skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass surveillance has been used against citizens in the US too; it's too tempting a tool not to abuse. The legal system loses its credibility when warrants, proceedings, evidence, etc are all secret in the name of national security. And further there are cases where the government circumvents the law's intent by asking companies to do things the government itself must not do.

Whether a thing is "legal" when it comes to government (ab)use of power is the thinnest of defenses. As the senator from Naboo said: "I will make it legal."
Unfortunately, it doesn't. That was actually the reason I built this originally - there's no easy way to control read/write access to a file on S3 without using some sort of external locking system.
I guess it depends on your point of view. Orcs we’re created by a powerful being of elvish religion. They were denied their free existence by him, his minions and the groups they were thrown against. This continued for 1000’s of years, as the driver, the driver’s minions and their targets remained basically the same.

Sorta defines under educated, under employed cannon fodder. Racist? Depends on whether species are races. Tribal, certainly. Severe anger management issues, certainly. And if you believe that orcs are corrupted elves, they might be the same damn grunts that fought celebrimbor and durin in the 2nd age.
My current high score is 446834. This was not trying too hard, just playing a handful of times. I do have the unfair advantage of being intimately familiar with the economic model.
> Because it's the top from the previous bull run. And cryptobro TAs everywhere were parroting incessantly the mantra "Bitcoin never falls below the top from the previous bullrun". Well, oops.

So world events impacting the entire economy should have no effect on bitcoin whatsoever? That seems a little reductive.
That makes my point stronger if you're claiming self-reproducing machines don't exist. Of course I thought of using a bacteria or an algae bloom there, and even though I didn't, pretending I did is a better use of your time than commenting surely? The future robot torture AI isn't going to like that.
I keep being frustrated how these experiments never seem to try to replicate the results with tea in addition to coffee. They are wildly different drugs.
I guess GP likes it? I think plenty of hobbies, sports, and events are stupid. But there are whole industries built around them.
This one is for you then: http://www.quantenkoffer.com/en/
Personally, I don't like these two kinds of syntax for declaring and assigning a mutable variable, because if code is moved around - which happens all the time - I have to switch the syntax for declaration vs assignment. Same thing with Go's := and =.
Exactly this. If the great promise of crypto was that it would just be another market asset, then the comparison with stocks is fine. It's that all the great promises of crypto being different, better, than the 'fiat currencies' and centralized stock exchanges. If you called bullshit on it they condescendingly accused you of just not getting it. This crash shows that it was all bullshit and still is.
> Mainly because Americans just aren’t they kind of people.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
- "And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families" - Trump

You are right, how could anyone ever think that the US government is that kind of people.
> BLM protests in my country pointed to a moral solidarity that transcends political boundaries

What actual changes occurred in your country due to the Black Lives Matter movement in a legal sense? Did it result in less police deaths? Covid probably threw a spanner in the works judging such things but for many countries it's likely more their own way to vote on US politics by having people out in the streets than a domestic issue.

It's a US phenomena exported and regurgitated by many others across the west who simply don't have these systemic problems with their police force at all. This concern only really appears once every four years in foreign countries.

Why is no one protesting today, truly? Did the whole BLM movement just decide that brutality stopped? The stats seem the same.

Think it will appear again across the planet in the lead up to the 2024 US election. And your country, along with mine, will be highly concerned about police brutality that doesn't exist in our own nations.
You can often trigger this dodging reflex in moths with a simple broadband ultrasound generator: quick jingling a keychain of metal keys. A nearby moth will drop suddenly when it detects the "echolocation pulse" with its tympanic membrane.

The counter-counter-evolutionary strategy of moth-specialist bats is to "whisper", and bats of the genus Corynorhinus for example have comically large ears so that they can echolocate at very low amplitude in "stealth mode", avoiding detection by moths until the very final approach phase.

I'm not familiar with moths producing an active "jamming" signal, and have a hard time believing it'd be very successful given that bats often produce echolocation signals as loud as 110dB (though they drop amplitude and refine frequencies as distance to a target decreases), but my experience is exclusively with US bats.

Another problem with announcing that you're searching for and homing in on food at 110dB is that any other bats nearby can hear as well. I've recorded Tadarida producing a sinusoidal FM jamming signal to try and prevent a competitor from success.
And I thought this was about static test firings of their rocket engines…
Did Zookeeper or Etcd not suit your needs?
So Visa is similar to miners on Bitcoin blockchain and bitcoin is the medium of exchange?
> Bitcoin has gone down from $70k to $20k in a year, that’s close
> to 350%. Not to mention it’s down 500% since the $100k high.

That's not how percentages work, and your Bitcoin price numbers are wrong too.

If an asset drops from $70k to $20k, that's a 71% drop. If it went from $100k to $20k, that's an 80% drop.

