skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what TikTok is. I've tried to use it several times, but it was just too dystopian for me to keep going. It was an intensely disquieting experience seeing the algorithm try to "addict" me to the product. I just don't see the appeal in being an utterly passive consumer of entertainment generated by an AI (yes, I know humans nominally generate the content, but the secret sauce is the AI playing conductor). It reminds me of Elsa-gate. Just surreal.
14k week rate. We do infosec consulting. High end boutique. App sec, pen testing, reversing, IoT/device hacking etc.
And therein lies my biggest frustration with crypto evangelism. Almost every theoretical benefit that gets trotted out is such a detriment in practice that the ecosystem tosses it aside. While still proclaiming it as a virtue.
I wonder how their deployment system works. They should probably be deploying security patches before they land in a public repo.

Also, if it auto deploys from a git repo, then you just need a committer's git keys to exploit it. Having code auditing and multisig git tags has to be rare.
If you consider Dan Olsen's argument, the scams are built in to ensure that the crypto founders have liquidity to cash out with. You're not going to win trying to fight against what the whole system is designed to do.
agreed - white noise is too tinny.

I use a mix of brown and grey throughout the day.

I use Bose sleep buds for sleeping. It was life changing. The 'warm static' mix they offer is a great brownish noise for masking out external sounds and helping get to sleep.
I’ve shifted to bidding fixed rate on projects around a defined scope. It’s a lot more work upfront to define a clear statement of work, but it has allowed me to stay above USD$200/hr without customers batting an eye - whereas my rate was consistently a sticking point in negotiations.

My consulting mostly focuses around IT/digital strategy and the work product usually involves connecting together incumbent systems, and sometimes implementing new systems while ensuring they’re deeply interconnected with the rest of an organisation, aligning them closely with biz process, etc. My customer is always a business unit lead so the budget tends to be more aligned with top-line outcomes.
No, the only similarity Slack on Discord have is that they are "chat like" and have "chat rooms"/"channels".

But the whole UX around using them is very very different.

And that is what matters for the normal user.

Just the list of lacking default features is quite long, like: predictable display of formatting, emoji, pictures, file sharing, voice chat, nested conversations/threads, chat history,
different user roles, user avatars, etc.

And yes you can bolt all of this on top of IRC, but that doesn't matter. Defaults matter. At least for the common users UX.

And as long as the IRC standard doesn't include most of this points by default (especially chat history, avatars, etc.) it won't have another golden time.

Also no msg-commands as the default way to do things, programmers might like them, the common user doesn't.
There are, in fact, such shoes, and they do provide what has been called an unfair advantage in track sports.
That also would be skewed imho. I use messenger to communicate with my family and I do click on facebook links they sends me but that's about it - am I an active user?
I think GP’s underlying point (besides paraphrasing a popular YouTube video) is that for good reason, society elevated “computer engineers” because the work they did (e.g., build Google) was very impactful and value-creative.

A bunch of computer engineers are now burning through that good will in a misguided attempt to accumulate personal wealth.
I'm pretty sure every tele-technology has had folks who found them just a bit too far beyond the pale. Why call when the people you want to talk to are a walk away? Why send a telegram when you can call? Why send email when you can send a telegram? etc. I also think even if XR does become a reality, it won't be _us_ that truly buys into it, but a younger generation that grows up in it and makes their own norms in it, the way much of my generation was on the early Internet, and the next generation was on the early Web.

For me the killer application is the ability to replace the office. There's already VR software that lets you have a virtual workspace with multiple monitors in VR. It would be so much more convenient to be able to have a large virtual office available to you in VR rather than building a large, physical office IRL.
If the bank loses your money in a bad transfer it can simply be reversed, which is the largest difference from crypto where you can easily send it nowhere.
Or stealth edit but by then people would have moved on to the next consumable news article.
This article is literally about their daily active users number dropping.
Blockchain newb question. Would it be possible to add protection to a protocol so that when a theft occurs, the stolen tokens are erased/burned/retrieved and a credit for the stolen amount is automagically credited to the wallet from which the tokens were taken?
What I meant is: The crypto space lacking regulation doesn't imply a claim that other currency systems don't also lack regulation in some form, nor that regulation is necessarily effective in either case. Stross didn't say regulation is perfect, he said it arose for a reason.

Stross' original statement is about regulation of traditional systems having historic drivers the crypto community had yet to re-discover, in his opinion, either in terms of broad awareness or appreciation. Challenging that would be fine (and interesting); saying "so what if it's bad? this other thing is also bad", though ...

