skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically if you have bash you have a bunch of other utilities installed too.

The problem with python here is that while python-sh might be nice, you have to install any extra libraries you need with it, and that's not a trivial problem for installing scripts into prod.

Xonsh is better since you kind of get both the benefits of python and a shell like language, but frankly it's broken in a number of ways still. I use it daily, but hopefully you don't need to ctrl-c out of something since signal handling is iffy at best. It is kind of nice to be able to import python directly on the command line and use it as python though...
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>I never met anyone who got scammed by a real bank.

I have (indirectly) in this bank run. It was the fourth largest bank in an EU country.

>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure_of_Bulgaria%27s_Corp...
500k in savings? That is quite the achievement. You should feel good about that.
Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?
I'm looking for things that help more than expected or in ways you wouldn't expect. It could be a second monitor, a really good mouse or even a microplane.
> Frankly, I'd be thrilled to have a Firefox fork that is designed to show exactly one page, specified by the command's sole argument, and do nothing else. All the "tab" stuff and bookmarks could be offloaded to shell scripts.

Are you looking for a single tab browser? If yes, then Firefox Focus (on mobile) is one. It comes with a content blocker for Safari too (iOS).
It's really a sign of our times that we need to have this kind of discussion (i.e. are life-saving things emotionally hurtful).

But it seems important to remember that masks were practically non-existent before covid. So I assume most people base their assessment (whether they are dehumanizing) on a past perception of prevalence. In other words, masks used to be dehumanizing when no-one wore them.
> Just about everyone does their best to minimize the taxes they pay.

With mixed results.
>Instead, all this could have been avoided if they took the Keybase approach: keys never leave the device. Just have a keychain of devices which you authorize or repudiate, and use THAT to retrieve your actual accounts from the network and sign things.

This is what modern smart contract wallets like Argent do. There is no 24 word phrase or long private key to write down, remember or lose. Instead you set up guardians which is a group of people, organizations, and devices you create that allow you to recover your account if you drop your phone in the ocean so there's no practical way you can lose your money or identity. An example guardian setup might be your mom, best friend, lawyer, your hardware wallet and a distributed paper wallet. To recover your wallet you would need 3 out of the 5 to agree. The number of guardians and other details can be as secure and exotic as you desire.

The account is also protected by configurable safeguards that mimic your existing bank account. Sending over $500/day? Guardians must approve. Your tokens or NFTs are being sent to a non-white listed address? Guardians must approve.

The crypto ecosystem is still in the early phases of being built but these problems and ideas have already been discussed and debated for years and the foundational infrastructure that people will end up using in the real world is being built and deployed today after years of hard work. Using crypto today is a lot like using the internet in the early nineties: it was hard, easy to break, and you generally had to be good at cutting your teeth on new and quickly evolving tech. Nowadays you mostly just forget you're using it.
No, doesn't sound absurd at all - there are even explicit connections between this type of "organic" complexity and the software world, like evolutionary algorithms and agent based models, for example. A while ago, I looked into the topic of complexity in a general way and found a biology book called "Structures of Complexity: A Morphology of Recognition and Explanation" by Rupert Riedl, which is very in-depth on the biological approach to complexity. In fact a little to in-depth for quick extraction of practical concepts.

But looking at something personal and concrete like exercise makes total sense, thanks!
The thing is, can't they "triangulate" who you are by your transactions?

In the same way tracking your location for sure can determine who you are.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/loca...

Based on just a few transactions they can figure out that you're a middle aged guy, living in Nowhereville, Iowa, that's into samba, anime and drives a Toyota Corolla, etc. and then from that it's not hard to actually figure out who that person is.
> All I'm saying is that to the extent Twitter increased the viewership of some piece of propaganda, they should be allowed to be sued for damages.

With potentially infinite violations and incalculable damages, it’s no wonder why no one who runs any kind of user-submitted content site wants what you suggest here.
On a Linux 4K Wayland desktop, Inkscape has been slower a year or two ago, this last 6 months it has become really fast panning and zooming even fairly complex pages.

The guys there have been doing great work. Maybe they need more helping hands that care about windows.
It's more complicated than that. Their rulling elites don't want their country to be the next Kazahstan or Armenia. Energy pricing is a very sensitive subject and a powder keg. There was a poll in my EU country which is on that list. >50% of respondents said that the energy crisis is the fault of 1. energy companies and distributors 2. the state. People will take it to the streets the next thing after the state stops these social subsidies. The EU doesn't have a solution other than slowly forcing these contries onto a free energy market and to dominish these subsidies. I can't think of any other solution either.
"But not anymore now. I feel like my time for everything is running out." -> what is this everything you want to have time for?
Do you wish to be in a relationship? since you mentioned it at the beginning.

