skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Cloud Spanner uses atomic clocks to be able to synchronize using timestamps across distributed DBs. CockroachDB does not require atomic clocks, but I believe there is an "atomic clock mode" available. This approach sounds like it doesn't use atomic clocks, but instead just machine learning algorithms to detect offsets.

Would like to understand if the founders consider their approach to be a viable alternative to "atomic clock mode", but without actual atomic clocks.
The screws are long gone, to unlock you prove ownership by sitting for a few minutes pressing the power button when told.

Wiping the installation is very much expected. The security model includes protecting data, of course data has to be wiped when removing security. Data on disk is encrypted with a key stored in the security chip, which destroys the key when security settings are changed.

Android does the same for fastboot unlock.

What's the big deal? If you want to flash UEFI and use a custom OS, why would you want to preserve the ChromeOS partition?
Thieves also consider the analogous irreversibility of cash transactions to be a feature.

The rest of us probably actually want an anonymous, "like cash" crypto currency that is resilient against theft (which basically implies some sort of non-repudiation and compensating transactions).

But, such a currency probably wouldn't be great for speculation or black market transactions, which are the killer use cases for bitcoin.
Cryptocurrencies have a valid but very specific use-case: being able to transact in a hostile environment. It does so by making certain trade-offs such as an energy-intensive verification process.

This is a very valid use-case when you need to transact against the will of a powerful adversary such as governments. It needs to be there and needs to be protected just like free speech needs to be protected.

However, day-to-day, if you're making transactions that the government approves of, it's better and more convenient to rely on said government to protect you and end up using a much more efficient (in terms of transactions per second, fees & energy usage) and convenient system such as credit cards.

Crypto is like a tank - useful if you need to go into battle and defend yourself, and while it can be used to go buy groceries at the mall, it's not the most convenient. When you're not in battle, you're better off just using a normal car and relying on local laws and subsequent enforcement to deter anyone from harming you, which, at least in civilized countries, works the majority of the time.
So non-tracking is optional, while the ‘principle’ says it must not be optional.
>Everything is a bubble. Crypto is no different, but its not more a bubble than web2, web1, telnet and we could go on.

Tell me you don't know what a bubble is without telling me you don't know what a bubble is.
Not every show, but lots of shows over represent minorities in main cast in what appears to be a conscious DEI effort.

For example, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist gives the impression of high representation of minorities in tech (Sprqpoint is extremely DEI friendly being a woke silicon valley tech company, but even the main character's non-techy neighbor is a black genderfluid woman dating a gay black man).

The Dragon Prince gives the impression of high representation of minorities as well (with 1 main character and his kingly father black, 1 main character having gay parents, the rulers of the neighboring country being lesbian, etc).

I'm not saying that's wrong, just that minority groups don't need to make up 126% of TV actors in order to be overrepresented in main cast.

Heck, even outside of media, look at the Supreme Court. Soon 2/9 justices will be black, which is 22% of the court - an over representation of the black population. Again, not that I have a problem with that, just that DEI efforts can cause high visibility groups (such as a TV show's main cast) to be overrepressented by minorities.
I've been only for 2-3 years ato google, butit felt like (Ads-team perspective) that protobuf is the building block in google. Some databases can hold as data as protobufs, and then convert these row oriented beasts into multi-million column databases with each protobuf leaf being separate column (!) such that analysts/linguists/statisticians and other scientists can lookup their data quickly (given some latency of minutes to hours).
Buybacks? If you're running a company profitably you're supposed to invest your cash to expand the business, not inflate the share price. The share price is supposed to be a reflection of your future profitability, not your future buyback schemes.
Search is their main gateway to the advertising dollars. "Google it" is synonymous with any search regardless of the engine being used.
The macOS Software Updater is extremely inefficient with space - you want plenty free or it might get stuck.

As for the 15GB, 2.5GB must be used for the mandatory Recovery partition as well as leaving room for the recovery partition to have extra room if necessary, because it can’t be easily expanded later.

That leaves 12.5GB for your desktop Linux and any free space for your apps or files. You can use Expert Mode to go smaller with either macOS or Asahi but I’d say they are reasonable guidelines.
That's if working from documentation. With independent FOSS driver development, the big deal is the reverse engineering.
Plenty of electric buses driving around in Berlin where I live as well. Very nice when I bike through town. Nothing worse than getting stuck behind a stinking old diesel engine.

Shenzen in China switched all of their city buses to electric a few years ago. They have tens of thousands of them driving around there.
Hard to say. Most contracts are public access files. but I am not sure if there are redactions for competitive reasons?
People died. Bad things did happen. Many of them. May I suggest “never escalated to nuclear war”?

Also it almost did a few times.
I searched for a competitive keyword my SaaS business recently reached #1 on Google for. All of our competitors came up, but we were nowhere to be seen (I gave up after page 5).