FWIW, I think he's both right and wrong. I think there was a subset of the crypto community (and it likely strongly correlates with the productive one) aware of and actively rejecting a lot of history, but also a larger majority swept up in the hype without awareness of that information.
You could probably charge a good bit more. Our customers are at 14k week rate for good quality pen testing, app sec, device hacking, sec eng, red teams etc.

Edit: and I know friends at big firm with crypto services specialty and they charge a looot more. $400-$500/hr. They stay pretty busy.
> The point is that what's right in a public forum is also right for a company.

I don’t think we’ve established that, and I’m fairly confident that the ACLU doesn’t think so either for that matter.

If corporate speech, or individual speech had to embrace all viewpoints without restriction it would cease to be independent at all wouldn’t it? In other words, protecting the right of individuals to express the viewpoints they choose to is in fact the more democratic ideal isn’t it?

Separately, please refrain from speculation about what I or others _appear_ to be saying. If I intend to say something I have no problem doing so.
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Making more money now is a much better option than making more money in the future (since you can invest your excess and have it grow independently of your salary).

Why not try applying for some full remote positions at FAANGs or whatever big tech employers you have in your area?
And who signed the armistice agreement that "ended" the war?

If you are wondering why this is "common knowledge" in the US it might be because just a few years ago there were questions about whether this state of affairs should be changed.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/27/donald-tru...
And they're deciding which of your posts are zero effort as well.
Couple things.

It seems to be a productivity tools team, so probably no sev 1 or sev 2 pages, and possibly no pages at all.

And most Amazon managers (like at most companies) will give you time off to compensate for after hours incidents.
The crazy part about crypto is somehow it looked for all the weird economic inefficiencies that don’t really make sense (Gold is valuable beyond its utility, buying art is buying the object not the image, etc) and turned those into the feature of the project.
So then you're the expert on North Koreans' lives I suppose. Unlike the other fakers who are saying things you dislike.
Can you elaborate on how it's centralized? I keep hearing this but they have 1400 active validators all over the world, which is more than most smart contract chains except Eth
Wow I'd be very interested in that
Right, of course. The claim wasn't "all companies must continue growing forever or they are bad companies / their stock will crash". It was rather "Facebook in particular's current valuation is based on investors predicting it will continue to grow".

When (not if) Facebook stops growing, it will be worth _something_. Owning its stock is a bet on what that number is, and the stock price reflects the market's collective estimate.
It was not that long ago that whether to formally end the Korean War or not was the subject of spirited debate. Like, a few years ago. You guys telling me the War is actually over should have told them they didn't need to waste their time.
https://portalbridge.com/#/

>A fix has been deployed and all funds are safe.

So...does this mean they reversed it or are they just promising to pay everybody back at their own expense?
I'm surprised that other comment wasn't received well. Will try to articulate myself more and see if that changes anything.

I'm not saying self moderation would eliminate bad groups. I think it would better contain them. I think having more siloed, fragmented, and naturally evolving online ecosystems would prevent any of the problems you mention from spilling over and infecting the entire culture.

I don't think any of those risks you mentioned are solved by centralized moderation. I think they're made worse, as everyone becomes incentivized to fight for control of moderation and is pulled towards ousting the other to recreate the groups those in power naturally feel most comfortable with. I firmly believe the social dilemma people are currently in is a result of the entire world trying to make rules for one big room, and no one is happy because people come from vastly different contexts that could never be properly accounted for in one room and one set of rules.

Allowing people to make their own decisions about association and information is far more scalable, democratic, and corruption resistant than trying to make platforms that appeal to all and respect all people from top down moderation. It allows people to let off steam privately and meet in designated rooms in the middle. That may seem terrifying given some of the people and groups out there. But I think recent history is a pretty good indicator that trying to forcibly educate and moderate people that are deemed a problem backfires severely. Malicious and violent groups can and should be contained and watched by others, but trying to prevent association and people deciding whats good and whats bad for themselves drives more people to opposition and affiliation with potentially violent groups than they would otherwise associate with. If people are able to express certain ideas without being automatically ousted from certain groups and affiliated with extremists, that lessens the pull to extremism.

There is no perfect solution, and I do not think that every forum should avoid top down moderation or that certain associations shouldn't be watched or potentially dealt with in the real world if dangerous enough. I just think more user directed moderation is in general the least worst option.

What's worse: a group spreading messaging encouraging mobs to go out and kill people made up of those who voluntarily choose that group over others in a world where other groups can counter message and organize and defend themselves, or a group that controls global messaging encouraging mobs to go out and kill people and bans all counter messaging?