For Bitcoin to drop 350% would mean that someone who purchased it lost more than their initial purchase cost.

The all-time high for Bitcoin is about $61k, not $100k.
A valid question! Semicolons and other forms of syntactic redundancy often enable much better error messages. We're leaning towards keeping them in Vale.

However, we can always change our minds later and make them optional, so it seems wise to just require them for now and revisit later.
So I've put interest rate to 0.0% all the way until the end and GDP was 442599
How is that a realistic assumption? The infrastructure goes dark as soon as the mining incentives disappear. You own an internet relic, a MySpace page
Show HC: A more powerful Crontab based on Kubernetes
They didn't say this device (although they are around) but their devices, meaning from low to high-end.
If you're in the US and near a major metro, keep an eye on bidspotter. Every once in a while you can catch a lot of high end test gear and/or accessories at lower prices than ebay.
Dogs you’re part of their family, Cats you’re part of their staff.
Right, with those specs you could run any CMS-based website with images and everything and serve hundreds of users a day without any issue.
How about...

AnythingButAGI?
Michael and Nayib are gamblers who like to take risks. It could have worked the opposite for them if BTC wasn't so connected with the stock market. I don't think they realized this until it was too late.
> tell me where you can buy one to own as property

The American prison slave population's value is packaged in municipal bonds.

So to answer your question, buy a lot of bonds and send labor contracts to the related prisons, a middleman called the US government will take care of the rest.
2008: everyone brags about working 90 hours a week

2022: everyone brags about working 20 hours a week
Heads up, "ahead of it's time" should be "ahead of its time"

Cool tool!
who knows what it means for Musk. he said (paraphrasing) that whatever is legal should be allowed on Twitter. this doesn't really mean anything with regards to his speech at work views.

if we want to somehow generalize the ethos of whatever is legal should be allowed (so basically he thinks Twitter is too strict) then we might conclude that he favors more "open dialogue" and this does feel contrary to firing employees for criticism. (though I haven't seen the letter, it's possible the authors/signers explicitly said something that simply make it clear that they won't continue to work in this or that way, and the company decided that okay, the company won't change so they have to go anyway - see the Gebru ultimatum)
Switzerland had -0.75 until last week when they went to -0.25.
By balance I mean I don’t go full LARPer when doing basic stuff like online banking and buying stuff from Amazon. LARPer means Live Action Role Play and refers to someone overly paranoid about every little thing. In other words, their threat model is wrongly applied to basic things. If you’re a journalist you may want to use Qubes and use disposable VMs to open PDF documents, for example. Most people would be fine just opening the PDF in Google Docs. The extreme options I mentioned can be used if you’re a target of harassment, like changing your legal name, or if you’re a prominent activist you may need a burner phone to attend a protest. It’s all about your threat model. Also: disabling Intel Management Engine could be useful for protecting your business secrets and intellectual property, but for most people doing mundane things it’s an extreme step to take.
> Better to try

Who is supposed to «try», and what?

The issue can only be resolved (in terms of political intervention) by a sound, sensible plan acceptable by enough parts.

You want to fix the problem, you have to facilitate that somebody formulates a proposal that enough governments will be available to subscribe to.

No, the fear of annihilation is factually not enough to convince a policymaker - first, guts to head, because of ethology, and second, because of game theory. "Ethology" being a well-dressed encapsulation for "that's how it is - see and evaluate", and "game theory" implying that for a player not to grab the loot a number of reassurances must be in place.
I think that may have come to pass if it hadn't been to the very top part of society capturing such a gigantic % of the new wealth generated.

With more even distribution I could totally see more middle class deciding they've got a "good" life and no reason to work another 20 hours extra.
Ok, my bad then. In which region?

I've never seen people shoveling off kilos of dust from their roof like they would do for e.g. snow.

For example the wind bringing Sahara dust to Southern Europe only leaves a thin layer of dust, it would never reach anywhere close to 0.2 mm. That still leaves a lot of light going through, so maybe it becomes my hypothetical 20% (maybe roughly the same as a very cloudy weather).

Precision: I'm speaking of a sloppy roof, of course, not a flat one.
Canada and Denmark End Their Arctic Whisky War
If you ban non-consensual data collection & processing then there wouldn’t be a business case for building infrastructure for it.

Law enforcement would have to build it from scratch (and trick users to fall for it or pass laws to force people/companies to use it) where as right now they can just dip into the data companies already collect.

The "attention economy" is the best thing that happened to intelligence agencies worldwide. Where as before they had to build surveillance infrastructure themselves (which requires budget, skills and secrecy, all of which is costly and politically risky), nowadays they get all of that not just for free but much better than anything they could build themselves.
It's a lot of fluff
This is something we spoke about in https://incident.io/blog/on-call-at-incident-io. Specifically:

> On-call payment is not expected to cover any time you spend working outside of hours. If you're paged and end up working in your evening, you should take time off in lieu. We trust you to manage this time yourself.

