skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people do compare the relatively free exchange of information on the Internet with cryptocurrencies, but modern democracies regulating commerce isn't anywhere near the intent of dictatorships regulating information.

It is also quite easy for a state to exclude themselves from cryptocurrency networks, to the extent that the only transactions taking places are enabled by black market in person exchanges for cash, and no legal business entity could use that currency so you're left with the only thing bitcoin was really ever good for, evading legal controls to do trivial things or illegal things. Nothing more.
It saddens me how many smart people are working in such an unethical field.
Buying FSD now is really just buying a promise that FSD will be delivered in the future.

Whether Tesla will actually achieve FSD is debatable. Personally, I think they will. Yes, even with vision-only. It's going to be several more years, but I think they'll get there eventually.

But what do you call it when you're selling that feature to customers today?
PowerShell?

I have a very little experience writing Python, but PS and P. are extremely similar.
Curious to what degree the "low-hanging fruit" dynamic comes into play when comparing the current era to the past.

It keeps coming up in many other fields.
Archived link: https://archive.ph/uNfeK
Anonymising the purchase of hammers
Awesome! First smoothie on the site, and you followed the instructions to a tee. Something new to try :)
Thanks, there's a few pages that are still a bit janky (i've now realized) like the email confirmation page.

Honest question, how did you even find this post? I've been on HN for nearly a decade, and I've occasionally hit the show tab, I didn't even realize there was an additional "show new" section.
> Ehmke isn't anyone I'd trust making ethical decisions for anything. In Ehmke's own words, "the Contributor Covenant is a political document".

Independent of your trust, can you explain the connection between these two points? The Bill of Rights is a nakedly political document, and yet a large swath (probably the overwhelming majority) of the US attributes some moral value to its contents.
Outside observer, but my understanding is that a big concern is that people from more illiberal cultures will make the nation more illiberal. There is also concern that making low skilled labor more plentiful will be harmful to the prospects of existing low skilled labor. A third concern would be that if the immigrants express an ethnic preference for their own community, this will cause increasing difficulty for existing residents. If you want to convince people that immigration will be in their best interest, I'd start by finding ways to ameliorate those concerns.
Yes, I am obviously a monster for using Firefox everywhere I can. Indeed.
What service did they use for $45? Is this legal to include in published works too like a book?
No one’s making the US do that. Just stop the military spending.

Of course that means the US will no longer be a global superpower, but the US can freely choose that.
Sure, I kind of assumed that when used appropriately in this way it would say something appropriate that wasn't untrue as well, such as "warranty implications if broken", which them people might at least be interested in looking up what those implications are (presumably longer turnaround time as it needs more investigation).
Awesome, thanks! Appreciate you sharing the link despite the almost certain downvotes you'll get. Never heard of Alex Collier before.

If I may, as a thanks I'd pass along the author Samael Aun Weor which maybe you find some resonance with. Again to anyone else reading take everything he says as satire if that helps.
>You wait, this bubble is about to pop. Not a great time to have large financial obligations. I suspect this will make 2008 look like nothing

While I agree that a bubble is about to pop - I disagree with comparisons to 2008.

My personal take is that the current recession and impending pop will be for reasons different from 2008 - we have been making different mistakes. I also believe that 2008 was really big and I'm not certain the impending pop will be really big - just kind of big.
Sure, but nobody in academia is going to get anywhere describing their work as writing a replacement for Excel, right?
> software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code

People keep trying to make simplified programming environments for significantly less-trained people and they keep failing. Is mixing in an AI actually going to make it easier to get a result that has no crippling bugs?
Thanks, I’ll try and take the test asap. (I need to find my earphones and usb c to 3.5mm adapter first). Is there any way I can contact you after taking the test, perhaps email?
It's the hands...it's all you get to see with duckduckgo. The hands are nasty...
I know this is just a joke, but there was an interesting Radiolab on memory and forgetting. It posited that forgetting is an active process, and analysis a person who was disabled in such a way that their forgetting process didn't work led to some very undesirable outcomes:

https://radiolab.org/episodes/91569-memory-and-forgetting
The article isn't loading for me, so I can't really comment on the images it contains, but I've found telling the ai to apply an impressionistic filter does wonders for removing the unsettling aspect. Obviously that limits you to a specific style of image, but I imagine there are other stylistic filters you might apply that achieve the same goal.

I could spend all day looking at the output of "impressionist cats" and similar queries.
Sonos compatibility. The $120 Ikea product is effectively a $320 Sonos Connect - which can connect to any arbitrary speaker - attached to a cheap bookshelf speaker.

This mod removes the Ikea speaker and adds the connectivity required to the Sonos component to effectively replace a Sonos Connect.

