skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US government was just absolutely not going to let Facebook do a private currency, backed by a basket mostly of foreign currencies, at worldwide scale.

How does this affect the rest of Crypto, because I suspect that governments around the world can shutdown Bitcoin and others any time they want. Given that fact, I'm wondering why other crypto currencies are being tolerated.
Yes, they do - but it requires both client support and server support to work. Older servers can’t do it, and for example the provided openssh version with windows doesn’t support it either. And adding GPG keys to a yubikey may be interesting to people using pass or similar password managers.
Pope tells parents not to condemn children with different sexual orientations
Because you only talk to finance not IT.

Because compared to a staff of 50 doing anything the costs of an ec2 instance for a week are irrelevant?

Because finance already has AWS in system as a vendor?

Because pricing is public?

Because costs hit your budget not ITs so you have more authority?

Orgs can easily spend 5x what it would cost internally on AWS because of friction avoiding factors like this.
The problems of aging would creep on them later, but it isn't as if happy, stress free and well fed people stay healthy forever.

Aging is a process that affects everyone, the only thing that you can influence a bit is speed thereof.
Why women being more college educated than men is troubling for society
Published in 2011, so perhaps that should be added to the title.
Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
Print and then scan the paper for the old-school slightly blurry, often misaligned, feel that papers should have.
>People rarely compare it directly to something like a "Real Food" diet - they go from a lot of processed crap to mostly non processed stuff on the outside of the grocery store and then see huge benefits. But I suspect if they just switched to a Real Food diet in the first place they would see most of the same benefits.

Keto is a very wide category that really only means restricting your carbs to 30g/day or so. You can be real-food keto and real-food not-keto.

You can be keto vegan, you can be keto carnivore. Well, all carnivores are keto. In fact the studies in the last couple years, tend to all show that effectively being keto is what matters.

The jury is still out on why it works. As you said, we've been eating tubers for eons. So why suddenly in the last ~75 years or less has it become such a problem? Perservatives, glyphosate, GMOs? Everyone seems pretty clear that our food has become toxic in some way. Lots of different approaches that eliminate grains and seed oils and drastically improve your situation. We haven't figured out what exactly is doing it.

>I think we all know that the average person in the west is likely not eating nearly enough of these prebiotics and in addition many have other digestion issues as well. There is a reason scientists call them ESSENTIAL fatty acids and not "kinda sorta important" fatty acids.

The funny thing to me, we have people effectively going 'real food' afterall a carnivore is also 'real food' but vegans are doing the same thing, but different direction on 1 spectrum and seeing the benefits as well.

The huge problem... economies collapse if we fix whatever it is. If you go to your local grocery store and throw out everything that isn't 'real food'. The grocery store becomes empty. Fast food places shut down. That's a pretty significant portion of our society who no longer work or anything. What are they to do? We can't fix the problem.
> It's like my body just ignores the daylight cycle and does whatever it wants.

How about artificial light cycle? I found that cutting light to just a yellow reading lamp after 9 p.m has really helped me sleep regularly.
Haha what a funny acquisition. There’s no synergy there besides I assume weak attempts at bundling things.
Some context:

https://www.kubotaholdings.co.jp/en/kubota-glass-technology-...
setf is one of the most underrated Lisp powers. In Javascript, it'd look like this:

// save current cursor position
var x = point();

// set the cursor position
point() = 42;

// insert some text
insert("Hi there")

// reset cursor position
point() = x;

Notice you're assigning a value to a function call.

Under the hood, point() = x; gets transformed to set_point(x); or whatever else you tell it to do -- it's programmable, and you have full access to the right hand side arguments.

This might not seem too compelling. The key is that it composes.

I was just getting to the good part, but our puppy is demanding my attention. Duty calls.

