skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also fickle with my food, and a vegan to boot. I solved this problem of leftovers for my situation by making soup. With leftovers, like your tomato sauce, you can always make a soup. Making soup is easy. You can do that in parallel with making dinner, or quickly before breakfast or lunch. You can store and carry it in a thermos flask, or in a simple jar and heat it in a microwave at work. You can also use it as a starter for tomorrow's dinner. Or freeze it for later consumption. Soup, it's great!
In the documentary Alone Against the State, five mothers who became victims of the Dutch childcare benefits scandal share the chilling stories of how their lives and that of their children were destroyed by a state system deprived of humanity.

It is a Dutch documentary, unfortunately without English subtitles:

https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/series/2doc/2021/alleen-te...
Not sure about that in the real world. The temptation of "algorithms" is in reducing human workload which, realistically, means saving on salary costs by having fewer humans in the loop. The attraction of cost savings – and the externalization of repercussions – biases decisionmakers into believing that algorithms are a great solution. Yes, the real problem is abuse of algorithmic decisionmaking, and a lack of oversight, but in the real world you can't separate a technology from the people who use it.
I think this is the expected cycle of business long term.

1. Entrepreneur notices an opportunity to avoid overzealous regulations and provide better value to customers

2. Everyone wants a piece of the action, bad actors start to move in and updated regulation is required

3. New regulations get out of hand and start to become extremely costly to comply with (see banks)

4. New entrepreneur comes along with a novel way of avoiding said regulations, providing better value to customers again. Repeat.

At any given point in time the industry is either in cowboy crypto mode, or crusty overregulated bank mode. Both have drawbacks, and it’s just a pendulum that swings back and forth.
If you want to say I have no proof that's fine, but I draw the line at sarcastic insults. So don't do that and I won't insult you back.

I haven't collected evidence for my point because I'm not trying to make a court case - I've observed that most people seem to use crypto as a speculative investment, buying coins just to sell them to somebody else who's doing the same. Have you seen otherwise? Like, I don't want to have this negative perception of the industry, I generally prefer to see positive outcomes from these things, but I haven't observed much positive being produced from the industry. Surely if you're a big fan of the industry, you can demonstrate something good about it?
Ethereum dev imprisoned for helping North Korea evade sanctions
Eagle+
Some website backends have multiple image formats available. Their frontend will tell the browser to load webp preferentially with code like this. Browsers that don't support webp will just fall back to jpeg or whatever.

The html looks something like this:

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I process images on upload to be available in multiple sizes and formats. I serve webp first since the (normally) smaller size makes the page faster for users.
Both.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/netherlands-tax-haven
Personally I think the main difference is that normal bikes are self-regulated by the stamina of the rider. It takes a lot of extra effort to ride a standard bike fast and erratically, you are self-incentivised by your own exhaustion to ride smoothly and at a moderate pace.

Not the case for an e-bike where you have no reason to not just ride around everywhere at 20+ mph while barely paying attention.
The concept of visa/mastercard was also largely unregulated at the time they launched. Take a look at the history of visa article on wikipeida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.#History

Visa was not the first, and other tries to do a credit/charge before them were much worse or limited in scope. This is similar today to what is happening in web3/crypto. If you don't think the ingenuity of humans will get us somewhere productive with these technologies, then I don't know what to say to you.

Quotes from the article about the launch of visa:

> In the weeks leading up to the launch of BankAmericard, BofA had saturated Fresno mailboxes with an initial mass mailing (or "drop", as they came to be called) of 65,000 unsolicited credit cards

> By March 1959, drops began in San Francisco and Sacramento; by June, BofA was dropping cards in Los Angeles; by October, the entire state of California had been saturated with over 2 million credit cards and BankAmericard was being accepted by 20,000 merchants.[18] However, the program was riddled with problems, as Williams (who had never worked in a bank's loan department) had been too earnest and trusting in his belief in the basic goodness of the bank's customers, and he resigned in December 1959. Twenty-two percent of accounts were delinquent, not the 4% expected, and police departments around the state were confronted by numerous incidents of the brand new crime of credit card fraud.[19] Both politicians and journalists joined the general uproar against Bank of America and its newfangled credit card, especially when it was pointed out that the cardholder agreement held customers liable for all charges, even those resulting from fraud.
That analysis has been done and the conclusions are devastating for the tax office.

https://www.consultancy.nl/nieuws/39000/pwc-belastingdienst-... (dutch)
The Netherlands: a tax haven (2016) [pdf]
i was 13 when my public upload folder started getting messed with, sad day
South Yorkshire's not that rural, compared to the wilder bits of North and East Yorkshire. Penistone and Barnsley are both in the Sheffield travel-to-work area so I doubt they're depopulating fast enough to decommission water mains.
The Atmos clock works similarly.
This is a funny intersection between the corporate and the counter-culture, much like skateboarding's own history. I'm a little hesitant about this early line:

> And like any traditional business, these skateboarding companies take help from various logo designing services to develop creative yet appealing skateboard company logos.

