skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was speculation of where the fledgling #BirdsArentReal movement could end up, but I'm really not serious about my criticism of the meme.

As a sibling comment to yours pointed out, true believers of things like a flat earth are an extreme minority and I'm not particularly concerned that a parody conspiracy theory will cause much harm. I doubt the few true believers will be burning chicken coops any more than flat earthers are blowing up globes. (I really hope I'm not wrong about that, I do like chicken quite a bit).

And we, as a society & individuals, can't and shouldn't be 100% serious about everything 100% of the time. We should be able to laugh at things, even very serious things. For example I find it pretty funny that some Russian tanks are being abducted by Ukrainian farmers w/ tractors. I can also see how deadly serious it is: It's not like they're just a few viral videos made by influencers, it's everyday people like farmers trying to take deadly resources out of the hands of an invading army.
Good question - if you do some digging, I'd love to read about how they stack up!
Amazing news!!! :)
Thunderbird lives again
it isn't even just 'clones' because so many sites will just summarize an article from somewhere else and give a link to it. Sometimes it is a game of telephone with one site summarizing a 2nd site which is a summary of a 3rd and so on. I want a search engine to show me the original source not the one with the best SEO
"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared." - PJ Plauge, Computer Language, March 1983
> You shouldn’t let your personal animosity towards Trump lead to believing misinformation.

I don't have to. I witnessed several Republican congressmembers go out of their way to announce that no matter what evidence presented is, they had already decided to ignore it and vote against the removal of Trump from office.

Now, I can't tell you why they decided to announce their criminal enterprise shortly before enacting it, but a quick Google tells me their names are Cindy Hyde-Smith, Roger Wicker, Thom Tillis, Rob Portman, James Inhofe, Mike Rounds, and Jerry Moran.

> Mueller finds no collusion with Russia, leaves obstruction question open

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report is a well cited article.

"On March 27, 2019, Mueller reportedly wrote to Barr in a letter, as stated in the New York Times "expressing his and his team's concerns that the attorney general had inadequately portrayed their conclusions".[226] This was first reported on April 30, 2019. Mueller thought that the Barr letter "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the findings of the special counsel investigation that he led.[227] "There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation". Mueller also requested Barr release the Mueller report's introductions and executive summaries.[228][229]"

What you linked to covers Barr's misleading summary of the Muller report.

> The Washington Post corrects, removes parts of two stories regarding the Steele dossier

Again, Wikipedia has a well cited article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier
> It'd be economically viable if what I pay in local/state versus federal taxes were flipped. What happens instead is I pay exorbitant federal taxes, then that gets given back to my state/local governments as grants/title X funding with stipulations to fix the roads, etc. At least the taxes I pay to local government I have more direct control of as an individual voter. Instead I'm just funding a massive military and protection of countries overseas and our oil interests.

This is is opposite of how things actually work.

Generally, rural areas are fairly heavily subsidized by urban ones. The more taxes become localized, the less money from urban areas gets funneled to rural ones and the poorer the rural areas become.
No. You need to understand what you are comparing to. The question is comparing US and Russia. No. It’s not the same.

But you turned this question into comparing US to perfection. Yes, you are right. US is not perfection.

But there is a big difference between 70 to 10, even both are not 100.

What Snowden revealed does not make 70 to 10. If you think that way, you don’t understand how bad an authoritarian regime is.
I should give this another shot. I haven't touch it since 2017
According to Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia has no intention to invade Ukraine
Developers are an interesting bunch "Why does anyone use Bootstrap anymore?" and then goes and creates basically the exact same components again by hand.

Seems like that same trend repeats every couple of years "[Popular library] is now outdated, let me just create an in-house clone or move to identical but trendy [Popular library]."

To be clear I very much like the USWDS components, but they are mostly 1:1 with Bootstrap while being incompatible, and having to maintain them in-house. Just feels like NIH.

Am I missing something?
They are dropping IE support with this version
I expect this is true, and shows the ridiculous scope creep of government snooping and stalking on individual privacy for what it largely is, power grabs by individuals in government drunk on the power of control.

That said, do you have a source?
If you give them days, weeks or perhaps months to come up with a response. Sure.

Not going to work internationally anyway.
GitHub Copilot now available for Visual Studio 2022
Yea, of course! Thanks for noticing! I believe the two do have similar risk profiles. Lead has always been more abundant and used, however.
With that I could dedicate to work in a spiritual successor of the FoxPro family of products (https://tablam.org).

