skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finality is a mundane occurrence within the world: destruction of a physical asset - not a financial instrument - is definitely final. And crypto does have a notion of "burning" tokens(by sending them to a random place, rendering them inaccessible to all parties) that has proven to be useful as an equivalent finalization.

What isn't final about crypto is rather the entirety of the system. When using it you consent to the inner part of it - the on-chain record - being final, while the overall framework is not and can be reformed with hardforks, protocol upgrades etc.

TradFi does the inverse: the overarching framework of international finance is taken to be final, ultimately enforced through political and military power - while the day-to-day details of the system are negotiable.

The underlying utilitarian proposition of introducing crypto - irrespective of the ideological - is that making an entire financial system open, fungible and mutable is net beneficial towards the goal of economic coordination, even if some aspects like consumer payments may remain traditional in nature.
Finally, the article I'm happy someone wrote.

I've lost all faith in most search results. SO MUCH CONTENT is designed and tailored to rank and drive ad traffic, not to inform. This isn't the case with Reddit, since the capitalistic factor isn't there.

Yeah, there's a risk of misinformation from results from bigger subs, but posts from smaller subs almost always produce factual, high-quality content from actual people with no hidden agendas.

Example. I was looking for a french toast recipe some time ago. Searching "french toast recipe" on Google on mobile (in Houston, TX) yields four pinned results, one of which is from the Food Network (which might be okay, but they're also a huge content aggregator), amongst a bunch of recipes, each of which has a marathon of words before the actual recipe because ads gotta ad.

Instead, searching for "french toast recipe site:reddit.com" gives you a bunch of posts from people who asked the same question along with answers from several people, some of which contain links to recipes that didn't rank before (or are ONLY on Reddit).
Total supply is not the only important factor. If there are a million units of some token and a thousand people hold it then each token will still be worth more than if there were just a thousand units, all held by one person. Network effects matter far more than total supply!

If you squint even Bitcoin had
an airdrop: Bitcoin has been in an inflationary regime for its entire history and for a while was giving out Bitcoin to anybody who ran the right program on their laptop.
pretty much what we're up to at Breeze -- we currently curate internally, gradually opening up public curation -- dm if want to test some of our upcoming topic searches ahead of public release
Who’s searching the web through Reddit? Is there something I’m missing here?
The supposed ability to opt out. How do you know Toyota truly removes that capability?
If you want a different perspective on excess mortality, do some reading about how human demographers work with the population dynamics of mainland China during the cultural revolution. You can tell a lot about cohorts some decades back by stats about birth and death rates in the present.

We will probably be doing similar things worldwide for the current 5 year window we are 2-3 years inside. It may take decades to get the stats right.

The overall trend in world population has been slowing down (still increasing, but decelerating not accelerating) for some time, and much though I regret Covid mortality I do want to say I do not think it will significantly alter the trend line. It is possible there will be a longterm bump in schooling, university, birth/death statistics but not trend-altering.

For many economies, end of life cost is a high burden on healthcare which drags out for decades. Nobody will want to own it, but that health economic outcome may look very different. An example where you might see it is the price of managed care housing which is a package of land, home and care. The pricing is set by the provider usually, it's not an open market. If they have surplus care residency on book it will show up multi year in their tax declaration and shareholder declaration. They may well price downward to try and achieve some kpi.

For any individual who has to deal with covid related deaths in the family I'm not trying to be a troll I am truly sorry at what has happened to people everywhere.
I just Google'd "europe retirement visa". Many, many hits. Most Southern European nations have reasonable options. The GP post is valid to me. About healthcare: I have no idea how that works, but surely it will be cheaper than the United States.
> It's a tool, but not a silver bullet. Mixers exist, for example.

Definitely, but I don't think that mixers would be considered an acceptable "excuse" for dubious coin origin.

> The key holder has the ultimate power to simply throw away the key. There is no recourse for that.

