skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrency does nothing, nada, zilch, zero to address corruption in any shape. In many ways, it helps corruption, by providing a way to secretly transfer funds.
But they only provide fixed functionality, while shell scripts allow for practically unlimited customization.

As for 500 lines - take a look at proper rc scripts, eg the ones in FreeBSD. They are mostly declarative; it’s nothing like Linux’ sysv scripts, which were in some ways already obsolete when first introduced (runlevels? In ‘90s, seriously?)
So... you let them grow big, then throw on the hobbles to get them poorer?
Why do you need to use a major service though? There's a ton of cloud providers you can use that offer pretty much a similar range of services and are certified, e.g. ISO27001, SoC2.
Guix has graft for something similar to this: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Security-Upda...

It's one of the points where it differs from Nix.
Reminds me a bit of "Attack of the repo man", a classic case of this behavior http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
Yes, understanding your app and stack is a waste of time. Ignore learning efficiency in the name of padding cloud provider pockets, it's the only way!
OKRs and Roadmaps
Does anyone have some tips on how I can partition an EFI laptop for NixOS with full disk encryption? I’m struggling to install NixOS on my Librem 14 - and have resolved to Ubuntu as it does all that for me.
What settings did you use for Slack, and did you, by chance, have `downclock_on_battery=` enabled?

https://github.com/kernc/xsuspender/blob/92ea5c6dfcb0f79eb10...
"I think the idea of a course is that you will be taught."

Without complaining a lot, that's not given. One of the professors supposedly is very helpful, while the second one... not so much. And here I cannot "choose" professors, it's pure luck.
Okay, enough complaining.

I dread it still a little, but I'm also at the same time wanting to start that as soon as I can, as it... I'd lie if I said assembly isn't interesting. And I want to see what's that all about.

Thank you
Background might be more helpful. I went to college with a rich black man whose father was a big oil executive in Nigeria. No slavery in his background. Plenty of cash. But on paper he was black (not even African American since he wasn't a US citizen.)
Why not look at it from the reverse? If our healthcare system that deals just fine with flu outbreaks etc every year can’t cope with Omicron… maybe it isn’t as mild as everyone says it is?
Good lord. I know this is hyperbolic but do you have any idea the affect that 15 years of isolation would have on children? And you are willing to place the well-being of random strangers over your own children? You seem to think that your comment is morally superior, but that idea is abhorrent and evil to the idea of being a parent. You should be ashamed to be a parent.

I would love to see how your children feel about that.
It's too bad that 286 style 16bit protected mode (and the iAPX 432 before it) was so shit on at the time. We had the potential to have these concepts be ubiquitous, but collectively dismissed the protection mechanisms as intrinsically too slow.

It feels like from the outside that there was a decent sized faction at Intel in the 80s to give us a hardware object capability system, but they ended up losing the political battle, and by the time of AMD designing long mode, the last remnants were swept away.

I wish the 386's 32 bit protected mode had been structured as GDT entries that had a bit to optionally point to page tables rather than just having base addresses into a global page table. It would have encouraged these techniques in commodity systems 30 years ago.

Hell, we might not even have had spectre and at least would have had better tools to address it if we had that plus rings 1 & 2 still useable. The user and kernel space would have had the ability to describe untrusted data to the MMU. It feels like we're just pretending that NetSpectre isn't a thing and somehow spectre is only an issue with untrusted code.
Even if he can't freeze it, he has access to the public ledger and with some effort can figure out who sent money to whom. Either of those two parties could then get a visit and politely invited to reveal the other.

If you want (more?) anonymous you need Monero or Zerocoin.
As long as you tell the typescript compiler not to stop when it finds type problems, all JavaScript works and compiles, right? That sounds like a superset to me. Syntactically there are no problems, and the error messages are just messages.
The problem of boardgame evaluation is that what we have multiple populations that have very different ideas of how good a game is, and are so aware of their preferences that they will not rate all that many games outside of their favored niches. Therefore, making head to head comparisons is not really about rating games, but the number of people in each group that decide to even rate the game. Any analysis that doesn't attempt to separate those populations will, with little doubt, be more about said confounding population effects than anything else.

This is easy to tell by using the "Fans also Like" feature, which IIRC was built in consultation with someone working on recommendations at Netflix. Many top games have little correlation with each other: If you like Brass, you are likely to enjoy heavy eurogames like Terraforming Mars, but you might not like Pandemic Legacy, which happens to be a coop, Gloomhaven, which is more of an American-style game, or War of the Ring, which is mostly for 2 players, and a thematic wargame.

The BGG adjusted ratings also have a significant damper on games that have few ratings, which is why more traditional wargames (like, say, A Victory Lost, or EastFront) are always going to be capped by the genre's lack of popularity among the site's visitors.