What's worse: propaganda supporting a want to be dictator spreading in a forum of voluntarily associated zealots which bans and ignores criticism, but has no power over alternative group organization, or propaganda supporting a want to be dictator spreading on a global platform that bans and ignores criticism of all other groups?
Fondly Fahrenheit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondly_Fahrenheit
Yeah, it does feel like there’s something kinda meta about it. ;) Except that because the paper’s data shows a positive correlation between self-ranking and skill, it seems like the meta-ness is mainly based on the misunderstood DK concept. So, I won’t call it the meta-DK-effect or claim it’s incompetence or even a cognitive bias necessarily. The article and this meta effect are perhaps just about making assumptions and jumping to conclusions, which humans at all skills levels do often and well. It doesn’t mean that anyone is incompetent or less skilled, it just means we love to guess based on our limited and available information & experience.
A geiger counter counts from 0-9 repeatedly and stops when a muon is detected. I guess you could count longer but I think the 10 digit modulus is sufficient.. not sure. This is the random initialization.

I'm curious at how you would actually successfully hide the control flow. The only think I can think of would be some factorization, maybe a couple of mods, but that would be detectable. You don't want to explicitly modify the control flow per se. I mean you'd have to be able to hide it from code review... and then mathematical review.
I have to actively try to breathe through my nose, it's often congested (having a pet despite allergies doesn't help), and it's just simpler to breathe through my mouth, cause that just works.

Medical interventions are possible, but I'm not thrilled with the side effects of the medicines I've tried, and surgery has some really awful tail risks, so there's that. I was recently recomended to try B1 (thiamine) suppliments related to sleep apnea, not sure if it helps with that, but it does seem to open up my nasal passages, and taking it before bed seems to be helpful with breathing during sleep. YMMV, not medical advice, etc.
Develop complete products of healthy complexity. Very wide range - enterprise backends, complex multimedia front ends, device control, firmware etc. etc. Located in Toronto, Canada. $100/hr or better say around $200K/year give or take as each contract is rather long term engagement. Typical would be 6-12 month first version with restricting functionality. Year for maturing. Another year support, transition to maintenance team. All in all the average duration is about 3 years.

Every once in a while do hit and run jobs. In this case the highest effective rate was $20K in 3 pure days of work. Some went to a person who got me the gig.
peeringdb runs on trust, any ISP could put in non factual entries, but it would be useless to anyone.

it's meant to be used by network admins at other ASNs that want to set up peering sessions across IXes and PNIs.
Outdated data... also, the license seems to have been modified recently.
I would be interested, if you are willing to share the data. Actually, I am thinking now: what if you introduce some anomaly in the data. Something like the man did in the article (draw from a different distribution), and a challenge would be to detect it.
Yes, this is a risk. Exploiters will be running legit nodes with software analyzing the mempool for profitable transactions to abuse, they will be running nodes using the GitHub branches looking for changes in advance of merges so they can run exploits, they will be looking at framework changes and automatically running tools like fuzzers to find errors in downstream chains and projects that use the framework. It's a really really hard space for this reason. I work as a test engineer in DeFi and have been in the blockchain space for years but releases still give me stress like no other domain I've been in.

The nice thing is that engineering isn't usually financially bound so you can use all the toys and hire all the consultants to build really extreme testing environments that most domains won't use. It's also fun to flex tools like TLA+, property based testing tools, fuzzers, etc because it's financially sensible to be as sure as possible that you won't release a bug.
I only tried Basic on Apple ][. While it was a fascinating machine, I later greatly preferred the pampered experience of Basic, and then assembly, on MSX2.
I feel like all of the Metaverse stuff we've heard over the last few months was in preparation to try and distract/deflect from this.
I truly wonder how many people sleep poorly because they ruminate about dysfunctional relationships at night. After many decades of miserable sleep I finally set boundaries with certain family members and long time co-workers. I can practically fall asleep on demand now and sleep through the night. It's beautiful! and so many of my life-long mental health problems, even minor physical issues, are gone. I wish I would have asserted myself decades ago but I kept thinking it's my fault, not theirs, that I am not mentally stronger.
I have a counter/corollary(?) to the idea that often people don't know what they don't know or assume that their surface knowledge can accurately understand a field, and they should stop making such bold statements:

If an executive with some great new idea or strategy not grounded in the full detail were to pay attention to the all the details, they might never try or get anything new done. Because if you listen to and empathize with all the details of how complicated something is and how there's this subtlety or that follow-on issue, you start to accept all the reasons it can't be done (either at all, or quickly). So in some cases, you only get progress because of persisting in ignorance that you can do something new that breaks the rules.

