skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies, but this is a very weak an unsubstantiated article, despite agreeing with its premise full heartedly.

> Third, immutability has its downsides. Blocks in the blockchain are for all intents and purposes completely fixed. This means that a transaction that happened erroneously or illegally can never be changed. Or bad data can never be changed. Imagine if you move house and the gas company says: “There is literally no way to change your address in our database.”

I mean... does the author actually believe this is some unsolved problem in Blockchains?
And the fact that this makes their own (mostly losing) app store search ads product lots of money is just a total coincidence.

Like, I could accept these changes if they applied to Apple too, but they don't, so the privacy stuff is a smokescreen for moves designed to keep their services revenue growing, and their stock price heading up and to the right.
I am seeing fewer and fewer of my friends and relatives on Facebook anymore. My feed is overwhelmed with intrusive advertising. I wish I could give it up, but I have to stay because some customers are on it.
You may think of it as one key for all energy boxes (a broken valve or a hole in a gas tank) vs multiple keys for every energy box (oxygen molecules). To burn a liter gasoline you have to mix it with the ~same amount of oxygen. It never explodes all at once except in that rare situation. An empty tank is exactly that, because gasoline is volatile.

Energy boxes that can be opened with a single key are more dangerous, cause more prone to accidents. Pressure, kinetic storages, self-sufficient explosives are all much more dangerous than stable chemical bonds.

Also, gravitational potential can be accumulated in a single-key way too. That’s why cliffs are dangerous, but staircases are less so, because energy release is dosed with each step and flight. You have to actively err on stairs to take fatal damage.
I am not sure how the SC2 bots work, but chess engines always play in 'real time'. They already play at a decent level with 100 ms thinking time, and longer time controls mean higher quality moves.
Zuckerberg was never capable of coming up with products. Facebook is arguably not even his idea. He bought the competition when he couldn't innovate. But the competition got smart and they're not selling anymore. They can smell the blood in the water.

I'm just surprised it's taken this long for it to start affecting hard numbers.
Warehouse Space the Next Supply Chain Constraint
> As in, real time to the computation? Why though.

Why not? What have SC2 bots (or their abilities) to do with chess bots?

> Why not just have a fixed pace unrelated to how long the moves "really" took to calculate, with a (no longer real time) clock shown to indicate how the machines used their allotted time?

You can't show moves that haven't been played yet, so either your pace is much too slow, or you have to wait until the game is finished before displaying it. And it still wouldn't make sense to display the moves in a fixed pace when the pace (and time pressure) is in fact part of the game (see also the recent human world championship where many blunders were often played just before the 40th move because of time pressure).
While Turris does seem like solid devices by great people, depending on your needs it can also be worthwhile to consider PCEngines APU (pcengines.ch).

Availability has been scarce since the Intel NIC shortage started but they can still be snagged from time to time.
And your research let you come to the conclusion that Donald Trump wasn't, even by politician standards, a liar?

Possibly you've commuted in from a parallel dimension, and that's why you are suspicious of these fact checkers claiming "the sky is blue" and other obvious lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Dona...
One thing I found really helpful on Android is using "Extreme Battery Saver Mode" basically all the time.

It turns off ~all apps fully, and makes you click through a dialog to enter one - and then click again after 5 minutes or the app turns off again.

The downside is that you don't get notifications from messaging apps, which can be a problem (or amazing) depending on your situation. Whitelisting messaging apps would defeat the battery-saving purpose, of course.
He, I always wondered if someone would use that. Sure, pages aren't technically a necessity anymore, but I think continuous scrolling is the absolute worst. Turning a page gives opportunity for a pause. Sounds weird, but I somehow need that for reading longer books.
Cerified Pre-Owned (ADCS security research)
But JS is still required to for this to work, the title is a bit misleading
>Both sides would have to believe that the other side will show up too.

The "build it and they will come" fallacy has failed way more times than it has succeeded. Companies know it and employees know it. Only governments and politicians seem to think otherwise when their election is on the line.

I've seen it numerous times in my city. Every now and then there's big PR from the mayor and the university rector about how they'll turn $SMALL_EUROPEAN_COLLEGETOWN into a major tech hub, and years later down the line, no major tech companies have shown up. Rinse and repeat every ~4 years, while most grads and companies are moving to the capital city.

>There probably needs to be some sort of guarantee that they will.

Nobody can guarantee you anything for the future, neither governments nor companies. The only truth is the present we live in and that's why most migration, public and private investments mostly happen in big cities that were already popular and wealthy, while the smaller cities with no investments are dying a long and slow death. It's a rampant and often unfair inequality but that's the sad reality.
CSV Conf
Alternate Take:
- Bookmarking is not broken. Bookmarking works just fine.

