skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The IRS would not look kindly on selling shares to pay loans but not taxes.

They would not look at it unkindly, either.

They would simply charge interest on it like everybody else on this planet who has large loans and does not pay their taxes in full and on time every single year.

>I’m far from an Elon apologist but conspiracy theories that have purely legal explanations are weird

It's not a conspiracy theory that he sold $3 billion worth of TSLA between filing the recall and notifying the public. It's a public fact, and it's otherwise known as insider trading.
The entire dev team of Telegram is less than 30 people. That's why.
Some people are good at making a long Twitter thread work. This guy is not one of those people.
If you want to dynamically provision storage or grab an extra instance when you’re under load or something. It’s handy to not have to sit on a bunch of storage you’re not using just in case there’s a rush.
Freeing idiots from their money is more like it.
Nokia climbed up the value chain in their vertical.
From telephone cable into PCM line concentrators.
From those into small exchanges.
Then to the DX-200 digital telephone exchange.
They merged/bought Televa (small exchanges and Gen0 Cellphones) and bought out Salora from Mobira (Gen0 cellphones and commercial radios). When Gen1 NMT became a thing they started making phones for it and later basestations.
With GSM (Gen2) they ware making basestations and handsets from day one.

And they still make basestations and exchanges to this day.
So they kainda are at their roots.
In Windows you have to restart anyway, so your problem seems to be that you have a choice in Linux?
Alas, you are right, my mistake. It doesn't have inum either. Those GNUisms do creep in.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/f...
This is very simple. Why hasn't anyone done it before?

TBH this sounds like UUCP without routing, I'd say people _have_ done it before...
I love when web3 people say this, because it's revealing. There is really no application you can come up with that is less amenable to decentralized blockchain technology than identity. The hardest problem in identity isn't public key authentication (which we've had for 2 decades, and nobody wants) but account recovery. The absolute last thing any ordinary user wants is an identity that is cryptographically unrecoverable, or that functions like a bearer bond if compromised.

Account recovery isn't a basket of features like multi-sig wallets and threshold schemes. It's the assumption, so far baked in that most users don't even realize they're making it, that if something goes wrong with an account there is a human-mediated process for restoring access. A centralized authority is intrinsic to the concept! It has to be there from the beginning! You can't ask users to opt into it, because they're users and they don't know how any of this stuff works.

It's for this reason that Apple and Google control so much of Internet identity, and are going to continue doing so. Advocates of decentralized identity are poisoned by the experiences and preferences of a tiny but vocal sliver of users that (1) are deeply into this stuff and (2) do enough weird shit to occasionally get on Google or Apple's bad side and have bad/annoying experiences with account recovery. The problem is that these voices are not representative of the market, like, at all. Google does a better job of global Internet identity than any organization operating at any kind of scale. If you can't recognize why this might be true, and will be an enormous obstacle to adoption, you're not engaging seriously with identity.

The power that decentralized identity offers, normal people don't want. The things it takes away: necessities. It's a toy, not a killer app.
The bank still has a dependence on trusted authorities when it assumes your ID documents are legit. Rather than asking banks to confirm your identity for other accounts, I think we should ask governments to extend their practice of providing physical ID documents to providing online identification services. States have worked with Apple on "digital drivers licenses" that live on your phone, but the idea is still that you show them to someone in meatspace. Why shouldn't they provide an online service?

Of course, all this depends on the assumption that your ID should be who you are IRL, rather than the model where we can all make up several independent pseudonyms for different purposes.
I agree constraints can generate creativity, but
is there evidence that constraints generate more of it?

It's hard to talk about evidence for something as subjective as creativity, right?

I think the strong general consensus is that the right kind of constraints can indeed foster innovation - think of the constraints imposed by, say, early video game consoles. Or forms of music that grew from various constraints - the energetic DIY ethos of punk, or how hiphop thrived within the constraints of working with turntables and early electronic tool vs. live instruments.

Of course, the kinds of constraints matter. I think you're talking about societal constraints. I would guess that they generally have a much more negative effect on creativity.
No. Clearly you don’t read my comments since I regularly note facts from around the world.

Researchers in England found in the first 12 months of COVID only 25 COVID deaths for under age 18. That is an incredibly small number. That level of risk is so low that any honest person would have to ask the question whether reducing risk is actually possible without worse side effects (and that’s not just for vaccines — I mean for any intervention including non-pharmaceutical interventions).

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w
Very similar. I guess it's really k8s (the control plane) itself that is so resource intensive. Looking with top right now kube-apiserver, kubelet, kube-controller, kine and k0s use 13.5, 12.5, 5.6, and 3.0 % CPU respectively. Obviously it fluctuates quite a bit, but seems to be around 25-30% of 1 CPU core too. Also uses about 500-600mb of memory.

