skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The constant bitrate idea is really interesting, I think we could do it! I wonder if we can publish a constant rate at the public API of if it would take some interaction with the Congestion Controller in SCTP.
legal tender for all debts, public and private
That makes you better than most people TBH.
2) is a weird objection to level given as almost all restrictions have been lifted in the US and China remains a repressive nightmare on this issue as it has been since 2020. The US did not come anywhere near what China did with regards to lockdowns. And it’s a core responsibility of all states to protect their citizens. Overall our response was bad but we developed effective vaccines that have mostly saved us now while China refuses to use them for nationalistic reasons. Very different situations.
I'm glad Google has published an open source firmware, and I hope that people will be able to independently verify that the hardware they use is genuinely running that firmware. Then I hope that hardware with such guarantees is not discriminated against by RPs.

The important difference with the CA ecosystem is that (in the worst case) the big platform owners can put pressure on small websites to obtain a certificate from one of a large number of competing issuers. Significantly, these issuers are not the same as the big OS providers themselves, and there are issuers who issue certificates for free. That is completely the reverse of 3 big platforms forcing end users to buy hardware, and those platforms being hardware vendors themselves.

> You’re the guy saying, “if we find a way to lower global temperatures, we should fear an ice age.”

No, I'm the frog saying "Hey, isn't this water getting a bit warm? Don't you think we should jump out before it's too late?"
How is screen-sharing not adequate for pair programming and mentorship?
I lived through the dot-com crash and got out safely after hearing something so ludicrous that I had to ask myself "How insane does this industry have to be for someone to think they can build a high growth internet company out of home cement delivery?" My memory may be playing tricks, but it was something like that.

After 2008 I became interested with crashes throughout history. There are so many fascinating little details that added up to one giant mess.
Carry on. Congrats, and you've got the right to say that then :)
also tiktok, blipverts, 5 second commercials on youtube
References for the first?

If existing wells could be economically re-activated, I've little doubt they would be.

Abiogenic petroleum formation has effectively no empirical support. Biotic origin has massive supporting evidence, including plate tectonics and fossil remains.
There is work for using libp2p instead of a fixed third-party server:

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-webrtc-direct...
The Inventor Who Tried Starting the First Airline Service to SF in 1849
> submitting crypto transactions to miners are their clients

This is a novel construct. It may be wise. But it’s not the status quo.
You have to take calculated risks to earn returns. FOMO at your own risk.

If you are 30 and don’t need the money you put in SPY until 70, don’t sweat it. You’ll be fine.

But let’s not pretend blindly taking risk is OK because some return is expected. Time horizon and some relative valuation context is important.

Buying into the stock or housing market at extreme historic levels of valuations like those in late 2021 and now GREATLY reduces your expected return over 5/10 years.

If you don’t have the (extremely) long view, expect to lose some sleep watching your net worth over the next couple years.
I did miss the edit. I guess I assumed for something that bad, you'd just delete that part of the comment.

The point stands, that you would never have made such an unforced error if you didn't have such a laser focus on a comically uncharitable interpretation of the original parent's remark. As if the existence of manager-banned unions could ever be relevant to a comment specifically suggesting what a manager should do.

What was going on in your head? "Hm, someone suggested a manager unionizing. Oh! He must mean one of the unions that ban managers! What an idiot!"
Year of the Linux Desktop, Chinese edition?
Eh, cloud accounting started taking off back in 2013 or so. The accounting industry is making changing. In the UK, you have small changes like making tax digital with the HRMC. A lot of those CVEs appear to be intentional to incentivize certain behaviors or outcomes or to give your political friends more money. Tax professionals these days work with both domain knowledge and specialized software and don't need encyclopedic knowledge of the tax code anymore. So yes, when the tax law changes, the software gets patched as well.
Double entry accounting more or less started with Luca Pacioli in the 15th century. Our current CPA/CA/CMA environment started in the early 20th century. A lot of entry level work and rote data entry is being handled more programs these days, but a lot of the core work may remain out of reach of automation due to the edge cases or frequent changes. More firm consolidation is happening, and more non-accounting majors are being hired to work in accounting businesses.

> Instead of fixating on a 20% "loss" to tax, why not try to increase production/sales by say 30%. Cost your time on each endeavour and see which makes the best return.
A lot of the mindset is minimizing one of the biggest expenses, taxes, in order to maximize leftover money. Not every industry can scale up quite so easily as software :). So, if sales can be increased substantially, minimizing costs, or taxes, would be one of the natural areas of focus. Americans, including me, are often quite jealous of the ease of tax filing in other countries.
Anyways, cheers.
concerts do this more and more now, festival wristbands with preloaded cash etc
Interesting. Didn't think about it this way.