Doing analysis like this is far more computationally heavy though, but it's far more relevant when it comes to telling people what they tend to want to know: Tell me of good games that I will probably enjoy, and aren't quite the same thing that I am playing right now.
That's what really bums me out. Both pro-crypto and anti-crypto have become such cults that even as a curious person it's hard to make sense of anything anymore. No matter what side you're on, there's little room for reason or middle-ground.

Yeah, there's problems with cryptocurrency remaining to be solved. Yes, there's shenanigans and scams. Yes, it's not great for the environment (and I cannot wait for a smartass to reply with the word "understatement").

But the technologies surrounding cryptocurrencies can solve problems. It's just that crypto primarily solves trust issues. If you can trust your currency, trust your banks, and trust your payment processors, cryptocurrencies don't do that much for you. Mainline digital banking does a better job than cryptocurrencies currently do. Yet I'm glad that Bitcoin and other coins exist; in an increasingly authoritarian world, such things can be a last resort for those who become "depersoned", and I suspect that one day I'll be depersoned. And if there comes a point where cryptocurrency becomes so perfect that the banks can't compete, then what's there to complain about?

Unfortunately, countless hordes looking to get rich quick have latched on to these things because they're so accessible to anyone with too much time on their hands. The tired word "blockchain" is so abused that upon hearing it I have sadness in me. There's nothing particularly revolutionary about blockchains. A blockchain without a consensus algorithm won't amount to much, but you can have consensus algorithms without necessarily having a blockchain. But blockchain sounds more mysterious to the average person, thus it's the buzzword of favor. You don't even need to know what a blockchain actually is. Just say the word blockchain and you'll be one of the cool people!

A lot of people on the other side of the coin (yuk yuk) don't even have the faintest clue of how cryptocurrencies work or how even traditional fiat currencies work. One guy I was talking to recently said that "if people didn't think they could make money off of Bitcoin, it would be worth absolutely nothing." Effectively, he believed that the value of Bitcoin was entirely in people's perception. He didn't understand that there are a fixed number of Bitcoins, and that it wouldn't be easy to change that number without a majority of the nodes agreeing, and that there are practical reasons why some would want to use Bitcoin over fiat. If anything, fiat currency better fits his mental model. This is not uncommon, in my experience. Very few people actually read anything.

Oh my f---- ----... is every USB power bank a f---- piece of s---??? ARGGG. Sorry, side tangent.
Entrepreneurship is freedom, sort of. I think a lot of people reevaluated their career and life during the pandemic and are deciding to do something different, more than this is the right time. There's also a lot of capital going around with the money printers going brrrrr.

People should always give it a shot if they understand the inherent risks. They'll likely regret not trying more than failing.
You might be interested in the Adguard Annoyances [1][2] blocklist which is easily added to uBlock Origin, just by ticking a checkbox in the "Filter lists" tab of the settings.

[1] https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-filter-policy#anno...

[2] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...
I like crypto because I don’t like my government. When I like my government I don’t have to like crypto.
$0.09/GB is a good reason
Like the Facebook outage a few months ago, when their DNS being down prevented them from communicating interally.
Those crypto.com commercials with Matt Daemon have been airing the last few days while BTC has been tanking.

In the commercial Matt, walks past dioramas of past explorations / failed attempts then in the end he mentions that fortune favors the brave.

Gotta wonder it was a warning all along
Who mentioned anything about an Ars article? I read the whole debacle on mailing lists and Twitter. That was enough to form my own conclusions and I did not come away from that impressed with the FreeBSD development environs. It definitely flys in the face that somehow FreeBSD upholds technical excellence above business interests as is being claimed in the article.
Then web.archive.org wouldn't exist.
What is the base unit of "Libraries of Congress per Olympic Sized Swimming Pools"? Does the expansion rate of the LoC match the expansion rate of the universe?
Sure, I'll warm my home and feed my family on good vibes, then.

I'm trying to build something awesome, not work for Peace Corps, I already accept a certain amount of third or fourth degree Evil, just by using Apple products, or even using this website (can you be certain not a single byte of this data touches material that was made under duressing work conditions?).

It's the whole The Good Place problem, all over again; it's impossible to live a moral life in a globalized society, if you think any use whatsoever of anything that could have in some way contributed to an amount of unhappiness is a Thing Worth Avoiding.
VW fired senior employee after they raised cyber security concerns
Bill hourly with an 80 hour minimum. Then you can give them an invoice for 5 minutes to type the email and bill them for 80 hours.
Huh. As an MVP myself (of DRM lol) I have to agree that was a poor astroturfing idea of Microsoft's. Although one employee != Microsoft. In all my MVP years Microsoft has never asked me to do anything like that. They've sent me to cool parties and events, but never asked for me to do anything as a result.
It's only free for a small amount of content or when you're ad supported. If you get significant traffic or care about performance, someone needs to pay for it.
Circle obviously doesn't have "the full amount of USD required to back the issued USDC" simply because they are afraid to do full independent audit.

