skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure they could, but why bother?

They don't need the very obsolete technology, obsolete business processes and obsolete management mentality of most existing banks. Much better to start with a greenfield site and acquire customers from there.

Many people would drop their existing bank in a heartbeat if there were a viable modern alternative. Apple is in a perfect position to capitalize on this widespread dissatisfaction.
Another project by Egoist.

This is one of those people who just constantly pump out so much open source code. I remember looking through their profile when I was using EME years ago (2017?), wishing I had the time to do half of what they were tackling.
I've been an entrepreneur through three major recessions - the early 2000s (8 months long), the great recession 2007 (18 months long), and the 2021 COVID recession (2 months long).

In each event I was significantly more impacted by the media salivating about the potential for a coming economic collapse than I was actually living through them.

Certainly my companies were impacted negatively at the outset of each, but emerged stronger to take advantage of the clear skies and sunny days that proceeded each event.

We've been playing on easy mode for the past 10 years in many ways - it's difficult to truly innovate without challenge, and today I embrace the potential for the board to shift, to find new opportunities to innovate, and to embrace change.
While it is indeed odd companies are making fortune out of this. Plaid is a recent example which was in news for failed acquisition by Visa (shot down by DoJ no less[1]). Yodlee is another old timer company. Why do regulators not go after such companies is beyond me.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block...
I didn't say it wasn't useful. As technologists we can easily see how any given feature is useful for good, honest purposes. My point is that these purposes pale in comparison to the abuse that remote attestation directly enables - "big tech" demanding that you only run approved software to interact with them - aka computational disenfranchisement and destruction of the idea of the "user agent".

The societal situation is analogous to "Web 2.0". Everybody thought "this is neat, it lets me make interactive applications that I can share easily with my friends". Few dwelled much on how the intrinsic centralized control was a terrible dynamic. Over time, economic optimization increasingly focused on and exploited that centralized control. Now we've ended up with most people's idea of "the Internet" being choosing between least-bad corporate bundles, and just suffering all the ways they're being controlled. Remote attestation further increases that control, making it infeasible to employ software to represents your own interests.
> So you extrapolate from one HN comment to all libertarians?

Yes. Because all of their notions of "one true free market" require unlimited resources and ability to immediately create anything from scratch.

> can be easily interpreted as "additional concerts similar to Woodstock"

Same thing, different attempt to argue semantics.

> Also, you don't need unlimited resources to create new concerts, and you don't need the "snap of a finger", you simply need people who are motivated to do so by virtue of the profit motive

I'll repeat this again for the fourth-fifth time in this thread. Literally thousands of concerts exist, "simply" driven by "people who are motivated to do so by virtue of the profit motive". And yet, Woodstock is Woodstock. And Sziget is Sziget etc. I wonder why.
You are not wrong - if you happen to be part of the 0.03% of the world population living at 65 degrees latitude or further north, different rules may make sense to you. There always are outliers.

> And I'll mention that you aren't really freeing yourself from the clock here: You are just trading something with numbers for a bit fireball in the sky - just an imprecise clock.

More than a clock, though: This fireball and it's presence or absence cause a lot of the health-related issues with timezone shenanigans.
>like with MH17, all the evidence points that it's russia and its puppets is killing civilian families.

Evidence? That sounds like an understatement to me, we have details history of the whole thing including communication with command and photos of the route the BUK took afterward going into Russia. Its beyond shadow of doubt it was russian military that is responsible for MH17
Not to start a huge philosophy argument but I always only understood it as "the real power to change things around is only in you -- no magic scrolls will help you with that".

In a very typical (and loved by me) Buddhism fashion you have the protagonist of a tale e.g. be promised wisdom or power if they climb a mountain and talk to the monks on top and eventually it turns out that while you were climbing the mountain you gained the wisdom and strength you were seeking. Arriving at the top of the mountain was just the event that is supposed to make you aware that you have now succeeded.

I viewed Kung Fu Panda part 1 similarly. If you go through all the trials to gain the Dragon Scroll and finish them successfully then you ALREADY ARE the "dragon warrior". You don't no need scroll for that. That's why it's empty. Not just empty; it's a mirror. To show you that the wisdom and power are already inside you.

That's what I got out of it.
> tech giants accrued fortunes on the backs of people they’ve never thanked, paid or even met.

I have a few open-source libraries, and I figure that... since I give them away explicitly for free... there is no expectation of being paid. If one expects to be paid, one should sell their product.
K9 has already stopped working some places or requires hoops to be jumped through at others because no one has stepped up to implement SASL XOAUTH2 authentication for their IMAP implementation. Moving to requiring OUTH2 authentication isn't something restricted to Gmail. Many email providers have or are switching to only allowing OAUTH2 authentication.
Worrying about what will be in 3 years doesn’t help you pay the rent now. Thinking about what was 3 years ago definitely does nothing for your rent now.