Is not as high-impact that save the earth, but I think is important to give real alternatives to the excess of "cloud-dependent" tech that exist. Local-first, truly personal, etc.
This is true. I'd estimate at least 70% of all rental unit currently under construction will not be "affordable" for two people working full time for minimum wage. In northern New England it's easily 100% of units.

That said all rental projects that I know of in Maine and New Hampshire are all rented before they even finish construction.

EDIT: I'd also like to make a point about current regulation and zoning. It's not unusual for a developer to pay around $500,000 or more in state fees, environmental review, and layer time to get a new apartment complex approved. This requires insider connections and specialized knowledge of the municipality if you want it completed in a reasonable time frame. Partially this is because national building codes are more complicated then ever but more often building anything at all requires a zoning exception or amendment.

If you pull of the zoning maps for your town or city you'll likely find it riddled with parcels that have been cut out or otherwise exempted from the rest of the zone. This process can be expensive and take years to complete.
Yep. My first job in tech was with a platform that promised a "Web 2.0" experience that was centered around drag-and-drop. Take a wild guess as to whether they're still around...
Rails is awesome, I'm a huge fan. I just think there's a huge ramp up out of the box. I wish I knew how to go from rails init -> dashboard w/ login faster.
Just do it - it's a great exercise and as the stats show people usually take more than one shot to get in.
JSON and CSS are supported today, and I'm interested in adding more structured text formats.

If a format has a tree-sitter parser, it can be added to difftastic. The TOML tree-sitter parser looks good, but there isn't a mature markdown parser for tree-sitter. There are other markdown parsers available, so in principle difftastic could support markdown that way.

The display logic might need a little tuning for prose-heavy formats like markdown though. I'm not happy with how difftastic handles block comments yet either.

I'm not sure about formats that contain more prose, such as markdown or HTML.
hacking a system and stealing a key (copying) is a lot less interesting than hacking a key by exploiting some cryptographic weakness
Quick question - where does the FCC derive this authority?
I'd be inclined to agree here, I don't see any reason code should ever be touched outside of a repeatable process, and I'm not sure how you version control stuff developed on a server unless you have ssh keys on it or do lots of manual copying.

But maybe they are doing something super high performance and need fast edit test cycles they can't get on their laptop, although I'm not exactly sure what kind of task needs that.
money is a (the best?) system of control.

10% ($6 trillion) of US dollars is physical cash or coins(1). Government authorities cannot exert control of this money supply unless they have physical control of the person / property (seized assets, found all the hidden caches). Cash is used when tracking & tracing is undesirable like contraband or political corruption(2).

So if those in power / government wishes to have total control of a population, then they need 100% of money to be in centralized databases. In that scenario, if someone does something illegal or not favorable to those in power (i.e. whistleblowing), then they can be completely shut out of the economy even if they evade arrest.

1) https://www.ngpf.org/blog/uncategorized/question-percentage-...
2) page 22 https://cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/sigir/20131001080029/h...
That's true in most of the U.S., but not in NYC, for example, where you can definitely, "buy an apartment."
How many of them are starter homes? Majority of the home constructions I came across is always above 3.5k sqft homes, some are McManison. It is great about 1.5 million housing units, we need starter houses than 4k sqft homes.
I'm specifically referring to my experience of using a cast iron pan. The bottom heats up quickly because it's being directly affected by the induction process, but propagates through the sides of the pan very slowly, which is normal behavior for a cast iron pan. That's part of its usefulness: even heat. The problem with induction is that it hyperheats the bottom, but the slow propagation of the eat means that the normal benefits of cast iron are eliminated (at least in the first part of the cooking process, until the whole pan heats up).
TL,DR;
Seriously, who do you expect to read this?
Interesting. A family member was having memory issues and the doctors were very supportive of our idea to look at the possibility of testing blood levels and taking supplements or changing diet based on the findings.
The problem is: how do you run a business that has offices and physical assets in Russia, without being at least partially beholden to the Russian government? They have demonstrated that they are not shy about using gangster tactics.

One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong legal and cultural tradition of exposing, resisting, and fighting these overreaches in the US. I don't see that in Russia.

So, I would not be surprised to see the US strong-arming US companies, but they would do this with sham/flimsy legal cover. The result of non-compliance would be at worst asset seizure and/or imprisonment. Both of these can be examined and contested. I imagine that the penalty for non-compliance in the Russian system would max out at having an unfortunate accident. Gangsters all, but the level of gangsterism and possibilities for investigation/redress matter.

