skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Indian (who is self made and not because of his color) I hated it when that Indian ceo who faked to be from YouTube got away. I know wokes think all people of color need to be given crutches so they can respect their nice-acting masters but I do hope that she (and her clerk) have to pay for this.
I have a similar approach. If someone asks me for something twice, I know they meant it. If they ask once, it wasn't that important or they were just being lazy.
It’s only fraud if you get caught.
Remote ignition lockout as a response to breach of contract, civil suit for damages and possibly criminal charges for theft of services depending on how cozy the local DAs are with business interests.
Lawyers typically will only talk to other lawyers when interacting with other companies (often are ethically compelled to).

An email from legal@companyA.com to legal@companyB.com will be read.
I have to admit I'm a confused mix of beliefs right now.

I agree that funding for children is among the best return on investment [1] (to the point that I think we should rank initiatives and spend on kids first before anyone else gets their turn in line for the same ROI), but I can see that purely dumping money into people's bank accounts is a rough tool to do it.

In fact, our recent history has shown that any kind of allocation of money to some goal mostly leads to the thing being targeted simply getting more expensive (higher education I'm looking at you), given how practiced private equity is at exploiting these things. And the other poster above is correct, of course you're going to see some number of people previously on the edge move into positive territory as soon as you roll out any measure like this.

The question is how efficient and effective can you make the expenditure of tax dollars? And how free market vs. controlling you have to be to do it?

So if some service (child care, health, education) is so important and we want to be efficient about it, doesn't that call for some public entity to provide some basic level of service that people can opt out of and pay more for privately if they want? So that we don't get private enterprise just sucking at the teat of free government money, inflating prices, and at last some guarantee of us getting what we allocated tax money for?

[1] https://www.impact.upenn.edu/early-childhood-toolkit/why-inv...
and some other articles I've seen on the topic, will try to find and edit comment
You'd just have deniable encryption.
So you'd be cool with the US sitting out ww2 if japan didn't bomb pearl harbor?
sumatra uses a mupdf backend. Same as zathura on linux.
How outrageous to have to advocate for the public good for children.
I simply cannot reconcile any opposing stance in any way.
I don't find the case for historical preservation very compelling. Protecting a tunnel that nobody uses for anything isn't going to bring respect to the immigrants who died making it or their descendants. If that's the goal, I think it's better to do something that impacts living people by helping them directly. If people today want to use the tunnels to create art, then so be it I think. The world belongs to the living.
> However, you’re right that we live in capitalism. And it creates child poverty

You don’t have to create child poverty, as child poverty is the natural state of nature.
AI-Generated Valentine's Cards
A romance novel isn't pure self-expression, it has mechanical parts that have to work - like porn (actually, it is a kind of porn.) If it's not romantic, it's not a romance novel, and it doesn't matter what the author meant.
I got suspended in 1999 for distributing a copy of the anarchist's cookbook to other middle schoolers. I got it from my brother who got it from a BBS.

I don't know what I was playing at, I have no need for making bombs, but at the time it was the coolest thing--media outside of the machine.

I can't remember what the rest of my media experience was like (aside from text adventure games over telnet) but I'm pretty sure that the BBS-sourced material stood out to us for a reason.
What happens if a cryptocurrency exchange files for bankruptcy?
Russia and China have a long history of banning/blocking freedom-preserving technology.

Bitcoin continues to thrive despite their bans.
If they were doing that on purpose, they could already do it with an IR camera. Don't see what a wifi standard has to do with it.
I’m still not sure what exactly you are inferring by calling me a Walrus. Does it mean I have tusks? Are walruses known for acting in bad faith? Your comments are immature and toxic. If you can’t engage in constructive dialogue, name calling is a poor substitute.
Moved an account from Google Apps to Fastmail. Great experience. I moved 9GB worth of old emails.
I just moved my domain email over to Zoho following this news ($1/mo, was easy to set up). Seems to be working. Didn't feel like paying Google $6/mo.
My tool of choice:

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
There are ways to corrupt a file without messing with the hex content of the file
Alan Baxter on Writing
To the best of our current understanding, the benefit of vaccination doesn't seem binary, so even if antibodies and thus immunity fades over time, it might still be beneficial to fight off a serious, life-threatening infection.

The current stats suggest that even though the latest variants are way more infectious and can defeat the vaccine, most deaths still occur within the unvaccinated cohort.
Awscli. It's not just the complexity or inconsistency; that kinda comes with the territory. It's just not discoverable. Constantly have to be googling stuff.

Boto is in a similar vein. Stupid capital letter arguments. No type information, no autocomplete.
Politicians are malignant tumors on free, democratic society. IMO anyone who would choose to run for a political office in today’s society should be banned from ever holding a position of power.
I looked at ProtonMail but ended up going with Zoho as it was cheaper and seems to work. Proton looked pretty nice.
>but I can see that purely dumping money into people's bank accounts is a rough tool to do it.