Of course I don't mean doing something that is structurally or physically impossible -- just in cases where the legacy of "why it can't be done" has created inertia that stops progress if you accept it a little too much.
In a previous life I was involved in K&R (kidnap & ransom) insurance.
You just pay the ransom and never recover your money, so you price the insurance contracts accordingly.

The police: "we don't prosecute those crimes" , "this is not our juridiction", "why don't you try the FBI?"

I used to work in the Presidio of San Francisco. An ex military base. The only canons left are from the 1800's. I needed to file a police report (car theft), called the Police in San Francisco. OK, what's your address? Sorry, we don't handle those cases, call the Federal Police.
Then later we had to file a lawsuit, so based on previous experience we filed in Federal Court. They told us, sorry even though you are on Federal land, you must file in a California court. Go figure.

Just to say that nobody can help our dear crypto bros. BTW did you declare the existence and the amount of your crypto holdings last year? Oops, now you'll regret that police report you filed (goes into waste basket) and you have to deal with the IRS.
The crypto world is better than the proverbial kid in the candy store.
I’m sure this is true. But when a project is 7 years and billions of dollars over due (east side access in nyc, in this case but there are similar examples) it seems more than far for the people that have spent that money and have thus far gotten no benefits to spout ignorantly about why. Indulging us seems the least the responsible industries can do.

I’m exchange I’m happy to listen to civil engineers and construction workers theories about why Tesla is taking so long to deliver the full self driving software they’ve been charging for.
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The 2007-8 crisis wasn't about the illicit movement of money. In fact financial regulation is what allowed us to detect and mitigate the business practices that lead to the crisis. The response was the massive QE that everyone feared would lead to terrible consequences yet instead it spurred a soft landing to what could have been 100x worse. There were no bread lines, no mass displacement, no political turmoil. You can't stop people from losing money on bad investments but you can prevent it from pulling the rest of the world down and that's what happened. That crisis should have everyone on their knees in awe at the Altar of Fiat Currency.
Gotta make sure people don't have the ability to exercise their right to make a legitimate backup copy of what they bought! I'm thankful it's been dissected and analyzed to the point that it was able to be completely bypassed, even if it is ancient by now.
You're kidding if you think RSS is the glory days. There are reasons why it has fallen out of favor. If it were up to me, I'd kill it and put it out of its misery.
Which begs the question - why not focus efforts on those, rather than bet the company on an unknown like the Metaverse? Is Meta getting too distracted?
Ask HN: Is there a db migration tool with a similar philosophy as K8s
I'm not an k8s expert by any means but one of the philosophies (if I understand correctly) of that tool is that you declare your desired final state and then let k8s figure out how to get it there.

Is there a similar type of tool for db migrations? I've used a variety of migration tools like the one in Rails but I'm wondering if there is a similar one that uses the declarative idea.
Both Alibaba and Tencent cloud have presence outside mainland China. Hong Kong and the south east Asia most, but also in the Silicon Valley. You haven’t heard of that because they are not that successful in the US.
Just want to say really great summary. I know these things but I bet many folks reading this glean an insight or two.

Been a lot time since I have done all this stuff though. I sort of miss it sometimes (though not the pager that comes with the territory).
From the current title I expected him to have cracked the state of a PRNG in order to be able to predict what the next numbers would likely have been.
Ah yes, good ol Brads Markup Language mmm fun times :)
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Crypto Darwinism strikes again! Code is Law! This is the natural order!
Availability is presently limited by density of CPEs in a given geographical area. They don't want to ridiculously oversubscribe it and give people bad ping, packet loss and traffic speeds, because that's exactly what geostationary consumer priced vsat services as known for. If you can't get it shipped to you and are still in the pre-order queue, your area is out of capacity until more satellites are launched or the satellite+terminal firmwares are better improved.

There's a number of places that are not out of capacity and if you put in the "right" street address it'll take you to the immediate full price payment order page.
I personally believe that the rebranding is to attract talent to work for them as Facebook had a negative brand value in tech and required a premium for hiring. This rebranding changes their narrative from a technical perspective. Will it work?
Yes. The USDT and and USDC stablecoins do this. Competent attackers immediately trade these for other currencies that can't do this. Newb attacker don't, and loose those funds back to the projects.