skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US we each have a Social Security Number, which is a central government ID. I think that would be sufficient for user assignment

SSN alone shouldnt be sufficient for account creation so you'd probably have to jump through the usual 2-3 forms of ID to get access to your account, but then the email itself could act as another form of ID. Which would be super useful in lots of situations, especially if you lose one of your other forms.

Also there is a lot of digital user verification workaround right now that would be solved by this. I would much rather interact with a government controlled email address than scan and send a copy of my drivers license to online services
This might actually be a great service for fastmail et al to provide: after you import old mailboxes, they should scan them for signup mails and show you a list with to migrate accounts i.e. red marks.

After migrating an account, they know it, as they can scan your mail. Slowly, each red mark on your dashboard gets replaced with a green mark.
In such a framework how would you solve repossession? inheritance? seizure?

How would any state authority be able to handle any case where the person supposed to hold the keys either is unwilling or unable to authorize a transaction that should legally go through?

If I lost the keys (as in the keys to my blockchain wallet) to the NFT for my house should that plot of land just be abandoned forever? If a company gets hacked and their keys for all their assets (or stock) gets deleted should that company just close down forever even though nothing tangible actually changed?

You cannot impose the rules of the blockchain on tangible assets. If your counter argument is to give some institutions the power to rewrite or add unauthorized transactions to the blockchain then you have simply reinvented the state, and lost all of the properties of a blockchain that make them interesting/valuable.
Maybe stamp that on the junk mail, and give it back to the USPS?
I've been burned out before: it sucks. But it is good that you realized that you are lost.

The only thing that helped me with burnouts so far: taking a long break. For example I took 2 weeks off and just biked through the country. I didnt plan anything ahead, I made random decisions on the spot (where to eat, what to do). After a week I started to feel much better.
That's straight-up wrong. Home ownership rates in Canada are actually really high, 68.55% so more than 2/3 of Canadians own their own homes.

[edit] In fact Surrey, while not Vancouver proper, comes in at the #4 spot for the highest percentage of millennials who own their homes. [1]

[1] https://edisonfinancial.ca/millennial-home-ownership-canada/
can you say more about how you detect instinct?
I've never heard law enforcement ever be promoted as a method of resolving crypto issues. One of the talking points about crypto, especially with the tech-libertarians, was that no centralized authority could seize or freeze your funds. Complaining that someone exploited a "code is law" flaw and then running to the police exposes the whole thing.
But it's cryptocoin, so you can automatically make wallets and automatically transfer money to them rather easily.

Just a python script to avoid that artificial inefficiency entirely.
I managed to wake up earlier by ensuring that I got 15-30 minutes of bright light exposure immediately upon waking. Sunlight is ideal, but I'm in the PNW and it was winter at the time, so that wasn't an option for me. Instead, I bought a sun lamp on Amazon. The particular model is no longer available, but it was a 10,000 lux lamp that I placed right below my monitor. The incredible thing is that it took less than a week before I was waking up before 6am without the use of an alarm clock.

I learned of this from the Huberman Lab Podcast, specifically the part where he touches on advancing your biological clock here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1TxQj9IsQ&t=3339s
I can't take any hobbyist game engine that doesn't implement multiplayer out of the box seriously. It's so stupid. QuakeWorld had it in 1999, and because game devs are too afraid of networking, you get a bunch of people saying "Oh, it's too hard," or "Yeah, but your networking model is dependent on what game you're shipping."

No you dunces, you will always need to serialize something. You will always need some semblance of tickrate, or at least you will always need game events. The more simple features game engine developers don't write increase the risk for users who will inevitably not implement them themselves.
How do those banlists work? If they send a bunch of coins to innocent wallets, are those now completely tainted or are people tracking what percentage of coins in each wallet are "legitimate"?
1. Is this meant to compete in some way with PodcastIndex.org or to complement it? PodcastIndex.org is part of the Podcasting 2.0 initiative. Also part of it, which would help a podcast search engine, are the extended podcast namespace tags which include the person tag (who all is on a given episode), transcript tag (a link to where a text transcript of the podcast is), and much, much more. I like the idea of the Podcast Search Engine but I don't know if it's leveraging all of the rich data that is available through PodcastIndex.org

2. I did a search on "Adam Curry" (aka "The Podfather" who, along with Dave Winer, invented podcasting) and the results are nowhere close to showing all of the podcast episodes in which Adam has appeared in the last few months.
From the article:

> Others were encouraged to deposit cryptocurrencies such as ether into a “silo” to build up the stablecoin’s reserves in exchange for voting rights over the operation of the organisation.

