skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is cryptocurrency free from those banks and trade? It seems like its liquidity is what gives it value in the first place, and those institutions are in firm control of where it can be liquidated. Not to mention that the old financing world has been investing in cryptocurrency too.
A friend of mine in 1997 got arrested for poking around in air force computer systems. He was charged with a felony not because he did any damage but because it cost $40k to track him down. He also had to pay that back.

https://attrition.org/~jericho/works/security/crime_punishme...

"Once again, when computer crime enters the equation, circumstances seem to change. In May of 1997, Wendell Dingus was sentenced by a federal court to six months of home monitoring for computer crime activity. Among the systems he admitted to attacking were the U.S. Air Force, NASA and Vanderbilt University. What is different about this case is the court's order for Dingus to repay $40,000 in restitution to the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC) for their time and effort in helping to track him."
>> who spend 1-2h per day (exercising?) outside might just imply a proxy for a healthy lifestyle.

Try living in the north. Being outside, exercising, and sunlight exposure are three unrelated activities for at least six months of the year. Vitamin D supplements are the only way short of tanning lamps.
FAANG are the worst offenders. Didn't facebook employ ungodly hacks to unload/load parts of the android app to navigate around the 65k method limit of dex? Have you looked at the js monstrosity of the Google hardware shop website?
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Wow curious what sports car you have now as a former Ferrari owner?

What Ferrari model if you don’t mind me asking? Why did you let go of it?

Thoughts on Tesla’s instant torque? Would you consider electric for speed in your next sports car when the industry sunsets internal combustion engines?
Interesting thread this. You made me re-live a whole bunch of my past and I noticed something funny (or at least, I think it is funny): to this day I can't help myself, when I walk by a dumpster or the garbage before it is picked up I am still scanning for TVs, tape recorders etc. It's so automatic that if not for this thread I would not have caught on to what that was all about, it's simply a habit.

And I still can't stand waste.

One day we will look back to this age and wonder: how on earth could we have been so wasteful that perfectly good stuff ended up in a landfill.

That soldering iron of yours looks like the perfect tool for some SMD work.

I recall those in the hands of stained glass workers, either that or gas heated ones.

My first upgrade from a screwdriver looked like this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/pEUAAOSw621hLQqd/s-l1600.jpg

Which actually worked well enough for tube based electronics, (not even hole through, just built up in the air on metal frames). And it held the heat a lot longer than the screwdrivers, which tended to carbonize after a while.
What is interesting is that, if we turn this opinion change to the max, there are mathematical models showing that people should converge to the average (i.e. moderate) opinion of the system.

However our model, via the four parameters we can play with, allows for a narrow range of their values to avoid this consensus reaching. And it is in this narrow range that we can fit best observational data from Twitter.
So you have avoided reading about Web 3.0 this week? ;)
"promoting fraud"? In a way, we could say that money too is promoting fraud.
It's how we use technology that defines the moral issue, not the technology itself. Or am I missing the obvious?
are you really sorry?
Found a couple links [0][1] that appear to be follow-ups to that section about fantasies.

[0]: https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasy.html

[1]: https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/earth/fantasies.html
>A cohort of investors have been lied to about the perpetual money making machine of house ownership

It's not investors that's the issue, it's your average older american whose home represents a significant amount of their wealth
And portions of the Windows registry.
If you live in the state, this is not a surprising story. Residents are well aware of huge number of bridges rated as poor or requiring maintenance. Not to mention the terrible condition of many roads. Granted PA is one of the states with the most miles of roads. One would think that one of the highest gas taxes and hundreds of millions in funding from the turnpike would be sufficient...
The linkrot is definitely sad to see, especially since (at least some of) these images are line art based upon originals that were a lot more textured
What about one made that had an NFT?
May I ask what your recommendations would be for this? What's broken and how would you fix it?
This literally doesn't make any sense.

Just save the extra income from the Google job, and you can take years of vacation, not just ten more days.
Proof of work is a nice way to bridge digital and physical world - but it's also using a ridiculous amount of energy.

Bitcoin is a hack to get control back from government. It's a technical solution to a political problem.

I wouldn't use it in production. I'd rather have a network of private banks (without governments and central banks printing money as much as they like - and bailing out their friends) and a currency based on the value of a basket of everyday items (wheat, wood, iron).
Your tweet reference was him trolling. And he obviously does understand his reach, you saying that isn't a proof point.
> Many are using the technology to facilitate scams and overpromising, but that doesn't make the technology fundamentally useless or bad.

