skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once sat on a jury for a personal injury trial. The medical expert witness for the insurance company was an orthopedic surgeon who was renowned as one of the best in the area. The witness for the plaintiff was the head of her department and the man who literally trained her to do her work professionally.
This isn't the same thing though. They may be buying Tether. I'm not aware of evidence that they do this, but I'll believe it because it seems logical that they would.

You cannot REDEEM the coins. Which may look a lot like just selling it back to them for $1 but it's not the same. That's a problem. They can stop buying tethers whenever they want and, theoretically, you have no recourse. It's only going to keep going while it suits them.

edit: and, importantly, you cannot even SELL tether back to them for $1. They just won't do this right now. They'll do market price at best.
Or you could I don’t know, pay for it and remove ads…
Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community
> overflow should be an error in most languages

> Chasing safety features which result in difficult to reason about semantics will inevitably lead to low language adoption.

Python solves this problem by not having overflow for integers at all, instead all integers are unlimited. It's still one of the most widely used languages in the world.
On the last decade and half the entire group mind of the computing discipline switched from "no build step will speed-up development and deployment" into "a heavy build step will speed-up development and deployment". So, it's not like the web developers were going at it alone.

Anyway, the change happened because of real environmental changes. Developers everywhere didn't just wake-up and decide their old values were the exact opposite of the truth, both opinions stand on valid models of the world and hard-acquired empirical information.
Sounds like we're deciding the Turing Test isn't good enough and we don't really have any alternatives. I'll admit that makes me a little squeamish going forward...
Maaaaan it's not worth dropping more money for new hardware considering that I got mine so recently, but it sure would be nice. 16 gigs goes by quick when you've got bloated tools and compilers.
Note that Mozilla has nothing to do with Thunderbird anymore. They abandoned Thunderbird and it's a totally separate community project these days.
well yeah, people are still clammering over 3x cards, why would you release 4x until the economics make sense?
What's Your Dark Matter Strategy?
You could just observe the economy of an MMORPG - no blockchain needed.
> In turn Thunderbird will ensure the app is developed further. As a first step Thunderbird hired the current K-9 Mail maintainer, cketti (coincidentally, also the author of this blog post ). Hopefully, more will follow soon.

I mean they are putting resources toward it by hiring the main dev which is a good start.
I hate Drupal as much as the next guy, but I have to defend one thing about it: it doesn't have to be slow, and it doesn't have to have jQuery. Just get rid of all of the bloatware that comes out of the box, and then don't solve every problem with a plugin/module. I know, a 3rd party module for every little thing is exactly how Drupal development looks in most companies. Sorta like jQuery a decade or so ago.

Anyway, with a bit of discipline and some frontend tricks (preconnect, preload, async) you can create a Drupal page that's super fast. And it would actually serve less code to the end user than a page based on JS frameworks (as all things happen on the server).

Example: https://www.magneticpoint.com/
Apple uses Delta: https://databricks.com/session_na20/patterns-and-operational..., similarly Disney+: https://databricks.com/p/webinar/unlock-the-potential-inside..., and hundreds other companies (https://databricks.com/customers)
Improve it by not having Internet connectivity I guess?

Even Tor is vulnerable to timing correlation attacks, imagine everything else, given how leaky most protocols are...
How would this be an excuse for Binance to block outgoing transactions?

Unless somehow all of Binance's bitcoin was stuck in the mempool ...
My understanding is that electric motors are generally more reliable than piston engines. I'm not sure how that compares to jets (which are also considered generally more reliable than piston engines). Nearly all modern helicopters are jet powered.
To be clear - the Lira is worth far more intrinsically than bitcoin.

The reason is simple: The Turkish Lira has a government (complete with courts, military, bureaucrats, police, banks, etc) that has committed to enforcing transactions in the Lira.

Does that mean the speculative market for Lira must be bigger than bitcoin? No, of course not. But it does mean there's fundamental utility to the Lira that absolutely does not exist for bitcoin.
Long term I'm bearish because it's a deflationary asset. Deflationary value stores have a tendency to cause all sorts of social ills by encouraging hoarding. There's a reasonable line of thought that observes that it's no coincidence that the end of the age of European colonialism coincided with the demise of the gold standard.

More concretely: if crypto is deflationary, then its value works similarly to how an Amway or Herbalife membership's value does. You get rich by getting in first and then convincing others to join after you.
How about a minimalist office suite and email suite written in modern C++ or Rust? Performance and responsiveness are important!
> Seems bullshit, it's obviously impossible to beat both state of the art CPUs, GPUs and even TPUs (lol) with a single architecture.

Unseating x86/AMD64 is going to be hard because of the inertia they have. Whatever you make, even if it's faster, at least has to be able to run x86/64 binaries at a reasonable speed or it won't get wide adoption, unless it's a very captive market (mobile/Apple).

