skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that a good chunk of the TORN tokens issued by "DAO" are earmarked for developers of TC, and these token could be sold for money, etc.

Plus the initial developers could run relay nodes to make money, and can even do it in a way that is basically impossible to prove, by using TC itself when withdrawing the profits made by their relay nodes. Back before sanctions, even at a centralized exchange, nobody would think anything is odd about TC developers exchanging out coins previously transferred through the TC system. After all they care about privacy and don't want people to be able to trace back to all their previous transactions.
Yeah given Mudge's status I take his word any time instead of someone from Silicon Valley CEO/VC world.
You absolutely don’t need a car if you live in a French city or in the suburb of the largest ones. Locally public transports are great. Nationally the railway works fine.

I haven’t had a car for a decade. I rent a vehicle once or twice a year when I need to transport things. Economically it’s a lot cheaper than owning a car.
If the executives did not make a meaningful effort to count them, that is fairly damning, given how much the stock price swings on the count.

Nobody said it was easy, but it's certainly harder if you don't try.
If you like it, check out other books from them. They're a small publisher but what they decide to print aligns pretty well with the interests of many HN readers.

https://press.stripe.com/
Just because I have received some benefit, (something which I am due since the money was taken from me) does not mean I have to agree that I am getting my money's worth or that I even have a want or need for some service I am paying for.

That's like NPR saying my $1,000 donation of a clunker car is of equal value and worth of the tote bag they sent me.
The Monte Carlo music composition method.
Hell, Spotify should use GPS tagging on your plays and determine "oh look, these songs are only played here, and always skipped elsewhere, hmmmm."

But that is too complicated!
For years people have been raising the warning about the pressures on healthcare system, and for years the conservative party have asked the NHS to do more with less.

What does collapse look like?

Well, in the early days, it looks very gentle. The four hour wait for ED treatment goes up a bit. Healthcare people say "Look! This is concerning!" and politicians say "eh, it's just winter pressure, we know things are rough in winter."

Or you say "Look at the waiting list for community eating disorder treatment, this is concerning!" and politicians say "we're taking people out of mental health hospitals and giving them treatment in the community, so there's a transition period" (they cut beds for ed treatment, but didn't also fund community ed treatment, so wait lists have gone up a lot).

It's like Buckaroo or kerplunk or jenga. You can load the donkey, pull the straws, pull the blocks, and stuff still sort of works (less safe, less effective, more harmful) but then something happens and blam you've tipped over into catastrophe.
NeXT ran a Mach 2.0 variant. I forget which Mach features were absent, but NeXT unmistakeably ran 2.0

The BSD stuff was kind of bolted on. Very uneasy marriage there.

At one point DEC had a 2 Mach task system that could run VMS processes, but I'm pretty sure that was Mach 3.0 based.

That is to say, Mach 2.0 wasn't as advanced in portability, and the "portability" targeted was different.
I read the article, and it doesn't say what you said.

>Zatko began the whistleblower process before there was any indication of Musk’s involvement

Define "Began the whistleblower process". Because that seems like an extremely fuzzy way of saying this. And even if you accept that he was genuinely a whistleblower in good faith trying to do this, which I'm perfectly willing to accept, the fact it's coming out in public now is still convenient timing.

It does say

>The disclosure, sent last month

Which means that the actual firm date we have coincides perfectly with Musk's legal wranglings.
I'm reminded, indirectly, of the famous (and famously misunderstood) "appeasement" of Germany by Chamberlain.

Chamberlain was a skilled and experienced politician, who was in no sense "naive". He knew perfectly well what a reprise of the first World War would mean for Germany: a complete destruction of its industrial base and its resources. It was a war Germany could not win, and would be foolish to try.

It did not win, and didn't really come close, despite early successes created by surprise. The surprise over, they were gruelingly beaten down, at immense cost to the entire world. It was stupid and worthless and cruel -- and did not even benefit them.

Russia has put itself in the same place. They cannot win anything important. Even if they take Ukraine, they've isolated themselves, and made their military a laughingstock. They can try to recreate the Russian Empire, but Putin would just be a tinpot dictator, not a world force. They'll have destroyed their economy, and no amount of telling each other that they did it to fend off a nefarious West will take the sting out of that.

Russia failed to look out for their own self interest, and Germany was wrong to imagine that they would. But it's not as self-evident as other posters here have suggested. It's like a weather report: if it says 10% chance of rain, you didn't do the wrong thing by skipping the umbrella, even if you got wet. That's a reality of international relations.

There will be a lot to study over the coming decade about what we've learned. And much of what we've learned is how badly we screwed ourselves over the past half-century by not taking climate change seriously.
Svelte Compiler Rewritten in Rust
That's a bullshit guideline. Back button breakage is a crime against usability and we should be as vocal and irritating as possible about it -- especially in a forum that regularly results in changes along the "Why did (insert FAANG) lock my account with no explanation?" front.