Does this mean we’re not in Commoncrawl? Or are there any factors you weight much more heavily than Google might?
I’m already dreaming of a near silent M1 Mac Mini server rack for my closet..
I can only assume that Firefox associates filled-in data with the name of the input control; in this case, “q”, which is probably typical for a search inputbox.
Because its still more trustworthy then a currency that is managed under modern monetary theory. As in you can print as much money as you want as long as people have no store of value to escape into.
You can argue about the validity of that argument all day long but the size of the crypto market speaks for itself. At the end of the day, somebody spend energy for its creation which gives it at least some sort of stored value.
You were lucky, I’ve heard similar stories where the money ended up lost (good faith deposit for a mortgage wired to fraudster).
Socket seems interesting. I just installed it on some of my repos.

In your FAQ, it says "We're working to make Socket the best open source security tool.", this was confusing for me, as I got the impression that Socket's codebase is Open Source, and I went looking for it.

Maybe "We're working to make Socket the best security tool for open source packages" would be less confusing.
tl;dw - Dymo claims it is protecting the customers by ensuring that they only get their quality labels
Not sure if this is very clever satire or not.

I suppose we should stick to the sources that hide the truth from us, like good little citizens.
/s
It’s 2022 - nobody cares about free speech or freedom.
Great, thanks for having the discussion in good faith.

So no rebuttal except to your last point, miners do look at selling energy back to the electrical grid due to the amount of energy they are able to produce and when it is more profitable or advantageous to sell it instead of mining it. I'm not sure if any have successfully tapped in and done it, but its often part of their sales pitch for investors and other stakeholders, the observation and capability of it. The issue is that the incumbent fossil fuels sites weren't doing that, for decades, so if this is your stance then it needs to be levied at the fossil fuel sites. The miners only may have created this capability, at their expense, so it is really impractical to say they must do that when they took all the risk and had a completely different economic reason of taking that risk. In fact, its still likely not economically viable for all times, only icing on the cake sometimes but not enough to sustain the goal of their buildout on site, which suggests that even a government subsidy on building this infrastructure (without the participation of miners at all) is untenable.

Many fossil fuel sites aren't connected to the grid at all, or not well enough. They're just barely extracting enough oil and natural gas to transport elsewhere Which has been its own problem, especially where flaring and fracking was involved, but we know that there is no political consensus on stopping that so we chisel around the edges, bitcoin mining turns out to be one of those chisels. These low infrastructure sites, now with miners, can only have an aspirational goal of becoming energy traders.
> Everything is a bubble

No.
We've recently switched to written standups with threads organized by sprint goals. It's worked out fantastically so far.
Er, why? You'd just set up an import map to point it at your private server.
Asahi Linux Desktop is a default install. A minimal Arch install is also available, as well as a UEFI-only implementation. There is a fixed ~3GB overhead per 'Other OS' install for OS-specific vendor firmware, but a UEFI install is managed as a single 'Other OS' and can freely boot UEFI payloads from both internal and external drives.
The thing is that we're going to burn coal no matter what.
What are you expecting to be so different? You call the right functions with the right arguments to get it to do what you want. What language do you use that you can program by calling the wrong function with the wrong arguments?
Who cares about Eric Stallman's OSI? They don't get to decide what free software is.
lol. Has any employee actually taken you up on that? I would never do this in a million years personally.
That book changed my life. We bought our house using those principles, and couldn't be happier or more comfortable.
So full in cancel culture?

Even if you want to support Ukraine, some things have certainly gone to far, like discriminating against anybody and anything with Russian origins (professor being told to not teach Dostojewski for example, as posted on HN a couple of days ago).

And demonstrating the international monetary system is not reliable at all, not sure it is a good thing.
At an internal demo at Microsoft in the 90s they had VB running on MIPS and Alpha
Where should the profit come from for a search-oriented product/business?
As I happen to have the new 2020 Census ACS data open in another tab, I'm interested in your estimate of the number of Americans who speak only English.
I don't think the average person has much choice in term of whether they use ad-based products or not. Where do you go to pay for a search engine? Even paid newspapers and paid cable TV is serving us ads.
That’s just bad logic IMO.
tldr.sh is a similar project.

