skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spread no falsehoods. None of what you're saying matters, you're still hung up on what's technically possible in ideal circumstances when that's irrelevant to most people, it's irrelevant to most users of security software, and even most users of Zcash. Everything you're saying is technically correct and I agree with it but you've missed the basic point which is how that only applies if you only conduct every transaction in your whole life in Zcash using z addresses and you never plan to cash out or comply with accounting laws, which nobody does and will never actually happen on a large scale because it's inconvenient and unrealistic. If you actually do that you'd be the first person I've ever heard of, so I hope you can understand how unusual that is and how pointless it is for you to be trying to push this angle. Just stop, the harm you're doing from this is much worse than anything I could possibly say. You could actually stand a chance to convince me of whatever it is you're trying to say if you didn't take this very bad angle of trying to dump theory on people when you very well know that's unrealistic, combative and not convincing. Why are you doing this? Please just have a normal discussion and stop with this. You're clearly a very smart person and you don't need to resort to this negative attitude.

This is a general problem with zero knowledge proofs by the way, you can use them all you want but they ultimately mean nothing when some other party that actually has the knowledge leaks it. And since the blockchain is required to be public there's going to be so much publicly generated metadata available that it eventually makes no difference what you hide behind a ZKP, the information leaks are built into the system. The weirdest and most self-defeating part of your comment is this:

>would only indicate that I have interacted with the network, and likely sent transactions at cerain times

Sorry but this is identifying metadata. It gives away a lot about you depending on who you are. I don't know why you wrote this and then wrote the rest of your comment trying to claim that I'm promoting falsehoods, when you refuted yourself in your own comment! I hope you were honest and forthcoming about these problems in your advisory position.
Spun-out infrastructure is probably better than the current situation for many people, but it's not necessarily the best outcome - the UK has a setup a bit like this, with the access networks spun out into a wholesale company. It still took rivals digging up streets to lay fibre to move things along. Absent genuine competition, I am sceptical proper investment can be forced in a wholesale "spinoff" provider.

It also means ISPs are effectively limited to offering the same quality of customer service that the wholesale provider offers, because they need/choose to use the wholesale provider for technician work. That kind of thing can be quite problematic, at least judging by the kinds of complaints you read online.

Depending on the nature of the access network, it might also result in an outdated network seeing no further investment. The UK is only just getting a fibre roll-out going in earnest, and this has come from lots of government encouragement, as well as private new-entrant providers increasingly deciding to just lay their own fibre in. That, plus a reasonably widespread hybrid fibre coax (cable) network offering up to approx gigabit downstream services, providing widespread competition.

I would definitely agree that opening up passive infrastructure (ducts and poles, etc.) would help, as it makes it cheaper for new entrants to rapidly deploy coverage. I think people need to be careful what they wish for though - if the only infrastructure available is outdated copper that can barely manage ADSL2 speeds - where will the investment come from to get to fibre?

If there's already a passive optical network deployed then this is less of an issue for now, but I think it's important to note that, at least in the UK market, the impact of competitive provision has been pivotal to getting fibre rolled out quicker. Without rivals raising investment and digging up roads to lay fibre in large cities, the incumbent "spun out" wholesale provider was calling VDSL "fibre to the cabinet" a "superfast fibre" connection. Once rivals did that, competitive pressures meant FTTP deployment followed.
Regardless of the moral angle, it means that the USA financial system does not remain impartial over political disputes. This has nothing to do with what I think about the war.
Clearly, plenty of other international asset managers agree that there is a level of risk associated in letting the USA hold your assets when they can sanction you due to political disagreements. For example a sanction could befallen on Israel over Palestine in the future, or over China if they do invade Taiwan. That is what I mean.
What we've learned over the life span of the market is that ultimately American business can figure out how to get the economy functioning and ultimately power through any problem. I wouldn't doubt it. If you are in it for the long run then stay invested. But build up your emergency fund if you don't have one.

Warren Buffet has always advocated the idea of investing in the stock market because it will continue to grow. He also says that if the market ever falls apart to the point that it won't come back then he feels that things would be so bad that there would be so many worse problems that the investment won't matter.

I feel he's right so I stay invested.
Some gems from his FAQ:

> If you have been able to produce software that never fails and can’t be hacked for the last 25 years why aren’t you a billionaire?

> I am a billionaire, but my software has been mainly used by the military, and I have kept a low profile until now.

https://dawnproject.com/about-our-founder/
You don’t make a billion dollars by being generous to other people.
https://apnews.com/article/mlb-sports-baseball-washington-na...
The self driving thing is pretty much the only engineering/marketing angle I cannot get behind. That makes this very conflicting for me.

