skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Ethereum Classic is still traded (although I have no idea how thinly). That's exactly why it's a problem: every account pre-fork now exists on two blockchains, and it's not clear what the tax, contractual, legal, etc. ramifications are of essentially doubling everybody's money. The nature of the blockchain also means that forks are destructive against innocent transactions: users doing "business as normal" who have the misfortune of being included in or after the rollback block have to re-coordinate all of their work.
two notes:

1) I would argue that most questions we are asking students in technical courses shouldn't have right and wrong answers...it communicates the wrong thing and reinforces the assumption that technical work is 'getting the right answer' for students. College level technical teaching should work beyond that norm towards using 'right answers' for decision making

2) While there are similarities and they are often used interchangably, standards based, mastery based, and specifications grading are not exactly the same thing.
Are we sure it's not trivial to fake a warrant?
Thanks for showing this! I like the way the left-wing view is on the left, the right-wing view is on the right. It isn't clear what the system for organizing the information from top to bottom is. Also visually it feels like the article ends a couple times. Horizontal line breaks and especially the blue/red left/right arrows visually imply the beginning of the comments section. At least for me. What if you had comment boxes like in iMessage [1] for what the left and right say?

I love, love, love your goal here. Focusing on facts vs. opinions is great, but you may also want to include something in the post to humanize the two sides. Not sure what it would be. Maybe have statistics about each side? I don't know how hard it would be but if you could say something like, "Families who live in the country believe..." instead of "right-wingers believe..." Just an idea. Reminding people that their hated enemy is just trying to do what's best for their people and not everything they hear in their echo chamber about them is true.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/263443/how-to-see-when-a-text-mess...
Which is the entire point of their argument? The Russian government is objectively worse by any honest metric.
Federal law requires political media to truthfully identify their origin.
I wonder how much unnecessary AV scans across the world contribute to carbon emissions? I bet it's not insignificant, full CPU and disk access!
Yes, this. COVID-19 is topical now, so we're looking hard, here. Is this something we've looked for with other diseases/conditions, in the past? If we go looking now, do we find that other insults that we thought we understood do this too?
Observations:

"Plaid for..."[0] is a new one to me, but six companies have it in their one-line pitch.

[0] The line, not Plaid.

This seems neat: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/impossible-mining

"Underwater robotic vehicles that collect battery metals responsibly"
Ya I think v3 or v4 of my project will eventually go more into this realm and recreating things at a deeper level. Then maybe it could really escape the browser one day.
And yet it's basically impossible to get a government organization to sign emails except internally using MS Exchange's encrypted email support.
Where in the world is it common to lose all money deposited in a bank? And, why not just create better banks?
Weird, USAA froze my cards and funds immediately the only time I've had suspicious transactions. I guess the social portion is where we diverge though, they definitely tried harder to get in to yours. Ours was just a guy in Vancouver trying to order Thai food through a delivery app.
>better at spotting the hedgehogs

At night, dusk? Hedgehogs are nocturnal.
So... let's say a person still wanted to use an Antivirus product anyways, despite not really trusting them due to reasons like this article here; or anything you can say about Norton, etc, etc.

What would you all suggest? Aside from McAfee, Norton and of course Kaspersky. I'm all ears. Some helpful hints though might be:

1. I don't want it giving me pop-ups constantly to remind me of a sale they are having.

2. It can't interfere with legitimate programs more than once in a blue moon.

3. It has be capable of being run with other security software at the same time without incurring an infraction against #2.

4. It has to cost less than 100$ per year, if there has to be payment at all.

I'm asking this because I need a reliable choice to use when suggesting to my potential customers out there. I have some go to's that I used to use, but with everything the way it is right now; I want some input.
Sounds like we agree in principle and on assessment. Perhaps the daylight is that I believe users should be able to anticipate that sites will work under common configurations like use of ublock, which puts the onus on the dev.
lookup tables and lerp are the most common solution I've seen (for a wide range of functions). You can also memorize with an LRU cache.
No, Snowden's leaks show DoD lawyers working hard to justify programs under the 4th Amendment. In the fallout of the leaks, all but phone metadata collection passed muster.
They may have been under the misapprehension that what they did was whistleblowing.
I see your downvotes brother, and feel your pain.

The tribalism of politics is fierce, and even a forum with as much collective intelligence as HN is not immune from that force.

We should be able to discuss policy and actions on their own merits without it being taken as a personal affront. I wish I could find the magical incantation that would allow that dialog to manifest.
Oof... Very interested where your requirement to still support IE comes from. That is unfortunate.
But Apple says "Any government agency seeking customer content from Apple must obtain a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause.” So what's up?
I use HTMX + Alpine.js for a project I'm working on. It's been pretty nice and I think my only complaint is that the requests are form encoded instead of JSON. There is a HTMX extension that can JSON encode the requests, but all values get encoded as strings so its not great if you want lists, numbers, etc.