I’m not sure exactly what their reserves consisted of, but it could be mostly ether and similarly liquid currencies, rather than random ones. It sounds like the thing they stole was their non-random-currencies reserves that were supposed to be able to maintain the peg.
Company Contributions to Open Source
You mention same city. That could be part of the issue, if the ISP's connection to other cities is where the congestion is. I live in the middle of nowhere relatively speaking, so all my Internet traffic is non-local, and the same at my friends' and neighbors' houses.
That's the point. It's not automatically broken just because someone doesn't like it, especially if it was perfectly allowed by the code.

That's people who lost the money can say. They call it attack, so I guess they have some grounds. And then the court decides who is right.
I think that is the point. Kill them sooner. I cannot imagine anyone charging at a gas station unless they are desperate.
Not even embezzlement. Everyone put skin in the game only on the condition that the stipulations laid out in the contracts were followed. One of the stipulations was that people with more money get the most say on what to do with all the money. This was an explicit stipulation, and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would agree to put in their resources in under such conditions, but they did.

Looking at the Terms and Conditions as well as the contract, this goes under "A fool and her money". There was no embezzlement at all, this contract literally said people with more money can potentially vote to take all the money. Which is madness, but people agreed to it.
How many people got a chance to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2020? As I recall the Democratic primaries were ... "abbreviated" to put it politely. I've seen the phrase "Obama's Night of Long Knives" used to describe that show.
Airmash Reborn
These are amateurs, you supposed to buy your own NFT for fks sake...

"Analyzing the Very Bizarre Sale of Melania Trump’s $170,000 NFT"

"The crypto used to purchase the former first lady’s NFT came from the NFT creator themselves, blockchain records reveal."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vpx8/analyzing-the-very-bi...
I think we’re actually in agreement here, then: a program deployed on a decentralized network has too many shortcomings to be used in lieu of a legal system, and also, its exploited vulnerabilities can’t be subject to existing laws.

My main objection is calling it law: if you’re scammed while purchasing illicit substances on a darknet marketplace, you have no legal recourse, but the marketplace’s rules can’t be called “law”, either.
Where Linux's load average comes from in the kernel
TurboTax asked me about 4 times to spend money on their 'upgraded' service, which is why this will be the last year I use TurboTax.
That was sort of hyperbole, but the question stands :)
Some more nuance, is that not every home will have a garage or even off-street parking. So even if you own your apartment, you may still be out of luck for charging where you live.

That issue will only get worse as housing gets denser, so some kind of publicly accessible charging will be necessary. Maybe that means apartment blocks, units and townhouses start putting in outlets near the street, but I can see that getting really tricky. For street parking you have the vandalism aspect, which is kind-of working for corporations who can stomach the cost, but I doubt it would fly for landlords.
Moreover, Kukkee is built to be self-hosted. Hence, you won't have to worry about sharing any private info.
I don't think the weather is a good analogy, at least if you're just referring to the unpredictability that comes from chaos. That the weather is unpredictable (when projecting out a few multiples of the relevant Lyapunov time) is an unavoidable consequence of chaos. Indeed, if you could hypothetically run a full atomic-level quantum simulations, the wavefunction would contain different branches where different weather events happened; there is literally quantum uncertainty in the outcome, even if we had a complete theoretical description and understanding of the different outcomes.

In contrast, the situation with a Hall effect thrust is that we cannot explain a repeatable effect. And that could change with better theoretical understanding. It's in that sense that Hall effect thrusters are "not understood", which I think is a reasonable thing to call it.

(And if you are talking about some aspect of the weather that, unlike the chaotic aspects, is empirically repeatable but not predictable from our models, then I think it would be fair to characterize that as not understood too!)
sudo = "s.u. do"
sysctl = "sys control"
That would not respect the GDPR law. The point is to require consent. And as an user you should be annoyed and seek websites that respect you better.

> Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, such as by a written statement, including by electronic means, or an oral statement. This could include ticking a box when visiting an internet website, choosing technical settings for information society services or another statement or conduct which clearly indicates in this context the data subject's acceptance of the proposed processing of his or her personal data. Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent. Consent should cover all processing activities carried out for the same purpose or purposes. When the processing has multiple purposes, consent should be given for all of them. If the data subject's consent is to be given following a request by electronic means, the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service for which it is provided.
A thing I learned in a random puzzle quest that stuck with me is that much of the PNW makes up North America's largest rainforest. We associate the term rainforest primarily with Tropical Rainforests and especially the Amazon Forest in South America, but the Pacific Northwest has and is a rainforest. Rainforests themselves are named that not for volume of rain that they have, but the consistent feeling of rain that they have. The forest itself helps build and maintain that constant "misting" water cycle that gives the feeling that it is consistently raining/has just rained/will still be raining for months at a time. That's an important part of the ecodiversity of the region, so it makes sense that it also becomes an important part of the human culture of the region (that reputation that "Seattle is always raining" despite having less rainfall than many other major US cities by volume and other metrics). But yeah, its always raining in the manner of a rainforest, not the manner of a squall or rainstorm.
Highlights from Git 2.36
"This is not a rabble of mindless interfaces. These are uruk-hai. Their scans are deep, and their firewalls broad."
Urgh, yes, that's so annoying. Skynet drones won't pepper the ground behind the hero with bullets while flying low and slow, they'll land every shot on target in milliseconds, before any human even sensed there was a threat. And they won't have a standards-compliant USB port to take over control either.

The only real question is whether the machines think one bullet to the head is most efficient use of resources, one bullet per organ, or an equivalent mass of non-depleted (they don't care about radiation, the biosphere is not their problem) uranium to the target biomass.
> It's not any different from, say, reading a website whose server software is unreleased, but whose client-side JS is all Free Software.

I think that an important difference here is that there are FOSS Web servers that are compatible with your browser, but there's no FOSS servers compatible with your Snap client.

> Epic Games is still pushing their lawsuit from the perspective of a proprietary software vendor, just one that's willing to go rogue.

I agree that Epic is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, but that doesn't make what they want wrong.

> My point is that if you are extremely opposed to proprietary software in any form and for any reason whatsoever, then Apple's argument against sideloading is actually more reasonable, because it's the enemy eating itself.

I still don't see how, since the ban on sideloading affects FOSS apps too. Remember the old issue with VLC in the App Store?

> The whole owner override thing I mentioned above took a lot of time and effort, just so they could boil the secure boot frog less. It would have been far easier for them to just say "no, we're only allowing macOS to live in EL2".

If they didn't do the owner override thing originally, then a lot of people might have jumped ship and forced them to backtrack. By taking the approach they did, they'll later say something like "look, our telemetry says 95% of Macs still have SIP enabled, so now we're going to make it mandatory".

> The part that actually checks to make sure the code you're running was owner-signed needs to be both immutable from the perspective of malware and updatable in case of security bugs.

> The only complaint I have about the way Apple did this is that they really should Free their boot chain code and have verifiable builds for it.

But those requirements are fundamentally incompatible with freedom. I'd rather not have that sort of "security". And your complaint doesn't address the tivoization problem at all.
On the street, or shared parking lots, or yes indeed, not at all. Try organizing an on-the-sidewalk charging station for your unit block, even if you own your unit, you've got to convince your strata/hoa to plan, consult councils, build and maintain it.

Then who pays for the electricity? At the moment at least, you're pretty likely to be the only one with an EV, so either everyone is paying strata fees to charge your car for you, or you're in some boutique agreement outside the strata and they put in a meter just for you, or you've payed for the whole thing on your own. Forget it entirely if you're renting.
I've usually parked my car on the street while renting, I just make sure that this is possible in neighborhoods that I've chosen to rent. Because of this I've never purchased an EV.
It's not hard to set in delays yourself if you want them.

You're missing the point though: these defi systems are mostly scams right out of the gate. They're designed to be exploitable by their creators.

They're also designed so that the exploits are plausibly denyable-- so while we can look at the long long list of anonymous created defi ponzis that vanish with everyone's funds via similar attacks we can conclude that many were intentionally designed that way-- attributing it for any specific one is challenging.
I remember being taught pair programming in school and thinking "This is awful". I just can't see how it's supposed to actually work.

Rubbing ducking works, but only has a debugging measure. Explaining what your code is actually doing on a line-by-line basis can sus out the root cause of a bug.

I suppose that's the only time pair programming could work for me; by explaining what each line of code does, another programmer could stop me and tell me "No, that's not right".
> And if they refuse my offer... well, it's way easier to argue "I have given them the referendum, they are not taking it". Right now, Catalans have the easy "freedom" argument.

