skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you assume lack of android/ios devices means lack of computers. I would 100% help a kid build a desktop computer and maybe give them a linux tablet. App culture, which revolves around the major smartphone platforms, is where the addictive data harvesting apps come from, many of which refuse to run on anything but ios/android specifically because they are far more limited in data harvesting in a web browser where one can install privacy plugins.

A kid can use Freetube on a laptop or tablet for instance with no need for a Google account, and without targeting or ads.
we have a business in rental space and decided to go for b2b2c distribution. We're partnering with agents and landlords who are offering our product to tenants.
Not all mics are like this. I have a Corsair gaming headset which has a hardware mute button. I frequently set it on mute when I'm munching on something, forget to unmute, and despite videoconferencing software and the OS thinking the Mic is unmuted, no signal is detected.
When we migrated away from JIRA, we scripted it such that the JIRA issue numbers were recorded in the newly migrated issues exactly because of things like this.
the problem is that sometimes that gun looks like a taser.
> “Most of these pictures were probably lit very carefully with high quality lights, or else were taken in bright daylight [...] hundreds of dollars worth of software was used to edit [...] analogous to the videos of fake hamburgers”

You don’t have to speculate. Most of the photographers directly tell you how these were set up:

> love going on early morning walks with my iPhone 13 Pro. The ‘golden hour’ brings the best out of nature

> I’ve used a spot studio light on the lily with a dark background.

> This one instance was during the sliver of golden hour when the sun is shining directly into my window, illuminating all of the tiny cells in each leaf.

> I used two items that I found in my kitchen fridge: a strawberry and a can of soda. I placed a clear vase on my kitchen counter, poured the soda into the vase, and used a piece of black paper as the background. I then dropped the strawberry in the vase of soda and waited. Slowly, bubbles began to form on the surface of the strawberry, and its texture was completely transformed.

> This image was taken along the edge of Riverside Park in Manhattan while on a morning walk with our puppy this winter.

> This tiny, shimmering liquid jewel is delicately nestled at the base of a leaf after a tropical storm, almost imperceptible to the human eye.

> The photo was taken when my 3-year-old son discovered the blossom of the tulip at home. I then appreciated the flower with my son and took out my iPhone, trying to capture the moment when the sun kissed the flower, which created a perfect shadow at the petals. As I moved my iPhone closer to the flower, it automatically turned on macro mode,

It is entirely possible for someone on a tight budget to make their own studio-like lighting, and there are good photo editing tools available for free. Saying «don’t bother to be inspired by these lovely smartphone photos because some professionals spend thousands of dollars on lighting and Photoshop» is lazy cynical negativity in the extreme. And «people who win photography contests are typically more careful tool users than an average person with no experience» is hardly a deep insight.
It's funny, my wife has literally zero interest in learning computer programming in any way. I found that a bit odd, as I'd like to at least learn enough about anything she spends more than, say, 20 hours a week doing so that I can nod in the right places when she complains. Talking with my friend group, nobody found it even the slightest bit odd.

You say your wife has no interest in cooking and everybody loses their mind. Doubly ironic because I would wager on HN, people are probably better programmers than cooks, on average.
It's often the little things that determine the course of a relationship. For example, I took my bike into a shop I hadn't used before. They fixed the back tire, but failed to place the cap on the tube. I may seem like a little thing, but stems leak a bit, so it's important. I'm never going back to them.
Cuba can have their national autonomy, but other countries have no particular obligation to trade with them.

The primary "crime" which originally led to the imposition of sanctions on Cuba was that they nationalized assets owned by US entities without paying compensation. Now you could perhaps make a case that the Cuban government had a moral right to do that, but regardless of who was right of wrong it was certainly contrary to US interests. We don't want to set a precedent for allowing countries to get away with stealing US assets.
Shoutout to gathertown. Love what you’re doing.
Hay-on-Wye, tangentially mentioned in the article, is worthy of a long read of its own.
End-to-End encryption for group video and audio is now supported. I'm not sure it works or who is supporting besides Signal, but it is apparently not not required that the conference provider decrypt the streams to mix them.

https://mashable.com/article/signal-end-to-end-encrypted-gro...
> I hold that Bitcoin is not the cause of the scams.

I wish I could agree, as someone who remains eternally hopeful for crypto. Unfortunately, it's almost certainly not the case.

When half a billion dollars goes missing from the US banking system, we can follow the paper trail every time. Criminals never cash out at that scale, especially when they wire money digitally. There's always an account to find, a wire transfer to track, or another bank to contact. The centralization is their saving grace against these scams. When half a billion dollars goes missing from a DAO or someone's cold wallet, they're fucked. Those coins get tumbled and are almost certainly never seen again. The bad guys win every time, which makes it highly unattractive for any investment at scale.