Why? We do it with social security and that seems like a well liked program. Individuals are generally pretty good at deciding what they need
I ran the test myself with different collectors, including epsilon (which does no GC at all) and was able to reproduce the problem in all cases.
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Last time I was an admin of a server that got onto SMTP IP blocklists, it was because some spammer had brute-forced the SMTP password of one of our users and was sending out spam through that account. Passwords are terrible, switch to using certs/keys instead of passwords if you can.
Migadu, Mxroute, or just cloudflares free email routing.
Poly Styrene Broke the Mold
Giving money to households with no strings attached is the polar opposite of "private enterprise just sucking at the teat of free government money". I'm not sure why you think one would follow from the other. Public services have even poorer incentives than subsidized private ones (which again, this is not), they're only acceptable when the private sector alone will absolutely never provide that service under competitive conditions.
That's what I thought when I read it. But then on second thought, has it really happened yet if nothing can exceed the speed of light?

Time and space are intertwined. So if the light hasn't arrived yet, has reality really arrived yet?
This is a great philosophical question that John Searle would be proud of. The superficial answer would be "a video of a lava lamp," since that is its input and output. (It therefore tries to mimic artifacts of the video itself, compression, scaling, banding, etc.)

But the means by which the network generates frames involves some kind of learned representation of the lava lamp that is more than just a matrix of pixel values, and the network encodes a function for how it predicts this representation will change over time. So it also simulates the lava lamp itself.

On the other hand, the network has no idea about things that would be necessary to perform a remotely accurately simulation, like properties of the chemicals involved or the laws of thermodynamics.
Got it, so now Justin Beiber's wallet is tainted too.
Paper says they're assuming the black holes in question are around 10E8 solar masses.
The 2008 bank bailout cost 700 billion. Almost all of that money went to rich banks and bankers.

The child tax credit costs ~100 billion a year. The payments cut monthly child poverty by roughly 30%. We have direct evidence that growing up in poverty dramatically reduces your odds of graduating high school, going to college or getting a well paying job later in life. So I would posit that pulling kids out of poverty has a long term net positive effect on the economy. Also its just the right thing to do if we can.

As a comparison, ~$76 billion in PPP loans were fraudulent.
~250 billion of covid relief benefits went to the rich and corporations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-cares-act-sent-you-a-...

But its the poorest of us that are causing inflation...
You can clone an NFT by forking the blockchain it's on, or making another one with the same data. People who respect NFT ownership won't be able to tell without research which one is real.
On that, we agree
I’m referencing tomato flavor in general. Ketchup, tomato based sauces, and tomato paste are default flavors in more than a third of the planets population just based on the us, Italy, India, and France that I know use it in daily cuisine. That doesn’t even cover the continent where tomatoes are native to, or any other culture that may eat the tomato routinely. The poster I replied to is basically stating that they can’t understand why more than 1/3rd of the population at minimum, likes the flavor incomplete error because they personally don’t like the flavor
What are these links? Do they make some kind of cogent argument or are you just kicking the dead Cuomo horse?
"The technical issues are really interesting" is how you know it's a scam. It's like working for Facebook; they keep everyone interested by having them write unnecessary but interesting projects like new build systems and new PHP runtimes. Except that every contribution makes the price of ETH go up, and FB pays you.
>Surely this makes a difference in the lives of these people but on large scales, how much of a difference have you actually made?

Judging by the article, quite a large difference.

>there must be better solutions than solidifying the systematic problems which capture this segment of the population.

We're talking about poor children here. The systemic problem of this segment of the population is that they are poor. It's easy to talk about poor adults and prescribe behavioral adjustments, it's a way of assigning desert. It's much harder to talk about poor children because it's obvious that no child deserves to be poor.
I think you are ignoring his first test.
"Are they committing genocide?"
> At Google scale this becomes very costly

At Google scale, it’s not just very costly, but basically impossible to provide traditional customer service. You’d have every wackjob or confused user needing help with any conceivable tech issue calling them even when it doesn’t have anything to do with google products. I run a couple of businesses having nothing to do with computers and I get confused people all of the time leaving messages asking about some yahoo email or android issue they’re dealing with. I have no doubt that Google itself would be flooded with a billion calls within about a month if they actually had a human phone number for free support.

Luckily the solution for this has already been suggested: charge some fee for premium human support. Charge whatever is necessary to make this feasible and reduce calls to a manageable volume.

Doing so has its own set of problems of course, but I believe that desperate people would rather deal with paying some fee rather than risk losing their business or digital life over a legitimate issue.

There are literally businesses that shut down because of Google’s inability to provide human support. Lives are severely impacted by google’s refusal to provide this.