If the rent is due and there’s no money, what can you do now to fix that? What action can you take, right now, that gets you closer to paying rent? All the worrying in the world does nothing to fix the situation.

Yes have a long-term plan, follow a strategy, even make time in the day/week/quarter to realign and think about that stuff. But when shit hits the fan, only doing something right now gets you closer to a solution.
> for a new, viable language in the systems space (read: without garbage collection).

*Angry Oberon noises*
Not at all true, it's just that most of the time her videos get posted or gain attention is when she has a disagreement with some new "groundbreaking" discovery, and often times her disagreements are well warranted. Most of her videos have nothing to do with disagreeing with others.
Maybe they measure performance in git commits.
It probably depends on what exactly you do with it, but almost everything works fine. Games and 3D graphics may suffer, if you have a slow CPU.
> At Marian sea level

Well thanks for nerd sniping me! This got me googling, and the closest thing to a martian sea level turns out to be super interesting. And so I’ll share the interesting stuff I just learned.

Since mars doesn’t have a sea, there’s no easy sea level equivalent, so (if I understand correctly) they have a level called the aeroid [0] (the corresponding term for earth’s sea level is geoid. ‘aer’ for Ares, I suppose).

At first, this was defined in terms of the level with a specific constant atmospheric pressure, but in 2001, ‘they’ made a new convention based on constant gravitational+rotational potential, since they finally had that data.

So now mars ‘sea level’ is that “equipotential [constant potential] surface… whose average value at the equator is equal to the mean radius of the planet.” [1]

…Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Mars#Areoid

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mars#Zero_elevati...
A huge part of Quantum Mechanics is Conservation of Information, or better maybe to think of it as a conservation of entropy?

Your example of a soundwave is too local in scope, sure the wave will die down, but while the soundwave was propagating it's bumping into other particles and those particles affect other particles, which affect other particles, and on and on and on.

If you look locally, sure, eventually you wouldn't be able to tell the wave ever existed, but if you pull back far enough and take the state of the system and rewind it you will eventually reconstitute the wave.

Your example with annihilating particles is basically how CERN works, though we do know what we started with in some places.

I had started to describe the whole of how Hawking Radiation works, I'm sure you can find that easily elsewhere.
Did you consider woodpecker instead of drone? It's basically an evolved fork of the OSS version.

https://woodpecker-ci.org/
For me, snaps auto-update without my input, and apt will install snaps without telling you they're snaps. So my assumption that my computer only updates when I tell it to no longer holds.
Apparently no one at Google can believe that there is such a thing as software that doesn't require an account.
As people with heavy e-commerce background, we feel that the main pain point of typical old-school offline personalization solutions is that 80% of customers in medium-sized online stores are coming only once:

* you have a very short window to adapt your store, as the visitor will never come back in the future.

* even if you have zero past knowledge about a new visitor, there is still something to compare with other similar visitors: are they from mobile? Is it ios or android? Are they US? Is it a holiday now? Did they come from google search or facebook ad?

* this knowledge is ephemeral and makes sense only within their current session. But a visitor can still do a couple of interactions like browsing different collections of items or clicking on search results, and it can also be taken into account.

But compared to Amazon and Google, it's you who define which features should be used for the ranking and how long they are stored (see the "ttl" option on all feature extractors in our docs for details).

For example, here is https://github.com/metarank/metarank/blob/master/src/test/re... the config of features used in the movie recommendations demo - in a most privacy-sensitive setup you can just drop all the "interacted_with" extractors and will get zero private data stored for each visitor.
Can anyone explain Oxide's product beyond the (fairly terrible IMHO) site? Seems like some kind of prepackaged VMware-alike including rack + hardware + networking fused into a single uncustomizable product?

What is the intended application?
i am curious what you mean by looking for new reserve currencies as a function of a portfolio, does this mean simply going overweight non US stocks?
The replies are listing a lot of tangential rules like "major/minor", "typo", "punctuation", "[in]significant change", but all that really matters is: Does your change add, remove, or alter meaning or even tone in your post, even implicitly? If so, somebody may have written a reply that no longer makes complete sense in relation to your post (or they may currently be writing it! "Nobody has probably even read it yet" is not a good thing to assume on an internet where the page remains static until they refresh).

The big thing is: It's hard to imagine all the ways a change can conflict with replies, and the HN crowd is probably more likely than most to "know what they don't know" (i.e. more likely to play it safe).
Information about China is easily available outside of Chine, not to mention that there are large numbers of Chinese people living abroad.

A movie made outside of China that contains elements of traditional Chinese culture won't be spoiled with corrections to fit communist ideals and narratives.
I'm sorry, but what are you talking about? I didn't say anything about minimum wage.
> It's an interesting contradiction in public opinion, probably stemming from all of the money involved.