I wonder - If Elon had to come out tomorrow and say "Sorry, we are terminating the self-driving program, effective immediately", what the impact would be to the biz and markets.
Here's a vote for a twenty year, seven Mac user who buys for those reasons, not the marketing or wanting to fit in. In fact, circa 2005, I got the side-eye for wanting to get on a cafe's wifi or, god forbid, print something at FedEx Kinko's from my Mac.

For me — FOR ME — it's a great platform that lets me focus on all sorts of things that I want to accomplish with computers.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

"The Committee found that paid advertisements were not key to the IRA's activity, and moreover, are not alone an accurate measure of the IRA's operational scope, scale, or objectives, despite this aspect of social media being a focus of early press reporting and public awareness."
Yes, this is typical and normal and required by law. I worked in banking for years, in Europe.

Do you want to screw someone with very little effort? Send a wire transfer to that person and set reference to "contribution to Al Qaeda", "payment for bombs" or something stupid like that. That will match some filters, raise alarms and trigger money laundering, counter-terrorism, etc protocols. The receiving bank must investigate the issue so they will block the transfer and most probably even the receiving account. Very funny. Not.
I really hate to be right here, but Rust is picking up traction and has passionately growing fan base…..
To be fair, CVs, resumes, interviews are where you're supposed to promote yourself without reserve.
$0.35 would be a bargain. It's more like $0.40 / kWh, it's complicated depending on which rate plan you have and what time of day / year you're using power. https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...

Meanwhile my neighbors 30 miles away are paying half that rate to SMUD. https://www.smud.org/en/Rate-Information/Compare-rates

As a bonus, SMUD doesn't generally kill people and burn down cities.
His photo on the article looks pretty narcissistic too.
Let's not forget the pro coup shit, even if it may have been a joke.
I want game worlds to be locked away from me in such a way that I could not use an editor to conjure a game position I would have to work for. I'm a monkey the same as all of you. If I can do that instead of work for it, I will and that ruins the game for me. Hence I accept the shacles because I find it fun, in the long term.
QB64 RIP – New Ownership Makes Drastic Changes
IIRC Netflix run their own boxes for content delivery, which makes sense because of the exorbitant cost of bandwidth on AWS.
And I think you're missing my point as well. The event that happened, the event I'm saying should not happen again, was not a legitimate attempt at revolution. It was the losing side attacking the functioning of democracy because they didn't like the outcome of the election.

I don't think the losing side should get to ransack the Capitol every four years because they spread some half-baked rumors and convinced themselves the election was rigged.

We have independent judges, including lots appointed by Trump. If the losing side couldn't convince those judges the election was wrongly decided, they are to wait four years to try again, just like every losing side before them.

The nation is not a playground for toddlers to throw a violent temper tantrum based on make believe when things don't do their way.
They didn’t say that the RTOS is the competitor to Autopilot. But this is: https://www.ghs.com/news/20220224_nxp_radar_L2plus_automotiv...
Just to note that Steven's comment on the video seems to offer additional context from behind the scenes.

Edit: There's more discussion here - https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=42
This is largely just military doctrine. Stealth was determined to be a better bet than speed against SAMs and other jets. With improved signal processing techniques and better standoff weapon, speed may be the better bet.
This is some Hollywood movie plot. :D
I smell a rat. Could this guy be a stalking horse? Run as a Democrat on a crazy platform so as to discredit Democrats? And/or aim to stir up such outrage against a self-driving prohibition so that congress passes a contrary law to have the feds pay for research into self-driving cars? (Sorry if this sounds like tin-foil hat stuff - it's been a long day...)
If someone sells nude photographs of themselves to a rich person for $1 million, does that mean you deserve to have them for free?
>Work History...

>1977: Designed and wrote Mattel Electronic Football software

>The must have Christmas toy of 1977

Never mind my previous criticism, this guy has earned my vote.
How sweet it would be for Musk to run against him - and win, but Musk might not want to wallow in that mudhole...
> He's actually slowing progress towards that with his asinine tunneling projects for single-occupant vehicles.

From wiki:

> According to Musk, the company's goal is to enhance tunneling speed enough such that establishing a tunnel network is financially feasible.

No fan of Musk, but if a company can bring down the cost of tunneling so that it works well for single-occupant vehicles, that would be a huge deal for multi occupancy vehicles as well. This is a goal worthy of support, at least.
What Peter Thiel and Others Are Learning from Curtis Yarvin and the New Right
The Gnumeric spreadsheet has montecarlo built-in. I think this is unmatched both by Excel and Libreoffice Calc. See https://help.gnome.org/users/gnumeric/stable/sect-advanced-a...
What will never cease to amaze me is that the likes of a16z while reaping billions on hardly any work at all will go to extreme ends to deny others what they simply earned through usually very hard work.
If you take the straight path of BS at 22, PhD at 27, and then add some post-doc(s), you're basically in your 30s before you earn the same as a 21 year old computer science intern. Add in any life event (taking a job for a few years after your BS, having a family, etc), that could push you into your mid-30s before you get your tenure track job.