Why is it (typically) not a problem is Europe? Unions seems negotiate reasonable contracts, raises, and safety measures there.

And why is a union leader who abuses the power not removed from that position? It's not benefiting the union members.

In the end, looking at this in black or white (including your statement) is part of the problem. Unions are neither universally good, nor are they universally bad.
> rising oil

Monthly inflation numbers have been > 5% since May 2021.
Oil didn't exceed 2018 $s until will into October 2021.
This allegation of frontrunning references another trading participant, not the miners. Also, arguably, and certainly not legally.
> I could not enter my own apartment because my phone was dead

Whenever I hear about "smart" devices as a replacement for something that is safety/security critical (like a lock), the question of what happens when the internet and/or power fails is rarely even considered. Does the lock fail open or closed? Does the door open if there is a fire in the building that damages the internet/power wiring? If it fails open, does that mean someone can bypass the lock by simply cutting the network/power cables outside the building?

There might be reasonable answers to these questions at a large business building that can afford fallback options, but I'm not sure there are good answers for e.g. residential situations.
I dont carry one
Tube Time took a crack at the 808 including the cowbell last year.
https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1360734047903707139
So... any reason Indian VPN users cannot just use a VPN service based outside of India?
>Sounds pretty fascist to me.

Dude, "fascist" does not mean "something I think is bad."
AWS isn’t that bad when you use IaC like CDK. Clicking around in the console and trying to reproduce those steps when you have a new project or API is what will kill you
I am specifically claiming that I am not so sure an expert would be able to tell the difference in that experiment, given the video evidence that I’ve seen that shows that even the best in the world cannot always determine even basic aspects like the varietal in a blind tasting.
Since we’re doing anecdotes, a member of my family is an airline pilot and a member of the pilots union. It has been extremely effective in negotiating better working conditions and higher pay for my family member. Keep in mind that, absent union representation, being a pilot can be absolutely punishing, to the point of being dangerous.

Also, the company is able to maintain very high standards for the quality and skill of the pilots. There are not “useless Joe’s”, as evidenced by the fact that the planes don’t crash.

This family member is a diehard conservative politically but openly espouses the value of the union for representing his interests against the company.
Right. The problem with companies is that internally they act like monopolies: unopposed and and anti-competitive. Some force must act upon them to keep them honest, which is to say to keep them from racing to the bottom at ruthlessly exploiting their employees while lining the owners' pockets with their stolen wages. If the government were competent at enforcing the rights of laborers, then unions would not be necessary. Sadly the government is owned by those same companies and thus has little incentive to do so, thus unions (as flawed as they are) have a necessary role to fill.

TL;DR: it is possible to believe the unions are less than ideal while also acknowledging why they exist and why we'd be even worse off without them.
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik
woah this is cool, thanks!
> That's the entire story.

That’s the obvious market story but not even the entire story in the post. The lack of available alternatives is a real thing.

Several of the examples in the article feel like real losses to me. Another example: last I looked, I can’t even buy a mouse with the form factor and features I want unless I give up and charge batteries. The thing I want to buy existed under many model names over the last 20 years, apparently now I need to start looking second hand. This is true for lots of wired devices, it’s almost impossible to find many of them or a spiritual successor now. I don’t want all of my secondary devices to be battery powered. I’m clearly a minority in the market, or at least untargeted as one.

I don’t begrudge anyone their preferences or conveniences, but I definitely miss some of the things I used to be able to find which are now just relics.
demoscene is timeless
That's pretty much it.

So many kids learned to type some commands on a Commodore 64. There wasn't an iPhone to steal their attention.
Artemis: Articulated Neural Pets with Appearance and Motion Synthesis
For more on Wikipedia's slow transformation from a culture of inclusionism to one of deletionism, see Gwern's fantastic "In Defense of Inclusionism" here: https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
It's not the bike that's a public nuisance, it's the noise produced by the bike. Making the noise as a collaborative effort doesn't make it any less of a nuisance.
Exhaust back-pressure is beneficial to a degree. You know not what you talk about.
The free-rider problem applies to basically any system with cohorts. It's part of the incentive structure, for sure, but it's not the only part. As long as you accept utility in collective systems (ie if you're anything but a pure anarcho-capitalist), you recognize that in some cases (such as public roads) the value outweigh the costs of the free-rider problems. Once you're past that point, it should be all about tradeoffs and execution. Yet, in the US at least, a strict set of specific issues – like organizing employees and health insurance – brings out the free-rider issue every time, conveniently deadlocking the conversation before it even begins.
In other words, there is no clear signal that all of the harsh measures that CA took had any real impact. It was just a crap shoot.
Sci-fi is often a metaphorical representation of society. However, it's shocking how many episodes of Max Headroom have become literally true.
> Isn't that a bit fatalist?

