skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, could you consider allowing SSO on all plans ?

See https://sso.tax
>- The currency of my country is collapsing, I need to buy something which has a value unconnected to my country.

>- My country imposes export controls on foreign currency. I want to move my money out of my country.

Never understood who is the counter-party in these scenarios. Someone must sell you the crypto for seemingly worthless local currency. (Unless you somehow smuggle mining equipment in and buy local electricity)

Who would make that trade? Specially if currency was collapsing or not usable.
You forgot the most important use case: you want to build fintech services and applications, but you don't want to deal with almost a century worth of compliance and a tech stack built on rotten foundations and middleman rentseeking.
The best dollar bills are printed in North Korea. Forgery (but not fraut) becomes the default with crypto. You can create money without a government charter. However, it is to expensive for the forger to make a profit.

With fiat book money any payment processor (banks, CC, paypal) can create dept and thus money. We have to hold a gun against their heads and never look away to make sure that they don't cheat. Crypto solves that problem.

Please note, that you asked for solution. Crypto is creating way more problems then it solves. The VISA Network is processing 2G transactions per day. With crypto you can be happy if you get beyond 100k per day. There is better reasons to burn fossil fuel, etc. pp.
Blockchain only solves the issue of a distributed system without trust. None of the issues Scott mentioned are inherent to a centralized, trust based system. And some exist just as much in crypto space (wrong bank account number -> wrong wallet address and you also pay a fee for transfers)
Your wife's brain cancer wasn't generating revenue for the company. Capitalism is fueled by growth, not doing the morally right thing.
> Smartwatches have the same problem - I remember going to a Samsung store and they were showing off a smartwatch that had its own SIM card and cellular modem, but the staff couldn't tell me what kind of phone contract you had to have to make it work

I might be missing something about cultural differences but... why would you expect an electronics store to tell you what kind of plans your telco has?

Here in Switzerland pretty much every telco offers an additional SIM for tablets and watches, but you need to talk to the mobile operator not the electronics store ^^
> Maybe I'm just old-school, but I expect when I visit a site I'm leaking some PII (my IP address) to every router between my client and latimes.com to do with as they will.

Presumably you don't expect the american government to get involved after your request has reached latimes.com though?
Windows phone used to have this and it was called Continuum. Although it couldn't actually run proper desktop apps, only a few office apps made for it. The promo page for it is still up despite windows phone being dead for a few years now.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/continuum
You can always find someone to sell USD for crypto in cash. And you will be able to do it only because crypto allows you to actually own your assets.
Alas, this is typical of these head-in-the-clouds engineering types.

More concerned with the technical details about keeping their precious machinery working than anything practical like am I going to get to Malaga in time for dinner.

joke
That's pretty counter to my experience, particularly on HN. I don't see a lot of brand evangelism on either site, really, but, maybe that's because I tend to stay away from subreddits on r/all. I'd think the amount you'd expect to see happening "organically" is small enough that it could be overlooked.
Isn't this a whataboutist argument? It's a logical fallacy
High transaction cost is not inherent in the technology of bank transfers. Within Europe it's all electronic and my bank in Norway charges less than 1% for an international transfer.
I know what you mean by those alarm bells. But in that very article: "I also spent a lot of time in Brussels agitating for the passage of the GDPR". If anybody's justified calling themselves activist, surely that's Doctorow. I'm sure you'll find more reasons, if you just search what he actually does, for about 2 minutes.
Isn't what they're doing part of democracy? By supporting the hacking, you're actually undermining democracy.
> In a few hundred years we will look at today's science the way we're looking at religions today

Who's "we"? Just because the West is secular does not mean the entire world is. Ironically, scientism is the West's latest religion.
>This is just my personal opinion, but I think email lists the most accessible decentralized substitute.

Yeah, and IRC is the best web chat. We kept hearing that myopic old-school-dev-centered view on things for ages. What did it result in? People now beg FOSS projects not to use Discord (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712098). New generations of people, even software developers, aren't accustomed to old featureless technologies; and they consider them crappy. No, they aren't going to tinker with setting up an FTP server, they will just install Dropbox contrary to what HN users were commenting on that thread when Dropbox was announced (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224).