Many of these companies started as small ventures, largely without the budget to use those services, and many of these logos came from individual graphic designers and artists (Jim Philips for NHS/Independent/Santa Cruz, Ed Templeton with Toy Machine, etc). The Dogtown logo was even adopted from 1970s graffiti in LA. I'm sure some of these companies and the larger brands have used logo designing services, but the history of small, independent artists in skateboarding is important.

As a side note, the first two logos are somewhat notorious themselves (if semi-conspiracies in a small niche community can be called notorious), with the Independent Iron Cross' past/similarity to another Iron Cross from history (the brand shifted away from using that logo in 2021) and the similarity of the Zero logo to the the t-shirt worn by Sid in Toy Story.
Wheat is often subsidized for the poor.
Do two wrong things, when the regulators come down on one of them, point to the other and say "I don't see how this regulation could affect the real cause, over there." Good trick if you can pull it off.
What games did Laplink enabled serial multiplayer for? Back then game devs had to roll their own.

And likely they chose to avoid parallel because early ports were not intended for communication but rather a primitive extension of the CPU bus to an external device, originally printers. It allowed you to send bytes to a device and then read back a few GPIO like signals the device would set to indicate things like acknowledged, error, paper jam and so on. It was only later on they added functionality and smarts in the form of ECP/EPP with two way data transfers, buffers, IRQ and DMA. On top of all that, a parallel bus over cable is severely limited to something like 4-5 meters or 15 feet. Serial from the get-go was designed for device-device coms and with the right cable, RS232 can extend up to 100m. Of course you can change the electrical interface of serial to a differential, current or fiber interface and extend serial to reach many km.
You guys should read The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. It's a classic.
But even fictional figures have to have some resemblance to what is perceived to be a good practices.

For example, you would never have a fictional top notch surgeon, who picked his nose during the surgery. Everyone understands that you just don’t do that.

Yet you have a spy who violates most of the spy craft guidelines. I guess that is a commentary about how far off society’s perceptions are of what a spy is.
Growing tulips REMOVES carbon from the atmosphere.
The fact you believed it would last is proof we still can have nice things. :)
Stack/RPN languages are nice because they are easy to evaluate left to right, because you collect the arguments before you call the function. The stack is reduced as soon as possible, so max execution stack size is equal to the essential complexity of the calculus, for eager-evaluation languages.

"Traditional" Verb-Object order is tricky because you have to save the whole stack of functions before you can start reducing anything. But it's nice if you have partial/lazy evaluation and might discard argument/function calls without evaluating them.

For human UI, it's trivial to view/edit a program displayed in reverse, and add some redundant parentheses, for an applicative syntax, if you like.
An interesting perspective on LetsEncrypt:

While doing some research on Slackware, I was surprised to learn that in the bad old days, people actually did generally roll their own cert authorities or build their own webs of trust. LetsEncrypt, though came along as an offering from BigTech, and captured the mindshare of everyone else, and by doing so, seems to coincide with a spike (at least in my career) in OPS groups who don't onow how to manage key material, or even the docs to reach for.

I hardly ever hear about these circles of trust organized by end users anymore, which I find fascinating, because technically speaking, it should in theory be an end user activity in a generalized sense. I mean, Dunbar's number kinda damps things a lot, but with the chaos we're still seeing from people not having updated their certs in light of the expired letsEncrypt rootcert, I still think we've got a long way to go to make cryptography approachable.
> corruption has enabled these companies to construct confusing and elaborate ways of avoiding their fair share of taxes.

I'm not sure one can consider it corruption, per se, rather it's tax competition on the part of smaller EU states.

To my mind, it's not that the countries are being bribed by companies, rather that the laws attract a (far too small proportion of) global/EU revenue to be taxed in their country.
Honestly the media coverage makes it sound like the Russians run our elections. That perception is a much bigger win from them than anything they got from Facebook ads and bots.

So many Americans want to believe that the only way anybody could ever disagree with their beliefs and preferences is through manipulation by malicious foreign actors.

