skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any indication that the unauthorised access occurred at the repair facility, or was the package diverted and accessed elsewhere, perhaps by the package delivery service?

The levels of trust and potentials for betrayal are high here.

It's also worth considering that an old-school camera, in which storage media (film) and the device itself (the camera) were entirely separate posed a different privacy and surveillance threat profile. On the one hand, one could provide a camera to a repair facility with no fear of information disclosure. On the other, film-processing labs themselves could view the images taken, and there are at the very least anecdotal stories of both voyeurism and identification of crimes and abuse which occurred as a result.

With digital devices, there's a potential insulation against the latter case (usually for single-purpose devices, e.g., a dedicated digital camera without any networking capabilities --- a smartphone is a security risk regardless of use), but if you're submitting a device with integrated storage for service, your privacy is at risk.
To be clear, "canceled" in this case means… removing a commemorative stained-glass window.

No one has made a stained-glass window to commemorate me. Am I also being canceled?
you don't understand the problem of printing IOUs and buying btc with it. You don't have to care, but you will if everything goes to zero
As an Australian living very close to Bavaria I can tell you that ain't Bayern! Oida! ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY6nminL9wY is what you are looking for.
One of the authors of the article here, happy to answer any questions about it!
Oh and some midi-related ones: some way to see what nodes have MIDI mapped to them and some kind of protection/warning when you assign a MIDI input that's already attached to another node.
They can mandate anything they want, sure, but there are ways around all of that.

And frankly, if they do, they're essentially admitting that they want to enslave you and your complicity with that is tantamount to self-immolation. Why in the world would you do that to yourself (or wish it on others) if you had an escape?
Spice: An Observation Geometry System for Space Science Missions
You got what you ordered at a price to liked. Someone got $2.50 for helping you. What's not legitimate?
> What exactly is the nexus between "democracy requires defending" and "more smart people should be making fancy weapons"?

"Fancy" weapons give you a vote in how war is fought and who will win. They give you a seat at the table when war ends. They are the stick in Carrot & Stick diplomacy. If smart people don't make 'em, you don't get a vote, you don't get a seat, you don't have a stick, and you either go along or pack your bags for the concentration camp.
At least in the US, exchanges aren't really regulated. Not as broker-dealers, anyways, in the same way a Fidelity or Schwab is regulated. They're regulated as money services businesses and money transmitters, a much weaker form of regulation designed explicitly to work around the "onerous" regulations in the rest of the system.
Apple takes Russia to court over App Store ruling
Interesting point, but I should point out that you've already been able to do this for several years now, for example with Meitu
You can't keep traders from trading bitcoin. That doesn't mean bitcoin is unprincipled. It's in the whitepaper and the design of bitcoin. For example, the 21M btc supply limit. Bitcoin's design reflects a certain ideology about money.
I understand why stablecoins exist, but doesn’t an operation like Tether go against the decentralization goal of “crypto”? The fact that the ecosystem has become dependent on these types of players is interesting to me. Why hasn’t the community demanded even basic transparency about their operations? It seems to be totally exempt from the pious expectations of other crypto projects.
There's always been a push and pull between the splitters and the lumpers. Discovering a new species can seem more exciting than finding another member of an existing study. But the concept of a species (genera, etc.) is very slippery anyway; sometimes its said that inability to breed viable offspring is a necessary condition, but we have examples of that happening ... without subsequent revision of the taxonomy. Life (and the physical world), slips past the edges of our ontologies all the time (one reason that I laugh when people justify the object model in programming in terms of them somehow mapping onto real world objects.
Nah. It's backed by cash and cash equivalents mate.
Wanted to give it a try, unfortunately under Fedora 34 the alpha AppImage segfaults when run via pw-jack (pipewire jack "bridge")
People who make significant contributions to science get stained-glass windows and such. If removing the ones for people we're trying to memory hole as being part our own histories isn't trying to erase them, what is it?
"Poverty" is not about how much money you have, income or wealth. The only reason money matters to poverty or to human well-being is when that money can buy something meaningful. If we find we are able to forget this, it stands as a testament to the remarkable stability of modern fiat currency.

Marking arbitrary large numbers in digital ledgers, blockchain or otherwise, does not cause prosperity. When everyone has infinite money, no one has any money at all, they just have their things.
They actually cancel academics for saying the “wrong” thing. This is not even anything close to that. Having a window removed is not a big deal at all:

But now the college Fisher loved has turned its back on him. It has removed from the Hall a stained-glass window commemorating him, one of a set of six installed to celebrate him, Crick, Venn, Chadwick and two other distinguished college figures, Sir Charles Sherrington and George Green. It has done so because of accusations that Fisher was a proponent of eugenics.
I also saw that, and yes, it's a real problem.