I'm skeptical of their claims but I would just say, the M1 has proven that if you have an appetite for throwing away compatibility and a great engineering team you can accomplish quite a bit. It seems you definitely can throw away the baggage that comes with needing compatibility and make fast, successful processors.
Nope, not the same city! Twin cities yes, but different municipalities. There’s even a little burb in between.
"The plebs think high prices are bad?! High prices?! Let's see how they like high prices and no job!"

The end goal, of course, is serfdom under a government benefits system.
The highlight was about Mozilla the org not being involved. The Thunderbird org is definitely putting resources into this, not Mozilla.
Thunderbird on desktop is unusable for me on privacy grounds; it phones home in the same manner as Firefox.

I hope this behavior does not infect K-9 Mail.
This is just sad. Once again, the greedy misled the idiots, and the innocent will pay.
Shocks to the Unicorn System
The peg breaks when Tether refuses/is unable to redeem USDT for USD. Obviously in any secondary market whether order book or AMM based there is going to be trading within a range.
What if you trust someone and care about them, but don’t particularly enjoy their company? I suppose it would still be normal to call that person a “friend,” although you’d be missing a key part of what most people think of when using that word.
Looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!
I've used it for a couple months. Battery life and CPU power are a major hurdle, but it is promising because calling and SMS works just fine with the open-source modem firmware. I might try it again in 6 months, as I heard the next release of Phosh is supposed to have GPU acceleration or something and is much smoother.

I think I will continue using AOSP on a pixel phone until waydroid support gets a bit better. It takes a while to start waydroid, and by then I'm already down like 25% battery.

The "selling point" of postmarketOS is that it is based on the lightweight Alpine Linux, and it has a toolkit (called pmbootstrap) which is designed to make it easy to port it to stock-android phones, not just pinephone/librem5's. So whatever contributions you make to the OS will survive beyond this generation of phones. Also, other distros like Ubuntu Touch try to make their own weird userspace, but postmarketOS is nice because it behaves a lot more like the desktop linux userspace. Also, it's easy to run their pmbootstrap program to make your own image- it gives you a selection of DE's to choose from for example sxmo or kde mobile or phosh, and you can even set up FDE. What I'm getting at here is that it's a lot more "standard" and extensible than the other linux phone distros out there: they try to build on top of a minimal alpine linux instead of just porting a bigger distro like manjaro or reinventing the wheel.

Hopefully we will eventually see postmarketOS ported to a more powerful (probably stock-android) phone that has feature-parity with the pinephone (see https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Community). I would definitely miss the extensibility and open-ness of the pinephone; ideally a company like pine64 just iterates on the pinephone until the hardware is usable, and the software meets it in the middle.
American society at least is highly fractured these days, along all kinds of lines, and this seems to have resulted in high levels of distrust across those lines - ideological, economic, racial, gender, and probably a host of others.

This tends to push people into clusters where they all share the same ideological viewpoints, which is a depressing situation. My idea of a great party has always been one where a group of people from widely different backgrounds are put together in a big room and 'forced' to interact with each other, but these days I'm afraid that would lead to a bloodbath of some sort.

To quote from Frank Herbert, on the subject of limiting your relationships to those who share all your identitarian tick-marks, "I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections."

As far as "close deep meaningful relationships that you can rely on through thick and thin, a friend who will always come to your aid in times of trouble, and to whom you will always offer support" ... that sounds more like a military alliance between independent city-states in ancient Greece than your average human friendship. Don't expect too much, in other words.

Here's a related (novel?) concept: don't try to leverage friendships for personal economic gain, for access to a job, for growing your multi-level marketing business, etc. That's called 'networking', not 'friendship'. I suppose it has its place, humans being human, but don't confuse the two.
All those metrics are down post covid because the era of cheap and easy money is over.
Unemployment is linked with mortality: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/02/the-link-between-unem...

What they're really signaling is that they think people need to die.
What specifically would you say was different in 2018 that made the DAI peg more workable?
Depends on what you mean by "good OS". Architecturally, it was a descendant of VMS and its kernel was considered well engineered for its time. It had a ton of bugs and security issues but so did all the pre-2.0 Linux kernels/distributions that were its contemporary.

From the userland and UI perspective, well, it's just Windows, both in the positive and negative sense; NT is the granddady of Windows XP and Windows 7 both of which were well regarded but NT also suffered from all the warts and ugliness caused by being converted into a consumer OS.
Is linguistic inflation insanely awesome? (2012)
Is it even possible to reach that rate given that generating a random hash takes some time?
Why didn't they just memorize the information? Retaining even a few dozen names and addresses can be mastered with a few weeks' training.
Wouldn't go that far - the programmable aspects were at release were certainly unique and value added.
Books are imaginary, and books that are not publically audited are even more imaginary.
Share with you or share with ycombinator? I'll gladly share with ycombinator as part of the HN account creation process.
Trying to time a market always fails, and a first house isn't really an investment in the traditional sense. It's always the best time to buy first home, from a market perspective. The big factor is picking somewhere you plan to live for 5+ years.
NT5/Windows 2000 was a huge leap forward for Microsoft in terms of design model and security. NT5.1/Windows XP had some iterative improvements and some things going backwards.