It's not the fact money is involved. It's the way money is involved.

If I want to participate in web3 I have to take real money and buy cryptocurrency funny money. Every aspect of loading a simple web page (web3 page?) charges me some amount of funny money. The amount charged can't be meaningfully predicted. A service might charge me a funny penny for a transaction but today that funny penny is worth a real penny while tomorrow the funny penny is worth a real dollar. Every web3 transaction ends up being like the guy that bought a pizza with a Bitcoin.

All the extra rent extraction of web3 is on top of me paying for my ISP, cell provider, and all my devices. Even with the money I have to pay over the top for web3 participation I end up with a slower and shittier experience than the traditional web. If I decide I'm done with web3 I may not ever be able to cash out the funny money I had to buy.

So the fact web3's design is built entirely around generating greater fools for cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes makes it a stupid and undesirable system.
> Everyone should leave CEXs to get on DEXs and learn about DeFi

That is not going to happen, for the same reasons why most people don't dig their own wells, learn carpentry to make their own furniture, or weave their own cloth and learn how to tailor clothes.

Every complex enough system will always have centralized points, aka. gatekeepers. That is how human society self-organises.
> if they charged what tickets are actually worth, there would be no scalpers

Scalpers' motive is to gain profit off of a limited resource. It doesn't matter if the tickets cost even less than the concert costs to produce.

By the way, who determines the "actual worth" of tickets?

> That is not a libertarian fantasy or anything close to it

That is not what I was responding to.
This whole thing about how OSS developers should be compensated for their hard work is something I can absolutely get behind, but I'm not sure how this fixes that, or what this even is.

It seems to be something do with blockchain? I'd like to say it could be one of the few decent/non-scammy implementations of a blockchain in recent years, but yeh, I can't really say that until I know what it is.
I dont get it- how does lack of blueprints and IP protection apply to blockchain, where all code is public?
I would be curious to see the age vs wealth axes more explicitly explored. All this article really offers is:

>They also tend to be older, and may remember living through inflation decades ago. "Young people don't know, and they'll soon find out."

How has consumer confidence been affected in older middle and lower class folks?
> QoS: Quantum-on-Silicon may very well scale; but how can we store un-collapsed output qubits?

Aren't all current programmable quantum processors essentially made of qubit memory cells capable of certain in-memory operations?
1998: Information at the top of the page.

2020: A picture.
Re: the blacks. Hopefully the next generation of valve index & others will have OLED screens with proper blacks.
There is a different way to think about this - The problem is the worrying, not that you can live on air or universe juice. Even Buddha needs food, water and shelter.

The problem as you correctly put is that people worry, but that does not lead to a solution. There is really no point in worrying - if you cannot change something, why worry about it? If you can change it, why worry? You might have to think deeply about how to change it and act on it, but just worrying is like praying - it gives an semblance of action without actually doing anything.

The hamster, the wheel and the cage are illusions. We choose certain things as more important to us than others. You can always quit and walk out, but a lot of times we prioritize our comfort, an (illusory) stable earnings etc. over freedom.
The Social Network soundtrack got me through college. I felt like the music would induce natural breaks while studying and then the intensity would rally me to keep going.
Also, looking at this it seems like GitHub isn't doing the common SaaS thing of just lying on their status page. Many providers, both internal and external, would look a lot worse if they had honest status pages.
> But it's funny that you pick something like Fate, in both the original Stay Night (the visual novel) and Zero (the light novel), there is a lot of technobabble. It gets cut in the anime adaptations, along with most of the interesting parts of the characters and the story.

Fate/Stay anime is interesting as a series and as a storytelling medium.

On the face of it, it feels like Fate/Stay is a soft-magic system where the magic is called out as magic and rarely elaborated on. Here's healing magic here, or noble phantasms over there, or reality marbles, or whatever.

But in actuality, Fate/Stay is a hard-magic system, supported by the depth of the original story. All the magic has rules. They just skip over the rules explanation in the anime, because they don't have the time for it (ie: they chose not to have time for it, and focus on other elements of the story).

I agree that pointing out to the audience the hard-magic system and its rules probably would be beneficial. On the other hand... maybe not? All of the anime (including the Tsukihime and Garden of Sinners anime/OVAs) consistently skip over these explanations and just leave it up to the audience to figure out the rule system on their own (if they care).

"Story told as if it were soft magic", but with a hard-magic reference point thanks to a series of in-depth rules published in that visual novel that a much smaller portion of the fanbase has read is... fine. Its like how Lord of the Rings has all this history in the Silmarillion that 99% of readers don't know about. If the audience cares about the details, the original VNs / wikis / etc. etc. exist. If they don't care about the details, all the better, they didn't want to hear the explanation in the first place.

