific model which can take forver)
- Xiaomi/POCO (needs to wait up to one month after first boot)

Should be ok, but YMMV:
- Asus/ROG
- Nubia/ZTE/RedMagic
- Mediatek nonames/unknown brands
- Qualcomm nonames/unknown brands

Ok:
- OnePlus
- Samsung (EXCEPT US MARKET)
- Moto
- Pixel
> my "ideal" way to die would be chosen death before a progressive disease becomes bad enough to cross some personal threshold of suffering.

It is a long time I wish there was some kind of deice you can implant in your body that would release poison when not responding to some kind of regular request. This would at least solve neurological cases (either degenerative, or alive in a coma which is terrifying, or vegetative state)
Better urban and regional planning can reduce global warming
My brain isn’t melted. This could just be some obscure Dutch dialect for all I know.
The US treasury released a report on stablecoins last month warning that a run on them could disrupt the wider financial system:

> In addition to market integrity, investor protection, and illicit finance concerns, the potential for the
increased use of stablecoins as a means of payment raises a range of prudential concerns. If stablecoin
issuers do not honor a request to redeem a stablecoin, or if users lose confidence in a stablecoin
issuer’s ability to honor such a request, runs on the arrangement could occur that may result in
harm to users and the broader financial system. Further, to the extent stablecoins are widely used to
facilitate payments, disruptions to the payment chain that allows stablecoins to be transferred among
users could lead to a loss of payments efficiency and safety and undermine the functioning of the broader economy. The potential for stablecoin arrangements to scale rapidly raises additional issues related to systemic risk and concentration of economic power.

I see this as the government equivalent of shouting from the rooftops. It's just a shame no one will treat it that way.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_...
1. MITMProxy[1] is scriptable (Python API) to modify requests/responses, or HTTP ToolKit[2] seems to be more on the non-code side (haven't used it).

2. Sure, but there's not much value in it. An API is the available contract for the communication between services. The server needs to guarantee it and the client can implement the needed parts. The client should implement solutions for server-side error cases either way, handle rate limiting, and send each request with a timeout. Everything else relies on the guarantee of the server, which, as the client, isn't your responsibility.

3. Only when i need a quick workaround for a feature the server doesn't provide (e.g. CORS injection) and maybe for test automation.

[1] https://mitmproxy.org/

[2] https://httptoolkit.tech/
I've unfortunately come to the same conclusion. They also can't be held accountable by courts or regulators if they don't document the problem.
and LG G7 One which is Android One https://www.android.com/one/
just testing now, not every residential ip it seems (I moved country and now my email go through without the message : ...belongs to a residential ip...)
I spent entire 2013 building a startup in AI, specifically in NLP.

I had well-defined business applications in mind. (I had already deprioritized over ten ideas after discussing with various people including potential customers, and chose to focus on the NLP ones.)

I was ahead of the times in vision, and right in technical direction (deep neural networks plus more). But I was not confident and not comfortable in raising money. Some friends were willing to give seed funding, after seeing a startup in a domain I had deprioritized emerge with a successful exit. I did not accept the offer.

There was one person helping me as a technical co-founder. I needed a business person to join as a co-founder, however, no one I wanted from my circles was willing to take the plunge.

A friend casually connected me to a VC. I did not even know that the person I was going to meet was a VC. I reviewed the applications with him. He liked the proposals and said he could get me customers the moment the product is ready. I did not even discuss raising money.

Behind the scenes, I was facing a significant personal challenge.

I underestimated the amount of time needed for training data preparation. More time was going on that instead of algorithm development.

Starting in 2014, a former colleague offered me a contract job in computer vision (even though I had no prior experience in computer vision), which I took to support the startup. That not only consumed me fully, but was very interesting and challenging in its own right. The NLP startup work ended up on the backseat. My computer vision work was briefly covered by an independent blog writer here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/03/29/243161/qualcomm-...

I was left with a feeling that had I raised money and thereby gone more strongly towards the startup work, I could have been at the forefront of modern AI with deep neural networks.

To summarize, I failed because of the personal challenge which is in fact continuing till date and has severely demotivated me, and because of my reluctance to risk someone else's money.

Aside: Having learnt computer vision afresh on this contract job, I later implemented simplified versions of several classical computer vision algorithms in Microsoft Excel, using a series of one-liner formulas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357374
This same problem has plagued the web for decades. I used to change default colors to ease my eyes, and whenever foreground CSS lacked a background color it often became impossible to read. Accessibility modes came soon after but were too binary for me.

These days we have dark modes and more elaborate extensions. Still sometimes things don't align.

So thanks for at least specifying both.
Why are codes even required? Just allow customers to unlock the bootloader without jumping through hoops.

If a code is for some reason required, print it on a sticker in the box it comes in or something.
That for sure. But I am more wondering about the collateral damage to other coins. Coz it would likely trigger sell off of many other coins to cover loses.

On the other hand, the market cap is 75B, while ETH is 488B and BTC is 919B. So the impact maybe wouldn't be too drastic and too long lasting.