After all of that happening can we at least agree that email is not a good substitute for Reddit?
Can you explain how a Signal conversation with a verified correspondent can be wiretapped? My understanding was that their safety code would change and you would have to revalidate if anything untoward happened, but perhaps I’m wrong…
In the long term, yes. Until then, experimentation is also necessary, otherwise we will be stuck at a local optimum only.
The state (in the general sense, as in the federal government) wants to know where money comes from and where money goes to. Control over capital flow is one of the fundamental levers of modern day political power.
I live in a third-world country, but I work remotely for some foreign firms. Crypto lets me get payments swiftly, easily. Of course, I also use traditional payment platforms like Payoneer, Skrill, etc, but getting payments in crypto (stable coins only) is far easier, and I can immediately convert to fiat.

A brief comparison between getting paid on Payoneer and a crypto exchange.

Payoneer - Sends invoice, client pays. Payment takes 1 or 2 days to hit my Payoneer account, and withdrawal takes another 1 day to hit my local bank account. If you withdraw on a Friday when the banks have closed, you'll have to wait till Monday to get your money.

Crypto - Sends invoice, client pays. Money hits my account immediately, and I can convert to fiat in less than 30 mins.

Now, I'm not even a fan of crypto because I think the field is spoiled with fraud, shysters, snakes, and all that...but crypto solves a good problem for me of getting instant payments. Notably, I only use stablecoins and abhor speculation.

Edit: Just to add, some mainstream payment platforms like PayPal and TransferWise are blocked in my country, and I've lost a significant number of jobs for this reason because clients refuse to use other payment options.

I think people in the first-world may not have much of a use case for crypto, but people in underdeveloped, unstable countries like mine have an important use case.
You already need crypto though.
But this isn’t that. This is not even a letter before action. This is just a bunch of inconsequential emails.
A similar attitude persisted in investment banking. They paid you big money so they almost felt that they owned you. You had to on the job for them 24/7 and if you weren't there were many others who would gladly take your place.
I can't find it. It doesn't exist anymore. Something like "High Growth Conference" in 2010-ish. Chairman of the day was Harry Starren.
A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
Inactive habits during the pandemic may have increased obesity in the UK
Democracy is when foreign far right groups participate in and fund a domestic protest where people demand the resignation of elected officials, got it.
The Semantic Representation of Pure Mathematics (2016)
Technically, the only thing stopping them is SSH, and that can be handled (as Snowden publicized) by tapping latimes.com's systems on the other side of decryption.

Old-school me would not have expected that to happen. Post-Snowden? It's a definite possibility.
Email is too socially antiquated at this point to be useful in that regard, and that's not even taking into consideration that because everyone uses gmail, you're trading one centralized service (reddit) for another (google).
I would venture to say almost none and that's exactly what bothers me about it. If they did know about it, do you think they would be comfortable realizing they're in the position of being a negotiating tool to achieve this political end?
That's really great, Jedi Knight was the first game that really got me as a teenager into modding and designing my own levels for a clan. Which then I had to familiarize myself with the scripting and cog files, and it was really the first time I ever had to think like a programmer. I have fond memories of listening to songs I downloaded off of Napster and designing levels for me and my clan to hang out in and have lightsaber duels.
The credit card one is a good one, credit cards are the worst possible approach I can imagine to transact money with.

Forex exchange is pretty cheap these days with things like Wise.

You can technically charge your debit / credit card just by knowing the number.

All the others are political problems and they can't beat a state actor.
Eg. You won't stop the government from seizing your assets: they'll put you in jail until you give them up.
We should think about a political solution, not a technical one (I'm all for abolishing the government).

I'm surprised they didn't crack down on crypto earlier, I suspect they're using it as a sort of inflationary device. Having extra unbacked crypto in the world means you have more money in the world, making the rest of the money a little bit less valuable - but I don't think crypto was considered seriously enough to affect fiat, at the beginning.
Now, when you want to push your currency or local assets up you can just ban/harm crypto (which is what Russia proposed with the RUB going down a month ago).
Nukes in Space
Good article but not something to read if you want to have a happy Monday.

Well, except if you have the emotional detachment ability of an Amazon employee, that is.
> Tablets with cellular connectivity are if anything less well supported than before.

Not my experience. I'm sure it depends a bit on your carrier, but on T-Mobile it was easy to order a data sim for a tablet from their website. Setting up a smart watch was even easier with eSIM, it just sets up everything for you when you pair with your phone.
I feel you should get a Steam Deck then. It has almost everything you described you wanted in a pocket computer.

1.) Run windows/linux distro on the go.

2.) Can play graphically demanding titles in 720P.

3.) Has a dock which supports ethernet, Mouse/Keebs, HDMI out.