Because Sonos doesn't offer a $120 device that replicates this functionality, it effectively allows you to invest an hour or two of soldering and circuit board modding, and optionally $60 in 3D printing, to replace a $320 device.
What good is a transaction without guaranteed settlement?
Don't use a FOSS license.

You can still open your source, take pull requests and everything, and use a proprietary license with a clause that says the code is not to be used for evil, where you (the author) hold the sole final judgement of what constitutes evil.

Basically, copyright the shit out of your code, but selectively enforce it, and hint to the community that you are unlikely to enforce it on people who you think aren't evil.

Most people will likely steer clear of your code, except for a handful of hobbyists and maybe some academics.
> which term of the sanction?

What? These powers emanate from trading with the enemy and other wartime acts [1]. Violating sanctions can literally authorise U.S. military countermeasures.

Tornado helped Pyongyang finance its missile programme. That’s the colour of law we’re discussing.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Con...
> I wouldn't exactly call them for known being a tech nation

And?

> So why does USA fail at this?

Because, and I'm going from memory here, should be Schrems I or Schrems II if you want to dig deeper, in the view of the ECJ (which invalidated a similar recognition for the US) the US doesn't provide a satisfactory way for EU citizens to contest their data being accessed by US government agencies
The article didn’t mention hybrid banks/credit builder for new businesses. Brex used to be in this category and they helped me build my business credit score. Unfortunately they now only support customers with $1 MM+ revenue per year. I am grateful to them though, for helping me build credit for my business and having great customer support
> Americans opened 233 million new credit card accounts during the second quarter

The Internet says “US adults age 18 and over, grew to 258.3 million in 2021” (paraphrased).

I presume there is some power law where some residents have many cards, but there is presumably a constraint on the most cards (bank credit checks, number of different cards).

Aside: i wonder who in the US has the maximum number of credit cards assigned to them in one year, or concurrently?
Somebody better tell Nestor in Nintendo Power...
Hah. Ironically, set_var might be deprecated at some point and replaced with an unsafe alternative. (Long story. Short story is that it's currently unsound. If you have C code trying to read from the environment at the same time you end up with UB. If everything is Rust code though, then I believe you're fine.)
I think when AI can do the full job of a programmer we'll have reached the singularity. Programmer will be the last job to go.
Who cares if it's FOSS or not? Neither FSF or OSI existed when Stallman enshrined his morals into the GPL, that didn't stop him.
Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use
I have yet to see a single piece of evidence that deepfakes are actually harmful and not simply distasteful.

People cited the one of Zelensky telling soldiers to surrender - but did any actually simply as a result of such a video? It's a stretch. Show me specific, real harm from a deepfake, or let's stop the hand-wringing.
Having private transactions using a public blockchain ledger.

It's the same as asking "why do people need E2E encrypted chat," because they want to and there's nothing wrong with them not wanting you to read their chats, that's why.
A popular suggestion today! Done!
There’s no valid reason for something running in my home to be contacting a server in Beijing. Period.
The two big weaknesses of teams I've experienced are this and not having decision owners.

It doesn't have to be the same person for everything, but having a single designated person to own each decision avoids meandering too much when you're uncertain, or getting blocked by debate when you're confident.

My favourite leaders have come in and quickly said "you guys spend too much time talking about making a choice, X is in charge of this decision, move on".
I won't argue about FOSS, as a specific term of art. But "open source" is a generic thing, without a single rightful authority that controls what it means.

As a member of the open source community, I think "open source" is what we make of it. Open source didn't stem from political or technical passivity, and it doesn't need to remain passive or static. What that means is up to individuals who actually do it.
From the Dall-E terms of use:

> Use of Images. Subject to your compliance with these terms and our Content Policy, you may use Generations for any legal purpose, including for commercial use. This means you may sell your rights to the Generations you create, incorporate them into works such as books, websites, and presentations, and otherwise commercialize them.
Using it to actually launder money would be illegal, sure. What crime am I committing by deploying the contract?
always been a many universes 1 dimension kind of guy.
You would? You would trust a random number to call you and talk to you about your bank account?

(That's what Chase's fraud department tells you to do.. no joke)
It could explain places like Provo/Lindon/Orem which are most likely 99%.
> ...WebSerial/WebUSB...

I've given up on Apple about-facing and driving hard on PWA support with a privacy focus (e.g. allowing push notifications in PWAs only, requiring the apple "dev tax" be paid to get push keys that are tied to such a site so it's used properly etc and doing that to other "problematic" PWA APIs as well).

And I don't see Firefox picking that up either; their management seems content to funnel money into their own pockets with bonuses and shutter projects like Servo or MDN to do so..
It’ll be bad for a while, but alternatives will pop up. There’s plenty of money to be made.