Its a compromise system, but its an interesting compromise. Frankly, a lot of audience members are happy with the soft-magic hand-waved explanations given in the anime.

I don't think Fate/Stay is a "deep" anime, not on the levels of the other shows I've discussed. But it still shows how cutting out the techno-babble in the actual anime (and just handwaving the details) increases the density of the show. Especially because the "harder" fans know how in-depth all of those explanations actually go.
Yeah, this!
Nobody wants a #FFFFFF page at 1600 nits, unless it's noon and they are outside!
Russian Intelligence Embezzled Billions Intended as Bribes for Ukrainians?
Why would it specifically crash though? These things are already factored in and the S&P500 is down 6.3% since the start of the year. Why would it quickly crash way lower instead of going down slowly or trading sideways?
I liked all the versions up to 2005 (the one with the blue sidebar).
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/tk3650/this_is_...
This article doesn't even explain how web3 is centralized (it is in many ways). All I see is some stupid non-technical blog trying to orient blockchain as part of the enemy along with "wh*te", "0.1%", and "bro". The irony is that this is a techbro-tier article.
> Without GPU acceleration, a browser won't work fine

Disagreed - it does work fine. Maybe there's specific niche features that don't work but I have yet to come across them. Only problem is video decoding which works but uses lots of CPU so terrible for laptop battery life.
Me too! I was thinking it was going to be a paean to the joys of working long and hard!
fossapup shines on my HP Stream 11". I'm so stoked.
Self-hosted GitLab got a good callout yesterday from Microsoft, it appears to be a favorite of LAPSUS$: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/03/22/dev-0537-...

Self-hosting always increases the operational burden of making sure your systems are secure. Maybe you have the engineering resources to spend on patching everything immediately and conducting in-house pen tests, but for most companies it's much, much more secure to let the software's developers host it as well.
If this is not already a Black Mirror episode, it should be.
That small part is also a breadbasket and, together with the larger, makes up 1/3 of the worlds grain. That 1/3 is closer to 100% in some countries in the ME and Africa.
> The Texas law was not supported by mainstream conservatives

This is a classic No True Scotsman argument: that law was enacted by Texas Republicans and has been protected by the Republicans at various levels of federal court up to the Supreme Court, and copies of that law are being enacted by Republicans in other states. If you want us to believe that’s not aligned with mainstream conservatism, show that the larger conservative movement is fighting it.
It is slogan- and buzzword-heavy but my best understanding is that it is a blockchain-based attempt to reward open-source contributors. As an example, lots and lots of software depends on sqlite and curl but their respective authors did not benefit proportionally from their successes. My guess: the idea is to combine dependency information with popularity scores to allow cryptocurrency flow down to the contributors in the same way reputation flows to the most referred links via PageRank.

The most important question I see here is how the money is supposed to flow into that system.
I don’t see Russia stop selling gas and oil to the EU. Russia needs the money as much as the EU needs the gas. They may start using an artificial exchange rate for the rouble, though.

About 40% of EU gas usage (and over a quarter of its oil usage) is Russian gas (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/eu-energy-russia-oil-...).

They plan to reduce that by ⅔ by the end of the year (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/%5Beuropa...)
I played around with VR back in 2013, and thought 3D conferences were neat, but annoying.

However, I believe that if headsets can be made less bulky, it will become ubiquitous. I don't know what the experience will be like, it certainly won't be matrix-y, but I can absolutely see a generation of 20 somethings expecting goggles at some point in the future, maybe 10 years from now.

It might actually be Zuck's vision of sanitized cartoony avatars zipping around with no legs because look at how much money kids spend on VBUCKS to look slightly different in Fortnight. The Fortnight generation's kids will be hooked on VR if the goggles are cheap/small enough.
Slang for playing a 2D mode versus VR mode on PC.
The article mention that NSA have objected to quantum key distribution, then go on to state: However, if you’re a commercial company these systems may be worth exploring. The problem that NSA and many others have pointed out is that it doesn't solve any actual problems. It creates a bunch of hassles but can't replace asymmetric cryptography.
That depends on the exchange, some charge extremely high fees, others charge minimum fees.

As an example, Coinbase charges reasonable withdrawal fees that correspond to the actual TX fee, around $0.05 when I last used it a few weeks ago. Others charge absurdly high fees, biggest examples of that being Binance and Bitstamp that charged ~$20 for a Bitcoin withdrawal around the same time Coinbase was charging $0.05.

Point being, different exchanges charge different fees, and LocalBitcoins is always an option if you want to avoid exchanges altogether.
FWIW oath-toolkit is available via homebrew on mac:
brew install oath-toolkit

Copy the key to your clipboard and then:
oathtool -b --totp $(pbpaste) | pbcopy

This keeps keys out of your history and copies the token into the clipboard.