NT4 was better than 95 in every way, but was merely mediocre. Microsoft's suite of workplace tools that ran on NT4 were janky and broken, requiring their own college degree to set up and administer, but they also represented a real productivity boost for many teams.
Bad title on HN. The article and it's title don't say anything like that.

Current title on HN is 'Fed signals high unemployment rate is now “necessary” to tame inflation'.
I don't think market cap is really the best metric to look at for the meaningful "size" of a speculation-driven market like cryptocurrency. Admittedly, I'm far from the most financially-savvy, but it seems to me that more relevant figures are the number of people invested in the market and the percentage of people's income/wealth invested in it.

Actually, probably even more relevant (though more difficult to measure) than the absolute number of people invested in the market is some kind of measure of the "distribution" or "spread" of such people—something like distinct groups of people without direct connections to each other, since (positive) interest in cryptocurrency seems to cluster somewhat based on word of mouth networks.

Would actually be an interesting kind of study to do, finding the most useful ways to measure the "size" of a market of this nature. I would guess that there are probably at least 2-3 different measures of "size" that would be relevant to different kinds of effects on the market, but I'm afraid that's about where my understanding of all this ends.
The cynical word for that could be "family".
If people spend the time I think you could learn the "details" - but even knowing the difference between running a node and a miner and server and what a wallet is and the keys associated with it, etc, even knowing and doing all that - it's still a hassle and more expensive! If you "trade" bitcoin inside an exchange and not on-chain, they don't have to pay the chain fees and therefore don't have to charge you to cover them.

It's the same with email - it's actually relatively easy to run an email server even with all the issues; but the spam and deliverability issues are enough that basically nobody except the "true nerds" bother. I suspect most people on HN could run their own email server on a $5 node, but don't bother.
Genuinely curious: What's the official definition of the word facism, and who gets to set it?
I did a surface-level search, and couldn't really find that one definition everybody seems to agree on. One commonality seems to be in having some kind of dictator, and I think that even if your view of the EU was correct, it wouldn't have much to do with a dictatorship.
The existence of medical conditions existing with no bio marker test is a globally understood phenomenon with established medical jargon and broad acceptance.
Motion Twin, the team behind the Dead Cells, is a worker-owned anarchist cooperative:

> WE'RE ALL EQUAL and we wanted that to show, both in the way our games are made and in the way we organise ourselves. So we chose to create a cooperative company. Everyone has a say and we all take home the same salary.

http://motion-twin.com/
Human trafficking may not be as big a problem as the media often claims it is, I don't think anyone can say for certain that all porn on a given website is uploaded solely consensually. In the same way barely any, if any at all, international clothing brand can claim to work completely without sweatshops, child labour or even slavery. It's not that these companies don't try, it's just a very difficult problem to work around.

As far as I know, though I'm clearly no expert on this topic, actual human trafficking mostly seems to involve the physical part of sex work (not necessarily the performing part). It's also usually not even close to the typical depiction of someone getting kidnapped, shipped off, and forced to have sex.

The real world involves modelling/fashion/contract deals that turn out wrong when the victim gets picked up from the airport, financial coercion of family, forms of wage slavery and other "soft" coercion methods. There have been plenty of stories in the news here about men and women signing contracts they couldn't read that claimed they agreed to all sorts of things (though legally that's complete nonsense, of course, but the victims don't know that!) The approach is not very different from the approaches abusers use to make Eastern European people work in richer European countries for far less than minimal wage with barely any worker's rights.

It's a tragedy that needs more nuance and definitely more government action even at its relatively modest real world scale, at least here in Europe. Every abuse case is one too many.
I don’t have a link offhand but I’ve seen this code while debugging some pirate sports streams. The next upcoming one to check would be an NBA game from “nba bite” (Google it, it’s the offshoot of the banned sports streaming subreddits.)

I think you’re probably right that it wouldn’t detect presence of your extension, since that code runs in its own context and I assume doesn’t actually call the debugger. If your extension injects a script into the page, then that could be detected with this technique or similar.
I never claimed you argued for that. I'm simply stating the cost of each solution. Thrift is definitely much simpler in practice in all cases, except the case I mentioned as being an exception.
That is a shamefully edited headline. The word used is "higher" not "high". Unemployment is near all-time lows. Having it creep to something in the 4-5% range is a completely acceptable price for lower inflation.
Thank you!