When I don't feel excited about the world, similar to what you describe, you meditate or spend time in nature. Reading about geology or trees has opened my eyes about how little we grasp about the nature of the universe and how focused on our own short lives we are while we are actually not much important. It's a shift in perspective. Usually, it helps me remember the small things that I still can influence rather than those beyond my control.
Aren’t the tainted coins cleaned by government seizure and subsequent auction? If you have a tainting and cleaning mechanism then all tainted is not inevitable.
Interesting.

At my previous job I created something similar for a recruitment sister company. They had a ton of CV's in all kinds of formats (Word, Excel, PDF, rtf, plain text etc). I used Lucene.NET to do the indexing.

Both companies no longer exist and I've needed to find some text in docs of my own. If I have a bit of time I could recreate the app pretty easily.
"Comorbid" implies that it's lethal, doesn't it? Wouldn't "correlated" be better here?
Actually in the original language (Latin), the "a" in latitude was long, which is lost in the modern transcription.

You can align them by restoring the vowel length and writing "laatitude" & "longitude" :-)
> There’s even a site that will generate vanity addresses for you! (Don’t use it.)

Asymmetric split key generation is a well understood cryptographic technique, sure, don't trust a service that just spits one out but if you give them a public key to use in generation then you can verify the result only works with the paired private key you control.

Nitty gritty of the elliptical curve cryptography involved:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81865.msg901491#msg9...

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/75523
Factoring composite numbers into nearly equal factors
> And howd you know that?

So you're for tying people up incase they do something? Anyways, having seen people get slapped and punched quite a few times. It's an issue between them.

> or wait for Johny's friend to return the deed?

You tying the attacker up will not prevent Johnny's friend from attacking him, in fact you're making it easier. In fact, you're escalating the situation over all. In many cases, you can tell the attacker to sit down over there and victim to sit over there. If they're attacking flight crew, this has been a situation that has been esclating for a while so they're just gonna tape them up as is their job.

> Well doesnt matter to me. Anyone who resorted to violence while on a flight should be detained, even if the assaulter assault that_guy_iain for being a dick

That's fair enough, but that is not what the topic at hand is. The topic at hand is, whether or not as part of their punishment by the government that they should never be allowed on a flight ever again?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary
You don't understand how decentralized systems that provide cryptographically-assured accountability improves on existing institutions in the first world?

I find that curious. Usually people get lost on the tech side.
I’ve mentioned it before here. They have something called “yearly contract monthly payment “. I saw the trap as soon as I saw it and bailed out.
Great point, and I agree that it sucks that low-effort "serious" comments are more tolerated than humorous ones. But I also think disallowing jokes has a "chilling effect" that ultimately encourages a greater number of people to either think before they post or not post at all. It's not perfect, and of course I'd prefer if low-effort comments vanished regardless of their tone, but it's waaay easier to get away (or even become a celebrity) with extremely low-effort comments on Reddit, low brow or not.
You were just so ahead of the whole NFT curve.
Just to be clear. You are ok with child rapist R Kelly and women beater Chris Brown being there, but some guy talking to a doctor/scientist is too much?
> They've got phones and meetings for that

Yeah, I take your point. The idea behind putting the possibility of Russian fake news into the public view is more likely ... well, putting it into the _public_ view. Because such fake news is an attempt to change public opinion.
> I don't want my VPS hosting company to "clean up" this way.

Most ISPs submit their domestic ranges voluntarily to certain blocklists, e.g. the Spamhaus PBL.

I used to have a bunch of blocklist services in my MTA configuration, with different lists having different weights and so on. Eventually it became clear to me that nearly all true spam that hit any one list would also hit Spamhaus Zen. So I scrapped my list of lists, and relied entirely on Zen. My life became easier.

Note: Zen includes the PBL; so if you block using Zen, then you will block mail from domestic ranges. Zen is pretty safe (unless you are expecting mail from domestic ranges). It's safest to use Zen as part of a scoring system, with something like Spamassassin to add heuristic content scoring.
Exactly, this is a pretty obvious publicity play.

My guess, informed by nothing other than my own cynicism, is that the Rotterdam city council will use the manufactured outrage to extract more money from Bezos to dismantle that bridge.
This is it - if you want humour, there are already a million places where you can get that. Reddit’s already a thing; go to the relevant subreddits there.

But if you want serious and mostly respectful discussions (people losing their cool and attacking others also gets downvoted quite harshly), you’ve got HN. You can criticise it; it definitely sometimes is just smugness or low-effort cynicism. It’s not perfect, but it sure as heck is one of the best communities I’ve ever seen.