Is it a "fraud" is an open question because all that crap is unregulated wild west. They be doing it legally.
Is it also not "speech" if I use a mathematically defined mechanically engineered product's outputs to arrange my "speech" into ink-soaked shapes that is just a machine-generated output?

Applying your signature (albeit a very complicated one) and hashing some numbers together with it is absolutely an expressive act of a human person. You can show your approval of what others are doing, or to suggest you'd like to signify someone else can now sign for your speech instead of yourself in a way others can see you are allowing them to have unique control of a piece of your speech.

I think we've got it backwards. The freedom to provide credit or debit to others, noted in some record, is speech. It should never have been considered the purview of government to restrict free trade of speech containing negotiation of transaction or record of account. The government should also not be able to compel speech (especially without subpoena) or force private enterprise to conduct search of your effects and documents, so KYC should be out as well.
Only 50% to go.
How do you send a text message without any authority intervening these days?

Email used to do that, I guess, but now if GMail doesn't like you there may be problems.
The whole point of crypto is putting back trading in the hands of the people, rather than let banks, funds and other institutions be in control.

In practice it results in one of the biggest retail markets. That's good for everyone involved.
The receiver in Tunisia needed to provide proof of identity to claim that money.

If they are a foreigner in Tunisia, they might also need to provide a passport, valid visa, etc., as well as deal with someone in a foreign language.

I'd prefer my money to go to my phone and not have to deal with anyone in person or give up my personal information, especially over small amounts like $1000.

ETH is L1. There are alternative L2 blockchains that cost pennies to send funds.
Maybe it depends on the baseline. I don't have much stress in my daily life and I'm okay with (physically) being at the same comfortable space. Any traveling activity is more stressful than my daily life.

Maybe if I had my daily life more stressful or for whatever reason I didn't like where I was, I might find traveling more appealing. Maybe it's just me of course.
The first email looks like someone who had zero idea of what they were doing, just did some dependency scanning and got your name/email there, probably these emails were sent to everything that they could find.

Quite well handled, not arrogant, not bending over and doing whatever they say, but being honest.

If curl is impacted or not, may not really matters for them, usually these companies go after compliance and someone who they can blame when things go wrong.
These critics have been around for a while. Dan Olson started researching this video long before this recent crash. You should watch it. https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g
> Ask yourself, why are you rooting against this thing?

I'm rooting against scammers using something I do care about as a sales tactic for something which has failed to find market demand.
Please don't post shallow-indignant flamewar comments, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It makes for dumbed-down, tedious internet threads, and we'd prefer to avoid those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Really? I'm not saying Monopoly is dead simple and you would have to explain a few things but I think someone could understand it in about 5 minutes. Even if they didn't quite get the rules the game is really intuitive (And long xD) so they'd certainly fully understand half way through the first game. Most new games I've played you have to get in ~3 games before you start thinking more strategically.
That's like saying people who said that the telegraph is dead, and will be replaced by the telephone, were trying to force telephones on people.
Yeah but under an authoritarian regime they can just squeeze you until you run out of operating cash since it would likely be a long game. I recognize that there are benefits to having some assets - I still don't believe this to be a strong enough argument.

Also - in that case you are just talking about hiding assets from the government. While the use case for dissidents is good - to me I would wager the amount of people who are using it for fraud is far greater.
Free markets and network effects leads to the accumulation of wealth and power by the few. Piketty did the hard work of documenting this. Getting away from theory and into business strategy, network effects are an often discussed strategy in start-up culture to become a "unicorn". What is a unicorn? Usually the winner of a battle to seize a market leveraging "disruption" brought on by new technology.

A truly decentralized, unregulated network will therefore lead to more power being seized by fewer. That is, a decentralized financial network will tend to lead towards the centralization of the value represented within that network. Without the ability for democracy to step in and regulate that network.

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are an inherently anti-government project, through placing all governments in a single authoritarian perspective and insisting that they must be decentralized; "crypto" is fundamentally anti-democratic. Throwing the baby out with the bath water.
The judge can't force them to work for the original provider. That'd be slavery.
I am Venezuelan, I will tell you what 99% of Venezuelans would tell you. They will prefer.... USD. Bitcoin had its heyday when the country was in that horrible time of hyperinflation and strict foreign currency control, and, since stupidity seems to have a limit the government relaxed a bit the controls and people also got smarter regarding the use of USD. Now, people pay using USD bills, you can have USD accounts in Venezuela (risky but possible) and a sizable part of the population have an US bank account so they pay within Venezuela with Zelle transfers. Bitcoin is still used but by far people will default to the convenience and security of the green beast.
I would say entrepreneurship is the new "American Dream".

