skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Qs I've had about this recently in case you or someone else could offer insights: Is it realistic to run Ardour for music composition on regular Intel sound hardware these days? Is it still pretty easy to migrate from Ubuntu to (presumably realtime) Studio?

Thanks for any input; I'm interested in Ardour, Jack, etc. but not "buy new sound card" interested, as LMMS on ALSA is not too bad for what I do.
> Asylum is not a "free migration card" as some NGOs or some people purport it to be. You don't get it just because you were born in a poor country.

One problem is that if asylum is refused, very few are forcibly repatriated. Most just ending up living in the EU illegally.
> I'd wager that you shouldn't put any money you can't afford to lose into crypto

Again, you can just as easily say: I'd wager you shouldn't put any money you can't afford to lose into your wallet or purse.

You're just doing transparent victim-blaming right now. If someone gets robbed, it is not their fault.
They tend to be edge case for HN users. That is, male, educated, well off/affluent and living in a first world country. All the benefits of cryptocurrency are already available in their privileged position and they cannot understand that others do not have the same options/access to financial instruments.
> Even today, sea transport is cheaper than land transport. In the Bronze and Classical Ages the advantage of sea transport was even more extreme. There was no need for the construction of roads and tens of tons could be transported long distances. Travel times by sea were considerably less than those on land, and armies could be resupplied far away. Bronze Age states with strong navies would have a tremendous advantage over their rivals

This is a fascinating observation to consider even terms of our modern era. Prior to the pandemic, the cost to ship a $20-retail pair of athletic shoes to the US from Asia via the sea was only $.30. [1]

Every passing technological wave that triggers growth seems to concentrate it most in strategic maritime areas (even if much of the raw materials and goods flowing through maritime channels originate in landlocked/inland areas).

One theory of these historical invasions is that that wealth eventually attracts the attention of inland peoples who eventually band together to attack the maritime cultures.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d5d_HXGeMA
I agree with your facts, I disagree with your perspective and I respect your good faith.

As such I will stop arguing and offer something that you might find useful in the future: arch linux PKGBUILD (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD) - an order of magnitude simpler than debs. You can learn this in a day and you can use them on any distribution.
"We know it when we see it."
Tether operates on a bunch of chains including Ethereum, TRON, and Omni.
Well, you could use opportunistic encryption: once the first (plain text) email is sent, it establishes an identity for the sender and from that point forward the exchange is encrypted. It's, of course, not authenticated, and anyone can MITM the exchange, but it kills dead all passive (eavesdrop only) attacks. Also it makes a past compromise easy to detect, without reusing any session key.

A more direct solution would be to leverage the DNSSec infrastructure and publish, say, an "MXK record" (MX Keyserver) for each compliant server. If such a record is present, then the mail domain vouches that you can find at that specific address a VKS keyserver that can resolve individual public keys for all its mailboxes. The whole exchange is encrypted and hierarchically authenticated, from the DNSSec root down to the individual mailbox, so it requires the cooperation/compromise of the specific level to break.

This way, when you type "user@host" in your email client's To: bar, the client can immediately resolve the public key of the recipient, and encrypt and sign the message accordingly with a high confidence that the encryption will be transparent and ensure the security of the exchange.
You can run opensimulator (second life server) and have your office server to chat and build or just hang out and dance. The viewer is generally lightweight so most users should have no problem joining
I don't get it. Why is it making me compile a Go webserver then? There aren't even binaries provided.
And winter-compliant also...

Oak inside. Dark and soaked muddy leaves outside. Jumping under the gelid rains hammer. Yup, we have a very nice weather today in resume. Light gray and yellow.
Or there are cryptocurrencies innovating in a space that is much more general than blockchains. For example, zero knowledge proofs or threshold signatures, which I’m convinced will see many more applications as a result of the cryptocurrencies innovations.
Agree that "useless" was a bit harsh. Perhaps "unachievable"?

It's a bit like dieting. You take someone who has been chubby their entire life, put them through a bootcamp, and then look at their weight 5 years later. The stats are not looking good in those cases, and I think they largely reflect our efforts in up-leveling the political landscape in historically corrupt countries.

I am not saying that we shouldn't keep trying. But I think we should internalize that the chances of success are slim, and then make that a part of our upfront decisioning process on budget, casualties, political cost, etc.
> Linus is right in this regard, there is waaay to go, linux distros are not yet plug and play for normies.

Really depends on the hardware and the use case. When using completely standard hardware for Web and a bit Office the installation is very easy. Seen it myself how someone who never used Linux and is just average with Computers installed Ubuntu and it just worked. But yes, something as simple as a Webcam can make things very difficult.
The problem is the scale. How many people can you realistically lock up in camps, especially considering those camps are leverage for the dictators you’re making deals with to operate them?

