skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always surprised by the negativity towards crypto in tech focused forums. I understand the costs; disruptive technologies always come with enormous costs. The value proposition is much larger still.

* Popular payment processors like visa and mastercard have become moral arbiters. Shutting down one's ability to donate to Wikileaks was a huge wake up call to the world. They've only ramped up efforts since then, blocking the purchase of marijuana, pornography, and donations to many organisations. It is clear that the centralisation of power in this space is not in the best interests of us.

* Banking infrastructure is stuck in the 90s. It should never take a business day to settle payments. It should never take several business days to settle cross-boarder money transfers. It should never cost [$x|3%|whatever exorbitant exchange rate the bank is offering]. Payments should never be tracked by government agencies as a matter of course. Payments and transfers should be instant, virtually free, and private.

* Confidence is low in government management of currency. Modern Monetary Theory appears to be winding its way into policy decisions which is basically the financial equivalent of formulating a nation-wide strategy based on moon crystals and horoscopes. Predictably, inflation is creeping up, and the desire for a stable store of wealth is increasing; or at least a hedge against inflation which isn't already inflated stocks.

NONE of these drivers above can be completely satisfied with crypto yet, but I am amazed with the progress it has made to date, and I have no doubt these will all be solved in time - far ahead of the conventional banking industry.
He is a far-right conspiracy nutjob.
> as long as it is only used after an incident and only available to law enforcement.

I submit that this is Chekhov's_gun[1].

The only means of keeping the data safe from unforeseen usage is never keep it in the first place.

One elusive flavor of wisdom is the idea that it's OK to leave things be and not optimize them.

Call it the "Technocrat Temptation", but to squeeze the entropy out of life is to beget hell on Earth.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun
The user agent doesn't know what the purpose of each cookie is. It could be a purely functional cookie (like a session cookie for an e-commerce website) or an advertising cookie. The website has to allow the user to accept the former and block the latter.
Pretty much anything. How about a Dell R340 with a dual-10G NIC and some SSDs? That's not commodity, that's cheap, a commodity server would be a dual-Xeon but that's overkill for serving 16gbps.
Articles by far-right provocateurs don't belong on HN.
I can believe it. There are much weirder people out there.
so this is the metaverse... ok
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Thank you! Sorry for the late response, I always seem to miss responses to my posts.

I had been struggling with the same thing, but these are some great sources. Thanks :)
This is the weirdest code documentation I have ever read.
wouldn't it be Y2K22?
Project Nera. Whoops.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974798
Whenever I'm looking at content I like I just go and see what else that author has posted. If it sounds vaguely interesting I add it to my reader. If after a couple of posts it's not too interesting I remove it.

I believe a lot of the bigger sites like Feedly will recommend you popular feeds. I would love a service that I can paste a list of feeds into and it could recommend popular related feeds.
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Telegram seems to have put themselves in a weird spot. Seeing which of my contacts sign up for telegram and/or signal, Telegram has definitely won in terms of market adoption. They saw the opportunity after anger with WhatsApp and decided to be the new WhatsApp platform. "We might not be the best at security, but at least we're not Facebook"
That's not a lot better.
Things like Kanban were not at all what I was thinking of.

Software processes are designed with mathematical/statistical backing when needed. For example, A/B testing, anomaly detection and merge queues.

> arbitrary planning procedures

I don't think this is an accurate description. In traditional engineering the main focus is: does it work and is it cheap? In software, both of these are usually non-issues so things can vary a lot more.

For example, recently there was a blogpost by a company about not doing code reviews by default to allow them to move faster [0]. They are making a conscious effort to optimize their process for speed. Other companies (Or even teams within companies) will make different optimizations. A service that must be highly available may have 100% test coverage as a requirement, etc.

I suspect you will call this arbitrary, but I see these process decisions as conscious choices. The fact these aren't grounded in mathematics or statistics is not a big deal to me because the goals/focus are more complex than does it work and how much does it cost.

In software everything is a tradeoff rather than having an absolute answer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792859
Everyone knows everyone in Ireland.
It's a blessing and a curse.
Blending Analytics and Design Thinking
The Armenians, too, and even Lukashenko tried to play both sides, get cozy with the West. They are probably/definitely not going to do that again.
Only if that the person sending you email abids by the "unsubscribe" and doesn't just use it to confirm that you use this email address.