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
CVE-2022-27226: CSRF to RCE in iRZ Mobile Routers through 2022-03-16
There seems to be a threshold where you get greylisted by cloudflare. Not sure if it's requests per day or what they're doing. But I've been able to mostly circumvent it by crawling at a modest rate.
The parent comment does address the points, by saying that while they are downsides, the new properties of crypto _might_ outweigh them. It is nuanced, unlike the comment I am replying to.
i think that maybe it will find a home in internet governance. using it as a native currency for internet assigned names, numbers and identities could make a ton of sense.

as far as web3, i suspect that will be a few things. a move away from centralized platform economics and/or a rise in applied cryptography made accessible to ordinary business software developers.

so maybe a disruption of the venture capital buying out industries and replacing them big singleton companies with web/mobile interfaces business model and hopefully bigger advances in things like end to end encryption for all areas where modern technology has revamped how we conduct business. if we're lucky, we'll see actually secure operating systems as well.

to play my own devil's advocate: it could end up replacing a lot of finance, if only for the reason that it seems to attract a lot of the brightest minds in that space, and sometimes that's all you need.
> some of it is just what's required for self-custody.

I think this will forever be the sticking point for crypto for a lot of potential users. It boils down to trust. And the relevant question is: for an average person, do they trust FDIC insurance more than they trust their own ability to understand the crypto infrastructure and protect themselves from rogue or compromised transaction facilitators (because for Bitcoin at least, it's fundamentally impractical to transact for most things without a facilitator; the time it takes for the transaction to get buried into the chain alone is enough to take most day-to-day uses off the table).

And personally, I think for most people the risk model is that trusting FDIC insurance is a superior option.
I’ve been working on fairly large scale broadcast television back-end systems which have been using 10/25/100G SMPTE 2110 IP for video flows instead of HD-SDI, and those have been timed with PTP for a while (SMPTE 2059-2 standard, which is a PTP profile).

The GPS locked master clocks are custom hardware (ex: https://evertz.com/products/5700MSC-IP), but a lot of the edge devices like the video playout servers are standard X86 hardware with Ubuntu Linux, with PTP delivered in-band over the 10G/25G ports to the device (same link as the video/audio flows).

(… Which I realize is not as accurate as the newer White Rabbit related PTP update you refer to - but still odd that the original article referenced NTP and not even regular PTP which has been in use for a while and seems pretty close to their claims even before the more recent enhancements)
I see. Thanks for getting back with the model, though. I'll add that into my options to check for. Appreciated.
Yes. The ADA in the 1990s got huge push back from right wing America where it was widely and publicly derided.
How did that happen, and where can I apply to get a Chromebook against my will?
California's greatly surpasseed the misery of their old diesel fleets. In a bid to "reduce carbon emissions" (really: cut budgets in the way that screwed over parents as much as possible), they simply eliminated most school busses.

Then, the state government claimed this reduced carbon emissions, ignoring the externalities associated with doubling most parents' commutes for 18+ years.
Something more like "Death's Door" or "Valheim" would be something that interests me personally :)

So yeah, I have no idea how Proton works.
the lack of awareness of the average person

During Michael Bloomberg's brief presidential campaign, multiple reporters thought it was a plausible claim that he had spent over a million dollars per American (https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/msnbc/bad-...). This requires both impressive innumeracy and a total absence of common sense.
Contracts are mostly written in Solidity. Despite common rhetoric, it doesn't have much in common with Javascript besides curly braces. Solidity is statically typed, has class-based inheritance, and all numbers are integers. Javascript is dynamically typed, has prototype-based inheritance, and all numbers are floats.
Wrote this reply from Asahi which I installed earlier this afternoon before the announcement. Works well and the installer was pretty good for alpha. :)
https://www.matthuang.com/bitcoin_for_the_open_minded_skepti...

You can choose to ignore the nuance, but it exists anyway.
Apple should create a special update for all iOS devices that are Russian language. This update can include feeds of real news and images and videos from the Ukraine.

This could have a seriously important effect on the war by opening Russian's eyes to what is going on.
You know, that's a solid question that I don't know the answer to.
> Banks won’t protect you from wire fraud either.

This is half-true. A wire transfer can't be reversed due to end-user error, which can be abused by fraudsters. However, Incorrect input on the bank's behalf does warrant a reversal.

I'd compare my bank screwing up vs a crypto exchange screwing up (Like getting hacked). I'm still not protected if the exchange gets hacked and my coin is exfiltrated. I am protected if my bank fatfingers a wire transfer.

Also, banks are insured by the FDIC against financial catastrophes. Savings accounts held in FDIC-regulated banks are insured up to $250k if the bank fails for some reason. I get no such protection holding crypto with an exchange. The FDIC turns around an audits banks to make sure they're compliant with liquidity requirements, loan quality measures, etc. Nobody in crypto is watching anyone else in crypto to make sure everything is kosher because that is fundamentally impossible in a system that is meant to be decentralized.

Scammers are everywhere and not nearly enough is being done to address it. It's not even clear whether it's possible or not to even address crypto scams.
In 2022 some may also care about a truly scarce digital store of value in a time of unprecedented inflation. Speaking about Bitcoin, not altcoins.
What would be cool is to have a method to turn such golang fs into an actual filesystem, like fuse…
> Bitcoin mining would also crowd out any economically productive use for this energy (should any be devised in the future).

