skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't consider email a reliable/robust official notification mechanism. People have various emails, may or may not check a given email address, stuff gets filtered to spam, etc. It's almost certainly more trustworthy than it was a number of years back but if you want to send me an important notification, I want it to be first class mail.
Wouldn't imposing interoperability be the opposite of stifling innovation? It's forcing companies to allow others to innovate as well, as they'll actually have a chance of breaking into the market of the dominant player. If Twitter can (and will) act without interoperability, they can shutdown anyone who tries to interop, stifling innovation in the space at large, while if they are forced to allow interoperability, other players can also enter the market.
There might be some use of the mechanism one day, but almost everything that is being 'traded' now is Monopoly properies for people who use monopoly money
I'm not the OP, but this from the Matt Levine newsletter last week, which I think is what he is getting at:

> 1. If you hold your coins at a regulated exchange, sure yeah the authorities can probably get a warrant and seize your Bitcoins.

> 2. If you hold your coins in your own wallet but you write down your private key in, like, your phone’s notes app, and it backs up to the cloud, then the authorities can probably get your cloud provider to give them access to your notes and read the key and use that to seize all your Bitcoins. (This happened to the alleged Bitfinex hack launderers.)

> 3. If you write your private key on a scrap of paper, the authorities can search your house until they find it and seize all your Bitcoins.

> 4. If you memorize your private key, or just write it down somewhere really safe, then they can arrest you and throw you in jail until you tell them what it is, and then seize all your Bitcoins.
The server will be gone some day, but it doesn't matter, because the image hosted there is easily copied and freely available many other places. Nothing was ever gained in the first place by having it hosted on the server mentioned by the NFT, and nothing is lost if it's not there anymore. The NFT never contained any value or rights.
> A French town where the lighting is alive

The title of this submission reads like a Doctor Who story synopsis.
Not exactly, the generations have been renamed, so the first two are called USB 3.2 Gen 1x1 and USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 respectively. There is no such thing as USB 3.2 Gen 2.

But yes, they should have just had the version determine the gen, so a 3.0 port is always gen 1, a 3.1 port is always gen 2, and a 3.2 port is always gen 2x2. Or alternatively, skipped the version increment and marketed the new protocol as "USB 3 Gen 2", with no minor version. But now we have devices with "USB 3.1" printed on them even though they can only do 5 Gb/s.
Either way the enormous waste of electricity on ethereum blockchains ends, so that doesn't seem like that bad a problem to me.
> From that point of view it makes a lot of sense

From the point of view of the millions of people who have to use the damn things and probably aren't even aware the name comes from a spec doc somewhere, or even what a spec is, it makes absolutely no sense and the fact that the people who wrote the spec didn't make some effort to account for this means they failed badly.
I don’t get it. Even publicly traded companies try to zero out end of year profits via reinvestment and salary bonuses. If you did not then you accumulate unused cash which if you decide to pay out to employees later gets double taxed.

But in any case Uber’s industries are still highly competitive (ride sharing and food delivery), so there are plenty of ways for them to reinvest profits rather than accumulate a war chest like a company like Apple (which also was able to do partly because of a tax haven country).

Plus if Uber didn’t reinvest profits their hundreds of competitors would do that and get an edge, many of which are smaller private startups
If Sotheby’s put a Picasso on the market and the bids were less than 1 percent of the asking price, many would say, wtf is going on.
Bitcoin is attempting to BE value better than fiat.

There is a possibility that we eventually achieve a bitcoin circular economy. In such a scenario, Bitcoin does not go up or down against fiat because there will be no demand for fiat.
And partially replaced by a new product, Sapiens™, which includes some of the same features but not all of them.
I think the main advantage of this is that spammers remove a number that has Google Screen replying. When I got a first phone with this feature the number of calls dropped from several a day to a couple a week.

The ability to filter per se is quite bad. The calls it decides to screen itself pass through 100% i.e. it listens to an extended warranty call or 5 star hotel call and then rings through as if it's a legitimate call. It's worth noting that only a small fraction of calls go to screen automatically, most just ring and I have to press screen button myself.
In the interest of starting a proper flamewar, I propose that we also discuss the pronunciation of 'sudo' and 'sysctl'.
Standard of living, living wages, and employee satisfaction are among the most frequently measured and calculated statistics of our time. I’m not your research assistant.
You lost purchasing power...
I deliberately sidestepped that whole can of worms by pointing out that it's combat presence that matters, regardless of the cause. The relevant difference is how many of them are wearing a uniform.

