skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people only care about speculation

You probably just described 99% of the crypto market. If the buyers of crypto actually cared about the features and usage you wouldn't have so many random shit coins getting pumped then dumped.
Which is in fact, an awesome project, aside from being LoRaWan centric, and requiring registration of devices, as opposed to something like how AirTags work.
Because the moment you use it, you are on their radar. The arrest of one of its developers was telling, who knows what terms he agreed to.
I liked how they spoofed that in Terminator 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw
That is exactly my point. The choice today seems to be (1) spend ~$50k on a new ICE car and sell it in 4 years for 20-30k (or less) or (2) spend ~$70k on a new EV and sell it in 4 years for 60-70k (or more)
Hypocrisy makes good news
The law has yet to be passed.
And its facing immense backlash, even from governments like Germany.
That probably depends on how many rails and when trains can cross onto other rails. I.e. a basic flow is all trains go one direction on one rail, and they all go backwards on the other. You can use the "wrong direction" rail to pass another train, but only if there's no oncoming train. Waiting for a train to go through so you can cross is effectively the same as stopping at a station.

The answer is to have more rails, but that takes more space, and I'm not sure how much space they're dedicating to the rail system.

Rail scheduling is fascinating; it does make me curious how fast they can make this system in a real world environment.
Came here to comment on Wayland (I don't use Gnome or a display manager but Sway fired up from CLI). I guess I will keep using wayvnc over Wireguard.
I'm reading this comment and this thread, thinking of the excellent service we get from AWS (which we pay for) and that stuff just works, and wondering why on earth anyone would risk their business on a Google service.
I think the "Andy" interviewer was key, and was a set up the whole time to see how the candidate would really perform under stress:

1) Previous interviewers set up Andy as the toughest part of the interview, preloading the stress.

2) Andy comes last, when the candidate is tired

3) Andy hits you with that wall of stress. Doesn't matter what it is. The candidate gave Andy an easy task by admitting he was weak on something right away.

The answer didn't matter as long as you didn't fold.
I don't see it as a minor offence at all, spam distracts me and breaks my flow and spends my cognitive energy and as a result makes me underperform. I like putting all my attention to the stuff I'm engaged with and it makes me very angry when interrupted with something irrelevant. I do often try to track back spam calls or spam mails to make sure that I'm an expensive target.

Some people can be better at dealing with that kind of annoyances, good for them.
https://fly.io/blog/launching-laravel-bytes/ is a 404... how did this get 3 up votes?
Does it work on Linux? Debain?
Alert fatigue is real but silent rootkits are way worse.

Also, it's not just about booting windows or the OS, it's about the UEFI, which even fewer people are going to want to tinker with.
Feels both exciting and terrifying in about the same proportions!
Written by a company who has their current pricing defined as:

> Lago was born to enable any company to build a great pricing stack, starting with billing. However, we haven’t communicated about our own pricing yet

Source: https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-we-think-about-our-own-pric...
Maybe, maybe not. Android is still a major, major feeder to other Google projects.
>This is not the greatest atrocity of our generation. There have been at least three invasions and occupations that are significantly worse crimes: the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan

That depends on what numbers you're going to believe about civilian fatalities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen etc.

It is often claimed that the Iraq War killed anywhere from 0.5 million to over 1.0 million Iraqis.

However these big numbers don't make much sense considering that large scale aerial bombings and artillery strikes stopped after a month into the war and large-scale ground operations stopped after the second battle of Fallujah in 2004. The Iraqis then suffered a horrific decade of weekly and monthly sectarian terror attacks. However adding all the civilian fatalities from the US invasion and the decade of sectarian violence still doesn't add up to ~100,000 and not anywhere near the "millions" range.

Don't get me wrong. The people who started the Iraq War are war criminals. However it doesn't make sense to compare the most widely exaggerated estimates from the 10+ year Iraq War with the current UN confirmed counting of civilian fatalities in the 5 month war in Ukraine. If we go by confirmed civilian fatalities Russia is currently killing Ukrainian civilians at a faster pace than anytime during the Iraq War.
> These people don’t mention that Ukraine schools only teach Russian Literature. There was no Ukrainian Literature. No World Literature.

Where did you get that? There is Ukrainian Literature as a subject, and World Literature where Russian literature had some place. It's a mandatory part of the curriculum countrywide. Geez, there even was "Soviet Ukrainian Literature" subject in '80s, although it only had writers in it that were deemed benign for the regime.

I'll grant you that in the eastern parts, there had been very high degree of push to opt-in for Russian Language & Literature classes and Ukrainian had been taught by incompetent twats who couldn't speak it.
My parents didn't have specific ambitions for me. They didn't want me to be a doctor or a football player or whatever.

