skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to these developers. I wish them success.

If I can do a small derail: I and some contributors had this mostly working a few iOS versions ago with isign (https://github.com/isignpy/isign). This is befor notarization. Announced several times to HN but didn’t seem to be interesting to many people.

This was a spin-off from our work at a testing company. I’m not an iOS developer. (That may be why I could never see what to do with this.)

I tried to make it into something, but I could never figure out who actually wanted this. What potential uses are foreseen for rcodedesign?

- Weird custom signing. We did a project for a large financial company to make it compatible with hardware security module signing, but they never implemented it due to the pandemic changing priorities, and then someone discovered there was a little-known MacOS API to do something similar anyway, so our project was shelved. (We got paid though).

- “Alternative” app distribution. From time to time I am contacted by people who run alternative app stores, either distributing hacked versions of paid apps, or who run app store in countries under embargo from Western countries. (They have banks, their customers have iPhones, they want a way to distribute iOS apps). The ethical issues and legal risks seemed significant so I never pursued that. If someone wants to go do that, I guess that’s a use case.

- Build pipeline. Maybe, but you can’t fully build a iOS app on Linux so it didn’t seem like a win.

- Mass app production. I am aware of some app white-labeling concepts that used isign back in the day. There was a guy who had a generic app for local news outlets, and essentially uploaded it to the App Store dozens of times under different names, for new versions. isign was more scriptable (and I wrote a multi-resign option for this use case) but I didn’t see a way to turn this into a business.

- Testing on real devices. Even the original use case (re-signing apps to run on local device labs) has been mostly obviated. Hosting and scripting on MacOS has gotten better.

- ??? something else? I even reached out to saurik about this at a conference. Cydia worked on jailbroken devices, so it didn’t need signing. To my surprise saurik was angry with me. He said that many, many companies had figured this out internally so he was skeptical we would ever release it. (We did!)

So… again kudos, but what can we do with this? I’m not dissing it, I’m genuinely baffled. I also thought this would be important and useful but couldn’t figure it out.
Sounds like it worked. My current place has basically done everything a guy could ask for (when given a nightmare codebase) so I no longer believe it’s always a systemic issue. My employers arent engineers and weren’t aware how poor their codebase was.

For any mid engineers who run away from spaghetti, I’ve learned identifying and solving that spaghetti problem can be a huge leap forward in your career towards management/leadership roles provided you find the right company and are able to solve the spaghetti issues.
> But the point of the movie was that his luck on the game show was good karma for the decisions he made at the major points of his life. (Contrast with his brother.)

Sure, but perhaps very unsatisfying to a Western audience where one wants stronger connections between decisions and consequences.

Consider "It's a Wonderful Life": Although the struggles and misfortunes were not that great, it's also a movie where the protagonist consciously made decisions that led to a poor life, and in the end benefited significantly because of those decisions (and not just materially). The connection between his decisions and the outcome is much stronger.

Still, that was only a small part of why I didn't like the movie much - it merely added insult to a greater injury - that of not developing the various arcs that appeared. Imagine watching Forrest Gump where each of his life adventures was significantly reduced. The story would still be the same, but a lot less satisfying.
This sword cuts both ways. US can also stop sales of Airbuses, Volkswagens, IKEA furniture etc. under some fishy premise. If EU does that to US companies, why shouldn’t US do it to EU ones? This kind of tit for tat trade war would be a loss to everyone compared to cooperation, but is still preferred to cooperating with a defector.
FWIW the demo runs really well in my pixel 4a, although some of the text on the page covers up the navbar. Love how low friction it is though!
I see now that it was mentioned at the end of the post. (Though I did specify "double GitLab's cost".)
PointConvFormer: Revenge of the Point-Based Convolution
Roborock have a better privacy story, but how long it stays that way would be pure speculation. It might possibly become a selling point, much like Apple did [in the past].
Yes, it could be useful, if seen as a natural language front-end to a symbolic math package.
ULA and external GUA IPv6 support on GCP
Cliff Stoll has to be the most lovable crank of the modern day. I actually feel like he was overall correct about the societal implications of technology while being amazingly wrong on almost every detail. And he's far from a fool - he famously developed quite a lot of network security/intrusion detection ability back in the 80's when it was first getting going.
Does anyone know the Company A and Company B in the question? Microsoft?

AFAIK public procurement documents are often public.
They've even started requiring this for their subsidiaries, like Sendgrid. It's very offputting.
First, if you do a lot of the work yourself, "valued at" and "What it cost to build" are two very, very different numbers. Never forget that news articles will tend to be lazy about "Oh, XYZ cost that much new, OK, add that in..." when someone like Steve is going to have a better line on used equipment at a good price, or perhaps some sponsorship deals.

Second, he's a big fan of the "nickel generator" projects - something that, once done, will generate some trickle of income more or less indefinitely on minimal additional labor. And he's got a lot of those in various forms.