Either the root causes get fixed or things start breaking, badly.
Running a Conductor Workflow
Shouldn't be anything special to what you were doing with 3G, there are dozens of cheap 4G dongles or hat and certification isn't really any more special (heck Verizon even recommends and shows how to set up and configure a particular $30 5G/4G modem they connect to a Pi in their ThingSpace tutorial).

As far as plans every major carrier has 4G IoT plans, prepaid or not depending on what you want. Also look into places like Databalaze if you're doing something at scale commercially.
You've never thought open faced sandwiches were a subset of sandwiches?
You may have missed the memo_id[1]. If you still have access to your Keybase account, you can try Coinbase support. Assuming you sent it to the correct address, they should have the funds and may return it to you if you can prove you own the sending address. (No idea if this will actually work).

Stellar has since fixed this by enabling exchanges to require a memo.[2]

[1]https://www.lumenauts.com/guides/what-are-memos

[2]https://www.stellar.org/developers-blog/fixing-memo-less-pay...
Relevant: Why don’t refugees fly? https://www.liberties.eu/en/stories/why-refugees-do-not-take...
Other fat sources are healthier, and other protein sources are less perishable/risky. It is annoying to abstain meat in most restaurants, but this is rapidly improving. My own sweet spot compromise is ovo-lacto-pescatarianism. I eat lots of nuts, and supplement protein when I work out. Sugar being poisonous, I mostly substitute fats for calories. Works for me anyhow, once I got used to it. Maybe insects will be a thing some day
I couldn't find the archived version but I did find this https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059861708/secret-prisons-in-...
offtopic:
Why are they making webpages like that?

What is wrong with few <h3> <p> and <img>, the page will be 10 times easier to read.
> In an honest society, all of this would have been subject to robust public debate. We would have seen scientists of all opinions openly debating on TV and radio and in the press; views of all kinds aired on social media; journalists properly investigating reports of both vaccine successes and vaccine dangers; serious explorations of alternative treatments; public debates about the balance between civil liberties and public health, and what ‘public health’ even means.

Oh FFS!
Nothing prevents you from focusing on the problems you personally are interested in. My reason to get interested in cryptocurrencies was that I didnt have much money. Now I have generational wealth thanks to Bitcoin. It is nice, but also I am not that interested i cryptocurrencies any more, they were very effective at solving my problems and now the problems are gone. Now I am focusing on music production instead.
Funny because Poland and Hungary are the best examples for what's wrong with the structure of the EU. They have severe broken democracies and drift even further off. No refugee would want to stay there. Not only for economical but also for social reasons.

Those countries are and should never be a good example for EU policy.
Container boot time currently prevents this from being true in many scenarios
It is not about the problems it solves now. It is about the potential it has to solve problems……
It's like arguing with people who believe in their system to win at lotteries: "you can't criticize it until you understand every little detail". MLM proponents use the same argument: look at this amazing double binary balanced pyramid and 10 pages of detailed description of how pay-offs work when you recruit people to the left and right branches underneath you.

With those as with crypto you are better off taking a view from above. The only problem crypto solves is going around regulation. It's a sleight of hand, if you convert dollars to tokens suddenly regulators won't go after you. This and 101 ways of trading imaginary tokens hoping there is going to be a bigger sucker or that you won't be the last to sell. To increase chances of either happening you scream: "it's still early", "diamond hands" and "hodl!" creating a sense of companionship to promote behaviors that increase your chances to cash out before the whole thing collapses.
I think people don’t immigrate because of slightly better conditions. There’s a lot of hardship with being a refugee which won’t even end with getting a new citizenship. People sometimes do it to run away from i.e. Taliban, or bombs or some imminent danger.

_Most_ immigrants, like other humans, have a sense of self respect. I bet most of them prefer to stay in their own country even if the situation is worse than Europe if they know they won’t randomly get killed tomorrow.

That being said, of course, there are a group who abuse the system.

Edit: Corrected a statement in the first sentence to be more accurate.
it's kind of beautiful that way though. fools and their money are soon parted, while others learn and do things the right way. it's like making banking accessible to hobbyists.
Efforts to keep them out are constantly being sabotaged from within, it's not exactly proof we couldn't.
Well, considering America's recent military endeavors have done the opposite, you have to wonder how many times you can hear that until you conclude it was always a bald-faced lie to mask our economic interests.