I've had several run-ins with Google myself. One key reason I've de-Googled myself to the maximum extent possible.
10,000 only applies to a concept that reasonably is known to everybody or almost everybody before they die (like the fact mentos thrown into bottle of pepsi does funny things).

I suspect that only very, very small number of people are aware of this mission profile:)
Yeah this is a turnoff for me. I get that I could compile it myself but since the authors clearly don't want that, I'd rather just put my money into tools I know will work.
The Whole World is your Antilibrary
My area in suburban Washington DC USA is filled with old grocery stores. Just within several miles of my home, one is now a trampoline park, one is an Amish market, and one is an LA Fitness.

My theory is that between huge warehouse stores, newer huge supermarkets, Dollar General, and Walmart (even non-supercenter ones) selling lots of food, and online shopping nibbling at the margins, marginal supermarkets are getting pushed out. There's another supermarket not far from my house that I doubt will make it.

I have no idea what it's like near you but where I am I don't think I'll be seeing any new supermarkets.
I'm not sure what you can really accuse of being long-winded here, but it's clear that the presentation hits a nerve for you, so probably best left at that.
The article has a lot of waffle, but it seems clear that even in the author's viewpoint, Fisher was a eugenecist, and argued for the cause even in the wake of WW2:

> (6) Fisher, in a testimonial for von Verschuer after the war, supported von Verschuer’s “wish to benefit the German racial stock, especially by the elimination of manifest defectives, such as those deficient mentally”.

You can say "we should judge people by the standards of their time", but it seems that he fell short even by those standards.
> Reddit corporate does not enforce their rules on subreddit mods.

There are absolutely no rules concerning moderation. As long as content policy is being followed, mods have free rein and full discretion to apply their own standards.

edit: there are mod guidelines (https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines-for-...), but these are mere suggestions for healthy communities. You won't get de-modded for acting outside the guidelines.
If one is using something like Uniswap to exchange crypto, you cannot go directly to Fiat, so people that want to sell a token or Ethereum will trade the asset for USDT and then later trade the USDT for another asset when the price has dropped.

It's just a way to buy and sell crypto with an intermediate asset that has almost no price volatility.
Ah! It was I who misunderstood you then. Glad to hear we're on the same page!
I remember reading about this at the time. As a 15 year old obsessed with Nikola Tesla, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. A 20km tether that generated electricity using the Earth’s magnetic field as a dynamo? Wow.

“NASA has conducted several experiments with Plasma Motor Generator (PMG) tethers in space. An early experiment used a 500-meter conducting tether. In 1996, NASA conducted an experiment with a 20,000-meter conducting tether. When the tether was fully deployed during this test, the orbiting tether generated a potential of 3,500 volts. This conducting single-line tether was severed after five hours of deployment. It is believed that the failure was caused by an electric arc generated by the conductive tether's movement through the Earth's magnetic field.“
The price of most/all crypto would fall dramatically.

Tether is a huge component of the daily traded float in BTC. If tether was no longer accepted at $1, there's a lot less money chasing BTC.

These markets wil be around forever, but much less attractive when people start to see past the Hype.
To your first point, regardless of which class of people you consider for UBI inclusion, even if you only consider citizens of the USA, it will have a tremendously attractive effect for billions of people around the globe. Even now quite many people want to immigrate in to the USA and the USA has multiple systems designed to keep them out, but UBI will make this way worse, which is why I said that enforcement needs to be very strict.

Plus I'd say it would be even more unfair for the undocumented immigrants than it is now because they would not get any UBI. But if you gave UBI to the undocumented, way more people would attempt to become undocumented immigrants, by overstaying their visas, etc. Which then probably will lead to you having to issue less short term visas, or actually deporting undocumented immigrants.
> Anyways, this is kind of off topic, so I'll take my leave.

Thanks for replying. I don’t think it’s off topic. Startups should know that former enlisted personnel make great hires.
The thing is, inflation caused by printing money AND distributing it directly and every to all people is fine… it’s just the most efficient / progressive wealth tax!

Even if (printing and then) giving everybody $40K/yr caused, say, 40% inflation, anybody making under $100K/year would be better off. You actually wouldn’t need any taxes if the government just printed all money it needed, hopefully most of which is in the form of direct checks to all residents/citizens.
I have some very exclusive Dutch Tulips to sell you for small amount, they will go up

(side-ways glance) how do we short this?
> 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.

I don't know how to separate open source blockchain technology from scams. The point of blockchains AFAICT is obscene profit if your "coin" becomes popular. Remove that and you remove most of the development on blockchain. Most developers seem to be in it for the money because well, why else would you be a developing blockchain?