All that said, I'm not a US citizen (although in a Five-Eyes country), so I do worry about using US-hosted services.
I find it quite interesting that in the JSON to YAML example it reordered the list. If this was an access control list that could be a serious security issue that could have easily been missed in review. (Especially if dozens of files like this were changed at once). Of course a malicious user could have done this as well and likely got by code review but the fact that it was accidental is scarier in a way.
How many meanings of vertically do you use?
Washington state capital gains tax update
> That hasn't been true for a while now: https://openai.com/blog/api-no-waitlist/

Sure, but you can substitute "approve of your use case" instead:

https://beta.openai.com/docs/usage-guidelines/content-policy
I know I'm going to sound like an unpleasant person, but I now get that same feeling every time I drive by a petrol station (with my electric car).
Credit cards are centrally managed by a bank, need network communications and have transaction reversibility. This is literally a P2P system and their solution to avoid double spends is to have the device's root user not be the owners of such devices basically with something that is TPM like.

If you break the TPM and get device or key control, then you can double spend. Double spending victims will find out they've been fooled when they go redeem their ecash for non-ecash and find out someone else already redeemed it.

This is why bitcoin was such an innovation, because it prevented double spending, and it also made it you didn't need to trust a central ledger database maintainer (aka bank) to not mess with the ledger either and it let you do it over a distributed network!

I think they're really talking about chaumian ecash with this act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash
A 51% attack on a blockchain with a grand total of 9 nodes... why would be people trust such an obviously insecure chain with such large value?
and it's not just stick to cash, but use cash as much as possible. it's as convenient as a card, and has built-in loss aversion effects to help curb frivolous spending. cash is anonymous, universal, fungible, and hidden-fee-free.
I've been wanting to do this switch too and have the same concern. One option worth investigating is Shoelace - https://shoelace.style/, a library of nice looking web components that you can just add to your page without setting up a whole build pipeline.
I'm really happy with Kagi. Being able to block and boost results is a killer feature. They're also more willing to show that they couldn't find results for searches. Compare that to Google, whose engineers designed it to (seemingly always) exclude the most specific term in a search to return irrelevant results.
I can't find the actual profile on Wired anymore, but I found it on the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20140423055434/http://www.wired.... and also a sort of response to it https://web.archive.org/web/20140426095603/http://www.wired....

After I read that profile I decided I'd never use the software. I remember before news spread of the Russian troll farms being real, people talked about it like "who would do that?" Russia would.

I don't think it's their quote - but I remember Penn of Penn & Teller saying about magic something to the effect that the magician does the things that people think "It could be... but who would do all of that work?" This is how I feel about Russia. They will or already are doing the things you think they won't and nothing is beyond being a tool for the state.

I don't really like feeding the image of the Russian super villain, but I don't consider it overly paranoid to avoid installing software from hostile nations. Yes I used this same logic to convince my wife to uninstall tiktok.
Not just fossil fuels, but urban infrastructure dedicated to helping people who don't live in the city - highways, parking lots, street parking.
Not so funny at times: an article from 2009, "In Africa, A Pigeon Transfers Data Faster Than The Internet":

* https://www.wired.com/2009/09/in-africa-a-pigeon-transfers-d...

* https://spectrum.ieee.org/carrier-pigeon-beats-internet-
The Headline is in Germany with the "Schufa" literally already the case. What makes it worse, is that you cant even open a Bankaccount with a bad Score.
Pinecone announces $28M Series A for vector database
I was good at pretty much every academic discipline growing up (except math when I got to calculus, ha). Being held to a higher standard in the things I was good at made me better at those.
Difftastic has support for ~20 languages, and I'm happy to add more if there's a decent tree-sitter parser available :)
> Gophercises is free, but you need to provide a working email address to gain access. I won't spam you and unsubscribing is very easy.

Er, why? It's just a bunch of exercises and lessons, right? Gating it behind a sign up seems completely artificial, and something that would only be worth doing if you wanted to spam people or sell their data.
So they now have this giant sum of money sitting in their wallet

https://etherscan.io/address/0x098b716b8aaf21512996dc57eb061...

what do they do next? How do criminals even use this money to do anything?
I'm not sure I agree. I mean secrets can be stolen. Apparently pirating music or movies is theft and so on.

We've often seen the naritive of Big company stealing ideas etc from smaller companies.

So stealing can extend beyond simple physical property, and could acceptably encompass IP as well.
Try saying the words "Ukraine War" in Russia. That alone is grounds for getting arrested, possibly disappeared and/or tortured.