Then you're taking a huge gamble that you are going to win the tenure track prize. Most people don't win that prize. Even if you do good work, there's plenty of stories (even on HN) of an academics career getting wrecked by one influential person.

>Plus, I imagine the work is good for an aging mind.

Yes, if you're lucky enough to sustain a research program into your 60s/70s. IME a lot of professors can't do that as younger researchers overtake them. So then your option is to take on more administrative duties, which is a lot of petty politics. Or you can just check out and ride your tenured status until retirement, which some people do - good for them, not so much for the students in their program.

As you walk that path, you've got to have a lot of faith in the future as you are constantly presented with examples of where the path you are walking on is likely to fail. I was there once and I took the hint early and left academia.
I don't mind seeing mosquitoes disappear even if they carry no virus.
One of their AIs is the next YC partner--it will try to justify anything, no matter how disgusting.

Q: I asked my assistant to lick my perineum and she said no, so I fired her, called everyone in Silicon Valley saying she was a bad worker and a strumpet, and hired 100 workers in Bangalore to write bad reviews of her father's car wash on Yelp.

A: u/ExcusesRUs_BOT

Not the A-hole

NTA - you're the boss, you can hire and fire as you see fit.

Don't tell anyone you did it, though. (Don't write bad reviews on yelp, either. But that's a totally different situation.)
Ugh. Yeah, this is more common than one would hope. I met someone with a Masters in CS who worked at a public database company whose primary role was to keep the spreadsheet up-to-date with Jira data. What a waste of talent!
That's just Elon's marketing. He's comparing the cost of digging a (very narrow) tunnel, with no emergency egress, to the cost of a fully-realized subway system with stations. In fact he's costing it out using commodity tunneling hardware. [1]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-vegas-loop-traf...
techpays.eu is your friend!
US data, not Saudi.

From the article:
the researchers used data from the 2005-2015 United States' Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS), a large longitudinal study that tracks the health services that Americans use.

Incredibly low resolution study.
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square down $400m after buying Netflix stock in January
Money orders also have a maximum amount. At USPS, the maximum amount is $1000.
Earlier rooftop solar discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30193521
Does this include the power that California imports from across state lines?
This explains a lot for me; since I kept trying to achieve a BLJ but for whatever reason I couldn't.

Now, years later, you comment explains a lot O_O
Hey, I'm a generalist intellectual as well, and I contributed to one of your other posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31061563

I have a project that could help, let me know if you are interested in participating.
"never fails and can't be hacked" must be his campaign slogan. Featured 14 times as that exact phrase on his about us page [1].

[1] https://dawnproject.com/about-our-founder/
Naive question : how did we get access to the source ? Is that from a disassembler or did the source code leaks at some points
The first rule of using Reddit for research, is that you don't tell anyone you are using Reddit for research.

Implementing a feature like this will turn Reddit into an astroturfed, SEO hell. There are already articles of people spending a few hundred bucks to make BS go viral on that site.

This can happen more invisibility then an old-school forum (glad Brave is including those BTW), since this unnatural behavior can be easily identified, because of the smaller community, and site that isn't based around upvotes.
Depends on the agenda item. I don't think highway safety is a big issue for single issue voters.

Things like wars, abortion, civil rights, slavery, voting rights, etc could be enough in the right state at the right time.
Even I have trouble avoiding it.
The people who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the existence of ozone hole.

Why? Because the subsequent reduction of ozone-depleting emissions has done more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than any other measure taken, I believe roughly commensurate with the reduction you'd get from switching all power plants to renewable energy.
What about Amazon Linux?
This still works even if everyone knows?
1984 via advertisement
Yeah, but statements like this one really make me cringe: "I can find every bug in any program I write" (from: https://danodowd.com/).

No, you cannot. Unless you define bug as something syntactical.
> I doubt in 26 years you could optimize a tripe A title from today to the same extent.

Well... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
It's inspiring to see good municipal broadband in the US. I wish this was more common here in Canada. To me it make sense that a city owns and operate critical infrastructure such as this.
Musk used massive government subsidies to produce a small number of luxury electric cars for wealthy people, while massively enriching himself.

He openly manipulates markets without facing consequences, busts union activities, pushes to production over worker safety, uses extremely misleading marketing contrary to public safety, avoided paying taxes for years while becoming the worlds richest person... and you find it odd that the political left doesn't deify him to the same degree as the tech bros?
This is a quick way to sully the name Green Hill Software. I honestly thought much more of them before learning about O’Dowd today.
AAU basketball has entered the chat.
So? If they can make that model work, it is still a big deal. I'm a bit tired of everyone thinking that only software can be disrupted. It could also be that they have no way of making this work, and will fail. That isn't weird for a startup either.
As someone also living in the Midwest, what's your issue with it? A bunch of people are doing a thing. They see a kid. They stop doing it while the kid is in sight, so they're spared seeing it.