So yes, it definitely takes quite a bit of resources. I'm running this on 4 CPU cores and 6 GB memory, so 25% of 1 core and some 600mb of memory still leaves plenty of resources for the services. On a more philosophical note (as was mentioned below in this thread), it is a bit wasteful perhaps.
I will say no to any kind of direct neural interface run by anyone with any kind of connection to “the cloud.” I must have absolute control over it or absolutely not. The only exception would be something used by a proper doctor to treat an actual medical condition.

A neural link could be thousands of times worse in terms of privacy invasion, addiction, and “rabbit hole effect” brainwashing than anything we have now. Phones and home assistants are invasive but they are not merging with our biology. One can put them down or disconnect them.

History has shown that overt malice or ill intent is not required for things to go evil either. All you need is perverse economic incentives and/or feedback loops leading to destructive emergent behaviors.

So no, absolutely not.
> No, the problem is with censoring people.

No, it’s who/when/where the censorship occurs.

If you want to come into my living room and shout Nazi propaganda, your ass is getting censored and banned from my house.

If you think that level of censorship is a problem, then we have a fundamental disagreement, and the bad news for you is 95% of people will disagree with you.

If you agree on that level of censorship, then we’re just arguing where the who/when/where line should be.
I would love to see these on chair lifts. I wonder if the indicators can remain valid with the types of temperature swings you see on a ski mountain.
> This proposal would break that constraint, by elevating the _name_ of a foreign key constraint to an identifier usable in a DQL statement

This doesn't break that constraint in an SQL RDBMS that also implements the relational model, since it is a fundamental element of the relational model that schema metadata is stored as data, and therefore constraint specifications, including names, are included within “content of tables”.
Could you elaborate more on how a blockchain will allow clients to influence the direction of the API and also keep other clients up to date on new API changes? That seems a lot more complex than the way you're putting it.
Maybe not exactly the same bubble, but it's hard not to make parallels.
Pets.com, one of the most comical cases of 2000s, was worth $400M at peak.
When Chewy.com went public, they dwarfed that number with a new record of $13B.
The analogy was so obvious, that CNBC wrote an article on that [1].

After that $CHWY managed to go as high as $118/share, translating into a market cap of roughly $50 Billion in December 2021. Now they are trading at about half that price.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/opinion-chewy-is-no-petscom....
Original antigenic sin could be considered a side effect of getting immunized. Whether it ends up being helpful or harmful won't be known until we've moved our way through multiple waves of different variants (i.e. months years). The die is cast but the result unknown.
Here is more background about the nature of the pivots at WU.

WU had already pivoted once in the 1970s to become a satellite communication company being one of the first companies to have five birds in orbit. (Westar series)

Sometime around 1980(?) things were so bad they went into chapter 11, bankruptcy protection. At a senior executive meeting the reports were all bad. A guy named Art Tarini spoke up and said "What about money transfer? Can't we do something with that?" The reply was something like "Art if you think you can help give it a try"

Art setup a call centre and had a small sales force to sign up agents in small stores in the north east side of the USA as money transfer locations and created paper forms to record the transaction details. All agent transactions were sent over the telephone.

They were scheduled to be in bankruptcy court at the end of the year, but the new money transfer business was making so much money they cancelled it.

Told to me by Art Tarini in 2001. (Paraphrased from memory)

Later on (1990?) a computer terminal was created with Turbo C, communicating over modems to a back office system.
In 1989 when US law changed to allowed transfers to other countries somebody asked
"I wonder if Mexicans in the USA would want to send money home?" A new platform was created to handle foreign exchange and the rest is history.

Telegraph service was shutdown in 2006.
It was still doing ~$10M per year in revenue then. Money transfers were about $4B.
Agreed. What we need is a 21st century web of trust for reliability of information. This way those you trust could help you find others you trust. And if somebody you trust starts to trust people you don't, you can cut them out of your news sources. This might even be a way to validate trust in anonymous sources, without leaking their identity. Just, please, no more keysharing parties.
Browsers have a variety of strategies to determine whether what they're shown is trustworthy. Two of the most common are:

AIA Chasing. The browser examines the AIA section of the certificate it has been shown, and discovers a URL for another certificate, it fetches this URL, and parses the X.509 certificate it received, this may be enough to establish trust, but otherwise the browser might iterate, examining AIA again, fetching, and so on perhaps for some finite number of attempts before giving up.