4.) Can have upto 4TB internal SSD with tweaks.
A great system!
NL foundation to reclaim part of 30% “big tech tax” through collective lawsuit
‘I can see into the lives of North Koreans’ – the professor who reads rubbish
He was well paid, it's a business, knew the reputation Amazon has yadda yadda yadda. I expect more, for people to be people, and do not accept any of this. I have had enough of these stories years ago, and simply do not use Amazon for anything, ever.
IDK, why the derision for techbros? Or hipsters? Or anything else?
It's also what Ubuntu Touch aimed to do. Not sure if that's a use case that UBports still tackles, though.
Unhelpful support is an understatement, PayPal is a criminal organisation for what it concerns me. I don't care what stupid law they're following, they effectively steal money.
Preet Chandi is touted as the first female of color to ski the South Pole solo. She was, in line with the pattern, boosted by her military training. That takes nothing from her accomplishment but rather gives further insight into what the human body can ensure given the right preparation. Can an individual mirror or approximate military-caliber training through sheer research? That's one of the most exciting questions to me right now when it comes to physical fitness.
Or maybe somebody in FB blocklist dev carried out a vendetta against such engineer…
> Isn't it the zoom box that has to be doing the detection? The pc is just sending the signal, which wouldn't take much processing.

If the PC were just sending the signal it wouldn't need the microphone to be on. And it would stop working when people turn off their speakers like a lot of people do in a busy meeting room.

By the way there seem to be other ways to do it too. Not sure if it's Bluetooth but MS Teams warned me in the past that I was in a room with a Surface display (the huge first generation one). It doesn't keep the microphone active though.. I never investigated how it figured that.
Avoiding regulation is a good one, but they'll come for crypto as well.

It's already hard to find unregulated exchanges
> ... like showing snippets of C code from the networking stack ...

I think this point deserves extra attention. I've been finding that in situations like this it is often much faster to read the implementation source code than try to work it out from documentation and trial-and-error. Something in this (quite realistic) vignette is that there is a lot of potential to mis-learn when the Linux source code for this is probably quite short and readable.

This is a particularly useful skill for terse languages where the source code is easy to read. And a good time to feel a bit of empathy towards the poor souls who are forced to use closed source software.

In fact, I now know what I'll be skimming through tonight ... [0]. Not short, but a lot more useful than guesswork.

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/net/so...
I see the reasoning, but the flaw here is already in #2:

> Acknowledge that some property is not just a tangible object, but can include a configuration of objects.

While there is a configuration that constitutes:

> database records reflecting you bank account as private property.

it's in the owner's interest that those records are as widespread as possible, lest someone challenges the ownership of the property they describe. If they are widespread, they are not exclusive, and therefore are not owned (even if there might be a right to demand the existence and accuracy of the records).
Is that similar to stack ranking, where the “bottom” X% is culled each year? Or is it exactly that? I recall that process being deemed ultimately shortsighted.
Today: crypto is a much superior way of sending money across international borders – cheaper, faster, more “user-friendly” (not for everyone, but definitely for my user persona).

More generally, crypto can do most things that a bank can do. It’s not the best at many of those things yet. But it’s evolving much faster than banks do.

Here’s Yanis Varoufakis on disintermediation from banks:

“ Today, you use digital money (phone apps or plastic cards) to buy a cup of coffee at your local Starbucks. But, to do so, you first need an account with a commercial bank. In other words, to grant you access to digital fiat money, the state forces you to fall into the embrace of the commercial banks.

So, today, the state guarantees a monopoly over payments to commercial banks. And that is only one gift to the oligarchy. A second, even greater gift, is that only commercial banks are allowed to have an account with the central bank.” [https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-f...]

(He’s very critical of crypto in the rest of the interview - great read.)

Even more generally, with smart contracts, the blockchain becomes a platform not only for finance and trade, but also law. Every country has laws written in their own language. Smart contracts are our laws, written in code. So, anything done by authorities which involves record-keeping is a candidate for disruption by the blockchain.