Unfortunately we’re probably never going to get this from Google because their engineers huff their own farts and think that their algorithms are close to perfect. They don’t really get that the insignificant false positives they think they get are actual human beings.
Also pirates, be reminded that Adobe indulges in very aggressive practices to target you.

At least in India I've met people on unrelated events working for companies claiming to be contracted by Adobe to target small-business, raid their office and make them pay huge sums of money on the pretext of suing them for piracy of their products.

One such person, told me that they got their previous employer into trouble with Adobe due to bad blood. It's definitely not legal for a private entity to raid a premise in India, But I guess these companies have 'what it takes' to make that happen.

So it's not worth it to pirate adobe products, Especially when there are better tools available[1].

[1] https://startuptoolchain.com/#design (I maintain this).
So In my experience on the advertiser side of these suggestion widgets—The algorithms generally aren’t all that smart behind them, and it’s possible in Amazon’s case the items you are getting recommended might have a different SKU number than the ones you have already bought, but of course it is the same author and genre to your reading interest. Doubt it’s looking at book title to be honest.
>> per SMTP destination multiplied by N number of destinations

The number of people using anything other than google, apple, microsoft or yahoo for personal email these days is vanishingly small; and of the remainder, almost all of them are on major broadband providers. If you were some local ISP blocking us, that wouldn't be worth the trouble of sending a legal letter. I'd just tell that particular customer to contact you and ask why you weren't delivering our mail.

This only leaves other corporations that provide their own mail services to people who work there, and if those people want to get their mail they can call IT.
> I wonder if we'll eventually move towards a decentralized mesh network

What would they do? We still use address systems based on groups owned by the governments. I’m not even protesting that fact. I’m just amazed that a large group of people think they can have a direct dependency on someone else’s property, and pretend that they are completely independent.
> She cant loose the elections because shes a Dem from CA. She cant get primaried because shes in the hands of the SV

It sounds like you need to do some research about California politics.

Feinstein is by no means untouchable. And more of her support comes from Hollywood and old media than from SV. However, she does have a core in San Francisco given that's where she wound up as mayor stemming from the Moscone–Milk assassinations.

California has jungle primaries so winning the primary isn't enough. In 2018, this meant that the main election was between two Democrats--Feinstein (54.2%) and de León(45.8%). This was actually a pretty solid result given that Feinstein is a strongly entrenched, party supported incumbent. And it was actually the closest election since her first.

And 2018 was just the start of the progressive wing of the Democratic party getting started (that was the year that AOC got elected and surprised everybody), so a highly liberal challenger simply wasn't in the cards, yet.

She will have a much tougher road in 2024, but I will be highly surprised if she even runs.
Exactly. Any crypto system that doesn't have the ability to break the chain of custody of 'tainted' coins is doomed to irrelevancy. Think about it - on day 0 no coins are tainted. Let's say on week 1 5% of coins are tainted and effectively frozen, leaving 90% of coins in circulation. The illegal activity doesn't stop - it just taints more coins. Maybe week 2 5% of those remaining get tainted, week 3 5% of the remaining after that, etc... Eventually you asymptotically approach absolute uselessness. I think Monero and Ethereum have both thought about this and i'm sure others exist out there too. BTC is stuck in a development graveyard and can't think about things like this- it seems doomed to irrelevancy.
No there isn't. It is a fundamental property of CS that all bitstrings with the same bits are equivalent for computing.

So if file 1 is a bitstring, you don't modify the bits to produce file 2, then file 2 has the same bitstring and will be processed the same as file 1.
Agree - 100%. There's guys who are payed money to yap all day --- a lot not totally but a lot --- of the talent they interview not Joe is what brings in the listeners --- and that's fine.

Now,

- venture into messing with kids

- screwing with public health

- racism

and ... what were you going to stand on? the serious respect you plowed being the "in guy" for the last 15 mins of fame talking BS? Nobody cares that much. I don't. You're in decline now or out. There's a built in and pre-understood fungibility to the whole business, which puts a smile on my face.

Whether it's Trump, the I-man, or Howard stern a lot of media people like them b/c the bring in viewers. And they are the first to toss them out when the line is crossed. I think Imus (I-man) of "Imus in the morning" learned that in a direct way. So let's not totally dismiss the platform behind the host even if Spotify is OK here.
Proof of stake chains are virtually immune to collusion and majority attacks. A single actor would need to own huge amount of resources and then essentially burn the coins. To purchase such a dominant stake the price would rise very quickly... making it very unlikely to be feasible. In comparison, attacking the larger Proof of work chains only requires a few $100M in hardware (the harder ones) and a MW-scale power source used sparingly. I don't see why PoW is still used...
The fact that collaborative document preparation is as troublesome as this in 2022 is a damning indictment on the computer industry. (It's become very good at advertising though.)