Intermediate caches. The browser remembers any CA certificates it saw recently, regardless of context, and it tries those when the chain presented is inadequate to see if they can "fill the gap" to a trusted root. For example maybe you visit Hacker News, it has a DigiCert intermediate, your browser remembers that, then you visit Jim's Trout Forum, Jim forgot to provide a full chain, but his is also a DigiCert certificate, the browser can see this is the missing piece.

Both these strategies have problems, and this is why Mozilla moved from a cache strategy to carrying the entire set of intermediates. If you choose no strategy, you won't be able to reach maybe 10% of web sites securely because they don't offer you enough information to trust their certificate. Feel free to make it your life's mission to yell at all the site owners.
The problem outlined in the article is not with process vs thread, the problem is with multiple parallel execution contexts reading and writing the same cache line. This issue would have manifested in the same way if your separate processes touched the same offset in a shared memory mapping.

Of course, designing with multiple processes in mind helps to design a shared-nothing architecture, as the costs of shared state between processes are much more explicit. But any kind of state that needs to be shared will run into the same bottleneck, because all forms of shared IPC fundamentally have to use some form of locking somewhere in the stack to serialize incoming inputs.
Hey :) You can seek a psychiatrist specialized in addictions issues. They will help you quit the spiral.

Good luck, once helped, you can do it !
Do you decrypt tls ?
Why do people think dogecoin is the future? It's funny. We didn't get in on the ground floor of bitcoin? Well, we will make a new ground floor, with hookers and cocaine.

This is a cycle that will repeat until the joke is played out and boring. Then it'll have to wait for a new generation that hasn't played the game yet to come along and revive things. Meanwhile the old people will laugh, and some of the children will laugh back, because, well, look at all the money they are making.
The Praxis Collection
I bristle against most articles that posit "x isn't y, it's actually z"

(Speakers like Simon Sinek have made entire careers out of this specific rhetorical approach.)

In almost all cases, x is both y and z. Such is the truth about tech debt. Tech debt can but a strategic lever for success but is usually simultaneously a burden.

I don't find the examples in the article very on point. Twitter using publicly available storage systems until 2014 doesn't strike me as a form tech debt at all. Rather it is is a logical system design decision based on Twitter's business and organizational focus at the time.
not really. He had a ton of stock options that he either had to exercise, or he would loose. He also had tax implications, not to mention people like AOC making him public enemy number one for not paying taxes that are actually not legal taxes.
It's annoying that, as you scroll down the page, the bolt animates to show it turning, but it scrolls out of view before it gets to the point where the main feature of the product would be shown.
Your doubly linked comment (adrian_b’s remark) makes the incorrect assertion that the only reason blake3 is faster than blake2 is parallelism; this is objectively false. Blake3 uses fewer rounds (7x2) of the Chacha primitive than blake2 (10x2).

I think tptacek has it right: this thing is used very infrequently (period 300 seconds) and blake2 was already in the kernel, so they just reused it. It’s adequately fast, even if blake3 would be marginally faster.
I’ve been using Fedora server to good success.

My home servers only last about a year or two before i need to tinker & change things. I don’t need 5 yrs of lts support in the OS - 2 yrs of fedora is fine.

We use rhel at work & have always paid for the licenses.
Sounds interesting but my main concern is the anti-spam approach. It sounds good for general spam but what about a concerted defamation campaign from someone. How do you deal with that?
For the affected, you can move to the free, open source, non-profit Alma Linux. It's 1:1 with RHEL. https://almalinux.org/

You can also get extended support for CentOS 7 and 8 from CloudLinux.
> Honestly, if your brain is still being bothered by those experiences, I have found it means that I have not dealt with those experiences enough. There is something "unfinished" with that experience that my brain can't figure out, so it keeps circle back through it. Especially for traumatic things or big events...

I would like to second this. Human beings are really good in putting stuff away in their head and convincing themselves things are okay when they aren't.
It was announced a while back and there is an easy migration procedure to Centos Stream 8.
The argument made is that, overall, there should be less bugs in Centos Stream than in Centos of old because bug fixes are there first now and coming faster than ever was possible.
Of course it is, because those parents and grandparents can also be vaccinated unless there is a severe contraindication that would upset the risk/benefit equation.
I think that open source database startups (or even ones that do data management like Elasticsearch) a big problem (other than finding traction obviously ). One is if you release your source code it’s very easy for someone else to just copy the straight forward business model of selling it as SaaS.

The second one would be keeping your promises or even competing entrenched databases.

Even when you have gotten this far a way that you can exit is to get one enterprise customer convinced to use it so badly they must acquirer you.

The biggest lie I have seen across databases is actual time travel for your data. Or in other words given a date and time in the past it gives you what the data was then.
I don't particularly want my kids to be warriors. Too many of them are psychopaths.
That’s basically it.