True enough, but since I have yet to see a use for the technology that isn't pretty much just a means to scam people, I'm totally fine calling the entire space a giant scam.
You don't (typically) incur a debt to Disneyland, so legal tender doesn't apply. Disneyland can refuse to accept cash at the ticketing office, but if they let you in and billed you later, they'd have to. The concept of legal tender is specific to payment of debts.

If you did a credit card chargeback and Disneyland sued you for the new debt that caused, they'd have to accept cash as payment.
But, for a system of two quantum particles which interact according to a central potential, you can express this using two quantum non-interacting particles one of which corresponds to the center of mass of the two, and the other of which corresponds to the relative position, I think?

And, like, there is still uncertainty about the position of the "center of mass" pretend particle, as well as for the position of the "displacement" pretend particle.

(the operators describing these pretend particles can be constructed in terms of the operators describing the actual particles, and visa versa.)

I don't know for sure if this works for many electrons around a nucleus, but I think it is rather likely that it should work as well.

Main thing that seems unclear to me is what the mass of the pretend particles would be in the many electrons case.
Oh, also, presumably the different pretend particles would be interacting in this case (though probably just the ones that don't correspond to the center of mass interacting with each-other, not interacting with the one that does represent the center of mass?)

So, I'm not convinced of the "nuclei have to be treated as frozen, otherwise electrons don't have a reference point" claim.
But current title implies that there is no Python left at all, which is "more" incorrect.
You misunderstand the point. You're comparing a 1080p phone to a 4k television when texture memory is what will take up the vast majority of ram. Code footprint is pretty irrelevant.

Still the TV does fine with 2GB. Doesn't seem fair to complain.
The only way for 3rd parties to become a reality is for voting to become much more easier, convenient and fairer. With laws that make it hard to vote, you lose more and more of the public from the political discourse. Fairer systems like Ranked Choice Voting make it even more easy for people to express their preferences without the fear of losing to the least favored party.

Without reforms 3rd parties have 0 chance. They are simply used as convenient political tools by either one of the major parties and should be recognized as such.
Build more housing
That's fair. I do also agree that it seems obvious, but given the number of the people in this thread and elsewhere suggesting that fixing it would just simply be so easy, it doesn't seem like that's the case for many others.

I didn't read the OP as saying "nowhere else has infrastructure problems" but "bridges are a particularly acute problem in Pittsburgh for these reasons." I would certainly agree that suggesting this kind of issue is unique to Pittsburgh would be misguided.
Honestly, all I know about the humanities is what I had to learn in high school. I've spent my life studying the sciences which I think is much more useful than the humanities. The humanities are just people's ideas that cannot be tested like the claims of science can be. I wouldn't say I'm proud to not be as educated in the humanities as some people. I simply don't care. But I am proud to be well-educated in the sciences.
If only the Fed had cared at all that home prices were appreciating twice as fast as they ever did during the housing bubble.

And tapped the breaks, rather than opening the floodgates to speculative frenzies across the board.

They were a big reason for the 90s tech bubble and 2000s housing bubble too due to excessive rate cuts.

Pretty clear they should have considered velocity of the economy and not simply point in time employment and inflation values (which are lagging indicators)

Oh well...
> I do believe there is value in 'Decentralation' and some other blockchain ideas but all implementations of it thus far as proven not very effective.

The blockchain concept is a very bad fit for almost every kind of decentralization you'd want, because it's basically a linked list with a central clock[1] limiting the number of blocks you can happen (and this is necessary to allow the consensus to converge).

[1] even though it's implemented in a distributed manner, there's still one and only one clock per chain and everyone must take its turn to use of of the precious clock slots.
Afraid of their future I’m assuming, with a much better welfare and safety net in Europe
Their last Series A [1] was led by Redpoint Ventures which means you would have Tomasz Tungus involved in this decision. Of all of the VCs I've ever seen, heard or read about he is the most metrics driven. He regularly benchmarks companies against each other and has a deep understanding of the health of each aspect of a business. I would highly doubt this decision was personal or politics driven in any way.

At a guess I would say that they did an analysis of the company and recommended it be shut down. And the other VCs i.e. the Australian trio of Airtree, Blackbird, Grok who are far less experienced in the VC game went along with it.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/dgraph-series-a--ca...
Or dry beans. Imagine if you just brought those up to temperature and skipped simmering for ~1-2 hours.

Or pasta. You don't bring the water to a boil and then immediately drain.

Or rice, similar to pasta.

Or some tougher leafy greens. Collard greens need to be simmered ~30-60 minutes.