Third, he lives simply. Quite so. And he's been around for a lot of years. All those add up to both a lot of connections, and likely a decent stockpile of cash for projects.

I met him some years back. Great all around technowizard!

How much do people on HN regularly spend on a house/car?
Just another tool for sweeping discretionary prosecution. Rest assured the government can get pretty much anyone on something civil rights destroying if they like.
> logs, databases

in NOR flash???

:cringe:
Polar bear killed after injuring woman at Svalbard campsite
Thanks :-) Some of the best fun I had was just coming up with funny level names. It became a bit of a challenge for family and friends to come up with better puns!

Some highlights (none of them mine!) include "Kellraiser", "Jingle Kells", "Skellington", "Two kellholes are better than one", "For whom the Kells toll" and last but not least, "Kell Block H"!
There isn't, and it wasn't used for valuation. The number appears nowhere in the purchase document which assigned the valuation; nor does any reference to it. It could be 20%, or 50%, and it wouldn't have any bearing whatsoever on the purchase agreement.

Musk agreed that the number of bots not currently being caught was probably higher than 5%, which was a big part of his stated reasons for buying Twitter. Then the market took a turn, and now up is down, Musk is pretending this number matters.

It doesn't.
Can you elaborate on the PTP requirement part of the next steps?
What's stopping the non-profit from handing those coins over to the treasury?

Not being able to decline a transaction is a design flaw for crypto. This will push people towards fixing it
> In other words: they ran a trial, and it finished. That itself isn't evidence for either success or failure, any more than taking a scheduled blood test is/isn't evidence for a blood disease.

There might be some ambiguity, but the evidence needle is definitely more on the "failure" side.

This isn't like a routine blood test. They were test marketing a product. If the test succeeded, it would be foolish of them to not roll it out widely and make more money off of its now-measured success. It's very likely the product didn't meet their expectations, but it's hard to say by how much.
Did you check existing issues / open a new one describing your issue?
This is a great service! Do you plan to provide an API to upload new apps?
We should also prosecute the road crew, because everyone knows when they build the road criminals absolutely will use it for crime. It's facilitating.

Road crew like many tornado cash users, they have no "mens rea" intent to aid money launderers, even though they have knowledge it can happen. By your below logic the courts find Tornado Cash user not guilty of "mens rea" money laundering.

>Edit to reply to your edit (why not post a reply?): that's exactly why they have been added to the sanctions list explicitly, rather than prosecuting users for money laundering.

Awesome, roads used by money launderers should be sanctioned as well so "legitimate" users can't use them either, everyone who built them knew they would be used by criminals and so do the people paying the fuel taxes that maintain them so criminals can drive on them. I'm replying this way because I've run out of replies (I can only reply 5 times per 3 hours).
I would try Monzo, but all I get from them is

> Unfortunately we can't offer you a Monzo account

> We're afraid we can't go into more detail about why we can't offer you an account.

> We assess every application using details you've given us, and any information we get from the credit reference agencies we use (Experian and TrnsUnion) or from anti-fraud services like Cifas.

Starling is the same. As a debt-free UK resident without any UK driver's licenses, utility bills, benefit claims, gun certificates, electoral register or GP records, the only bank that is willing to do business with me is Revolut.

Not having any credit history is becoming a barrier to access more and more services that require an identity check. While it is understandable that companies want to protect themselves from fraud, this trend is making it difficult for people who don't have a credit history to access basic services. This is creating a significant barrier for certain groups of people, and it is something that should be addressed. When it comes to providing essential services to those who fall through the cracks, Revolut may be more ethical than the other options.
There are definitely less jobs but also the competition is less, the jobs and the people you meet, more interesting.
i don’t. like i said, i want peace and quiet to focus on my work.
I work as a Digital Gardener[1] and we’re trained to NEVER use our real name.

- [1] https://youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE
I don't think you can actually say you have no intent to help them. All of the other uses you mention other than a mixer have perfectly valid uses that don't involve committing a crime. But mixing your money in with illicitly obtained funds with the intention of making it so no one can tell your money apart from the illicit funds is the very definition of money laundering.

So no, your analogy doesn't even remotely apply.
The process of launching a digital product as a closed beta to test your idea
Nitpick: not a real hologram.

Additionally, it sounds like a massively power intensive way to do volumetric display. I don't know the total conversion efficiency to photons, but it can't be that high.