I'll make sure this is added this to the guide. Thanks for the nudge!
Why does Alexa speak to me in German?
The text input comprehension is (supposedly) much better in Google's "DALL-E 2", https://imagen.research.google/
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\ V / _` | | || / -_|_-/_
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I… think that says “values:”, but it took me a while to decide, aided by what I might call the known-plaintext heading “rawtext.club” written in the same style.
I thought frens was a Zoomer thing
Hand-optimizing assembly becomes too hard for humans past certain size, which is not yet too large for LLVM, GCC, or ICC.

OTOH Fortran (and, I suppose, something like APL / K / Q) can generate faster code than C++ because Fortran guarantees the absence of aliasing. In C or C++, aliasing precludes certain kinds of optimizations, and proving the absence of aliasing at a particular spot may be too time-consuming (if tractable at all) for the compiler to try.
I tried setting interest rates to 20% for the whole game, with... interesting results.

Inflation rised steadily as people ate all the apples in the market.

At the beginning it looked like inflation would never stop, but at some point an orchard managed to become profitable, becoming crazy rich ($22000) because apple prices were at $100. This made apple prices crash, going down to $0.02. This pattern repeated itself a few times.

GDP stayed very low, obviously.
> I don't know how to say this without sounding snide but I am genuinely curious: you need to back every single part of that sentence up with some serious citations.

You can check binance and other sites that offer P2P listings and you'll find that most of the listings nowadays trade stablecoins. I can't easily cite that for F2F (face to face) but I have done F2F trades many times and it's always with stablecoins

> Specifically can you challenge my perception that you're advocating for option B of the following: Option A: find someone to trade <thing you have> for <thing you want>, haggle, transact. Option B: trust some tentacled bio-monstrosity to perform sophisticated transaction chains with a ton of misaligned incentives at each layer.

Option A isn't viable. That's basically barter economy, and the same reasons why people use money instead of barter in the real world apply. You have a thousand+ of different coins/tokens/etc. So that's 1000^2 pairs if you wanted a pair for each combination. Obviously impossible.

So before stablecoins existed, BTC was the crypto that everything had a pair with. You would buy BTC and then trade that to something else. But with stablecoins most people moved to that because you don't have the volatility that BTC has.

> Option B: trust some tentacled bio-monstrosity to perform sophisticated transaction chains with a ton of misaligned incentives at each layer.

I don't know what you mean exactly by that loaded statement. But CeX are extremely simple in the way they operate. Of course the problem is if they are doing something not legit. DeX such as uniswap are a bit more complex but not that complex really.

To put things into perspective, what do people do?
A) Buy AAPL through NASDAQ (with a broker as an intermediary) using dollars
B) Trade AAPL for WMT over the counter

Of course A. B would be not only extremely situational, but also impossible unless you are really big investor.
Maybe the real issue to solve is to reduce the page size to make this a feasible approach to mitigation. Hardware designers have made this choice, but, does it really need to be 4096 bytes?

With a much smaller size, say, 128 bytes, almost every new allocation could be put into a new page at a new address, with one or more guard pages behind it.

Yes, it would increase the size of the page tables, and the lookup time, but maybe it's worth it.
Yeah but the point would be, if you can beat C++ with assembly, then theoretically there can exist a compiler for another language which can compile to that same assembly, meaning C++ isn't at the theoretical limit.

Maybe it's a nitpick, but it gives me a little bit of pause to see a statement like this on a language website's page, since it seems to indicate a bit of a weak or sloppy understanding of computer science fundamentals.
It's only suspicious if few people do it. Make it the norm.
Concerning audiobookshelf, I see it other way around, because I think audiobookshelf came after - so it's contender to audioserve. But it is definitely nice app. I tried and did like some things (especially turning books into HLS streams), however I ran into couple of issues, when trying:

- audiobookshelf requires some rules for directory structure (which caused that some subfolders from my collections were not loaded), audioserve serves any directory structure

- bigger collections - for collections with 10k audiobooks audiobookshelf was just too slow it went on for couple of hours loading before I kill it. Audioserve is able to handle within collections scan in tens of minutes.
Under gauge theory, there is no such thing as a recession--just thousands of people preferring leisure time over work time.
It is an interesting Chinese proverb!

>> Maintaining inherited wealth has worked for generations of Frescobaldis over 700 years

The article gives a counter example (wealth passed 700 years is way over 3 generations), and tries to argue that this example is more than just an outlier?