Or caramelized onions. You are doing chemical reactions (browning sugar, etc.) that take time.
100% agree. Twitter seems to have an outsized cultural influence but is dead or dysfunctional in so many ways.
Could someone please explain why this graph is not as problematic as it first appears: https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/ei... ?
Only if the phone automatically returns to English on a reboot. Equipment like this from that era had very little non-volatile storage, so it basically boots clean and fresh every time.
I said to assume the opposite of that. The case they were citing was definitely not the owner of the flag doing it.
Blockchain is an immutable ledger. Sure there are scams, just like there are on the regular internet, however, I think there is a lot of potential for blockchain. We're in the early phases of it, but there is more to blockchain that just the currency aspect of it.
Yes, the absolute opaqueness of so-called serverless is a huge hit to productivity.

Numerous times there's something weird going on and you're stuck trying to guess and retry based on largely useless logs until it somehow works better but you never really know what the root cause truly was.

Meanwhile on my own server I'll ssh in and have complete visibility, I can trace and dump network traffic, bpftrace userspace and kernel code, attach debuggers, there's no limit to visibility.

Yes lambda/serverless saves you a day or three in initial setup but you'll pay that time back with 10-100x interest as soon as you need to debug anything.
Hard to generalize over European countries, but you can think of most European governments as insurance companies with their own army. No matter how hard you fuck up, as long as you are able to fill out paperwork you'll have food, healthcare, and a (shitty) apartment. None of this is free for taxpayers, obviously, but it is what it is.
"Now they have two problems."
Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer (2020)
By the same token, they should remove bash and libc from $PATH as well, as these are also runtimes that the OS itself uses. I think for a long time Python was just as much part of Ubuntu's intended user facing API as those two or GNU ls. Until the Python 3 came and split the Python community in two, there were few reasons to complain. If you want to package your own Python with your app, nothing stops you from doing so and calling it explicitly.
I'd say the goal shouldn't be to convince the crypto fanatics.

It should be building awareness towards what cryptocurrencies and technologies based on the blockchain actually are and why they can't at all achieve what people invested in crypto promise. For the people that are vulnerable, politicians and organizations, in short: people being manipulated by outright false promises and deliberately vague "arguments" (like there always being that one coin nobody uses which of course solves all the problems of the topic at hand).

Crypto doesn't offer much in terms of decentralization, but one thing it does decentralize incredibly well is advertisement and evangelism because every single cryptocurrency holder has a true financial incentive to spread overhyped and false information around anything remotely connected to blockchain technologies in order to drive up the price.
They do have the power. Just not the desire to use it in certain ways. This is where lobbyists come in.
The Turnpike funds itself, and is required to give the state hundreds of millions to fund other projects.
> when you pay for a hot standby you can't use it as a read only replica (true for AWS

I'm not sure what you mean here. At least for MySQL you can have an instance configured as replica + read-only and used for reads. Aurora makes that automatic / transparent too with a separate read endpoint.
Again, you're confused about what "legal tender" is.

It is up to sellers to decide what form of payment they accept. It is perfectly legal for a seller to accept only a form of electronic payment, or only certain sizes of bank notes, or payment in bitcoin or blueberries or bubblegum. This is all totally fine and has nothing at all to do with the concept of legal tender.

Legal tender is simply what kind of payment must be accepted for the settlement of a monetary debt. If you owe your bank $1,000 as an overdraft, the bank is required to accept repayment of that debt in U.S. currency. It cannot require another form of payment; meaning if it refuses U.S. currency then tries to sue you, the court will find that the debt has been satisfied. In practical terms, this never happens.
> I got one girl's login that actually worked, which scared the shit out of me, and I deleted the program. (I really wanted to tell her that "emma" is not a good password, but I thought it wouldn't turn out well for me.

With all due respect for HN policy of nuanced, Intelligent debate.

"Wimp"
> And when some component of the server fails, your app is unavailable until you can repair it.

So you have some downtime. Big deal. If this happens once every few years and you need a day to repair it, your uptime is still better than AWS.

Not just everyone hosts a realtime API millions of users depend on every second of the day.
I'm talking about the way I'm expected to provide metrics for my apps. Rather than exporting free-form JSON and then scripting Prometheus to understand it, I'm expected to use a custom client library to export the metrics. As for Kubernetes, you can only use it with Prometheus because of not insignificant amount of work on both sides. Basically, the latter is designed for vendor lock-in.
I don't entirely agree. I do agree the average older americans home is part of the problem, but the current price is a reflection of homes being sold: the average older boomer whose wealth is embedded in their home isn't selling. Its notional wealth, not actually liquid invested wealth. It's also an accident: few of them acquired the home to be their main source of future wealth, but current home buying is fuelled by speculative investment: belief its an appreciating asset irrespective of the rental income.
Should this allow OBS to not capture the actual OBS window itself? I'd think it would be nice to eliminate that from what is captured, for those poor people who only have a single monitor. :)
Just tweet the word “metamask” in any context and instantly get three replies from bots trying to scam you.