Douglas Englebart must be rolling in his grave at a comment like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
I agree with your comment, but just to point out something counterintuitive:

> privateer (NSO etc) threat actors,

E2EE is actually a boon to NSO and friends. It's how they get to deliver their exploits to targets without the service operator being able to inspect them or filter them, or retroactively analyze them to plug the exploits. NSO doesn't have any traffic inspection capability, so their antics rely entirely on exploiting target devices, and E2EE counterintuitively helps in that case.

If iMessage weren't E2EE it would be very easy for Apple to implement a heuristic to look for suspicious messages and keep a copy for further analysis, or automatically run them through their codebase in a sandbox and see if it results in any indicators of compromise. But they can't do any of that, and that's how NSO sometimes goes on years exploiting the same iOS bugs before Apple figures them out. With E2EE, you have to rely entirely on endpoint security, and the provider can't help you server-side.
Supposedly they do it with glasses, maybe there’s a way to replicate with resins, but I don’t know.
This seems to imply that there isn't any high-resolution precipitation data available that could provide these "minute-by-minute" forecasts, but that isn't true. The National Weather Service provides several radar products that give data with resolutions in the range of 500 m using their NEXRAD technology[0]. This allows for some pretty good estimates of when precipitation will start and end over the next hour or so. This kind of forecast product is called a precipitation nowcast. Other nations have similar systems.

If you use the NOAA desktop tool[1] to view the data from NEXRAD stations, you can compare to services like DarkSky and see that they are very likely using it without much editing.

The simplest nowcasts use optical flow techniques rather than meteorological modelling. On short time scales (less than an hour), these methods can give passable results. I built a tool[2] that pulls this NWS data from their Web server and gives you a nowcast.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexrad#Super_resolution

[1]: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/wct/

[2]: https://github.com/bmgxyz/threecast
Thanks. I appreciate literature references to this instead of the disingenuous comments from an earlier poster asserting bandwagon effect and bad faith by public health officials.

Unless Omnicron dissociated it, worse experience == more viral load == more infectious; vaccine reduced (and potentially for some elimintated) viral load and thus reduced infectiousness.
It's a continuum. Just because Gary Webb "committed suicide" with multiple gunshot wounds to the head doesn't mean the CIA in the 01990s was just as unaccountable as Beria's NKVD, much less just as oppressive. Dan Rather's CBS Evening News was no Wikileaks, much less Wikipedia, but it wasn't Pravda either. Serpico got shot in the face for being the first honest cop in the US, but you could still do business in New York without paying all your profits out to the cops. People in Peoria had enormous freedom in 01930, 01960, and even 01990 that people in Minsk, Shanghai, and Alexandria just didn't.

Today we enjoy many freedoms nobody had in 01990, largely thanks to the internet, but those freedoms are probably not going to last much longer, also thanks to the internet.
Unless the recipient's mail reader doesn't do HTML.
Is there a middle ground between the Lean Startup crowd who say you should never write any code at the beginning versus op's view of a fully functional product? I'm pursuing a working prototype but am constantly being told by both camps that I'm doing too much or too little. I don't think wireframes are going to cut it but I don't want to spend every spare hour I have on what others have already said is a lonely and sometimes monotonous existence.
Reddit in general has been having problems this evening.
You can say the same thing about feudalism and the conditions of those who lived under it.
Fun fact, by default iOS Do Not Disturb mode will make the phone ring if they call a second time in a row.
You can still get wrench attacked for your Monero in the same exact way.

It's just a risk of self-custody of keys and it's a good reason for the industry to push forward better key management solutions (multi-sig + shamir secret sharing, etc)
>both should either charge what the market will bear

This assume the symmetry of power, buying or purchase. Which is not the case here.
Did you forget to change accounts?
> The only way to shut down the Bitcoin network is to shut down the internet all over the world at once and even then - there is ham radio and satellites.

That implies bitcoin, and I am
making an assumption that all cryptocurrencies are in the same boat, is worth as much as the rest of the internet.

If crypto markets start threatening fiat currencies, I will be heavily surprised if ISPs choose to protect crypto markets instead of shutting them down when the government threatens their ability to do business.

Crypto is only dangerous to fiat in crypto bros minds right now. They 100% can shut down crypto once it stops being a novelty
> on large scales, how much of a difference have you actually made?

Giving cash to liquidity- and asset-constrained folks with high-value spending needs (like raising a kid) makes a huge difference if you can even roughly target the intervention to them. It's almost impossible to theoretically bound the benefit, it could be very large indeed. Even if some money were wasted on "bad" spending, and even though redistributing it is inherently costly, it's the kind of thing that's absolutely worth trying. It has all the well-known benefits of UBI, except on an even larger scale.
All of reddit.com is failing to load for me (mobile + desktop). However, it loads fine in an incognito window. Perhaps it's only broken for people who are signed into their accounts?