Again, this guideline is garbage. Rage against it. Rage against back button breakage.

There should be a guideline against citing the guidelines. I'm guilty of it too, but it's a boring and shitty (and off-topic! it's metadiscussion!) thing to do.
PV's efficiency declines a bit at high temperature, or at least that of Si does. Higher bandgap materials do better (CdTe is the commercialized one).

That you have seen solar water heaters in some countries doesn't mean they're still a good idea there. The technologies have been changing rapidly.
My dad has some insomnia problems and used to play a lot of Candy Crush.

His iPad was like 2 centuries ahead because moving the system time would give him extra lives. He couldn't practically move it back because then he'd have to wait another 2 centuries to get lives again. So his iPad was 2 centuries ahead until he completed Candy Crush.
Bullshit. For one, no speech has been "banned" here. Andrew Tate and others of his ilk are free to preach their hateful message but they're not free to do it off the backs of others.

As for the 100 year view, you don't have to do anything for bigots to "build up resentment" and last time it reached boiling point, we had a civil war where we kicked their ass. The biggest reason why racism prevailed so strongly in the South (and to a lesser extent, the North) had nothing to do with resentments. It was because Lincoln deciding to play the appeasment game and picking a Confederate ex-slave owner as VP who promptly halted and reversed Reconstruction post Lincoln's assassination.

No matter what time scale you view things, reality contradicts your view.
"That whose name must not be spoken".

I've got three or four of the small Alexa devices but I'm not allowed to set them up in the house because of paranoia.
I have heard this too, but then how is it showing up in people later on?
I'm guessing you're on an Intel Mac. I'm on M1.

The interface in the plugin of video bug looks like it was designed by a blind person. It's pretty problematic. The steps to follow aren't clear and had I not known how to install an agent I would have been bewildered. I can't imagine someone without deep experience in this field using a tool like that.
But there are still so many blogs, and even successful companies who charge money for feed readers. It never really went away.

I imagine there's a world where Google, still in the RSS space, realized that newsletters were an oddly vibrant market, and were the ones who started alternate-universe Substack.
> Toothpaste and toothbrushes are considered potentially lethal non-essential personal property and are disposed of during intake. While in custody, most migrants will not have access to toothpaste and toothbrushes.

> Similar to belts, shoelaces are stripped from shoes because they are considered lethal and could be used to harm themselves or others. Detainees subsequently move through the U.S. court system and are deported with no belt for their pants or shoelaces for their shoes.

> All personal property considered non-essential is discarded during intake.

There's a legitimate reason to confiscate items like razors. The case for discarding belts and shoelaces is there, but shakier. Confiscating toothpaste, soap, and books is questionable (only figuratively; the migrants don't get the opportunity to question it). Confiscating and discarding all personal property is unjustifiable. There is no conceivable reason it is necessary to discard a child's stuffed toy.

But the unjustifiability doesn't change anything; Border Patrol has no need to justify itself to migrants. It has the full authority to take any and all items from them. The fact that when given this opportunity, it takes everything, says something about it. The fact that these are not the actions of an individual agent, but a policy of the organization, say something about the nature and purpose of the organization.
see possible explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562052 (basically, the data had already been expunged?)
Like they did for thousands of years before 2010?

The “banning works” takes such a narrow view of time it’s remarkable. There was a world before YouTube, before internet, and before television.

Horrible ideas spread when they are unchallenged, not when they are driven underground.
That's the worst, on top of youtube replaying the same track(s) you just listened to in the last 5-10 minutes in loop.

One can only handle so much Cotton Eye Joe and Black Betty...
i cannot fathom how your example here supports the idea that Bieber playing 24/7 in a gym is stealing money from the niche artist who are listen to by only a handful of fans?
Funny how when the crypto industry is asked to follow the rules that everybody else already has to follow the law suddenly becomes an unsurmountable burden.
I really miss my old Safari-based RSS workflow (readflow?) You could put a bunch of fees into a single folder and then get the new articles all at once. I generally opened them all in the original site¹ (I hate that many Wordpress themes default to truncated article presentation, but even so, it was nice to get things in their idiosyncratic display for each blog). I’d end up with a couple dozen tabs which I would read the article, maybe leave a comment and close and move on to the next one. I use NetNewsWire on my iPad now, but it really doesn’t measure up to that old approach to my mind.

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1. I had thought, why isn’t there an RSS reader that does this now and apparently, there’s no guarantee that the title link in an RSS feed goes to the blog article and not some external link being discussed in the blog post.
What evidence is there that spying on the public will reduce child molestation? When you consider that the majority of perpetrators are family members how would spying on the publics chat help detect or prevent that? I don't think there are many child molesters boasting about it tbh. Would such a law prevent child molestation or prevent molesters from talking about it?