What could possibly be the issue? If anything, it demonstrates Midwestern values pretty well: Freedom, and a moral, not legal, code that people voluntarily follow to prevent kids from being exposed to potentially-harmful things, without any government needed to enforce it!

If anything, it's more considerate than where I live, where people will openly smoke in front of children, which is arguably more harmful, because smoking has second-hand effects, unlike intravenous drug usage.
Cancer? Depleted uranium is not radioactive.
When these bugs first came into fashion, the "bias" of the RNG was an implementation artifact, not some bug in /dev/random: it was the code you used to fill a bignum uniformly in the size of the nonce. So mentally substitute "same biased RNG" for "same implementation, with same keys".

Yes, the attacks require many signatures. Like the infamous Bleichenbacher RSA attack, which was originally dubbed "The Million Message Attack", in part as a jab at how impractical they were presumed to be, collecting thousands of signatures is often a very realistic attack; for instance, any system that generates signed messages automatically.
Tesla is still sold out, go try and order one, most models quoting October 2022 and beyond for delivery. .

Opposed to GM who runs not stop ads on CNBC touting the opportunity to just sign up in mid May to buy a Lyriq.
I am trying to grok this bit.

If I understand it, an 83(b) election allows me to buy stock in the company at the (say) day of employment, and recognise that as income on the same day (ie I buy the stock as I join). Then there is some restriction on me selling it during my employment (not quite vesting but similar).

Which sounds sensible - but I may have misunderstood.

Overall it seems either people are trying to make a simple situation seem complex, or the (US?) tax code is set up badly.

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2008/02/15/what-is-an-83...
Do you have any examples of "livable cities"? People often point to Europe, but having lived in 3 different European cities (London, Zurich, Ljubljana) all of them are much better with a car (especially with a family - imagine shopping a weeks of groceries by bike!) (with the possible exception of London Zone 1 but well you use taxis "outsourced cars").
I think they would just make something up if they wanted someone and there was no applicable crime. I would actually feel better about knowing I would be accused of something I actually did and that there is nothing wrong with, rather than having to worry about them planting child porn or framing me for murder. Governments don't care about truth and framing people is usually quite simple, but if the truth is enough and they don't need to harm my reputation, it would probably be even simpler for them to go with the truth.
What’s all this foolishness then?
It does not look like CS studies the real numbers.
Yes, but here we're just looking for (0,0).
The last time my country was at war September 1900. We didn't even participate in the World Wars since by the time we made the long exodus to the European front the war was over. So our track record is pretty good, compared to the US who hasn't seen a single decade in its existence without being at war with someone.

However, when I said 'peace' I meant in the interpersonal sense. The US is nice, but there's something to be said about living in a homogenous environment identical to that of your youth.
Every time I find a promising search result from reddit on a niche topic, it turns out I wrote it like 5 years ago. And the answers are unsatisfactory.

Just too niche and search engines got too bad, and more of the conversational internet went behind walled gardens.
I asked:

> I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold.

I got:

> YTA. What did you expect? You went into the kitchen and took someones food, just because you were too lazy to get yours. And then you expect people to forgive you? You are the asshole. Edit: You are also disgusting.

Seems about right.
We do this now, about 20 miles outside one of the highest per capita shooting/murder cities in the US. When I lived in said city I was jumped and beat up, and my car broken into 3 times… in a year.
Calorie Restriction With or Without Time-Restricted Eating in Weight Loss
How can you still write nonsense like this: "Musk used massive government subsidies to produce a small number of luxury electric cars for wealthy people"?
Binance adds a branded hashtag to Twitter that closely resembles a swastika
Amazon are paying pretty well all over. Google pays well in Zurich. Get a few offers and play them off against each other.
> Considering that there's a lot of hate being fomented against trans people, I'm assuming the professor was passive aggressively saying "fuck you" to that person's stated identity.

A simple solution would be to eliminate all gendered pronouns in English and stick to "they/them" for everybody. Made up pronouns are an absurd trend.
> I would introduce subtle errors into the data manipulated by the program

I no longer remember the games, but in the 80s copy protected games, I remember some where if the game detected it was a cracked copy it would still run fine but the game would be missing critical items so it became impossible to progress. Unless you knew this, you could go crazy trying to find the items that didn't exist.
IBM ordered to pay $105M to insurer over tech project's collapse
If your issue is groceries and packages, why not simply lean on services that deliver groceries and supples by truck? Instacart and Amazon? And then you don't really need a personal car right?

[edit] Hong Kong is a great example.