More recent techniques like stacked panels might be a better way forward for this.
I would be frankly shocked if EU countries did not have the same laws on the book. If German court serves Volkswagen AG a warrant for data kept by Volkswagen America, can Volkswagen AG just not comply?
As much as I appreciate InRange, I feel there are more field-accurate tests around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbjpIP5ShH0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-kE_wbGLhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxvrhb7ayW8

And pretty much any of the stress tests that Rob Ski does.
Muon: A C99 implementation of the meson build system with minimal dependencies
> let’s be honest many successful people work hard
> there’s also a bunch unsuccessful hard working people

The key point is that the number of unsuccessful hard working people is humongously larger than successful hard working people, so working hard does not really correlate with having success, no matter what the survivor bias tell them.
WebAssembly as a Universal Binary Format – Part I: Native Executables
desalinization could be big in terms of migration
> Up until now, it was at least marginally possible to state "But I didn't know it was illegal. TornadoCash was doing the exact same thing for years and never got into trouble".

Oh I totally get that, but...

I reasonably believe in good-faith that it hasn't been categorically proven to be illegal. The reasons for this may seem obvious to many, but just it's not for anybody else then I'll give at least one persuasive argument. Illicit activity happens through legitimate financial transactions. For example, if I trade somebody a pizza for $10, how am I to know that $10 wasn't used in a criminal activity, ever, in the total existence of those note's circulation? And further, by using cash at all, as a concept insofar that cash is not rigorously tracked while in circulation, that the whole cash money system is illegal... Cash based economies to a great extent protect the privacy of participants. Those machines that make change, I suppose that's money laundering, and I would suppose they are laundering money for someone, but also... they be making legitimate 20x quarters from a $5 bill in a coin operated business setting. The quarter change making machine is the physical analog of a crypto mixer, but it's perhaps a bad example. Because making change for the sake of privacy is an unlikely activity, albeit a reasonable legitimate (if you ask me) activity.

I honestly would love to see more court precedence set on some of these so-called "structuring" laws where somebody intentionally "structure" or "laundered" money for the honest-to-goodness sake of legitimate privacy, or even for somehow being a form of free speech, something like that... to strike away some of these absurd regulatory powers before a panel of jurors.
It's a Samsung Galaxy A52s, I tried Firefox and Chrome.

Also used a TCP ping app to check what seems to be the demo server - node1.wolfia.com? Average was around 160ms, ranging from 70 to 300ish, so I guess that was the real issue!

I'm located in UK and using a 4G network. Might try it again tomorrow from work and see how it compares.
> Welcome to the real world consequences of interacting with systems that are counter to wider societies aims.

...said every totalitarian government in history
Conlang Portfolio
I don't know, but it would seem foolish to rely on AI to screen applications. AI isn't... there.

If anything, I'd see them using what is effectively a series of if/then statements or Bayesian[0] or SIEVE filters[1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language...
All high profile smart contracts have reproducible and verified source code available on EtherScan.
One of my favorite good code bases, which I'd sometimes describe as being advanced technology that was gifted to us by outer space aliens...

I inherited a large code base in Scheme (Lisp) from two PhD engineering domain experts. One of them had been a systems programmer before grad school, and had built the foundation from scratch, including an entire complex Web backend and frontend framework, including continuation-based Web forms UI serving, and a versioned ORM with a meta layer (extensible by customer sites using an early browser-based Web UI builder), etc..

The system evolved for over a decade, with a very small and super-productive team, and was able to respond very rapidly to new requirements.

One more conventional Web example: when we needed to be in AWS, we owned and understood the underlying framework intimately, it had good abstraction layers where we needed it, we could code the protocols and understand the distributed systems changes, and just do it... which also got us the side honor of being the first system to get a particular federal security certification for AWS.

Another Web example: when we needed a handheld app, we were able to get into the guts of the meta layer, and do an HTML5 Offline app. A large part of which was generated dynamically, as a semantic translation of complex Web forms from the meta layer to idiomatic smartphone and tablet UI. (Admin user had previously painted a form with particular spatial layout with rich controls for knowledge capture in desktop and occasionally modified it, a new algorithm did structure recovery of grouping and ordering of those fields, mapped them to modern device-responsive handheld controls more usable on small touchscreens, and the system updated the generated app package for JIT updating as necessary.)

There were numerous other examples of how the code base evolved to growing functionality and operational requirements, but those two might be most recognizable.

Of course, part of it was the team and how we were managed. And part of it was that the code base gave the team a very smart head start with a powerful foundation that let it churn out functionality at a high rate early on, yet was also amenable to evolution with a very small team. I think these parts were complementary, and affected each other.
Nightly Time Machine: Make Time Machine more usable with laptop
Sorry to be so blunt but every EU competitor sucks ass. So if the EU has it their way, it is us Europeans the ones getting fucked.
It is not illegal. You just need to ask a written permission from OFAC first.
What are some of those ecosystems?
The article is an interesting take on the time period

For one example, I think Porter Rockwell is less considered a lawman, and more of a hitman or enforcer. He's suspected of having a body count somewhere in the 150 range

edit:

It also completely leaves out the entire Mountain Meadows Massacre incident, where Mormons slaughtered around 120 men women and children in a wagon train headed to California in September of 1857

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

For a little bonus Utah trivia, the only person actually punished for the Massacre is current Senator Mike Lee's great-great-grandfather.
Good point, with their infrastructure I would assume they would’ve allowed some workers to work remotely if required, though I don’t see evidence of that in the video.