Which raises the ultimatum of Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency as a whole: to hold, or not to hold? That is the question. Custody is the bottom line here, and there's no easy answer. The public will always prefer to have someone else manage their account, which removes their agency and increases the capability of private parties debasing the asset. The higher the demand, the further the centralization progresses. Unfortunately, that demand is nearly unlimited and the benefits of managing your own wallet are slim compared to the work and upfront knowledge it requires.

> It would reduce governments' ability to deficit spend, thus reduce the likelihood of financing armies that can be used for aggression... It would not eliminate wars entirely, but would make financing them very difficult.

This is completely false. There is not a single first-world country that would base the value of their currency on crypto, and having cryptocurrency exist as an independent fiat makes it extraordinarily easy to fund combat. Terrorist organizations could accept donations via untraceable coins and cash out anonymously. Extremist sects could fund themselves privately without scrutiny. Even in your idyllic example, it would only embolden countries like Russia to pillage their neighbors since they don't need to worry about the consequences of financial sanctions, being cut off from the world's banking system, or even worrying about the value of their own currency.

If anything, the world embracing crypto all at once would escalate the financing of combat to unconscionable heights.
Calif. lawyer resigns “in protest” of Newsom's “interference” in Activision case
This sounds plausible but I can't search Finnish enough to find examples.
Indeed! As far as I recall, the use of error correcting codes were explored in the context of digital watermarking at least since the ECRYPT - European Network of Excellence in Cryptology – in the early 2000s. However many notions of steganography have been broken ever since. Now we have Meteor which proposes a notion of steganography which is provably secure. And, although we know that what is provably secure is probably not, I was wondering whether this newer notion can incorporate some form of ECCs. Food for thought!
It's only a matter of time until the technological singularity

> The WM
of a self-referential NN, however, can keep rapidly
modifying all of itself during runtime. In principle, such NNs can meta-learn to learn, and metameta-learn to meta-learn to learn, and so on, in the
sense of recursive self-improvement.

Everyone who doubts is hanging everything on "in principle" being too hard. Seems ridiculous to me, a failure of imagination.
You can use a protocol that doesn't allow for a centralized coordinator with insight into the coin paths, like samourai whirlpool. It could potentially be logging ip's but can be accessed through vpn/tor
Keep in mind that Carnot efficiency at this temperature is nearly 90%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle

1 - Tc/Th = 1 - 295k/2000k
If you do end up posting any sort of musings on this topic, I'd be really interested in taking a look.
People will always choose convenience over security
The concern regarding the underlying crypto being broken unexpectedly is probably covered by the fact that if encryption of that level of adoption and trust was broken, Bitcoin breaking would be the least of the internet's issues.

For expected deprecations as technology progresses, it should be relatively easy to change algorithms and then fork the blockchain onto the new system, simultaneously phasing out the current one.
Google Meet certainly stays on, but does not try to pretend it doesn't. Feature, not a bug. And this is google, who you know has no compunctions about data collection. The microphone volume icon continues to show movement based on noise from your microphone and it will even prompt you if it thinks you're speaking to unmute yourself.
That first link is a redirect spiral through multiple interstitial ads. Enjoyed the rest of the comment though!
The reason this is this way, is simple: the people that have made the decisions, and been listened to, leading up to it being here, are still the people that are going to make decisions coming out of here.

They are the same managers and directors and investors and stakeholders and analysts and inter-team communicators and c-level whatever the heck they are. These people do not make decisions for the people that work for them. They just don’t. Xcode is a massive, barely functioning development environment that has a tremendous amount of incredibly talented and bright people working on it, who are purposefully told not to make things better for the sake of the time being pushed on other more important things.

Those important things are usually fixing small errors in high value enterprise relationships. Ew.

Sometimes it’s high visibility features To can be marketed to bring in a new generation of people writing software for their platform to bilk more fees from.

Under no circumstance should you ever operate under the assumption that the Apple Inc. group of owners legitimately are worried about the lack of engineering reasonability apply to their product.

This will be the way things work in the technology sphere of influence forever, until such time that the finances that are brought in from these products of development are not the only driving metric towards success or failure of a company or its role in society.
> But I do know you can travel to NK and see for yourself.