There is no evidence and little reason to believe this will protect children. Before infringing on innocent peoples privacy there must be some evidence that it will actually help protect children. There is no evidence to support this nor calls to study the efficacy idea. Makes me think protecting children is not the intention of their spying.
Yeah I always laugh at those clauses that totally override all that came before
They didn't "call on others to be swatted" (in this tweet), they said they wished the others would experience what they inflicted on their victims. I don't find that reprehensible to be honest.
> Honestly, can you really trust anything about major social media sites any more?

Could you ever trust them? Honest question.
Same with net metering: you need to be an electricity hog to get the most value.

Otherwise you just accumulate credit that you may never use. Or you create new electricity use which defeats the purpose (but great if you actually sub pre-existing fuel consumption, if you have it). I wonder if nano-markets emerge where you invite your neighbourhood to charge their stuff at your home or run extension cords around…

Better to have a feed in tariff where you’re encouraging to conserve and produce.
SSH Hardening Guides
Can't be much worse than "Jenny" on loop for hours on end, heh.
That's what Brexiteers thought, and look what they got: https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2022/01/uk-paid-724000-cree...
https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/uk-osb-csam-scanning/
“Glass” is a generic term for a wide variety of materials. So is “metal”. Metal can be brittle, sometimes that’s even desirable. That’s what tempering and hardening are about.

A molten salt reactor is a material science problem. Conventional “metal” doesn’t work because of the corrosion. If glass has some desirable property then we can overcome the “bumping in to it” problem. Maybe with a hand rail. Or staying away from the operational nuclear reactor.

I’m not suggesting glass actually be used. I’m saying if it was I wouldn’t be surprised.
Didn't mudge whistleblow this months ago? Lots of inaccuracies in this memo
>> If you’re running for president backed by one of the two parties, you’re a fortunate son.

Agreed, but it's all relative :-) Would have been more or less favoured than Jeb Bush, for instance?

>> "Big tech” may have been against him, but they handed him his platform in the first place.

They definitely ripped that back off him.
Sure, capital can't exist without humans. My main point is not where capital first originated, but one on how more capital is generated in practice.

Even a maxist analysis admits that goods are generated with labor plus the means of production. This is a very important point.
Hatsune Miku kind of helps my argument here, because they still needed a personified identity for the music even though none of it's real. So then we ask, if Hatsune Miku could be manifested into the real world, do you not think their fans would be absolutely ecstatic? Behold, humans, the solution to that problem.

I know it's possible to get some people excited about an avatar, but I'm going to argue that the vast majority of people would prefer humans for as long as they can get them.
Thanks for linking to this, it let me look at the list and remember Hamming's book was the other one I bought. I really need to finish reading it, but it is so dense it takes a while to get through.
There is no data, there is only XUL!

I also thoroughly enjoyed that era.
SSH Configuration Auditor
Must be what the seed capital is for...
Water it with your blood.
Typically you would need an income of $47,000 to maximize the $7500. And under $150,000 (individual).

Per https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/dis...
Reminds me of the movie Zombieland, Columbus’ rules for surviving the zombie apocalypse:

> “#2: Double Tap - In those moments when you're not sure the undead are really dead dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head.”

> https://zombieland.fandom.com/wiki/Zombieland_Rules

Google might be just going to make sure that RSS stays dead, and not just “playing possum”.
To imply that Mudge was responsible for Twitter's poor security practices when he only worked at the company for the past two years makes me believe that the allegations are true and the leadership is absolute shit.

Also, implying that the dude who worked at DARPA and, maybe even more impressive, who was part of L0pht is incompetent is ludicrous.
> The infringements refer to the following: the video surveillance system covers public streets as well as parking lots, both part of the public area in front of the entrance of the sports betting café. This is not adequate for the purposes of the processing and is not limited to a necessary extent. There are no logs of video surveillance processing operations. There is no deletion of the personal image data recorded by the video surveillance within 72 hours and no separate logs for processing in this regard and a justification for an extended storage period is missing (as determined in the Austrian Data Protection Act). In Addition to that, the filmed area does not have adequate signage about CCTV.

Why are those laws insane?
Please hand over all of your account details now them. Just so we can all check.
> In the long term, does it make a difference in US if it doesn't bring talent across the world?

Of course, it does! The only reason the standard of living in the US is higher than anywhere else in the world is because the US makes stuff the rest of the world covets.

America is the leading economy in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest, gathered from around the world. We have the smartest people not because the smartest people of the world were all born here, but because smart people born elsewhere have been immigrating to the United States. Stopping this is not the path to creating jobs.