>> heirs and heiresses make up about half of Western Europe’s billionaires.
I have approx. 0 understanding of how interest rates, inflation rates, etc. all intersect. My economics knowledge is 0. Is there a good fun accessible book to get started?
"Frens" in particular is, yes.
Looks like if interest rates get high enough everything will shut down.
I am downvoting because the comment acts as if it's a mystery where all the wealth gains in productivity have gone.

It is NOT a fucking mystery, and I'm outraged that so, so many people are or act oblivious to the obscenely obvious cause. (Since it's not actually obvious to everyone, thanks to shit education and propaganda, the uber-wealthy have hoovered up the gains in productivity and kept it to themselves.)

It's very clear by looking at the numbers [0], and it's outrageous to ignore this factor and blame a slightly older population.

[0] - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/productivity-workforc...
>news.ycombinator.com
Ferdi gets shut down by author
I loved Exapunks, TIS-100, Molek-Syntez and Opus Magnum. I still have not played Shenzhen I/O and I started Infinifactory yesterday, after learning about this last game. These games are all absolute gems. Especially TIS-100 was so simple with its three colors and its maybe four types of bleeps, and also quite hard, and yet it managed to somehow keep me in some sort of mood, to the point that there are only a handful of bonus puzzles left. That sequence merger puzzle pissed me off though :D

So this will be a collection of "smaller" games with different types of puzzles, but according to Zach, "some of these will be as large as TIS-100", which sounds impressive. For those wondering why this is the last game, Zach got a teaching job. I am sure his students will enjoy his classes a lot.
Probably everyone here can make low six figures without trying. But many want to make 400k a year. So they are trying. I'm done with the rat race myself. Physically, I'm in better shape than almost all of the try hards at work.
To be fair it's also the name of a small musical bird, but yeah I'm sure many if not lost English speakers will think of a yeast infection first.
> Rather than compressing raster images of people speaking, we could send a model as an initial payload and subsequent instructions on how to manipulate it as the conversation progresses.

What about latency though? Would that improve?
You are correct - fixed! Also thanks for the kind words :)
I will freely admit that Wolfram's thoughts are over my head and there are very few thoughts that fall into this category.

I imagine many are in the same boat, if they admit it or not.

I also imagine that Wolfram isn't the best at compressing his ideas into a form that is easier to digest for those of us of more average intelligence.
Show HN: Using formal methods to write better requirements
However, from a Russian perspective it makes perfect sense.

No, it's just a meme. Which is now speedily propelling them to yet another collapse.

Russia lost pretty much everything.

It was never theirs to begin with.
It baffles me how a unit of account became a store of value. I'm not surprised it turned out not to be.
> they get your legal consent whether you like the way they do it or not.

Facebook tracks millions of people who never sogned up to a facebook account and has never agreed to anything
Its since been removed I believe but it was linked to in that reddit thread.
Because:

a.) we are not at pre-corona levels yet and

b.) most of the highly valued companies which are publicly tradable will continue to provide value to the world or their customers, contrary to the crypto crap.
This is why browsers have reader mode.
Go to Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3kTYCLSgsg?t=49s
I use incognito mode sometimes for NSFW stuff and when I don’t want to be tracked with cookies. I have a browser profile for when I need to be logged into something, like Amazon for example.
Constructing bug-free code is infeasible. Even the most skilled programmers write code with bugs in, and most programmers, including many who work on browsers components, are only moderately skilled, often writing buggy code.

Perhaps the longer-term solution is to use languages that are memory safe by design, such as Rust, to avoid that class of bugs. But there will still be a huge deal of legacy C++ code to contend with in the meantime, so we do still need exploit mitigations.
If you only watch one source or “one side” of everything how informed are you really?
Instead of a book, I would suggest reading Investopedia’s guides. I find them easy to read for a layperson. Example:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/12/inflation-intere...
So I'm not saying I understand what will happen with Bitcoin long term. Or else I'd be on my own big boat right now.

I also wouldn't take your bet as I think bitcoin likely will go above 30k in the next 4 years. What is also likely is that the price will remain volatile - unless there's a major game changer I think this volatility will keep putting a lot of people off (with an impact on price).

I have no idea what the price will be in 4 years time. My guess says under 50k. But I wouldn't be surprised if it hit 200k.
It was worth $30,000 nine days ago. Have stocks lost a third of their value in the last 10 days?
Literally "stay healthy" (same thing as "salute" which is "be healthy / safe").

Might be an apt connotation for a language that tries to make code less error-prone and less verbose.
That ASCII art is cool af, wow. My blog[0] is also in plain text, I love it. As a designer, I’m my own worst client but redesigning my own sites multiple times a year was draining…if I design something to be super basic, I can’t get mad at it. About a year in so far, it’s working.

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[0]: https://blog.webb.page
Gee thanks for sounding the "impure thought alarm". Someone might have been seduced by the White Supremacy all unknowing.