What's broken is what we want to do with the bookmarks once we have them. The problem is we don't know exactly what that is. We tell ourselves that it's to "review it later", but that's not really it. It it were it would be simple to block out some time and do that, but we never actually do.

We don't know why we really make those bookmarks.

Bookmarking is not broken. We are.
Can you create a new account for the Oculus that isn't tied to anything or used for anything else?
The greatest concern is not addiction, but the potential threat of this propaganda machine to democracy and world order stability.
Maybe there isn’t a math replication crisis, but there is a kind of math fragmentation crisis. Sub-fields of mathematics have gotten so deep that specialists can’t communicate with one another [0]. I’ve heard this expressed by other mathematicians as having only 2 or 3 other people in the world that they can discuss their work with.

The level of solitary study necessary to make progress is another sign of this phenomenon. Andrew Wiles famously spent six years alone in his attic to come up with his proofs for Fermat’s Last Theorem.

[0] https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html
XBox is mainstream, Oculus is not. Maybe it will become mainstream too but countless products were the next best thing and faded away.
robots are better at reaction times, spatial awareness, impulse control. There are obvious advantages that are capable of making up for the short-comings of the NN implementation. Essentially, a lot of hard decision making is avoidable with proper awareness and caution.

I don't know what else to advise people who want evidence. The cars are real things you can experience...
Lee Hsien is a smart dude. But the success of Singapore is due to non-religous legal framework. Compare this with Malaysia which formed at the same time but it is too poor due to religious policy.

I wonder if India would have been more non-relgious it too would have become hugely successful. Although relatively its better compared to Pakistan which is too religious than India.

Looks like Islamic nations work great under a monarch rather than democracy.
Agreed. I don’t want to go into the computer’s world (VR). I want the computer to come, unintrusively and under my control, into the real world (AR).
Revenue for businesses comes from people. $100B in sales is not necessarily a good thing. I think there is a somewhat reasonable argument for a huge amount of advertising being harmful to consumers given the vast power imbalances and deep psychological weaknesses inherent to the human mind. How much stuff is purchased not because of a real need but because of a need that has been implanted via advertising?
Asking for help over email is the least effective
Cardano Developer IOG Proposes 11% Block Size Increase After Network Load Surges
> But the nicotine/sugar debate is kinda missing that we sell alcohol at 7/11 which is devastating in excess to my health, my loved one’s sanity, and fatal to the guy I run over driving.

In many respects I agree here. But, like sugar and nicotine: alcohol is an active choice that one must pay for in a much different way - the barrier to entry is not the same. We can also draw parallels that advertising by the liquor company is targeting me to buy it. But liquor companies aren't marketing companies playing a slight of hand game. They sell a product, not the ad. Is alcohol detrimental to society in certain respects? Yes. The argument here, however, seems to be: that it's OK to add another unhealthy aspect to our lives. But it's much harder for a 12 year old to buy alcohol. It's not hard for that same 12 year old to misunderstand the motives of Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. Alcoholism and Social Media share health negativities. But they are not the same in ease with which to consume.

Andrew Bosworth (not Bozworth) knows very well the negative implications of the product he works on, yet continues to stand behind it even if "...he could buy like a pro sports team...". Just because he's rich doesn't mean his intentions serve anyone other than himself. He penned "The Ugly" at Facebook and knows the platform can have dire implications. I didn't claim he was faking it, I was stating that your response seemed to take a cue from his analogy. Irrespective of that I also don't think the analogy is a good representation of the state of social media.
Cheers.

I can certainly see the criticisms mounting, if FB go financial. But, I also recall the many times FB withstood criticism. Criticism from users over product changes. Experts on privacy. Journalists and politicians on social issues and user manipulation. They persevere, and rarely have to give an inch.

OTOH, I think FB is the world leader in gaining leverage from customer data. Their ad business is more based on targeting data than Google's. It could conceivably even survive the demise of FB itself. Finding partners to run ads is doable, and with fb's targeting that still could ad up to major and business.

So perhaps they're not great at securing customer data, though they are probably more as technically capable than most banks. But, they are the very best at leveraging and monetising customer data.

Call it a high risk, high reward investment.
Wait a second, Mother 3 is available in English?
The exchange of cash in your coffee example is definitely not free. Vendors spend a lot of money in cash management. Compliance costs, loss prevention, storage & movement etc. They price that in to the $5.