True, but what is the utility of that?
I'm not holding HN up as a stellar example. I'm asking why we need 50 Mb of RAM to render a webpage that is this simple. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that browsers could handle back when the average size of the entire RAM was less than that.
Understandable, after all you have no choice but to act as if you have free will.
Nor do I. (Paraphrased from a Christopher Hitchens quote.)

... but of course that gets us no closer to a definition. If someone can come up with a sensible definition, it could be interesting, certainly.
The problem is that the device and support associated with it outrageously expensive. Even if the company want to support their users, it may not be sustainable.

This sort of thing required ongoing government support to sustain until the technology is ready.

It seems more like proof of concept device that belongs in a lab rather than a commercially available technology.
Just tried andisearch and am extremely impressed. It has so far handled all queries I have thrown at it better than brave search and DDG. Will continue to experiment, best of luck and awesome work!
But; feross lives to post portswigger articles
Not necessarily good enough. In principle you need to either get the raw original, or black out every macroblock that ever contained any sensitive information.
There were plenty of us who knew – and said – that "cryptocurrency" was borne of technical, political, economic, societal ignorance when it started. Now it's just more obviously terrible.
So let's compare two statements:

"Conspiracy theories and other sorts of misinformation are stickier now because leadership and institutions are increasingly illegitimate/incompetent/whatever".

"Conspiracy theories and other sorts of misinformation are more widespread now because changes in technology have allowed them to be spread far faster than ever before."

What sort of research or data would one need to support one take over the other?
Hi. This is my comment you keep linking to. Your understanding of what happened is flawed. I do not have signs that Linode was rooted in that compromise. The signals I do have is that they had their database compromised, and likely secret key material. That allowed attackers to crack the hashes offline, and then authenticate using MFA.

IMO, it's plain wrong to categorize that one as "getting full root control plane", where it was instead the compromising of individual accounts that may have had no access to the resources on an account.
Writing a Super Bowl Worthy Commercial with GPT-3
Burritos definitely seem to be a critical part of hacker culture to me.

Speaking of, a burrito sounds great right now, so thanks for the reminder to go grab some dinner :)
What about prosthesis that are worn, like hearing aids?
I wonder if a better (albeit slightly more involved) process to make blurred out sensitive inputs for shared content would be to: 1) add a block over the text, but use the same color as the form in put 2) add similar looking, but fake text on top of the block 3) apply the blur/pixelation.

This way you keep the nicer aesthetics but you get the benefits of using the black box approach.

Probably overkill for many cases, but when I create any sort of content I like to keep it looking fresh.
I remember being in grade school while this was happening and a girl was explaining to me how it worked, that such-and-such Beanie Baby was being "retired" and only a few thousand of each one was made. I just didn't get it. Why wouldn't they make more? I mean it's not like we're going to run out of polyester and plastic pellets anytime soon. Not to mention the company itself doesn't benefit if they appreciate on the used market. Why would they leave all that money on the table by deliberately making less than people wanted?

There were also rumors going around that the whole thing - production of all Beanie Babies - was going to end in the year 2000 which actually turned out to be very briefly true before it wasn't anymore.

As an adult I was smart enough to miss cryptocurrency 10 years ago because I thought it sounded like Flooz.com or Beenz. Magic internet money you can earn by solving sudokus? Who the hell wants that? I then missed NFTs (won't they just right click?) and now I'm too scared to get in for fear I will end up as the bag holder.

I'm probably going to end up learning the wrong lesson from this and throw fifty bucks into every crazy-sounding scheme I come across from now on in hopes one of them will hit it big. But that's not so different from venture capital. Just on a smaller scale.
Also discussed a couple of days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30318208
Give me back the tiles in the start menu!

I pin the apps I use all day long to the taskbar. And I used the tiles in the start menu for apps I use once in a while but still want quick access. And I use the search for everything else.