I also have never seen anything (sex) actually happen at pride. It is always people being cheerful, maybe wearing some gear. If you think that gear is sexual you have already been exposed to it in an actual sexual manor.

If you really are upset about people wearing gear I hope you don't take your kids to the pool or the beach either. You see far more in those situations.
I don't have the original source but I read about a double bind test of one of the COVID-19 vaccine side effects. Only half of the test subjects received the vaccine (the other saline), but something like two thirds of the test subjects reported side effects. There isn't any doubt that long COVID is real, but it's more than likely that many of the people that report symptoms don't actually have it. There has been so much talk about long COVID in the media, that people expect to have it; so the media is working as a nocebo.
> if the exchanges actually do collapse, then whilst you won't lose your BTC if you're not on the exchange, your BTC are probably going to be worth a lot less anyway

I hear this repeated often. Very short term, sure. But long term, shouldn't your slice of magical internet money pot be worth more simply because there's now less of it in total?
Fridges and freezers don’t necessarily need built-in smarts to monitor, they draw power and are cold, both of which are observable. Monitoring power is more within the realm of the ‘average smart home’ (lots of Kasa switches are metered). Temperature monitoring seems a little more tricky to me. Not drawing power? Alert. Warming up? Alert. Definitely seems worthwhile if you have freezers with >=$1000 of food in!
"as more people try to get onto stable ground"

Stable ground is not a cryptocurrency, what is stable are USA national bonds. The Federal bonds of the USA are the safest asset in the world, and it is what all traders go for when they need safety. No national government of a English speaking country has defaulted on its debt since the Stop of the Exchequer in 1672, and the USA has a huge military which further protects its bonds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_of_the_Exchequer
The change in my net worth doesn't care where the money comes from.
When you don't spring out of bed excited to see what the work day brings you.

When you get into conflicts and arguments with coworkers over mundane crap like their voice tone.

When you yell at your significant other after the work day is done.

When you rationalize and justify being glued to a monitor for over 8 hours a day as normal, necessary and natural.
Mozilla's version of the story already on the front page for > 2 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31725103
Yeah but next gets you the same benefits without needing PHP or a DB (for the frontend). Drupal requires a LEMP stack, which is both hard to maintain and hard to scale/replicate.

You still need a place to store actual content/data, of course. But that could be any store or service that gives you an API endpoint to fetch from.
There is a very real calculation to be done here:

Leave it on an exchange and have access to customer support, etc in the event you get locked out of your account or whatever.

-OR-

Be the next news story of the person who messed up the transfer, forget their seed, etc. The entire blockchain ecosystem is still so incredibly difficult to use with bad UI/UX on top of it that this is the more likely outcome for the vast majority of people.
You really believe that the guys who can't properly weld an armoured vehicle can produce ICBMs? That the guys who cannot produce their own cannon barrels any longer are capable of creating rocket engines? That the guys who cannot prevent thieves from stealing electronics from their doomsday plane are somehow capable to produce, maintain and secure a fleet of ICBMs?

Are you really sure that the Russian cleptocracy that sends sappers to the front line with wooden bricks wrapped up as TNT (yep) and styrofoam wrapped up as dry rations for "liberated" civilians are somehow capable of maintaining a fleet of strategic missiles at 1/100 of the budget that US spends to maintain theirs?

I'm not.

But I am afraid that if we give them 5 years they will manage to get something working.

And that scares me more than the thought of angering Putin right now.

Luckily I don't have to make this decisions, we have people in Nato who knows extremely much more than me. If they tell me to show up I do.
> I don't think most porn is nonconsensual, especially not most professional grade stuff...

If most is consensual and certainly most professional grade stuff is, then what's the need to abolish the commercial sex industry as a whole?

I think it's better to drag these sort of things into the light where people can feel safe reporting abuse, and other criminal activity. Right now if you're forced into performing a shoot, it might be very hard for a person to report that to the police.

Apart from the usual worries they'd have in your typical rape incident, they'd have to worry that people wouldn't take them seriously because it happened during their occupation. In fact, many people might start to opine that they are just owed money for 'forced labor' and this is a civil matter.

> It's a practically unsolvable problem.

Crime in general is an unsolvable problem. We can mitigate it. We can reduce it. Yet we can't solve the issue for good.

However, mitigation and reduction start by having good laws that target the actual situation at hand. Look at the case of J. Epstein, where people were potentially forced to have sex with politicians who had no idea their partner was coerced. There ought to be a more specific law against this situation, because at the time everyone was unsure of who would be charged (the politicians who were honeypotted? Epstein? Other workers?).
What guarantee do you have that you will actually be able to execute the Buy order when these exchanges can unilaterally block trades?
This is dated "October 12, 2021", 8 months ago. This doesn't appear to be related much to what is currently going on with Celsius.