Suffice to say, nested calls like

point(find_buffer("foo.txt")) = 21

can be rewritten to

prev_buffer = current_buffer();
set_buffer(find_buffer("foo.txt"));
set_point(21);
set_buffer(prev_buffer);

automatically.
It is my understanding that he refused the offer of sex. For instance, here is the WikiPedia (yes, I know WP can be an issue, but the link you provided is consistent with this quote): "[Ghislaine] Maxwell "directed" her to have sex with Minsky among others. There has been no allegation that sex between them took place nor a lawsuit against Minsky's estate."
Fake Grimacecoin Jumps 285,000% After McDonald’s’ Tesla Joke
For your "Unlock a PC" need you may be looking for the FIDO optional feature hmac-secret.

e.g. one of the things Microsoft wants to unlock a (potentially offline) Windows 10 PC is hmac-secret and it is not an essential feature of FIDO since you wouldn't need it to e.g. sign in to Google, or GitHub or whatever.

For products built by the community, you should be able to find someone who has tried your scenario (e.g. "Unlock a macOS 12 macBook") and can say it definitely works with the product before you buy one.
I assume they are referring to how the question posed by the GP was worded as if this conversation was happening on Reddit, and this is not Reddit.
The TikTok effect.
I really appreciate the comment! I just took the Kindle version down because I wasn't happy with the image scaling. Every image scaled very small. I just uploaded a new version with much better images. It's going through Amazon's review process now and should be available shortly.

I'll update the description with how I see this book in relation to the Google SRE books.

This book aims to provide hands on examples of implementing a number of concepts described in Google's SRE books. It also describes how i've seen SRE concepts impact some of the organizations I've worked in.

A couple chapters are hands on debugging exercises going through the process of debugging applications based on data. I'm excited because every chapter describes something that I've done in paying jobs, so it documents real life SRE in action at various size organizations, and not theoretical SRE concepts.
The transpose is irrelevant after moving on to z-order access patterns and the 3d equivalent. Not quite as possible to reach peak sustained performance but well worth the trade in simplicity IMO.
cool. i really believe either the governments around the world have to accept "crypto" in the shape and form it is now, like bitcoin which has full traceability and full anonymity or monero which has no traceability and full anonymity or just shut it down in an act of desperation.
i do not understand "why" would a for-profit company like paypal or facebook would jump the bandwagon, build their own existing model of tracking and money movement with the poster of "crypto" and be like any other crypto model. it is unsustainable because cryptocurrencies are designed to be without a central distribution model and control. if you introduce that, you might as well use westernunion for cross border transactions or use SWIFT because both of them are designed to keep minting fees for themselves, keep themselves relevant and exercise control.
remember, usa can unilaterally decide "oh, well visa/mastercard cannot operate in this country" and guess what, that entire country's card infra goes down. so much for democracy.
Subreddits don't work well for long form stuff.

Like for example a project log where you are restoring some old car, solving problems and sourcing parts.
In a forum it is cleanly self contained. On a subreddit it would be a bunch of scattered posts you would have to take the care to link to.
How to SQRL Mnemonic Phrases on a Ledger
How a simple technique can help you add a layer of security to your hardware wallet
Batteries included fullstack development kit in Go
If banks simply refused to implement stupid and ineffective rules, no government is going to shut them down.
Maybe one of the lessons could be about David Marcus and how much he really understands the world of finance
Hadn't come across this before. At first glance, I thought the quotes were satirical, but no, they're very real:

> "You don't really know that the cool project you signed up for is in a skyscraper in Silicon Valley, or like me: one dude in his underpants somewhere who has five windows open to terminal servers"

- Economist Magazine [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/babbage/2011/04/04/stick-a-pin-in-...
https://hn.algolia.com/

I use this to search HN. It’s amazingly useful.
Easiest way: Change environment.
A nice follow up is also here https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/21/more-on-less-curl-mem...
Then your tool is incomplete. Steganography works by encoding information into side channels, like precise positioning of words in the PDF, fonts, etc...

Your tool can be as crude as running the document through pdftotext and only keeping the text output. It can just throw away all these possible side channels that are not relevant to the actual content.