US tech exports in 2018 was $338 billion. Tech is our biggest export by far. Think of the US tech industry as a siphon that sucks in wealth from foreign countries. Would you want to make that siphon bigger or smaller? If you want to make that siphon bigger — and more competitive — how would you do it? By limiting the people that can work in tech to whoever you can find locally, or by bringing in the smartest people from around the world?

Keep in mind that the money this siphon brings in is not only benefiting tech workers and tech shareholders. When the money is spent it turns the wheels of our economy, which leads to prosperity for all Americans, not just the few that work in tech.

Think of the tech industry as a way to suck money from foreign countries and pump it into the economy of our country. The beneficiaries include all Americans, including those who work in restaurants, retail, healthcare, insurance, education, housing, transportation, entertainment and so on.

Limiting tech industry to whoever companies can find locally will hurt its global competitiveness. Such a move will not just hurt the few would-be tech immigrants that are prevented from immigrating, but American prosperity in general.
Admittedly I'm a bit disguntled by the conservatives in my own country which are mainly supported by the rural communities. I let that show too much in my comment which was not fair. I'm sorry.
I was not aware. Hopefully these docs can be returned to their previously publicly available glory in short order. Putting them in the Internet Archive ensures access in perpetuity.
They serve different purposes. The viewer in the browser is only to preview what you're going to get if you subscribe without switching context to another application (most feeds I view I don't end up subscribing to). A feed reader is for subscribing and reading regularly.

A shout-out to NetNewsWire from me. It's perfect.
I'll believe that they have a response to these things when I see it. While I've seen polling putting Labour ahead of the Tories but no big movement on the problems I've mentioned (in addition to some worrying anti-worker sentiment @ party level relating to the rail strikes)
If you are serious about communicating then you MUST blog in addition to tweet. Twitter is for soundbites, not lengthy articles. You can't expect people to read tweet after tweet when they would rather read a long continuous article.

The dude probably has the software that breaks down lengthy articles and tweets them in reverse order but that shouldn't be abused.

And what happens when you fall foul of twitter's rules and get banned?
A lot of effort had gone into the motion-capture of the characters. Having played the game back in the day, it was well worth it - the movement was so realistic.

Quite funny thinking about the amount of effort required to get the equipment for this, when you consider I can literally just pull something more capable out of my pocket now.
Apple WFH employees claim they’re productive but they might be wrong
On the one hand we have a legend with impressive track record that is trying to bring to light serious issues at a large company and he has not much to gain but a lot to lose by making false accusations.

On the other hand we have the Twitter CEO who does not have any comparable track record and has all to gain by trying to deflect and a lot to lose by admiting that the company under him has serious issues. He does have some "interesting" things he said on the record though. Twitter also has a track record of severe security issues.

Twitter IMHO is not as evil as for example Facebook is but I do feel they are pretty stagnant and don't seem to get a lot done. They are only in the news because of some controversies it feels like.

I think Mr. Agrawals days as Twitter CEO are counted. If Musk ends up buying Twitter he'll surely fire him. And if the deal does not go through then I'm sure the board will have to think hard if the performance was good enough.

PS: I think it reflects poorly on him to mention alleged "ineffective leadership and poor performance" on Mudge's part in the email to all employees. Crap like that is probably the reason why Mudge is now hitting back. He is someone that seems to value honor and doesn't take shit from others.
I wonder what is the most effective way of actually completely stopping it phoning home, apart from yanking its ethernet cable?

Use your operating system's firewall app to block all outbound connections from it.
I don't know, I've heard of "growth hackers" over and over but never "construction hackers".
I've recently come to appreciate server rendering for its simplicity, at least for the tasks it is suited for. But I know what you mean. As a user, it's better to have local apps doing the real work.
It's not good in that it indicates that conditions are changing faster than anticipated. Organisms will adapt by living and dying, but we should be less complacent about accepting the deaths of many millions of humans.

The faster it moves, the more deaths there will be, and the more money we'll spend preventing them. On top of the money we spend preserving the trillions already invested in the climate as it is: where our cities are, how they're constructed, our vast agricultural infrastructure, etc.

"Life" will be fine. Our culture, probably not so much.
There is also an open-source framework for benchmarking https://github.com/qdrant/vector-db-benchmark
I can only repeat myself, the EU is not a democracy.

Also I thought chat control was off the table? Did that change?
This is good context to have.
AWS re:Invent just read your comment and quietly backed away...
Doesn’t mean that it doesn't last elsewhere, studies in BC have shown that is persists in plants that are sprayed but don’t die for at least a year https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-herbicide-glyph...

Which makes the practice above of spraying replanted forests so “the good trees grow faster” even more abhorrent
Promiscuous middle managers and C-Levels? I'm thinking they carry a heavy load, shed a lot, really get around, and frequently attend superspreader events.
Opening with those causes of termination of the whistleblower was a very unconvincing way to start this memo.