The tiles are the single greatest UI feature of Microsoft the past few years. Windows Phone was my favorite mobile OS because of this. Give me a colored box with some text on it, icons are hard to read, especially if you got a lot of them.
Well done. I don't understand this TFA, nor do I understand (fully) the xkcd cell. But I get the connection. Thanks :)
I don't care one bit about raster graphics CRT (can't stand flicker); good riddance I say. I do miss vector monitors though (their heyday was before my time, I used only the one in the Vectrex). Anyone to sell me a HP1300?
Poverty is a econometric descriptor. It isn't racist.

But to state the obvious: distributions of poverty belie the US's long history of racism.
Living in southern Utah, I'd actually rather dry + hotter than wet + hotter...at least we avoid dying from wetbulb temps. 125 is survivable in dry heat, a death sentence if you add humidity.
Buffett’s Berkshire bought about $1B worth of Activision shares before MSFT deal
Yeah I was not expecting to like this as much as I do
Between O'Reilly's programming books and FOSS mascots, this outcome should be entirely unsurprising.
Already exist. Samsung made the Gear IconX with 4GB built in. I don't think they make them anymore though. Sony also makes the waterproof in ear Walkman, not airpods style but more traditional wireless headphones.
The first paragraph is true, but I had to click on the link to discover that.

I guess I'm just a bit peeved at the implicit presumption everyone uses Gmail, and therefore, that Gmail APIs cover the field, and therefore that I can enjoy my inbox.
I think the primary advantage of tailwind comes when you use it with JS components e.g. React, Vue, etc.

Instead of writing ".widget a" which will leak into its child components' anchor tags, you just directly style the anchor tags of the parent widget <a class="bold text-center">

This keeps css simple and isolated so you don't need to waste time trying to figure out the specificity to override some style
In a current project, to support the "mix-in" style of development that decorators provide, I am preferring to extend the base class at class definition time, ie:

class Example extends mixin(BaseClass) {}

as opposed to the decorator style:

@mixin
class Example extends BaseClass {}

If you dislike decorators, what are your thoughts on this style of code?
What's nightmarish about it?

> Call it the Capitalism to communism bendover transfer act.

Are you this against the concept of the public domain in general?

And do you disagree with the stated purpose of IP in the constitution?
U.S. to allow advanced headlights after Toyota petition
I write moderation bots. Without an API, moderation would be difficult if not impossible.
Every time I hear this "Reddit is conservative-biased" I wonder if people are living in the same reality as I am. I just checked /r/all, the first political post is related to the Canadian trucker protest of which support is broadly split down the political divide. Top voted posts there slide as I expected, generally on the left-aligned component against the protests. The same, at least in my experience, applies to all political topics on reddit.

Hell, Bernie, and then Biden were both top of reddit during the elections. In what way is that indicative of a "conservative leaning" on reddit. I'll give you young and male, but conservative? You've got to be pulling my leg here.
I really wish we could divorce economic policy from purely social issues. There's no reason my stance on guns or religion or whatever should force me to also align with the party line on how high I think taxes should be. Where are the socialists who believe the government should tax the rich to give every citizen a gun & a bible, or the laissez-faire folks who want to eliminate war, violence, and bigotry because it's not as profitable?
Our programming languages might need a unicode aware string concatenation operator, similar to locale aware capitalization. Joining LTR text to RTL text seems like it should result in combined LTR + RTL text, not letting the LTR marker override and change meaning.
Agreed about sensors. We still have some trouble figuring them out and understanding why they sometimes don't trigger when they should.
FATCA is a terrible law. It's like they're machine-gunning people who try to get over the Berlin Wall.

So, practical question for Americans living in Europe: Are you able to just forgo local banks and use an internationally-minded US bank for everything? One without international fees? Can you just get your paychecks deposited there, say? Does this make anything impossible? Say, getting a mortgage?
A creditor's right to cash overrides a person's right to see?
I also suffered that cpu bug many years ago but I'd hope it has been fixed by now! The scheduler stealing all of the cycles.....
Somebody is rewarded for this cross-org high-visibility work.
I'm part of a small-moderate sized open source community.