But frankly that’s besides the point. There are very few physical transactions in the “cash” world. Crypto can become very successful and never touch those transactions if it can work to standardize & disintermediate the electronic movement of money it could be a massive change.

I don’t know if that will happen and it’s not a goal of the crypto diehards I’ve met, but that’s a path to success that allows for fees along the way.
I'm sure they put a lot of money in, these are old houses. I think they target less sophisticated sellers who don't have capital. She could've gotten a lot better deal if she put 20k - 30k in herself and fixed the major issues but she wasn't in a place to do that. A landlord with a few properties has more options and won't sell as low.
“Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.”[0] - Dr. King

Unfortunately, in the case of the Jan 6th insurrection in the US, this applies as well. Though in that event, it is the failure of Americans to accept truth/facts and instead protect their fragile worldview by wrapping it in lies from public officials.

[0]: https://www.crmvet.org/docs/otheram.htm
Share buybacks usually indicate the company can't figure out what to do with their cash stockpile, and are doing a tax-advantaged dividend (it effectively gives the money to shareholders, but they don't have to incur a tax hit).

It could mean they're really certain it'll be worth more later, or it (more likely) could mean they ran out of ideas and are trying to shore up the stock price, too.
Read the article

844B stimulus checks, 666B unemployment compensation, 145B other income security, 828B for paycheck protection (money lent to business to pay paychecks - goes to the people nearly as directly as the stimulus, and allows business to stay afloat)....

It doesn't count the tax credits and other things that added to citizens handouts.

A lot of the other categories went also directly to paying citizens. Read some about what happened.
How to embezzle money from your employer via the AWS Cloud Marketplace
You can absolutely use rental income as income, the main thing is you generally need 1-2 years of experience running rentals. You can even use theoretical income from renting out a new purchase in some cases.
Open source projects are not a good point of reference because by their very nature they invite external validation. If you are trying to steal $300M, you don't tell people before hand that you are going to do it. There also a difference between the money being right there, only one step away from being yours and infecting open source software with the possibility of maybe stealing something in some company that may or may not use your software in a way that would allow theft months or years after you submitted an update.

Edit: After doing some research, it appears that claims that open source doesn't fall victim to this problem are factually incorrect. [0]

[0] https://blog.sonatype.com/open-source-attacks-on-the-rise-to...
10% of institutional home ownership is a couple of orders of magnitude more than the amount necessary to meet demand.
> People make comments like that to counter the low-effort cryptocurrency shilling and parroting of lame boilerplate ignorant excuses and apologetics, which don't belong here

How come the “counter” comments are far more common on HN than the low-effort shilling?
More fun at a party to be had when you find out what a person’s true expertise is and probe that until you find something surprising.

Doesn’t take long to find something that can change your views or offset your ignorance.
Ugh. Thanks I hate it.
Color me unimpressed with the arguments laid down here. It boils down to low rates and looking at the recent past when rates were low. And let’s point out rates have been 0-.25% for a long time now.

Want to convince me? Pull in a Case-Schiller index comparison and some more technical, market level characteristic analysis.

What would be interesting is figuring out price/interest rate sensitivities for buyers of homes in this market. Does investment leave the market if rates make other asset classes more viable? Probably. At what point?

Edit-or tell me that the Fed can’t possibly raises rates for $goodReasons.
I've seen apps completely ditch their current target group for something else (like bunq, a Dutch fintech company that targeted banking Nerds (we have an API!), then pivoted to Hipsters (we have #insta inside our banking app!)), that go from 4.8 to 1.8 stars over-night and boom, 2 days later they're back at 4.9 claiming users love the new app (oh and we hid the forum a bit deeper in the app, we don't want new users to come across that helpful community that turned into a list of complainers over night!)

I don't trust the appstore reviews anymore.

I mean how can this be: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/bunq/id1021178150#see-all/revi... ?
The only housing hellscape I had to deal with in my entire life has been renting in London. Thank God I finally managed to buy a flat, but I’ve been at risk of homelessness with a solid 6-digit salary, because landlords can evict you with 1 month notice for no reason (so guess what happens if the fridge breaks and they don’t want to replace it). Renters are vetted more than somebody who requested a mortgage, are not expected to have any privacy and may not pass the reference check if they had a severe disease (say cancer). The state of disrepair is appalling, professionals live in places where Sweden, as you mentioned Stockholm, wouldn’t house criminals or recovering addicts (as in somebody who can’t pay rent).