I call it like I see it. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Hoping people will be better does not make it so, in my experience. Some encouragement is occasionally required.
It’s not just HFT firms. Every professional trader in the world who got put out of business in the regular markets for being too inefficient is running old fashioned games on the crypto exchanges and making money.

Watching the full depth order book on any crypto exchange is like “Back To the Future”.
I actually find automated ticketing, such as speed cameras, less intrusive than police. But they have to be visible. I've only dealt with them in Europe where everyone knows where they are. And I find them effective.

Unlike always-on cameras I like that they're not recording unless you break the law, and I like that they're objective unlike a police officer might be.
The question is, why is the federal government allowing these vehicles to be sold / why are states allowing them to be registered?

If they don't meet federal standards, they're not legal to operate on US roads. They weren't even legal to import, which means they should be confiscated and destroyed.

Customs was fond of doing this for illegally imported Skylines and Land Rovers...why not brand new Porsches?
Ok, well, they aren't doing it for this, so what are we complaining about again?

The issue of loud vehicles can be addressed without resorting to things like facial recognition. Facial recognition, due to the obvious privacy concerns, should probably be reserved for much more serious things, such as catching fugitives or detecting violations of restraining orders and the like. Not people smoking outside. Maybe it shouldn't be used at all.

So I don't understand the complaint.
As far as I can tell, these credentials are no different from existing WebAuthn credentials. So yes, you should be able to use any authenticator that implements the protocol, including the Yubikeys that already exist. This isn't like OAuth where each company has their own separate login flow that sites have to implement.
Why? Because people have responsibilities outside of work. People have children and spouses with chronic conditions that require them to be available at a moment’s notice to deal with, for example. And it’s not going to change just because some manager at ConHugeCo wants people back in the office. I cannot take a job without knowing that I’ll be allowed to work a particular way for the foreseeable future, as it just wouldn’t be safe for my family.

And yes, reneging on agreements is bad. Employers need to be forced to understand that humans have rights and their employees are humans. Telling someone their job is remote then changing that 3 months after they start should be illegal. Unfortunately, it’s not, so you’re SOL if you find yourself in that position.
reminds me of old triple six mafia where sometimes it was the main melody, pitched of course
Index investing will work, if you live for a long time. The problems are, we do not live infinitely, and the average person does not have the stomach to see their investment going down for years, unless that investment is small enough to tolerate (in which case it is not enough to make a big difference, for most people).

What I think will work - not claiming that it will actually work - based on history:

Invest in companies that are generating a lot of cash and a lot of profits, have a moat/USP/technology advantage, and are at the forefront of where the world is headed in terms of trends, or at least are following a sustainable trend. Yes, you need to identify the company. Yes, you need to take decisions: INTC vs AMD (1980s), YHOO vs GOOGL (2000s). But it gives you a much better chance of seeing a profit in your lifetime than index investing. You can still index invest, but only an amount you can "set and forget". This gives you the best of both worlds.

Edit: (1) What I posted above is for long periods of no movement of stocks except downwards, as I believe we are going to see. (2) Index investing will work eventually and that is what I said above as well. The point is, the time period required for that. (3) I thought of posting this on my blog tomorrow, but it is past midnight here, and I wanted to see what HNers think. It is interesting to see the different opinions. Time may change some of your opinions (not about "index investing will not work" - that is not what I said above - but rather, about the protection offered by diversification, and what diversification actually means. Also, quoting this part again: "the average person does not have the stomach to see their investment going down for years, unless that investment is small enough to tolerate (in which case it is not enough to make a big difference, for most people)").
> dissuaded capital from financing the real economy and instead encouraged herding and levering up in the financial economy for returns.

i don't really agree with this - the money used to purchase financial products don't disappear, because for every product bought, there was a seller. This seller now has cash, which would be invested elsewhere.