There’s a ton of stuff like this.
I don't know if mentioning getting locked out of an account and getting inundated with copy-paster recommendations of users who can help you/regain access/"hack" it so they can steal it is playing a stupid game or just a lack of Twitter caring. I can give literally hundreds of examples, all of which I've reported numerous times for years on end.
Sounds. Have you read it?

> the "secret knowledge industry doesn't want you to know about", the marketing

Have you dreamt those features, or are they somewhere in the document?
The solution to the energy crisis is to use much more energy. Makes as much sense as burning more fossil fuel to solve the climate crisis. What that’s what’s going to happen there too!
Fox News happened
bruh nobody's looking down on people running they're own metal

Server hardware is fun but it's not trivial to manage, buy or run.

So when someone talks about how they've managed servers for 2 decades, own a house where they can install a 42 rack and how much better it is than a hosted solution. A lot of people rightly point out that this is hardly feasible for most people
A chair's proof of concept doesn't burn the energy of a small industrialized nation?
Around here, you'd spread the work of one new server to folks you've already got or spread the cost of new hires to a large number of servers.

I think it's also worth considering that many outfits wouldn't get good value from the 24/365 coverage you propose and don't care to pay for it.
NeXT funded and performed quite a bit of open source software, quite a bit of which continued in the Apple transition.

Make no mistake: for all of these companies, this funding was in support of their commercial activities. They have no desire, say, to write a shell so if one is popular they'll go that way. One thing we taught then in the 90s was that stepping off the mainline simply added to your support cost; this lesson is why so many proprietary companies do contribute back.

Apple's case is interesting: they think more deeply than many about this. Thus they are enthusiastic about standards when they are weak in the domain: e.g. Apple was explicit up to the Jobs level that they embraced open standards like JPEG and MP3 when trying to dig the Mac out of a deep hole; once they had a solid foothold they felt comfortable trying out proprietary formats. They went USB-C (and handed over a majority of the work on its design to the USB consortium, or so a couple of friends who worked on the standard claimed to me) because it helps adoption of the Mac and iPad; but aren't afraid to make a MagSafe connector.

It's all about strength and weakness to Apple, an approach which frankly more companies should adopt (looking at you MediaTek, AllWinner and your competitors).
The point isn't to convince cryptocurrency users, the point is to convince the average person ("the public").
Like many people back then, I also found the whole proof-of-work / blockchain concept to be interesting from a theoretical computer science / distributed systems perspective.

But these days, I can't help but think that we've inadvertently created a paperclip maximizer without even bothering to create an AGI first. Humans are the AGI, and we're going to happily use more and more energy to play this stupid game for as long as it looks like there's a profit to be made, even if the global outcome is to our own detriment.

If we want this mess to go away, we need to find a way to change the incentives globally.
Due to both the second part, and that of the 7 accounts that we know this happened to, they messaged us just hours after tweeting that we weren't picking up their tweets, it doesn't sound like a match. The logged-in account also had no history with the accounts in question; we were actively in a call at the same time trying to figure out why that person could see tweets the others couldn't. I'd be happy to discuss details and specific tweets if you want.
Open sourcing their code would be a terrible idea for the business unless they opted for a Elastic/MongoDB style license where you are prohibited from offering a cloud version of the code.

Because you know AWS would be circling this news very closely for another product to add to their lineup.
Signal has the data being requested but they'd have to brute force a user's pin or use an exploit to get to it. Routine requests aren't going to compel them to take those actions and national security letters aren't going to be published on their website.
The OP doesn't say complain to crypto users. It says that we need to inform the general public so that they are immunised against the draw of these schemes.
This isn't even just a question of individual responsibility. Yes, suckers will get fleeced and we will have to cope with that as a society. Yes, we should minimize that harm to the extent possible. However, there is a much broader systemic risk involved.

In 1997, Albania was transitioning from a communist state to a market economy. This created a power vacuum and a distrust in the institutions of government and finance. This allowed MLMs/pyramid schemes to blink into existence and multiply out of all proportion. At its peak, almost half of the entire GDP of Albania was locked up in them. "When the schemes collapsed, there was uncontained rioting, the government fell, and the country descended into anarchy and a near civil war in which some 2,000 people were killed." [1]

This isn't all fun and games and innocent gambling. This is a cancerous symptom of the failing of the state.

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.ht...
It's absolutely morally clean. The people losing money made their choice.

Similarly I don't see anything wrong working for a betting company or even a company that produce dangerous or addictive drugs.

I consider it morally wrong to work for the government or for criminal organisations which steal money under the threat of violence or kill people for reasons other than self defence.