If you pause at 4:01 you’ll see a real time model forecasting the number of keyers online within the next few hours. I assume that’s done because everyone still essentially works in that center, though I might be wrong.
Yea there's a bunch!

- Lens Protocol [https://lens.xyz/ (one example implementation: https://lenster.xyz/)] is an early social network built on top of Polygon.

- Farcaster [https://farcaster.xyz/] is another one, that takes a more hybrid approach of using Ethereum for trustless identity, but stores social stuff in a "sufficiently decentralized" way.

- ENS [https://ens.domains/] is a universal username system.

- Unlock Protocol [https://unlock-protocol.com/] uses NFTs for tradeable subscriptions, event tickets, etc.

- Radicle [https://radicle.xyz/] is a decentralized Github basically, that (optionally) uses Ethereum to store the Git HEAD of a "project" essentially.

- Arweave [https://www.arweave.org/] stores files permanently using a cool "endowment" mechanism. Currently, the network has secured its storage for like 1000 years in theory.

There's a whole ecosystem of apps that use smart contract chains as a trustless/decentralized/distributed compute and storage layer, and use "cryptoeconomics" to incentivize user behavior toward a goal that isn't money-based. It's just far less mature (and noisy) as all the finance stuff, so anyone not actively building in the space isn't seeing most of it today!
Honestly, nationally-owned spin-offs aren't an issue. If that's all that doing business with China entailed, I think people wouldn't be so mad, but unfortunately there are other practical and moral compromises needed. The EU may be challenging in certain ways, but at least they play by their rulebook and champion public interest a lot of the time.
Eventually that will only work on rooted devices, as most of it is enforced at OS level.
Technical Writing Courses from Google
I don’t like or dislike Terraform, you’re just not making any sense.
That was great, would like to read more. Didn’t quite understand the paragraph about the gold, sounds like they stole it from the army but it is unclear.
> mobile app developers are stuck with pushing builds every night and waiting a day for the team to see the new code

That doesn't ring true. TestFlight / Play Store uploads are typically available within 15 minutes.

Still, it's nice you're solving deployment overhead. In particular, my team needs side-by-side installs of the live/prod build and dev/staging build.

It's double the headache to stand up a store listing and comply with policy changes, just for an internal distribution channel. Save me.
High Level Features:

1. VMs are dual-stack.

2. Subnets can have either GUA or ULA addressing along with IPv4.

3. Subnets are /64 and VMs get /96 address.

4. ULA addressing is useful for intra VPC traffic.

5. GUA addressing is useful if internet facing connection is required.

6. VMs can have multiple IPv6 NICs.
> Can't wait for it to hit the US.

The McPlant has already been discontinued:

https://www.foodbeverageinsider.com/formulation/mcdonalds-dr... (link credit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32387526)
Being a freelancer, it was difficult for to show my all my works on a single page as portfolio. But when I discovered fueler, it's become easy and effective way to showcase my proof of work
FWIW I live in Europe now and am enjoying it XD, but I still call a spade a spade.

I just hope Germany pulls its head of its ass before it supports China's ascension to global supremacy. We told them not to overly rely on Russian gas for like 40 years but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It would likely fall back to the individual mail sorting centers to manually sort them, just like they said happens if the people keying don't respond fast enough (I think they said within 60s or so).
For good and easy multiroom sound obviously. It's a killer feature of Sonos. And in this particular case it's a ceiling speaker.
Stereo is not a problem here since a single Symfonisk is a mono speaker and you need a second one to get stereo. That won't change after the mod.
tbh I'd be scared of a Harbor Freight welder
"Please put one finger behind each ear and flap them at me."
I used to have a job doing this at a different REC in the mid 2000s and we had terminals that I think were connected to some mainframe system.

The keyboard layout was custom for the application like they show in the video. The software would expect numbers at certain times, so you'd just type numbers using the home row and it'd switch back over the alpha chars after you input the correct number of number chars.
The switch to green will take longer without petroleum.
This is really not a helpful reply.

To make rummy a good metaphor for this discussion, you need to modify the normal $1/point rummy gambling rules; say making gin gives you $1000 bonus from the house or something. (There's a resemblance to quiddich here, I think.) Anyway, now you have the two extreme strategies: knock if you can, which gets you a few dollars each time, or try exclusively for gin, which usually costs you money on each hand but sometimes pays off. If you're skint, the gin strategy won't work since you can't stay in the game long enough. If you're flush, the knock strategy is uninteresting because a few dollars doesn't make a difference.

Now make that bonus $10,000,000,000 and you're making some unicorns, Harry!