The trouble is that many of the best use cases for crypto (land deeds, electric car charging, scientific publishing and citations) are public goods – beneficial for the society as a whole, but not profitable for any individual to build. Once we get over baseball cards and apes, it will be exciting to see public goods flourish on the blockchain.
Every couple of years someone at work rewrites the email sending code in a new sexy language and reimplements the same 7 bit encoding bugs as well as other subtle email encoding issues. This happens even with ample documentation and code comments about why specific conditionals are set.
Money laundering, but after the arrest of the individuals for the laundering of $3.6bn in crypto, I'm not so sure anymore
Ameericans for sure haven't. They have so many guns like they're living in the Cretaceous and humans are not the dominant species on the planet.
> https://youtu.be/xky3f1aSkB8

On a highly unrelated note, looking at the video, the lady looks and sounds kind of familiar. US LHC, nah, too far, not probable. But then - "Filmed in CERN's S'Cool Lab". Bingo (I live in Geneva, Switzerland where we have CERN) - I did some hikes and climbing with her maybe some 7 years ago.

The world is sometimes surprisingly small. And yeah, its amazing how little equipment can get you so far.
> Third, it is truly interesting data. AT&T used to send out press releases about how many holiday calls they had handled each year; similarly, modern telcos often boast how many handsets have been at sports events and stadium concerts.

OT: That's not really interesting data, it's flashy data at most. In those situation, we have a very specific image what data we expect to see - it would be more puzzling if someone big sports event didn't cause a spike in mobile connections from the stadium.

But I don't see how any new knowledge is generated from this stuff despite press releases telling everyone what they already know.
Bank transfers are free in several countries in the UK and in Europe.

I can even get free (both personal and business) bank accounts.
> But why did Google enable virtualization in Android?

They had no idea it was for locking things down. Sure, it allows running VMs, but that doesn't change anything about it.

"I'll force A on you, but you'll get B so don't be mad."

... but this only really applies on the surface. Locking things down is the road forward in the industry anyway. That's why the Desktop OS war is long over, too. Everything will, eventually, run on everything.

We're being sold digital lockdowns as features which supposedly provide us with more freedom. In the end we'll have downloadable programs we'll rent to use, which run in a cut-for-the-purpose container, without any ability to tinker, hack, or modify. Rent or die. Don't want any of this? Fine, but you're locked out of the eco-system. Have fun enjoying what's left for you to do/use.

I wish more people knew what's coming. I don't know why they don't. I'm sure the information is out there, but apparently nobody is talking about it, thus nobody knows about it. My guess is simply that it wouldn't actually be particularly popular if people actually understood that they're just being misled.

For those rolling their eyes, considering that nowadays it's the norm to sell safety/security as beneficial, because
of reasons based on fear.

Benjamin Franklin would probably be really angry about how normalized it has become to give up liberties for some false sense of security.

The unintentionally worst people are the ones who think this is all a great idea. Because security. Fact of the matter is, though, that if people had to actually know and understand what they're using and doing, we'd not be in the mess we are today.

What I mean by that is that the world apparently has this deep issue with fear of pretty much everything and humanity tries hard to make the fears less worse instead of getting rid of them by using education and getting rid of the fearmongers.

This reminds me of my friend. He insists on having his AV and cookie blocker running. He thinks that's super important. Every new site he manually blocks everything. This same guy also insists on continuously installing all kinds of stuff, and after just two months his new notebook took 20 seconds to boot. When he got it, it were two.

The worst part about this is that he's so brainwashed into believing that he really needs this, despite me being living evidence that he doesn't, that there is actually no way of educating him. The fear machine has dug too hard into him and, unless they stop, there's actually no way of getting rid of it.

Not gonna lie, I actually think this is amazing. On one hand he's extremely cautious about security, which is not unreasonable per se, on the other hand he installs all kinds of shit because he's an idiot who doesn't actually know what he's doing.

He's just doing what he's being told to do.

Amazing.
Assertion Functions in TypeScript
Some languages have rather simple core syntax, such as Tcl, Lisp, Forth, M4

Other languages have much more complex core syntax, for example C family languages such as C or C++ or Java. Certain languages, such as COBOL or Perl, are at the extreme of core syntax complexity

Separate from the core syntax, we can also speak of "non-core syntax" (which is expressed in terms of the core syntax), which can itself be quite complex whether or not the core syntax is – look at how complex many Tcl commands are; or consider some rich fluent Java API; or the Common Lisp loop macro

You seem to be equating simple core syntax with no syntax. No language has no syntax; a language without syntax could not be a language.
It is exactly that
https://archive.fo/RdHkT
Or a decrease in the previous years. With how predictable US politics is, I would expect accountants to suggest holding these things until a Republican government, which will be no more than 8 years away. But looking back or forward there’s also the other effects of government on their income to confound spotting it.