You have to say "Ukrainian Special Security Operation".
This probably sounds like an insanely dumb idea to crypto people, but is it absolutely infeasible to reverse transactions when there's consensus that it's a hack? The TX fees need not be reversed (consider it to be a small price to pay for being hacked).

A little bit of centralisation could make the whole network safer. Who is that centralised authority to decide what's a hack, I hear you ask. I don't know, but the authority could be elected and impeachable to make it more democratic.
I'm pretty sure I had a history professor unofficially do something like this. I got B's on the midterms and needed a 100 on the final to get an A. I knew I did better on the final and couldn't think of a question I missed, but 100 still seemed unlikely. I suspect I got a ~98, and he ran with the logic that if you're demonstrating a very solid understanding of the material on the final and close to a cutoff, you earned the higher grade.

Also, history. No one was getting 98% on my physics or math exams.
I’m often not looking for the “correct” perspective, I’m just looking for what the other perspectives are.

If a lot of people think a certain way, that’s enough for me to want to learn about it.
I agree.

I was just pointing out that the thread keeps referring to ‘infinitely large’ universe. Perhaps it’s just shorthand for ‘infinite number of stars’. No big deal. Obviously, if you had 10 stars in an infinitely large universe, there is no ‘paradox.’
>My exasperation has no limits

clearly the former

>So you think I did?

that's quite philosophical - do simpletons suffer..?

>There, let's hope the bot stays stuck in that loop

o-kay..
It could also be “fixed” by deciding that the risks associated with government not getting data that could help stop an ongoing crime is less severe than the risks associated with these data leaks.
Seriously. That was really really hard to read.

So basically $600mm in a hot wallet and no one even watching it. Just wow.

They didn’t even hack the smart contract, they just compromised 4 systems holding the private keys, and there was an RPC signing function giving free access to the 5th. Good god.
I don't see anything in there about ranked choice voting.
I like how the author repeatedly pointed out how much HN hates web3, and the postings herein reinforce that with hilarious intensity. I mean, hey, guys, I think everybody knows you hate web3. But thanks for the reminder anyhow.

ps For the record I also hate web3

pss Feel free to remind me you hate web3 too
Stolen has a very specific meaning, it involves taking something from someone else, denying them the ability to use it. If the person still has the thing, you've not stolen it.

I think 'copied' is the right word here. They hacked the system, and copied the keys.
I run ESET for the only reason that it was offered to me cheaply and has worked fine over the years without feeling intrusive.
This seems like on of those ill-advised crimes that carries a huge federal penalty if caught right? Pretending to be a police officer feels like something that typically gets smacked down pretty aggressively if not officially sanctioned.
Deluge – Programming Language by Zoho
Not concerned with accessibility as opppsed to security.

If they are astute in cybersecurity, they will be using other (and secured) browsers.
,, Originally, Sky Mavis chose the five out of nine threshold as some nodes didn’t catch up with the chain, or were stuck in syncing state’’

Sounds like a great plan for storing half billion dollars. I’m not blaming the developers, as they are incentivized to move fast and break things, I’m just sorry for all the people who trust new protocols so easily without any knowledge in safe software security practices.

Personally I’m a Bitcoin only person, because I respect the amount of work that the software authors do to minimize the attack surface, but at the end the free market will select the winners and losers.
>> So it's still coming from a pretty dark place.

I think it's worth remembering that the world can be a pretty dark place anyway, and being prepared for stuff can make it less dark. The training I did was basically a civilian adaptation of the TCCC course taught over a weekend, taught be ex-military PMC types, so I expected it to be a bit of a stretch to apply it to civilians. And yeah, it's pretty dark: we practiced dragging limp bodies out of a building while they played loud sounds of gun fire. We put chest seals on dead pigs.

But a lot of the videos they played to demonstrate various conditions that you could treat with an IFAK - the basic military first aid kit - were totally civilian situations. We went over car accidents, camping mishaps, failed suicides. And as someone who overthinks and worries about potential problems - can I just say how good it feels to go on a road trip or go camping with my kids and know "hey - I have a trauma kit in the back of the car and I know how to use it". As dark as all those things are, I'm far better able to help people going through those things than I was before.

It really sucks that school shootings are so common that they influence policy like this. But... I think school shootings shouldn't be the only reason. I think far more people should do things like go get the Red Cross First Aid / CPR / AED course and practice those skills every couple of years. And not just because of shootings.
> What real problems are worth solving today with computers?

1 million dollars would solve one problem: buying myself a house. I can handle the transaction using a computer.