We communicate via IRC/Signal, code via Git, and share knowledge via blogs, Mastodon, and talks.

It feels small and nice.

The fact that the rest of the Internet has grown into a different direction doesn't change that.

The pie is now bigger and largely corporate driven, and I'm okay not being part of that.

Is that so bad?
It can help with creating the “I’m a person not an entity on a computer” perception. I went remote only with Covid and I occasionally turn my camera on but I’m well familiar with my team, we meet up and have lunch occasionally, so they know me well. If you’re a newer addition I’d say it’s a good idea but you don’t really need to feel compelled after that point unless you want to.
Have to say that at least it was simpler to work with than digital displays as a user. I still have trouble with digital displays, EDID, getting __nothing__ when a signal is out of range, whereas you might get something you can decipher from a CRT. Displays that don't wake up, displays that blink off and on, and all sorts of other timing issues and such. It can certainly be a mess for drivers too, esp. in the hobby OS space.
I found this surprising... 59% of respondents sounds huge!

"Rust can now safely be classified as a language used by people in professional settings. Of those respondents using Rust, 59% use it at least occasionally at work with 23% using Rust for the majority of their coding. This is a large increase over last year where only 42% of respondents used Rust at work."
>There's a difference between not having resources and simply having other problems that demand those resources.

A distinction without a difference, they're both "insufficient resources."
Hmm. The #241 word was changed between original and NYT, and I just played your copy and it was using the NYT word instead of Josh's. I don't want to spoil the 2 words here so here's a link to Mashable that covers the two different words to the same puzzle number. https://mashable.com/article/wordle-241-glitch-answer

I checked the other commenter's rehost and it also used NYT's word. So does this mean all supposed "rehosts" don't and can't work if the word list still defaults to NYT's?
You just swipe from the left part of the screen.
Indie Film ‘Apple-Man’ Faces Lawsuit from Apple
I've lived in numerous developing countries and while I can certainly think of a number of places where gentrification pushed locals out of certain neighborhoods, I've never seen expats doing this on the scale I witnessed in the US.

It's a complex issue.

First, expats are not a homogeneous bunch. In a lot of developing countries in SE Asia, for instance, the expat communities are not made up of large numbers of truly affluent people. Generally, the expats who live in the expensive buildings/houses and employ local help (maids, cooks, etc.) work for large companies (in higher-level roles), embassies and NGOs. The majority of the "digital nomad" types don't actually live affluent lifestyles in my experience. Sure, they make a lot more than the locals, but they're not spending $3,000/month on an apartment in Bangkok or HCMC. This doesn't mean they don't have an effect on local economies, but there just aren't enough expats in fast-growing, fast-developing cities to cause negative gentrification effects like you see in places like the SF Bay Area.

Second, in some places, like Bali, the economies are totally built around the presence of foreigners (expats, "semi-permanent" foreign residents and foreign tourists). Take them away and the locals suffer massively. Bali has been absolutely bleeding because of COVID. I guarantee you if you asked the average Balinese person if they want "normal" to return (which means a heavy foreigner population), they would tell you "yes x10000000000000".

Finally, a lot of developing countries, while still poor, have fast-growing economies and there is a lot of development taking place that is driven by the growing wealth and urbanization locally. I worked in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) for a time and while you could see the effect expats had in a neighborhood like BBK1, other neighborhoods were clearly changing more as a result of the growing wealth of locals and increased urbanization (people coming from the countryside to find opportunity in the city).
Or just yeast and ethanol.
Not just that. It's a fight against authoritarianism. I'm done with you
Claiming to be ready and just waiting on the FAA is good publicity, true or no. We can't tell from the outside.
Fair enough. Back then I recall that generally being the argument being pushed by the opposition, and never really investigated in the years since.