I also use Tailwind CSS and I found a way to make that work nicely with HTMX for CSS transitions which I wrote about [0].

[0] https://www.crocodile.dev/blog/css-transitions-with-tailwind...
> One of the few benefits of them is that they are going to be less biased than human review.

This isn't necessarily true. The factors used to drive the algorithms are selected by humans. And from those factors it's not always clear if they end up discriminatory. This is exactly why the systems remain opaque.
It's because of user namespaces lol this is gonna be the next decade, sorry
They'd just learn Python. They'd be fine.
This is like arguing circuit switching is more efficient than packet switching for voice. There’s an account in the book, The Master Switch, where an AT&T exec shrugged off a demo of the internet in the 70’s because packet switching was woefully inefficient. While true, it misses a much bigger picture that we now understand today.

There’s definitely lots of problems with NFT/crypto, but I’m pleased people are risking time and capital to explore if these ideas work. Hopefully the energy usage issues are addressed and the world emerges with an environmentally friendly blockchain that we can use for global consensus.

I don’t understand why people outright dismiss crypto/NFTs by comparing them to tobacco companies or outright banning it from conferences like Rails Conf. Yes, some crypto/NFT companies are scams, but so are many other non-crypto/NFT companies.

What we should focus on are highlighting the crypto projects that are actually good so we can become smarter and more educated about the ways we might deploy this technology.
> No food is specifically obesity inducing

This is false. Of course certain foods are metabolized in ways that are more likely to lead to obesity than others.
That same infrastructure supplies consumables to urban residents and removes garbage, the residents aren't self-sustaining. The infrastructure doesn't exist solely for the benefit of visitors.
> We are working directly with various government agencies to ensure the criminals get brought to justice.

It's amusing to see these kind of statements from the decentralized no goverment/no authorities crowd. To quote RKL:

Well it's anarchy, fuck the cops Of course, how else, through peace.
But when the looters come to kick your ass I bet you cry "Police!"
Right; I think at worst we're managing to rewind ourselves to the `90s, at this point. I think a lot of people don't remember how much social change there was starting in the early `00s through the early `10s. I'm not pleased with the retrogression; I think Project Red Map has really uncovered a large scale hack/flaw in the US electorate that needs to be fixed quickly, but the political situation is certainly nothing like the `60s/`70s.

My parents were activists in the 60s, and my grandparents were activists in the 20s & 30s. My parents mostly feared being beaten, with a background fear of being shot at. My grandparents feared being disappeared along with retribution to their extended family, friends, and neighborhoods.
And yet, we keep forgetting to do it and instead denigrate the people who remind us that this could be an approach to a divisive new technology.
The system is not advertised on the carrier portal, there’s no indication that you opted in and there’s no option to opt out.

To know about it, you need to be annoying like me and investigate. Once I learned about it through questioning the spammer, I called the carrier and requested opt out. First the call center people didn’t know what I’m talking about then at some point they used some innocent sounding name for it and promised that I’m out. I still receive spam everyday.
Ya that is a well done one that was inspiration for me, cause it was taken very seriously. This site has a good list of Web Desktops.

https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
The funny thing about Hunter Biden is that it was genteel corruption, in that he brought nothing to his role but a family connection. But the attention about it was also corrupt -- there was no interest in "how do we have less of this", but only about smearing a rival.
McAfee uninstallation instructions by John McAfee himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQrAfQMpnZk
A truck full of storage volumes can have a higher bandwidth than fiber. Just really bad latency.
It will be laundered in millions of $1 transactions, with others that are doing the same.

Then it will be sold at a discount for Monero or a shitcoin, and then theyll get a couple thousand dollars in cash in the mail for the rest of their life.

im jealous at this point,
At least the business version of F-Secure is not annoying the living daylights out of me, although I have the more onerous securities turned off (like the browser protection).
Making Funny Characters Visible
There's even a HTTP status code for Payment Required. I wonder what happened to that. I think we need to go back to one time purchase model.
Windows Defender.

See: https://0ut3r.space/2022/03/06/windows-defender/ and recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30580444
Does anybody have any background on why US Universities seem to universally focus on continuous summative assessment rather than formative assessment followed by summative assessment at the conclusion of a course?

Surely the knowledge a student can demonstrate at the end of the course is what they should be measured on?

The only justification I can think of is some patronising attempt to force attendance.