The reality (that half the population disagrees with them and has different values) is completely unpalatable.
Point is it used to be
* Forth I like
Ask HN: Programmatic access to browser plug-in stats?
I have a browser extension on the Chrome and Firefox stores. I know I can check for new downloads and active users via the UI, but I’d love to access that same data programmatically. Before I hack away on something to pull it from the UI, does anyone know of an existing way to access daily downloads/weekly users/etc. programmatically (like an existing API from Google/Mozilla that I can’t seem to find)? Thanks in advance!
"revealing the incomes and tax rates of the 400 Americans with the highest incomes from 2013 to 2018"

That seems like an odd analysis? Why would you take the average income and average tax rate over a 6 year span? I assume that many of these folks have large parts of their income coming not from W2 salary but from periodic equity sales. All of that nuance is lost when six years are all treated as equal.

They do allude to this in a footnote "For the top 400 by income, the total shown in the table is total AGI for the top 400 in each year, so this is a shifting population and one different from the top 400 by average discussed throughout the story."

And before someone says "to protect their private information". Well I mean they are naming these folks directly so any privacy at this point is kind of lost.

And also this footnote "Each individual’s percentage of income taxed at the lower rate is calculated using their highest income earning year from 2013 to 2018." So that stat is not representative of the time period in question but rather a single year. Again, if they offloaded a bunch of long-term capital gains, that number is the max not the typical or average.
I'd like the main website to optimize for mobile.
You don't need to write Nix configs for everything. With the following NixOS config, you can write raw configuration files and deploy them to /etc.

# deploy ./config.txt to /etc/foo/config.txt
environment.etc."foo/config.txt" = ./config.txt;

You can do the same thing with Home Manager too.

However, many Nix users just tend to write Nix configs instead because it's easier. For one thing, NixOS modules provides high level options that's easier to work with than bare config files. The NixOS website has a good search UI for those options too [1]. Second, the Nix language is a nice language for writing configurations. It's JSON, but with functions, variables, and other niceties like indented multi-line strings and string interpolation. Writing everything in the Nix language allows you to share configuration values across different software with ease.

As for version control, I'm not sure what your issue is with Nix. Nix configuration files are just plain text files, so it can be version controlled like everything else. In fact, Nix flakes, the last topic of the article, is even designed to work best with version control.

[1]: https://search.nixos.org/options
Is that a joke? That group is always looking for things they can point to and say "see I told you crypto was bad". This is typical of any industry or topic to actively look for confirmation bias, it's just human nature.
The change in consistency happens most quickly at temperatures in the single digits, that’s also why bread in the fridge gets stale faster. But toasting the bread reverts the process. So the trick is to defrost in the microwave and pop it in the oven (if still in a loaf) or toaster (if sliced). Put some water on the crust to prevent it from baking too much. Works wonders on yesterday’s rolls too.
The core will remain in Taiwan…
That is totally in line with what I would expect, I see these companies as just milking the trial money from gullible mid level governments.
Propaganda is not defined by friend or foe. I get the joke about public relations.

> Not blaming it when my milk goes bad isn't "brushing it off.

Minimizing is a form of propaganda.
Yes, and that's annoying.
I think you have bull and bear mixed up.

> hideous procedurally generated art by some 14 year old kid who wrote a script

That's unnecessarily condescending. Don't let your anger toward crypto spill over on the computer generated art scene. If my 14 year old wrote scripts, let alone made procedurally generated art, I would be extremely impressed and proud.
I also did this for Ukraine with BTC.
You can think in binary terms if it's not a bit, but a binary tree.
Interesting setup - thank you for sharing.

I've SSH'd in to hundreds machines between home and work, and never thought to check `$SSH_CONNECTION` to see if I was remotely connected or not and take actions on that fact. So clever to have a different prompt when remoting in or not.

Your setup is more complicated than mine, and maybe even than what I want, but I'm excited to take some inspiration from it and maybe incorporate some of this to my setup.
>are you saying that "resistance from the US" is the only thing that prevents "easily take Ukraine"?

You don't have to take my word for it, Zelensky himself has spent the last 2 months begging for more and more financial and military aid from the US/NATO. We have pumped billions into Ukraine already.

And I'm still trying to understand why you think Putin wouldn't take the opportunity to invade under Trump, while invading twice with Biden in a position of power. Especially considering all of the financial interests of the Biden family in Ukraine. You just see that as a coincidence?
Withdrawals from Coinbase to would be indistinguishable from temporary insider trading accounts. And there are certainly a lot of withdrawals. And in many cases the trading happens off chain anyways
You'd be surprised. Many orgs have a service provider like https://www.careasy.org/ on hand to accept junk cars or even boats. Not to mention stocks and other financial instruments. If taking Slap Chops brings in nonzero funds - why not.
I know, but there is a point to security even if most of it is worthless. Roads are one of the most dangerous things we have. If were want to get serious about lives saved everyone in TSA security would be reassigned to roadway safety, it wouldn't be hard to make a much larger difference in lives saved.
> So, how is this different compared to a slap by one famous person that got reposted thousand times?