Others mentioned other more sophisticated side channels, as rewording sentences, but I'm sure authors would not welcome that.
I deployed a little side-project (https://thecitymapquiz.com) to fly.io yesterday. The deployment went really smooth, but friends testing it out complained their connection (websockets in Phoenix LiveView) dropped. It might be because its running on the cheapest VMs, I don't know yet.
That said, it was really satisfying seeing the application running in Seattle, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam within minutes after launch.
It's surreal as an American watching a couple of UK photographers on YouTube just stroll through random gates and cross land without any locks or "No Trespassing" signs. Meanwhile, I got a shotgun shoved in my face for walking too close for the comfort of the owner of a house on the other side of a highway's shoulder. I'm pretty sure brandishing is a crime in Georgia, but I was a teen and wasn't about to argue with someone who could end me with a twitch.
Reddit is as always a mixed experience.

I think any successful forum depends heavily on its mods (notably like this one) to maintain community and civility, to remove spam, abuse, brigading, and astroturfing. This works despite the corporation trying to monetize with both hands. Reddit still has some subs with good mod teams where kind, productive communities are carrying on. This could happen on any decent forum software.

And yeah the rest is commercialized filth.
Did they tell the Polkit people about this? Or was it just posted on their website? Or to rephrase it: what are the reasons this wasn't this fixed in 2013?
I think that was a Poe's law moment.
It's the old "You're not the customer, but the product" thing.

Google doesn't make Maps because you pay them for it, but because they want to know where you are, where you're going and how long you look at what. So they're not going to care much about how well it works for you without an internet connection, and the offline map probably only exists to check the checkbox and stop people from going to the competition.
No, I own one. It's a Blackberry Z10, but I no longer use it because I bought a tablet with a radio chip and now my SO works from home. He was the only person I ever needed to call...so I have become used to not having it on a regular basis. Plus I prefer the larger screen of my tab.
We live in a one track world but anyone can become a polymath
https://joinmastodon.org/

https://joinpeertube.org/
How often do you actually browse with old hardware? I have a 2009 MacBook Pro that I and my family use almost every day for basic web browsing. It has no trouble with Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, PBS Kids, even newspaper sites. We do block ads, which probably helps.

Is it as fast as my M1 MacBook Air? No, of course not. Is it unusably slow? No.
The 5s still gets security updates 8 years on. The 6S still gets the latest OS (iOS15). My old landline phones still work ~30 years on. The idea that electronics has to be chucked and replaced every 2 or 3 years is rather wasteful.
Good to hear the gripes with AirPods are identical to my $80 earpods, nothing missed out on in other words :-).

Edit: I have a pair of JBL LIVE300TWS. They're good!
They are easy to understand even for average people.
If this global replicated architecture is now a nice, polished, improving hosting product - how come so many well-funded global brands don't appear to benefit from an architecture like it?

Like Airbnb taking many seconds to load many parts of their app from the UK, or business apps like Xero which respond tens of times slower than a local app from 30 years ago.

Surely these are the sorts of companies which should be on top of global hosting, now that a hosting firm can box and sell it?
How many Linux users really expect a hacker to 1) be on their local network, 2) find a zero-day exploit in SSH, and 3) want to eavesdrop on them? I'm pretty sure I'd get struck by lightning while attacked by a shark before that ever happened
Annoyance 8: When I'm using the (good) noise cancelling of the AirPods to eliminate distracting background noise so I can focus, after a few hours the battery will run down to 15% and trigger the EXTREMELY LOUD "PING-pong-pong-pong" low-battery noise, right in my ear, without warning.