Here in the UK there are courses I went to because I wanted to learn about the subject but chose not to answer questions on in the exam because I couldn't quite get a solid grip on.
And there are courses I didn't intend to master that I ended up realising I was more suited to so revised/studied to a high standard for the exam.

Why should I be forced to learn in a very specific way if I can reach the same level of knowledge in my preferred learning style?
> I doubt that will happen because everyone would stop using them and they would go bankrupt.

The Russian state might not care a lot about that possible consequence and still coerce them to include malware in the next update.
I'm a little familiar with CAC cards from years ago. I don't believe they were using them to sign emails at that time. Thats different than the signing process I was familiar with. That would work.
> I think the majority sided with the move (which is why Ethereum soldiers on and EC is basically useless).

This should really be phrased "which is why the fork is called Ethereum and the original chain is called Ethereum Classic". And the majority (of what?) really had only indirect input - the exchanges decided which chain would get which ticker, and if they'd kept ETH=the original chain, it would still have the name Ethereum.
Yes. It was not a current virus, came from an old UEB flash drive that had been lying around for years. GravityZone noticed it and prevented it, which is why I knew to go look at the Win10 box the flash drive was last plugged into. Windows Defender's silence would have left us with the virus installed because it was not periodically scanning on its own.
And do that every time a hack occurs? What would the threshold be for when that would be worth it?

Could I recover $100k that got stolen? What about $10k? $1k?
I'm going to do the obligatory thing & cite the Dunning-Kruger Effect here :)

Also, from personal experience as someone who's taught computer programming (US college 1st & 2nd year courses - listed as "computer science" but really mostly computer programming): I've seen a _lot_ of people tell me some variation on "My program won't compile, I'm totally stuck, but those are just (implied minor) details - I really do understand what's going on!". Bonus points for when their code indicates that they've missed huge concepts at both the language level ("What do you mean I can't do arrayName = arrayName + 1 in Java?") and/or algorithmic level ("The variable defined by the outer loop of the bubble sort was never used so clearly that loop was useless so I removed it").

Ok, I'll stop ranting :)

My point being that you may be able to measure your own progress but not everyone is.

Plus, certification / credentializing is one of the services that education provides to the the rest of society.
You can't be more wrong when you say "just like Russia". It is not even close. The killings of journalists, repressions... The last independent newspaper has to close its activity because it is not possible anymore to report truth while complying to the Russian laws: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/28/russias-novaya-gaze...

All this with Russian government/president approval rating of 70%.
Ya it's very cool, although performance will need some work. My hope for this project is as a POC currently.
Tell that to the marketing departments of the universities, policymakers, and students..!
I think it’s random people just trying to get their name to show up on a currently very popular etherscan address.
Well maybe not 14 year old British kids. Not until they come up with better real-time voice synthesis.
You're telling me he didn't hear about them when Hillary allegedly was using them?

https://sputniknews.com/20160903/fbi-hillary-hammer-evidence...

Or Hunter Biden?

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/if-hunter-biden-did-noth...
That's not as bad as you might think, depending on your specific concern. We're basically worms with extra doodads glommed on. Cake hole connected to poop hole, with gonads. Also, sometimes brains, but mostly gonads.

Sorry, I don't know your level of knowledge of things cell-biology and genomics. If your concern is mouse != human, than that's not really a good argument by itself. If your concern is that many diseases / therapies that seem to work in mice don't readily translate to humans, then yeah, I agree.
I am sorry for your experience. Most college level art classes have a pretty strict entrance requirement where portfolios are judged pretty harshly from incoming high school students. Incoming students are basically already required to be good. This instructor was not prepared for you and treated you poorly. Another instructor might have handled it much better.
With user namespaces all of that is accessible now. For decades upstream hasn't cared about privesc let alone root -> kernel privesc, but now everyone's root lol
Move to a rural place where everyone is moving out and you'll find a place that is not densifying over time, but the opposite. And buying land & housing there is incredibly cheap, probably less than the cost it would be to build it! This is pretty much happening in every small-ish town in japan for example.

Your social life and neighbors will more skew towards the grey haired spectrum, but that is the sacrifice you will need to make!
That is not true to the same degree. If urban roads were only for supplying goods and removing garbage - not accommodating visitors - then the width of roads and size of parking lots would be vastly reduced. Look at Tokyo.
Corporate “anti-virus” is much more than just anti-virus these days. Most of them don’t even call themselves anti-virus, but endpoint protection. Other than anti-virus, they let you set policies on USB ports, block web browsing by categories or specific domains, let you run software inventory reports, etc. These things are very important, especially with work from home, as you can’t really block things at the office firewall anymore.
EmailEngine, Headless IMAP Client
I'm not sure there was ever much verifying before websites existed. Just less fraud.