I would lay money that Facebook just uses that unsubscribe as another data point.
Hello , I'm hacker 858
and from < Thailand >
Power < 32 GB >
it's a shame three arent's more big fines for shitty
Even useful for blogs that do because I will never remember their schedule or what the website was anyways.
Getting new cards is a pain, especially if you are traveling. You are without a card for a bit until it is replaced. And chargebacks are a headache. That is a good point about malware, However I would bet address substitution would be discovered a lot more quickly. Magecart was ripping vendors for weeks before the cc vendors tipped them off. 1 bad purchase flow and the customer complains and the site would investigate. It’s pwned for minutes not weeks. Cc theft can be silent and might only strike its victims months after the compromise.
The difference is the victim. In a malware scenario, cc’s it’s the card holder, with cryptocurrency it’s the vendor that is getting screwed.
right, but it's way easier to get into if you did multiple semesters of it in college. You probably won't even need the textbook, just glance at a few articles on wikipedia/google and it'll all come back.
If 21 bits seems like an odd place to stop, it’s because the Unicode consortium said they wouldn’t allocate any codepoints beyond U+10FFFF (the end of plane 16), because that’s as far as UTF-16 could go using a four-byte surrogate pair (10+10 bits, offset by U+10000).
> Homeopathic practitioners sell false hope.

While true, the example of GP is convincing, in the same way that placebos are effective: homeopathy gets some people something in certain situations. I don't think homeopathy should be part of regular medical treatment, but I don't see the harm if it's used (on peoples own dime, which is how it works in my country) alongside or after regular medicine.

It's a bit like religion perhaps, I don't want it to replace science, but if it helps some people get through dark times, maybe we should let them.
No no no, it's all the war between US and Russia, people are just dust, they can only be manipulated! /s

(this is what every russian bot is saying)
> If Apple did a focus-group at that time, they'd never release an iPhone.

If Apple did a focus group at the time, they'd never release a phone with a resistive touch screen, which they didn't, because they suck. When capacitive was mature, that's when we got the iPhone.
Well you already suggested that you are an European so that was a given. What I meant was judging a country's "worthiness" is already a weird notion --- how should "country of law" be quantified and compared? Who gets to say which country / system of law is better or worse?

The notion that a group of rich and powerful countries gets to decide how other countries should behave when said rich and powerful countries got to where they are through (both past and ongoing) atrocious exploitations of other people doesn't sound particularly convincing, don't you think?
I didn't know that. Is that because of access to PCR testing services or a "head in the sand" attitude?

We're in a situation now where our PCR test system has pretty much fallen apart.
Google doesn't break out the numbers by country. There are various estimates from 200M to 1000M. Either way this is a hefty fine, especially since France finds a new 9 digit fine to levy every year.
To be fair, with the current web bloat, wap sites were faster to open than many todays sites, even on 5G.
nothing new, this kind of tool, has been in the wild for long time without a name, used to manipulate behavior during political elections
It seems noteworthy that Kazakhstan represents ~22% of Bitcoins hashrate (~45 TWh/year of electricity), at the same time as people are out in the streets rioting over the price of heating their homes.
Neon predates N-API so it couldn't use N-API initially. That's why NAPI-RS was written. Neon now finished migrating to N-API.
So is '2' a one-byte sequence or the start of a three-byte sequence?
Idk I just saw it used elsewhere and mindless typed it
hew hundred people week long sit in escalated by police intervention versus 60 young men showed up out of nowhere and took control of the airport
Just stating the obvious (but not necessarily true): could be that before covid you never really never thought about others sniffles/coughing, but now after covid, everyone who behave "sick" becomes noticeable. I certainly noticed this in myself.
Can anyone recommend a nice RSS client for Apple systems that uses iCloud to sync the list of feeds across devices? I've tried Reeder and NetNewsWire and they both miss the mark of "ideal".
I have online. I think they are still around one of the groups I’m in. It’s rather confusing.