For a well known and successful project, like BAYC or Cryptopunks, the authentic and original mint contracts are well known. If in 100 years someone offers to sell me one, which has traded hands 3500 times, it is extremely easy to ignore the noise of the 3500 intermediate transactions, pull up the source contract, and confirm it’s the authentic original.

This of course works best for “well known” NFTs, but it is a legitimate improvement over how Sotheby’s would have to authenticate a newly discovered alleged Monet, as in that case, the secondary transactions are relevant and need to be investigated as it’s impossible to just jump to the source and know with certainty that this is a legitimate Monet.

For projects that are not well known, you do not have the benefit of having a “well known” source contract, but yes, with everything on chain, you could at least do as you suggest and say, well, this appears to be the earliest example on chain anyone has been able to find.

So while there is of course still some uncertainties or some need to refer to external knowledge or sources off chain, being able to totally track a clear decentralized chain of title is very helpful, and solves a lot of problems, even though it does not solve all problems.
If ed25519 was used instead of secp256k1, wouldn't pubkeys be shorter? Like SSB.
https://archive.is/zGOCd
Be the unreasonable minority https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Shhh, you don’t want them suddenly reading the Song of Solomon all of a sudden.
Just curious = how do these SmartBolts handle under full tension load AND fire conditions...

You have effectively drilled out the core of a bolt and replaced it with "goo" and you are using this as an indicator of the health of that fastening node?

So what if you burn out the goo? What if you get side/compression damage on the device -- what does the thing do when you over-tight/strip?

isnt a "goo core" less structurally strong than a solid bolt? Is a bolt tightened to a setting using a SmartBolt vs a regular bolt with tension wrench going to manage the same loads or not?
What I'm trying to figure out about blockchain in general is how people think it will avoid the inevitable consolidation that efficient economies drive towards. A few examples:

- In the early days of the automobile there were hundreds of car companies. Now there are essentially what, 10 worldwide?

- In the early days of personal computing there were hundreds of competing platforms, PC brands, etc. Now there are essentially what, 10 worldwide?

- In the early days of the internet there were hundreds (thousands?) of dial-up and last mile internet providers (sometimes literally some person in your neighborhood with a T1 and modems in a garage). Now there are what, 10 in the US?

- In the early days of the internet there were hundreds of web hosting companies, e-mail providers, etc. Now almost all of the internet runs on what, three?

These examples go on and on (mobile devices, cell providers, pretty much anything and everything).

Point being it's extremely unlikely (to me) that as the immutable blockchain ledgers all of this is built on grow endlessly (storage, compute, bandwidth, etc) and attempt to scale to any meaningful application, transaction rate, etc beyond the toy level it's at now "decentralized" will almost certainly turn into a handful of power players that can bring the advantages offered by massive economies of scale.
Because you can have circular dependencies within a compilation unit, but not between units.
I didn't but I have to learn to accept responsibility. That said most nerds I know of can make friends with other nerds just fine.

It's not good to hide behind the nerd shield for any social or mental health issues because it can prevent us from identifying and resolving the underlying cause.
I suspect in addition to DNR's there will end up being a DNL (do not link).
Most of the power in Vermont is hydro from Canada, nuclear from New Hampshire, local hydro or solar and wind, with some diesel peaking generators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Vermont#Supply

A lot of people do use LP gas in tanks for heating buildings and water, but lots of people have wood stoves as heat backup since snow and ice storms regularly take down the grid and make LP deliveries impossible. Maine is similar as are the rural parts of New Hampshire. Anyone who lives in a cold climate already knows you have to have backups for heat. Home generators/solar are popular also. So a lack of LNG (which is different than Liquid Propane gas used in rural home heating) might affect Boston and the more populous sections of New England, but it probably isn't going to be a major disaster elsewhere in the region. The reason Maine vetoed the transmission line is because Massachusetts completely ignored Maine's needs in designing it, like running an extension cord through your neighbors house. It may succeed if Massachusetts offers some benefit for Maine from a new transmission line. There are not a lot of people in Maine though, so there may only be downsides for Maine from a new transmission line and no upside. NIMBY implies people want the service but don't want the ugly industrial part of it in their back yard. This is more like Massachusetts trying to put the ugly industrial part in Maine's back yard, and understandably Maine doesn't want it if it has no benefit to Maine. You can argue that Maine should allow it because Climate Crisis, but that's a different argument, which might require some federal involvement in improving the USA grid.

All that said, the quality of power in Vermont is terrible, I often see 10 major glitches per month and have arranged most everything in my house to run off UPS's. I think the problem is tree branches; the pine trees are so tall that even with a wide right of way the branches can often reach the power lines and cause the contactors to turn off for a few seconds before they automatically reset, especially when it is windy.