I would not be more outraged if the Taliban killed an armed American servicewoman than a serviceman. If you would, then that's your opinion, but you should stand by it instead of attributing it to me.
That’s an unfair mischaracterization and generalization, considering that very often those “rants” are often filled with genuine analysis, criticism, comparisons.

Or, in specific cases, such as OOP criticism, with very vocal disclaimers that his view deviates from the mainstream. Are those people not entitled to an opinion?

The last time one of those happened publicly, Casey was able to provide a proof of concept in a very short timeframe, despite claims that it was impractical and borderline impossible to fix.
Also some part of tax avoidance requires real deals. That is keeping valuations of artists works high so that other works already owned have "realistic" market value for tax reasons. Unless entire supply is owned by same group. If not they have to pay money for any pieces that enter to market that they don't own.
Well, it may stifle innovation in the protocol, while encouraging innovation in the implementation and/or use. In my book, that's a net win.

Why? There's less room for innovation in the protocol. Take TCP, for instance. Could it be improved? Probably. But how much gain are you going to get by innovating there? On the other hand, how much was enabled, on both ends of the wire, by everything standardizing on TCP? Far, far more than we could ever get by a "better TCP".
Looking at a map, I would call it either north or north-east Spain. I would not call it the north eastern corner.

The simplest test is to cut a country into quadrants with lines running and north-south and east west.

Similarly, in the US, Oregon is considered part of the north-west and Pennsylvania is considered part of the pacific north east.

Maine has a south facing coast, but is certainly not part of the south.

You are claiming that Minnesota is the northeast corner of the USA because it is further north than Maine
> A still-unidentified attacker had borrowed $80m in cryptocurrency and deposited it in the project’s silo, gaining enough voting rights in exchange to be able to pass any proposal instantly. With that power, they voted to transfer the contents of the treasury to themselves, then returned the voting rights, withdrew their money, and repaid the loan – all in a matter of seconds.

Sounds like when I was a kid and my brother would make up a game with vague rules, but when I'd pay it in a way he didn't expect, he'd say, "no not like that!" and call our mom.

Congrats to whoever found the loophole and made nine figures!
Sometimes you're on the wrong end of the pump & dump.
I knew some very respectable people who were shilling NFTs with all of their might. These were not crypto people with any kind of understanding of the technology or implications, but they were high level people in their fields. It was sad to see so many people get taken in by it, and even more, to transform into the hosts through which this idea spread. It was like watching some kind of mind virus. It was a short period of loud obsession, but they haven't mentioned it since.
> The path to faster software involves actual hard work, rather than attempting to publicly shame people who offer solutions.

Again, what solutions? Until you can define what these are I'm not sure what his position is or what he's advocating for.

No offense but I've exhausted my interest in the topic, take care
For Python3: https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3
If a payment gateway’s API accidentally exposes a vulnerability that can be exploited without obtaining any credentials illicitly, does the same thing apply? Under your proposed definition, the vulnerability is “legal” to execute until it’s patched.
I think you're heavily in the minority here.
Not to disagree, but the question of what a thing is independent of the meaning we attach to it is worth thinking about. There was this interesting passage in this book about the art world, "The $12m Stuffed Shark"-- which I recommend btw-- that went sort of like this:

A famous conceptual artist died. People going through his apartment found things in his closet that were maybe lost works, maybe junk he collected.

It's funny to think about but the difference of interpretation amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of the things you learn from that book is that if a famous art collector pays a lot of money for something found in that closet it will continue to be valuable and maybe end up in museum. If they don't, it's trash and never meant to be a work of art.
yes this. Crypto bug bounties are way too small given the stakes. $30k and bragging rights is not as enticing as $30 + million instant. A bug that allows some possible code execution if a dozen improbable conditions are met would be worth disclosing for $30k, but the if you're talking tens of hundreds millions for the taking right now literally with a single tx, then you need to do better than that.
> I don't think it's a coincidence that the people who engage in literature and history like this produce inferior work.

yo HOW is this not "put themselves above their subjects" right here?? You drop it as just granted and accepted by all that these works (which works, even?) are inferior.

You've got a lot of work to do if this line is to be taken seriously.
> I find it weird to say that UE would be crap in what it delivers in performance.

I don’t think anyone is saying it. Grandparent poster is inferring it incorrectly.
Even setting your phone to auto-ignore anyone not in your contacts is infuriating... apparently my iPhone considers any number marked as Spam Risk a "known" number and allows it to ring right through. So if you're a spam caller then you're actually more likely to get me to answer the phone by spam calling enough people to get Apple(?)/AT&T(?) to mark you as a spam caller. It's craziness.
“They have to emulate most software.”