I am definitely surprised it's a positive number when combined with modern carbon-intensive agriculture practices. Learn something new every day!

Either way the sentiment at the time was very much "rah rah america" vs. "save the planet", but that could certainly be my quite fallible memory.
For me, Duckduckgo finds technical information that google doesn't and vise versa. I use both.
From a Digital Marketer who has worked with search engines since 2007, and can remember using Google as a primary student in 1998/1999, Google has made some incredible leaps....

Their search results however are getting worse, whilst also being exploitative. I'm a big believer in an open, free internet, but ripping off content to display on the home page isn't justifiable except for a monopoly, wanting to consolidate as many impressions onto their ad laden serps.

Google Flights imo was the start of Google's greed in unfairly competing against content platforms & aggregators. Pretty big conflict of interest there.

They're really stuck with Google Ads and dependent on it for a lot of their revenue. This will only get worse.
I run 24" @ 4K at 200% scaling and it's amazing.

But 24" 4K is very hard to get now. All 4K screens I can buy here are 27" and up..
Shisho Cloud evolved into a more developer-friendly security tool
"The latest conditions on mountain bike and hiking trails are being shared inside communities like Reddit but not on the web."

I just wanted to mention that a friend of mine made an app for user-reported trail conditions that might be worth taking a look at:
https://trekko.app/
I don't know for React/Angular, but with VueJS you have:

<style scoped>
.a-class-that-will-not-leak { /* ... */ }
</style>

Considering this feature, what's the difference between writing CSS properties or using Tailwind's @apply ?

Also, such CSS classes are also available in frameworks like Bootstrap or Bulma:

<a class="has-text-weight-bold has-text-centered">

But they also give me:

<nav class="navbar"> ... </nav>

Which would be responsive and functional, unlike the one I would implement with homemade CSS.
Vulnerability != Compromise
Show HN: iOS Shortcut for submitting links to HN
>I guess if the measure of "information richness" is based in compressibility of electrical activity ... is it surprising that it isn't higher in the chaotic phase? Why wouldn't one expect the chaotic system to produce as much or more random output?

Chaos can be highly regular. For example, the limiting case of the logistic map, x -> 4x - 4x^2, is chaotic, but also has an exact solution x[n] = sin^2(arcsin(sqrt(x[0])) * 2^n). It's not hard to see why this still obeys the usual properties of Lyapunov doubling etc, but a simple double exponential doesn't seem like the sort of thing that leads to consciousness! From an information-theoretic point of view, the nth bit of x[0] becomes relevant at roughly step n, which means there is a steady "trickle" of information into the system instead of the more complicated dynamics we expect of a "computational" system -- in fact, if we consider the binary expansion of (arcsin(sqrt(x[0]))/pi) we find that only a finite number of bits have an effect on the system's measurable properties at any time, and the effect is rather like scrolling steadily along an infinite tape of random bits.
Maybe you'd be interested in a recent post: American Institute of Mathematics' Open Textbook Initiative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270705 | https://aimath.org/textbooks/
Student's AI model turns American Sign Language into English in real-time
Pool's closed!

But that's Anonymous, not SA.
Are they shorting their own stock? Lol
Chaos Monkeys (and the section extracted by Vanity Fair here: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-...) is probably a more relevant comparison.

"Facebook is full of true believers who really, really, really are not doing it for the money, and really, really will not stop until every man, woman, and child on earth is staring into a blue-bannered window with a Facebook logo. Which, if you think about it, is much scarier than simple greed. The greedy man can always be bought at some price, and his behavior is predictable. But the true zealot? He can’t be had at any price, and there’s no telling what his mad visions will have him and his followers do."
It’s actually a riff on a Navy saying, according to folks at Meta.

And what is the difference between a rip-off and an homage? I think your underlying feelings leaked through what would have been an otherwise reasonable comment.
this is the one I have and was thinking of: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...
It's interesting that uniq is spelled unique in that video. I wonder who changed that!