If this place became like Reddit, it’d lose its whole raison d'être.
You raise some excellent points, and I don't have comprehensive answers to them. At the very least you're making me re-evaluate my position.

I agree balkanisation is a big issue. We actually have that anyway with large service providers hosting everything, e.g. filter bubbles, AI driven news feeds, etc. Balkanisation in information flow can be mitigated by requiring interoperability protocols, to prevent lock-in to particular service providers.

I want to remove the ability of large companies to be able to monitor and manipulate information flow in society. Not just for political viewpoints, but for everything. So I guess I have wider goals than this specific issue.

To your question on what problems would be caused by civil rights for political viewpoints that don't apply to the others, I would return to the fact that other protected characteristics are essentially innate to a person and aren't a matter of choice, and are relatively easy to define. Pretty much anything anyone says can be viewed as a political statement, or it can be argued as such. You would have to carve out a large number of exceptions and argue them all on a case by case basis, and by law in many cases. Is hate speech permitted? Incitement to violence?
Spreading dangerous mis-information? Who assesses whether a statement is a political statement or an exception that is not protected?

I don't see the above as any kind of rebuttal of your position. I'm still thinking about your arguments, it's just what I have right now. Not sure how much longer we can go in this thread, but thanks for giving me an interesting and thought provoking debate!
One of the longest standing soundness holes in Rust: implied bounds and variance
Put things in perspective. There are people in their 50s that still go to bars and continue until their 70s probably, stopping only because of physical inability. Anyway, that shouldn't be used as a measure is what I'm trying to say.

Remember that anything that happens to you has happened to thousands and thousands of men in the past so don't put so much pressure on living.

Also, try to see yourself more as an artist painting a picture rather than someone that is struggling through life. Hope that helps.
If these stats are close to correct, then iPhones have a sizeable share of the market there

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/belaru...
I never had a car with an LCD. However after having tried a few, I decided that a phone on the dashboard does a better job.

Tacking ephemeral technology to a long-lasting appliance is a weird idea.
I had marginal performance degradation, but that may be due to the specific techniques I use it for, but there definitely was a change southward, just not anywhere nearly as poor as I'm hearing from others.

Inkscape is still very usable/utile, but I certainly don't want that trend to continue, as it would rapidly become not so.
Its a pitty that Linux itself still cannot be bootstrapped without the Linux env - at least no one has done it yet. Anyway thanks to this reproducible-builds efforts maybe the awarness of this serious problem will grow and we will see more support into the projects like https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap , https://niedzejkob.p4.team/bootstrap/
Foreign Correspondents' Club of China: Report on Media Freedom in 2021
I'm not disagreeing that python is slow, but why would you choose to do either in a shell script?

$ time cat<<EOL
{"name": "JP", "object": {"fruit": "Orange", "point": {"x": 10, "y": 20}, "number": 17},
"sunday": false}
EOL
{"name": "JP", "object": {"fruit": "Orange", "point": {"x": 10, "y": 20}, "number": 17},
"sunday": false}

real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.002s
The worst part is that many shortcuts in the office suite are localized.
The first issue is indeed that they took Skype code to build that. Calls & videos aren't a strength of Skype guys, it's the opposite...
42 y.o. Here. I put it in perspective, try to stay reasonably healthy, and live by the mantra "Never lament getting old. It's a privilege denied to many."
Giving back to younger generations is also very rewarding.
> Why isn't he in jail,

I mean, that's the hope.
> whether -87.73 is the longitude or latitude

Is negative longitude even legal?

Jokes aside, it is always (lat, lon). Latitude is a universal value, while longitude was not just about 100 years ago: every country had its own zero meridian. When finding coordinates we are first measuring a sun angle above the horizon at local noon, that gives us a latitude. Longitude is just a time difference between zero meridian noon and local noon.
Your karma soon goes to the future
ZEK: Take Roam-Like Notes in a Line Editor, Written in Zig
Would you elaborate on what you mean by defense mechanisms in this case? I'm guessing it's on a psychological level, but unsure against what exactly.
This might not be what you want to hear (i.e. too little tech), but here's a list from Bruce Sterling's talk at Reboot 11 (2009) [1] that stuck with me:

* Number one, a bed. You're spending a third of your life in the thing.

* Get a chair. I shouldn't have to tell people who work with computers to get a chair.

* (things that go on your skin like clothes and cosmetics)

* Apart from that, beautiful things, emotional things, tools.

His (minimalist) message is to get rid of everything else.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2011/02/transcript-of-reboot-11-speech...
>Fungibility means that a given asset is legally identical to all other instances of the same thing.