As far as quirks go… it depends why someone has a quirk. If someone isn’t neurotyoical, they can seem like they have a lot of weird behaviors. Once you know the underlying cause, it makes sense and you stop thinking about it. (Or at least I do.)
Which he doesn't: both times it's four Ws. Seemed odd to me, but then bugs get into everything :)
/64 is the standardized value for the host part of an IPv6 address. Specifically, it's half the address.
Accepting by automated means should not be an option. To accept processing of personal data you should be fully aware of the scope.
Indeed, pronouns are a pretty challenging skill for toddlers. Similarly, for their sake, you will often refer to yourself in third person as well, saying Daddy or Mommy rather than I or me.
Does this mean the sites will only be fixed in France? They only seem to cite French legislation as the reason for the fine:

> This constitutes an infringement of Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act.
Spending time in a developing country as a Westerner really can temper the inanity of First World Problems. It's a true blessing.
Finally some sources, thank you. Point b of chapter 2 seems to be the most interesting for this kind of discussion

2. Intelligent speed assistance shall meet the following minimum requirements:

(a)

it shall be possible for the driver to be made aware through the accelerator control, or through dedicated, appropriate and effective feedback, that the applicable speed limit is exceeded;

(b)

it shall be possible to switch off the system; information about the speed limit may still be provided, and intelligent speed assistance shall be in normal operation mode upon each activation of the vehicle master control switch;

(c)

the dedicated and appropriate feedback shall be based on speed limit information obtained through the observation of road signs and signals, based on infrastructure signals or electronic map data, or both, made available in-vehicle;

(d)

it shall not affect the possibility, for the drivers, of exceeding the system’s prompted vehicle speed;

(e)

its performance targets shall be set in order to avoid or minimise the error rate under real driving conditions.
I mean, if you want to be that literal about it I guess I can't fault you. I would expect someone to scope the conversation appropriately. The tripple I'm talking about is in the context of tripples on brand new 600 dollar e-mountain bikes. They will all be trash.

Is that a fairer statement, or would you like to just say I'm once again moving the goalposts by clarifying?
Lots of people are subservient to authority so I absolutely understand why you and a lot of people have this opinion and I can see there are pros to doing such things.

Do you accept that there are people who place value on privacy from government and believe that governments can abuse their powers, and that they have a valid opinion so a balance which takes that into account should be found, including the possibility that existing surveillance might already be too much?
Which puts me in mind of this classic, also from the DailyWTF: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/a_case_of_the_mumps
Which is just as long as "Y2022", but probably not as catchy to use as a title...
My role isn't to assess if you're competent or not. My role is to assess if I want you on my team or not. There's a difference.

And yes, if I ask you a technical question and you freeze, I don't want you on my team. It doesn't mean you're a bad engineer. It means you're not a good fit.
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UK is not part of the EU, and the Express is hardly a newspaper
Except that NATO countries are not run by tzars in their 70-ies whose only hope is to die quietly in bed, surrounded by elite killers.
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If anything, tech companies are micromanaging governments.
I don't see how the situation is altogether worse. Now everyone is aware about the extent of tracking and can opt out, even if most sites don't make it as easy as it should be. Is clicking "yes"/"no" such a big hassle that you'd rather have blanket tracking everywhere?
At one point I had my laptop reading the time every 15 minutes, because I can be absent minded. It didn’t make me focus. But I always muted my laptop when I wasn’t wear headphones so it didn’t annoy anyone.
Follow these tips and you will (probably) never have to work that hard (except on projects) or pull an all nighter:

- go over the lecture material yourself a few days after for every lecture

- start studying for the exam 2 months before but only for an hour or two a day. By the time the exam rolls around you will be so well versed you can take a few days off before the exam

It's hard to do but will make your college experience way less stressful.
And the bit at the end where someone calls up for a reference and ends up sending a fruit basket has the ring of truth.
They're not fat, just overloaded!
True, but also how outlandish certain ideas were about peeling your house clean and replacing meals with pills...
It's not about left and right, it's about being a journalist that has done extensive research and can provide sources, or a spammy clickbaiter.
My 12 yr old now feels naked without the mask... Perhaps the mandate isn't very useful, but kids are so adaptable (evolutionary trait!) that this isn't in general a big deal for them.
The EU does not want to say how it has to be done. It's a bad idea to put something into law because changing the law is incredibly slow. They only do that when the market failed over a long time.

See smartphone connectors where they will demand USB-C soon. When the news hit HN quite a few people were calling EU anti innovation.
I say server, presumably it’s the entire solution of however many servers, storage, network etc.

If it’s 2k/month for a non resilient solution, it’s in the order of 4k for a resilient solution (you need to relocate assets both ways but it’s in that order of magnitude)
Good luck getting this past play store review, I think the technical term is "in-app payments circumvention"
No. It absolutely is not.

It's been the default in Safari since day one.

It is necessary but insufficient, because otherwise tracking Safari users would never have been possible. Despite that WebKit has had to consistently devote engineering effort into making these privacy invasions impossible.