And it's Apple, so of course you can't turn it off.
Ooh, that's an excellent point! State fairs never cost US$600 per person, even when you include all the funnel cakes and donut-bun hamburger sandwiches bought from the concessionnaires. Typical admission prices in the US are maybe US$20 per day? But they have plenty of space, lots of conference rooms, bathroom facilities, handicapped accessibility, folding chairs, and so on. I bet you could hold an academic conference at a state fair fairgrounds for under US$100 a person. But I've never heard of a sci-fi con doing this, so maybe there's a fatal flaw in this idea I'm not seeing.
Apple stuff "just works" until it doesn't. As much as a fan I am of Apple, the lack of feedback when things stop working is absolutely infuriating.
Certainly, but if both server and client supports it (Ubuntu has shipped with it by default for a few versions now), it's much, much easier to use it instead.
Because the stable coin provider lives in web3, and so is distributed over the whole world.

So in case of UST, as long as the Terra network is up, your coins are there.

What would it take for a government to take down the Terra network? I guess more than what it takes to take down the BitTorrent network. And last time I checked, I can still download any movie on there.

So a government being able to confiscate a wallet on a blockchain, seems very unlikely if you protect it well.
I agree with you in general, but saying "GPG just works" in a post about a long guide on how to set it up seems iffy.
It is developed and run(?) by our own dear idlewords.
This is very difficult to say.

In many countries COVID has not been a particularly deadly disease. Large numbers of recorded deaths "with COVID" obscure this but e.g. 2021 in the UK was about as deadly as 2015, 2020 was about as deadly as 2007 and in Sweden 2020 was about as deadly as 2012. So in all cases similar levels of death have been within the living memory of children. That is biased upwards and confounded by lockdown and healthcare-restriction deaths also, of course. ONS claims only about ~17,000 deaths in the UK over the two years are pure COVID with no other comorbidities, so if China had never announced COVID, if mass testing had never started, if there'd been no panic, it's not totally clear to what extent it'd have surfaced into the public consciousness in Europe. It'd probably have been noticed by doctors and specialists.

Now, in the USA things are worse. It's still not really explained why, but most likely due to obesity levels. Also USA stats are hard to work with because overall mortality had been going up for quite some time before COVID unlike in other places where it was slowly falling, so there are maybe deeper underlying problems there that this exposed.

But let's put all that to one side. The question of how long SARS-CoV-2 has been around gets into the question of what a 'strain' is. This is a question of semantics and how virology classifies viruses.

Unfortunately here things get very murky. There is a classification system for viruses that tries to decide if they are a 'variant' of SARS-CoV-2 called Pango. It takes as given that SARS-CoV-2 originates in Wuhan and all detected variants must be slottable into a family tree derived from two original sequences found there. There are some rules about how to do that but they are being frequently changed and this tree can, it seems, go on forever, as there's no rule that says "anything mutated more than X from the original Wuhan sequence is a different strain". All the rules are relative to entries already in the tree. So it's possible that according to virology there will never be a time when SARS-CoV-2 isn't endemic even if its behaviour and RNA changes totally. Additionally, COVID is defined as "presence of any variant classed by Pango as SARS-CoV-2". Thus the symptoms of COVID as a disease can also change totally without it ever being declared gone.

Arguably this is already happening with Omicron.

So ultimately the state of play in the public health/virology world is such that the papers claims can't really be evaluated precisely. For that you'd need a precise RNA-based definition of what SARS-CoV-2 actually is, and/or a precise clinical definition of what COVID is, but no such definitions exist.
Seriously. I experienced this in Gatlinburg last year when I tried to follow the GPS route and it took me up this twisty mountain passage. I’m not sure vertical distance was factored in but my guess is that I went 3-4 times as far.
Negotiating price is extremely common in corporate environments. If I had to guess what it accomplishes, I’d say building a relationship with your trading partner.
You can, just not at the same time.
The biggest hurdle to come is meeting the legal requirement that specific actions from the defendant, which they knew were negligent, led to specific damages to the city of Baltimore.

Those are the three basic requirements to any claim under tort law.

The hardest one is proving that these specific companies caused global warming to a sufficient degree that it directly damaged Baltimore.