Well that is simply not true.

https://isapplesiliconready.com

Notably, MS Office and Adobe’s stuff is compiled for ARM.
Making your adversary poor is the whole point of sanctions, so no. But that is the end in itself. Poor countries have a much harder time waging offensive wars.

It also supplies a opposing fact to some forms of internal propaganda, especially when tied to a discrete event in the country's foreign policy.
My research shows that the etymology of daemon is based on the concept similar to angels and devas where there existed “messengers” of divinity/god.

Which does connect similarly and semantically to background processes.
Lithium mining can be increased quite easily and is absurdly profitable at current prices which are about an order of magnitude above where it was 3 years ago.

The problem is time, it takes about 5 years to bring up a mine or a processing plant. Then the worry is that everybody will do it, crashing the market due to over supply.

There are a bunch of mines halfway through this process, but even when they come online in 2025 or so, they're not enough to meet demand. So any crash in Lithium prices is unlikely to come before 2028. But would you invest in a new mine to come online in 2028?
Sure, there's no difference between an NFT of something in the real world and a contract that you write on paper and mutually agree to. If you had the NFT of a jet nationalized by Putin well, you'd still be screwed.
Just a gentle suggestion: next time you have a chance, talk to someone who is in the kind of economic situation you allude to here. Talk to the cleaners or security guards at your office, talk to people who perhaps clean your home or cut your grass, talk to any server or cook you interact with. You will hear lots of stories, I'm sure, but not many that fit into your picture here. More people than not are absolutely unable to make progress in their life, they are not "uncomfortable" with it, they are postponing medically necessary surgery to get the hours, they are working 60hrs a week gladly to just make rent, they are trying so hard to be smart with their time and opportunity, with little actual reward. Really, just ask! It will open your eyes, I promise you.
> NFTs aren’t contracts for the rights, so this is as real an NFT as any other. An NFT is essentially a text file, that only one person can prove they own via the blockchain, where the file has a URL written inside. Nothing more, nothing less.

This is the most succinct explanation I have across. Thank you. Now, this amazes me more that people are willing to invest & trade on text files with some URL in a Blockchain. The naive me now thinks this is bonkers. No wonder so many people are critical of its worth.

How does one view list(s) of NFTs?
Well I'm more thinking of the problem that browser extensions had, where people would make something handy or fun, be granted perms by the user, then get sold to people looking to mine user data. Extension authors get solicitations for these sales constantly, and the sale prices can be really tempting for devs. A friend of mine just made a silly "cursor sparkles" extension and he's mentioned multiple of these emails.

Regardless of how you feel about it, the Cambridge Analytica ordeal was entirely about using benign quiz apps to mine user data, and the pressure that Facebook received was to fix their security. That's a huge incentive to lock down fair access. So if this is the situation, we need to address it if we're going to fix the technical pressures that create monopolies.
The main constraint is power usage. In principle you want to accelerate your fuel particles as fast as possible. At a fixed electric power though, the faster you accelerate each individual particle, the less particles you can accelerate. This conserves propellant but reduces thrust. Consider that you could use a photon rocket, basically a flashlight, where your propellant is moving at the maximum possible speed. This will have great propellant efficiency but you won't move much unless you have TW of power. Since you want to get somewhere in a finite time and don't have unlimited power, in practice you want something with lower propellant efficiency.

So yes, you could use a particle accelerator to accelerate ions, and it might be quite efficient, but you would need a ton of power if you wanted a reasonable amount of thrust.
In 2022, if you're linked to libc.so, it's probably substantially bigger than your Lisp image, and so that's where you'd want the tree shaking. Good luck!

The kernel supports manual tree shaking: "make menuconfig" and prune away.
That's where innocent until proven guilty comes in, which still does exist even if courts happily accept forms of evidence with extremely low empirical standards.
Yes Lyft Line and Uber Pool. I know Uber pool achieved break even just before the pandemic. It was remarkably cheap and popular in high use areas like major cities. Even if it wasn’t a super profitable product it was a great service that reduced car dependency in America.
> Manipulating a program or abusing it for your personal gains at the expense of others is often illegal

"Manipulating" doesn't seem like the right word here.