I've heard that the following are blockchain scams:

* selling "magical" numbers which have no inherent value for state backed money.
* selling coins when the developer controls the majority of them.
* Elon Musk pumping Dogecoin on twitter without anyone knowing his true stake.
* Tether not being backed 1:1.
* Bitfinex using those Tethers to prop up the price of BTC when BTC price falls.

Some of these to be clearly scams more than others, but the first one is why China banned Bitcoin mining in their country.
The shake has been arguably happening since 2016(i would say even sooner, but those efforts were more of hobbyists and explorers), where polarization was exacerbated by certain "political views" these social networks hold.However even though a lot of platforms have risen up and cool technologies (mastodon, IPFS-based hosting,etc) emerged, the core problem still somewhat exists: centralized power: whether it be the registrar, the hosting(which many people look into solving, because that's arguably the most critical point, and some have managed to somewhat de-couple from the monopolized 'cloud'), payment processors, ISPs,etc. All of these remain vastly centralized, and even though we haven't see extreme censorship in the west, the issue is a slippery slope, and that doesn't mean we won't see it in the future.(Unless politicians & philosophers try to push something akin of a "bill of rights" to the internet space, which would mean they are smart, so let's not hold our breaths on that)

I'm more hyped, though i know progress is slow, in decentralized solutions in the hardware and networking space.Because the way i see it, even with something like bitcoin or any other decentralized solution that is mostly software-based, you're still at the mercy of couple entities.Again, process is slow in the HW space because most of the corporations/monopolies that are potentially abusive also hold most of manufacturing.
As long as their internal success metrics align with civilian interest, I am ok with that. But some can't integrate back especially when jobs require creativity, extensive domain knowledge and experience, and multi-tasking with multi-roles. It is that later that most veterans can't function well. In their previous life, things are predefined and roles are limited to just 1 or 2. Civilians have to juggle a lot and has no clear cut directions how things work out. Employers also won't tolerate your disabilities if that can be taken over by any other normal persons.
Sure, most of the ecosystem delivers binaries but you can build your own stuff with ABS[1] or download a PKGBUILD from the AUR

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Build_System
Most of the crypto heads on Twitter actually seem to believe that it is properly backed. But you know, you're judging the opinion of people who invest in cartoon apes.
Because it moves the hiring focus from skills and "meritocracy" to something that should be irrelevant: age, tattoos, hair color etc.

Skills give value to an organization making it more competitive and productive, your appearance does not. If you make decisions on who to hire based on the former you're basically saying "Guy X is better than guy Y but I'm gonna hire Y because some people are offended by the fact that we're not 50/50", which is obvious in every single part of life.

Also, I know a lot of friends that are saddened by their hiring process and they feel like they've been hired just because the HR had to and not because they were the top choices.

But yeah, this is controversial nowadays so I don't really try to put it out there at all and let it be.
For a few milliseconds I thought that MicroKarens were a new measure of entitlement.
1. Is that actually confusing? The first time I saw "USDT" on an exchange, it was immediately obvious that it wasn't real US dollars, mainly because of the extra "T". If I logged onto my wells fargo account and saw that my balance was in USDW ("W" for wells fargo), I'd be pretty concerned as well.

2. does the federal government even hold a trademark on "USD"?
To add an anecdote: on my last job search I got offers from two different but very similar companies (both around ~200 people).

I got one first, read through the contract, saw the standard clause about owning your whole life. I told them it was a deal-breaker if we couldn't get it changed. I got the standard response "oh we never act on that, lots of people here have side-projects", etc. I told them if that was the policy, it needed to be in writing. They escalated internally, talked with legal, etc, but the decision-makers ultimately wouldn't budge. I walked away, and told them in very plain terms that their legal department was responsible for how things turned out.

Shortly afterward I started the process with the second company. Got to the end, saw the clause, told them it was a deal-breaker. Discussed it on multiple calls with different people, eventually the CTO himself who was still reluctant to change it but was sympathetic. Eventually they were able to come back with a contract where that entire section was cut out. I took the offer and it's been a great job so far.

I guess what I'm saying is: hold out. Make a stink about these draconian contracts, and you'll eventually get through and find someone willing to be reasonable. Who knows, if enough people draw a line in the sand maybe it'll become a big enough roadblock that they'll stop putting it in the "standard" contracts.
That sounds similar to my other favorite work/legal story, the crux of which is that initial employment counts as consideration (in most jurisdictions) and thus can be the basis of a contract, whereas continued employment does not and can not. This is directly related to why many companies technically fire employees during an acquisition and then re-hire them as part of the new parent.