Back in the NES days Tengen called the United States Copyright Office and told them they needed the technical details of the NES lockout chip to defend themselves in a copyright lawsuit. The Copyright Office faxed over the requested information. Except it was social engineering, there was no copyright lawsuit. Tengen used that proprietary information to build their own cartridges without paying the NES licences costs.
Confronting conflicting opinions is uncomfortable. You will get many angry responses from people from all sides (if you are doing your job right). So y'all will have to find a way to deal with that emotionally.
> 55% of the batch raised money before YC

At this point, it seems like YC is just optimizing on execution risk, and only care about those startups where market risk is eliminated (more or less). If someone has already invested in more than half the batch, YC's already has a pointer about a big well defined market (or expected to be), just needs a team which can execute well.

People used to apply to YC because they would be able to get support without a network. If a startup has to raise funds before getting into YC, I don't know, just does not sound right.

This may also be the reasoning behind accepting many startups on just basis of an idea(29%) provided they worked in big-tech or hot startups previously[1], and working on problems in Dev Tools and B2B Saas space (similar to problems they solved already, or seen). Market is defined, they are just looking for good executioners. (In dev tools and Startup related Saas tools, market is other companies of the batch on occasions.)

[1]: YC indexes heavily on anyone from an Ivy League college, or who has worked at FAANG, or unicorn startups like Uber. Going through their companies list, ex-FAANG/Ivy leaguers building a dev tools (or planning to) is the most repeated pattern.
Using a custom library over Bootstrap would potentially offer them the following benefits:

* Full control over browser support (Government Agencies are likely to have to support older browser than Bootstrap for example would support).

* Full control over accessibility (as far as I know, Bootstrap is not entirely accessible).

* Ability to limit customisation to more closely fit any government style guide etc.

* Not needing to update the version they are using whenever Twitter drop support for older versions, as they completely control the development life cycle and how long they support each version for.

Possibly some other ones I have missed as well.

Would they have saved money in the long term by using Bootstrap? Quite possibly (although I think it is hard to say definitively, and I really doubt creating this library cost significant amounts of money).

Would using Bootstrap have resulted in sites that didn't look as nice? I highly suspect so.
"Our software has some sort of race condition, it gets stuck every few hours, should we debug it? Could be difficult to find."

"No, just write a cron job to restart it every few hours, and we'll increase the error tolerances. Nobody wastes time debugging stability issues anymore!"
"...and this is your brain on Twitter"
yes, a deal between the parties, with all the risk and reward that goes with it.. really eye-opening to see all the comments wishing for an all-powerful referee to check every outcome and action in private affairs
It is definitely part of sales funnel, but it was light touch sales. I have played with it and can vouch that the mails are not spammy.
Nice, so it's just money with extra steps.
Sounds like my stack for https://PlotPanel.com. It's Alpine.js, htmx, Tailwind CSS, and Django on the back-end. Going to have a read of your article!
Let's look at how this works in real life. How do you know you have, e.g., implemented a feature in a way that helps the business?

Is your product manager saying, "I give this implementation a C" the point where you go, "whew, I met the goals I needed to meet!" and then you move on to the next feature?

Does that sound like a helpful, healthy interaction?

Does it teach you anything about your users?

When I work on a feature, I collaborate with other developers, product people, and occasionally customers to try to figure out what problems they need solved, and where my work can efficiently fit into that. It's a dynamic, nuanced discussion with no clear right or wrong answer.

That's what we need to teach our children.

The obsession in school with getting the "right" answer stymies critical thinking, exploration, and, well, learning -- which can only happen when you get things wrong and figure out why on your own.
The playful snow on the home page doesn’t inspire confidence.
It reminds me an interview of the "Groland" creators, the best trash and vulgar comedy tv show in France. They use a lot of elderly actors, playing insane characters, lots of nudity etc...
There was a question about the choice of using so much elderly actors, they said "they can do almost anything, they have nothing to lose". Nailed it.
Agreed, although it may be the case that many McRich are buying additional housing rather than trading one house for another.
If I remember rightly, the AlphaCode paper includes a list of benchmarks, including the results of a finetuned GPT-3 for coding. I think they did it because Codex wasn't available to them when were doing their tests, but I might be wrong there.
> Where in the world is it common to lose all money deposited in a bank?

The last round of deposit haircuts were in Europe [1]. OP may be talking about having a bank account frozen by a corrupt government. Though if crypto became widespread, those same governments wouldn’t have trouble coercing people into giving up their keys.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_failure
Ah, thanks. Didn't think of that!
No. It's using devel, plus a script that turns off the warnings apt produces because of the symlink devel in reality is on the mirrors.