The only concern is low interest rates, which makes the hurdle for any investment lower thus making it easy for malinvestments to occur; In hindsight is easy to make judgements on what is a malinvestment, but not so easy at the time.
One of the beautiful things about n2n was that the supernode program is relatively small and simple. (n2n does not require the use of STUN or TURN.) There is no need for a third party to be the one running the supernode/STUN/TURN server software. Users can run it themselves.

Just because home users must involve commercial third parties, e.g., ISP, cloud hosting, etc., in order to listen on globally reachable IP addresses does not also mean that users must also let those third parties have control over the software users run from those addresses.
Notability is not time limited on Wikipedia. Wikipedia notability guidelines on politicians states that members of national level legislative bodies are automatically notable, so the articles will stay as long as Wikipedia in all likelihood.
Well, I've lost control of accounts and I suspect a few of us have. Fortunately the one I lost wasn't important.

But my response wasn't to turn off 2FA. It was the reverse - to turn on all forms of authentication made available, for all acccouts. If I lost control of it one way, I had another.

By the by, if you read the spec, FIDO expects you to do this in preparation for the day you lose your token. So no you are not the only one - people think about it all the time.
You "if"s and "so long as"s are doing one hell of a lot of heavy lifting here.

The alternative hypothesis is that fossil fuels have served as a form of whalefall benefitting humans, promoting a brief fluouresence of intense technological culture which will last so long as the resource is available, before fading back to the background noise level.

There's a shortage of perfect cheap, useful, abundant energy stores in the world. It would be a pity to degrade this one completely without a viable transition plan.
Oh I’m not saying the feed is not causing inflation at all. I think the primary driver is supply side, but clearly there is more going on.

And that I’m not so sure anymore if federal banks are net positive.
> often travel in packs of dozens which may continue passing your house for a minute or two, which feels like an hour

You're just describing a busy street of cars here. A slow car followed by a few dozen cars who wish they were going faster is so common that almost nobody thinks about them. Individual motorcycles probably go unnoticed 9/10 times.
The key is to keep in mind what is the current problem you are looking a solution for. Then here and there while you're eating or even watching TV ask your brain the question "What could possibly be the answer to this problem?". As if by some magic it is often the case that the brain then comes up with hey maybe the solution could be found by exploring this territory further ..."
> [0] Another mantra: it's not.

it's the best indicator so far.
I wonder what I'm missing in this concept.

You would think that the people in charge would see that real estate is an unnecessary expense, where applicable.

Also, I've been to a lot of meetings where we were told "there are other things people value in work besides money". Maybe being able to manage your own work environment and save gas and time fits in that slot. A content, well rested workforce would be better IMO than one that's frazzled and is getting less out of their employment than they know is possible.

I'm at the age where I see Time as more valuable than anything, really.
Um, I worked on the design of that gearbox for two years. I knew it intimately. That's why I was sent to the test.

The test was to see if the box would crack, deform, or snap under the ultimate load. It didn't. But the test rig bent :-) hahahahahahahaha. Math works.
To avoid lockout, you need multiple ways to get into your more important accounts.

A phone is one way, and it's pretty good. A Yubikey is another good way. A third way is a printout of secure backup codes, kept with your important papers.

At that point you're pretty safe. (Although, if your phone and Yubikey are both lost while traveling, you might not be able to get in until you get home.)

Some services like Github and Google actually support this, but it's not that common yet.

The other lockout risk is access denied due to a policy violation (which could be a false positive) and adding authentication schemes won't help there; you need backups.

So it's great that this FIDO initiative lets people use their phones, but what's it going to take to make sure everyone has multiple, reasonably secure ways to get in?
This is going to be an unpopular, controversial opinion. But do try to explain rather than downvoting. ( Not that I care about the Karma points, I would much rather it didn't fall to the bottom of the thread )

Why is this kind of, what I would called hypocrisy, is becoming extremely common specifically in the Tech Industry. And if I might even add, American Tech Industry.

The end of the thread wasn't an apology to his wrongdoing, if there were any. It was an introduction to his own app. HalloApp.

And the Statement about Facebook in 2014. This might have worked in the mainstream media when no one ( as in public opinion ) knew about Facebook's so called tracking. ( The word tracking means different thing to different people ). But Facebook was surely one of the most hated company in the tech industry and HN. i.e You have been warned, but you ignore it. ( Pretty much like Russia and China )
Doesn't he know that serendipitous water cooler encounters and impromptu lunchroom brainstorming sessions are the only way to innovate?

We should pretty much just replace the workplace with a water cooler called Serendipity and a lunchroom called Impromptu.
You ruined my life with this fact.