Europe is Apple’s third largest market, making $90 billion last year alone. You don’t think other companies will step up for even a tiny percent of that?
Thank you. Gracious to you and your team beyond measure, and I hope you know that.
> It would have been an act of war.

No it wouldn't.

They were pressured by the US to give up Soviet nukes. Codes are easy to fix, but nukes need service and are expensive to keep so it was as much of sparing measure than anything.
That's the reason why I avoid using Python as much as possible (while I really like the language). Another reason is massive stacktraces everywhere instead of a meaninful user-facing error messages, but that's a smaller cultural thing than dependencies hell.
Depending of the definition of "to finish", this is completely not applicable to any open world RPGs. E.g. unless you consider game not finished until you completed all the side quests.

Same for open-ended building games like Minecraft (technically completed when you kill the dragon), Cities: Skylines, or Factorio (when you send a rocket).
Who are you gonna call when someone comes to eat you? Surely not the police.
As we've seen with Alex Jones even free speech is not absolute (for the record I agree with the rulings against Jones). If the code is designed to facilitate illegal activity I can see how that could be shut down by the government.
I think this explains the stereotype of Christian conservatives in rural "fly-over country" in the USA. Frontiersmen were preppers writ large, and could not even rely on the supply chains of their time, let alone the massively interlinked supply chains of today. They had to rely on themselves -- and each other. 150 years ago, the church was not just a place of worship, but also a community center, where neighbors met each other, socialized, and begged for or offered aid.

I am neither a Christian nor a conservative. But I think understanding why Christian conservatives are the way they are, rather than declaring them an enemy to be fought or diagnosing them in absentia with mental illness, without a license, would be good for urban liberals like me. Our side has done too little in terms of understanding and addressing the needs of these people, and it's had real costs on our society (like Trump).
maybe some government could use it for doing secret spy stuff
I don't know when or where that is from, all I know for certain is that for at least 2 years now, the contracts have been immutable and non-upgradeable, by anybody.

Edit: also idk where you're seeing the governance component in that flow you linked, there doesn't appear to be one...
To further riff on this could your license prevent evil outcomes regardless of whether the original intent?
London Ringways
full time employee
There are entities other than the government that you might want to hide money from.
Ask HN: Whats the best (least expensive/most reliable) cloud backup for videos?
Using an iPhone. Google photos was my go to. I'm considering icloud 2 tb.Is that the best option or is there anything similar to google photos?
Do you seriously think that's an educational video?

The second link follows the Wadsworth Constant in fabulous fashion.

https://www.swanbitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-lightning-network/... is almost exactly 30% of the way down the page.

> 1 hour 31 minutes read

In rhetoric we call this 'assigning homework' and it's considered deflecting, aka, trying to get out of jail free, aka, poor form, aka, you lost the argument.

I'm sure we can do better than either of these for educational material. If that's the best that exists, which I hope is far from the case, then this is essentially a "git gud scrub" situation and you have yourselves to blame for the unwashed masses still not understanding things.
Google will never actually give you a stated reason for account closure, people have just deduced that it's privacy cards that are getting closed. So yeah even if it's against terms-of-service (based on what's been said here) they're smart enough not to just say it.

Your only recourse would be filing a complaint with Visa, and hoping they investigate, but "google closed my account" is not gonna be something that's super high on their priority list to investigate, I'm guessing.
> Programmer forgot to handle a division by zero in some degenerate case of the smoothing computation which ends up leading to an exception: a value becomes zero, someone used unsigned integers for n in an "n - 1" computation which ends up in a call to array_of_floats.resize(0xffffffffffffffff) (and a likely std::bad_alloc being thrown if you're in c++).

To me this is a textbook case of why panic::catch_unwind exists in Rust. Conceptually, the smoothing algorithm failed in an unexpected way, so a panic is appropriate: there is nothing else for the procedure to do but crash. But crashing would be a very poor user experience, because the smoothing operation is conceptually isolated from the application as a whole, so the program shouldn't be affected by a single operation crashing. This is why Rust goes to the trouble to implement unwinding on panic: in certain domains, software fault isolation is important.

Another possibility, of course, would be to spawn a separate process for the smoothing operation, which would effectively replace software fault isolation with hardware fault isolation. But this might be awkward (and slow), which is why few modeling software packages do this.