Dropping bombs on a country rarely makes it less prone to conflict unless you intend to occupy it, it just gives more recruiting material to the "violent" radicals.
People are willing to risk their children drowning in the Mediterranean in order to get into the EU. How much worse can we make it?
No. They don’t. Amazon Prime’s pioneering free two-day shipping was noticed. The same day shipping was noticed. I often hear about Amazon’s speed as a factor for why people use them. In fact, among my friends people remark that Amazon can often deliver to our homes faster than Best Buy can deliver to their stores for us to pick up.

It’s just that smoothly is table stakes. Amazon raised the bar so now you have to do it smoothly blazing fast.
I don't agree at all, and your examples actually prove my point.

Yahweh was literally flattening cities, killing Egyptians with plague, destroying Cannanties by force, requiring his followers to sacrifice their children (!).

None of the 'hard advice' given by Jesus in the examples are remotely equivalent to this, nor do they paint a picture of an angry or despotic figure at all.

Jesus is laying Moral Judgment. That's not the same thing we see in the Old Testament.
It's fine for the author to not be interested in crypto, but his focus on financial examples indicates that he's probably not really thinking about the most interesting problems that could be solved with Crypto. Digital Money is a huge deal, but it's just the first phase of Crypto's potential.

Crypto isn't just about an easy way to send cash from the US to Brazil.

Think about smart contracts. Think about Oracles. Think about distributed apps and computation and API access. Crypto might enable radical new things we have barely conceived of yet.
I have not, but just quickly browsing to documentation it looks like I absolutely should. Thank you.
> The EU has to protect its borders, there's no other option.

As an European, I agree. At the very least, I think that we have the right to protect our borders.

However, this is not an isolated thing that can be morally decided independently of the rest of our foreign policy. We have provoked and participated in many wars in neighboring countries to defend our "economic interests". We are supporting authoritarian dictatorships in Africa so that European enterprises exploiting their natural resources have an easier job. Heck, when a neighboring country (Libya) threatened a bit our cheap oil supply (that is, our supply of their oil) we got all angry and violent and provoked a war there to change the regime.

Most of the immigrants in question come from countries that we have messed with. We certainly have the right to close our borders to them, but to do so we must first stop destroying and exploiting their countries.
Beware of Survivorship-Bias :-)
> Then, by making Bedrock available to people who paid for Java, they would give a hassle-free way for players and modders to try it

It would be hassle free for vanilla players, but certainly not for modders. There are years of community support built around the Java version that would need to be moved to bedrock to make moving the modding scene hassle free.
If someone disagrees with the article and believes any of these problems are solved, can you detail how?
I see so many first world people writing about crypto not solving problems for them. I'm sure it's not malicious, but crypto is trying to bring equality to finance. Of course it's not going to be obvious or even the focus of crypto to solve problems for the already overly catered to rich people.

There's nothing wrong with that and there's nothing wrong with writing about how it doesn't solve problems for you, but don't you think it's a little bit bad to not at least look at problems truly impoverished people have and mention those? I think it's something like 17% of the world is underbanked or unbanked - that means there is a huge issue where families can't save money and the people who work smart and/or hard can't grow out of their situation.

I don't mean all crypto is aiming to solve these problems, but it's certainly a category of problem solving that's important to me as a human who wants to see equality in finance, globally.
There should be no gatekeepers to control what you can do with yourself. No doctors nor AIs nor governments have that right. I should be able to buy a humane means of death with no questions asked whenever I want. I am the only person who has the right to determine if/when I die, it is not their call. It makes me so mad that you have to break the law to try to find a humane way to commit suicide and that so many people resort to terribly unpleasant means. And while I'm glad to see progress from things like this and mad dog brewing in AU, it isn't enough.
Tether is super shady but this headline is unnecessarily editorialized. Also, this USDT is "authorized but not yet issued" so technically it only needs to be backed once it's issued. https://tether.to/tether-issuance-primer/ https://thecaspiancey.medium.com/understanding-tether-missio...
I was just saying yesterday about twitter's inane design. kind of glad he 's listening
As a formalist, I would like to agree with you. As someone who knows most mathematicians are not formalists, I think you may have some problems.
> That is a pretty limited view of what blockchains solve these days. This reads like someone looked into Bitcoin once ten years ago and then applied that to everything that came after it.

I didn't take it that way. I interpreted it as the author's personal list of "stuff I wish cryptocurrencies could do for me today." And, of that list, micropayments stuck out to me as a problem people have really, really wanted to solve for a long time, but just can't manage to make a solution work yet. Of course, the problem of micropayments effectively reduces to the problem of reducing transaction costs to a point where it becomes feasible to pay someone 5..10..50 cents without having to pay the payment processor an equal or near equal amount. But, that, unfortunately, seems like less of a technical problem and more of a social problem, which makes it a Hard Problem(tm).
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Being inconsistent on migrants irks me a lot. Entire developed world is paying someone to stop the migrants before they could cross the border and treat them without any humanity. And on the same time, many of those same countries' government heads gives pro migrant speeches.