This would change nothing. And they would never do a referendum on those terms. The whole thing, politically, is not meant to actually go through.
The article says that FBI was contacted by founders of the project. So maybe it's the first case when police was involved in a crypto fraud?
I think it’s pretty clear that sophisticated societies existed long before recorded history. They may not have had the tools of working with metal, but they definitely had sophisticated philosophical views and moral frameworks. I would bet this goes back even 30-50 thousand years. This idea that humanity sprang up out of nothing in Sumerian/Babylon is very contrived. There was an ice age ten thousand years ago, the cessation of which caused the floods, which destroyed large swaths of human “civilization”
You mention recess time. I live in Helsinki and the school system here aggressively gets kids outside for regular playtime in any weather. There should be data here for further investigations of root causes.
"it doesn't handle bigger graphs well."

I'd like to hear more, I used it for a prototype several years ago and was quite impressed with the query language but also performance.
Thanks, I think this is great! I've often wondered if the "great flood" myths and the legend of Atlantis have any factual basis carried on in oral history. The Zanclean flood stretches credulity beyond reason (as fun as it is to think about a story passed down from the first Hominins), but this event happened recently enough to ponder links to mythology... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessair
Any ethical qualms I had disappeared when my browser was hijacked by a malicious ad that made it into a major ad network when I was browsing nytimes.

Now adblocking is simply a matter of security.
Start talking to your team/management and plan for a longer break asap. Try to be required as less as possible.

Do nothing work-related for a while ( as much as possible), so you don't feel stressed.

Counter point of view: if one of your devs had this, what would you want them to do? Is your position to that transferable to your upper management?

Good luck man. Had it too and kept working.

What happened to me: After work i went straight to bed and back up to work ( i seriously reduced after work requirements, which was okayish to do since i mostly plan for being able to take a break). Took 2-3 months since i didn't want to go off my full-time work, as the overload happened in combination after hours...

Fyi, going straight to bed was the first 2 weeks and then it slowly improved. "Broke" after deadlines and where the 2 words went in serious overdrive for a while due to unforeseen circumstances ( 19 hours/day for 4-5 months).
This isn’t happening and it’s not the purpose.

“Unbanked” is an imaginary word. If a person is “unbanked”, it’s likely that they are also “uninternetted” and/or “uncomputered.”
Naive question, but aren’t we talking about installing an electrical outlet essentially? Some of these options look like they plug into a wall:

https://www.amazon.com/MUSTART-Portable-Charger-Electric-Cha...

Bare minimum the apartment building can work to install wall outlets in the garage, or very long extension cords.

Video:
https://www.amazon.com/vdp/006d5bc8225646d086bb5afa191e52d8?...

That’s not asking for a lot from a building.
I agree, but DC fast charging is mandatory for road trips, and a necessary shim until work, home, and apartment charging infra gets scaled out (a friend has a Tesla but no home charging, they charge at the grocery store once per week, for example).

Colocate level 2 chargers (~10-15kw) where cars dwell for hours at a time, put Fast DC chargers where people need to eat or use a bathroom. Even a 120v outlet would be fine for use cases like long term parking at an airport, which fully charges an EV in ~4-5 days.
"For example they may live in an apartment building whose strata council refuses to install chargers in the garage,"

True, but then why fine these gas stations? It would make more sense to fine landlords for not providing charging infrastructure under some circumstances (on request, or above some unit number, or even just free market of renters being willing to pay more for a rental with charging infrastructure).

"or they may live in somebody's basement suite and not have access to a garage at all."

True, I was thinking of the public chargers for this as they are likely street parking.

"I'd rather charge my car at a cafe, though."

I agree.
No, it was expected that people with more skin in could decide to take any action they liked. Including, "take $182 million in reserves easily with a flash loan".
No kudos but curses.

A thousand curses on them. A disgusting fish, a disgusting software and a disgusting developer.

This is something that hurts people. Do not celebrate it.
This is interesting as I would have assumed that formats like SVG are "lossless" and wouldn't suffer from generation loss [0], but I hadn't considered that internally software might round some numbers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss
Startup trends to not look for in 2030
According to my server, I am the owner of that image, not that other guy.

That's all there is to it.

Someone set up a server which allowed people to upload images and "claim property", then they put some high-level fake purchases, and played on a lot of guys' gullygreedity. If the server is gone tomorrow, then the blockchain will "remember" that there was something there, but when you try to see it you will just get a 404.
"BTC will eventually crush dollars" and "BTC is not volatile because 1BTC = 1BTC" are very different claims. Even a bitcoin maximalist should recognize that the value of BTC when trading for good and services has swung dramatically over time. Maybe that will happen less over time but the volatility of BTC w.r.t. USD is an important thing to consider and discuss when talking about its use as currency.
Is this perhaps just a file system formatting issue? Disk Utility (there is no Disk Inspector) should tell you how they have been formatted. You mentioned reading from them. Can you erase them? Tried different cables?