No you cannot. You'll be chaperoned everywhere and only shown things they want you to see.
An interview with a DPRK defector about this: https://unchainedpodcast.com/yeonmi-park-on-why-doing-busine...
Last year his original 2016 blog post was mentioned as well https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/parenting/marriage-invisi...
>programmatic public chains that are inexpensive to run

If you consider gas fees as a cost for running the chain, they absolutely are not inexpensive to run. They may well be the most expensive ledger on earth. Writing the numbers down on-per-page in a book made of gold leaf would probably be cheaper.
What point are you trying to make? The invasion of Cuba was idiotic, I agree. It has nothing to do with our foreign policy afterwards, which is not subject to rules about fairness.
Certainly! The front page and popular places like r/pics are the mainstream.
I think they're talking about something like this:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/22/22945975/rondo-energy-dec...

Basically, in their words, "a large insulated shoebox full of brick". And I could be wrong, but I think you should be able to scale the amount of "brick" up to whatever size and keep the insulation the same thickness, so the storage capacity would increase by the cube of the scale and the amount of insulation would only increase by the square of the scale.

That would allow you to minimize the fluctuation in temperature - i.e. if it takes 10 days to get up to temperature, because it's big, you don't have to cool it all the way back to room temperature when you take an afternoon worth of energy back out.
Free software has zero acquisition cost, but non-zero TCO, which can measure in millions USD (recurring salary of dedicated IT team), depending on the size of organization and complexity of the setup.
You will need to maintain on-premise infrastructure, automate backups and recovery, automate security, automate updates (including testing and rollbacks) etc etc, basically doing all the jobs of the people responsible for the infrastructure at the SaaS provider, but at much smaller scale and not achieving the same efficiency. You will have to do those jobs considerably better to justify the costs.
had not heard of "abdominal decompression". Seems like a great idea, "shouldn't hurt" at the least; and an argument for sou vide exowombs as soon as possible.

I wonder if the "enlargement pump" pushers will step in and assist with the research... "Make your offspring 30% larger!"
> I believe their primary crime is being a country in close proximity to the USA, that is unfriendly to US interests, and at least once offered the USSR, a then enemy of the US, to host nuclear ICBMs on their territory so they could more easily target Americans.

You do understand that if this is the bar under which nations can take drastic actions (up to and including fiascos like Bay of Pigs and assassination attempts), US criticism of the adventurism of others (e.g., Ukraine) has to be much more measured. For instance, it is fine to violate the sovereignty of nations, just maybe in a more limited way, etc.

How many countries on earth, do you think, had hostile foreign arms on their soil (e.g., the US) within the past 60 years that their neighbors might find threatening?
> Plus, if the point of switching is to appreciate the labor of the other person, then outsourcing defeats the purpose.

Locating, finding, and managing interaction with appropriate help is labor, too.

And it's often a better way of getting the job done, even if the immediately obvious monetary cost is higher.
This is amazing - thank you for sharing!
This is a fascinating question, I'd imagine many other people smarter than me have thought about it. Specifically in the domain of the visual arts.
Agreed but the point is made more than once and in plain terms that the glass was not the problem it was an indication of a behavioral issue that went unrecognized until it was too late for self reflection to make a difference.

It's not a great article in the surface but the message has merit.
I presume they get the best volume rate, and then whatever the difference is between that and your volume rate is they keep.
They focus on payment information as those are the most serious crimes and would provide the harshest sentence. Trading hacked emails does not carry the same weight as trading hacked credit card details.
That seems very neutral to me? I'm struggling to think of a term that's not worse ("allowance") or less accurate.

[EDIT] It just means money that's expected to be spent, but not budgeted specifically for anything, and is largely put to personal discretion without any kind of accounting expectation—no? Some phrase using "discretionary" might also work, but that one seems too technical or formal.
How do you know the tor exit nodes and/or VPN aren't being ran by your authoritarian government?
This is so typical soviet/communists lie, I can't believe, exists educated Western people who don't understand, how huge this lie.

- Term "wellness" is so highly depend on context, that it will mean anything, what decide judge.
- Depend on point of look, for wellness could decide to give somebody food/water or to kill him, so he will not agonize.

On what I must agree, this classic totalitarian legislation, will have extremely long tail of consequences.

For example, judge could decide, that for abstract wellness, bank algorithm should not account fees on officials accounts (including their relatives), or they could decide, that for officials accounts, 2*2=5.
Offa’s Dyke goes through my hometown.

Devil’s Pulpit is a great spot on the path, you get a great view of Tintern Abbey, near the start of the walk. https://www.visitdeanwye.co.uk/things-to-do/devils-pulpit-p1...
Almost all of us that get to 50 have a life lesson like that that boils down to "Optimize for the people involved, not the machines and systems."
As an aside, it is interesting to see Go officially refer to them as generics. For the longest time Pike was overly pedantic about it being parametric polymorphism, not generics.
Not to mention the feature of notifying a user they are muted if it sounds like they're trying to talk.
Then why mute yourself?