But they did want me to be... something. A person who studied hard. A person who had integrity in dealing with others. A person who wasn't getting in trouble. A person who was capable of doing a fair number of things. A person who understood money and handled it fairly wisely. Those were their ambitions for me.

Now that I think of it, that wasn't a bad set of ambitions to have for your kids...
Has anyone tried suing Google over this kind of thing? A right-wing journalist recently managed to get his Twitter account unbanned by suing Twitter, so maybe it's possible.
See, this is a really interesting point there: do we separate the speaker and the speech, or do we lump them together?

I.e., if a Hitler (you saw that coming) says something demonstrably true, while a Pope (yep) says something demonstrably false — who do we agree with? Working out an answer to this question in a clear form has repercussions for the cancel culture, institutions created by slave owners, etc, etc, etc. It isn't new either. People struggled with the oeuvre of writers who supported Nazism way back when: do we read them or do we forget them? Knut Hamsun comes to mind. Rolf Nevanlinna would be a similar example in mathematics.
A reminder that EFF projects like this are only possible with your continuing support: https://eff.org/support (disclosure: while I used to work at EFF when Cooper and Yomna were researching this I don't now, so I'm being COMPLETELY OBJECTIVE in this current call for donations).
thttpd appeared here 7 weeks ago, which had me reminiscing about running a web server with 96,000 IP addresses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664466
They have to do all of that and do it better than physical currency. I can hand you an envelope with $10 in it and I don't have to record it in a centralized ledger that everybody can see. I'm waiting for a cryptocurrency that is decentralized to that extent.
A nothing is “someone else’s problem” is hallmark of the true pros. Intermediate folks might run into a broken build and be stuck until the build team can unfsck it. The OGs just fix it.

Keep up the work.
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By "this tool" do you just mean the Pluton system in general or some specific thing? The attestation stuff is a software feature that would be disabled by booting another OS that doesn't support it. It needs the Pluton hardware to be possible, but the software side is in the OS not hardcoded on the chip.

Disabling other operating systems would be done by the BIOS if manufacturers locked down the configuration of existing secure boot functionality, doesn't need any new features.
Well, the transition from 2k to 10k people isn't something done to add slack to create a flexible system. For that you at most double the number of people, you don't multiply it by 5.

They must have changed something either on their product or on their procedures on those 5 years.
I don't think that statement refers to rust at all. It's just referring to the fact the software is open source and the user's data doesn't go through a third-party
> What are they doing?

Scale is harder to manage as the userbase grows. A lot of popular services could run on one machine if you can live with 3 nines of reliability and never scale past 100,000 users.

When you reach that scale, you also start doing lots of product work that's either exploratory and unlikely to matter, or micro optimizations trying to move the needle 1%. If you hit a win on one of these, because of your scale, the win can be huge.
>Those lines of code started a company and sent it on a fascinating journey full of wonder

I looked forward to reading a lay off message without the obligatory "what a journey" message but like that was in the opening paragraph. I'd say the message was fairly standard.
Dostoyevsky could be read by any random Joe, but the fact is, random Joe does not read Dostoyevsky.
What your preference, and do you like https://www.slicer.org/ ?
Totally agree. I resisted a smart watch for so long because I wanted fewer distractions not more. Turns out, the Apple Watch lets me achieve that while still getting the small number of notifications I need to (primarily phone calls).

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-apple-watch/
I should have just said "WD40 is bad for your chain."

This was back in the 80's, so we didn't have the internets then. Funny how many myths I promoted, albeit harmlessly.
Game of Thrones is based on a book series and for the first couple seasons was very faithful to that book series in terms of characters and plot. You can't really give credit to Hollywood writers for something created by a novelist. In fact, as soon as they started running out of book material you see a noticeable decline in the quality of writing.
I'm fond of Vale, where you can write your own rules or grab others off github. I wish we could crowd source a grammarly clone using it. Some efforts have been made to do so, but didn't get far.

https://github.com/errata-ai/vale

https://github.com/testthedocs/Openly
The problem with pluton is not the tech. It's that:

- it's proprietary

- it's controlled by entities that have a terrible track record

- it's going to be, as usual, forced upon everybody without consent
sorry i don't off hand :(. mostly it was trial, error, and googling. If i buy something from costco and it doesn't last i would try different was to store it and if none work just stopped buying it. really only couldn't get blackberries and raspberries to keep long thou.

suggest getting commercial food storage bins, they stack and can seal in moisture, great for storing something like sliced peppers. Don't just toss everything in with the package they came in, do a little prep and get them in better containers. If things go moldy paper towel does wonders to manage moisture.

as for vacpack i got a good commercial one, and then put it in another room out of the way. i prep in the kitchen then i take it over to seal. it would be a lot of counter space but its not so bad in the corner of my office. Also i only use it for ingredients like meat. soups and sauces i just toss in glasslocks and freeze as they seem to do just fine that way.
It was never about the transfer of value (anonymous or pseudonymous) , it was always about price increase. Monero as a concept is too similar to Bitcoin, hence the story being sold lacks uniqueness.
I think the fiat on/off ramps are a large problem for Monero, I say this as someone who is a huge proponent of Monero and would like to see adoption rise.