The entire case somehow hinges on whether the immigrant is successful is crossing the border which gives worst incentives to the migrants as they are ready to risk the life to cross it. Germany is ready to pay Turkey to treat the immigrants badly, but couldn't do it itself. I think either we should remove the life threatening non humane solution deployed outside the border or treat immigrant as bad when they enter. This way immigrants would have clear incentive of what they are about to get and not take any life threatening decisions in crossing the border.
Of course but you could give people some free money nevertheless and it would make the world a better place.

What do you think would happen if you gave 1000 dollars to each person in America every month? I think a lot of good would come from that and not much bad.
Edward Shames, last member of WW2 company that inspired ‘Band of Brothers’ dies
So in the meantime, you'll bitch about things and post it to HN. Why? Personal gratification? You're a "security researcher" who doesn't care about arguably one of the more interesting security problems on the planet.

Once again, HN doesn't disappoint. As a community, we continue to promote solutions to technology problems, but as soon as it involves finances, we draw the line in the sand and don't dare cross it.
The biggest problem with all of this blockchain stuff is that all the incentives are around publicizing the scams.

On the upswing, the scammer is trying to recruit marks for their pump and dump scheme, so they market their scam to as many people as they can.

Then the axe falls and the anti-blockchain take the opportunity to point out how everything is wrong and call for government destruction of the entire technology.

Meanwhile some open source developers are trying to decentralize finance and because they're not scammers, they have no marketing budget and nobody knows about what they're trying to do.
"$USDT" seems intentionally named to confuse people and imply that there's some relationship to, like, actual dollars. Has the US government ever sued somebody for trademark infringement?
Treat your medical problems first would be my advice for my younger self.
The money is there, VC people are eager, the concept has been around for years, and like you said, there is a cult base that is absolutely indoctrinated. The world is ready for one (1) implementation of blockchain that actually does something meaningful and better than what already exists. Yet here we are. People are spending their lives trying to convince others that blockchain is a good technology, but nobody actually doing anything with it. It's not like there's a grand conspiracy blocking any companies from being successful, blockchain/crypto is just for con artists and the gullible.
One trip to Argentina is all it takes for someone to get crypto.
See also https://www.bespokesynth.com/ for a recent, but long time coming newcomer that is amazing, open-source, etc.
The reason I feel compelled to express my crypto-skepticism is that I see well organized efforts to convert some or all of our financial system to crypto and I think that could be disasterous.

It's tiresome to discuss and HN doesn't like tiresome but this is a technology/business issue so I don't think we can/should avoid it.
Should probably do a final pass filter against an English word dictionary.
AFAIR, outside AUR Arch is not source-based, so I would imagine it's ability to help with building packages is on par with other binary distros.

No experience with Guix, but its ideas sound very interesting.
I had this link between two buildings (no line of sight and radio was too expensive and slow then anyway), it began as redneck engineered "leased line" with modems on either end, with multi pair copper and replacing the modems periodically. The battery that floated that line was kept outside because it would occasionally "vent vigorously" with storms. USR modems had good isolation hardware those so they were pretty robust.

Upgraded that to coax Ethernet as soon as I could, 3c509 cards in cheap linux routers at either end of the link, with "modem failover" until the incident that blew away the 25pair. Those cards would lose one or both with every other storm it seemed; but were ~$2/ea off ebay at that point so not so bad. I've got at least one of those motherboards still, somewhere, with multiple bodge wires where i repaired traces blown off by lightning strikes.

When we got the fiber we buried the first run, with coax beside it, in conduit again. That lasted a few years before a "landscaping accident" tore out enough that there was no fix. Then we went to suspended coax, and then another fiber tied to that, for a few years, before the business folded.

I tried various grounding strategies over the years. The power companies and "best practice" suggest regular connections throughout the span of the line, and at both ends. I found that seemed to invite strikes by being a very good RF ground in the air.

Grounding at both ends is bad because of ground surge, pick one or the other end and have the best ground point there you can get, but let the other float, and hope. Also, any actual power system imbalances between two ends of a grounded line will seek to use that nice conductor rather than the cold earth.

150ft isn't that far. Also you haven't got trees to complicate things, they draw lighting and ground it deep. Hickory trees were my bane; they got deep roots that found our high iron sandstone layer and combed the sky for electrons. I'd say consider the switches at either end of that link to be sacrificial buffer parts, and not really worry about it. If its worth considering running fiber under a street, it might be worth considering a free space laser link or something.
The previous commenter thought he could get away with omitting “/s” and has been proven wrong.
There isn’t one.