It's the allure of being your own boss and having your own business. Some people are tired of answering to the CEO when they "easily" could be the CEO.
> Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology.

Nobody is forcing anyone to burn fossil fuels, either, but we all breathe and thus can't opt out of its negative externalities. This argument only works when externalities are acceptable or nonexistent.
How did this happen? A tech/code affine teacher with contacts?

The schools in my district in Germany can't even manage to set up reliable wired internet, and the few rooms with projectors all are stocked with Apple TVs to ensure that only students with rich parents can participate in classes.
I’m not the same person, but for me to consider cloudfare functions I would need a standard solution that is not a vendor lock but something that I can run on developers machines and any server. I would also need a nice development environment. Right now I would rather develop using fastcgi than faas.
It looks like that's an 8 year old article.
It is a project for open HDL code, not PDK.

There is still no commercially usable free-software-like PDK
You’re correct. NFTs only exist to justify the blockchain’s existence.
I'm studying "informatyka stosowana" (Software Engineering would be the closest thing to this, I guess)

I have background in both C and C++
The fact that there are AWS pricing specialists tells you everything.
My read is that the author is using "experience" to mean "something produced in a low-productivity sector" and "thing" to mean "something produced in a high-productivity sector", which is definitely an idiosyncratic interpretation of those words.
A personal example is my motorcycle. It's as material a thing as you can get, but the enjoyment I had gotten out of it would be hard to match if I looked to "buy experiences" instead.

Of course, the by-product of owning a motorcycle is getting the experiences of riding it through beautiful canyon roads, feeling the wind on your body, and meeting new friends in the community. But it had to start with "buying things".
Pointing out that a spade is a spade does make for boring reading.

I don't understand what more there is to say about NFTs but maybe I'm just taking crazy pills.
The early Nissan Leafs had abysmal range at around 80 miles of range total, but they seemed like the perfect "in town" car. A former manager of mine had a 2012 Leaf and he LOVED it. I always wanted to see how an EV's value would hold up when there was next-generation battery technology that could potentially be retrofit into an older car like the early-model Leaf.
If you are to rely on the Germans to protect Ukraine you are giving it to the Russians.
I think if you're going to support anything - crypto or otherwise, you should start with some level of skepticism, if it can overcome that initial skepticism then maybe it is worth believing in, otherwise remain skeptical imo.
Those people are probably going to be tricked anyway. Many things in society are tricks. Google is a trick. Self-help is a trick. Fast food is a trick. MLM is a trick. Political ideologies are tricks. Everyone wants to be lied to, or rather everyone wants to believe in something, and they'll throw away their money just to maintain that belief. While aspects of the world of cryptocurrency are tricks, it's hardly unique to it or the responsibility of others to prevent people from being tricked.
Supposedly this judge... according to someone on youtube.... has a history of questionable judgements
I try to minimize my cynism. But for this one I will go with "leaked" a.k.a. free advertising.
There are serious limits to the analogy. Water only ever remains inside the pipes that carry it. Anything involving the electrical energy not inside wires has no water analogue (ie the electromagnetic waves inside a transformer).
> It’s easy to ignore those because we add them piecemeal over time with custom servers, but it is a huge drag on productivity when you add it all up.

Not only that, but you now own these services. If they break, you have to stop working on your product to fix them. Moreover, when your DIY cloud runs into problems, you won't have the benefit of a wealth of knowledge on the issue (internet forums, chat rooms, hiring people, etc) and of course you won't have anyone you can pay for support.
I've lived in a few co-ops while living in Berkeley, and now own my own home. I have to say that I prefer the co-op model, as you can spread the luxuries and responsibilities amongst a number of people. When a problem comes up the folks that deal with it are those that are effected, with the resources of the whole house behind them, instead of a property management company or one sole individual. The burden and pleasure of a huge tv room, hot tub and guest bedrooms all become something that other's can utilize instead of something that you feel guilty about having and not using.

Quite a nice model.
> The commandline experience is terrible. Nothing makes any sense. Not the names of the tools. Not their arguments. Why sometimes something is a binary and other times it's a mode of another tool, etc.

As a casual user of nix, this is the worst. I can never remember commands and it just increases barrier to entry. Git has a bad command line UI but nix is far worse even after their recent command line improvements.

Edit: that said, I do like using home-manager to manage configs across multiple machines even though it can be confusing.