("A complex smoothing operation in a 3D modeling package fails" is maybe the best example of the need for panic::catch_unwind I've ever heard of--thanks for offering it. I wish I had been able to deploy this example back when we had the debate as to whether catch_unwind should exist at all. Thankfully, we kept it in.) :)
[citation needed]

Common usage has matched the OSI definition for decades. Even Wikipedia acknowledges it [0]. There are always some people who are confused about the terms, sure, but those usually come simply from lack of exposure and experience around FLOSS communities. Trademarks have nothing to do with it; it's not OSI that owns the term, but the community that uses it and widely agrees with OSI's definition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software#Definitio...
I've picked up a lot of (human) languages over my life, and I've used SRS to great effect (I started on JMemorize, a now defunct Java app.) I have a simple strategy:

1. Read a text

2. Lookup unknown word/grammatical pattern

3. Create a flashcard for it

4. Apply SRS

and it works great. I've also tried to use other people's Anki decks and they've never worked particularly well. Personally engaging with the material is still the prerequisite for memorizing it, but memorizing means you don't need to struggle to figure out basic concepts constantly and can instead move onto the higher level of meaning.

I've used SRS over the years for many, many things. I've used it for memorizing divisibility rules, used it for annoying math lemmas, used it for data structures, and more. Each of the time I've attempted the material by myself and then turned my knowledge/engagement into a flashcard. I've even considered using it to learn tools like Blender so I can dial in workflows.
paypal can be problematic for receiving money, but i have no problem with paypal to pay my hosting and i used it for airbnb from my debit-card/bank account. the only time i had a problem was when i received money, and paypal wanted to see a bank statement to verify my identity i think.

where is your money coming from? and where is it going?
Just because a specific skill can help you avoid the pitfalls doesn't mean those pitfalls should be kept around. Just because OSHA and health & safety rules exist doesn't mean we intentionally make power tools and machines have blunt electrified edges to cut/electrocute anyone who isn't "literate" enough and accidentally touches the thing. I'm personally tired of everything in the world being intentionally hostile.
Well, we can think X is bad without thinking X should be against the law.
For someone with difficulties to see the grays of the world (like Coraline Ehmke, the source of the article) it must be very comforting to think there might be a scenario where the answer is “yes”.

However, by definition, open source cannot
Russians threaten to blow up mined Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Energoatom
Scarier is that Google controls Chrome/Blink and will continue to push "features" that make the web better for Google, not better for users. Mozilla are one of very, very few organisations that are in a position to push back against this at standards bodies - and for all the flak they get, they regularly do.
Judging by the current state of DALL-E, the generated software will look good at first impression, but have lots of weird bugs when examined closely. So yeah, not much different to current software dev.
Time for me to open up my "AI Code Refurbishing" shop and specialize in fixing all the disasters these "AI technicians" make.
Just curious, is there any general number range for how much traffic a front page post might get? Less than 10k, 10-100,000, 100,000+, etc
The constraint was "if you run a small business", not "if you run a small business in a specific obscure niche where instagram is a literal 100% monopoly".

There are people for whom social media is a must. For each one of them, there are 10,000 for whom it is not a must, but who erroneously believe that it is.

This, of course, makes the situation worse for everyone, as they then donate free, usually exclusive content to these unsafe, walled, censored, abusive, rent-seeking platforms and make them more attractive to additional users, fueling the cycle.
Programming requires far more breadth and precision than 2D art.

I think that in the very long run programming work will be automated, but by that stage we will either be post-scarcity or reconstituted in computation substrate.
I've been thinking about this for a bit (I happen to live in Philly) & I think the easier answer for cities is instead of focusing on charging "at home" parked on the street, to instead go all-in on destination charging (charging at work, at the grocery store, etc).

Adding charging to a garage or parking lot is easier than on the street, and you don't have to worry about not being able to access "your" spot.
> Encryption beyond a particular strength has long been an ITAR restricted export.

I'm not sure what you mean by "restricted," but publishing open source encryption software on the internet only requires that the BIS be notified. No review or approval is required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
100% this. I use ETH, USDC, etc to pay friends back for a trip, in much the same way that one would use Venmo or cash. I'd love to be able to do this without showing the recipient ALL of my other crypto transactions, and as such have seriously considered using Tornado Cash in the past (but haven't because of fears of exchanges blacklisting my address).
Never had problems with FreeBSD on a desktop using nvidia graphics and Ethernet. I used it on a laptop a few times but WiFi was always an issue, I assume Bluetooth would be too but I never use it.

I suggest staying on the "stable" pkg mirrors and stay away from "latest" as you end up updating your desktop packages often and there is a greater chance of problems.

I usually use xfce as the desktop and it works well.
As much as I hate to say it as I hate how these kinds of packages attach themselves to large projects to inflate download numbers for a resume I think most of us here would probably have created the same CVE doing it naively. It was a regex DoS due to exponential runtime not something obtuse like extra bloat being poorly made.
Yes. OSI's ridiculous and unsuccessful attempts to legally own the phrase "open source" not withstanding.