IANAL and this is not legal advice. I just had to live through a situation where these distinctions were highly relevant and important.
Yes, Tether comes with a ton of suspicious circumstances and leadership that just nervously repeats the phrase "the money is there!" in interviews. A YouTube channel named Coffeezilla has been doing some great reporting & investigations on it (and many other crypto scams). It's insane what's going down on the crypto market, including influencers selling unmarked ads for currencies.
More perspective:

- A year ago 1B USDT would have been more than 5% of it's market cap.

- A year ago 1B USDC would have been 33% of it's market cap, today it is 2.5%.

A lot of stablecoin mintage has occurred over the past year.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was precipitated by a supply chain issue: the US’s oil embargo on Japan. This is not to assign any blame to the US — Roosevelt did the right thing and, TBF, it did ultimately end with Japan out of China.
I like to half-jokingly claim that people who use the internet are a different species from people that don’t use the internet, since the two groups don’t interbreed.
I feel like an awful lot of the market could be summed up as “Wouldn’t it be great if <ordinary activity> had microtransactions like a pay-to-win mobile game?”
I thought I read that Apple will notify iPhone users if an airtag is following them. Did they all have android phones or is there a delay between when they get notified? I thought Apple had something to protect from this kind of abuse.
So now they need to pay taxes on that
This means a possibility for me to die in this war (fighting against Russians).

Is this how inevitability of the war was felt in Europe hundred of years ago?
I don't totally understand your position...if the cruelty of wolves / nature justifies your consumption, than why give a shit about the treatment of your food source at all?

If you're trying to minimize cruelty, you wouldn't eat them at all.
Decentralized finance is a pipe dream. If it were truly decentralized we would have individuals managing all of the responsibilities you listed. Fraud would be EVEN MORE common.

I forgot where I read this, but someone said something like "Crypto advocates are learning in real time why finance/banks are centralized. They're playing out the history of finance reform at hyperspeed."
It'd be cool if Twitter would allow users to publish long form content. Like a blog or at least longer than a tweet. So we don't get a hairy thread of 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ tweets from people who share ideas that can't be summed up in 280 characters. With a special built-in hashtag, like #thread or #blog.

If they keep the notification feature and the choice to only get notifications from such long form content, that'd be even cooler.

Who am I kidding.
> From an outside observer's perspective, the results are not as strong - the budgetary, humanitarian, environmental, collateral, and political costs of most of the military engagements of the past 50 years have been quite bad.

For the most part, all of those issues fall squarely upon the leadership. Military personell have a duty to fufil lawful orders, and you can't simply resign and take a different job if given a lawful order you don't think is a good thing for all of those reasons.

In contrast, when working for an employer, you have at least some ability to refuse to do things you don't think are a good idea. Worst case, you're fired or resign and need to find other work. But you're very unlikely to be court martialed and imprisoned. Or even sued.
Regarding this "print": https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1467504705857335302?...

"PSA: 1B USDt inventory replenish on Tron Network. Note this is a authorized but not issued transaction, meaning that this amount will be used as inventory for next period issuance requests and chain swaps."

The tether CTO routinely comments on these seemingly large moves because people get very worked up about them.

Why does tether seem to bring out the tinfoil theories from people that have absolutely 0 background in finance or crypto market structure or econ in general.
Yeah, IRC shows it's age, but it's easy to get connected and talking, no phone number verification or required account creation, or other byzantine verification process.
Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/birds-arent-real claims "Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory" and categorizes it as "Conspiracy Theory, Parody."

By comparison, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/flat-earth-theory claims "several different online groups and organizations boast adherents to the hypothesis. These groups typically include those who genuinely believe in the theory, as well as non-believers who troll for their own amusement."
> Simple linear models generally outperform experts

At what? At correctly diagnosing patients or predicting prognosis once an issue has already been identified, as in Meehl's paper? That is not the same thing as determining whether a patient has the "mental capacity" to commit suicide.
If they don’t already feel ownership, it’s easy to just approve PRs without looking at them critically. Why deal with confrontation trying to uphold code quality for a project they don’t really own? I find people don’t pay attention in reviews unless their personal success is tied to the long term success of the project.
Is this the Billion that was invested into the Trump social?
No, you increase the amount of IOU's. I own 1 bitcoin, and everybody knows I'm good for my bitcoin (e.g., that is what a bank is. An institution everybody trusts to have money and they pay their dues.)

I know write you an IOU for 1 bitcoin, and you buy a car with that IOU, because anyone who owns that IOU can come to me and get their bitcoin, and everybody knows that I am good for my money, because that is the whole condition of this thought experiment.

I now write another IOU and give to my uncle, who buys a house with it, because everybody knows I'm good for it.

Now the money supply has increased, without minting new bitcoins, and this is exactly what happened to gold (which, as you know as well as anybody, you can't just print)
They Publicized Prosecutors’ Misconduct. The Blowback Was Swift