Going from this hellscape to whatever is going on in Stockholm would definitely be an improvement.
For me they are just piling up. I usually don't delete them and have a seemingly endless list on all of my "bookmark folders" that just keeps on growing -- after a few years some url schemas change or sites go down and the bookmarks don't work any longer.
That works with the current banking system as well. That's what made the Nigerian scams so successful.
As a user, you don't get equal access to the Blockchain. You can't make any transactions unless someone wins the mining/staking lottery and then writes a block for you, an operation that is incredibly expensive to achieve. While the Blockchain itself is a distributed ledger, your access to it is not decentralized.
The strong argument is that a car can't stop immediately, and we humans are always predicting and anticipating what may happen next and taking precautionary action. For example, if you are driving along and see kids playing in a yard with a ball, and that ball is thrown heading for the street, and some kid is in the lawn looking up running directly for the street, you would know to expect that kid to run right between parked cars and be in the street, and you would slow down. Our AV friend would kill him.

We humans are constantly predicting what might happen next based on patterns of events by systems we understand the causality of without realizing it - it is a basic survival skill that current AV's entirely lack.
Exposed documents reveal how the powerful clean up their digital past
You are not only paying by getting the ad itself, but also paying for you getting the ad when you buy products of companies who use ads
The notion of "normal" is dubious. For a decade preceding 2008, minimal verification of income or employment was required to buy a home (prices soared). Thereafter, the pendulum swung mightily in the other direction (having tried to purchase a home as a contractor, I can attest). Then the pandemic accelerated the migration to the suburbs for young families (prices soared).

If there are as many over-levered real-estate investors as the article suggests, a market downturn will yield foreclosures, and PE firms will feast once again.

There is no "normal." Only past, present, and future.
>> "we'll fund it back up"

This part puzzles me to - immediately agreeing to plug the $320Million hole really makes you wonder how there is that much money freely available to just pay people back so easily.
No, this was bridge users money stolen.
Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade
Has this actually been tested in court? Has someone been convicted of stealing when exploiting a bug in a smart contract?
So the funds will go for the stability and the long life of a project. I would say that this will be a money well spent.
I can't emphasize enough how much I like a browser's Reader View for web pages like this.
Ahh, but can it be made cheap enough to displace the Superball?
Globle Game
I'd say so since hospitals wouldn't stock it as it's an illegal substance in this case.
Context for people who don't listen to podcasts: most hosts ask their audience for an Apple podcast(ex-itunes) rating of their podcast, which improves their visibility. Therefore we have a self-reinforcing loop.
A more old-school but no-JS solution would be point image/font URLs to endpoints that queries a DB on GET requests.

With enough contortions and breaking GET idempotency you could probably do a whole CRUD app with just that.
FTA:

> That’s right: they’re reviews of the podcasts themselves, not the Apple Podcasts app.

Yep, this happens all the time. People often rate the message and not the messenger. If you think about it, kind of make sense since many people would not understand who provides what in the experience.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google Chrome has 5 start reviews about that great website they visited or 1 start reviews about website that was not nice to them.

To put yourself in their shoes, consider how do you review a shopping experience in a supermarket. Are the low quality products the shop owners fault? Are the high quality products shop owners success? You might think that the answer is straightforward but it is not, some shops simply sell stands where the producers put their products and in other shops they are very involved through the whole experience.

Time that with the recommended pattern of "Ask for a review when something good happens in your app" and you have a glee of happy users recommending the experience to everyone.
Quantum: A certain generalization of probability theory to allow minus signs
Even though this is an amazing result, I am a bit disappointed, but not surprised, that most of these problems are equation/inequality problems. Those kinds of problems are among the easiest for computers; most inequalities like that can be solved with S.O.S and the likes. If it can solve the combinatorics section on the IMO, I would certainly be impressed.
Most of this is reasonable, but #5 is worrisome. Why hate everything that is Chinese?
Comfy chairs at least?
Jira now has OpsGenie so you don’t have to cobble anything together, in theory.
Allowing banking on a rooted phone is an impossible operation as far as the bank is concerned.

How can they be sure the user with the rooted phone is Very Good At Security and rooted their phone on purpose instead of someone who got their phone hacked and has spyware listening to their banking logins?

The safe bet for banks is to deny all banking on rooted phones, that way they don't need to argue about lost money, they can just go "phone rooted, not our problem, we did our best to prevent it".
Again, European.
I run most of this software in LXC containers, which are exposed on the LAN side of the router only (and have separate IP address). If it's necessary to expose some service on the WAN side, then I must configure a WAN-to-LAN port forwarding. It's like running stuff on the Raspberry Pi, but CPU is faster, and there's no actual physical Raspberry Pi involved.