The introduction is wrong but overall the problem is exactly what you have described. Some Bitcoins are not legally identical to other Bitcoins.
Pulsar-based galaxy-wide gravitational wave observing is one of the most intriguing (while being conceptually simple and understandable) concepts I've come across.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_timing_array
The thing is, the incentives won't change.

Whoever's going to push web3 will still want that opacity, it's a feature, not a bug. They'll want it to make money and to protect and hide their money.

Plus you can't have it both ways, either cryptocurrencies are somehow, magically, privacy protecting and anonymous, or you have transparency. It's impossible to have both.
It's still a gathering place for men with these attitudes. Reddit in general is a boy's club where women are considered second class, and there are no women-only spaces, but plenty where men dominate.

For example, the 'lesbians' subreddit is full of pornography, and the 'actuallesbians' subreddit is full of men pretending to be women. Any attempt by women to start a subreddit exclusively for women inevitably gets banned.
Android Netrunner's mechanics and game design are really unique, flavorful and full of great world-building. I so wish it could have exerted the same pull like MTG, but somehow it could not create the same long term engagement that MTG does. Maybe the core set was already so strong that the expansions could not really add that much to it.
We Need to Radically Rethink the Library of Congress Classification
Bezos does not create wealth though.
> feeling less excited about everything

This may be a symptom of depression. It's called anhedonia, where people feel reduced motivation or an inability to feel pleasure. Many people feel depressed without feeling the typical symptoms of depression, like sadness.
Given that programming languages are also software products, C and JavaScript, I am unable to replace UNIX and Web platforms, which are the reason they exist at all, so there you go.

As for other software, anything Electron based that could be a plain Web application or a background process using the user's already installed Web browser or system Web widgets.

On that note anything that takes ages to start on Android or iOS, which are clearly not native, and I can replace them because they are key apps without alternative from the companies, like e.g. banks.
What is this white foam/glare on the Danube?
Meet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
> Also, there's no such thing as EU states, like there's US states. In Europe, there's member countries.

I believe the official term is "EU member state".
That makes sense to me; I am currently implementing a package with mutable data structures with shallow constant time cloning (via copy-on-write) for TypeScript, and the dup idea somehow seems to be compatible with that.
> Easy solution don't use Coinbase

I most certainly don't.

But the hordes of clueless users who continue to flock to the platform are blissfully ignorant of that fact.

Worse, the fact that coinbase is behaving in a way that's completely violating the spirit of Bitcoin while profiting from it doesn't solve the problem that what they are doing is possible because of a severe limitation of the platform.

I am a big and very long time fan of Bitcoin, but the traceability / fungibility issue has bugged me from day one.

I really wish the dev. community would focus on introducing a fork with an technical solution to this problem instead of polishing the turd with minor stuff no one really cares about like taproot.
You come from a banana republic next to mine. We also had a ton of bank runs due to pyramid schemes during the 90s and early 00s.

We solved them with... more regulation :-)
When I watched the live streams on twitch, I remember one video where the police were just standing there doing nothing, the protesters were yelling abuse. The police just stood there. It wasn’t until the protesters started throwing bottles and setting a car on fire that the police got involved.

There were videos live streamed by people in the groups who were smashing the windows of the power company, going inside and destroying everything.

I don’t believe anything was greatly exaggerated or unrealistic when this was live streamed by people doing it.

Most of the protests were peaceful. But there was a lot of damage and a lot of violence not started by the police.

(I’m not American and don’t live in America, but I watched too many hours of the live streams while it happened)

Edit: twitch had streams of people streaming multiple streams. So 1 twitch stream was showing about 15 live streams happening at the time.
He has a whole series on Quality Software which, admittedly, I only came about a third of the way through before I took a break for other books, but it has contained some useful analysis so far. I do plan on picking it up again once I'm done with my current read.
How secure is E2EE anyway when, like WhatsApp, it's implemented such that you blindly trust a 3rd party to distribute the public keys and instruct your client who it should be encrypting and sending your messages to? How do you know your mobile app isn't also sending encrypted copies of your messages to a ghost user you have no visibility of? A ghost user that could be WhatsApp, law enforcement or anyone.
Wow I’m the same age and could have written a similar post. The good news for you is you still can experience a relationship, have kids and get to do all of that. Find a hobby or interest that you’re passionate about (this has to come from your soul) and then just apply your passion towards that, try and be good at it so you stand out and then besides being fulfilling, if you’re any decent at it, it will help you find a mate. And then you can get married, have kids, and in five years come back and write another post about how you’re as lost as you were at 35 except holding your son or daughters hand and going out for ice cream every now and then makes things a little more pleasant.