There was at best 2 decades, and at worst 100 years, for other economically productive uses of the energy. So, here we are.

> I think bitcoin mining is a waste of energy

Yes, you are correct we disagree here, but one difference is that your standard is unfalsifiable. It only takes one person to say bitcoin is useful for them, and it requires you to ignore them, no matter how many of "thems" there are. I think the energy is neither wasted, I think the energy does not have another use case at these kind of sites, and I don't think it lowers the cost of oil, only reduces emissions. Chiseling around the edges of the emissions problem, not being the cure, and not inherently increasing emissions. Thats a net positive (if these kinds of sites become and remain dominant)
that’s great! I’ve been a long time Fedora user but last year I decided to try NixOS and I couldn’t be more surprised, everything works well and it was easy to install and learn. I’m glad I can try it in my m1 macbook pro!
There’s a lot to disagree with here. I don’t want to argue it all, but regarding Bitcoin efficiency, the Lightning network directly resolves this issue. It’s more efficient and cheap than current payment networks like Visa, but still has the same security and permissionless guarantees as the base chain. Not to mention it adds major improvements regarding privacy.

Lightning is an engineering marvel.
DLT has an interesting application outside of crypto, namely in multi-party environments where a consortium of actors with low level of trust have to transact. Documentary trade finance is a good example. “Corda”, a consortium of financial institutions, have worked together on standardising this.
I would posit that most people believe that wealth == income. People rarely know the difference.
> “Currently, nobody uses time except for maybe Spanner at Google, CockroachDB or someone doing database things,” Rosenblum said. “We believe that there’s a lot more places, especially as more and more time-critical things came up. We can do time sync, since we figured out how to do that pretty well. And so we asked: is this part of a trend where we’re going to start programming these systems differently? And [researchers] got kind of excited about that possibility of us being able to pull this off.”

Who gave this guy who's apparently never heard of kerberos, ceph, SAML, or any other technology the rights to interview? Sure, their windows are larger, but "nobody uses time" is so clueless it blows the mind, and it's hard to imagine who decided that "NTP, but machine learning" is a $21M idea
Interestingly enough GitHub didn’t forcefully take over the repository and disable the user’s account like they did with colors.js.
We are all biased toward thinking we personally hold coherent views.

We’re also biased toward thinking we’re average in our capabilities (amongst our in-groups, at least).

So it would stand to reason that those biases compose to believing our entire in-group, on average, holds coherent views.

We’re rarely wise enough to estimate our own margins of error, nor self-aware enough to know our own actual capabilities relative to others.
This has worked for me as a contractor. I'm currently on a 4x8 schedule.

There is also this site, which I've not really explored yet https://4dayweek.io/
Depends on how you define it.

Australians can still be required to submit tax returns/pay taxes when living and earning money while overseas.

The rule is "Australian resident for tax purposes", and even if you never set foot in the country for the whole year, you can still be a resident for tax purposes.
The Dragon Prince is set in a fantasy world, so not really a fair comparison. It's possible that in their universe the chances of being black or homosexual is different than ours, and that the onscreen representation of those minorities is perfectly proportional. So trying to compare the two is a moot point.
The difference being that the US has enough checks and balances to minimise the damage of a single incompetent. Meanwhile a deranged strongman just kneecapped Russian development for the next 20 years.
A lot of US based students were provisioned Chromebooks by their schools.

"Against will" probably only applies to the families with people technical enough to understand what having an enterprise managed Chromebook that their child has to be on for 8 hours a day means.
Nassim Taleb talks about a similar phenomenon in “Skin in the Game.” His proposition is that there are cases where a minority’s needs or values might be small relatively speaking but the cost of not accommodating them is more than that of not doing so so the niche becomes mainstream for something akin to economic forces. I listened to the audiobook so don’t have access to his sources but it might be a better place to start looking for more credible research into this idea of anyone is interested.
Honestly, the language doesn't matter. Most bugs are logic errors or requirements oversights.
The Brave token just feels weird to me.
Surprised at all the negativity here. Anything that gives employees liquidity options is a good thing IMO. Maybe some other companies have allowed their employees to sell shares sometimes, but has anyone ever done it on a scheduled quarterly basis?
supplies of ivermectin are finite. it's a waste of money and involves non-zero risk.

But more importantly, medicine isn't in the business of selling sham cures. People can always take homeopathic cures or vitamin D if they want that.
Yes, I wonder what he felt about how some of the most well-compensated members of our society spend their efforts on building software that gets people to click on ads
Then you are not the target audience. You want additional safety at the cost of giving up your autonomy. Good luck with that
Well, AI mostly. Let's just say I thought it was interesting but not worth pursuing.

I just re-checked. It was actually 2009 sorry.