Intent and strategy:

> By constructing a timeline of the IRA messages, they found left-leaning IRA trolls posted large volumes of entertainment content in their artificial liberal community and shifted away from political content late in the campaign. Simultaneously, conservative trolls were targeting their community with increases in political content. The effort would have encouraged the right to vote and the left to ignore politics.
Find the environment where you are enough good. And don't listen to that bullies ;-)

Maybe try drugs but please don't shorten your life while chasing for something you might not need, especially if looking at retrospective.
The question was: why is this any different from what happened at the Oscars?

The answer is: the Will Smith thing was bound to be a huge story regardless of whether it was assisted.

Do you disagree? I'm not sure what your point is, if I'm honest.
What does "ang" in analang stands for? :)
Did you believe what the British said about the Russians using a deadly military grade nerve agent?
I didn't because of two reasons:
1. The West has been demonising Russia for years now, creating an enemy in the eyes of the public.

2. If it was a deadly, military grade weapon, it wasn't very effective and didn't kill it's target. So, should we call it a not very deadly nerve gas ?
Isn't buck a replacement for blaze?
Which also seems a cornerstone of Fristons Active inference (from the little I understand of it).
At risk of being called a conspiracy theorist, is it only Russia and China that do this, or do western government agencies also do this, to other countries or even to their own populations?
The problem with most approaches is that they throw out the baby with the bathwater. Sure, you trusting third-parties is shady. Sure, having governments handling over your money is bad. However, having a fully-immutable chain is not the solution.

Let's say, you tokenized the ownership of your home but a bad actor from the other side of the globe stole the token.

A standard certificate of ownership can still be brought to court in case of fraud, but a token cannot. I mean, you still can bring it to court, have the judge decide in your favor, but the chain is immutable and neither you or the court officials can do anything to revert that. So you'll end-up with a token that does not represent the reality - and that's why standard, traditional certificates exist and are trusted: they represent the rule of the law, something an immutable decentralized chain can't do.

Another example is just what is happening to Russia and its oligarchs. Traditional banks can be forced by the rule of the law to impose sanctions; crypto cannot. So they're just evading those sanctions in plain sight by using crypto. You may side with Russia on the current affairs, but this also applies to terrorist groups, gangs, you name it.

And it goes on and on... if you're a victim of a phishing attack like the one happened recently at OpenSea[1], but instead of signing with your wallet you filled your credit card data into a shady field, you can still contest the purchase with your bank and have your money back. Even if you authorized a one-way money transfer from your bank account, in some countries you can still contest it and eventually have your money back.[2] None of this is available for the victims of the NFT phishing scam.

So, while the technology sure has interesting points, the current use-cases are far from optimal. Society developed trust and trust-chains for a reason. If you're a going to implement this in blockchain, then you'll have to build a non-decentralized* approach from the ground up, that most of the crypto community will bash you for.

* To be fair, many consider the proof-of-stake to be a non-decentralized approach departing from the vision of S. Nakamoto. And some will even argue that the current proof-of-work mining concentration is already centralized.[3]

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/opensea-phishing-scandal-reve...

[2] https://www-poder360-com-br.translate.goog/justica/globo-gan...

[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/04/1046636/ethereum...
I mean, you’re free to blindly dismiss obvious corruption - but it’s quite obvious that these loopholes were designed, and often illegal.

Eg, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_v_Commission
That to me immediately communicates a decreasing chart. I would have no idea that the right-angle lines represent right angles generally and not chart axes.
Yes, but (sorry for yelling, that's in the source)

> THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. ITS BEHAVIOR, AND THE BEHAVIOR OF OTHER COMMANDS IN THE PRESENCE OF SPARSE-CHECKOUTS, WILL LIKELY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE.
Oh the joy of insulation displacement taps...
This all started long ago. There's some statistic that the vast majority of security professionals don't have any credentials. Not even a university degree. That the sole and only way to reliably hire security professionals is to not look at credentials at all.

>I'm seeing job postings requiring 6+ certifications costing 1000's each.

They don't realize that skilled security professionals aren't bothering with any certs. Why would we? Work experience >>> certification, always has been for all IT fields. Certifications are about entry level positions. It's not like security pros are sitting at home unemployed thinking 'if only I had some certification then I'd be employed.' No, there's a ridiculous security pro shortage.

So why do employers list all-of-the-certs? They need people so desperately that they'll take anything.

It's about to get worse as well. The governments who realize a cyberwar is ongoing are all spending big into cybersecurity and building cyber armies. Meanwhile insurance seeing this reality is making the exception of 'nation state attacks'.

Want my advice? Get the certs you think that will develop your personal skills the best. Apply to the jobs ignoring any cert requirements. You'll probably end up getting the job anyway.