It is only offered on one exchange (Kraken) which inherently limits availability, there are certain vendors who do accept Monero such as Mullvad, and a popular wallet for iOS (CakeWallet) will soon allow you to redeem Giftcards for Monero.

Right now, if I gave my friend 1 XMR, what could he do with it?
https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/589
More interesting question is: if your friend emailed them about that, would they get a refund, or would they get an account termination?
Driving a car is far, far easier than administrating a Linux system (beyond a stock distro install that is working properly). The latter requires a ton of deep complex knowledge. It's more like rebuilding an engine than driving.
> after being configured by the single official Go plugin

Are you using a small or large code base? VSCode falls over at my job's monorepo. Goland has much better performance.
Do these VPN services actually work on consumer websites?

They conveniently list their providers here [1]. For an online shop we operate, we have blocked most of these ASNs because 99% of the traffic we saw from them was malicious.

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/servers/
There are basically two compelling reasons to use a privacy coin:

- You are doing something illegal and don't want to get caught.

- Powerful actors in the economy are abusing their power, and you want to avoid/prevent that abuse.

Most people are not criminals, so let's focus on the second use-case.

If the government created a 1000% tax on all person-to-person transactions, you can bet nearly everyone would switch off of Venmo or Cash App and onto something like Monero. Or if Apple/Google said "we are now going to monitor your bank accounts, and we will be taking a share of all purchases made from your phone," you can bet people would switch.

Another type of abuse might be political. "We will be compiling a list of everyone who donates to the opposing party."

One might argue that those abuses of power already exist, and are already actively harming the average consumer. For example, Experian's multiple data breaches[0]. But the thing is, the average person doesn't feel very affected. If you came after their Venmo or their bank account, they'd feel it.

In a way, I think privacy coins are already benefiting all of us. The "powers that be" know that it's possible for us to switch, and that we will switch if they push us too hard. So they don't push us as hard as they could.

I also want to point out: MobileCoin. Your premise seems to be that privacy-focused coins aren't in wide use, but I don't think that's a certainty. Signal has deployed MobileCoin to potentially hundreds of millions of people. But they are secretive about their numbers, so we don't know how widely it's really used. I've tried MobileCoin with friends who use Signal and it works great. They will surely beat out Monero and others, simply due to the ease-of-use they've created, and the integration with an already-widely-used private messenger.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experian#2015_data_breach
> When using Rust, one has to use discipline to avoid this bug: use IDs into a hash map, or generational indices, or Rc<RefCell<T>>. Each has its own performance hit, but that hit can be worth it to prevent privacy bugs.

The perf hit of generational indices/arenas is minimal, and the cost of Rc<RefCell<T>> is still lower than complex GCs without JIT.

> In the GC'd/RC'd language, this would still be a bug, but it wouldn't cause any mixups between different users' data.

I've seen that exact bug in systems written in all kinds of languages.

And for what is worth, keeping a Vec<UserAccount> in memory only works on single instance services, anything beyond that and you'd have to deal with cache invalidation as well.
The plugin my current employer uses is so well integrated that I don't even know its name. (I suspect it may be developed internally)

At a past job, we used Entrust [0] and I'm aware of Virtru [1] as well.

Edit: I forgot about Sharepoint, which also sort-of fills the ACL document-sharing niche. (though I'm less certain about whether it uses encryption to enforce its access policies)

[0] https://www.entrust.com/
[1] https://www.virtru.com/
How else will would they fund an instant, worldwide transaction system?
We should recognize that there are universal needs for geezers and kids: we want some form of personal security. For a lot, that means home ownership.

Let’s look at data: If the geezer is 60 and paid off their loan today, they got it 30 years ago (in 1992). The median price of single family freestanding homes in LA county in 1992 was 221k. Today it’s 860k. In 1992 the median household income was 32k and in 2020 (last available data point) it’s 76k.

I understand that “the geezers” have something to teach us with a perspective of a lifetime and the needs all humans share.