Even more interesting: Why do you prefer to sign over video instead of typing? Are there forms of expression that are more natural that way?
Since whataboutism is so hugely popular in threads involving Russia, let's talk about the nuclear SRBM dispenser formerly known as Kaliningrad Oblast located between Poland and Lithuania (that's in Central Europe). Kinda makes those American gravity nukes stationed in West Germany look old-fashioned.
> - there are user accounts with Administrator rights, which can do "anything" (can be slightly limited by the above two)

Not technically. Windows permissions follow a "capability" model more than a "user" model. In the Linux user model a user account is always "just one thing". In a "capability" model the user may request different capabilities at different times (based on different needs).

Even in the bad pre-UAC days users didn't have Administrator rights "at all times" in the sense of an Admin account (or group) in the Unix/Posix model, they'd request the capabilities as they needed them and the system would grant them as it saw fit, which was usually just automatic and invisible. The tokens for admin and non-admin stuff were "always" different in Windows. UAC just finally changed it from an "auto-grant" to a "user consents to the grant". UAC wasn't bolted on to the security model of Windows NT, it intercepted token flows that already existed and removed the "automatic" nature of them. (That's why the UAC transition hurt so much at first, especially in Vista, not that it was "bolted" on, but that a lot of software had been built around presumptions about these "automatic" token flows and assumed they were cheap/easy so over-requested them rather than requesting them as rarely or as specifically as truly necessary.)

> Home users got into the habit of only using one user account with admin credentials. It's convenient, but effectively running everything as root.

Not in the Linux sense, no. A home user account isn't "effectively running everything as root". UAC is like sudo in that it acquires a separate user token for subsequent actions. Details about the account may be similar (because of the capability model, the "account" is the same, but the capabilities differ), but they are "distinct" accounts in the Posix reasoning of name+capability.

Large companies that disable UAC and require separate "Admin" accounts are over-reacting/over-correcting, often because they are expecting the Linux/Posix model or because their tools were. UAC is a sudo-like tool: the user tokens are very different on the other side of the UAC fence. Requiring a "physically" separate account is security theater and not very different from just changing UAC from Yes/No flows to "Require Password" flows (unless your auditing tools are bad at their jobs and coalesce tokens with different capabilities based on things like username due to presumptions from Posix systems). It's silly to manage twice as many accounts when you can just make UAC stricter and require passwords. (And also Microsoft's several decades of research show that "Require Password" flows are themselves security theater, people don't actually think longer about UAC prompts if they have to type their password in more often, it just trains them to type their password in more often, which makes it easier to phish their passwords.)
Why write Lexical over using something like ProseMirror or CodeMirror 6? Not being snarky, just curious.
No issue with your main point, but "pursuing nuclear weapons" is such a strange and revealing phrase. North Korea has nuclear weapons. They've had nuclear weapons for at least 16 years (probably over 20). The last best chance to roll back their nuclear program was in the mid-aughts, and it didn't work.

Lots of good and useful steps we could pursue to reduce tensions and make an accidental nuclear war on the Korean peninsula less likely, even with a regime as awful as the one in Pyongyang. But being a superpower means never needing to admit we've lost at something, I guess.
The main lesson of the story is not that he was using crypto, but that he was conscientiously trying to enrich himself by conducting illegal activities with a sanctioned dictatorship.

Personally, if he’s being this blunt about his intentions, then it shouldn’t be a surprise that his actions landed him consequences.
What's unfortunate is that I can literally emphasize the words on average and use words like generally and still get the accusation that boils down to, "but not everyone is like that."

If you think my opinion is useless, the most likely reason is because you have little to no experience with the topic. Are you in your 40s? How many 47 year old women have you dated?
He's like the BTC of Chess players?
Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor
I think some fields have certain canonical methods which are often impractical, but foundational. And the "real" methods used in practice can, with work, be seen as an approximation or limit in some case. Understanding that perspective is useful in being able to reason about the trade-offs of different approaches.

In cryptography, the equivalent is the one-time pad. It has trade-offs which make it unavailable for many uses, but by some measures it is literally perfect and the only thing which can be perfect.
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Beyond trivial scale, you need good processes so that individuals can do their jobs. If you have no processes, change and development becomes extremely difficult because people will be hunting for documentation all the time, stepping on each other's toes, and making mistakes that they should not be making because they forgot a trivial procedure that was a prerequisite to solving their actual problem.

I work with a variety of different environments, and depending on the environment I can either solve my problem in minutes and get it deployed in another few minutes or solve the problem in minutes and spend hours figuring out how to safely deploy it without breaking everything. JIRA is terrible if you do anything that it offers by default, but when used properly it can absolutely help with this.