This is more like a billionaire buying up a popular social media platform and then once he owns the majority of it, deciding how it should operate.
The USB-C connector has a dedicated legacy USB 2 pair that is always available. This is the same as an upgraded (usually blue) USB-A connector with the addition of mirrored pins.
i think that talking groups for and by engineers and founders are a great idea and would help me personally … i have tried talk therapy and my therapist was so far away from my world and complexity of issues, which you typically have as a tech founder … so in the end it didn’t work out.
3.0 wasn’t the speed or the feature. It was an engineering spec with a lot of features, optional and required.

3.1 took 3.0’s features and added more optional features to make a larger document.

3.2 likewise.

You are likely thinking the actual feature marketing names. Things like USB-C connectors and Superspeed 20 Gbps. These do not change release to release. They also might require conformance testing to use those names.

I actually blame the current mess on PC motherboard manufacturers for wiring up a crapload of non-conforming ports, like a “USB-A Gen 2x2” with a red plastic tab. IMHO thy did this because nobody wanted to take the risk of actually pushing toward USB-C. It left them without a way to use a certified/marketing name, hence pretending engineering names were appropriate.
Investing in shitcoins, in a nutshell. There was a Simpsons skit about that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg
You mean a whistleblower?
“Hamilton also revised the word order of the original text to conform to the word order of modern languages”

This gave me pause.
> Try speculating publicly about [...]

You just did! Let me know when you're canceled.

This argument is circular. You're saying the purported suppression can't be detected because its effect is already so widespread. And it's widespread because of the threat of cancellation. Which didn't happen. See the problem? The only way to get to your conclusion is to assume as a prior that this research doesn't exist because it's being suppressed, and not merely because it's wrong.
Probably referring to the Beta release. Just one of the many inaccuracies in this post.
Also lots. One particularly fun one was a script that scraped fund prices for an old (bad) life insurance policy I had. Dump them to an SQLite db, and then later added plotting graphs which it would telegram to me once a week
He made a great talk at the Bitcoin conference last week:

https://youtu.be/wmBieQpuysM
Cryptocurrency is the largest bug bounty in the world, by a huge margin.
The Human Professional: Stop Sacrificing Your Health for Your Work
I used to watch mostly the law and order / CSI series while doing things. Which were almost all reruns to me, so I guess it doesn't require as intense processing, mostly reliving the plot points.

Sports, sports blather, and other things are also basically designed for intermittent attention in the modern American viewer, so those can also be background entertainment as well.
I didn't know Namecheap was the first to take BTC for domains; did they convert all of that to fiat currency along the way or are they sitting on a pile of BTC that is allowing them to make acquisitions now?
“American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress”

https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-l...
They could be using such database, in that case they would be involved.
excerpt from submission, a summary of sabatoge[foot gunning]

--You will laugh ruefully, then maybe shudder a little as you recognize how much your own workplace, and many others, resemble the kind of dysfunctional mess the OSS meticulously planned during World War II.

Organizations and Conferences

Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.
Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

Managers

In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers.
Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.
To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.
Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

Employees

Work slowly
Work slowly.
Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can.
Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
They're really cool to see running. Often not so dim either.
Jack Dorsey sold a token with a link to a jpeg, the point being, that token with a link to a jpeg (we all know what a token is, we generate tokens all the time) is worthless. There is no jpeg in the token itself, just the link to the gallery that hosts the jpeg.

By the way, the token could contain any sort of short information, the address to a C++ pointer in the memory of my computer for instance.
Wait, am I reading this right?

The old transfer mode was

> Superspeed

But the new mode is different, it’s name is

> Superspeed+

I’m sorry, I take your point in the first paragraph but I can’t find a way to wrap my head around how this system helps anyone.
A good example how a little statistical manipulation can mislead people. Miami in this above chart says it rains more, and has almost as many rainy days, than Seattle-- yet, when we look at other data that compares amount of sunshine, Miami is incredibly sunny compared to Seattle:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ccd-data/pctposrank.txt
> the complete left end of the software spectrum - the white angel on your shoulder

> ...I believe it's very important that we have someone like him in the tech world.

Indeed. It feels natural that these yin and yang extreme-opposite archetypes exist as they allow the rest of us to find the center, therefor balance.
Intel's rule was against corporate espionage, so probably? They eventually allowed phones with the cameras drilled out.
No it's not, the gap is an order of magnitude between a pen and paper calculation, or a fudge factor in a more sophisticated simulation.

I'd say we understand it about equally well as the weather.
No, proof of stake is a means of consensus for transaction validation[0]. This exploit took advantage of a governance token's voting power to distribute funds in a smart contract[1].

[0] - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/proof-stake-pos.asp

[1] - https://twitter.com/FrankResearcher/status/15156938958872944...