I wonder if it's worth converting USDC and DAI loans to USDT, would be easier to repay if it did crash..
Amazon gets a cut of every sale even if a 3rd party sells counterfeits. Removing 3rd party sellers and their counterfeits means less revenue in the short term.
> [I]f there were legitimate buying of BTC with Tether, which is plausible after the ass-whooping USDBTC has taken recently, new Tether would need to be issued to keep the 1:1 peg.

Can you explain in detail why new Tether would need to be issued?
Has anyone heard from the QA team?
Thanks, I came over here to see whether it goes anywhere worthwhile.
But LG still has smart TVs and fridges. It means when LG stops those, existing ones will get vulnerabilities and be hacked en masse.
PlayCanvas is like using an Unity like tooling that was developed for WebGL as only target.

BabylonJS is more high level, you can use it from either JavaScript or TypeScript, it has a playground which is more IDE like than the threejs editor, and it follows a scenegraph approach, with additional tooling for working with meshes, GUIs (early steps), animations, ... Since it is also used by the Office team, effort is being taken to make it work on top of React Native as well.

Microsoft has a YouTube channel with BabylonJS tutorials.
I don't care about the machine. It will work just the same without my participation(in most roles).

// Being the best burger flipper gives you job security.

Burger flippers earn close to the minimum wage. They always have decent job security, it's easy to find a similar job(not necessarily as a burger flipper).
They gave up on the phone business, but keeping the bootloader locked is also giving up on their reputation.

The only good side on all this is that I have another good example why owning the device you paid for is so important.
It's even worse than that. Tether fired that auditor (Friedman LLC) because they were looking into it in a bit more detail.

From the very same article: "Given the excruciatingly detailed procedures Friedman was undertaking for the relatively simple balance sheet of Tether, it became clear that an audit would be unattainable in a reasonable time frame."

Even Friedman LLP says in the internal memo “Do not rely on this report”.

It's been almost 4 years since that and no independent firm has ever audited Tether.
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The problem is recruitment, which capable engineer would agree to maintain a dead system?
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
I find it very reassuring that there is a place around me where I can do this (I am in France, and have Switzerland, the Netherlands and BElgium nearby).
how does diversity hiring fuck up companies and government?

it shouldn't be consider a 'quota' to give equitable access and try to catch up the the actual balance of diversity in this country.

Tech I get is harder because of the century of lack of education and lower opportunities.

But you can't write off entire races as less performant.
So, why did LG exit the phone business? Isn’t phone business lucrative and high profile?
Don't forget the amount of exchanges that can not trade USD so they rely on USDT to deal with BTC. Tether crashing is going to destroy the value of BTC and it will take all of the alts with it. It will make Mt Gox look like a hiccup.

Still, it needs to happen. Keeping Tether alive is the worst thing that can happen to crypto.
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TL;DR: Moses did the Late Bronze Age collapse?
The best way to think about NFTs for JPEGs is as buying the "original" of a work of art, as opposed to a reproduction. Their value is the status value of rich people being able to say they own it, and their resale value is that some other rich person will want to be able to say that tomorrow. And it's a method of supporting digital artists or causes, e.g.:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388548/edward-snowden-n...

Of course, the hype is stupefying. People expect that some no-name artist with no cause is going to be able to sell their NFT for a billion dollars.
Oh he never stopped being a xenophobe, but he drew a line between his personal dislike and the idea that other races were inherently inferior. This is a good read: https://motifri.com/lovecraftcontext/

I like to think that if he hadn't died so young his personal tastes might have matured.
I vividly remember my first experience with Quake. I had to turn the settings all the way down as far as they would go, and the game barely ran. We have a 486 DX33. It took me hours to download the 8mb shareware version, and the game stuttered badly. I remember the sound effects would echo badly as the computer could not render the game at full speed. I could hardly make any of the platforming sections, since the frame rate was so low, and there was a palpable delay between hitting the buttons, and getting a reaction. A year or two later, we got an upgraded PC which ran at ~100 MHz, and of course this handled Quake just fine. It was only then that I played it online. I remember distinctly: 800 ping was "pretty good," while over 1000 ping" was on the boundary of playable. We had dial-up only, and were very rural, so our connection quality was not simply slow, but also spotty and high-latency.
Yeah violating self-determination of a country without also permanently occupying it can be seen as useless.
+9:40:10 seems a useful timestamp reference to me if your YouTube client references from the start of video.

At +10:06:00, he starts talking a bit about clojure. 26 minutes into his presentation at a clojure conference and he talks about clojure for well under 2 minutes, most of which was analyzing the text on the wikipedia page for clojure...

At +10:16, he then very briefly demos a linkage from the clojure repl into the Wolfram Engine, which is arguably the only part that's specifically interesting to most conference watchers.

If this were a keynote at a Wolfram conference, it would have been a better fit than as a keynote at a Clojure conference.
Just let me put FL Studio's piano roll into Ableton, please.
I’m not sure where the two were equivocated? I’m both lazy and I think security should be boring, but they’re not the same thing.
To be honest I find it funny that anyone would attempt to “parse” such a simple format with the wrong tool when there are plenty that can extract data in dot notation.