At the same time, we have to acknowledge and account for the economics having totally changed.
Do you consider it crazy to think authors can influence culture?
I'm a uMatrix user. I can tell.
Golioth ESP-IDF SDK
> And before you ask...

the guilty lead with rebuttals before assumed accusations
I was looking into that because it sparked my concern, but I also think they make good points here in response to that article: https://nordvpn.com/blog/how-nordvpn-protects-the-privacy-of...
I'd give them some time to figure out pricing since they seem to be in early alpha. At least they've articulated pricing they don't like and acknowledged they're still thinking about it
i think this is basically the math. the vast majority of people don't have a problem, and so in the cases where smaller customers do have problems, google just decides not to care.

occasionally a piece like this lands on HN, and it's a PR problem for a day, but that's an even less frequent problem than a customer getting unjustifiably banned.
This smacks of fear mongering. The scenario you've outlined is just absurd. Many manufactures have pledged to turn this off by default and be an opt-in model. I'm not disagreeing that laptops given out by corporations for to you to use for work won't be heavily locked down and could be bricked remotely. But most laptops today already come this way from IT.
Ok, fair enough, it's true. I guess they're just bad dudes now :(
Reason this is interesting I think is that such a setup can let you avoid paying tax to totalitarian regimes such as Russia/China that use the money to crush opposition or wage war. As well as minimize fees in general such as Mastercard/Stripe.

Maybe it’s just a hopeless dream.
Did you call “strip” on the final executable?

It is now also possible to specify “no debug info” for the release build in the build config.
Another great video about this by HBO's John Wilson: https://vimeo.com/238073511
I responded below to a different comment if you want to continue the conversation.

We may have to just agree to disagree, because I think your perjury point is, at best, a bad guess, and at worst, disingenuous because we are not a jury with this fact pattern and thus cannot come to a conclusion either way.

I'll add I think it is a bad guess because, all things being equal, if under oath you said you weren't on a plane, and the flight's manifest comes to evidence with your name on it in one or more flights... if I was a juror, that is enough evidence for me (without counter evidence as I implied with "all things being equal". There are ways to argue against it, like dementia/Alzheimer's for intent or someone with the same name for the underlying fact, but that is adding information to the situation). This is particularly subjective, but I have a hard time putting myself in the shoes of someone who reasonably doubts the accuracy of a passenger manifests. I am a lay person when it comes to manifests, so perhaps they are casually-written documents that aren't taken seriously. I view them as quite the opposite (mistakes are possible, but evidence of the contrary would be needed).
I have 1 major critique:
What "major" battlefield successes?
I've always wondered why consumers seem to lack foresight though? Like the foresight of governmental / corporate dystopias due to information asymmetries.

or foresight that exclusively buying goods manufactured abroad will eventually affect your home price as your neighbors one by one lose their local jobs...

Do we know why people act in such a way?

Edit: I'm quite shocked at the deep presumption of negativity. I was genuinely trying to discuss and explore the phenomenon of choosing long term detriment for short term gain.
Because you can just use Tornado cash to anonymize Ethereum, and then you still have full access to the gamut of tokens, stablecoins and applications running on Ethereum.
Rustacean Station had a great podcast episode with Quentin Ochem from AdaCore and Florian Gilcher from Ferrous Systems. They do a great job explaining what "safety-critical" means and the work that goes into validating software for such applications. I work in a slightly-less regulated field (medical devices) and found the discussion really interesting.

https://rustacean-station.org/episode/067-quentin-ochem-flor...
Such sophisticated attacks always amaze me, and I've always wondered how people go about developing them in the first place.
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This is the best argument I’ve heard against whiteboard / leetcode interviews. A lot of people have trouble talking and coding at the same time, it doesn’t make them less smart.
no I donut.
What definition of "app" are you using that excludes this?
But ICE engines have had over 100 years of continuous testing and deployment on a mass scale. The risks and dangers are fairly well known now. EV's lag far behind that. Perhaps they should be deployed in smaller passenger vehicles before attempting trucks and buses.
OK, a better version of my argument is that the fact that we've discovered these new asteroids doesn't mean the risk of disastrous asteroid impacts have gone up.

They were always there, and the trends of the last N million years will continue.
Money was initially private and decentralized. When it lost those attributes theft and economic instability became the norm.
Because of the same reasons we do continuous integration.
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No one is backing them. Users don't care about how crypto works they care if the product works. Take applepay for example, majority of merchants use it because users want to pay with it. Users don't care about a lecture on privacy and government overreach. Tell them it does 2 tap/click payment and also it manages your cc and then give merchants free crypto payment terminals. You can onlh use it online and only if the site owner cares enough.

Tell site owners "here is a service that manages all payments including a ton kf crypto and converts it to uour local currency, also, users can sign up with us and use as an idp so they don't have to register on your site" .

In other words, an Oauth2 extension for payment processing providers + federated identity and services that provide easy integration into your registration+payment workflow might be lacking. Also, with any crypto it is a PITA to just obtain crypto without KYC laws, so more accessible exchanges that are somewhat anonymous without needing Tor that let you barter cash or other payment with them (not other users, it's a mess) might help too.
Bitvise SSH Server for Windows is also free for personal use, if you'd rather just forward the RDP port securely.