The defense will make obvious counter-arguments - for example that Baltimore itself engaged in the same CO2 emmissions behavior by purchasing oil/gas and facilitating trade of such (and taxing it) within their own jurisdiction. ...and further that many many other companies throughout history have contributed to atmospheric CO2, not just these companies. ...AND that the damage to Baltimore thus far might be considered normal weather variations.
Getting regulation "just right" is a complicated process, people differ in their risk tolerance, and it isn't clear to me at all that "more powers to X" is always the right answer.
Human Rights Watch Among Pegasus Spyware Targets
Not everyone supports FIDO2 server-side, though. GitHub only added support in last May, for example.
> Unless they are a hobby company, they should increase the prices. The money is in the head, not in the tail. If someone is balking at spending $200/mo on the lowest level, they are simply not a customer.

It's not balking at the $200 by itself.

It's $200 with the message that I should now have a globally distributed app with low latency because that's what Fly talks about all over their site.

The balk is because all of that goes away as soon as you use Postgres or Redis (which is a ton of apps -- especially Rails). It makes Fly come off as being dishonest because this is a huge thing that's not mentioned anywhere on the pages that try to sell you their service.

It feels like they are leading you into using their platform, you hook everything up, finally deploy your app and then realize that a large percentage of your customers are still getting +200-300ms location related response times because they happen to be outside the location where you're hosting Postgres / Redis. This gets even worse if you heavily invested in Websockets and bet everything on having low latency but still have high latency. This is something that could make your break your business all because of mixed messaging on Fly's site.

I don't think they are doing this on purpose btw. I just think it's easy to amplify a problem so it looks really bad and scary so you can come in and offer a solution. This is a common sales tactic. I just wish they were more open about what happens when using common tech like Postgres and Redis.
Jeremy Grantham Doubles Down on Crash Call, Says Selloff Has Started
OP here. For an experienced payments guy like Marcus, I was shocked how little he understood of what Libra's plans implied.
There's a patch submitted for this: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220126043947.10058-1-ariadne@...
A mix of both. When I see a Medium post by a programmer I feel sad.
Education and Propaganda
Anecdotes aren’t supposed to be evidence, but just about everything is starting to cost more. While I don’t have the wherewithal to create my own inflation index, I suspect the CPI is a victim of Cunningham’s Law and the “true” amount of inflation is substantially higher than it lets on.

I’m also in disbelief whenever pundits try to reassure me inflation isn’t that bad because it is either “transitory” or due to pandemic supply issues.
> unfounded faith that crypto naysayers hold in the solvency of the US federal reserve and legacy financial system as a whole

it's not unfounded - the system has worked for the past few hundred years.
You'd be no better off with a Sony Headphone that screams in your ear that a device connected, the device is turned on and the battery is almost empty. The flagship Sony headphone is so bug ridden it's a joke if you ask me.
In case helpful for you or anyone else, you can find out whether polkit would allow a request for an action with pkcheck(1), for instance: "pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.acquire-real-time --process $$" and check the exit status.

What is missing in all these complaint threads (and this isn't aimed at you specifically) is the complainers' proposed alternatives. It's very easy to write a glib comment about "sudo already does this" "groups already do this" which indicates only that the person writing the comment doesn't understand the problem that PolKit is trying to solve.
Nuclear energy isn’t magic. It’s an awesome technology but it won’t replace fossil fuels soon enough.
I think a fair amount of it is just organizational dynamics, game theory, human nature, etc.

When you build an organization around one of these sites/apps, as the product ages, each work group ends up trying to justify their existence. It's very rare that anyone periodically tries to see if the current headcount and budget for any group still makes sense, and reduces or eliminates groups as that happens. This spread and growth also means the groups all end up with different ideas of what the overall goals, measures, etc, are.

So they all grow based not on whether they need to, but because it's human nature to empire build. And to do that, you need to be "busy". That busy work eventually pushes out to prod, and ends up as more bloat. Multiply that by each group, and you get what you're seeing.
Pentagon Plans to Spend $52M in 2022 on U.S. Border Spy Blimps