WebKit, and I think Firefox now?, had to do further work to isolate same domain cookies to specific contexts.

At the same time there is Chrome, aggressively pushing new features that often happen to add new tracking mechanisms.

Google and Facebook depend on invading user privacy, that is their primary source of income. If there is any way they can track you, they will use it.

The only solution is legal, coupled with actual enforcement.
I considered that but you end up with the bed almost touching the roof which isn’t terribly comfortable.
I worked on a project that involved building a constraint-based system that diagnosed short circuits in complex and expensive analogue circuit boards. We named many of the relevant variables after short people (e.g. Ronnie, Corbet, Napoleon, etc etc).

We would have got away with it due to the general lack of external code reviews but our boss heard us discussing a bug that involved one of them.
maybe similar situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Polish_protests
Centrally controlled price rise, conspiracy to overthrow government from within.
We redesigned AWS region discovery for our production cluster
> In the spirit of other legacy / succession features, is there an opposite option to prefer the account vanishes from the platform entirely?

Earlier this year maintainer of MIT licensed zinit* somewhat disappeared from the internet. Issues weren't being addressed/replied to etc. This of course is fine, they're not expected to provide support or continue maintaining the project if they don't want to. However, in the past few months, the maintainer decided to remove all repos and organisations relating to zinit, causing everyone's profiles to suddenly stop working. People weren't able to initialise their dot files on a new machines. There was no backups nothing. I happened to do update my dot files to the latest version of all the plugins hours after the deletion of the repos, and my whole profile completely broke. I sat there for a good few hours trying to recover. Luckily git is graceful.

Unless there's a method to archive your public OSS repos, removing your profile means all your code will be gone too. At best that's an inconvenience to hobbyists, and at worst, it can break production systems.

In the case of zinit, luckily the community came together and were able to scrape back the latest code based on the local git repos of individuals. I think there are still some repos that have to be recovered.

* zinit is a zsh profile manager, allows for managing binaries, plugins, and other things.
sounds like the Sith model. Always two there are.
The main problem is that back then, messaging services were just that - messaging services designed to keep people in touch. They were open, or at least neutral to third-parties interoperating with them.

The problem is that doesn't pay the bills, or at least not as much as "growth and engagement" and stalking/non-consensual data collection does. So they started restricting interoperability with technical and legal means (somehow copyright is often used to prevent third-party clients for displaying content despite the user having a "license" to access said content and despite the original rights-holder - the sender of said content - having no problems with this).

There's no technical reason why a unified messaging client can't be done, neither now nor a decade ago and in fact it was a mostly solved problem a decade ago before the "growth and engagement" crowd came around.
Relatedly, Pewdiepie received claims on his own songs from someone "on behalf of Pewdiepie" (not commissioned by him). https://youtu.be/Ku1ykhGP764?t=388
My MetaMask Private Keys Stolen from GitHub Private Repo in 1 Hour
I am working on a crypto project using React.JS, just experimenting with web3 and MetaMask wallet.

In the project, I was reading my private keys from a json file and last night I accidentally committed this json file to my GitHub private repository. The repository was brand new and I just emailed an invitation to my colleague that we were working together on Zoom.
After realizing that I have committed the private keys, I immediately deleted the whole repository and pushed a whole new repo again.

But after 1 hour, I discovered that nothing was left in my wallets and whatever I sent to these wallets is being transferred to another account afterwards.

Here is an example of transactions from the last night:

https://polygonscan.com/address/0x7a9eb3cc39bc6ac940febbdb5bb29b8f9ece8a5b

All of the sender wallets were mine for the recipient above.

What do you think?
But that AWS deployment doesn't manifest out of thin air either. Kubernetes and AWS knowledgable engineers aren't any less expensive.
If I compare it with Belgium it's cases are better but deaths is relatively worse to the other stat, which is kinda weird. Unless they don't test much.

But Belgium also overcounts deaths ( should be /2 when I checked in 2020), which means any untested death is counted as COVID. Most people don't seem to be aware of that.

https://www.dw.com/en/belgiums-coronavirus-overcounting-cont...

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
https://www.alxr.com
Is there a way to combine this with the OP, and designate Code Shelter itself as a successor for GitHub projects?

That would be useful as a way to ensure future maintenance of projects that are currently still actively maintained. Designating a volunteer org like this as a successor makes more sense to me than picking a random individual.
Have fun reading Babel-17. An entire language there is built on the idea of removing the self.

Edit: Corrected book title.